This is why we can't have nice things...
It takes a long time to dig an entire country into a big hole. Usually takes even longer to get a country out of the deep dark pit. Patience is vital in the digging out process. Moderation and compromise is essential. Having a temperate leader should help move things along in this direction. One would think. Unless he has to deal with people who are crazy. In the head. And spoiling for a fight. Throwing your hands into the air because immediate gratification didn't fall out of the sky and into your lap is short-sighted. And, well, crazy. Self-centered and .. crazy. Under-medicated kind of crazy.
I'm beginning to believe that what we truly need is an ala-carte government. Where you purchase the services that you would like. Medical benefits, transportation.. and so on. If you decide you don't want to pay taxes for the roads and we find you driving on our road, you go to jail. And enjoy your back alley medicine. Yeah, have fun with that. Don't like big government? Don't enjoy any of the fruits of its labor. Don't want to pay for the military? Fine, when France invades you, we won't care. We'll point and laugh as you lose your property to a bunch of baguette-wielding mimes. They'll run up a little French flag on your chimney, not shower, light up smokes and be generally rude to you and yours. Because they are on French soil now, bitches. And we. Won't. Care.
I'm weary of partisan ploys, premeditated projection and the pandering persecution preoccupation that permeates our profusely prolific political punditry. But I'm even more sickened by my countrymen who are turning into a bunch of self-entitled Chicken Littles who, when queried, cannot detail the difference between a socialist and a fascist, but are quite willing to toss such terms around willy nilly. And who still cannot seem to figure out that government, like their pick-up trucks, guns, and assorted religious paraphernalia, comes with a price tag.
It's these people. These are people who make it such that we cannot have nice things.
I'm beginning to believe that what we truly need is an ala-carte government. Where you purchase the services that you would like. Medical benefits, transportation.. and so on. If you decide you don't want to pay taxes for the roads and we find you driving on our road, you go to jail. And enjoy your back alley medicine. Yeah, have fun with that. Don't like big government? Don't enjoy any of the fruits of its labor. Don't want to pay for the military? Fine, when France invades you, we won't care. We'll point and laugh as you lose your property to a bunch of baguette-wielding mimes. They'll run up a little French flag on your chimney, not shower, light up smokes and be generally rude to you and yours. Because they are on French soil now, bitches. And we. Won't. Care.
I'm weary of partisan ploys, premeditated projection and the pandering persecution preoccupation that permeates our profusely prolific political punditry. But I'm even more sickened by my countrymen who are turning into a bunch of self-entitled Chicken Littles who, when queried, cannot detail the difference between a socialist and a fascist, but are quite willing to toss such terms around willy nilly. And who still cannot seem to figure out that government, like their pick-up trucks, guns, and assorted religious paraphernalia, comes with a price tag.
It's these people. These are people who make it such that we cannot have nice things.
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