Politics

Yrs Trly avoids political blogging.
But the fevered blustering of REPUBLICAN presidential contender Gov. Rick Perry of Texas has me involved.
The Texas wildfires should get a Texas-only response.
No Federal aid. No funds from FEMA.
It should be a state responsibility.
Let Texans aid Texans.
And if that’s not enough, perhaps they could hold bake-sales.
Or rummage sales.
Sell the Alamo to Wal*Mart and add flashing neon lights.
Or make it a gambling casino.
After all, a casino adds jobs.
The kind of jobs Perry brags about in his state: minimum wage.
And if the casino generated gambling addicts, that’s their problem.
And while we’re at it, the Interstate Highway System should no longer be a Federal responsibility.
After all, it was a giant lie, a Ponzi scheme, as it were.
Call it that. It gets ink! Garner the Limbaugh vote. (That’s Rush Limbaugh, the master of “say anything,” and be bellicose about it; “it may get legs” — between OxyContin hits.
Highways should be privately funded; public benefit is suspect, and inefficient. —Protect the fat-cats!
And similarly airports.
They shouldn’t be government entities.
Let people that use air transit pay exorbitant airfares.
The airports should be funded by the airlines. —Perhaps an airport for each airline, like railroad stations used to be.
My neighbor across the street suggested that fat-cats deserve every cent, they shouldn’t be taxed as high as the little guy.
“Yeah, by sending our jobs overseas,” I responded.
“But rich people create jobs,” he stated.
“They no more create jobs than the next guy,” I said.
“What they do is pay themselves fat dividends so they can buy a custom Mercedes-Benz, and build mega-mansions in the Hollywood Hills.”
The Federal response to the Texas wildfires should be that of Dubya to Hurricane Katrina. “What, me worry? I got mine. Them Liberals; they had it coming — God’s justice for all that Mardi Gras prancin’.”