"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." ~ Albert Einstein
Yes, power corrupts. Three speakers of my state house in a row were indicted:
https://www.masslive.com/news/2011/0...--_salvat.html
Since then my state senate leader resigned amid a scandal.
Big money interests donate to committee chairs in the state legislature and in return if they don't like a proposed bill the chair kills it in committee.
I hear Rhode Island and Louisiana are even worse.
Gov. Inslee of WA State:
https://www.governor.wa.gov/news-med...anadian-border
I use this border crossing frequently. I can see it from here.
Cut military spending, repeal the tax cuts and withdraw from the Middle East. Problem solved.
"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it--every, every minute?" Emily Webb, Our Town
www.silententry.wordpress.com
Well, then, as you know, entitlements are not "free stuff." Funding is built into the economy via all taxpayers. This "free stuff" doesn't come in the form of BMWs and ski-jets. It comes in the form of quality of life commodities that we would all benefit equally from--healthcare and education for instance.
"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it--every, every minute?" Emily Webb, Our Town
www.silententry.wordpress.com
There's no magic to it. If we want a bigger welfare state, we need to pay for it with taxes on the middle class. That's how all those other countries pay for theirs. That, and various forms of rationing.
But here our social saviors want us to believe we can avoid that unpleasant reality by telling us we can get all we need by shaking down billionaires and looking for change under the federal seat cushions.
I read about fifty people were trampled to death at one of those spontaneous eruptions of grief you often see in totalitarian countries when one of the ruling cutthroats dies.
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