I was tempted to write something serious about the debt limit fight, but a friend emailed this bird cartoon that is too good not to share.
It reminded me of this outhouse image, so let’s make this a contest. Which one best shows how politicians treat taxpayers?
P.S. If you want my thoughts on the debt limit, this post from back in April is still completely on target today.
P.P.S. I prefer the outhouse image. The bird cartoon is funny and clever, but it implies state politicians are victims when they actually should be considered co-conspirators in the raping and pillaging of the American people.
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That will keep those little sweethearts so busy they won’t have time to propose new laws.
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They both seem to make the same point, the outhouse one is more direct and all encompassing. I vote for it.
Although I agree that State politicians are co-conspirators these days, I think we face a more fundamental question here in the nature of the chicken or egg first dilemma. It is my premise that the level of co-conspiracy is (and historically has been) inversely proportional to the treatment of the several States more as federal administrative districts than as sovereign. As it seems everything must now be decided (and funded) through Washington, is behavior other than co-conspirators rational in this day and age? It may not be moral, or demonstrative of one’s integrity (that oath about protecting the Constitution) or in a State’s interest, but it seems that most State politicians have gotten on the entitlement and federal redistribution bandwagon so as to stay in office (see rational v. integrity above). Thanks for sharing!