One of those two seems to be all the talk right now, both at the federal level and in my dear commonwealth.
Can I say that I am absolutely, sick and tired of hearing “But we have to doooooo something!” This pathetic bit of verbal garbage goes hand in hand with, “But it’s for the poor!” Not to be confused with, “But it’s for the children!”
You know what? F the children. I never learned how to diagram a sentence or do any real grammar in the government funded public schools. Part of the reason I get annoyed with my own writing is my complete ignorance of sentence structure, proper punctuation and extended vocabulary. Part of it’s my fault, naturally, for not giving a damn but I was a kid. Aren’t all kids like that? Year after year we pump more dough into an educational system that immediately siphons the money off into teacher’s union coffers.
You know what else? F the poor too. Which is better: programs to put people to work, abstinence instruction to prevent teenage or unmarried pregnancy, a vigourous defense of the institution of marriage or the alternative? A massive federal bureaucracy dedicated to keeping themselves employed by keeping you poor, stupid and dependent. There will always be poor people, some by choice, others by crapping out on the great Universal dice game. I feel sorry for them but what can we do? The causes of poverty are not universal and catholic. Every poor person is poor in a different way and for a different reason, how can you fix that by throwing cash at it?
I always thought the slogan of National Review was kind of silly:
Sure, it sounds effete and ineffective but dammit, it’s the truth. It’s what we all need to do. Jump up in whatever political body you can gain access to and yell, “Fucking STOP!” Stop spending my damn money on useless causes without any foresight or calculation of the consequences. Stop doing anything when what’s needed is focused attention to those problems we can solve and considered thought for those problems we can’t.
If we think we’ve got an answer then it’s most definitely an unsolvable problem.