Rice, Peaches and Karizmah...

Hey there. I am sick of politics.. I can't stand watching election coverage, and yet I have been doing it anyway. Why do I do it? Perhaps it is because I like to feel part of something bigger than myself, or perhaps it is because I am scared of what could happen to this country..

Is higher education good? Is the trend that it has taken over the last 50 years actually helped people discover who they are, and who others are, or has it served to eradicate the existence of rational thought, and the inability to discriminate between good ideas and bad ideas? Probably not.. I think a lot of people against higher education underestimate both the intelligence of some and the stupidity of others. Not all who go to college come out as doctors, lawyers, teachers and scientists, and not all come out as flag burning PETA supporters who faint at political rallies.

Do minimum wage laws make sense? If you could only afford to hire 20 people for 7 an hour each, but then someone told you that you had to give those same people 10, what would you do? Obviously you would have to let the least skilled go, and keep those who you could not do without.. How does this help the most vulnerable in our society? It does stabilize their status............. As permanently unemployed.

Do progressive taxes make sense? Say you were that boss formerly of 20 people and now 10, and you were doing fairly well; now suppose some socialist told you that you would have to shoulder your "fair share".... What would you do? You would of course have to pay your employees less, which you could not do because of minimum wage laws, so you would again have to fire those who were not absolutely central to your business.. Good job socialists, now you have 5 more people out on the street who now have to live off programs funded by an ever shortening supply of tax payers....

Governments are funny, because they do not work by supply and demand.. If a government does not have a demand for something that it supplies, it will raise its price to generate more revenue... How can governments running anything be a good idea? If people stop using stamps, then the price will dramatically rise until no one can afford to buy stamps.. Does anyone buy stamps anymore? Why do governments live outside simple Tony economics?

I feel I must apologize for more unimformed political ranting.. It is late and I am very tired and I spent the last half hour trying to think of crappy analogies for my minimum wage story.. I hate things that seem like something interesting to write about, and turn into what looks like a script from the Rush Limbaugh Program.

So I am considering volunteer work, because as no one seems to want to hire me why not work for free? If you know of anywhere that may be looking for portly gentlemen looking to help out with some worthy cause, you should let me know..