I would love to write about nothing but golf. But sometimes I see such idiocracy that I have not choice to comment. Maybe someday I will return to peace and quiet of golf blogging but for now, politics in America and the State of our Union are crazed.
I have always tried to keep track of politically activity. I get close but never too close. I watch but never too much. Ask me at a dinner party what my views are and you will only get the topical version. And, I avoid the ignoramuses that want to get into a political views dicussion.
However, I have sat by and watch our “Once Great State of Michigan” legislators and our Canadian Governor try to hash out this budget for the past month or so. Oh they came to a concensus last night, Sunday September 30, 2007 but they allowed the State to shut down for 4 hours in the middle of the night.
What will come out of it? You know, the typical stuff: higher taxes, more funding cuts, fewer state programs, less for those that need it. You know, the same old, same old.
What bothers me the most though throughout all this mess has been the lack of out cry from the “peeps”. I have seen more uproar over a school bond issue that would cost residents less than $1.00 a year and bring hundreds of thousands of dollars to help a fledgeling district educate their children than I have over this most recent budget battle.
Where is the out cry of unfairness? Where are the masses joining together to stop the corruption in Lansing or Washington DC? We set back and bitch and complain and whine about how unfair everything is and yet we set back and let our Legislators hammer us with more income and sales tax? Where are all
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