Identify this man or an old dude will kill you.
01.29.2017
Dear
Democrat:
In
sixth grade, my teacher took away some notebooks. They were full of comic strip
parody of Star Trek and Lost in Space. I had written the
jokes, and sadly, my cartoonist Kevin Kezele died young. That was 1966. In
2012, the Sheriff of a California county illegally took some more notebooks. I
had them returned, and then someone took them again!
That’s
part of why I’d like to beat the tar out of all Democrats who think they can
send Ann Wagner home to support the Trump madness out of her home, not from the
floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. In keeping with my parody skills,
and my many conversations with Bill McClellan, I’ve enclosed my Post-Dispatch endorsement a bit ahead of
time.
I’m
not a big fan of the Post, and I’m
not your typical Democrat. I enjoy talking to ardent Trump supporters, and I
might have voted for him as a “protest” had I been allowed to. You see, every
time I’ve tried to register and vote since 2006, something goes wrong. In fact,
since about 2003, I’ve wondered, “What is going wrong next?” The long string of
crashed computers, vandalized & wrecked cars, and stolen cell phones is
fertile material for local voters, if not the police.
In
fact, and old associate from Moline Acres just yesterday said I should think
about local issues, and not so much about the national mess made in my field of
expertise, health care.
Here
they are!
“White
Flight” and the depopulation of my district (#2)
A
rapidly deteriorating business climate and job loss
Illegal
drugs
Prostitution
and pornography
Impaired
and ineffective police
“Big
Box” retail stores and what I call “check cashing shacks” proliferating
The
crass ignorance of many young people
One example: When I was in high
school and college, I could identify every U.S. president by portrait from 1900
to the present. According to a TV show I saw, many at good universities today do
not know former presidents by sight. Here is what my late dad called a
“verbatim” with two young people in one of the wealthiest of USA’s Zip Codes.
“Do
you know who Lady Bird Johnson was?”
“Nope.”
How
about Lyndon Johnson?
“Uh…no.”
What
about Ronald Reagan?”
“He
was from Texas.”
“No,
try California.”
“How
about John F. Kennedy?”
“He
got his head blown off.”
“Good,
at least you know that.”
Would
you like me on the Internet for cost per pupil statistics? It is likely 10-12
times what a “poor” Missouri school district spends. I don’t know how to fix
that, except to maybe develop a formula to distribute the federal Department of
Education budget where it is needed locally.
That
makes me too “conservative?” How about stripping almost all tax deductions from
the truly wealthy to where they pay 50-70% on each additional billionaire
dollar? Don’t call me a “socialist,” when Richard M. Nixon endorsed that too.
[Oops! That’s a “half-truth,” because Nixon surely supported the tax breaks,
but if you did not have a requisite army of tax accountants and lawyers, you
could get “soaked’ back then by Uncle Sam at a positively British rate of
taxation].
Sorry
I read all of those political philosophers and political economist’s books. I
promise to dumb it down to “More blunt than Bernie.” At least one Democrat
governor’s staff likes it already, and you may feel free to guess which state. Clue:
Follow my family tree back to about 1700.
Hope
to talk to you soon,
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