Badges

 These are crazy times. My wife's always thinking about some government agent coming to the door to demand a loyalty oath and what will happen when we refuse. And it makes me think of Cheech and Chong." We don't need no stinkin' badges." We don't need no stinkin' ID. We don't need no registration. Because none of it matters. Since 1789, one party or another does their thing and the American taxpayer gets to pick up the pieces. And I mean that American literally. From Point Barrow to Punta Arenas, the average person gets to wade thru the mess up to their **s in alligators, figure out their best course of action and get on with their lives. Tax the rich? Tax cuts for middle class? Healthcare for everyone? C'mon, these 2,000 page bills are so full of loopholes the pages look like they were used for machine gun practice. Can no one write a concise one page bill? Sure, but there are so many lawyers and lobbyists passing money both ways, no one wants to do it. When the stock market goes down, I always wish it will keep going back to the 500 the DOW was at in 1975. Then maybe people will put their money back in savings and the S&Ls will have plenty to lend out for mortgages and there will be plenty of housing as the hedge funds will be no more to bid up the price of housing. And maybe the federal government will go bankrupt and sink into the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers and the states and counties can run things in loosely configured regional groups. And if the people of D.C. want to get in on things, their best bet is to become part of Maryland.