The Jayne Mansfield Plan

Trying to balance the budget through tax cuts is like trying to achieve peace through decapitation.

Starving Our Country

The Republicans' insistence on starving the country of revenue is like a company telling its best salesperson, "Say, we expect you to boost sales, though you'll have to do it without shoes, a car, a phone, or any communication device that might cost money, and in your underwear. But here's a golf pencil and a toy plastic abacus; you can write on napkins from your local fast food place (if they still put any out)."

This doesn't even make sense from a business perspective. It seems like they have no interest in improving our nation. They just want to rid it of the "undesirables."

But don't despair; if worse comes to worse, we can always go to fast food places and get packets of parmesan cheese, litle containers of half-and-half, and a dab of jalapeno relish, and make alfredo sauce for our forty-cents worth of noodles. That is, until the armed guards at the fast-food places beat us to a pulp.

We're not broke. We're deliberately being broken.

You Get What You Pay For

Some people say that we should cut legislators' pay. But if they are low-paid, then they will be people who have made a lot of money elsewhere; mostly without empathy or willingness to help the working class. Just look at our Texas Legislature, which pays $7200 a year.