TomInReston | February 19, 2009
The world has changed.
David Broder’s latest homage to the holy temple of bipartisanship, graces today’s WashPost with the sentiment that we’ll be better off if President Obama listens not to those who tell him that bipartisanship won’t work, but to Mr. Broder, who knows, that if he just thinks happy thoughts and claps his hands, [...]
TomInReston | February 8, 2009
This is NOT a deep thought.
No amount of incentives to businesses will create jobs.
Businesses will create jobs when and only when they need the workers to meet the demand for their products and services, regardless of what incentives are (or are not) in place.
TomInReston | February 7, 2009
i’m watching the travesty called the United State Senate, and right now I’d like to abolish it altogether and ship the whole crew — from whining Republicans to spineless Democrats to idiot staffers — to a desert island somewhere. Then they could bask in the company of one another and let the rest of us [...]
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.
