-=> Richard Webb wrote to DAVE DRUM <=-   
      
    RW> YEah I get less of 'em than I used to, but even though I'm a registered   
    RW> voter I have an unpublished phone, and I like it that way!!!   
      
   I don't get much in the way of live stuff like that since my built-in   
   answering machine gives out a hearty "Bonjour!" and then a bunch of jabber in   
   the Froggish tongue that means 'you know what this is. Wait for the beep'.   
   Sacre Bleu! it cuts down on the live phone solicitors and the like. All my   
   friends know about the French butler and leave a message.   
      
   But, the robots don't care. As soon as they hear anything on the other end of   
   the line they begin to spew their bovine by-product. The people who are   
   running the (whatever the call is about) are a bunch of cheap bastards   
   thinking that doing everything on the cheap is real economy ... whoops, I feel   
   another rant building up.   
      
   So, I'll just leave it at the thing I told a (successful but likely a   
   one-termer) candidate for congress during a town-hall thing last election   
   cycle when he spewed about needing to create jobs. "You people wouldn't need   
   to create jobs if you hadn't sent all the jobs to China and India and Thailand   
   in pursuit of your personal profits." He was a tea-bagger endorsed candidate   
   who defeated a multi-term moderate Democrat. But, the districts have been   
   redrawn by a Democrat statehouse/legislature. So, he's probably toast.   
   Especially as he hasn't distinguished himself except by going to Washington   
   and staying there. Becoming one of the insiders that he campaigned against.     
   Bv)=   
      
    DD> Hell, I don't like paying taxes any better than anyone else. But,   
    DD> it's a lot more palatable if I am getting something from my tax   
    DD> dollars besides a bridge to nowhere and/or a $1600 ball peen hammer.   
    DD> And it would be even more palatable if the fat cats and oligarchs   
    DD> had to pay their fair share ... as suggested by fat cat Warren   
    DD> Buffet. But, all we read about Buffet these days is about his   
    DD> prostate cancer. More smoke and mirrors.   
      
    RW> Yep, more wonderbread and meaningless circuses.   
      
   I see that Dick Lugar, one of a dwindling breed, a moderate Republican has   
   gone down in a primary contest to a tea-bagger supported extreme right-winger.   
   The tea-bagger's complaint ... Lugar worked in the Senate to get things done,   
   sometimes compromising (GASP WHEEZE) with the Democrats (UGH PATOOIE) on the   
   other side of the aisle.   
      
   It's sad - I see less and less common sense in politics these days ... on   
   either side of the aisle. All anyone wants to do is find fault and scream   
   about problems, asking to be elected to fix those faults and problems without   
   putting forth any positive or practical ideas on how it's to be done without   
   destroying the fabric of our society.   
      
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