Yes, that was Long Duk Dong. Jumping out of the tree. I just switched to famed Egyptologist Zahi Hawass, star with Bill Pullman of the famed Opening the secret room under the Sphinx’s feet that turned out to be empty like Al Capone’s tomb show.

On the plus side, at least your governor isn’t a former pro wrestler.

As for states rights… Not just Kansas. I live in a state where everybody complains about high taxes and yet votes for every tax-increasing public bond proposal a special-interest group can get on the ballot. We have some of the worst schools west of the Mississippi, and a teachers union that adamantly refuses to take responsibility for that. Most of our legislation gets passed with hard budget caps and no sunset clauses, so the state is required by law to squander money on ridiculous and no longer necessary programs.

And the best part about state government is Governor Arnold Scharzenegger. So, no, I really can’t get behind states autonomy….

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A stricter interpretation of the constitution would result in a dramatic scaleback of government services. I’m finding the notion of more state autonomy to be better – there is an insane amount of government waste now, and that might be better if states did more of the stuff the government does now. At least I think concerned citizens would have an easier time dealing with their state than the federal government.

Of course, there would be negatives too – like Kansas probably deciding to teach evolution as fact, or some other Southern state banning abortion. Still, the one-size-fits-all doesn’t work in reality. Just like public edumacation.

The stimulus package has me frothing at the mouth with anger. It is just ‘made up money’… What makes me even more sad is that the government could just offer to pay off $600 of every American’s credit card debt. The money they’re spraying around is just piss in the wind that they’re hoping funnels into the coffers of Visa and WalMart.

What makes me really angry is that responsible, credit-debt free homeowners who have worked hard to not bite off more than they can chew get nothing, while overspending idiots get a pat on the back and a reward.

I don’t need a stricter interpretation of the constitution, but a dramatic scaling back of the government services and sunset clauses for some of the bigger programs would be a good start.