Dracula was a liberal

Listening to the car radio just now on the way home from Sam's Club, I heard CBS News report that New Jersey has joined NY and California in facing huge deficits. I got to hear Gov. Corsine (NJ) whining about the need for Federal help if his state is to survive this crisis. His sentiments were eagerly seconded by Gov. Paterson of NY, who says his state is facing a deficit of $47 billion over the next four years. I had to pull over for a minute to get my grief under control.

Since taxes in the deficit states are extremely high, the problem cannot be insufficient taxation. That leaves only bloated government spending as the source of the problem, and which taxpayers in other, more fiscally responsible states will be asked to subsidize. Apparently, the people who run the deficit states had never heard of a business cycle, and its effect on tax revenues. Given that they are so much more intelligent than everyone else, that's very odd. All it would have taken was for The New Yorker to have run an informative article about this, but in their defense there really is only so much space left after you've given sufficient and necessary attention to defending Piss Christs, Dung Madonnas, and Mappelthorpe Butt Bullwhips.

Anyway, what is being demanded is that money from taxpayers in the fly-over states that East- and West-Coast liberals love to denigrate and mock should be shoveled to their betters in NY, NJ, and CA.

It makes sense, you see, because the toothless rubes in places like South Dakota, Idaho, and Kentucky really aren't intellectually capable of properly spending their own money by devising their own bevy of Progressive Government Programs. These trogs remain deluded by the idea that things work out better when people keep more of what they earn. Perhaps bleeding them white will serve as a lesson.

Byron