The Stupid Season Is Here
Today is the first Tuesday after the first Monday in March. It means that for the next sixty days the residents of the state of Florida have to live in fear of the newest atrocities to be visited on them by the legislature.
This rookie team [term limited, so no one has more than 8 years of experience] of creative writing rejects actually has only one job, the creation of the budget for the next year. Nonetheless, they manage to create havoc in the lives of ordinary people, usually by finding some new location where shooting each other is perfectly legal and reasonable.
As two-thirds of both house are Republicans [they can’t write, but they had some people who were very creative drawing election districts], the minority party in the state, they won’t be raising taxes. No, all of the horrendous increases in costs to the average person will be due to doubling “fees”. Taxes become fees just before the Republicans increase them. For example, the road maintenance tax became a special assessment fee when the county decided to pave the road, instead of just smoothing out the red clay after every rain.
We have major problems in the state and a group of people who are committed to not doing any of the things that might actually fix them, so the result will be a piece of fiction that isn’t just not ready for off-Broadway, it isn’t ready for off the Azores out in the middle of the Atlantic.
Eat your heart out Bulwer-Lytton, the Florida Legislature has been producing the worse fiction in the English language for over a century.
2 comments
Sorry to hear that your stupid season is just getting started.
Here in the opposite corner of the country the inhabitants of Washington and Oregon have been being driven to the asylum for many weeks (seems like years).
Oh yea, both legislatures have dem majorities. They are not at all immune to the stupid disease….
yecchhh!
.-= last blog ..*&ck You, That’s Why! =-.
Thanks for the thoughts, Steve. I’ll be writing about the stupidity down here.
The gun stuff is just unbelievable, and I’m a supporter of the Second Amendment and all of the others in the Bill of Rights. These people seem to think that it is the only right people have. It makes the state a very scary place, which isn’t good when you depend on tourists.