God Bless State Government

Okay - this article really chaps my hide. Here's the first paragraph of the above article for posterity's sake: "The S.C. Senate was gridlocked for more than seven hours Tuesday as a small band of senators — led by powerful Senate President Pro Tem Glenn McConnell, R-Charleston — filibustered, preventing a majority from passing a strong seat-belt bill." Okay - in a state where education is near the bottom of the nation, we're in a budget crunch, and the govenor is calling for privatizationof every conceivable function - I'm glad our state senators are making themselves useful by wasting at LEAST two full days arguing over whether Cletus Jones and family has to wear their seatbelts. For those of you just tuning in - I'm committed to improving the common good. But c'mon, there are just some things that are not worth the time and energy for the tiny benefit it may bring. This seat belt law is one of those. Since the SC state senate is committed to saving the SC population from themselves, I am in the process of drafting a bill to committed to seeing the following laws enacted: 1) Creating stricter motorcycle helmet laws. For the .2 % of the population that rides motorcycles, and the subsequent .2% of that population which is involved in accidents, and the .2% of those involved in accidents who don't wear a helmet every year (thats a whopping .008 % of the general population for those of you playing along at home) - I propose that we spend 3.4 billion dollars on a helmet education policy for the state. Screw the hundreds of homeless and hungry - we've got rich affluent white guys who are killing themselves on motorcycles! 2) A gas price relief package for any white housewife who drives a SUV. These woman are the backbone of our economy people - and while they've been driving gas guzzling cars for years, now that gas prices are rising, they need something to complain about in their stop-off at Starbucks in between shopping excursions at Talbots and Coplons. This gas relief package would reduce the price of gas by 50% for every housewife, and would give doctor's wives an additional 25% break. This would all be subsidized with tax money. Just think of all the money the state will be saving by privatizating the museum, parks, law enforcement, the judicial system, and the state house. Give me a break people - Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative - I just don't understand the asinine use of time and resources of our state government. Perhaps if they were better stewards of taxpayers monies, we would not be in the budget situation we're in. Until next time, or until Jim Clyburn introduces a bill calling for Maurice Bessinger as man of the century.....