30 SECONDS IN

30 SECONDS INTO ANY SPIEL, I CAN IDENTIFY A DEMOCRAT. WOULD THAT MY EASE OF UNDERSTANDING WAS SHARED BY THE GENERAL POPULACE. DEMOCRATS, ESPECIALLY LIBERALS AND EXTREME LEFTISTS, COUNT ON THEIR APPEALING BULL TO WOO THE LISTENER. TURNING ON MY RADIO THIS MORNING TO AN INTERVIEW, WITHIN THE FIRST FIFTEEN SECONDS, I HEARD A CANDIDATE FOR STATE SENATOR SAY THAT "GAY AND LESBIAN RIGHTS MUST BE RESTORED TO THE COMMUNITY." THE NEXT FIFTEEN REFERRED TO "MORE FUNDING." THIS HALF MINUTE CONTAINED NO REFERENCE TO PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY OR EVIDENCE OF REALISM. I ALREADY IDENTIFIED THIS WOMAN AS A DEMOCRAT. RESPONDING TO HER INTERVIEWER, SHE THEN SAID THAT THE NUMBER ONE ISSUE OF HER CAMPAIGN WAS EDUCATION. SUCH AN ANSWER WAS A CONFIRMATION OF MY RATING. WHAT POLITICAL ISSUE INVOLVES MORE OPAQUE IRRESPONSIBILITY AND DELUSION THAN FUNDING FOR EDUCATION? SHE CONTINUED TO REPEAT THAT WE NEED MORE FUNDING AND MORE FUND-RAISERS- WHICH ARE HER SPECIALTY. SHE ADMITTED THAT FUNDING IN OHIO IS ADEQUATE, BUT REITERATED THAT WE NEED MORE FUNDING. SHE FIRST VOICED OPPOSITION TO RAISING TAXES, BUT ADMITTED THAT SHE WAS NOT OPPOSED TO RAISING TAXES IF IT WAS NEEDED. !!! THERE ARE PLENTY OF JOBS IN OHIO, SHE CONCEDED, BUT WE NEED MORE FUNDING TO HELP STUDENTS' MINDS "WORK WITH COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT." HER SECOND CAMPAIGN ISSUE WAS INCREASING FUNDING FOR PROGRAMS TO LOWER THE LEVEL OF CRIME AND PROTECT THE CHILDREN. HER THIRD ISSUE WAS MORE MONEY TO REPAIR HIGHWAYS. I EXPECTED THIS LIBERAL TO ALSO MENTION THE HOT BUTTON ISSUES OF HEALTH CARE AND CHILD CARE TO POOR FAMILIES AS THEY (USUALLY A SINGLE MOTHER) MOVE FROM WELFARE TO WORK. OF COURSE, THESE INITIATIVES ARE ALREADY FIRMLY INTRENCHED AND LIBERALLY FUNDED IN OUR STATE. A PASSING COMMENT THAT SHE WAS A PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS ADDED HUMOR TO THE PATHOS OF HER BLATHER. IT’S AN INDICTMENT OF OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM THAT A EDUCATOR LIKE HER IS SO UNINFORMED AND MISDIRECTED IN HER KNOWLEDGE OF BASIC ECONOMICS. AS A TAX-AND-SPEND LIBERAL, SHE IS DISCONNECTED FROM THE FACT THAT FUNDING MEANS SOMEONE ELSE MUST PAY FOR WHAT SHE WANTS FUNDED. FURTHERMORE, AN ELITE SUCH AS SHE, WOULD NEVER SUSPECT THAT TAXPAYERS MIGHT OPPOSE FUNDING HER CAREER AND HER ISSUES DEVOTED TO MORE SPENDING BASED ON FAULTY ECONOMICS, IMMORALITY AND POLITICAL ACTIVISM. LIBERALS, HOWEVER, KNOW THAT THEY ARE SMARTER THAN THE COMMON PEOPLE WHOSE EYES THEY CAN SO EASILY PULL THE WOOL OVER WITH DANGEROUS BUT APPEALING WORDS. NOT MINE.