Katrina
Monday, September 5, 2005 • Posted by jcb
I’m going to skip the soap box. Surely my fellow bloggers have eloquently covered the obvious failings of the federal government after the events of the past week. However I will add my two cents when it comes to a remedy. As the federal government has sorely failed the good people of New Orleans I think it only right that citizens respond in kind, in the only way they would seem able to …. withhold federal income tax dollars. These people paid the government a fair share of their wages and in return the federal government short changed them. If a grass roots movement is started maybe we can finally have some accountability in Washington as to how and where our tax dollars are spent. Instead of having hurricane resistant levees protecting our most valuable national port we have pork projects in Alaska paying for highways to uninhabited islands in the middle of fucking nowhere!!!
“How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the whole earth, were it not for misgovernment, and a diversion of all his energies from their proper object — the happiness of man — to the selfish interest of kings, nobles, and priests.”
-Thomas Jefferson, 1825
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Posted by: yo at September 5, 2005 07:15 PM
i would love to do that, however, I do not want to go to jail. Joan Baez tried it, I think Mohamad Ali tried it. I know Joannie went to the pokie.
Do you have a plan, one that keeps out of Danbury?
Posted by: JCB at September 5, 2005 07:23 PM
I guess I really meant displaced New Orleanians. You think they would throw the entire displaced population in jail…. some 700,000 people.. maybe, but they already have a problem finding housing for them now.
Posted by: sis at September 7, 2005 11:15 PM
Great idea….mind if I send that into the NYT letters to the editor? Love the quote too, very fitting!
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