Senator Ted Lieu (D-Redondo Beach) never loses an opportunity
to loose his opposition to the most minimal and meandering of problems in his
district.
to loose his opposition to the most minimal and meandering of problems in his
district.
The Argonaut recently
radiated a full frontal exposure of Senator Lieu’s opposition to tanning for
minors. In spite of rising crime rates, reduced educational opportunities, and
increasing deviance among youth in Southern California, the South Bay Senator
has decided to wage war on skin cancer. If there is one addiction that Senator
Lieu needs to treat, it is his obsession with press releases for picayune
legislative proposals. The over-bronzing of our skin is a private matter, one
which every citizen is responsible for treating. The spread of red ink from
Sacramento to Washington D. C. is a more devious and aggressive cancer, one
which requires immediate attention.
radiated a full frontal exposure of Senator Lieu’s opposition to tanning for
minors. In spite of rising crime rates, reduced educational opportunities, and
increasing deviance among youth in Southern California, the South Bay Senator
has decided to wage war on skin cancer. If there is one addiction that Senator
Lieu needs to treat, it is his obsession with press releases for picayune
legislative proposals. The over-bronzing of our skin is a private matter, one
which every citizen is responsible for treating. The spread of red ink from
Sacramento to Washington D. C. is a more devious and aggressive cancer, one
which requires immediate attention.
Reading over the article again, I thought that I spied a
typo in the column, which printed “taxorexia” instead of “tanorexia”, the
terrible condition which compels suffers to seek out tanning salons to the
detriment of their health. On second glance, I believe that this editorial faux pas was in fact the mot juste for what really ails our state
representatives.
typo in the column, which printed “taxorexia” instead of “tanorexia”, the
terrible condition which compels suffers to seek out tanning salons to the
detriment of their health. On second glance, I believe that this editorial faux pas was in fact the mot juste for what really ails our state
representatives.
If there is one addiction that Senator Lieu, Governor Brown,
and the liberal political class of Sacramento must be weaned away from, it is indeed
“tax-orexia”, a terrible condition in which politicians keep heaping and hyping
up tax initiatives to close the growing budget gaps which they have created. Of
course, “taxorexia” inevitably leads to and exacerbates the more sinister condition
of “tax-ulimia”, in which the state gorges
itself with rapacious rapidity on taxpayer dollars, only to wretch this revenue
excessively and effusively on the most inane and inconsequential of initiatives,
like limiting juvenile “tanorexia”.
and the liberal political class of Sacramento must be weaned away from, it is indeed
“tax-orexia”, a terrible condition in which politicians keep heaping and hyping
up tax initiatives to close the growing budget gaps which they have created. Of
course, “taxorexia” inevitably leads to and exacerbates the more sinister condition
of “tax-ulimia”, in which the state gorges
itself with rapacious rapidity on taxpayer dollars, only to wretch this revenue
excessively and effusively on the most inane and inconsequential of initiatives,
like limiting juvenile “tanorexia”.
Voters across the state must stage an intervention. Our
politicians will never break free from this destructive cycle of “taxorexia-taxulimia”
unless we the voters stand up and confront them. We must love our legislators
into wholeness, encourage them to admit that they are powerless, that they are
making our lives unmanageable. They may deny that they have a problem. They may
hide or minimize their bingeing and purging, but we must show that we care, that we want what is
best for them, and by extension ourselves, our state, and our future.
politicians will never break free from this destructive cycle of “taxorexia-taxulimia”
unless we the voters stand up and confront them. We must love our legislators
into wholeness, encourage them to admit that they are powerless, that they are
making our lives unmanageable. They may deny that they have a problem. They may
hide or minimize their bingeing and purging, but we must show that we care, that we want what is
best for them, and by extension ourselves, our state, and our future.
If Senator Lieu and his addicted political pusher-peers want
to stimulate recovery in this state, they must seek a power greater than
themselves — we the voters –and turn their will and life back to legislating
and leading according to the best interests of all Californians.
to stimulate recovery in this state, they must seek a power greater than
themselves — we the voters –and turn their will and life back to legislating
and leading according to the best interests of all Californians.