The Separation of State and State. Wha?

1) Here's a link. Thanks Rich. It fits into the thing I wanted to write today:
http://www.unbossed.com/index.php?itemid=318

2) We've been watching televisions tell us about the growing disparity between the haves and have-mores, and once in a while we hear about the have-nots. But while we're running as fast as we can to turn the wheel and keep our stuff while we go out and get more (at near-zero-margin prices!), we're missing something important.

The government again. Still. Nobody on the hill except that coward veteran Kerry or that adopter of black kids McCain ever served in the military. None of their kids are going off to fight the war. Very few have ever had real jobs, although Frist opened old peoples' chests to vacuum money out, and DeLay was a destroyer of insects.

And the median income for a family of four is dropping. And the CPI is rising. And they voted themselves another pay raise. I haven't seen whether the Presidential salary was raised as well, but when Bush came in 2001 he accepted a $400,000 a year salary plus expenses and benefits including LIFETIME BODYfreakinGUARDS. For those who skipped that class, he made 40% more than Clinton the previous year ($250,000).

And in Pennsylvania, watching as jobs evaporate and population ages and flees for younger cities, with tax revenue declining and slot machines promising to make up the difference between what the politicians can promise in 30 seconds and what reality can provide, the lawmakers just passed around pay raises of over 10%. As health programs and municipal services are being whittled down to empty slogans.

So back to the link. Unbossed is a site apparently dedicated to freedom on the roads. But the roads are ultimately paid for and maintained by bodies. And when a company gets a deal to build a toll road they might be taking a share of the tolls.

Our local, county, state and federal governments are out making deals to get themselves paid hard, and we're paying them for it. I'm not a Democrat, but I plan to vote that way until the Republicans act like people living among people. I wanted to work to promote a third party, like the Greens, but I think taking over the Democratic Party with Progressives interested in the people who live here is a nobler goal.

So let's purge the governments of everyone in them, replace them with naive people who don't trust lobbyists and can't try to control their neighbors' attitudes, want to leave personal decicions to the Americans, and hope to get back to their real jobs after a little time off to serve the people. Let's.