Funny Papers

The north wind has the fish on the run, so I get exorcised by reading the news, seeing what the representatives we keep re-electing are doing to us. The Wash. Post reports on Katrina aid going through layers of consultants and subcontractors before finally paying substandard wages to the pobres who do the actual schlepping. Are these the benefits of privatization we're always hearing about? Note that one of the first checks went out to a Pat Robertson group. They may be new to disaster relief but they're all over that fundraising.
And in local news, Rick Casey writes that nineteen Texas firms that donated 2 million dollars to Tough Grandma Carol Keeton Rylander Strayhorn McCormick were granted 460 million dollars in tax reductions. This is a typical cost benefit ratio obtained when the big players invest in lobbyists and campaign funding. This from the comptrollers office that axed bus service to my kids because they live under two miles from school. Now there's hundreds of SUVs gridlocked around the school twice a day, turning Arabian fuel into smog.
-judge chief charly hoarse