Yearnings

I asked her to write my story. The one gifted in writing. The one who had the time. It seems almost unfair that all of us have feelings as deep as the authors we revere. Their literary success depends on their writing echoing in our lives. I recently heard the story of a man locked in a coma for two decades. screaming to get out. Like so many of us who live lives with very small outlets.

The most of us who work because the alarm rings because the sun rises, because there are those who depend on us. And that is where it all begins. Are there those who care about more?

Not me, I wouldn't give a fig for the world and all that's in it if it didn't have those who needed me. Like a giant picture show, images flashing before me, separated distant, flat. But so many act like they do. I find myself being pulled along, wanting to matter somehow to the great beyond, but I find my skills a little wanting, my pace a little too slow. And that, at times, is my salvation.

The world, if it is to be understood, will be understood by those with connections to it. Those who spend their lives in the daily pursuit of the others who need them.

On the Right

I am of the opinion, that while I believe it to be good policy to limit the size of government, a fixation on reducing the size of government and lowering taxes does not produce an efficient government. I fear that too many people have taken on a tax war without understanding taxes. Believing that governments should be small and not overly taxing on the people is not the same thing as believing that governments, and the taxes that support them are inherently bad.
I believe a far more important discussion than how we should cut taxes, is to discuss how taxes are raised and how they are spent. To do this however, one will need to overcome their instinctual resistance to taxation. Consider the following, unless you are considering cutting taxes in half, governments will continue to spend much more money on programs supported by taxes than the people will save on tax cuts. If the right continues their fixation on tax cuts and reinforces the rhetoric that lower taxes create better governments I fear the result will be a government that continues to waste billions of dollars while its financial stability erodes.