Treating the Symptom

I'm reminded of the Thoreau quote, "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root," because all I see around me are efforts to treat the symptoms of a problem while hardly anyone is trying to find the reason for the problem so it can be stopped at it's source. It's everywhere; in politics, medicine, ec…

Big-Small-Government Spending

Today I'm going to start talking about hypocrites. Hypocrites are everywhere. I see them. I hear them. I live in a town with an extremely large military presence as well as a nearby hippie enclave so I get both main varieties of government spending hypocrites, especially from the right. At least the left is honest enough to say that they want …