Old Kadizzle woke up

Another day, a cool morning, fairly good sleep, time to reach over and get the computer on the nightstand for the morning update. The New York Times has gone nuts shooting up the Donald. How scary that such an insane idiot is a contender for president.  We are in deep trouble.  Now to North Dakota.  According to the New York Times North Dakota has the highest per capita income of any state in the United States.  Wait, but we have the lowest paid teachers, in Hazen we don't even have sidewalks on all the main streets.  We live in a state flowing with wealth, but we do not use the wealth to enhance the common good. We build steel buildings and fill them with toys.  What drives Kadizzle crazy is the oil money.  North Dakota hit the jackpot.  So what do you do with the money?  Do you make life better for everyone?  No, you put the money in a pile, and when someone says we need some money, you pull the money out of the pile.  That all seems fine until  you realize how it really works.  When you have a state reeking with money you could fix things and make everything wonderful, but you might have to tax the rich. Well the Republicans just ain't going to let that happen.  So now the oil boom has slowed down, and the possibility of raising taxes is looming,  Whoa, don't do that, go to the pile.

Now when the money was piling up we could have increased teacher pay, fixed up our little towns, our parks, our nursing homes, and worked to give out children a better life, but no we just piled the money so we would never have to ask some to pay their share.  This gets to the point of what is an investment.  A road is an investment.  Once you build the road you can move your grain cheaper, you don't beat your car to death. Education is an investment.  Once you make people smarter you do not have the cost of dolts like Donald Trump.  Our country was made great by investing in the public sector.  However, now we try to starve the government of money to make sure the rich are not taxed.  When they rich have more money, they take it out of state and spend it on their lifestyle.  When a rich guy builds a million dollar home in Phoenix it does North Dakota no good.  When a rich guy cruises the Mediterranean, it does North Dakota no good.  If North Dakota taxes the rich guy and has the best teachers in the country it works for North Dakota.  If North Dakota invest in parks,  little towns, and highways and byways, it helps North Dakota.

None of this happens because we have the Rush Limbaugh mentality.  We are convinced it is the poor robbing us.  It is not the poor taking the oil money and running out of state with it.  It is not the guy greeting you at the entrance to Walmart who is robbing our country blind.  62 people now have as much wealth as the rest of the people in the world.  Maybe they are the culprits and it is not the guy flipping hamburgers at McDonalds who wants $15 an hour.   So turn on  your radio Monday morning and soak up the idiocy of Rush.    Remember those teachers, they can teach you to think.  A good teacher will keep you from falling prey to Rush, Fox News, and the Republican Party.   Just forget about all this.  I got mine, plenty to eat, the money comes in by itself, and Kadizzle really doesn't care.  One minor problem, our insanity is melting the planet.  Simple solution, ignore science, logic, and reality.  Got the best thing for that, religion.  Just make up a good story and believe it.  The hell with reality.  Jesus is going to come and clean the refrigerator, cut the grass, and fix the boat.  It is all so simple.  Now, I get it, and Kadizzle is ready to help The Donald make America great.  Build a wall, tell the Muslims to go home, make the poor work, and declare bankruptcy if you need to just like The Donald does.  Why make life complicated when it is all so simple.  So here we go it is Sunday, a good day to enjoy the illusion of your choice.  See what one cup of coffee, a keyboard and a good nights sleep can do.