Councilman poo-poos open government idea, earns chicken

Open government and the war in Iraq
Councilman poo-poos open government idea, earns chicken

Dear Editor,

It appears that the last thing former lame duck councilman Paul Correa did before checking out of Gilroy politics after a lackluster four years in office was to pass the “rubber chicken” award (which he earned for doing nothing worthwhile for the city over his tenure) to current councilman Dion Bracco.

This was confirmed to me from Lisa Pampuch’s column of Dec. 4, reporting that Bracco’s latest journey into la-la land was his recent public vocalization that the open government commission is a silly idea. Keep that up Dion, and you’ll be next to pass the rubber chicken on to Mayor Al when you exit the council in two years.

James Fennell, Gilroy

War with Iraq all about ending welfare programs, Social Security

Dear Editor,

Good news! I have figured out the whole Iraq, Iran, bad U.S. reputation thing! At last, I see the reasoning of the administration. I can see how they think everything that has happened is just “beautiful” … wonderful … successful!”

Here it is!

* Bottom line intent (Get ready for a ride to way out there …): Eliminate all government entitlement and national infrastructure programs. That includes welfare, Social Security, road repairs, pensions (almost done!), – ANYTHING the government does outside of war and subsidies for those who keep selected politicians in office, that is, those who maintain the United States aristocracy class.

* Problem to solve: Those who benefit from entitlements and infrastructure vote. Unfortunately, voters matter, even to the godly aristocracy known as the high political classes. Even this group is forced to care about where the votes go once in a while. 

* The solution: Make those who vote, want to eliminate entitlements they receive, and infrastructure they need. This is a little tough, though. 

* How to get the solution: First, make taxes the villain. Demonize taxes of all kinds, even those that bring health care to children, for example. Spend all monies that could possibly wind up in entitlements. Make it so that for entitlements and infrastructure to exist at all, massive new (demonized) taxes will have to be created, that completely obliterate the standard of living of the un-rich. Protect the rich from these increases through loopholes. Give the wealthy tax cuts they don’t even ask for, and even tax cuts they don’t want. Hide the debt but let it build and build up to astronomical, like, trillion dollar levels (we’re close now!)

* Specifics: Nothing grabs the attention and support of a people more than threats and war. Ignore the dangerous people that could be easily found and eliminated. Those demons must be left alone because they are wonderful symbols of evil – like Osama. Get a few other demonized wars cooking.  Spend, spend spend! Take on silent debts that have no immediate impact but must be paid back, say, when pension and entitlement monies are needed. Pay this money to corporations at home, and ship the fruits of their activities off anywhere in the world, and then get the stuff destroyed, shot down, blown up.

Next, endlessly replace those things! Note that the bulk of this spending stays HERE, and goes into an ever expanding storehouse of wealth, for people who could care less about … entitlements and infrastructure. They fly, they don’t drive the roads. They live in country club islands of prosperity, and don’t need a government presence, like cops. They have their own small militias and security. 

Let the lesser classes shoot each other in drive-bys; the important folks live behind guarded walls and security-gated “Blackhawk” communities. Promote the “don’t snitch” mantra so popular now with people of “lesser means.” That was a GREAT idea! 

Once the wars begin to bring out inconvenient truths, and their useless nature gets into the minds of the voters, dream up a NEW war, like, ummmm. IRAN!

If Iraq is a marble, IRAN is a basketball! A really neat war with Iran can finish the job. The unemployed will go fight the deadly wars. The better people will stay home and fly jets when they feel like it. 

About the time voters catch on to this one, the work will be done. The bills finally will become due, and more, more (evil) taxes will be necessary. But those taxes won’t happen! The entitled will just forfeit their entitlements, the pensioned will just give up healthy meals, and only a few problems will remain – problems like slipping on the bodies of starving people in the streets on your way into a nice restaurant. That can really hurt your back, you know. 

Perhaps we can get the “downtrodden” (whada pun!) to watch the movie “Soylent Green” and then provide them with dump trucks. More work for the better class. Now it all makes sense, right?

Tony Weiler, Gilroy