On Opposition and Strategery: A Pithy Observation
The Democrats, boy do they have their fingers on the hot-button issues!
They're like a man who orders a steak, is served a plateful of shit, and complains that his parsley is missing.
[This in the wake of lengthy political discussions and "strategery sessions" with the Ebullient German And His Wife, The Equally Ebullient Ohioan in various brew pubs in southern Vermont and Western Massachusetts over the weekend.]
One further, less pithy, observation. Vermont is a very poor state, sort of the Arkansas of the northeast. Howard Dean seems very proud of his ability to run said state, and certainly deserves credit for balancing the budget and adroitly meeting the needs of mountain men and hippies alike. Yet prosperity is not evident, at least not in the southern part of the state. Huh. The Arkansas of the North. A left-field Democratic candidate whose persona is as big a selling point as his proposals. Huh.
[update] n.b. I am a big fan of the Green Mountain State and would happily live there if I had a reason. However, an informal survey reveals that the CB-FY Ratio (ratio of cars on blocks to front yards) is in the range of 2.3.
A CB-FY ratio less than .5 is well known to be an accurate leading indicator of the near-future prosperity of a population. A CB-FY Ratio above 1.5, likewise, suggests a lack of robust economic growth.
Moreover, the NWA-FY (Non-working appliance to front yard) Ratio in southern Vermont is a dizzyingly high 3.15-- also a leading indicator of continued economic moribundity. I'm just sayin'.
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To defend my state:
To defend my state:
Vermont is a state whose entire economy cannot escape relying exclusively on Tourism.
Expecting it to have a glowing economy is like wondering why an island nation like Jamaica isn't rolling in the dough.
The best an economy that relies on tourism can hope for is good social services - this Vermont has in abundance, and even Republican Vermonters will admit it is thanks to Howard Dean.
99% of children in Vermont have health insurance, there is a low cost health care option for adults, and for such a small, rural state, the access to birth control is unprecedented.
Vermont, and especially Burlington, is consistently listed as one of the best places to live in the US, as well.
Now, just to be a sarcastic bitch - Ohio has other economic resources and is home to several major cities - what's their excuse for the car on blocks ratio?