August 21, 2006
Penn Patriot
 Brown
Shoes Diary
Harrisburg Justice
Certain articles are too rich not to comment upon. In
the Altoona Mirror on August 13th,
there appears the usual weekly column titled, "Politics in Brief." I refer to
this column as the "Stolen Property Report" for obvious reasons. There are
five separate articles in this column wonderfully ordered from top to bottom.
First, State Senator Wozniak is trying to make it possible for drivers to go
on-line so they can donate their organs. He's doing nothing to allow you to
get fair value for your organs, but he's willing to make it easy for you to
give them away for nothing. Not only is he complicit in the robbery of donors,
but he is complicit in the terrible shortage of available organs. All economic
studies show that the shortage would disappear and tens, if not hundreds, of
thousands of lives could be saved every year if donors were allowed to get
market value for their organs.
Article two informs us that $25 million in state grants (that is, stolen
taxpayer money) will be awarded to boost public safety. Thank heaven that we
have people in Harrisburg who are more interested in our own safety than we
are. No doubt we'd all be dead now if it weren't for the geniuses in
Harrisburg.
Article three concerns state grants (let me repeat: stolen taxpayer money) for
senior transportation. Sometimes it seems like the entire purpose of
government in Pennsylvania is to rob from the young to give to the old. No
wonder this state is losing so many young people and is becoming disastrously
top-heavy when we speak about age demographics.
Article four says that Bud George has been at work to get subsidies (did I
mention this is
stolen money from you and me?) for mining companies. Exactly where is that
clause in the Pennsylvania Constitution that Mr. George has sworn to uphold?
Article five is the perfect closer: "Former six-term state Representative Jeff
Habay is out of jail and is at an alternative facility …" What was the crime
that sent Mr. Habay to the pokey? He used legislative staff to campaign on
state time. Let me get this straight. Those in Harrisburg can take people's
organs without compensation and give them to others; they can take taxpayers'
money without compensation and give it to senior citizens and mining
companies; and they can assume they know better than you or I how to effect
our safety and use that as an excuse to take our money and spend it as they
see fit. But using their own staff to try to get re-elected instead of
stealing results in a term in jail. I guess that's justice.
The opinions and ideas expressed in this essay are those of John D
McGinnis and should not be considered representative of WRTA.com, any
institution with which McGinnis is associated, or anyone else. He can be
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