I had to do a double take yesterday while listening to a radio commercial from a republican running for govenor of NJ. He started out by saying that the party keeps putting out guys who can't win, and that he was going to be different. Then he went over his platform.

The first thing he talked about was eliminating the tax elderly have to pay for public schools.

wow.

Is this a pressing issue? Is this the most important issue facing NJ right now? Or could it be that the elderly, who are notorious for voting in blocks, are disgustingly greedy human beings that want to pinch every penny they have and don't care about society at all?

Now, i tried very very hard to justify the candidates position in my head...just to see if even the blindest sheep could fall for it? and the best i could think of is that they could spin it to say that the elderly don't have much money and that it's unfair that they have to pay for something that they no longer benefit from.

ha!

Republicans don't care about the poor...even if they are elderly to boot. This is a stance that will CLEARLY hurt society (uh, an educated population benefits a state), but since it benefits a special interest group, it's possible that a bill can be passed. Our government is such a joke. Every little group gets one thing passed in their favor, and in return, everyone else suffers a bit. I don't see any way out of this cycle, and I fear that special interest groups will eventually destroy democracy.