Mystery Fog Over Boston
My worthy adversaries at the Boston Globe marvel at the “mystery fog” that settled over Boston yesterday afternoon, shutting down Logan International Airport for several hours. It wasn’t that big a mystery. As the fanciful, horror flick-citing weather story eventually gets around to partially explaining, when you have a mass of hot humid air over cold water, you get fog. Not that big a mystery.
The bigger mystery/horror story around Boston is the fog that has settled over voters who have accepted tax hikes without anything approaching meaningful reform or budget cuts, allowing Beacon Hill hacks to pick their pockets to save layabout hack cronies and hack relatives in the midst of the deepest recession in decades. Then, there’s the mysterious fact that they keep electing these people. Then, there’s the fact that they actually had an opportunity to eliminate the state income tax, firing a broadside at said hacks, but overwhelmingly voted to keep it. Hence the massive sales tax hike … with the tax expanded to cover already heavily taxed booze … that was enacted once the hacks figured out that the people in the fog either don’t care or are too befuddled to notice. The fog itself is no big mystery. It’s pumped out of big fog machines operated by local unions, the hacks themselves, and the abovementioned broadsheet. The mystery is why people put up with it. But people get the government, and the fog, they deserve.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 1:55 pm on Wednesday, August 12, 2009
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August 12th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
Jules, you’re too kind, so let me correct you if I may.
There is no one at the Globe who is a worthy adversary.
August 13th, 2009 at 2:34 am
I’m not the biggest Howie Carr fan, but he sure had this one right in his column back on May 22.
“For those 2,063,891 of you Massachusetts voters who last year refused to abolish the state income tax because it wasn’t the “responsible” thing to do, I have a question. Are you happy now, dopes? ”
The rubes came through for the politicians once again.