let 'em eat bush: an immodest proposal

yep. the dream of a liberal america is over. i'm waving my white flag high. it's time for the coasts and the cities to focus on taking care of their own. and if the heartland is so in love with republican values, well, let's let them live with them for a while. let 'em live with low minimum wage, no unions, lousy health care...all that shit the coasts and the cities have tried to legislate and even pay for...it's easy to see now why the liberals have been taking such a beating for the past twenty years... we've been fighting tooth and nail to give everyone what we want for ourselves, and footing the bill pretty much as well...what incentive have we given the conservatives to think our way when we've been giving it away for free? we are seriously best off pushing to gut the federal government and then using our tax savings to create a liberal paradise right where it belongs...where people are smart enough and big hearted enough to vote liberal. let's lower federal taxes and federal spending and increase state taxes and state spending...and if we live in liberal cities stuck in conservative states, let's cut state taxes and state spending and increase city taxes and city spending...let's get this giant conservative federal monster off our backs and then see, in a controlled experiment, what works and what doesn't. let the conservatives stick to the heartland. let the liberals have the coasts and the cities. and if you are a liberal stuck in consurbia...what the hell are you doing giving your tax dollars to people who hate you? come join your brothers and sisters in the blue lands. think how much we could get done if we focussed on our own neighborhoods instead of theirs. surely we have enough problems of our own, enough poverty of our own, enough pollution of our own...

note: this is not a black and white proposal...we must of course protect our own self-interest vis a vis the environment, foreign wars, etc. i am talking about an economic agenda; namely...let's stop giving our tax dollars to people who are fighting against us, let's govern ourselves the way that we choose, and let them govern themselves the way that they choose...and let's let them pay for their their choices as we pay for ours. in this manner we will gain much clarity as to what causes have what effects.

for more inspiration visit fuck the south, fuck the suburbs, and the urban archipeligo.