Sorry for the light blogging - but I'll take this offer:
Sometimes, real life has to take precedence over this cyber-life and last night, I took part in my town's Deliberative session. Here in NH, we citizens get the chance (other than participation on the official Budget Committee, Selectmen, or School Board), to actually discuss and change the budget that goes before the voters (some, right at the meeting; given that we are an "SB2" town, we will vote on the budgets via the ballot box). Our friend Chan, from Weekend Pundit, and I chit-chatted about some of the "Warrant Aticles" as the night wore on. A few posts will proceed from it: how citizen/lawyers decide to use the force of Government to enhance their "home values", the force of Government and Planning Boards in "distorting the Right to Private Property", and forced charity. And, oh yeah, journalism reporting the news - NOT!
And thus, no blogging last nite. Normal stuff will start in later on today, but let me leave this with you.
Fred Thompson tweet:
Obama's offering a payroll tax cut, but only for small business. Ok, fair's fair. We pay taxes, but only for small government. #tcot #ftrs
(H/T: Instapundit)
And this from Don Boudreaux over at Cafe Hayek - "Can I at Least Opt Out?":
The long lines at passport control and the post office, along with the indifferent “service” typically rendered there, are too common not to be symptomatic of government supply. When customers neither pay directly for what they receive nor have the option either of not paying for the product at all or of seeking an alternative supplier, government employees have little incentive to respond to the wishes of the people they are allegedly employed to serve.
