Thursday's "good news"

Here's some stuff from "Some Assembly Required" -- "stuff" very aptly describes most of the "news" being promoted/spun/etc. by our media - "mainstream" and otherwise. Please follow link to original.
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Panderer: White House leaks are preparing us to hear Obama propose creating jobs through billions in tax cuts (including raiding Social Security and Medicare) and more billions in cash for the states to spread around among contributors. Oh, and a few million for infrastructure work here and there. He will pay for these useless gestures by cutting entitlements (ie. Medicare and Social Security. The only bold thing about the proposal is its effrontery.

Cart/Horse: “The European economic union has failed because European political union doesn’t exist.”

Pre-emption: Jeff Sessions, the ranking GOP member of the Senate Budget Committee, says that the GOP will oppose whatever plan President Obama proposes. As expected, even though nobody knows yet just what the presidential proposal to create "millions of jobs" will entail, we all know it's not going to happen.

Please & Thank You: Wisconsin's DMV has instructed its employees – in writing – that they are not to offer a free voter ID card to anyone who does not specifically ask for one. That'll speed up the line – both at the DMV and at the polls.

Compassion: Despite initial fears, the $25 “background check fee” required of visitors to inmates of Arizona's prisons is a one time fee – good for the length of this incarceration. It wasn't clear if minor children would be granted half-price admission.

Burning at Both Ends: Have you noticed that the criminality of the most privileged and the lawlessness of the least privileged rise in parallel? Yet self-centered aggrandizement sought by both has radically different outcomes. The rich get richer, the poor get thrown in jail. Looting is an acceptable business strategy only in corporate boardrooms, not on street corners. But we have no fear of social unrest, for the surveillance state – developed to protect us from terrorists – will be deployed to protect them from us.
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There is much more.