How're Things in Texas North?
I guess we're going to hear about tough decisions being made in Canada and Alberta in the coming budgets.
Paul Krugman points to Texas as evidence of dominant righty fiscal ideology. Evidence makes things kind of awkward.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/opinion/07krugman.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha212
In any case, we have a living breathing example of a tough decision mentality that makes Texas what it is today. Is that what's going to make Canada and Alberta great as well?
Why do tough decisions always involve others' lives? How tough does one have to be to make life miserable for others in order to protect life for yourself and your friends?
A truly tough decision would be one where the decider and the decider's friends and family sacrifice their own wealth and circumstance to make all of society work better.
However, it seems our tough economic leaders and their tough political associates can measure their toughness in percentage of soft butter and marshmallow in their constitutions.
What if our sports heroes, war heroes and other icons of courage would have led by saying, “You first.”
The first signs of trouble requiring true unselfish leadership works like bran washed down with prune juice. Their intestinal fortitude seems to leave them and there they sit quivering behind locked doors.
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