In this past Sunday’s Washington Post’s Outlook section, the back page featured the opinion editorial “Don’t Shortchange Virginia” by the ‘Foundation For Virginia’ Executive Director Michael Edwards. He wrote about impending Global economic frights — and those “pay me now, or pay me later” monster’s galore of the upcoming 2005 election campaign.
Just like in the movie, Poltergeist II: The Other Side, the ‘Foundation for Virginia’ is back for another spooky ‘revenue enhancement’ sequel.
In 2004, the Foundation of Virginia warned the Commonwealth of the impending doom of Wall Street’s AAA bond ratings and our lack of state revenue. But I’ve never seen ‘proof positive’ documentation that the bond rating was endangered.
But Governor Mollycoddle said the sky was falling! And his citizen meetings around the Commonwealth touted the lunatic ravings of the our state Bureaucrats and Educrats and Labor to fear the future! While state revenues kept trending upwards into the double digits…
Like the ghosts of Poltergeist II, the mystic realms (modus operandi) of the ‘Foundation For Virginia’ are simply set for another round of scare tactics. But this time, it’s the vengeful spirits of the Global marketplace and Virginian’s ability to remain viable and competitive in the future.
“Build more Roads or Die!” — is their transportation battle cry! With semiautonomous regional taxing authorities and mega-billion Marshall Planning tailored for Virginian’s special interests.
In the book ‘Road to Serfdom’ author Friedrich Hayek wrote the movement of totalitarianism “comes from the two great vested interest: organized capital and organized labor.” And their aim is “not a totalitarian system, but rather a sort of corporate society … in which the organized industries would appear as semi-independent and self governing estates”
How prophetic?
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