Jack Woehr for Colorado House District 25 in 2008

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2008 July 14

I haven't exactly been posting my thoughts regularly here. Not that I haven't been thinking, but I've been lazy enough it didn't get to the Web.

Today I read about a New Yorker caricature of Michelle and Barak Obama that has everyone all offended. It's actually a pretty funny sendup of the extreme right-wing fears about Obama.

But every politician from every campaign must pontificate about the caricature, condemn it as "offensive". Well, yes. Most well-targeted humor is.

Are you listening from the Great Satellite Radio in the Sky, George Carlin?

- Jack Woehr

2008 April 11

The Colorado Assembly is currently debating making health insurance mandatory for all Coloradans.

I'm one of those people (over 55, pre-existing condition) who can't afford what the health insurance companies want to charge me. Imagine my feelings as I hear the Assembly deciding our fate:

Will we be made slaves of Big Insurance, responsible for their profit year after year as they charge us whatever they want?

"Oh, but they won't be able to charge whatever they want to charge. Health insurance will be regulated!"

Regulated, yes, by the same legislators here and in other states that Big Insurance finds ways to legally bribe year after year. Sen. Clinton received (as a senator in past years) over a million $$ in contribs from the health industry lobby according to Michael Moore. Sen. Clinton is the leader of the "compulsory health insurance" movement among federal elected officials. That pile of  money can't possibly have influenced a senator, can it have? Chuckle!

Something's gotta be done about the allocation and funding of health care in Colorado and in America. It's a national disgrace. But making us slaves of Big Insurance ... well, maybe most Americans are ready to give up on the idea of personal liberty entirely. Let's all opt for security with Mother Government and Uncle Big Business. They will cradle us in their tender arms and wisely arrange everything in our best interest, don't worry! Hah! Phooey!

- Jack Woehr


2008 April 7

posted on Colorado Libertarian Blog:

Zero tolerance -- what a philosophy for raising children!

I'm an engineer -- we measure things to tolerances -- no physical system exhibits a tolerance of Zero (0).

Zero tolerance is a fancy way of saying, "Let's demand perfection from our children and punish them harshly when they fail to achieve our expectation of perfection."

Zero tolerance believers are not, I fear, people who actually like children.

- Jack Woehr


Jack Woehr for Colorado House District 25 in 2008