For one she claims that Lane Evans is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. This comes from his last opponent who claimed that Evans was a member of DSA when actually Evans is a member of the Progressive Caucuse in Congress which was posted on the DSA web site. But facts, schmacks. She makes the same claim about Danny Davis–I don’t know if that is true, but he does have ties to the Right Reverend Loon–errr… Moon and was there when Moon declared himself the Messiah.
Before she gets to that lie, she has an incoherent rant on the National Debt though she confuses deficit and debt in a rather bizarre way. But most importantly she doesn’t even begin to grasp how debt is financed by a large country. She seems to think collateral is needed when the reason people borrow from the US government is because it is a solid stable institution with a huge economy. You don’t put up collateral on national debt.
In a rather amusing bit she suggests the Terra is a tool to take away land and somehow this is connected to the above:
Are we now using every control mechanism we can to take the terra from the people? I don?t know. I?m just throwing out a few thoughts and it is up to you to see if the pieces fit.
So now the Leader has a bizarre conspiracy theorist writing for them who doesn’t get their facts even close to straight. Impressive way to build credibility. Again, as comedy, keep it up, but if the Leader wants to be anything more than ideological hacks they might try and find someone who isn’t a nutcase to write environmental columns for them.
You missed the part about Morrison ranting that once ‘the government’ buys land (competing against ‘you’ for real estate) the land is never again for sale to private owners… Funny, I regularly read about school districts having space issues *because they’ve sold off land* back in the day they thought they’d never need to build a school. And that’s just one example of public land being returned to private ownership. (Besides, what’s all the fuss about neo-cons wanting to drill for oil anywhere they can [except maybe Jeb’s backyard]?)
It’s like one of those rants that you used to go on in college when you got really high and some stupid idea like a TV that actually cooked TV dinners was a bulletproof idea to make a fortune. When you got right, you didn’t even remember the idea, much less consider writing it down for publication.
Really, with a Joyce column, I inevitably miss something.