Anti-democracy from the left

A half-century later, the District of Columbia’s population, estimated in the new census at 601,723, is larger than Wyoming’s and only slightly smaller than Vermont’s. Yet Washingtonians still have no meaningful voice in Congress and lack full authority over their own affairs. A Brainless Kate Masur at the NY Times

Kate sweetheart, California has 30 million people and gets only two Senators. Kevin Drum picked up on this. It is amazing that the left has no respect for a fair democracy.

DC can have all the statehood they want, and so can California, Texas, Florida and New York.  Use my proposal, get another 20 Senators to pass around and lets break up the big states. California should get six new Senators, at a minimum. Let's make the Senate a fairly representative body, or alternatively, lets default on the federal debt and force the issue.

The NY Times needs to go out of business. 

Kate wrote this book:
“An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle Over Equality in Washington, D.C.”

Yet when I look at my federal taxes in/spending out; I see that DC Residents get about $5.50 back for every dollar they put in. In other words, DC residents are on the congressional gravy train.

I think the correct answer is residents of DC have figured out how to make Senators from big states stand out in a crowd, they give money to DC residents. Babs Boxer, my own Senator, is very generous with our federal tax dollars, giving nearly 25% of it away to wealthier citizens, just to show off I guess.

The answer to Babs is to crowd here back into her own state of San Francisco, and let the rest of California have their own Senators. Is having to live with Babs in DC worth the pride of a whole Sunny California? What is the worship for a state that deliberately bankrupted itself? Break up California into four separate states, really folks.  We suffer a brainwashing from early childhood about these dopey states.

You know what drives information technology?  Nuttiness.  There is a huge payoff when someone can grab the latest information tech and report on obvious nuttiness.  We are nutty in our love for states.  What makes California? Some idiot named John Fremont and his role in the Civil War.   Kate is nutty. Keynesians are nutty.

Like oil shortages.  Consider.  There are at most four or five major inputs to the economy. What input would money measure with the most accuracy?  The input that is short.  There is only so much correlation coefficient between money and the four or five important inputs.  Well over 90% of the available correlation coefficient ties the  deflated dollar to oil import prices.