Saturday, June 20, 2015

I'd Never Make It As A Politician's Aide

By Chris Rossini

If I were to "work" for the Governor of Hawaii, I wouldn't last very long.

Just yesterday, the Governor signed a law raising the smoking age in Hawaii to 21. The Governor said:
"Raising the minimum age as part of our comprehensive tobacco control efforts will help reduce tobacco use among our youth and increase the likelihood that our [children] will grow up tobacco-free."
How interesting.

As a very conscientious aide, I would always look to do my "job" efficiently. I'd take that very sentence from the Governor and save it to my notes.

The next time that the Governor went to raise the minimum wage, I'd go to my notes and grab the sentence. I'd replace a couple of words, and put the sentence on the Governor's desk so that he could recite it to the press:
"Raising the minimum wage as part of our comprehensive economic control efforts will help reduce employment among our youth and increase the likelihood that our [children] will grow up job-free."
That would be my last day at "work" for sure.


Chris Rossini is author of Set Money Free: What Every American Needs To Know About The Federal Reserve. Follow @chrisrossini on Twitter.

2 comments:

  1. Making a statement like that would receive a mixture of crickets/blank stares and howls of protest as to why/how the logic is flawed. *Sigh*

    Carry on!

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  2. Just returned from a two week vacation in Hawaii. One thing that struck me was how quickly locals, with no prompting, will start telling you about how corrupt the police and government there are, and how easily gamed the welfare system is. As with social governments everywhere, the middle class in Hawaii is being squeezed very hard.

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