We're not Norway.

No homogenous population, no similar Scandinavian attitudes.

Nice try though...

ADDED: If I felt sad for the writer when I read this,

"The government pays for our schools and dictates what they teach our children."

I felt even sadder thinking that people believe this:

As scams go, the Delray Beach driver license fraud was about as sloppy and unsophisticated as the ACORN employees caught on tape behaving badly. But, unlike the ACORN mess, the actions of motor vehicle employees - supplying Florida licenses to illegal immigrants - put the community at risk.

(see related "poll" here)

Because if you honestly believe it's not parents, and parents in the guise of local community school boards, determining what your children learn ... and local property owners paying in the form of taxes for the educations of those in the community ... how sad.

We are the government, remember? Or did that die with these sudden, newfound "rights" to seemingly everything under the sun our hearts desire, but our own pocketbooks have trouble paying for without reaching into somebody else's?

If you honestly seek to defend the ACORN voter registration fraud, and recently exposed corruption, then you really aren't the best people to sit on a newspaper editorial board determining community standards. Put down that white flag, and instead surrender the job to citizens who still believe individuals have a stake in the matter ...

Corruption puts a community at risk. Period. Republican corruption. Democratic corruption. Corruption intended to benefit the poor and uninsured...

One of the most interesting comments I've heard of late (it kept me thinking, days later) came from James O'Keefe, the thin young man playing "da pimp" on those ACORN videos. He essentially pulled a Borat, but not just to market himself, but presumably to expose corruption.

He's being labeled as a conservative activist, but when asked (SCHIAVOCAMPO: Do you consider yourself a conservative?) , he responded:

No, I consider myself a progressive radical. I don't really want to conserve anything.

Hmmm. That day will come, I suspect, when the young people energized by a technological revolution will think it better to start anew -- easier to just cast off the whole corrupt mess than to try to rebuild, and salvage what's left when this current cast of characters is done remaking the system.

You can cite history and quote odds -- always cover your bets if your money's on revolutionaries -- but to me it's mostly sad that's really where we're at today ... I don't really want to conserve anything.

ADDED, LYRICS:

Did you cling to the things they (told) you?
Did you cover your eyes when they (sold) you?
That he can't come back,
Because he has no children to come back for...

Maybe we should all be prayin' for time, indeed.