This Guy is a Judge?

[KeithE]

[Haruo]

You didn't mention that the context of this amazing bit of speculation was ... to explain why they need to raise the tax rate!! Hey, Romney and Ryan could use that line nationwide... "we need to lower taxes on the wealthier brackets, to stimulate job growth, but we need to raise taxes on the rest of you guys to help pay for national defense against UN troops that may be sent in to reinstate Obama..." Yeah, that oughta fly pretty good.

[Sandy]

This guy's civics teacher from high school must be going into hiding right about now. Does he think his constituents are so stupid that they don't know there's no way a President of the US could hand the sovereignty of the United States over to the UN, or to anyone else for that matter?

By way of explanation as to how someone could be a "Judge" and sound like this backwoods loon, in Texas, the county "Judge" is an elected official at the head of county government, sort of like a mayor would be over a city. They are not necessarily trained in the legal profession, in fact, the only qualification is to campaign and get elected, so they can be bottomless in their exhibition of stupidity. And in Texas, many of them are little Hitlers when it comes to running their county.

What's also happened in Texas is two successive governors have gutted the state budget to give tax breaks to corporations. So they've cut education, law enforcement, and just about everything receiving state money to the bone. That's forced school districts, county governments and tax assessors to get creative in order to raise money. So they have to raise taxes. While Bush and Perry crow about cutting taxes, the average Texas taxpayer has experienced the largest tax increase of residents of any state in the nation. It hurts local politicians because they take the blame and the voters take it out on them. So this guy is probably trying to find a way to explain a tax increase and get some conservative support for passing it.

[Haruo]

It looks to me like "Lubbock County, OK", not "Lubbock, TX". But I'm sure OK county judges can be just as ignorant of the law as the Texan ones, only Sooner.

[Haruo]

I guess it actually is in Texas, okay? Lubbock County, okay? OK, okay? Fox outfoxed me.

[Sandy]

I'm wondering what "UN Troops" are going to come marching into Lubbock. Most UN troops these days are ours or British. Besides that, even if the sovereignty of the US was turned over to the UN (a ludicrous and ignorant assertion) why would they want Lubbock? Maybe there's some secret bomb being made at Texas Tech? Otherwise, Lubbock is about the most colorless, culture-less, featureless city of its size anywhere on the planet. We'd have to pay the UN to take it off our hands.

[Haruo]