[Vision2020] "So Why Be So Hard on Vermont?" (Calvin Trillin, Deadline Poet)

[Tom Hansen]

"So Why Be So Hard on Vermont?"

By Calvin Trillin, Deadline Poet

 

"Michele Bachmann says Hurricane Irene was God's warning to

curb excessive government spending." -news reports

 

We know that this God's an all-powerful God

God's actions are not nonchalant.

We know he can punish whomever he wants.

So why be so hard on Vermont?

 

Yes, spending increases our deficit-sure.

Vermont, though, has not been avant

The rest of the country. We all spend a lot.

So why be so hard on Vermont?

 

Its mountains? Its hipsters? Its accent? Or what

Might tick off the Great Commandant?

We know we're all sinners; we spend and we spend.

So why be so hard on Vermont?

 

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

 

Tom Hansen

Moscow, Idaho

"Corporations are an oppressed minority forced to move headquarters from
state to state in search of friendlier tax codes--sometimes being forced to
live just off our shores in tiny mailboxes." 

 

- John Oliver, The Daily Show

 

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