Missing forest for the trees

All the people who are either celebrating or bemoaning yesterday's supreme court's decision are missing a forest for the trees. Here are the things that they should be upset about.

1.the federal government feels it has a right to one's money. After working all of his/her life, paying taxes, saving a bit here and some there when someone dies, our federal government helps themselves to a third of everything that person worked for and accumulated in his entire life. To throw us a bone, they said, we only take a third when there is no surviving spouse. Now, they decided to expand on the idea of a surviving spouse, completely ignoring the fact that they are stealing from the dead. Our government is robbing the graves and people are fixating on whether or not they will rob the graves of a few homosexuals.

2.  marriage is a religious institution. In this country we have a separation of church and state, yet the federal government feels it  has a right to control marriage practices. Leave marriage to the religious institutions and keep government's greedy hands out of our private lives. Yes, I know, it's not fair that married people have various tax breaks and etc. Gays want their hands on these tax breaks, too. But why are there special perks for married people in the first place? Implementing, enforcing, maintaining and upgrading the special perks costs money. The tax payer money. I would rather we didn't have these special marriage perks and save money on all the legal mumbo jumbo that it entails and ends up costing us. 

New Slaveowner takes over

Slaveowner, dressed in all of his finery is making a speech in a loud baritone to the gathered slaves. While talking he is masterfully elevating himself by walking up the stairs, strategically followed by two well built friends dressed in jeans and sleeveless leather vests. He stops at the edge of an empty terrace and his friends stop two feet behind. His speech is interrupted by cheers after almost every sentence. 

"... Your previous owner has treated you badly and did not take care of your needs. [cheers] But I will bring change. [cheers] I will not be like he was. [cheers]. He had a schedule to give you a beating every 18 days. [boos] Under my leadership you will be beaten only every 26 days. [cheers] that will give you extra EIGHT days between beatings. [cheers]"


As the crowd is loudly cheering the latest change, a friend to the left asks quietly under his breath: "Wouldn't it be better if you made it 29 days rather than 26?"


"Yes" agreed Slaveowner, "but this way, I will have an incentive later on, if I ever need one. Can't give them everything on the same day."


"Wouldn't it be better if you had freed them and let them make their own decisions about where and for whom they work?" asks his friend to the right.


"Can't do that. There are other slaveowners who beat them on a daily basis. Besides, if I free them, some slaves will choose not to work and will be left hungry and homeless."


The cheers subsided and Slaveowner proceeded.


"For a small cut in your wages, you will no longer need to spend money in the company store. From now on everything in the store is yours free."[cheers]


"How can you afford to do that?" a friend to the right asks as the crowd is going crazy with wild cheers.


"You can't just let them take anything they want from the store, someone needs to oversee the operation.", the friend to the left says.


"Don't worry, I will reward my favorite slave with the position of store manager and deciding what and how much each slave is allowed to get."