Rep Labruzzo

Posted on October 20, 2008 by Varg

In reference to this e-mail

Rep Labruzzo,

Hello!

Everyone I talked to at the bar was all for your plan. And, as it relates to spanning ethnic groups, I was getting a push-up from the ice cream man just this afternoon and he supported it. I asked him his income and he replied “about twenty or thirty dollars a day in the summer.” Then I asked him his race and he said, “some folks call me high yella.”

So you got that demographic too.

What I don’t understand is why that Jim Tucker stripped you of your position when he should be all for the plan. How could he let himself be influenced by the liberals? I mean, it’s not like you were going to force people to be castrated. They were making the decision on their own free will. And if they happened to need some rims for their car or were behind on their mortgage, the plan would be helping them out! And the money will just go back into the local economy plus taxes. Does he understand the full scope of the plan??

What’s interesting to me is that you haven’t reference the plan in your previous e-mails, rather you have taken on this cause for “addressing generational welfare.” Won’t supporters of your plan consider this a mistake? People support the surgery and that’s what you should give them. Don’t let the liberal media like the Times-Picayune and WIST keep you from pursuing the plan.

I asked the lady up the street what she thought of your effort to address generational welfare and she said something about facing the problem itself rather than the round-about catration plan you proposed. I told her, ” He IS facing the problem head on! Right in the vagina! Where we all came from!”

She had the nerve to ask about why a Representative would want to favor a surgical procedure when abortion is such a huge issue among conservatives. I told her she just doesn’t get it. It’s not abortion if the baby isn’t conceived! Sheesh. This plan will cut down on abortions correct?

Perhaps with your plan, you can get these generations of poor people off the government dime and then get rid of the government dime all together. Paying taxes only makes sense if the taxes go to controlling government programs.

Also, I am posting this letter and your response on my blog! www.thechicory.com

You “hard working” blogger,

Varg

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I say that a lot. I sign many pieces with it. I do this because I believe our lives are a true happenstance. A brilliant occurence from nothingness. We are so rare. We are so unlikely. And simply being born isn’t enough. From there we must survive, endure. So each morning, after our Sun departs and is reborn again. Please, for the sake of your ancestors and the Universe in general, hoist that cup of joe up and say, “Rejoice.”

Ours is a soulful existence. No matter how many McMansions, polyester fabrics, auto-tunes, modified foods and social networks we surround ourselves with, we are all still native, passionate beings made of ancient matter. We are organic and we have soul.

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I am the son of a sailor and a social worker, the grandson of a gypsy, a dancer and a nurse. I spent my youth moving from port city to port city, watching a lot of road go by and reading World Book Encyclopedia. After my parents settled down on the Gulf Coast, I was a miscreant youth, destroying cars and taking the wrongs things too seriously and the right things not serious enough. Eventually I began replacing my imagination with experience.

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I despise waste. Particularly the waste of organic matter. Trees are magnificent. They were here before we arrived and they’ll be around after we are gone. I’m making an effort to save as much wood as possible. Creating art is fun too. But beyond communicating with folks, but beyond making money ad providing for myself, beyond rescuing flooded parts, beyond reveling in the ethereal aroma of heartpine that hasn’t seen the light of day in 400 years, beyond all that, I am trying to make a simple comment on waste.