An I-Pod For Every Airhead
Ed Morrissey

I know CQ readers often complain about the lack of i-Pods for kids today. This community has always understood the relationship between i-Pod users and the world around them, and how educational these devices are when worn in a teaching environment. That's why I know CQ readers will fully support Michigan lawmakers when they propose to buy an i-Pod for every student, despite a $1 billion state budget deficit -- just like the editorial board of the Detroit News, who titled their editorial, "An iPod for every kid? Are they !#$!ing idiots?":

We have come to the conclusion that the crisis Michigan faces is not a shortage of revenue, but an excess of idiocy. Facing a budget deficit that has passed the $1 billion mark, House Democrats Thursday offered a spending plan that would buy a MP3 player or iPod for every school child in Michigan. ...

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Michigan legislature: Raise taxes,
buy iPods for all the kids in the state
Bryan Preston

The Michigan legislature might be insane.

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The editorial goes on to slam the Democrat-controlled legislature for cluenessness and general stupidity.

But maybe they’re not so stupid. They’re just arrogant and corrupt. It was de Toqueville who said “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” What is a promise to raise taxes, cut no spending anywhere, and then buy the kiddies iPods, if it’s not an attempt to bribe the public of Michigan with its own money?

The MI legislature isn’t stopping with its “educational” iPod giveaway, though (one wonders, did Apple grease a few palms to make this happen?). It may attempt to levy what amounts to a tax on all foreigners living abroad. ...