Former Minnesota Governor And Human Beater Upper Jesse Ventura Very Sophisticated About The Politics
From Wonkette: http://wonkette.com/542313/former-minnesota-governor-and-human-beater-upper-jesse-ventura-very-sophisticated-about-the-politics
Somewhere in America, there are people who still think that Jesse Ventura, who was actually elected by the people of Minnesota to act as their governor once, has important contributions to make to The National Discourse. Then again, somewhere in America, there are also people who write Small Wonder fanfiction. No, we do not want to see a Venn diagram of those groups, thank you. But in case you were wondering (and if you were, what is wrong with you?), here is what Mr. Ventura is up to these days, according to the intro of this beautifully loopy interview in Salon: he is living off the grid and broadcasting a teevee program of some kind an from an “undisclosed location” somewhere in Mexico’s Baja Peninsula. We just hope he’s also eatin’ barbecued iguana.
So what does Jesse Ventura think about Our Political World? A whole lot of stuff, none of it especially coherent. That alone should keep him popular with some folks, especially if he promises to promote R & D on little-girl robots. Let’s enjoy some highlights!
On free speech and Duck Dynasty: Jesse likes free speech, and doesn’t think anyone should ever lose their job because of something they say. He believes that Phil Robertson’s comments were stupid, but
“I don’t begrudge him the stupidity to say it … You certainly don’t want to have some type of language police out there that tell us what we can or can’t say. I’m not for that at all.”
But does that mean he thinks there should be a law that bans companies from firing employees for expressing their political opinions outside of work? “Isn’t there already laws that do that?”
Kudos to Salon’s Josh Eidelson for not giggling, or at least not noting whether he did.
Unions: Good things, and they protect workers, but also “you can’t let a union destroy a business.”
Taxes: Jesse would get rid of the income tax and make everything fairer by having a national sales tax. When Eidelson notes Bureau of Labor Statistics statistics showing that “lower-income families spend much more of their income than wealthier families do,” and would therefore actually have a much higher chunk of their resources going to taxes, Ventura isn’t impressed, because after all rich people spend a lot and one rate would be fair, because they’d be spending like millionaires, no matter how much more they have left over. We would just like to point out that when Kid Zoom was about seven years old, he recognized that ten dollars out of a $100 grocery budget is a bigger real-life bite than $100 out of a $1000 budget, because “$900 is a lot more left over than 90 dollars.” Smart little whelp, wasn’t he?
More derp from Jesse at link.
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But I still don't like him.
