Don't keep your dollars long. Invest in tangible assets. Tools and equipment. Non-minted precious metals and gems. Let them devalue the dollar until it finally collapses. You'll still be able to feed your family.

My daughter came home from school one day and said, "Today we learned that we shouldn't judge people based on how they look." I said, "Well, that depends. Is it right for me to treat someone differently if he has different-colored skin than me?" "No." "But if I'm a cop, and someone dresses, acts and talks like a gangbanger, I should probably expect him to be one, right? Or I could get hurt." "OK." "So the lesson is, honey, don't treat someone different based on something they can't control. But you can absolutely pass judgment based on a person's presentation and demeanor." Oh, darn, am I short circuiting the liberal indoctrination by pointing out the half-truths? What a rotten father I am.

I know, I know, if they raise the sales tax, then that punishes poor families by increasing the cost of commodities. Oh, wait, Jindal's plan DOESN'T RAISE TAXES ON COMMODITIES, AS IT SPECIFICALLY EXEMPTS THEM. Oh. Well... NEVER MIND.

I'd say that makes them the most unjust, as you're paying rent to the state merely for breathing and otherwise owning your own land. Why should grandma have to pay rent every year on a house she and grandpa "paid off" thirty years ago? That's one of the worst abuses of the power to tax that I know of. And if you don't think it's rent, try not paying it. See how long you stay in your house. Most destructive? That's debatable. Unless property tax is insanely high, it's usually not a deterrent to business, and death taxes are never a consideration for a corporation, so property and death taxes don't have the power to retard economic growth the way income, corporate income and franchise taxes do.

I know, I know, if they raise the sales tax, then that punishes poor families by increasing the cost of commodities. Oh, wait, Jindal's plan DOESN'T RAISE TAXES ON COMMODITIES, AS IT SPECIFICALLY EXEMPTS THEM. Oh. Well... NEVER MIND.

So for men, life is pretty much the same. The difference is, we have to be a lot choosier about who we marry, otherwise we could get shafted with some greener-grass, never-happy wife who puts her own convenience above what's best for her family and thinks I'm a selfish a**hole because I put in a lot of hours at work. I'd rather be single than have that. Luckily, I married a keeper.

You're dead on. For men, little's changed. Women think men lead this glamorous life? Get real. What men typically do is get up before the crack of dawn, go do a job all day at someplace they can hopefully tolerate, although hating work is not uncommon for any of us. Then we come home and try to be dads and husbands. I told my wife before we got married, "Look, I think it's best for the kids to have the mom in the home. When we get married, when kids come, I want a wife who will quit her job and stay home with them full-time. When they're all in school, she can go to school or work part-time during their school hours. After they're out of the house, then she can be a career woman. If you're not interested in that, no hard feelings."

Cars today have a lot more tech, I agree with you on that. Older cars are much more intuitive. However, if you invest the time to learn it, you can work on newer cars to. It just takes the time and study. They're not as complicated as most people think they are. I've rebuilt a couple of them myself in my shed out back.

You're right. I say we tell the government to buzz off. Most roads are built by states, cities and counties anyway, mandated locally by local representatives at the mandate of local voters and paid for with local tax dollars. It's only the Interstates that the Fed built, as part of a defense bill by President Eisenhower. We don't need the Fed, and we don't want it! So take your smug, superior, snobbish wine-sniffing ego and shove it.

Must work for the government.

Doing my part to stop sexual assault: 1) Giving all my daughters tactical firearms training. 2) Putting all daughters in MMA from an early age. 3) Teaching them that if the boys don't respect them, why waste time on them? 4) Modeling respect for womanhood with my wife/their mother. By the time they're in high school, they'll be able to beat/shoot the face off any boy that gets fresh with them, and they'll have enough backbone to not tolerate stupid boys. THAT'S education. Oh, and I'm teaching my sons to respect womanhood and not tolerate some guy getting fresh with their sisters, and putting THEM through the same training. Maybe I should get their aunt to teach them tactical knife throwing?