Ted Rall for December 03, 2001

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It's not just firemen and policemen and postal workers, you know. Let's meet other heroic government workers. On Sept. 11, even as we were under attack, the heroic employees of your dept. of motor vehicles kept right on working! This is a class "d" license. You need an "e" to fly a kite. $32, please. Lionize them! Wear their hats! Who generates the revenues to fund bailouts to companies inconvenienced by 9-11? The selfless men and women of the internal revenue service! Today I get to audit the estate of a world trade center victim! There'll be no cheating America on my watch! Donate now! Pity them! What does it profit us to win a war if our backs and necks are all stiff and stuff? What about those OSHA guys? Doesn't their heroism count? Ordinary people avoid stupid tickets. But the hardworking parking violations issuers risk our wrath to pay for tax cuts to rich people whose extra spending will hopefully spark a recovery that will fund the war against a guy who may have partly funded the terror attacks! Don't forget to check your computer - I owe thousands in back tickets! And are you free for din-breakfast? Spend time imagining their lives!