Some have made arguments with which I respectfully disagree about Daylight Saving Time. The Muncie Star Press is not one of those. I have no respect for the arguments put forth in its editorial entitled DST vote says state is willing to change
The daylight-saving time issue is like a persistent cough that won’t go away. A growing number of Indiana legislators seem to realize they must treat the symptoms – by passing DST during this session – or it will continue to plague them next year. By doing so, lawmakers would be doing themselves and Indiana residents a huge favor. They could get on to more important issues,
What kind of logic is that? We should give in and give the kid a cookie because he’ll just keep whining about it until we do? Maybe we should shoot a little more heroin so that monkey on our backs will quit chitterin’. Maybe we should just turn the U.S. into an Islamic Theocracy so Osama will just shut up about it already. You pass it if it’s a good idea, you don’t pass it if it’s a bad idea or a mediocre idea. You don’t pass it “to get it out of the way.”
The editorial continues:
and they could give the state what it needs – proof that it can change in a way that fits with national and international economic priorities.
Look. If you’re so concerned about the international community thinking you’re a hick backwater, you don’t fix that by changing your clocks. Japan keeps the same time year around, and nobody thinks they’re “out of step”. If you’re concerned about being regarded as a hick backwater, you don’t label the supposed scourge of homosexual marriage as your “number one priority.” You don’t brag about agriculture being your economic priority. And you don’t cut funding to your schools.
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