30 June 2011

The Macrocosm of the YMCA Locker Room

There is a certain element of membership of the YMCA who leave towels laying around, spill food on the floor and don't clean it up, don't flush toilets, etc. Among the membership of the YMCA there are four basic thoughts of how these slackers should be treated:

Those who use the up-scale special locker room that costs extra but gets cleaned more often:
  --Conservative: "Let's leave those boors in the regular locker room to their own devices and lower my taxes."
   --Liberal: "Let's put more money into education so that everyone will know how to behave in a locker room and I am willing to help pay for the cost of that education."

Those who use the regular locker room (where the messes are):
   --Liberal: "Let's put up a few signs with rules and then try to point out to those who have not had a proper education how it works--lead by example, and I'm willing to pay a little more to help out.
   --Conservative: "Constitution says I can do what I want and so does the NRA. And  by the way, lower the taxes of those wealthy dudes.