One of the basic aspects of adulthood is that you do the things that need to be done even if that means that you don’t do the things that you want to do (because you’ve run out of time or money).
The problem with some people, though, is that they never actually reach adulthood. They stay emotionally stunted like children, and the Democrats in one state’s legislature showed that, clearly, that describes them.
Why do I say that? Because they passed certain unconstitutional legislation because it will make them feel better but didn’t pass legislation more vital to keeping the government going to be able to even enforce the former legislation that I mentioned (until it gets thrown out in court…).
It’s a completely silly situation that is what you expect from kindergartners. In this case, though, it’s full-grown (physically, at least) adults doing the irresponsible things. Chase Smith writes,
Virginia Democrats closed their first legislative session during which they held a trifecta in state government having passed bills to raise the minimum wage, ban “assault firearms,” limit cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, establish a legal cannabis retail market, and expand family and paid sick leave—priorities echoed by Democratic parties in statehouses across the country.
What didn’t those Democrats manage to pass, though?
The session ended on March 14 without a budget.
That’s right. They passed gun control laws and other leftist-favored legislation without a way to pay for the enforcement of any of them.
This is the kind of thing that makes me wonder how late their personal electric bills are and when the last time that they actually bought groceries without using a credit card was.
The irresponsibility is unbelievable.
It’s irresponsible to pass that gun control legislation because those types of laws consistently make people less safe, and it’s irresponsible for them to not pass a budget because that leads to other roadblocks to getting things done, all of them self-imposed in this case.
I’d ask what they were thinking when they did this. Sadly, I suspect that the honest answer is that they weren’t.