Monday, March 12, 2018

Daylight Savings Time

Today most of America suffered the ill effects of changing the clocks because of daylight savings time. A change that has been shown to cause decreased productivity, increased accidents, poor decision making, and a 10% increase in heart attacks and strokes. There is overwhelming evidence that changing the clocks is bad for your health, yet we continue to do it. Because government. In 2015 the Arkansas legislature considered eliminating daylight savings time. The legislature voted overwhelmingly to keep it. Not because they actually believe that cutting off one end of the blanket and sewing it to the other end makes the blanket longer, but because they need to maintain the image that the government is so all powerful that it controls time itself. It's time to let your elected state officials know that this cannot continue. It is bad enough you steal the fruits of my labor and the value of my property, that you repeatedly infringe on my constitutional rights, that you regulate nearly every aspect of my existence from birth until death. You can at least let me sleep in peace for that hour so I can productively continue to serve you thereafter. It's long past time, give or take an hour, to show some mercy and reign in some tyranny. End daylight savings time forever.

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