Fake Time Fact Check

First of all, it doesn't save daylight.  It just moves an hour of daylight from the morning to the evening.  It's like that old Indian said:  "White man cut a foot of material off one end of blanket, sew it on other end of blanket, and think he have a longer blanket."  If it was possible to save daylight, the time to do it would be in the winter, not in the summer when we have more daylight than we know what to do with.  Second of all, it doesn't save electricity.  You have to turn your lights on in the morning, while you're getting ready to go to work or school, instead of in the evening, while you're watching television or using your computer.  Third of all, you don't lose an hour of sleep when you spring forward unless you want to.  Most people just lay around on Sunday morning till way past dawn anyway.  If you need to get up at dawn on Sunday for some reason, all you need to do is go to bed an hour earlier on Saturday night to get your normal amount of sleep.  You don't gain an hour of sleep when you fall back either.  Most people just stay up later on Saturday night because they think they won't have to get up as early the next morning.  Fourth of all, we don't really spring forward in the spring.  In most of the civilized world, we face at least another month of winter after we change our clocks.  If you live in the South, you won't care what time it is when a tornado blows your house away.  Falling back in the fall is debatable.  November is a drim and drizmal month no matter what season you call it.  That's why they put deer season in November, to give people a reason to get up in the morning.  Otherwise, what's the point?  Fifth of all, we are now on fake time for eight months of the year and only on real time for four.  Why not make it unanimous and just stay on fake time all year?  People would soon get used to it and think that fake time is real time.  It doesn't really matter what time we're on anyway, the bad part is having to change it twice a year.

We voted fake time down twice in Michigan, but it passed on the third try, and they haven't let us vote on it since.  That's how they do the school millage as well.  They keep making us vote on it over and over again until it passes, and then they never let us vote on it again.  We never get to vote on lowering our taxes, just on raising them.  There have been a couple of times that they sold something as "tax reform", but which they mean "tax increase".  They lower one tax and increase another, for a net gain in revenue.  Then they gradually increase the one they lowered over a period of years, hoping that nobody will notice, until it's at least as high as it was before.  I always vote against schemes like that, but they pass them anyway.