Of all the bad ideas that have come out of highly centralized government, one of the worst “bad ideas” has got to be Daylight Savings Time. Benjamin Franklin originally came up with this idea of a “Daylight Savings Time” in the first part of March. It may have been the dumbest idea of his brilliant mind. But it was Woodrow Wilson who implemented Franklin’s suggestion in 1918.

After just barely beginning to be able to see to eat breakfast, for the past three weeks we have been plunged back into rising in blackness, driving kids to schools with the headlights on, and eating the first meal of the “day” by moonlight. With all the houselights burning, the furnace blazing, and moods plummeting, it is hard to envision anything being “saved” by this “Daylight Savings Time.”

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