Edwards: “I promise to repeal unfair laws”

Democratic candidate John Edwards has promised that when he is elected he will work to repeal all unfair laws within thirty days. “This country is in trouble for one reason, and one reason only,” said Edwards in his new stump speech. “We have unfair laws that hurt us all.”

Among the laws cited by Edwards are the Law of Supply and Demand, The Law of Diminishing Returns, the Law of Conservation of Matter, the Law of Conservation of Energy, and the Law of Unintended Consequences.

“The Law of Unintended Consequences is the worst and it hurts us each and every day,” said Edwards. “I speak from personal experience. When I voted to invade Iraq, for example, I wanted to look like a patriotic American and support a quick victory. But due to the Law of Unintended Consequences I looked like a jerk and Iraq is a mess. That’s certainly not what I had in mind.”

According to Edwards, the Law of Unintended Consequences must be repealed first, so that the repealing the other laws will improve rather than destroy the economy, an possibly the universe.

Edwards, who has upbraided corporations for their “slavish obedience” to the law of Supply and Demand, the Law of Conservation of Matter the Law of Conservation of Energy and other laws believes that repealing the laws will fix the problem. “When we go to the greedy oil corporations and tell them to bring gasoline prices down to a more affordable 30 cents a gallon, they hide behind these laws and tell us we can’t do it. If we repeal these laws and replace them with better ones there will be no place to hide.”

Edwards campaign is not limiting itself to the repeal of the laws of physics and economics. “The laws of logic have to go too,” said a spokesperson. “They limit our policy options. Once we repeal the Aristotelian Law of Identity, then something can be other than itself. When we repeal the Law of Non-Contradiction, then something can be its opposite. And when we repeal the Law of The Excluded Middle then we can make statements that are neither true nor false, but something entirely different.”

“If we can just repeal these unfair laws we can eliminate poverty without incurring costs, balance the budget while increasing spending, end global warming without changing our lifestyle, both agree and disagree with any position at the same time without being hypocritical, leave Iraq immediately and completely while maintaining a large force that can keep the country stable and democratic, and ensure that any future policy proposal, no matter how wacky, makes total sense.”