Wake Me When It's Over

Let's see if I've got this right:

1. The President fires the CEO of GM (referred to from here on out as "Government Motors"), but promises the government will honor all warranties.

2. The President, 2 teleprompters, and an entourage of 500 go overseas to the G-20 summit.

3. Meeting with the QUEEN OF ENGLAND, Michelle-My-Belle Obama not only refuses to curtsy, but actually puts her arm around the queen???

4. This (see number 2 above) occurs shortly before giving the queen an extra-special gift (an I-Pod).

5. Meanwhile, The Big O almost bumps his head on the floor bowing to the King of Saudi Arabia (not reciprocated, I might add).

6. Obama spends most of his time blaming the economic woes of the world on United States greed, much in the same manner Secretary Clinton blames the U.S. for Mexico's civil war (if only we would quit sending them guns and buying their drugs).

7. Obama commits to $250 billion in funds (out of $1.1 trillion) to the IMF (International Monetary Fund).

8. Meanwhile, back at the ranch (the cesspool known as Washington D.C.), both the House and the Senate pass different versions of a $3.6 trillion budget.

9. Oh, I forgot to mention, the "moderate Taliban" has made it clear that they want no part of peaceful talks with the U.S. (there's a shocker). "Get out of Iraq and Afghanistan, you infidels."

10. Last, but not least, North Korea is about to test-launch a potential ICBM, thumbing their nose at the international community and all of the "dire warnings" from our current administration (another shocker).

Please don't tell me what I am missing. This is all my heart and mind can take at the moment. Two images come to mind:

1. Remember in The Wizard of Oz when Toto pulled the curtain back and revealed the little guy pulling levers and pushing buttons? This bears an uncanny resemblance to the Obama administration.

2. I love the part at the end where Dorothy learns that all she has to do is click her heels 3 times and keep repeating "there's no place like home, there's no place like home".

O.K., I've seen the man behind the curtain, and he is no wizard (wizard of lies, maybe). I've also tried the heel-clicking (I say "there's no place like America, there's no place like America". Apparently I bought my slippers from the same snake-oil salesman the Jack purchased the magic beans from, because it's not working!

I see the leaders of the world walking behind Obama snickering because someone slapped a sign on his back (maybe the King of Saudi Arabia) the reads "kick me, I am gay". The problem is, even Obama's buddies won't tell him the sign is there - it's just too damn funny. And there is North Korea, getting ready to kick (along with Iran, Russia and others).

Up until just a couple of months ago, I would have said "call your elected officials, they work for us: they have to listen", but now I'm not so sure. Rome is burning, and they are dancing around, fiddling away. In fact, I believe they are dousing the fire with gas. At least they are going on a two week vacation (at our expense), limiting the damage they can do. Every cloud has a silver lining.

I have come to the conclusion that I must be dreaming. I am watching the Office of The Teleprompter of The United States and his radical, left-wing counterparts in Congress run the Constitution through the paper shredder, presumably to make room for all of the new money printing that needs to be done. "I've still got checks left, I can't be out of money". Scary. "Constitution, we don't need no stinking Constitution!" That's just an old, outdated document written for a different time and place. Heck, Al Gore hadn't even invented the Internet when that old rag was written.

What to do? You got me on that one. I am going to a tea party on April 15Th, but not really sure how much good it will do. I am not sure how much good anything will do at this point. Writing these posts helps a little. I can laugh to keep from crying.

Mostly, I feel sorry for our troops. They are putting their lives on the line everyday, for what? So Dick Durbin and John Kerry can accuse them of killing innocent civilians in cold blood? These and other politicians like them are the lowest form of human life in the political world.

Meanwhile, I will try not to snore too loud, so as not to wake the rest of you. I will continue the heel-clicking exersise, and yes, I will continue to contact these goof-balls in Congress.

There's no place like America, there's no place like America.

I'm No Harvard Graduate But.....

The new administration must think we are total IDIOTS! As I sit here watching complete MALARKEY coming out of the presidents mouth, the stock market continues to tank. "Thanks to the recovery and reinvestment act, we were able so save your jobs" (speaking to an Ohio group of graduating cadets). Are you kidding me? "Create or save 3 1/2 million jobs". Sounds like "heads I win, tails you loose". I fell for that one once (I think I was 6).

This is the biggest bait and switch scheme I have ever seen. Are we to really believe that you are going to cut the deficit in half while quadrupling spending? Preposterous! "If we don't act boldly and swiftly, the current economic crisis could turn into a catastrophe." Really? "Government is the only entity strong enough to pull us out of this economic disaster" (inherited from George Bush, of course). Well, that is just an outright lie! I challenge you to come up with just one instance where the government actually ran something successfully.

It's hard to know whether to laugh or cry.

Where is all this money going to come from? Let me see if I can wrap my pea brain around this (I'm really not that good at math, but here goes):

$850,000,000,000 for TARP (we keep hearing $700 billion, but it really is $850 billion)
$787,000,000,000 for Community Reinvestment Act
$410,000,000,000 for (last year's unfinished business) FY 2009 budget (including 8,500 earmarks)
$685,000,000,000 for a new "Health Care Fund"
$275,000,000,000 for mortgage assistance

I had to drop all of the zeros for addition purposes, my calculator shows "error", but this comes to a whopping grand total of (drum roll, please): $3,000,700,000,000 (for you Obama voters, that's 3.007 trillion with a T)! This doesn't take into account interest incurred. Not bad for only having been in office for less than 2 months!

If you confiscated every dollar from the top 1% of income earners for the next 4 years (EVERY DOLLAR), it would still not cover the budget for FY 2009, let alone the other expenses listed above. This is the biggest power grab and expansion of government in the history of this country. The New Deal and Great Society programs added together wouldn't even hold a candle to 1 of the spending items listed above.

Don't even get me started on our new Treasury Secretary. Someone must have slipped something into my drink, but I thought I saw him talking about closing some tax loopholes and extreme enforcement measure for income tax evaders.

WHAT???

I know I am not the only one, but I HAVE HAD ENOUGH!!! I sent a really nice love letter to the White House the other day (I think it was Wednesday, when they host their weekly cocktail party on our dime). You would be amazed at how much better you feel after something like that. It is very short-lived, however.

"The stock market is no more than a tracking poll." Oh really? I thought it was 75% of all Americans' retirement. I thought it was price to income ratio for corporations (no, that can't be - Obama says it is profit to income ratio). No worries, folks, The One has spoken: "Now is probably a good time to invest".

Indeed.

If there is one thing this administration knows about, it is investment (as long as it's our money).

Surely I must have fallen down a rabbit hole. Someone call Morpheous, I want to unplug. Who is John Galt, anyway?

I often wonder what would happen if all of the producers of the world got fed up and just disappeared.

We may be on the brink of finding out.