Turn your head and cough, America. Dr. Uncle Sam will see you now.

America is sick, and our doctor is the Federal Government. (Universal Health Care. YEAH!!!) Since George Washington all the way up until last October, the US Federal Deficit was $10,000,000,000,000.00, combined. That's right, it took us 219 years to rack up 10 Trillion dollars worth of debt.

"Okay my wise and learned colleagues," do you know how much the Federal Government has spent since October 2008? Drum roll Please...........................

$9,700,000,000,000.00 That's 9.7 Trillion for those of us educated in the public school system.

Is it too late to get a second opinion? According to Newsweek, yes. Yes, it is too late. This weeks cover for the "runner-up to Time Magazine for the number times Obama was spotlighted" says "We are all socialists now"



So my next question is... Do I have to buy my own boots... or does big brother, er, I mean the Government issue them to me?

Back to my opening statement of America being sick, look at it this way. If you consider America to be one giant corporation, then the the Federal government is "Big Labour". Last week in Washington D.C., Union thugs lined up to protest in support of card check. What is this you ask? No, it's not about a last look at your hand before you go all in (although...), no, it's the ability of Unions to do away with secret ballots and to be able to unionize a company with a simple majority of 50% + 1. No secret ballot means that union thugs, er, I mean reps, can come to your home and ask you if you are going to support unionization of the company you work for. President Obama is for this. Oh yeah, the only way a company owner can get out of their business being unionized, is to go out of business. And not just go out of business and re-open somewhere else, your doors are closed for good. Everywhere. So I ask you folks in the auto industry, and the aviation industry, and the sea ports, and education... how are those union deals working out for ya?

One more little tid-bit of information, did you know that the only place a union cannot be organized is the Federal Government? Turns out Congress thinks that a union of the pages and staff would slow down their work too much.

O_O Really? Huh.

A Renewal of Standards

This next post comes from a report that radio personality and Foxnews host Glenn Beck made this week. He came up with a list of Nine principles as a way of finding out what unites us as Americans. I want to expand this to say that these ideas are more that just principles. They are a rallying point. For decades, we have been devided by political parties while they keep us fighting amongst ourselves they put policies in place that limit our ability to keep them in check. It's time for us to help those in Washington to remember that it's "We the People", not they the politicians. So if you can agree with at least 7 of these 9, then send a picture of yourself to the email address at the bottom of the post and then catch Glenn on Fox News at 5:00pm EST for the next few weeks and he will show us that we are not alone. That you are not the only one that feels frutrated. I started this blog as a way to both vent and to hopefully start a dialog to get us talking about what really matters. Mostly I've been venting so here is something I think that we can discuss and use as a springboard for ideas to bring about the greatest success this country has ever seen. So here it is, Glenn's request.

There is a lot of bad news out there. Our economy is tanking and does not show signs of improving. People are losing their jobs 500 million a month according to Nancy Pelosi and there are more cuts on the way.

People around the world are taking to the streets. Our government responds to the problem with "bailouts." When you reach out to them you get no response while Ponzi scheme crooks get away with Billions and tax cheats get promotions.

Terrorists are on the run, and you just want to keep your family safe.

It is enough to make you want to just give up!

But I am here to tell you something important: You are not alone, and if you believe in a majority of these nine principles then keep watching because I am going to prove it to you to.


1. America is a good place, not perfect, but good.

2. I believe in God and He is the center of my life.

3. I must try to be a better, more honest person than I was yesterday.

4. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority of it under God.

5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.

6. I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness but that is not a guarantee of equal results.

7. I work hard for what I have. I will share it with who I want to, When I want to, If I want to. Government cannot force me to be charitable.

8. It is not un-American for me to disagree or share my personal opinion.

9. The government works for me. I do not answer to them. They answer to me.

If you believe in these things, then I have a project for you. Believe me, this will be worth your while. I want you to take a picture of yourself — keep your clothes on, please — and e-mail it to wesurroundthem@gmail.com. I am going to ask you every day for the next two or three weeks.

Please, if you agree with these principles then help fight for them.

ee eh yesuu do'h mi ney...

No really... It feels like this sometimes.

CROWD: A Global Warming Denier! A Global Warming Denier! We've got a Global Warming Denier
VILLAGER #1: We have found a Global Warming Denier, might we burn her?
CROWD: Burn her! Burn!
U.N. SCIENTIST: How do you know she is a Global Warming Denier?
VILLAGER #2: She looks like one.
U.N. SCIENTIST: Bring her forward.
GLOBAL WARMING DENIER: I'm not a Global Warming Denier. I just don't think "Man" is responsible for all of it.
U.N. SCIENTIST: But you look like one.
GLOBAL WARMING DENIER: They dressed me up like this.
CROWD: No, we didn't... no.
GLOBAL WARMING DENIER: And this isn't my nose, it's a false one.
U.N. SCIENTIST: Well?
VILLAGER #1: Well, we did do the nose.
U.N. SCIENTIST: The nose?
VILLAGER #1: And the hat -- but she is a Global Warming Denier!
CROWD: Burn her! Global Warming Denier! Global Warming Denier! Burn her!
U.N. SCIENTIST: Did you dress her up like this?
CROWD: No, no... no ... yes. Yes, yes, a bit, a bit.
VILLAGER #1: She has got an SUV.
U.N. SCIENTIST: What makes you think she is a Global Warming Denier?
VILLAGER #3: Well, she showed me a picture of the Sun and said that it was the reason the Earth get's hot.
U.N. SCIENTIST: The Sun?
VILLAGER #3: I did get a tan at the beach last week.
VILLAGER #2: Burn her anyway!
CROWD: Burn! Burn her!
U.N. SCIENTIST: Quiet, quiet. Quiet! There are ways of telling whether she is a Global Warming Denier.
CROWD: Are there? What are they?
U.N. SCIENTIST: Tell me, what do you do with Global Warming Deniers?
VILLAGER #2: Burn!
CROWD: Burn, burn them up!
U.N. SCIENTIST: And what do you burn apart from Global Warming Deniers?
VILLAGER #1: More Global Warming Deniers!
VILLAGER #2: Wood!
U.N. SCIENTIST: So, why do Global Warming Deniers burn?
[pause]
VILLAGER #3: B--... 'cause they're made of wood...?
U.N. SCIENTIST: Good!
CROWD: Oh yeah, yeah...
U.N. SCIENTIST: So, how do we tell whether she is made of wood?
VILLAGER #1: Build a bridge out of her.
U.N. SCIENTIST: Aah, but can you not also build bridges out of stone?
VILLAGER #2: Oh, yeah.
U.N. SCIENTIST: Does wood sink in water?
VILLAGER #1: No, no.
VILLAGER #2: It floats! It floats!
VILLAGER #1: Throw her into the pond!
CROWD: The pond!
U.N. SCIENTIST: What also floats in water?
VILLAGER #1: Bread!
VILLAGER #2: Apples!
VILLAGER #3: Very small rocks!
VILLAGER #1: Cider!
VILLAGER #2: Gre... gravy!
VILLAGER #1: Cherries!
VILLAGER #2: Mud!
VILLAGER #3: Churches -- churches!
VILLAGER #2: Lead -- lead!
AL GORE: A duck.
CROWD: Ooooooh.
U.N. SCIENTIST: Exactly! Sooo, logically...,
VILLAGER #1: If... she... weighs the same as a duck..., she's made of wood.
U.N. SCIENTIST: And therefore---?
VILLAGER #1: A Global Warming Denier!
CROWD: A Global Warming Denier!
U.N. SCIENTIST: We shall use my largest scales!
[yelling]
U.N. SCIENTIST: Right, remove the supports!
[whop]
[creak]
[scales teeter but remain equal]
CROWD: A Global Warming Denier! A Global Warming Denier!
GLOBAL WARMING DENIER: Sigh, well, that was a fair trial.
CROWD: Burn her! Burn her!
[yelling]
U.N. SCIENTIST: Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?
AL GORE: I am Al Gore, Former Vice President and inventor of the Internet.
U.N. SCIENTIST: My liege!
AL GORE: Good Scientist, will you come with me to Kyoto, and join us at the Round Table of Scientific Consensus?
U.N. SCIENTIST: My liege! I would be honored.
AL GORE: And you are...?
U.N. SCIENTIST: I am a U.N. Scientist, my Liege.
AL GORE: Then I dub you Sir U.N. Scientist, Knight of the Round Table of Scientific Consensus.

So let me get this strait...

all I have to do is make a bunch of promises, not pay my taxes and point the finger of blame at everyone else and I can get a Presidential Cabinet Position? Where do I sign up?

I am referring of course to the latest of our DC Politicians to get caught with their financial pants down. Tom Daschle is the most recent in what is becoming a not so exclusive group of "they are the only one that can do the job" dirt bags in Washington that thinks the law does not apply them. Perhaps you remember the last guy. Tim Geithner? He's the one who was billed as the only one who can figure out the economic crisis and steer us through to safe waters. The trouble is, is that for four years he didn't pay his taxes on income he earned from a company he worked for that cut him a check, that he signed for, once a quarter so he wouldn't have to pay his taxes out of pocket. Now, he's the treasury secretary (That's the head of the IRS for us lay people who just can't seem to figure out that debt is bad).

So, Tom Daschle, who owed over 120 thousand dollars in back taxes, forgot to pay the medicare taxes for his personal driver. Any guess as to which post he was just nominated for? Health and Human Services. That's right, Medicare. Hey!!! I had a friend that got their truck repossessed, can I be the "Car Czar"? Both of these SOB's didn't have to pay a nickle in interest or penalties. So I challenge you to ask yourself, who does this happen to? I can answer that. Not Me. I am currently paying off back taxes that I am responsible for while I was a private appraiser working as a sub-contractor. I will freely admit I had no idea what I was doing and now I have to pay for it. And I am paying for it, but I'm getting slammed in interest and penalties to the tune of 150% of what was originally due. I have no problem with people making mistakes, but don't insult me and say that your mistakes are somehow not relevant to who you are. I know that I made a mistake and I changed jobs so that I wouldn't make that mistake again.

I am sick and tired of these self righteous pricks telling me that paying you taxes is patriotic and then turning around and not paying theirs while simultaneously raising mine. And as far as these moron's being the "only people for the job", there are over 300 million of us in this country, I don't buy it for one second that if Tim Geithner can't make it to work that this country will fail.

In fact I put the challenge out to America. One and done. I give you one chance to get it right and if you can't you move on. Oh, and if buy some miracle you do get it right you get one re-election and then your out. Because I don't want career politicians making "sweetheart deals" with lobbyists for gifts like, oh lets say a personal car and driver. Thanks Tom! No Mas.