"Thanks For Nothing..."

A 12 year old boy decided that he could use a $100.00. Not being able to find any odd jobs to earn the money, he determined that he would send God a letter and ask him for the money. The letter was received at the local post office and the postal worker who opened and read the letter decided that the letter was so earnest and well written that he would forward it on to Treasury Department in Washington, D.C. The letter was dutifully delivered to the Treasury Department and eventually landed on the desk of the Secretary of the Treasury. He in turn too thought the letter required additional personal attention and decided to forward it on to the White House, and sure enough, it was soon hand delivered to President Obama, who read it with great admiration. Wishing not to dash the child's hopes of not receiving a reply, and believing that instead of the $100 the child requested, assumed that the youngster would still consider the $5.00 he personally took out of his wallet to be a lot of money for a boy his age. A few days later the boy received the letter addressed from the White House, opened it up and found the $5.00. Being appreciative of the money received, albeit less than he had requested, the child again sat down and wrote a second letter to God.

"Dear God, Thank you for answering my prayer for the $100.00 requested. However, I would suggest that in the future any other letters from me requesting money, that you please send it directly to my home address. I don't know how it happened, but it looks like the letter some how got sent to Washington and those money-grubbing jerks up there took $95.00 in taxes!"

Last evening on NBC's Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams stated that the American people were becoming "skeptical" of all the money that the Obama administration is spending to confront our nation's economic implosion. The word skeptical means a strong tendency "to not believe or accept things, but to question them." I passed being skeptical the day before the national elections that put these Chicago armatures on the threshold of the pathway to dooming this country to an ever increasing burden of personal taxation debt that will take generations to pay off, if ever. Two other words come to mind that better describes my current disposition: incredulous and disgusted.

How can one not be incredulous and disgusted when the House and Senate Committee version of the stimulus bill, crafted behind closed doors without opposition party representation, was over a thousand pages in length, received a final vote and passed by the Democrat controlled Senate without a single representative having read it? How can one not be incredulous and disgusted when Speaker of the Senate, Nancy Pelosi, who previously publicly pledged not to include a single self-serving earmark into any appropriations bill, jumped to her feet in her designer green house coat to rapturously applaud every time Obama took a deep breath throughout Obama's joint address to Congress, knowing fully that contained within the legislation were millions upon millions of pork barrel provisions? How can one not be incredulous and disgusted when the newly released Federal budget has hit an all time high of 1.9 TRILLION DOLLARS!?! That's a one followed by TWELVE ZEROS? There are over nine thousand "pet projects" contained within that budget, among which is 460 billion dollars as a "down payment" for national health care, a program that has not even officially been proposed. Did you get to vote to implement a national health care program? I didn't and I doubt that I or anyone else of voting age will get to do so when it is eventually introduced by the Washington elitist.

"Well Jim, we've got to do something." I agree, but when your hard-earned tax dollars are pledged for you, your children, your grandchildren and their children's children without any regard or input by those who would say, "If we're going to do something, let's make sure we hear from all sides to determine what is the best way to tackle a given problem," then I continue to be incredulous and disgusted with those currently running our ship of state aground who believe "we the people" don't have enough common sense to know what is best for us. What is best for me and my family? A change in regime. I just hope I, my family, and America can wait for four years before it comes to pass...if we don't all go bankrupt long before then.