Explanation, Please

I know I may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, but exactly how does our government get us out of  overwhelming indebtedness by borrowing more money?   Anyone...?  Anyone...?  Bueller...?  

WPA Redux

MUPPET NEWS FLASH:  Mr. President (pro tem),  "Infrastructure Spending" is another term for FDR's "Works Progress Administration," which produced 100% TAXPAYER-FUNDED TEMPORARY JOBS.  Growing government AGAIN is not the solution to unemployment, Mr. President-pro-tem, no matter what you learned at Harvard.  Perhaps you, sir, should research the WPA before you reinstate it.

WOO-HOO!! HIGH SPEED TRAINS A-COMIN' !!

The President just promised more billions of tax dollars to "improve" America's infrastructure, with projects like making "high-speed rail" available for 80% of Americans.
I can hardly wait to ride the new-and-improved Amtrak:
Just think, Portland-to-Lincoln City in less than three hours!!*
And all for less than $12 million per mile of track!!**

* Some restrictions apply.  Your actual travel time may be greater depending upon days of the week, distance from parking lot to terminal, distance from bus stop to terminal,  holidays, rainy days, gloomy days, bad hair days, one-of-THOSE-days, union regulations, union featherbedding, union work stoppages, union coffee breaks, whistle-stopping, and drug and/or alcohol use by passengers and/or train operators.
** Some restrictions apply.  Your actual cost-per-mile may exceed $12 million depending upon topography, geography, cartography, climatological and environmental restrictions, phrenological studies, greenhouse gas emission restrictions, local land use regulations, local customs,  use of actual metal in rails and trains, and Congressional management and budgetary oversight.  Average odds of costing a mere $12 million-per-mile: 1 in 186,000. Cost estimates exclude labor costs, land acquisition costs, maintenance costs, carriage costs, price of metal, price of plastic, and bri...ummmm....incentive contributions to elected officials.

Vive la Difference

Courtesy WND.com

Johnny Kant Reid

“Well, when you start off with the Preamble of the Constitution, you talk about the pursuit of happiness.  You go to the 14th Amendment–it’s equal protection under the law and we have not repealed the 14th Amendment. People have a right to have health care. It’s not a privilege but a right.”--U.S. Rep John Lewis, GA.  I'll let you guess his party affiliation.  (Hint:  Not "R") as stated on CNS news.

Text of the 14th Amendment, in part:

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Dear Congressman Lewis:


Then I want my government-mandated, Constitutionally-guaranteed automobile insurance, homeowner's insurance, a new raincoat, landscaping, liposuction, house painting, new roof, better car (not a Chevy Volt PLEASE!), steaks, a new barbeque, an alarm system, a new travel trailer,  a college degree (from anywhere EXCEPT wherever you went), new Nikes, a 60-inch flatscreen with a Blu-Ray player, a new computer with free wi-fi, a vacation home in the Bahamas, and maybe a few perks to help me pursue my "Constitutional rights" to happiness.


I apologize for denigrating buffoons everywhere, but, Mr. Congressman, YOU, sir, are no Dan Quayle.