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“Why am I not
surprised?”
Here we are in a cash strapped economy with
the good old US government cranking out more
funny money each and every day that goes by.
Actually due to the current snow falls in
Washington D.C. they might not be able to
report to work for a few days. Not a bad
thing. But anyway, with super bowl
advertisements costing 2.5 million for ½ a
minute …here are ads running on Sunday for
the Census. The government actually paid to
have commercials made and televised about
the upcoming 2010 census. Why they needed to
do this is anyone’s guess. One point of
interest was that in 1790 each census taker
worked about 6,000 citizens…..today that
number is about 500 per worker. You’d think
with computers we would get more efficient,
but wait I mentioned efficiency and the
government and those two words don’t go
together …do they?
The inmates are now running the asylum as
far as I can tell. Last week there was a
news report about a so called
‘green-building’ which was to be covered
with vines and some sort of moss to reduce
energy costs. The government was buying this
building for somewhere north of 123 million
dollars. The energy savings on this little
gem is estimated to be over $200,000 a year.
Gosh I’m so impressed, that means this one
owner will pay for itself in only 615 years.
Using the same thought you can see that if
the Tower of London which was built in the
1300’s had incorporated the same concepts
they would be a money making machine by now.
Someone had their hand in the till on this
one.
Speaking of hands in the till….heard
anything about an Obama appointee by the
name of Cathy Zoi? I thought not. Well, she
happens to be one of those snow bound folks
responsible for the dissemination of over 17
billion in so-called stimulus money. Her
husband is associated with a company called
something like Serious Materials, who just
so happened to have received some serious
monies or tax credits from the stimulus
funds that old Cathy oversees. Of course she
has issued the standard line that she had
nothing to do with the decision to give any
preferential treatment to her husbands
company. If you believe that I’d like to
show you some waterfront lots in Arizona.
The new poster boy for governmental
healthcare should be the late John Murtha.
In addition to being a strong voter on
Frankenancy’s house team, he could always be
counted on to add some levity to any debate
with which he agreed or disagreed. Our dear
Nancy seems to be losing house votes faster
than water runs off a ducks back. Poor old
John goes in for a routine gall bladder
operation in a government hospital and ends
up dying due to a surgery foul-up. There’s a
big incentive to nationalize healthcare if I
ever saw one. Perhaps not.
With Washington buried under record snow
falls, I wonder if anyone has given any
thought to the concept of global cooling? I
heard that the Obama administration was
trying to rename the tectonic plates under
the Caribbean and calling the area around
Haiti as the “Bush Fault”. I suppose if the
scientists discover that we are truly
entering into a new ice age…..it will have
to be either George W’s or Dick Cheney’s
decisions that caused it. Who else could
have done it?
Last but not least is the upcoming so called
bi-partisan conference on healthcare being
touted by the Obama team. Let’s see, until
Scott Brown managed to get elected last
month, the administration was hell bent on
passing his version without any input for
the minority. Now all of that has changed
with the majority of the senate being taken
away by Scott Brown. Of course, the
Democrats want input on the existing bill
rather than starting over as is the desire
of the majority of the American citizens.
We’ll just have to wait and see what will
transpire, but the word bipartisan still
doesn’t seem to be very much in vogue inside
of the beltway as of yet.
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