Slashing the Budget

Slashing the Budget

Its clear that the poor, women, infants and elderly will bear most of the pain associated with the looming spending cuts. I say it's clear because Republican and Tea Party politicos say that tax increases for the rich are not on the table because we have a spending problem not a revenue problem. What kind of double-spin horse manure is that?

Cost vs Value

The modern politico knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing.

An Angry Veteran Speaks

When I went into the Army in 1969, I had to sign and give an oath that I had never advocated the violent overthrow of the US Government or that its leaders should come to harm. Today, such utterances are common from certain members of the GOP. A potential presidential candidate, Newt Gingrich, even compared Obama to Hitler and instead of being taken to task over it, he was invited to talk shows and treated with kid gloves.

When did it become fashionable to show your patriotism by being vile? And what does that say about the people that support such a person?

Tea Party Drone

I was listening to a Tea Party member drone on over the possibility of bringing the government to a halt. He seemed to be ecstatic over the possibility. The example he used was one about a person's own car. If it is broken, you don't compromise, you fix it. Pardon me, if your car is broken you do what ever is required to continue on with life and work: you take the bus, get a ride, ask someone for help, whatever. Call it compromise, or just being adaptable to the obstacles life presents us with.

There is not one statesman in the group, only ideologues.

Tea Party

Did you ever see a group gloat so over hurting people with an anti-political process, it strikes me as a malignancy

Thumbs down on Chevrolet

Thumbs down on the Chevrolet dealer in Oak Lawn, Illinois that fired one of its sales staff for wearing a Green Bay Packers tie. Heartless and cruel, like a spiteful child.

Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson was a victim of his own appetites, and now we are going to have this lurid public spectacle as the powers that be search for the guilty, a spectacle where all the hanger-ons, players, and would-be celebrities compete for a few minutes of exposure under the lights of the world's TV networks.

Where does real guilt lie: with Michael, the media, his doctor, the industry, his father, his friends, fame and the pressure of celebrity, family, his adoring fans, you, me?