Egotistics Again

Really Short Memories.

A few days ago we republished a posting which began life as a letter "To the Editor" of one of our local newspapers shortly after the 2006 elections. In that letter/posting we equated the Pharasees, of the Bible, to our modern day Republican Party (with many Democrats thrown in). We wondered, at that time, if they could find their way out of the very deep ditch they hads fallen into and it appeared for a while they were making some progress but in the last two days that progress has stalled and the entire party appear to be on the brink of falling back into that ditch. They have allowed their egos to become large and shiny so as to blind them to reality again. Have they not learned anything in the last four years?

In the March 3, 2011, the posting in this blog was titled "The Budget" and contained a few of our ideas on the balancing of our Federal budget. The first step called for a freeze on all new hiring by the Federal Government except in emergency situations (to be approved by congress) along with the capping of the pay for Federal employees at the current levels. Next we need to consolidate and eliminate the numerous (overlapping) federal programs, explore the possibility of replacing the IRS with some other form of taxation. Then we could move on to Obamacare and dismantle it by passing "Tort Reform, no money for abortions or the promotion of abortions, Insurance sold across state lines and the covering of pre-existing conditions and, if needed regulations on insurance companies to force them to justify any raise in rates."

We won't say much about Social Security and Medicare because we have already written about it many, many times with no results. We will say that we support reforming Social Security and Medicare so it will be there for future generations and we have offered to take a cut of up to five percent (to go back into the trust fund) if the federal employees will take the same percentage cut to be used to pay down the National debt but neither one to go back into the Treasury to be wasted again. No takers on that either.

We, here on the hill, are still keeping our heads above water by trying to get any outside work done before noon and spending the rest of the time inside with the air conditioner going. We still have blueberries to pick and the grass, along with the weeds, keeps growing. The hot, dry weather doesn't seem to bother them at all. The squash and cucumbers are about all gone, the okra is putting on a few pods but our beans and butterpeas aren't making anything. Oh well, that saves us gathering time. We got several pears off of our tree this year to can and to make pear jam.
Since all the news, especially out of Washington, seems to be bad we hate to even turn the television on but if we don't we may miss some small ray of hope. Thanks for your time and input. Stay tuned. - William