George Rebane
** A reader sent this unfortunate yet revealing picture from the Oval Office.
** The progressive readers of my 13feb2010 Union column demonstrate again the two worlds we live in. From their media sources they reveal a total ignorance of and rage against the relevant debt numbers that impact our daily lives while promising a draconian future. Their happy solutions to all our problems continue to promote the ‘tax the rich until all is well’ school of thought. They respond most joyously to mandated, subsidized, and unsustainable jobs. Is there a box I missed checking that would give me liberal answers from government websites that present these deficit, debt, and unfunded liabilities numbers? Do these people get rosy numbers when they check the ‘I voted for hope and change’ box?
** I found Russ Steele’s NCMW post on Nevada City Mayor Senum’s proposal to be a piece of heroic commentary. Or maybe it’s just that I’ve been giving myself too much credit for proficiency in the King’s English – after all, it is barely my third language. To the point, I could understand each individual word Russ quoted from her proposal. But when looking at them strung all together, I drew an embarrassed blank. What’s worse, for a lifelong ‘boxes and arrows’ man, I made no sense at all out of the figure she had drawn. In sum, these thoughts from one of our community’s leading lights passed right over my head. Maybe for the rest of us, she (or somebody else) could publish a ding-dong school version. And I’m not kidding. Looking at the comment stream for that post makes it plain to me that everyone else either understood her perfectly, or didn’t bother to chew on what she had written.
** Every second Friday of the month the Tea Party Patriots gather for lunch. Yesterday’s lunch at the NC Contractors Association was an overflow crowd again – strictly SRO, late arrivers ate with their plate in their hand. Plans are afoot to move the gathering to more commodious quarters. There was a speaker talking about Obamacare, but that clearly was not the draw. When we attend these TPP functions, it seems to Jo Ann and me that we are among people like ourselves who just want to know that each of us is not alone in our bewilderment and opinions about the direction the country is going.
The Mecklers and others, who do what might be called ‘leadership’ for this large and motley crew, are truly modern day patriots in my book. It is a labor of love for our country that keeps them going, and digging into their own pockets to make cash-in equal cash-out. Speaking of which, we all noted that another month went by without a frikkin check from the big corporations, Republicans, and other moneyed interests. We should really ask some of the MSM mavens, those who keep broadcasting about how our movement is funded by the fat cats, as to who these fat cats are so we can tell them that they are in arrears. Anyway, Mark Meckler has let us all know that he has pretty much tapped out his family funds paying for travel, hotels, food, etc as he does TPP work around the country. We and many other TPP members now have the privilege of helping him out. (More here)
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