- According to a Wall Street Journal report that was summarized in the November 18, 2011 issue of The Week magazine, the White House formally denied any knowledge of extraterrestrial life. This action came as a result of an online, White House petition signed by over 12,000 Americans. The Obama administration formally responded that the Federal government has "no credible evidence extraterrestrials have visited earth" or that "life exists outside our planet."
Let's review: we have about 14 million Americans currently unemployed, we have a runaway national debt of $15 TRILLION, our schools continue to under educate our kids, we have no national energy program, national health care costs went up another 9% last year, and the Federal government is responding and using taxpayer resources to address the issue of alien life. I am not sure which is worst: this wasting of government time and resources or the 12,000 people who took the time to sign the petition and who actually thought the government would give them an honest answer even if there was contact with extraterrestrial life.
- That same issue of The Week magazine also discussed how the House of Representatives took time out from not addressing the critical issues listed above to debate and vote on a resolution to affirm that the United States' national motto is "In God We Trust." The resolution passed by a vote of 396 to 9.
In a survey to find out the top issues facing American families today, do we really think that affirming this motto would make the top 100 issues and problems in America today? And if that is the case, why are our politicians worrying about this issue? Could it be they do not know how to solve the real, top 100 issues facing American families today and waste time and resources debating this motto instead?
- As the nation's national debt skyrockets to gruesome, fearful levels, the political class continues to fail in its feeble attempts to come up with an effective, decisive, and rational way to cut Federal spending. With the failure of the so-called Congressional Super Committee to come up with a spending reduction plan, the Federal budget will be subject to across-the-board cuts in 2013 as a result of the debt ceiling agreement reached this past summer. These spending cuts will affect all departments including the Department of Defense.
Now, many politicians, including the Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, are claiming that ANY cuts to the Defense Department budget will weaken our nation's defense. Maybe these folks should have read an article in the September 23, 2011 issue of The Week magazine that reviewed what has happened since the 9-11 attacks. The article claims that "the U.S. now spends more (on national defense) than all other countries in the world put together."
One has to think that, given this outrageous amount of money and resources that have been diverted to the military-industrial complex in this country, there has to be a significant amount of waste that can be cut out of the Defense budget without endangering our national security. If there isn't any such waste, than the political class has failed diplomatically to secure our national safety, with massive defense budgets and massive national debt levels threatening the freedom and liberty the Defense Department is supposed to be protecting.
- According to a Time magazine article that was summarized in the October 14, 2011 issue of The Week magazine, in 1950, the average U.S. household spent 3% of its income on health care and 22% of its income on food. In 2010, food costs have sunk to only 7% of household income but health care costs had risen to 16% of income.
And this trend is unlikely to be stopped by Obama Care and the current set of politicians in Washington since the article preceding the Time article reviewed how family health insurance premiums had risen 9% in 2010 alone. This 9%, one year increase brought the cost of health care insurance in this country to double what it was in 2001. This article, which was also based on New York Times reporting, attributes the big increase to certain provisions of Obama Care.
Thank goodness "In God We Trust" since trusting the political class to solve the problem of escalating health care costs is not looking like an effective approach.
- To comprehend how poorly our public school education has failed, consider a New York Times article that was summarized in the November 11, 2011 issue of The Week magazine. According to the Times article, Indian, Chinese, and other foreign nationals earn 70% of the doctorates in electrical engineering and half of the master's degrees in electrical engineering from U.S. universities every year. This results in non-U.S. citizens launching half of all Silicon Valley start up, high tech companies.
How embarrassing that in this vital field, the U.S. education system takes a back seat foreign students studying in our own universities. I do mind or want to stop the foreign students from using our schools, I want the political class to figure out how to change and improve our own school system to increase the percentage of U.S. kids getting their masters and PhD.s in this important field. This would certainly be a better use of their time than debating the national motto.
- The New York Times, in a September 22, 2011 article reviewed how the California solar panel company, Solyndra, receive a $535 million Federal loan guarantee, hosted a Presidential photo op in May, 2011 by President Obama, and was totally bankrupt about 17 months later. However, if you listen to the President's remarks from that photo op, you would never have thought this rapid descent into a financial wasteland was possible:
"It's here that companies like Solyndra are leading the way toward a brighter and more prosperous future."
It certainly was not so prosperous for the American taxpayer since if you divide the taxpayer financed loan guarantee by the number of days it took Solyndra to burn through over half a billion dollars of taxpayer wealth, you find that Solyndra burned through over a million dollars a day from the time the President spoke until the company collapsed. Now that is truly political class insanity, a million dollars a day down the drain with nothing to show for it.
That's enough for today, if you get too close to political class insanity and idiocy, you run the risk of becoming one of them yourself, insane and idiotic.
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