Top 10

I have writer's block.  So, I am forwarding this message to you.

I call this bizarro world and we really are living in it.  We have removed all reason and sanity from the public debate.  Anyone who has morals and principles is labeled "evil, extreme, a terrorist and racist."  We have elevated childish finger pointing and name calling into the highest political arena.  The role of grown-up is "stupid."  Balancing the budget is somehow hateful, enabling people to be irresponsible is ok, but keeping your own money isn't.

What have we done to this republic?  What are we doing to this republic?  History will look back upon this time as the craziest ever.

I don't know if this is from Canada or not, but it would be funny, if it weren't so horrible.

 

WHEN WILL SOME AMERICANS GET IT?          Canadian's Version of David Letterman's Top 10.                      10) Only in America ... could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000.00 a plate campaign fund-raising event.   9) Only in America ... could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when they have a black President, a black Attorney General, and roughly 20% of the federal workforce is black, while only 14% of the population is black. 40+% of all federal entitlements go to black Americans - 3X the rate that go to whites, 5X the rate that go to Hispanics!   8) Only in America .. could they have had the two people most responsible for the tax code, Timothy Geithner (the head of the Treasury Department) and Charles Rangel (who once ran the Ways and Means Committee), BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.   7) Only in America ... can they have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah, and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash.   6) Only in America ... would they make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries, and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege, while they discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just 'magically' become an American citizen.   5) Only in America ... could the people who believe in balancing the budget and following the country's Constitution be thought of as "extremists."   4) Only in America ... could you need to present a driver's license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.   3) Only in America ... could people demand the government investigate whether oil companies are gouging the public, because the price of gas went up, when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. oil company (Marathon Oil) is less than half of that of a company making tennis shoes (Nike).   2) Only in America ... could the government collect more tax dollars from their people than any nation in recorded history, and still spend a Trillion dollars more than it has per year - for total spending of $7-Million PER MINUTE, and complain that it doesn't have nearly enough money.   1) Only in America ... could the rich people - who pay 86% of all income taxes - be accused of not paying their "fair share" by the 47% of their people who don't pay any income taxes at all.                 Why do Canadians get it and Americans don't?