Yolanda Quesada, 58, from Milwaukee, lost her job answering customer service calls for Wells Fargo Bank for a shoplifting crime she committed in 1972.  At that time Yolanda was fined $50.

She was just notified by the FBI and fired on the spot.  Now I know this all sounds hard to believe, but we have a whole new batch of banking regulations and they just enforced it.

The new law says you cannot have any criminal history if you work at an insured depository.  None, zero, zip.  EVER!

This story got a fair amount of ink and people talked about how unfair it was, but nobody talked about how stoooopid the regulation is.  Anybody with a brain knows that this is wrong.

It’s called overregulation.  No bending, no exceptions, no flexibility?    Isn’t it morally wrong to fire a 58 year old woman for shoplifting forty years ago?  We treat violent criminals better.

Our government just cannot go one second without regulating and monitoring something.  Check this out…..

The Washington bureaucracy churns out a mere 80,000 pages of regulations annually.  We all know that sometimes it includes really important things like telling us what kind of light bulbs to use.

You know, it’s the ones that are energy efficient and make you look sick but you cannot dispose of them without a permit and valid ID?  It’s more complex and regulated than voting.

And they also regulate the huge issue of farm dust.  Kerchooo!

Well, on page 56,236 of the 2010 regulations there is a requirement that hotels that have pools and hot tubs must install lifts or ramps for the handicapped….on all their pools and tubs.  The cost is about $40,000 per pool or tub.  The fine is $50,000 per pool or tub.  I wonder, is that even good for a wheelchair?

Nevertheless, it will be interesting when the grace period runs out and the law is fully implemented.  Then they will need more safety regulations after somebody gets electrocuted operating one or caught in one and drowns.

I’m all for the handicapped having access if they want it, but is this a real issue?  Did they protest and I missed it?

How many of the pools and tubs will become cemented over and used for – I dunno, roller blading maybe?  What is next, water parks without water?  Even if this offends you where does it stop?

Oh yes, genius laws aren’t just the job of the feds, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health outlawed bake sales at schools.  They say the kids are fat enough already.

Don’t tell the mean old witch from Hansel and Gretel that or she’ll be there in a flash to eat those little chubby kids from Boston!  We’ll call them the “Boston Big Bites”!

Those regulators must have gotten wind that by 2030 it is projected that over 42% of Americans will be obese.  And 11% will be at least 100 pounds overweight.  That’s called morbidly obese.

This means skinny people have 18 years to fatten up or they’ll be discriminated against.  Then the government will probably mandate that everybody eat at least 4,000 calories a day and give us vouchers for free bacon cheese burgers and fries.  Just watch!

And if a candidate comes along and says we’re too fat and wants to get rid of the bacon cheeseburger vouchers, the supertankers will all show up in their Hoverounds and protest.

Just think, by 2030 there will be no regular parking either……it will all be handicap parking.  We supertankers will need loading zones.

Don’t go getting all huffy and puffy now.  I’ll be well into my 80’s by then and likely look like Jabba the Hut and have my own tricked out Hoveround!

And here’s another thing that’s going to generate another government regulation.  Lord knows I could not make any of this stuff up.  Patricia Krentcil, 44, of Nutley (yes, Nutley), NJ pleaded not guilty to child endangerment charges after authorities said she allowed her then-5-year-old daughter to burn in a tanning salon last month.

The now famous “Tanning Mom” whose rugged leather like skin is a deeply burnished copper orange color has even been the subject of a Saturday Night Live spoof.  She has also started the “Battle of the Burnt Orange Chicks” with Snooki.

It all started when she referred to Snooki as Snoopy.  Snooki was outraged and replied that she was not a tall thin black rapper.  The ditzy Tanning Mom replied she was not referring to Snoopy Dog Dog.

Snoop Dog put out a statement through his spokesperson that said, “Hey man, leave me out of dis frizzle shizzle. I just want to be Roseanne Barr’s campaign manager and those orange ladies from New Jersey should just leave me A-lone”.   Zzzzzzzz.

Speaking of breaking it off, those Europeans are rebelling again.  In Greece, there is virtually no government.  The European Union imposed strict austerity measures to keep the country from financial collapse.

But the voters still want supersized government perks!  They voted everybody out of office and the big winners were the radical fringe elements like the Communist Party!  Lots of riots and demonstrations in their future.

It could spell the beginning of the end for the European Union and send financial markets crazy.  That’s a big deal.

They want to keep their retirement age at 60, short workdays, pensions and state sponsored benefits….of course there is no money for any of that but they still want it.

They are suffering the effects of a Supersized government hangover.  But don’t worry, there’s a group over there organizing a movement called Occupy the Parthenon.

I’m sure they will solve all their issues too.  Old hippies and kids smoking pot carrying cardboard signs always improve the quality of life……don’t they?

France voted out President Sarkozy.  He’s being replaced by a Socialist who promised the citizens they do not have to give up any of the social programs the country can no longer afford.  He’s going to keep the government Supersized!

He claimed he will “Steeeemulate ze economy”.  We all know that always works and does not contribute to their debt problem.  Those stimulus plans nearly eliminated our debt…..ooops, no it didn’t.

He’s going to pay for it with bake sales because they haven’t outlawed those in France yet.  Eeeeez a zheenius! His winning campaign slogan was ”Croissants for Cash!”  Oui!

Here’s our take aways.  Unsustainable debt is a foolhardy way to run a country.  Socialism is fine during good times because the money is flowing in.  It’s a disaster in bad times.

It’s also a bad way to run a business.  Look at General Motors.  They had to be bailed out.

Nobody can bail out Greece if they keep spending.  Same for France.  And they are the second biggest economy in Europe.  They are not a company……their a lot bigger.

Certainly nobody can bail out the United States.  China is done buying the bonds we were selling to finance our debt.

Everybody is raving about the new profit numbers from GM.  They are good.  But the company was gutted and pensions and benefits slashed or dissolved.

That’s what they were trying to do in both France and Greece….but the people said no.  I cannot conceive of what will happen when they find there is nothing left to fund their extravagant government benefits.  This country is not far behind.

The communists, socialists and radical groups cannot deliver a thing.  Absolutely nothing.  Demonstrations do not pay off debt.  Demonstrations do not spur economies.

Like it or not, business growth spurs economies.  People working pay taxes and that relieves debt.  It’s simple addition and subtraction.  It’s not political at all.    Even opinions don’t count.  Yours or mine.

It’s like driving a car on a hot summer day with air conditioning on. The car runs out of gas and stops.  The vents eventually blow hot air.  All the screaming and demonstrating and yelling isn’t going to make it cooler.

The car cannot make it cooler without the engine running and that takes gas.  The stupid people in Europe are sitting in the car complaining about the air and refuse to put gas in the damn car!

You can’t drive a car like that, you can’t run your business like that, and you can’t run a state or country like that.

And when is enough government enough?  Layering regulation upon stupid regulation is busy work.  It makes it harder to run our lives, a business, a state and a country……and it’s so very costly.  It also sucks a ton of gas.  About $15.7 TRILLION bucks worth in this country.

It’s a sad state of affairs when people think the government can run their lives better than they can.  It speaks to how lazy and weak we’ve become.

Our government does not make money. It takes money.  It never makes a profit.  The last two administrations continuously increased the size of government and the debt along with it.

Both parties contributed to it and are responsible.  It has gotten out of control and has become Supersized.  It is morbidly obese…..just like a whole bunch of us are.

It’s time to put gas in the car and quit complaining that the air doesn’t work.  Millions in this country have to get off their…….leather seats and get to work and chip in for gas.  That’s something that doesn’t apply to the rich only.

This government and our leaders have to explain the car and air conditioner story honestly.  The public has to be told that China has been towing us and the weather has been mild.

We are lucky it’s not as hot here as it is in Greece and will be in France.  It could get there if we aren’t careful.

Our government needs to go on a diet and many of our citizens need some exercise.  It’s time to downsize or get out and push…..really push.

The average American family will be hit by a $3,800 increase in their taxes come the New Year unless Congress acts to extend a series of breaks. Several different tax “holidays’ expire at the end of the year and put all together would rake in an extra $500 billion to the national coffers. January 1, 2013 even has a name – Taxmageddon.

Among those tax holidays due to run out are the Bush-era cuts that would push the
bottom rate of income tax from 10 to 15 percent and the top rate from 35 to 39.6
percent. Hey 99% ers get ready to suck it up!

But that’s not all. The child tax credit will be halved from $1,000 to $500, the
marriage penalty will return, the tax on dividends will go up nearly threefold and the
alternative minimum tax will hit around 34 million taxpayers.

“Almost the entire tax code has been put on a year-to-year lease, and in some cases,month-to-month lease, which is no way to run a tax system,” Scott Hodge of the Tax Foundation said. “No American will be unscathed.”

Except the 50% that pay absolutely zero taxes! I think they get candy and Red Bull.

The ever-churning machine that is the Internet is pumping out more unfiltered digital
data all the time. Yesterday, 250 million photos were uploaded to Facebook, 864,000
hours of video were uploaded to YouTube, and 294 billion emails were sent.

That’s not counting all the check-ins, friend requests, Yelp reviews and Amazon posts,
and pins on Pintrest. And that was just to get that little non-event together for Occupy
Wall Street Urchins on May 1st. All that work for nothing.

Anybody really understand that group? They are anti small business, anti big business,
anti profit, anti global, anti free enterprise and anti wealthy.

Really, who can go protest like that for weeks and months? How do they pay their
bills? Either they are on the dole, supported by Mom and Dad or a paid attendee.
Of course there are still some of those long grey haired pony tail Woodstock types
hanging around….as you know, I like to refer to them as the Left Odors.

I have a suggestion that would make all of them happier and America a better
country…. Move their butts to one of the following locations where none of that stuff
exists: Afghanistan, the Republic of the Congo, Somalia, Burundi, Niger, Eritrea,
Zimbabwe or any similar place. There they can live as one.

There is no business, no money and no greed. Perfect! Fools don’t even know or
appreciate what they have.

Got Gas? El Presidente said recently, as he has before, that “the problem is we (the
US) use more than 20 percent of the world’s oil and we only have 2 percent of the
world’s proven oil reserves.”

“Even if we drilled every square inch of this country right now, we’d still have to rely
disproportionately on other countries for their oil,” Obama said, while pitching a plan
to crack down on oil market speculators.

But a U.S. Geological Survey released last week paints a seemingly different picture.
The analysis showed the world outside of the U.S. holds 565 billion barrels of
undiscovered conventional oil — it was the first such study in 12 years.

The study did not address U.S. resources, but a prior analysis by the Energy Information
Administration pegged the country’s supply at 198 billion barrels. That works out to 26
percent of the world’s supply.

It’s ok if he makes those kinds of mistakes….he’s a rock star…..and he says pit bulls are
delicious.

A prominent U.S. Catholic nuns group said it was “stunned” that the Vatican
reprimanded it for spending too much time on poverty and social justice concerns and
not enough on abortion and gay marriage.

Someone at the Vatican has a little too much time on their hands. And you know the
old saying that “Idle hands are the devil’s workshop”. Evidently, that is historically true.
Evidently.

Two lawsuits filed in Los Angeles recently against the founding family of the religious
Trinity Broadcasting Network allege that televangelists Paul and Jan Crouch have
spent well over $50 million of worshippers’ donations on “personal” expenses,
including 13 “mansions,” his-and-hers private jets, and a $100,000 mobile home for
Mrs. Crouch’s dogs.

The jets are necessary, the Crouches’ lawyer told the Los Angeles Times, because the
Crouches receive more death threats than even the president of the United States.
Anybody surprised? Some poor little old lady sends a $100 for God’s work and Jan’s
Pooch’s get $100,000 RV!

Allegedly, the Crouches keep millions of dollars in cash on hand, but according to their
lawyer, that is merely out of obedience to the biblical principle of “owing no man
anything.” That includes a reasonable explanation and taxes. Does anybody else hope
that Paul and Jan’s ivory tower falls over with Paul and Jan still in it?

These two are gonna end up in jail and a very warm location for some time….and I’m
not talking about a condo in Palm Springs!

Things that never end – Mel Gibson’s rants, Kardashian Krap, Obama’s campaigning on
our dime and Jessica Simpson’s pregnancy.

Oooops, scratch that. Jessica just gave birth to a three year old weighing about 31
pounds with long blond hair that can dress herself and knows the alphabet.

Did you know that Our Campaigner in Chief has had almost 200 fundraisers for his
re-election? Did you know that is more that George W, Clinton, Bush Sr, Reagan
and Carter combined? No wonder nothing gets done in DC, he’s out partying all
the time….on your dime in Air Force One most of the time. Yup, we underwrite his
fundraisers!

OMG, rumor is trickling out that Michael Jackson had a serious fling with Whitney
Houston. They were the two biggest pop stars in the world at that time. The guy that
is writing the tell all book says Michael was heterosexual. Stupid fool even says Jackson
was black. Until he got that teeny little pinched nose, I thought he was one of the
Supremes.

And Ron Paul is still running for Republican Presidential nomination. He’s sitting on the
fence not endorsing Mittens. I think the fence is called the 7-9% fence because that’s
where Paul has been sitting since he stared in the race.

The stunning and very rich Duchess of Alba (a mere 85) is still going strong with her 61
year old boy toy. Her children fear the guy was in it for the money so he had to sign
away his rights to her fortune.

Maybe she is wild and crazy when the lights go dim…..that’s also when she looks her
best. I hope she is having the time of her life.

Well we can all know what to give people for prank gifts this coming year….Octomom!
Seems the poor gal is broke and filing for bankruptcy. She is also going to make a porn
video to help support her kids.

Before everybody goes “TRASH!” just remember how many politicians, movie stars,
athletes and celebrities plus neighbors did the same thing. In fact many either started
their careers with one or ended their careers with one. I’m just thinking after fourteen
kids the title should include the word Buick in it.

Charlie Sheen is suing a New York Strip Club for naming one of their VIP lounges after
him. I don’t get it….who would want to name a VIP room “Drooley Fooley”?

Ok, and some billionaire dude wants to build the Titanic II. Yes, he wants it to look a
lot like the old one only not under water and wrecked. I want to do that and fly in the
smoking section of the new Hindenburg when they get around to making a new one of
those.

I believe that everybody can make a difference for good in this world. We have every
opportunity to succeed. When you are at work, give it your best. Anything less is not
ok.

Don’t be afraid of success whether it’s personal or collective. Strive for excellence.
It separates your company from your competitors and what makes your job secure.
There is nothing wrong with hard work and reward…..absolutely nothing.

So the lesson for today comes from a favorite punching bag – the Occupy Wall Street
Urchins. I am sure that some of them mean well. I am equally sure some of them are
just stoned at the party.

I cannot help but feel compelled to state that many of them don’t know why they are
there or what specifically they want to do to change things. This is a democracy. Make
changes in the voting booth. Do volunteer work for the poor or elderly. Make a real
difference.

Taking a crap on a cop car is not change. Getting high in public and carrying a
cardboard sign with misspelled words on it makes Paris Hilton (remember her?) look
like Einstein and you look like an idiot. Get a life.

The profit you hate meant jobs for your parents that provided for your education, food,
clothing, the roof over your head and likely that iPhone that is so out of place in your
make believe world.

There is no crime in being successful. Making it a crime makes it cool to lazy. Think of
the message this sends to our young.

They have already been brought up in a sugar coated world where everybody wins,
nobody fails and everyone should be happy being mediocre. Look at where our
children test out compared to the rest of world…..mediocre. That’s the best of the
worst or the worst of the best. It’s all about their feeeeelings.

Either way it’s this type of social entitlement thinking that gets college students all
jacked up thinking their loans are going to magically disappear. It’s this type of thinking
that we should all play Robin Hood and take from the rich and give to the poor.

When the poor no longer have to work and simply hold their hand out, their lives are
ruined. They have no self respect, no sense of accomplishment and no future. That’s
really the rub.

Take away everything people work for and give it to people that are kept in bondage by
handouts and we all lose. Keeping people in bondage for votes is morally corrupt. It’s
the new slavery.

……and giving handouts to buy votes destroys this country. 47% of American
households receive money from the government. 50% of the households pay no taxes.
Is it any wonder we are in debt?

In case you haven’t checked out Europe lately here’s a rundown: Europe is sliding into
another recession and many countries are becoming insolvent and are on the edge of
anarchy.

It’s the work of Socialism…..they leveled things out and provided mass social programs
that were unsustainable. Even when their countries are bankrupt, their people riot in
the streets for their freebies.

Is that the goal of the Urchins? Anarchy? Look at what happened in Seattle.

People thinking that a free ride is the answer are not Americans….they are leeches.
Sorry if you don’t agree, but not agreeing with the truth is simply denial.

Earlier this year, Illinois was rated as the state with crookedest (new word) politicians.  Their budget is crazy out of control, they are going bankrupt and taxes are getting higher while you are reading this.  And yet, some stars shine!

Take ‘lil old Dixon Illinois controller, Rita Crundwell.  She really showed all those crooks up!  She stood out from all those Illinois politicians. 

In a town of 15,000 Lovely Rita managed to embezzle over $30,000,000!  This clever and well known horse breeder held the $80 grand per year job of town controller since the 1980’s.   From a city budget of only $8-9 million Rita managed to build up a huge horse farm, have the finest in jewelry, own a fleet of expensive cars and trucks, decorate a fabulous home and own a $2.1 million dollar motorhome. 

To top it off, officials arrested her and charged her with embezzlement.  What a shame!  She is the only one in the state who could really manage money.  Think about it.  She embezzled almost 10% of the annual budget and everything ran fine!

She provided the residents of Dixon all goods and services they expected for all those years and just took a little sumpin sumpin for herself.  She didn’t let the city go into debt; she didn’t force tax hikes, cut services or anything.  No other politician in America can manage money that well.  She’s a genius! 

Obama is selling chances for a date with George Clooney for $3.  Really, if you donate $3 to his campaign you have a chance for a date with George on May 10^th.  It’s like selling kisses at the county fair only you have fewer chances of getting herpes.  It’s a better way!

Food Stamp rolls are up by over 70% from 2007.  They are projected to continue to grow thru 2014.  Finally a chart from the feds with an upward trend.  Let’s put a good spin on this!

Anybody remember when it was embarrassing to be on food stamps?  I do.  It was so humiliating we shopped at night out of town so nobody would see us using them.  It was an incentive to get a job.  Now it isn’t.  You even get a credit card!  Flashy!

A record 5.4 million Americans have signed up for Disability Benefits since Obama took office.  Since the recession ended in June 2009, the number of people who’ve signed up for disability benefits is twice the job growth figure.   

That’s a 200% increase over job growth.  Wow, another growth area for the government!

In just the first four months of this year, 539,000 joined the disability rolls and more than 725,000 put in applications. As a result, by April there were 10.8 million people on disability.  Does anybody see reasons for keeping people on stamps, welfare and disability?  Brilliant political strategy!

The bureau of Veterans Affairs has a backlog of nearly 1,000,000 disability claims right now.  65% of them are more than 125 days old.  That’s better than 126 days.

Shifting gears – A 30 year old New Zealand mother died of cardiac arrest possibly brought on by a lifetime of drinking 2 gallons of Coke a day.  That got a ton of headlines. 

What a lot of people missed is that she is a mother of eight!  That means she never worked a day in her life.  Raising them was sooo easy she needed all that caffeine and sugar just to float thru life.  She was probably bored to death.

Researchers are predicting that brothels of the future will have robot prostitutes by 2050.  They say they can offer a wider variety of employees (I don’t know of another word) and they will be guilt free since another human would not be involved.  There goes guilty pleasures……

The day nobody thought would ever come is almost here……old Newter may announce that he’s dropping out of the race for the Republican nomination soon.  Silly guy, voters did that for him two months ago.  He didn’t get the memo.

Ryan Seacrest just signed a $30 million dollar contract to stay on American Idol.  Crikey!  $30 million?  They are paying him like he’s the American Idol. 

Boy oh gosh oh Friday!  That will give those Occupy Wall Street Urchins something to picket about!  He’s a real 1% er! 

No, actually they want a nice park, a sunny day, and pretty groomed flower beds to use as toilets…..and they want free stuff.  Besides, Seacrest looks too boyish to picket.

Child sex selection is now available in Canada.  Whoa there cowboy, watch your mind!  We are talking about being able to select the sex of your child.  It’s being touted as an abortion option. 

Seems a frequent reason some people had abortions is they wanted a baby of the other sex.  Really.  Aborting a child for being the wrong sex even has to make pro-abortion people cringe.  I resisted standing on my soapbox.

Yup!  There is a recording of Mel Gibson’s latest rants.  He’s toast in the movie industry.  He went from a respected actor and long time husband to a maniacal idiot in a few short years.  Awful human being.

Barry Obama’s favorite charity is back in the news.  The Solyndra in building in Fremont CA is up for sale.  It has the latest in materials, offices, design and facilities plus it’s expandable to 739,232 square feet.  It’s so huge you can lose almost a billion dollars in it and not even notice!

Barry heard that and offered to buy the property for a gazillion dollars then sell it back to them for a penny!  Ok, I lied.  It was 3 cents.  Think of these green projects as investments in the future…..debt of our children. 

China is coming out with a new line of high priced sunglasses.  They are called the Helen Keller sunglass line.  I can hear what you’re saying…ooops, no I can’t.  And I can’t see these being a hot product in the US.  Really, I can’t see it.  Really.

The John Edwards trial is beginning.  Remember when he was the promising bright young face of the Democratic Party?  Remember?

That was before he was one of those slightly out of focus subjects in a homemade movie.  The upside is those $14 haircuts he now gets at Supercuts look just as good as those $400 ones he used to get in his movie making days.  Now there’s a silver lining!

A woman injured while.…ummmmm…..canoodling was recently awarded workman’s compensation.  She was travelling on business for the federal government of Australia.  (And all of our federal workers thought at once “Why didn’t we think of that”?) 

Nevertheless, after a wonderful dinner and a few cocktails the lovely young lady took her male friend to her room.  There, while.….ummmm….doing a frenzied horizontal tango, a light fixture broke loose from the wall above and hit her on the face.  Kabam! 

Anyway, the judge ruled it was a normal activity and it happened while away at work.  He said it was like being injured at any normal activity like playing cards.  See, Australians’ do funny things too!

I have never seen a game of Canasta get so out of hand that the rockin and rollin of a bed causes a light fixture to fly off the wall and hit a card player in the face.  Have you?

Pat Summitt, long time coach of the Tennessee Lady Vols retired after 38 years on the job.  The Hall of Fame Coach was diagnosed with the early stages of Alzheimer’s last year. 

Summitt was the winningest collegiate basketball coach of all time and certainly one of the classiest.  She brought everything good that collegiate sports embody to the game of women’s basketball.  The president awarded her with Medal of Freedom upon her retirement.  She will be missed.

Doctor Albert Gore just got inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in Switzerland.  I guess if you invent something you should get credit for something.  Really, there is such a thing and Gore did get inducted for “significant contributions to the global growth and use of the Internet.”  Not quite what he was hoping for, but it is something.

 Rumor has it that those may have been Russian spies that our Secret Servicemen were partying with in Columbia.  Well, at least they weren’t hookers.

 The president called those agents involved knuckleheads.  I think he already used poopoo heads in an earlier speech referring to Congress.

 The funny thing about politics this year is that everybody is having a hard time staying on the issues.  They are trying to run on silly topics.

 Look at the “issues” that are defining things this year: 

• Occupy Wall Street – Dirty people with bowel and bladder control issues. A politically conceived, media fostered organization formed to distract from important topics and divide the electorate.
• The “War on Women” – I don’t understand who, what, or where about this subject.  If it makes sense to you, you inhaled. It’s a politically conceived, media fostered issue to distract from important topics and divide the electorate.
• The”War on the Rich” – A cheap shot to rally the majority against a minority.  It has nothing to do with reducing the debt. A politically conceived, media fostered issue to distract from important topics and divide the electorate. 
• The “Race Card” – A single event in Florida that turned into a media circus for political means.  It is hypocritical to think one life matters more than the thousands that die annually only because someone was shot by a “half white”.  All life matters.  To ignore that and play the race card is an insult to all blacks.  It’s a politically conceived, media fostered issue to distract from important topics and divide the electorate. See a trend?
• PAC money – This is where hundreds of millions of dollars worth of attack ads are run on a candidates behalf and they (the candidates) can play innocent. It’s the Great Oz pulling strings and we don’t know who they are.
• Religion and Race – We have it all this year and many are using it to divide instead of unite.  These should only be discussed in a bar when drinking.  Then it may make more sense.
• The Supreme Court – It’s the first time I recall leaning on the Court to influence the outcome of a case they were reviewing.  They do their job according to the Constitution, not according to the politics du jour.

 In conclusion, politicians are people just like everybody else.  They make mistakes, are honest, are liars, are crooked, are funny, are incompetent, are stupid, and loyal, are sleazy….but most of all they are creative.

They can be creative for our good and to our detriment just like regular folks…..the only difference is they greatly affect our lives.  Some don’t seem to take their responsibilities serious.

Blind loyalty to a party or candidate takes away our responsibility to research and think.  It could be a politician you like wants policies that are actually bad for you, your family and this county’s future. 

And don’t expect CNN or Fox News to give you all your answers….news is their business and they have to make profits.  That means that what they put out as news has to excite you and hold your interest.  They do slant it to keep you tuned in and pay for their sponsors. 

We see a lot of political irresponsibility on both sides.  This is a critical time for this country and the world in general.  Some Americans are brainwashed into thinking that everything is hunky dory.  It’s not.

It’s time to do the right thing and think beyond silly little issues, shallow catchy phrases or media created divisions.  Think about the future of your children, grandchildren and what role the United States should play on the international scene.  (Another huge topic for someday).

We are the only superpower remaining in the world and with that goes a great responsibility.  We have botched it in recent administrations.  An informed and thoughtful electorate is what is needed this election year. 

We don’t need crazies threatening, protesting or directing the issues.  We need to get this country united and focused on what matters.  The future of America and our citizens is what matters…..not politicians and silly media hype.