Posted on 01/01/2010 4:20:05 PM PST by ricks_place
Americans finally getting fed up with big-government foul-ups
TEMECULA, Calif. - Where is Nelson Mandela when we need him? In the fine new film "Invictus," South Africa's first black president inspects his first official paycheck. "This is terrible," Mr. Mandela says. He decides he earns too much and subsequently donates a third of his salary to charity.
Mr. Mandela's humility and fiscal restraint would be as exotic in the nation's capital as a giraffe atop the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Washington's lavish self-aggrandizement and relentless march toward bankruptcy cruelly mock Mr. Mandela's sacrifice.
Today's thoughtless and corrosive spend-o-rama began under a Republican Congress and the feckless Bush-Rove administration. Alas, a Democratic White House and Congress briskly outspend their predecessors.
In stunning contrast to Mr. Mandela's example, Congress carpet-bombs taxpayer dollars on greedy federal bureaucrats - even as Americans struggle, and often fail, to pay their mortgages and rents.
Between December 2007 and June 2009, USA Today reported on Dec. 10, federal employees earning more than $100,000 annually increased 46 percent to 382,758. Those making more than $150,000 rose 119 percent to 66,538. Only one Transportation Department employee scored more than $170,000 as the recession began. By last June, that number had soared to 1,690.
Federal indulgence and incompetence are too vast to catalogue. But these illustrations are sufficiently maddening.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Add the money spent on useless vaccines and the very real threat of forced vaccinations for all of us in 2010, thus robbing the American People of life, liberty, and quite possibly our lives as those toxins start to spew poison into our bodies.
The very same elements that disabled so many of our vets are in the H1N1 and the fallout in the form of miscarriages, ill health, and long term cancers, MS, and AIDS like disease and you have the globalists perfect storm...
Jenny Hatch
The revolt is coming, I fear, and when it does it will mean the death of the nation. It would be best to reform from within rather than seek a new Nation—a New Confederacy of sorts. We must elect Conservatives to power and break the back of the Liberals “Progressives” and their egg head legions. As long as they control the media and keep our views from being twisted into “Aranian Nation Hate Speech” we will have no chance. Look at Sarah Palin? Tina Fey killed any chances for this talented leader ever being elected. The Comedians words are now believed to be things Palin really said. We must work together to get the word out and work to get Conservatives elected. We don’t have a Reagan to act as our spokesperson—maybe we can find one in the next few months. The Republic is in Danger.
'public servant' is semantically equal to 'Public Master'. ~ R.A.H.
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