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"Hello Goodbye" by the Beatles, a number one song from early 1968 here in the USA. That's around the time my father left the factory to higher paying and longer lasting government employment as inflation kicked in here in the USA. Lyndon Johnson was ramping up government with Medicare and Medicaid and the cost of medical care was beginning to skyrocket, debt was beginning to accumulate and wow here we are 23 trillion dollars plus later. The 2021 federal budget proposed by President Trump adds another 966 billion to that. Well the currency is devalued and its easy to tell...

Way before Congressman Tony Weiner's Twitter escapades, (Pennsylvania) State Sen. Daylin Leach (D-17) had his own issue with the internet. While Leach didn't flirt with indecent exposure or corruption of minors on the blog he ran in 2005 while a state representative for the 149th District, he did write some pretty weird things that one would prefer not to have come from the mind of someone who makes our laws. These include, as per this archive of the blog, LeachVent, things like: People think bachelor parties are an American tradition, as American as apple pie, or racial profiling. Whether it’s...