TIMEOUT

In today's Fox news list of items under "Politics", eight of nine items reference The President while one references the GOP. I believe that it is time for a break for the citizens of this country from the President, references to Obama, and the White House. In other words we deserve a TIMEOUT from this onslaught of publicity for the Administration.

OH NO!!!

After many stirring failures to his credit, the President now wants to "help" solve the economic problems of this country. Of course, he plans to start by a big TAX increase for the nation's financial institutions. This will really get things going? As a result, the DOW has dropped by more than 200 points in the last two days. Does that hurt you & me? You better believe it. If you still have an IRA or 401 K check its(their) balances. Wow what effectiveness!

Next, the President has promised to speak to us and reconnect. My suggestion (next to his resignation and firing of his advisors) is to stop speaking to the citizens; rather he should start listening to US. Then let us get Congress to follow suit. And then ACT to relieve the real causes of the problems; such as stopping spending money we (the US) does not have, reinvigorate business through sensible tax reductions (maybe some relief for taxpayers as well), and remove all the new social programs that tend to increase welfare and decrease real help.

I would like to suggest that the President could also improve the situation in the country by taking an extended vacation and stop trying to help; he already has screwed up virtually everything he has touched.

STIMULUS PLAN!

I have said little about the apparent outrageous waste that has evolved from the Federal Government various "Stimulus" Plans. But, this seems to be way over the top in its obvious waste of public funds, even for the present administration.

Washington DC office of Tourism has launched a campaign using, I believe, $200,000 in Stimulus money to promote tourist ideas for lovers. As part of this "plan" they have hired Dr. Ruth, a sex expert as the head of this effort. The idea is to promote interesting events for lovers to participate in (cozy dinners, etc) in order to increase tourism in the DC area.

I think that this is a very poorly conceived promotion especially in light of the very poor economy, high unemployment, and general public dissatisfaction with the performance of the Administration and Congress. It begins to sound similar to the prattling of a former Queen of France and her empty headed remarks about the plight of the poor in Paris (Let them eat cake if they do not have any bread). I believe that her reference was to a substance called "Cak" which was a mixture of flower left at the bottom of bake ovens and not to the soft delicacy that she was so fond.

INTEGRITY?

I am not a fanatic baseball fan. The last game that I saw was in 2001(?) a rather uninspiring game between the Phoenix team and some other team.

The other day, a rather famous player (McGuire) admitted that he had an extensive history of having used performance enhancing drugs in order to provide him with an advantage over other players. This, after he had retired was really a non event since nothing is expected to change by his revelations. A memorable comment by him at the conference in which he revealed his transgressions was that he had lied, during his playing days, about his involvement in illegal substances but, now, since that is behind him, we should all forget these things and listen to his advice and counsel now.

I would be willing to believe his sincerity if he did the following: renounce all of his baseball awards that he accepted during his playing years; move to have his statistical records deleted from any historical database; and return all funds and commissions both from baseball and commercial endorsements to the original providers (teams, companies, and so called fans) with appropriate interest. Otherwise I soundly reject his so called apology (if that is what it was).

Since I have already expressed my dis-interest in baseball, why should I even comment here? Because it is a strong indicator of the state of many prominent and influential people in this Country that needs to be changed.