STUPIDLY, KEEP IT SIMPLE!

Ol' Pops. He's a heck-uv-a-guy! He taught me that, when a problem is so dang complicated, that your brain is 'bout to bust, you got to break it down. He'd say, "Break that big problem down into a bunch of lil' problems." For instance, when I first entered private life, as a man, I found myself financially strapped. I wanted to give up and just be a bum. Anyway, I finally, after agonizing over this for several months, found my self at a dead end. So I went to Dad for advice. Now understand this. Going to my Dad for advice, was like walking into the lions den. He preyed on weakness. He did not like it and, if you couldn't handle debt, you were weak. You were a pigeon, a dead beat, a chump, an "Alice", anything but a man. I knew this, but also knew that he'd have the answers. So I went.

He'd say, in that big deep voice, "Well son, now son, I say son, now you got to listen to me son." Sounds like that cartoon character, Foghorn Leghorn, remember him? Yeah, he used to be on TV when cartoons were entertainment. You know, before they were subliminal messages for our kids? Now where was I? Oh, yeah, so Dad would take each bill individually and make me write the amount down. Then he'd figure food and clothes. Next would be gas for the car. I mean, he'd list things that I didn't even imagine, but they were costs. In other words, he'd take my big ol' financial mess and break it down into small little, easy to understand, messes. He'd make it simple and make you feel so stupid at the same time, but, in the end, you really appreciated what he did. He'd show me that, if I would stick to the plan, I'd be able to pay all my bills and have just a lil' left over each month, as long as I was responsible. He really loves that word.

Now, why didn't Mr. O do that? Why didn't he insist that, the government do exactly that? Break down our big financial mess into a bunch of lil' messes and handle each one separately. You know, take the upper most important one first, pay it off, then go to the next one and pay it off, and so on. Do it where Americans could actually SEE what was taken place. You know, so they could JUDGE the effectiveness or, like he said, be TRANSPARENT. Deep in our heart of hearts we all know why, don't we? C'mon, don't let those false hopes and pipe dreams cloud your judgment. You are a human being! You have a brain! You can reason! You truly can listen to your own conscience and not your friends, media, pastors, or politicians! So ask yourself, "Why on earth would any spending bill get passed without doing this"? To confuse? To hide? To sneak? What GOOD reason is there? You know there is not one. Don't you? So are you going to keep living in a fantasy land or the REAL world? You still have a CHOICE.........................for now.

I just wish that, just like my Ol' Dad, some of these wiser folks could manage the country's bills. Balance the checkbook, so to speak. You know, folks that REALLY KNOW what bills are! The kinda of folks that cherish the word RESPONSIBLE! I mean, truly, how many of these so-called leaders know what "hard times" are? They are the "ELITE"! The "SPECIAL FOLKS"! The "UNTOUCHABLES"! Ain't no skin off their nose if th' bills don't get paid PROPERLY or on time! No sir, unlike us, they'll just start th' presses! Print some more dough! We can't do that 'cause we live in th' REAL world. The world where bills have to be paid or we loose our house, our car, our clothes, and yes, even our children, if we cannot provide for them. So you "SPECIAL FOLKS" think on that, while you go to your "black tie" dinners, overseas trips, and "business" meetings. While you send your kids to "private schools" and "ivy league" colleges. While you accept favors from your lobbyists and "investors". While you "pull th' wool" over our eyes with pure pork. PORK? Let's call it what it is: paybacks, favors, salt money, seed money, anything that does not benefit us ALL. Yeah, that's pork!

Yes, you can tell that I am just a wee bit TICKED OFF today. You bet I am! This JUNK is truly beyond comprehension. Beyond belief! It is truly INSANE! Or is it a plan, a scheme, a grand design, a take over, or just the Royal Shaft? I mean can some folks really be this STUPID! Maybe, just maybe, they are SIMPLE STUPID................................................................!

"the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised by an artful man, - who was governor of Pennsylvania, to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia."--George Mason, speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 14 June 1778


Opinions? yeah, they are my opinions, but, absolutely, only for legal purposes. I'm outta here!

TH' DUMB OL' EAST TEXAS BOY.