“It does a couple of other things. It takes $52 billion in higher Social Security tax revenues and counts them as offsets. But that’s really reserved for Social Security. So either we’re double-counting them or we don’t intend on paying those Social Security benefits.
…The Senate Budget Committee chairman said that this is a Ponzi scheme that would make Bernie Madoff proud.“

With my emphasis added, that’s a quote from Rep Paul Ryan speaking at the Health Care Summit. You can see why so many congressmen want to throw out the current …

Here’s what I don’t get:
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is supposed to be money injected into the economy to “create new jobs as well as save existing ones, spur economic activity and invest in long-term economic growth, Foster unprecedented levels of accountability and transparency in government spending.”
The Senate (mostly Democrats) just approved a new $15 billion “jobs bill” to attempt to stave off growing unemployment and to create jobs. How is it that tax incentives are going to create jobs? If I’m a small business owner, …

Some Obama irony, airing days before his deserved win of the Nobel Peace Prize:
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“for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples”

I will also be submitting my entire platoon for the Medal of Honor for swearing to act “conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his [or her] life above and beyond the call of duty while engaged in an action against an enemy of the United States.” in the mountains of Afghanistan next year….

Brittany says blogging while angry is like going to the grocery store while hungry. I’d say it’s more like calling your ex-girlfriend while drunk. Either way, nothing good can come of it.
But here goes.
So I absolutely hate flying now. Currently I’m sitting in the Dallas/Ft. Worth airport waiting for my connecting flight to take me back to Lawton. It was supposed to leave at 7:20. When I practically ran here from my other flight in order to board at 6:50, they said the plane we are taking wasn’t even here …

Here is our latest live fire Call for Fire. We actually got to use Time and VT fuzes, which makes artillery rounds explode in the air above the enemy. Basically raining pure destruction.
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