guns, god, and being goofy

The art of politics. How to make a huge story out the most insignificant thing. My God, no your God. No, OH! my God. Thelma, bring me the big knife, err, big gun, there's something to shoot. See. I can shoot the breeze and tote the bullshit and hit a clay target with the gun on full choke. Yo!, peon, choke on this sound bite, America is for Americans.


Let's clarify something for Senators Clinton and McCain and Rush, O'Reilly, Beck, and Hannity. Middle America is bitter.

And with good reason. Stagnating wages for the last 10 years. A focus on a civil war in another country when our own seems to be falling apart at the seems. America has 1.3 trillion dollars in needed infracture improvements AT HOME that needs immediate attention. We're spent over a trillion dollars in Iraq with little political progress to show for it.

Gas prices continue in an ever-upward spiral. But worse yet, no comprehensive long-term strategy from the government on how to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, or reduce our footprint on the planet.

So yes, there's some resentment on the street. And the silver-spooned pretty-boy fly-by-night son of a son of a 4-star general and former attorney to the Walmarkians from Outer Space are going to find out the hard way. Voters, start pulling the levers, NOW!

Find out what the cost of guns, god, and being goofy has on you by visiting the National Priorities Project. They have an interactive feature that allows you to enter a component of the war budget and it will calculate the costs for a given community, state, congressional district. And show the cost of this madness that you, as an American taxpayer share.

For example, below are other items that could have been purchased with the amount proposed to be spent on the 2009 Federal budget for the so-called missile defense system.

5,406 People with Health Care OR
12,569 Homes with Renewable Electricity OR
368 Public Safety Officers OR
268 Music and Arts Teachers OR
1,970 Scholarships for University Students OR
2 New Elementary Schools OR
145 Affordable Housing Units OR
5,194 Children with Health Care OR
2,135 Head Start Places for Children OR
286 Elementary School Teachers OR
230 Port Container Inspectors
elsewhere:
changing our national priorities