I don’t have any shortage of ideas. At this moment, I have a backlog of probably 30-40 posts, some of which in all honesty I may never get to. Still, from time to time I do like to pass things along that strike my fancy. Here is an email I got today.
1) Only in America could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a
$35,000 a plate campaign fund raising event.2) Only in America could
people claim that the government still
discriminates against black Americans
when we have a black President, a black Attorney General, and roughly 18% of the
federal workforce is black. 12% of the population is black.3) Only in
America could we have had the two people most responsible for our tax code,
Timothy Geithner, the head of the Treasury Department and Charles Rangel who
once ran the Ways and Means Committee, BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in
favor of higher taxes.4) Only in America can we have terrorists kill
people in the name of
Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting
that Muslims
might be harmed by the backlash.5) Only in America would
we make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in
their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege
while we discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just
become American citizens.6) Only in America could the people who believe
in balancing the
budget and sticking by the country’s Constitution be thought
of as
“extremists.”7) Only in America could you need to present a
driver’s license to
cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.8)
Only in America could people demand the government investigate
whether oil
companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when the
return on equity invested in a major U.S. oil company (Marathon Oil) is less
than half of a company making tennis shoes (Nike).9) Only in America
could the government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in
recorded history, still spend a trillion dollars more than it has per year for
total spending of $7 million PER MINUTE, and complain that it doesn’t have
nearly enough money.10) Only in America could the rich people who pay
86% of all income
taxes be accused of not paying their “fair share” by people
who don’t
pay any income taxes at all.