My god… is there no limit to what politicians will promise to give you if you vote for them.   Who in the hell is going to pay for all these giveaways?  If you look at the “true” national debt which includes IOU’s to Social Security, our debt is $53 trillion.  Who in the hell is going to pay for this?  And every day there is a new giveaway program being offered as a solution to every little problem American’s might endure.  My god what are we thinking here?  This is just pure and outright absurdity.   We gotta cut spending dramatically if we have any hope of getting our financial house in order.  Instead, all I hear is about new programs to help every little problem that comes along the road of life.  Whatever happened to “self-reliance”?  This has got to STOP!!!  Enough is enough!  Grow up people… life is hard.  And sometimes your problems are because you are just STUPID!!!  We can’t solve stupidity… but what I hear today is that we now are expected to solve stupidity.  I give up… Forest Gump was right when he said: “stupid is as stupid does”  Forest Gump was a true American even if he was fictional.  Forest Gump imbued the values and determination of real Americans.

I love to talk with people.  And the more I talk with people the more I wonder if there is something seriously wrong with me or if people are just plain dumb.  No matter where I am… no matter who I am talking with I find people who say things that they pass off as factual when in reality they are merely an opinion.  And often the opinion is based on what they hear others say or what they hear on TV.  Even news stations chronically make statements that suggest they are espousing factual information to the listener, but in reality it is merely their opinion.  An opinion requiring almost total suspension of reality.  Let’s take one of the most fraudalent statements I hear on news channels… “there are 47 million uninsured people in the United States”.   Well let’s analyse this just in a cursory manner.  There are supposedly 15 million illegal immigrants in the US.  So that reduces the uninsured to 32 million as clearly the United States has no obligation to solve this medical problem.  Now of those 32 million how many simply choose not spend money on healthcare in favor of spending money at the casino… or cigarettes… or beer.  My guess is that 25% of the 32 million fall into that category which leaves 24 million… and I can go on and on.   My hunch is that the true number of uninsured not by choice… here in the United States is probably 10 million which is less than 3% of the total population.  There is a point of diminishing returns on almost everything and my suspicion is that is what we are dealing with here on healthcare. 

Now back to my point.  The opinions thrown out as fact are distorting reality for all of us.  The population of the US is so dumb, it will believe anything it is told especially if it is negative news and there is a chance of some type of conspiracy.  I rest my case.

One of the basic laws of science is “Conservation of matter and energy”.  Basically nothing can be created or destroyed, but rather transformed from one state to another state.  For example water can be a solid, vapor or liquid.  If one assumes that humans are a complex interworking of electrochemical reactions… among other things, then when one dies the electrochemical reactions change into another state.  The other “state” is the after life.  And if you start researching this topic you will find more and more scientists discussing a convergence between science and religion.  The Bible was in large part the “science book” of its time.  And it was not able to explain things in cold hard scientific laws, but relied on faith.   But today one really doesn’t need faith to know there is life after death.  Science tells us that there is indeed life after death.  What exactly life after death is… is not clear, but death is not simply a “dead end”.

I cannot recall a period in my life or in the history I’ve read where the United States has had such low caliber dim-wits in Congress.  It starts with the poorly informed leadership of Congress.  Pelosi and Reed simply have no idea what they are doing.  They are not leaders… they are embarassements.  They are not citizen legislators, they are career politicians who represent less than 1% of the population of the United States, but yet they impact each and every American.  Our founding fathers never dreamed that politicians would become life-long legislators.  My hunch is that they presumed most citizens would do their civic duty and then step down.   So if someone like Pelosi came along within a relatively short-period of time, they would leave office.  New blood would replace the old blood and in the process the status quo would be challenged.  Sadly, we have career politicians who have never held a “real job”, never driven their own car, never even shop for their own groceries.  Term limits must become the battle cry of all Americans.  Without term limits, the country is going to become more and more polarized… not to mention over-run by illegal immigrants.