Oh My…We Have A Long Way To Go
An article caught my eye as Pennsylvania’s new governor has floated another idea for a new tax. He’d like to tax lottery winnings. The Feds already tax the winnings, but apparently the state wants their piece also. This is not an anti-tax post, but part of the newspaper article stunned me (see photograph).
Here we have a 40-something woman who claims to purchase $300.00 worth of lottery tickets every week. Okay let me repeat that…she spends $3oo every freaking week to buy a chance to win big bucks and she seems to be driven by the fact that she won $2,500 a few years ago. So she spends over $15,000 a year to win $2,500 every couple of years. My God do we need to teach economics in our schools though it’s obviously far too late for this lady.
I was shampooing my hair this morning and forgot how to do it so as luck would have it my bottle had directions. The only problem is that I got stuck in a loop of lather, rinse, repeat…lather, rinse, repeat…lather, rinse, repeat…. (you get the picture). There is nothing on the directions about when to stop. So I start thinking that since this seems to be happening with Obama’s economic policy maybe he lost the last page of his economic book and just doesn’t know where to stop. I eventually ran out of shampoo and had to stop, but he has no “bottle” to empty. When he runs out of our money, he just prints/borrows more. Like my suds our money seems to be going down the drain.
Mr. Hume of course was discussing President Obama as he continues to wiggle to be all things to all people while refusing to lead on important issues as a world leader should. Obama has become the quintessential politician whose sole goal seems to be getting reelected. As of this writing and 
Arthur Amolpid got out of high school in 1950. While his grades weren’t that great his job prospects were even worse. Art, however, was an entrepreneur before the term was commonly used and looked for a way to make it on his own. Fortunately his folks didn’t mind that he stayed with them while he pursued his dream. He just needed to figure out what that dream was. His parents were not that well to do and lived within their modest means, but Arthur felt comfortable with the wealthy and frequently socialized with the more affluent crowd. 
Many times as I read an article I find a few sentences that capture the essence of the piece. In “Phrase-e-ology†I’ll post some thought followed by key phrases. As always I’ll have a link (in blue) to the original article.
It is often interesting to look at the ease with which non-incumbent candidates can point to the incumbent’s record and critique their performance and bloviate about what they would do in similar situations. It is hard to prevent such a successful strategy and we have learned with the current resident of the White House that a blank slate can be a powerful tool when combined with a thorough lack of inspection of a candidate’s qualifications by both the main stream media and many of the voters.
