Squat and Squabble

The U.S. Army says Former Maj. General Ronald Lewis will be demoted and retire as a brigadier general after he used a government credit card to pay for bills at strip clubs in Rome and South Korea.
Lewis had previously reached the three-star rank of lieutenant general, but he was demoted to major general (two stars) more than a year ago after an investigation uncovered that Lewis had misused a government credit card and had become involved in an extramarital relationship.
Now Lewis will be further bumped down to brigadier general (one star) because he charged the government for his visits to the strip clubs, made false statements and “engaged in conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman on multiple occasions.” Your tax dollars at work, eh?
“What do you mean you won’t take American Express?”

In a disjointed and sometimes bizarre hour-plus long press conference today, President Trump pointed out all of the problems in the world, the country, and just about everything else, as problems he had “inherited.”

Why is it that politicians (welcome to that world, Donald, you now qualify) always say they “inherited” the problems associated with the office they just entered?  Enough of this abuse of the language – there are only two things that people actually inherit – genetic code from living people, and old used stuff from dead people.  Politicians wring their hands and woefully moan to have “inherited” problems, pretending that they didn’t have any choice in the matter, and it was just the bad luck of the draw that they ended up with what they got.  What a load of crap!

A politician will spend 18 months running all over the country, kissing every voter butt they can find, at every whistle stop, restaurant, and venue they can rent; spending a billion or more dollars in the pursuit of a goal that they want so badly that they will climb up the pile of bodies of vanquished opponents just to get close to the golden ring.  Candidates pinpoint all of the nasty problems that they promise to fix, and brag that they are the only person who can make things better.  “Give me control of the problems, and I will do the job!”  And then, if they are unfortunate enough to actually get elected, they demurely say that they “inherited” all of those problems.  Hey, jerkwad, you wanted it, you fought for it, and now you have it.  “Inherited,” my ass. That’s like someone who kills off all of his siblings, murders his parents, and then complains about not having enough room to store all of the stuff he ended up with after probate. You won’t get any sympathy from me for those sad basset hound eyes, buddy.  We gave you what you wanted.  Now go and fix it.

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Last Month, U.S. Senator Rand Paul stood before the senate, rejecting the Republican’s proposed 10-year budget. His reasoning: The budget would send this country $9.7 trillion further into debt. We might be new to the political content game, but sending this country further into debt doesn’t seem like it’s in line with traditional Conservative values. While the Republicans have continued to focus on repealing Obamacare, they’ve taken their eyes off the debt, which is ultimately a greater threat to this country.

Understand, this opposition didn’t come from some a Democratic Senator, hailing from the Northeast Seaboard. It came from a Republican Senator out of Kentucky, who has consistently been critical of this country’s spending. Are we seeing the death of conservative economic values? [/one-half]

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