THE ONE PARTY SYSTEM

How much do we, as a nation, spend on the Post Office? NASA? AMTRAK? The Dept of Commerce? Best guess, it is over $300 Billion per year. Add to this cost, the cost of a pointless 10 year War in "Effenstan" and you can quickly see a way to save a Trillion dollars. The question is, Why isn't there a politician or party willing to support these cuts in government spending? The answer is the ONE PARTY System. Politicians are there to vote to spend money with their "friends" in Big Business. Nobody wants to cut spending because nobody gets paid off when we DON'T spend money.

Almost Daily I hear that President Urkel is a "socialist" or radical liberal. I am amazed at the way people view US Politics. There is really only a ONE PARTY system in Amerika. It is the party of Professional Politicians. They have tricked you in to thinking there are differences between Demopublicans and Republicrats. There isn't. Urkel said he would end the War.....what happened? He bailed out Wall Street and the Banks.....just like a Republicrat. Go to http://www.downsizinggovernment.org/ to see how we could cut spending on government and balance the budget. Which party supports these cuts? NONE.

The original idea of Representative Government was to have one person go vote for the State or District. This job of voting was seen as a part time job. The Constitution did not plan for the Professional Politician. Today we have people in congress and government who have made their entire careers as politicians. Robert Byrd comes to mind from West Virginia. The only real goal for these Politicians is to make money for their friends who donated to send them to Washington or the State Capitol. Over the last 100 years as the Professional Politicians have established themselves in government, we have seen budgets explode. More and more government money is spent on Departments and government projects. This money they are spending is OURS. Do you really feel like you are getting your money's worth from the Department of Energy?

The Federal Energy Dept spends $38 Billion per year and employs 16,000 workers. This works out to $320 in Taxes to each family in Amerika. In 1977 Jimmy Carter asked that the Department of Energy be created to help Amerika reduce the need for foreign oil. It has not worked and we have spent over $500 Billion on an Energy Department in the last 30 years. The same is true for the Department of Transportation. Since 1967 this Department has cost us over a TRILLION dollars. It will cost each family $700 dollars in taxes this year. Are you getting your money's worth?

Real Change in Amerika won't come until we end the ONE Party system of Professional Politicians and begin to manage the government.

JERRY.....Again

California is a mess. Like Japan, Spain and the UK, California spent more than it earned for the past ten years. California is NOT poor. California has a GDP [Gross Domestic Product] of $1,846,757 millions for 2009. This ranks California as the seventh largest economy in the World. Please see the Chart below for 2009 GDP information. California has more GDP than Brazil.
So the problems facing California [and the US, Japan, and Europe] are less about income and all about how to spend the money they earn in Taxes. Nearly every major country has overspent for the past ten years. This is best compared to the Family who charges too much to Credit Cards and then cannot pay the bills. It cannot continue, and California needs a real Leader who can control expenses.

California has no real choice for Governor. The two major candidates are clear. Meg Whitman for the Republicrats and Jerry Brown for the Demopublicans. I call these parties by these names since, in my view, they are really no different. The "two party system" is designed to fool voters into thinking they have a choice. They do not. There is really only ONE PARTY. This is the party of the Professional Politicians. In almost every other country on earth there are multiple parties and candidates for public office. In the US we have only the PROFESSIONAL CAREER POLITICIAN PARTY.

So, since we have no real choice, whom do we vote for as Governor of California? I cannot support a Mormon for public office. Meg Whitman is part of the vast Mormon conspiracy to take over America. I simply cannot trust anyone who believes the crap the Mormon Church calls "faith." It's simple for me: Any person who believes in holy underwear and god on another planet is a cult member and a nut case who should not lead us.

So, I am voting for ex-Governor "Moon Beam". Jerry Brown has experience and he is just crazy enough to make this work. I have said this before: "What does it say about the Two Party System when the best Candidate for Governor is a 70 year old Hippie?"

THE PURSE

Call off the search. After several weeks of looking and numerous sketches on napkins, the PURSE has been found.

We went to Dooney & Bourke to buy a purse and ended up buying two. But, they did not meet the exact need. Now the new Kate Spade is here and things are back to normal.

Dear Dad,

Happy Memorial Day. I know how you always felt about Memorial Day, Fourth of July, and Veteran's Day. They all made "your ass hurt." You used to tell me there were two kinds of soldiers, Parade Soldiers and Killers. I understood that you did not like Parades.

I been reading a book that reminds me of you: SHIT MY DAD SAYS. It is so funny to read the crazy stuff Dad's tell their kids. I laughed my ass off thinking of the things you used to say. I only wish I had wrote them all down.

Anyway, Thanks. Thanks for fighting in World War II. Thanks for landing on Okinawa. I still have the sword. Thanks for spying on the Russians when we lived in Alaska and Germany. I think you made a difference. Neither the Japanese or the Russians ever invaded. Thanks for trying to get me into Air Force Flight school. Sorry I was color blind. I have the flag that covered your coffin. That was a real sad day for me. I still miss you.

I tell Jack all about you. We come visit when we are in Saint Louis. Thanks again for all those Breakfasts you cooked, the times you walked me to school, the tree house we built, the 22 rifle, and the time you took me to the doctor. I guess it wasn't a urinary tract infection....but you never brought it up. I love you Dad, and I'm working hard to be as good as the example you set.

Michael