SOME MORE GIVEAWAY IDEAS

The Senior Citizens League has solicited funds for their lobbying efforts on behalf of a group of old farts and crones born between 1917 and 1926. These are the so called notch babies who, thanks to an oversight by a long ago congress, got screwed on their social security payments.
The SCL has suggested a handout of five thousand dollars compensation. One might wonder if this includes dead notch babies heirs. We must, at all costs, be fair. I calculate that this could cost perhaps sixty billion dollars.

Our profligate,lickspittle congressmen (Oops!, congress persons ) call themselves public servants ( That's a laugh ) but all they desire is to be re-elected and so they like the idea of giving away our money to buy votes. Here is a hint of the groups with hands extended for a piece of the pie. N, U, C, B, OF,P and R. (Politically incorrect initials . Can you guess who they are?

The key word in all these schemes is fairness. That concept can put us ever deeper in debt.

GOVERNMENT IN ACTION



We are perplexed by the steps that the FDA or maybe the Agriculture
dept. takes when it imagines that they have found something amiss with our food supply. I have assembled a small list of the stupidities they have perpetrated against our suppliers.

Some years ago it was apples. Alar was supposedly a deadly poison that the industry had been using for years, No fatalities. Nobody got sick. Apple growers were ruined.

One might recall the Chilean grape scandal. Someone found a grape in a shipment supposedly with poison in it. All Chilean grapes were destroyed. Chile took a big hit on this one.

Lettuce and melons were the next victims. These growers were nearly ruined. Californian
growers were ruined for a time.

Do you remember the tomato recall ? Florida and California growers were ruined. It turns out that it was a mistake and decided it was jalapenos that were to blame, another ruined crop.

Now the bureaucrats have outdone themselves. Eggs, the perfect food, are deemed to be infected. Something like a billion eggs have been recalled. Why, you might ask. 125 people have gotten food poisoning. That works out to be one in 4 million. Your chances of winning the lottery are about as good. It occurred to me that cooked eggs are free of salmonella and perfectly safe to eat. Wouldn't a simple warning be all that is necessary ? But no ! Our nosey intrusive government thinks nothing of destroying whole industries.

For years I have been making smoothies with milk, bananas, egg(raw) and Ovaltine. I intend to continue doing so. It is a delicious drink . I recommend it for breakfast.

IRRITATED ( AGAIN )

I have touched on the horror of the useless expression, you know, in some of my previous writings. Happily, my campaign against you know has been largely successful and only professional athletes and other mentally challenged individuals still use it. They elicit sympathy rather than irritation. Their innocent ignorance cannot be condoned but looked upon with tolerance. But----

But even more insidious phrases have infected our erstwhile beautiful English language.This infection is far more serious than the now fading you know. There are three of them, the worst being if you will followed by if I may and (right out of the ghetto) you know what I mean. These repulsive and totally unnecessary phrases come out of the mouths and pens of professional speakers, politicians and writers. The politicians automatically lose my vote. The other writers and speakers loose all credibility.

I, if you will, am angered and,if I may, saddened by the degradation of English, if you know what I mean.

I reserve the right to expound on he/she at a later date