Finally, it’s the weekend. It sure seemed like a long week. Next week is Lori’s birthday on Wednesday! Her doc is off to Cuba for a week of vacation so it’ll be a bit easier around work. It’s also supposed to warm up around here but this morning we have a dusting of the white stuff.
Both boys are still sleeping and it’s 8:21. I’m sure they’ll be up soon. Even though there’s a little snow it’s melting and we have the sliding door open as it’s not that cold. I have some work to do today and a call at 3:30 but other than that, am going to try to take it somewhat easy.
Round 2 and 3 of the NFL Draft took place last night and we grabbed a couple of good guys. It should be a fun year next year. First up though, for sure, is some house cleaning. We keep saying that as we never quite get to it. There’s always something else like laundry or dishes or errands. We have to do a little deep cleaning today for sure.
No politics today but one thing I have to say is that no matter what you think about Trump, all these protesters are bought and paid for.
How do you non Trump or Hillary supporters like this? Illegals basically wanting to turn America into Mexico. Nice. If it comes down to TRump vs Hillary, we have to go Trump. I’m sure he’ll settle down and surround himself with some great people. We’re not sure of what all he’ll do but we do know what Hillary will do. She’ll continue to shred the constitution, make govt bigger, and take more and more rights away from the people and continue to lie right to our face. The misses and I cannot believe that people would actually vote for someone that has repeatedly lied to us all. I’ll stop now, but the mere fact that it’s coming down to those two people show just how screwed up it is. Check this out from former Senator Tom Coburn.
“You’ve Lost Their Confidence” Tom Coburn Exhorts Congress “America Doesn’t Trust You Anymore”
As FreeBeacon.com’s Elizabeth Harrington reports, Coburn is leading a movement of more than 1 million activists working to hold a Convention of the States, allowed by Article V of the Constitution, to force Congress to balance the budget. He said 10 of 34 states needed have passed resolutions so far.
“I would just tell you a little of my background this last year in 2015 I spent my time in 21 different states,†Coburn told the committee. “And America doesn’t trust you anymore. That’s the truth. Because they don’t see the actions coming out of Congress that should be coming out.â€
“And that doesn’t mean that they’re right all the time, but you’ve lost their confidence,†he said. “And that’s not one party, that’s both. And so when you have hundreds of billions of dollars that could be saved and aren’t, and they know it. You know, they actually read your reports. People online, and then they use social media, pass it around.â€
“The important thing is to restore the confidence in the country what you’re doing, and why you’re doing it and how you’re doing it,†Coburn said.
“The unfunded liabilities of this country, with its debt, is $142 trillion,†he said. “That’s $1 million per family, or that’s $1 million per taxpayer. Nobody knows what a trillion is but when you’re telling a young family with small kids, ‘Oh, by the way, here’s the debt burden that’s coming to you over the next 25 years, you better be prepared for it.’â€
Coburn said “too much government†and “too intrusive a government†is to blame for median family incomes being the same size as in 1988. Throughout Coburn said Congress needs to stop focusing on fixing the symptoms but focus on fixing the disease. He called for a more simple and fairer tax code, which he said could eliminate 90,000 IRS agents, who make 77 percent more than the average American.
He pointed to Alexis de Tocqueville, quoting at length the French political philosopher’s Democracy in America, to explain the current upheaval in American politics and the presidential race.
“Some of you may have read it, some of you may not have, but it tells me where we are today in our country,†Coburn said. “And having been in 21 states the last year, and 15 already this year, and what I’m hearing, I’m hearing what Tocqueville described back in the late 1700s.â€
Coburn cited Tocqueville observations that centralized power of “small, complicated rules, minute and uniform†leads to the “will of man … not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided.â€
“Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd,†Coburn said, quoting Tocqueville.
“That to me in my experience, my opinion, is where we are today in our country,†Coburn concluded. “I think that’s why you see the presidential race that we’re seeing.â€