Cut the Fat/Build a Monorail

This is what I'm talking about. The President said he is going to direct his cabinet to find wasteful programs and cut them. Bravo! I applaud that effort. I'll give them a head start-federal funding of abortions (I should really get off that single cause lest I be labeled a right wing extremist terrorist).

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The President, who wants to cut wasteful spending, announced he wants to spend $13 billion on high speed trains. I'm of the opinion that an industry that is highly subsidized by the government today should not be given $13 billion. Public transportation, as much as I've appreciated it when I've had the need for it, doesn't support itself at all.

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I know there are probably dozens of subsidized programs that I've benefited from through the years, but this is a matter of principle for me. If a service cannot be supported by the free market, should I have to support it with my tax dollars? Should anyone? If something is truly needed, won't the free market find a way to provide it? I think so, assuming the government stays out of the way, or merely protects the rights of free people to make their own choices.

This notion of letting the free market work itself out is probably a little simplistic, but the alternative is a bunch of elected officials pretending they know best how to spend my money. They don't.

They Should Be Ashamed

Ok, maybe Obama didn't refer to Palin, but those folks behind him took it that way. And did you see the way they gleefully cheered? What were they thinking? "Hey, the man we want to elect president just said a lady was a pig! Ha ha ha (clap, clap, clap)! Our guy's so smart."

Is there anyone that agrees with their candidate 100% of the time? If there are, Obama found them, and put them in the audience. Was there a pre-speech instruction, like a judge educating a bunch of jurors? "Ok, you're instructed to clap and whoop it up any time Obama pauses. Even if you think Obama just called a lady a Max Factor wearing swine, you go crazy."

Maybe there was an applause light there we couldn't see, and the crowd was just responding to that. After all, who wouldn't start snoozing once Obama starts going on with his four more years of Bush, more that, more this, fail policy this, change that,,,,afmf;lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll...Oh sorry, I fell asleep typing that. Well, you can see why the audience would need one of those lights to wake them up. "What, huh, the lights on? Oh! Ha ha ha! Whoooo! You go Obama!"

It's come to this, Obama doesn't want to oppose abortion, he doesn't want to uncover a source of energy THAT WE ALREADY KNOW WORKS, he wants to soak the rich (but only because he believes that sounds good to us working stiffs and might garner a couple of votes) and on and on, and when he loses the election we'll say, "Well, he shouldn't have called Palin a pig."