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Your Rights or Results: You Choose!

Your Rights or Results:  You Choose

You cannot have it both ways!

Every year in America, this “both ways” mentality gets worse and worse.  Somewhere along the line Americans started thinking that we could have all of our rights and freedoms and have expedient justice and results at the same time.  Well, I have to tell you:  YOU CANNOT.  There is a blend of the two that must be championed if we are going to continue being a successful country.

The mortgage crisis of late is one of the great disasters caused by this “have it both ways” mentality.  The government was constantly pressured by citizens and certain groups to make the mortgage lenders reduce their restrictions on getting mortgages so that more of the so-called “less fortunate” members of society could get homes.  In an effort to appease those activists, the mortgages were given out to those that could not afford them and did not deserve to have them.  As it turns out, as common sense would tell you, those mortgages are now not being paid.  Those that want it both ways are now saying the mortgage lenders are vicious, evil, greedy people who scammed and misled these “poor” people and are now foreclosing on them.  Keep in mind that this “crisis” is minuscule, being somewhere in the single digit percentages of all mortgages.  Now the government is being asked by the appeasers to bail everyone out.  Who will pay for this?  We all will.  BOTH WAYS?

Everyone is upset about domestic wire-tapping.  No one wants their rights and privacy violated.  I know narcissism plays a role in this as Americans actually think the government cares about what they are saying on the phone.  We all talk too much and listen too little.  I believe listening to the average American’s conversations would be the most boring job in the world.  I personally have nothing to hide; therefore, I do not care if someone listens to what I say on the phone.  This is a right I will gladly give up if it means catching terrorists or other criminals.  If you are a criminal, breaking the law, then you should not be dumb enough to discuss crimes on the phone or in an email.  What happens when there is a terrorist occurrence in America?  Those who want it both ways will say, “why did the government not see this and prevent it?”  BOTH WAYS?

The Jessica Lundsford case is a prime example of the “both ways” mentality.  Those same activists who would fight to defend John Couey’s right to not be illegally searched are now those who are joining the father in suing the police for not doing enough to find his daughter while she was still alive in Couey’s trailer.  He was a suspect.  The police could have done more.  Guess what?  They had to appease the ACLU and others due to political correctness.  If the police had searched his trailer, they would have been sued and people would have been fired, they did not, and now they are being sued.  How do you do the right thing in this case?  You don’t:  You are in America.  BOTH WAYS?

We train our Marines to “kill people and blow stuff up.”  When our Marines kill people and/ or blow stuff up in other countries the “both ways” crowd jumps in automatically trying to find ways to punish our Marines for crimes against humanity or any number of other rights violations.  I assume this is their way of saying that war and conflict is OK as long as no one gets hurt.  Countless military personnel have been killed in an attempt to keep from harming civilians, knowing that if they shot a civilian they would be in court explaining it.  BOTH WAYS?

The examples of the “both ways” mentality failing us could fill volumes.  Where do we draw the line between getting results and the protection of our rights?  We all want our rights.  We all want results when it comes to punishing crimes.  How do we draw the line?  There is no perfect system.  At times we have to give a little to get a lot.  I, for one, want results and will be glad to weaken my demand for my freedoms to get them.  I am extremely proud of our brave military, firefighters, police, and others who give their lives to protect my freedoms and rights to the best of their abilities while trying to appease the “both ways” crowd at the same time. 

Bear Brooks
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A Jackass at Every Turn!  How to Act Like an American When Everyone Around You Will Not!

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I’m With Stupid, But I’m All Alone!


I’m With Stupid, But I’m All Alone!

A politician’s self-evaluation.

I am a politician.  I have learned a few things about myself during my self-evaluation.  Here are a FEW things I have learned about myself after thinking about it for a while.

-I vote for bills that I have not read.

-I have my pages and secretaries read my bills for me and translate them to me.

-I do not vote with my beliefs, as I really do not have any of my own.

-I cannot make a decision, cast a vote, or answer any questions about any issue without checking with my party first.

-I vote for all of the pork I can get away with to buy votes.

-I know people will blindly follow me, no matter what I do, because of the D or R following my name at the ballot box.

-I know the average American will never know how I voted on issues.

-I believe America should never fight for ANYTHING unless it ends quickly and no one gets hurt, especially the enemy.

-I believe America is a great country because of our government, not because of great people or freedoms.

-I will vote for anything, in any way necessary, to go along with the party line, no matter what my personal beliefs are.

-I choose my beliefs based on polls.

-I may have voted for something last year, but this year I will be against it, because it is election time and I want those votes.

-I take all of the perks I can.

-I believe a budget shows what money HAS to be spent.  If there is a surplus, we will repave a road that does not need it.

-I believe purchases should be made with no logical decision about whether the price is right, as long as one of my constituents gets paid.

-I believe the rights of a few tree frogs are more important than the well being of people.

-I believe if ten people are offended by something then millions of others will have to change their lives to accommodate the wishes of those few.

-I believe it is better for me to spend time on renaming projects than to address more important issues facing America.

-I believe I do not need to show up for votes.

-I believe it is OK to accuse other politicians of wrongdoing in attempt to get a perjury conviction if they do not tell me what I want to hear.

-I believe all people have to be reliant on government so that I can stay in power.

-I believe over 50 percent of the population should not have to pay any taxes.  This will allow me to cater to them so that I will never lose power again.

-I believe in Socialism because it will get me more power, especially in schools and healthcare.

-I believe if we have nothing to do while in Congress we should make laws just to act like we accomplished something, no matter how silly the law is.

-I believe if a vote did not go my way then someone cheated, lied, or the machines were wrong, not that I possibly could have been the worse candidate.

-I believe we have to keep the IRS so that I will not lose power.


These are just a few things I have found out about myself and as I said, these are just a FEW of the things I believe in.  

I have to see my shrink now.

Oh, you want to know who I am?

I am YOUR politician.

If you are reading this nonsense, you need to be sure to educate yourself about your politicians, as everyone believes their politicians are great and it is the other politicians that are bad.  If you have a politician who has been in office for multiple terms you cannot blame the politician anymore, you have to blame the voters who keep putting that politician there.  A comfortable politician, who knows they will not get voted out of office, is a very, very bad thing.

2008 will be one of the most important elections of all time.  More importantly than anything, please get every informed person you can to get out and vote.  Friends, relatives, co-workers, or anyone else.  They will tell you that their vote will not count, but you can tell them that their vote will cancel out an ignorant vote of someone else.

Good luck,

Bear Brooks

Author of:
A Jackass at Every Turn!  How to Act Like an American When Everyone Around You Will Not!

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Boycott Al Sharpton and His Mindless Minions

Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are destroying race relations in America.  It seems that Sharpton and Jackson believe the first amendment only applies to the black population.  Sharpton is a bigot, Jackson has a love-child, and neither of them believes in what their so-called reverend titles would imply.  Reverends?  Of what?  The church of bigotry, hypocrisy, and hatred, maybe?  Jackson’s phrase was “himeytown”, Sharpton’s was “white interlopers” and “jewelry merchants”, and Chris Rock’s phrase is “crazyass crackers”.  Everything is fine and should not be punished if said by a black person.  I for one will stand up for their right to say the idiotic things they have said.  I may not agree with them, but I will face the fact that they have the right to say what they want.  The only “nappy-headed ho” in this whole issue is Sharpton.  Sharpton is prostituting himself in the name of racism.  What is his motive?  It seems Sharpton is playing his race card well on this issue.

This issue with Don Imus means nothing when it comes to the relations between blacks and whites.  You WILL get offended in America, get used to it.  The only people in this World deserving an apology from Don Imus are the basketball players he was speaking of.  These girls at Rutgers are not little pre-schoolers running around on the playground.  They are tougher than anyone is giving them credit for.  If Imus called one of these girls a “ho” in public they would jump on him and beat the hell out of him or they would stand the higher ground and call him a “crazyass cracker”.  Either choice would have been justified. 

Anyone with a functioning mind could determine from the context of the conversation that Imus was bantering back and forth with another host attempting to be funny.  It did not work.  Anyone that is paid to talk will eventually run out of intelligent thought at times.  This is what I believe happened as the context was basically a bunch of gibberish trying to fill airtime.  As a black man stated on one radio show, “the worst thing Imus could be criticized for is speaking Ebonics without certification”.  I do not condone what he said, but I do believe that there is no reason why this issue has become a race war with the black population.  Black people do not want a race war with white people, but Sharpton and Jackson do.  This will keep them in the media spotlight for a while.  This is what they do.

If Sharpton wants a race war, he can have one.  He just does not realize that this war will not be between blacks and whites; it will be between Americans that believe in the first amendment (Americans of all ethnic backgrounds) and those that only blindly follow their bigoted leader Sharpton.  Leaders of the NAACP have spoken out that they do not believe in what Sharpton is doing and that they believe in the first amendment.  Many other leaders in the black community have spoken out also that they do not believe this issue is an issue at all.  In America, being a capitalist and free society, people vote with their wallets and their feet.  If people do not like what a radio host says, they change the channel.  Do we need to call for all Americans who believe in the first amendment to boycott all of the spineless, weak-kneed sponsors of MSNBC who pulled out?  It makes me sad that these companies are bowing down to Sharpton in shame as if they had just slapped their mothers.  Do we need to boycott ANY company who sponsors or condones what Sharpton is doing?  I say not just yes, but HELL YES!

I believe any company or individual condoning this man attempting to divide America should be punished.  Forget the fact that Sharpton has scared them into submission.  Let the numbers speak for themselves.  Let these companies decide if they want to appease Sharpton and the other bigots that join with him or suffer from the vast majority of Americans of all backgrounds voting with their wallets.  Decide what you think is right and vote accordingly.

The major problem with this whole situation is perception.  Al Sharpton is still trying to make all black people think they are still victims in America.  I believe race relations would improve if these so-called black leaders would teach black people to stand up for themselves by improving themselves, not by playing the victim and blaming racism for every problem in their lives.  Many blacks have stated on the television news and radio shows that they do not have time for this issue as it does not bother them.  Why, you ask?  Because they are too busy leading their lives, supporting and enjoying their families, and trying to improve themselves by not bogging themselves down in the “victim mentality” that does nothing for black America. 

Bear “crazyass cracker” Brooks
Author of:
A Jackass at Every Turn!  How to Act Like an American When Everyone Around You Will Not!
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Government Wastes for Average Americans

Government wastes for average Americans.

    Americans are creating a disaster that will cause this country to fail.  What is it?  Ignorance!  Why is it happening?  Apathy and indifference!  How do we fix it?  Education.

    Ignorance is not a curse.  It does not mean you are an idiot.  The average American will want to punch you in the face if you call them ignorant.  Ignorance is the lack of knowledge about a certain subject.  We (meaning every single person alive) are all ignorant in many ways and we have to do our best to cure ourselves of this problem.

    Bear in mind, when I say the average American, I mean the greater majority of Americans who go out there every day and work to support their families, not the silver-spoon babies who do not worry about where their next paycheck is going.

    The average American will not buy a newspaper, much less read it.  The average American will not buy a book.  The average American gets all, if any of their news and information from only one source; the nightly news.  All we have to do is look at all of the ratings for these television and radio news programs, add with it the circulations of all the newspapers in America, and you will soon figure out that the vast majority of Americans do not get ANY news from ANY source.

    As you can see, there is a reason our wonderful politicians get away with robbery when it comes to spending our money.  They get away with it because the greater majority of us never hear about it.  We just keep chugging along in our daily lives.  We go to work.  We come home.  We try to enjoy our families.  We try to enjoy life, not bothering with the nonsense happening every day in Washington D.C..  The average American does not fully understand the severity and impact government wastes have on each and every American in the United States.  Every penny being wasted comes out of the taxpayer’s pockets.  I do not know about you, but I do not have money to throw away.

    The average American thinks it is just fine for the government to tax businesses and corporations because they think the government is taxing the rich.  The average American thinks it is wonderful that businesses and corporations lose in enormous lawsuits.  No one has told everyone in America that each and every dime taken away from a business or corporation will result in increased prices of goods and services.  These actions basically cause every dime in taxes and lawsuits levied on businesses to come out of the pockets of us ignorant Americans that do not know better.

    What can we do?  We have to educate the average Americans about what is happening in Congress and with our politicians.  How can we do it?  We need someone with a few friends to come up with a FREE newspaper or newsletter that can be viewed by every single person in America.  A FREE newspaper with no partisan politics, just the truth about how politicians are wasting our money and making decisions that the average American would think are idiotic.  How do we get this paper to every American economically?  We use the greatest distribution network in the World.  We get Wal-Mart to distribute the newspaper to their stores for free in exchange for free advertising in the newspaper.  The average American does go to Wal-Mart.  Why advertising, you ask?  The newspaper would have to be highly funded.  With such a litigious society as ours, thousands of fraudulent lawsuits would result after the truth gets out about all of the fraud and robbery being perpetrated on us by our wonderful politicians.  It would also take a great deal of money to print 200 million newspapers or more every time it gets distributed.

    As you can see, I have just offered up a great idea to anyone willing to take it to task.  Advertising would sell out instantly if priced correctly.  Where else in advertising could a company get exposure to that many people?  Nowhere.  I believe the idea would work; it would just take some open-minded people to get it started.
           
    You may be asking yourself, why would anyone waste their time with this?  The result of getting the truth of government wastes exposed is that we would actually be able to get the information to the people that can repair the situation; the voters.  Information to the vast majority of voters that do not get ANY news could actually start a grass-roots movement to throw these wasteful politicians out of office.  Ignorant voters blindly keep voting these wasteful pork and barrel politicians into office.

    We can fix government wastes if we start at the bottom.  Get the information to the voters and you will soon see an uprising to change America for the better.  Can you think of a better idea?  If so, try it.  We cannot continue being ignorant.  We cannot allow this waste to continue and expect America to continue being the greatest economic power in the World.

Bear Brooks
Author of:
A Jackass at Every Turn!  How to Act Like an American When Everyone Around You Will Not!

 
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The six degrees of separation and the collaboration of obfuscation

The six degrees of separation and the collaboration of obfuscation.

Politicians and the people that help them stay in power seem to be more closely related than we think.  We just have to dig a little deeper to find out how.  The “six degrees of separation” theory is more pertinent than previously believed.  This “six degrees of separation” is a theory of the association of people through fewer and fewer connections, or the game based on how any actor can be related through six or fewer connections to Kevin Bacon.  Well, as it turns out, this theory can also be used to connect our wonderful politicians, their friends, contributors, spouses, and to others. This theory allows us to trace the money and power trail back to every prior decision they have ever made.

Our politicians and their associates are not stupid (at least we hope not), it just seems that way.  They are forward looking individuals and groups who know what needs to be done today to scare people into submission and in turn get their programs in place for their long term plans for tomorrow.  Every bill, every cause they promote, and every movement they make seem to make the average American think that politicians are just idiots, but there is always a long term agenda that we are unaware of.

Is there man-made Global warming?  The sun is hotter than ever, Mars is hotter than ever, and it is a provable fact that volcanoes alone have contributed more sulfur, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide into our atmosphere than humans have, or will ever.  Mt. St. Helens had ash falling all over the country.  Cow flatulence was the next to blame, then meat eaters, who is next?  The preachers of this hidden agenda have money and notoriety to gain.  You can do research on any person claiming that global warming is man made and you will see why they are preaching this nonsense.  Al Gore claims he is buying “carbon offsets” to make himself “carbon neutral”.  From what I have heard, he is basically buying shares of a company that pushes these “greener earth” programs, which in turn, rewards him monetarily as if he were investing in the stock market.  Basically, you need to look down the road as Mr. Gore has and find out where he is going with this.  Every scientist has grants, funding, and contributors requiring him or her to keep going with what they believe is true.  Dig deeper and you will find out what the relation is. 

Why is Congress issuing fishing expeditions for perjury convictions without a law being broken in the first place?  What is the motivation?  Is it power or is it bragging rights looking forward to the next elections?  Who are the benefactors for such moves?  This is not a partisan issue as they all do it.  It has been wrong in every case, no matter which party was in control at the time. 

Why are they taxing businesses to buy art for a city, such as in Atlanta?  $10 million to purchase art?  Trace the money and find out where it goes.  Who charges the city for labor and material overages?  How much goes to the artists?  Who contributes to the politicians campaign funds and gives them perks?  How much will get wasted before any of this garbage gets placed around our city in the name of art?  Do you know what you get when you polish garbage?  YOU GET SHINY GARBAGE.

Follow the money trail, follow the power, and you will find the corruption and the underlying meaning for all of the idiotic decisions made by politicians that us average Americans have no control over and do not understand.  Each American out there needs to be their own watchdog on every issue they read or hear about.  Politicians have spouses, parents, children, relatives, business partners and others who also have spouses, parents, children, relatives, business partners, and others who all spin the web in millions of other directions to make politics one great collaboration of obfuscation.

Be a skeptic, if that is what you want to call it.  More importantly than anything, you have to be able to ask the question to these politicians, WHY!  Why spend all of our money on such foolishness?  I want the TRUTH.  It is our money; let us keep some of it.

Thank you and GOOD LUCK,

Bear Brooks

Author of:

A Jackass at Every Turn!  How to Act Like an American When Everyone Around You Will Not!

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The Pork Barrels and Their Pork Bellies

The Pork Barrels and Their Pork Bellies

This will be a little unsettling to a lot of people. These jackasses are the people who decided a long time ago that their ambition in life was to work for the good old U.S. government. I will briefly describe them and then give you a solution or at least a plan to prevent yourself from becoming a jackass too.

First and foremost is our esteemed Mr. Bill Clinton. We all know he received “special attention” from his intern while in the White House. I will be the first American to say this: I do not care whether Clinton received a BJ while he was president. Do you really think he is the first U.S. president to receive sexual favors from women? As with any powerful or public figure, you have to understand that women actually throw themselves at these men. Women have half the money and all the… Women have the greatest power in regards to having sex; they decide when it will happen and if it will happen. If a women wants to go out and have sex, all she has to do is go to a bar and pick any man from a group, look at his finger for a wedding band (single men are easier), and go for it. Unless she is butt ugly, odds are she will be going home with someone else. A man who brags to his buddies, “Hey guys, I’m going to get laid tonight,” and goes to the same bar will come out alone and end up alone masturbating that same evening at home. If you believe that Clinton had to pursue this woman, then you are too naïve to vote anyway, and this book will not make any sense to you.

I think Clinton is a jackass because of the list of wrongdoings and lies he committed and because of the failures he achieved as our president. Whether you believe it or not, he deserves a personal life just like the rest of us; however, the rest of us, I hope, are not cheating on our wives. We all know that what he received was not “sex” though, because he said so. Mr. I-Got-Mine, Now-You-Get-Yours-Elsewhere has our little daughters and sons believing oral sex is not sex. We are now hearing reports of girls allowing boys to have anal sex with them because they believe that anal sex allows them to retain their virginity. What a crock! We did not need to spend millions just to prove he cheated on his wife; his lies and perjury are a different story. As for Clinton’s political views, we see these failures come out of the woodwork on a weekly basis. The jury is still out on Mr. Bush.

Mrs. Clinton, on the other hand, will be running for president in 2008, and she will probably win. This woman stood by her man through sex scandals and a thousand other ridiculous issues while she was probably thinking, “What a jackass.” She was just biting her tongue, waiting for her chance to jump into the spotlight. She did jump into the senate and, while still in office, signed and got advanced money on her book, all the while skirting the laws against public officials receiving money for book deals. She timed it just right, so that the deal wouldn’t be sent to court. You have to understand that more than 50 percent of the population is female, and the majority of these women will put their beliefs aside just to see a woman in the White House. Add these women to the other ignorant party-line voters out there, and she will be a shoo-in. This will of course backfire in the long run, as they will soon find out this lady’s plans for America. This woman wants America to be a Socialist society in which everyone relies on government for everything. She does not want Americans thinking for themselves or being responsible for their own actions. She wants the government to handle all health care, just like it does in other countries. She neglects to tell you that in these other countries it takes several months just to see a doctor for a routine procedure. Other countries have people dying because they cannot get the medical attention they need. She also neglects to tell you that her plan will not let you see the doctor you want. You will not be allowed to pay for a quicker service out of your own pocket because that would be antisocialist.

No one will tell you that we are paying more than $350,000 for Bill Clinton’s office space in Harlem, New York. We will spend more on his office than we have for any other president in history. Not just a little more but a massive amount more. Does the mainstream media tell the general public that while Bill Clinton was president he told the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to treat any plane his wife was on like Air Force One? There is no telling how much it cost American taxpayers to hold airplanes and passengers at the airport gates while waiting on Mrs. Clinton.

I will get off the Clintons now, because it would take me several books to detail all their wrongdoings, including the ones we have not yet seen. Look over your shoulder. As we all know, the government is full of hypocrites and jackasses. So, we will continue on into the meat of the issues.

Lawmakers are jackasses. If the Constitution of the United States were written today, it would be more than 1,000 pages long. Maybe our forefathers needed the extra paper for the outhouse or something. First and foremost, why do we have so many laws? No human in the world could possibly attempt to learn even 10 percent of the laws on the books. How could the average American know and abide by them? There are more laws than there are people in some areas. It takes over a thousand pages of studies, claims, statements, and details to make one simple law. One set of laws overlaps others, some laws step on top of others, and some just completely contradict others. We do not need a different set of laws for every single level of government, all the way down to the sewer authority. Why can we not have one set of laws for Americans at the federal level and let the lower jurisdictions follow these and alter them to fit their particular situations? This way, if you have a federal law, it is still in effect in East Bumblefudge, New Jersey, or wherever you may live. A perfect example is the Alabama state Constitution that contradicts the U.S. Constitution in some areas. Ask Judge Moore about it.

Why are there so many stupid laws on the books? Who was the rocket scientist that came up with the law that you cannot have sex with corpses or dead animals? Is the general public that stupid? Laws also get in the way of common sense, as they did in the California forest fires. As soon as one of the forest fires started, there was a helicopter full of water within five minutes from the fire, at which point they had to turn back because of a law that says state choppers must be grounded at dusk. What a shame that a stupid regulation caused billions of dollars in damage to California. Lets go make some more laws.

Consider: oral sex is illegal with your spouse in some states. You are not allowed to have sex in a butcher’s freezer. You cannot milk another person’s cow. Liquor stores cannot sell milk. Drive-up ATMs must have Braille on them. You cannot drive blindfolded. You cannot bathe two babies in the same tub. You cannot talk dirty during sex, and only the missionary position is legal. Men cannot wear gowns in some areas. You cannot shoot game animals from moving vehicles. The list goes to no end.

What makes members of Congress think it is just fine to give themselves a raise? With the economy in shambles, bankruptcies up, unemployment high, and everything in disarray, they find it a great time to raise their paychecks. I did not get a raise; did you? There are so many companies on the verge of bankruptcy, yet they are paying their CEOs millions of dollars in extra benefits. I will explain more of this in a later section. What part of economics did I miss? Do they think if you pay them more they will do a better job? This never works in the real world. Members of Congress must be special!

Political party affiliations are for jackasses. I will start this off by stating an unknown fact: the Democrats are not for the poor, and neither are the Republicans for the rich. Both parties have one goal in mind: to stay in power in any way they can. All laws, bills, actions, and other legal matters that politicians have wasted time on are slanted toward protecting their party. Every news article or report is slanted, so the facts favor their party whether or not it is true. Winning is everything to politicians.

Democrats are jackasses. They believe they are the only ones that know how to spend your money. The Democrats want everyone on welfare, Social Security, and other programs so that when everyone is reliant on the government, they will never lose power. They want to control your economic life but want you to have some control over your personal matters. Democrats want more environmental laws. They want no gay marriages, but they want gays to have the same rights as married couples. They want strong gun control. The party wants socialized, government-controlled health care. They want to hold hands with other countries preaching peace. They want abortion to be legal. They want education to be controlled by the government, to fail more children in the future. They want to keep the failure of a Social Security system. They want more people to be on welfare.

Republicans are jackasses. They do, however, want more self-reliance in economic matters, fewer taxes, and less self-control over your personal lives. The rich just happen to benefit as a result of lower taxes. Republicans want to be more self-sufficient with our environment and our natural resources. They are against gay marriage and benefits. They do not want more gun control. They want a free market system for health care. Republicans want a stronger military and a missile defense system to protect us. They are against abortion. They want to allow free choice in education and to strengthen discipline in schools with zero tolerance (which is a joke). They want to privatize the Social Security system and privatize welfare so churches will distribute money to the needy.

Libertarians want you to have freedom in both your economic and personal matters. To Libertarians, less government is more. They want the United States to responsibly get our own natural resources. They want gays to have the freedom to be so if they desire. They want no gun laws and a free market health-care system. They want to stay out of foreign affairs that do not pertain to America. They believe the government should stay out of the abortion debate. The Libertarians want to privatize education and the Social Security system. They also believe churches and individuals should be responsible to give money to the needy.

Most Americans have no idea which party they actually believe in. They believe what they hear on the news and other television shows. Before you decide which party you belong to, you need to research all the parties and all the issues and choose one that best fits your beliefs. Do not say you are a Democrat because your parents were; that is ignorant. Get on the Internet and see for yourself how you feel by taking the world’s smallest political quiz (www.boortz.com is one location). This quiz is all over the Internet, and most people are surprised to find out they are actually Libertarian when they thought they were Democrat or Republican. Choosing a party used to come down to deciding between the lesser of two evils, but now you have a real choice, with several other parties to pick from. Good luck with whichever party you choose.

Wasteful spenders in the government are jackasses. I think before the government can spend any money on nonstandard issues, they should have to notify the public (in a well-publicized manner) of what they plan to do. Not that I would dare believe in mob rule, but public notification would give the people a chance to chew on their elected officials before such a vote could occur. A republic such as ours should not let our elected officials run rampant with our money without our knowledge. Why did a previous secretary of defense stay at the Beverly Hills Four Seasons Hotel at a cost of more than $10,000 to the American taxpayers? Such waste. I do not know how you feel, but I do not understand how we are spending millions of dollars studying the mating habits of brown bears or the life cycles of tree frogs, when we have other important issues facing America. Find somewhere else to blow it, or do away with these useless programs, and watch our budget get back in the black really quickly. If the government wants to blow money that badly, just send me $500,000, and I will tell you what tree frogs do. They are born, eat, sleep, sh*t, mate, and die…same as humans. Where is my money?

Consider this:

· $3.6 million was spent to create a wall to keep frogs from getting killed on the highway in Florida

· Another $3.6 million went to team building exercises for the postal service

· $1.8 million was spent to study how algae act in hot water

· $9.5 million went to fund studies on wood

· $170 million was spent to hand out condoms all over the world

· $4 million went to study shrimp

· $1 million went to study oysters

· $8.5 million went to study monk seals and sea turtles

Our Advanced Technology Program gives hundreds of millions of dollars away every year to the biggest corporations in America, such as IBM, GE, Ford, GM, and many others. Can you believe our government is giving tax dollars to the richest companies in America? See the Heritage Foundation (www.heritage.org) and Citizens Against Government Waste (www.cagw.org) for more details. When will this stupidity stop?

The basic financial concept is the same in any business (and that is what our government is): if you cut spending, you will increase the bottom line. Any amount you do not spend goes directly to the net profit column. Some politicians think a budget is an outline showing what must be spent. This is not the case. Budgets are guidelines on what you think it will cost to run a business. Just because you have budgeted to spend x amount of money on building and improving roads, that does not mean at the end of the fiscal year you go out and start repaving roads that do not need repaving (this is how it happens where I live) just to use all the money. We have roads full of potholes, a poor drainage system, poor street lighting, poor traffic control, and numerous other dangerous situations, and we find our wonderful government repaving a road that was fine just to spend the money.

The voting system is run by jackasses. Do you know why we cannot vote on the weekends? Voting on weekends would favor Republicans. Currently, the people most likely to get to the polls are retired people, unemployed people, government workers, and welfare recipients. These people are usually the ones coddled by Democrats. Democrats know that the typical Republican voter usually works on Tuesday or drives fifty miles to work and has a hard time getting to the polls. When you have businesses to run or jobs that really need you to be there, it is hard to take time off to vote. The lines are too long, the locations too few, and the system is in shambles no matter which way you look at it. As for the voting procedures such as hanging chads and so forth, if you are too stupid to figure out a polling booth, you need to be at home playing shuffleboard, or whatever it is you know how to do. Do not turn up after the results are not what you wanted and say you were disenfranchised or something stupid. The only thing keeping you from the polls is yourself or your eight children. Do not blame anyone else for not being able to vote. It is your responsibility.

Ignorant voters are jackasses. If you have no idea about the issues or the candidates, you need to stay at home. An ignorant vote cancels out a well-informed vote every time. This just puts the voting results on how many stupid people go to the polls. Let the people who know what is going on vote on the candidates.

Party-line voters are jackasses. If you go into the polls and vote straight down the line for either Democrats or Republicans, you are stupid. Stay home. Once again, you are canceling out someone else’s well-informed vote. If you would look at the issues and the candidates, you would figure out that neither all Republicans nor all Democrats have all the answers. There are always cases in which a Republican voter finds that a Democratic candidate would do a much better job. A perfect example is Democratic Senator Zell Miller from Georgia. Republican voters vote for Miller over their own Republican candidate all the time. He is not afraid to go against the Democratic Party to stand up for what he believes in. This is something you never see in politics. You need to go into that polling booth and read the names of the candidates for each office. If you do not know either one of the candidates, do not vote on that office. All you are doing is supporting the failures of the voting system. We have intelligent voters going to the polls, knowing that their votes will not count but will just cancel out the ignorant votes. When someone tells you, “My vote won’t count,” tell them, “Yes, it will. It will cancel out a stupid vote.”

Property rights abusers are jackasses. We hear too many cases of someone losing their land because some local government official decides that their land would be of better use belonging to a corporation or to themselves. Just as well, this program of eminent domain would not work with the masses. In some cases, we need to sell our property (at a fair market price) to the government. I do not think a corporation should be able to convince the local government that they would get more tax revenue if the corporation owned it. I do not think tax revenue should ever be the issue when trying to take someone’s land. I can understand in the case of needing to build a new road to ease traffic congestion or a lake to build power generators due to population increases but never just to make more money. Big corporations can get their land the way everyone else does: overpay for it.

Anyone keeping our failing tax system in place is a jackass. The average American works over three months in one year to cover their yearly tax bill. I know taxes are a necessary evil, but we need to revamp this system now! The biggest problem is the politicians spawning ignorance among the voters. The people think a 10 percent tax cut across the board is giving something extra to the rich. This is stupid. 10 percent is 10 percent. A $400 tax refund means nothing to a millionaire, but it means a great deal to a normal working family of four. This is the same situation, only reversed. I do not know about you, but the tax refund check I received in 2003 helped me a great deal. I know the average American family does not make over $40,000 a year.

As with any other government plan, there are abuses within the system. A prime example: toll roads. Toll roads are supposed to take a tax burden off the citizens. The roads are supposed to take tolls until the road building is paid for, and then it reverts back to a normal road. This is not the case in any area I have seen. Someone figured out that they could keep charging tolls and use the money elsewhere to benefit them in another way. You hear stories of toll road money being used miles away to purchase land for other projects. Let the people keep their money.

Why are our tax laws thousands of pages long? Should it be that difficult to figure out that you make an income on wages, home sale profits, stock profits, or any other profit, and you should pay x percent of that income as taxes. Why does the average American need to pay (with money they do not have) for a tax professional to do tax paperwork? If you are like me, you do not have a thousand pages of tax documents. You probably have one W-2 form to fill out, a house, maybe two cars, and numerous children. It should be simple. There is too much room in the laws for cheaters and crooks to manipulate the system.

Don’t tell anyone about the fair tax system because it makes too much sense. If you are unaware, there have been bills put in Congress to revamp our tax system with a fair tax plan. This tax plan would basically let you keep 100 percent of your paycheck. You would only pay taxes on items you’ve purchased. They are trying the fair tax system now in Iraq. The rate is set at only 15 percent. Ours is about 23 percent. The fair tax system would take the burden off of the companies producing goods. This would allow them to drop prices 20 to 30 percent because they would not have to pay taxes. Everyone would get a rebate check every month based on the size of their family to take the tax burden off the poor. You would not pay this tax on used items such as homes and cars. This system has many opponents, especially those in government who love to be in power. This 23 percent would cover the cost of all aspects of government, including Social Security and Medicare. See www.fairtax.org for more information. Neal Boortz and John Linder have a book about this plan, guaranteed to cure your ignorance on the issue.

The people in charge of our borders are jackasses. Our borders are our first line of defense against evil coming into our country. We should not have to worry every day about who is entering our country with drugs, weapons, or other illegal items. We have no enforcement at our borders. There are hundreds upon hundreds of miles of unguarded, ungated border along the Mexican border. The Canadian border is a joke too, but we have not had a vast amount of Canadians pouring into our country. In Mexico, we have hundreds of people dying every year while trying to cross the border in desert areas. If you are not aware, the desert gets blistering hot during the day and ice cold at night. In the southwestern United States, there are citizens leaving food and water out for Mexicans crossing the border so they will not die.

In California, the previous governor was attempting to give illegal aliens the right to a driver’s license. The next logical step after this is the right to vote. Does anyone else see a problem with this? California already has a budget crisis, and the politicians in California want to start giving illegal aliens rights. This will be a never-ending program of giveaways that California cannot afford. The biggest reason for these programs is so that politicians can get illegal aliens to vote for them. I have no problem with anyone coming to America legally. Diversity is what makes this country great. We will never live in a perfect society in which everyone always gets along, but we can try to get along with one another.

The next argument is that illegal aliens contribute to our society. This may be the case, but illegal aliens do not contribute to the current tax system that will be supporting them with free health care and benefits. They may contribute to beer, wine, and cigarette sales, but they do not pay taxes. Legal aliens pay their taxes. Is this fair? Illegal aliens work at places like construction sites, chicken-processing plants, and so forth that do not take taxes out of their paychecks because these organizations pay them in cash or personal checks. Is this fair to other Americans paying over 30 percent of their income in taxes? There is another argument against illegal aliens’ work wages. They work below minimum wage laws, and this hurts other Americans trying to support their families. The minimum wage in America is far higher than what the majority of people in Mexico will ever earn. Some people will say these people with low-paying jobs in America should just get better educated so they will not have to compete with the illegal aliens; but that will never happen. The world will always be full of jobs that have to be performed cheaply. Manure will always have to be shoveled. If I had no job, I would be glad to shovel manure to put food on the table if I had to. When it comes down to it, there is no job in the world that is beneath you. You just have to work harder to keep yourself out of that situation.

The people in charge of foreign aid and policies are jackasses. This is a very aggravating issue to many Americans. The normal American, like myself, wonders every day why all of our tax money goes away to other countries. Even countries that hate us with a passion get millions of our dollars in aid and assistance. We have homeless and needy people in America, and we keep wasting money giving to other countries. I can understand helping to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan. How many billions of dollars are wasted? How many homeless shelters could be built with that money? Just think, we could build a homeless motel with 200 to 300 rooms in every major city in the United States with all the money that is thrown away. The homeless people could work for the upkeep of the motels to earn their keep.

Another foreign-aid failure is our stupidity in selling weapons to other countries. How long will it take politicians to figure out that our own weapons keep getting used against us? Do they not understand that the Clinton administration sold major nuclear weapon and intelligence plans to China? Do they understand that this is going to bite us on the backside?