The News of the Week

   It has been quite a week on the Republican Primary Campaign trail. Mitt Romney wins New Hampshire and Capitalism is put on trial by his rivals, Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry. Wow! The liberal media sure loves this turn of events.

An Iranian nuclear scientist is killed by a bomb placed under his car and President Obama condems the action (hmm, doth he protest too much?) in a message sent to the spiritual leader of Iran, Seyyed Ali Khomenei. I thought we didn't have any open lines of communication with State sponsored Terrorist countries. I wonder how he pulled that one off.

The "Campaigner-in Chief" decides he needs more executive power from Congress to consolidate 6 government agencies into 1. Election year politics, or a genuine concern about government inefficiency? You decide. Oh, and we need to raise the debt ceiling again by 1.2 Trillion dollars.

Poor Michelle Obama doesn't have a clue as to why anyone would call her an "Angry Black Women". Let's see, "For the first time in my adult life I'm proud of my country".

The White House does a "Document Dump" late Friday afternoon with a 3 day weekend on the way. There is evidence in these documents that the White House made sure Solyndra didn't proceed with the layoffs of 200 employees until after the midterm elections in 2010. There is also evidence of some other sketchy loans that will make Solyndra look like chump change! ( You won't hear about this one on NBC, CBS, or ABC)

  The Department of Homeland Security is regularly monitoring social media sites such as "Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace", as well as video and photo sharing sites such as "You Tube, Hulu and Flickr" for "Situational Awareness" to make sure terrorists aren't plotting something using the internet. I wonder if they aren't also monitoring for anything negative being said about BHO, just a thought.

Why Doesn't The President Have Any COMMON SENSE?

Okay, lets think about this mess we're in financially in this country. I'm going to apply some common sense ideas and tell me why our politicans can't come to these same conclusions, if you can.
If a wage earner in a normal American family has their hours cut, is laid off, or God forbid fired, what do MOST sensible people do? I think I would evaluate the situation, see how much of a deficit the family is facing and then go to work at cutting what can be cut.

For example:

1. Cell Phones: cut the plan minutes, cut the internet and text messaging
   
2. Cable and Satellite TV: cut out the movie channels, scale down to the basics
3. Fast Food: eliminate it
4. Grocery Shopping: stop buying junk, candy, chips, etc.
5. Credit Cards: stop buying things that aren't "Free"! Credit card rates are going up, up, up and especially if you are losing income you can't afford higher monthly payments
6. Entertainment: Stop going out to movies, restaurants, bars, etc. It may make you feel good for the short term, but so will renting a movie for $4.99 and making a pizza with the family

I'm hoping you get the idea. But apparently our politicians don't! How in the world can they think that spending, spending, spending and especially on borrowed money that they don't have, can make things better?? Definitely food for thought..