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?

The people causing our jobs to be exported are jackasses. Large corporations do not open large offices overseas and directly offshore for the scenic ocean view. Large companies open offices elsewhere to cut down on taxes and over regulation by our government. We do not make it favorable for these companies to keep their offices, factories, and warehouses in America. Keep America employed first.

Whoever is really in charge of our public works system is a jackass. Only in America will you see people paving roads that do not need to be paved and leaving roads right beside them riddled with potholes. Roads are too narrow and prone to flooding, and there are numerous other problems; however, we continue to do unneeded work with too many workers. Look around you and think of all that we waste for a minute. I was on the road the other day, and I saw clusters of halogen lights on eighty-foot poles lighting the exit ramps and entrance ramps of a rural road thirty miles outside of Atlanta, Georgia. This is the only road on I-75 in the area with lighting of any kind. Not to mention that halogen lamps cost 50 percent more to operate than the traditional vapor lights. They are not just lighting the roadway but every foot of the entrance and exit ramps. They are powering over twenty-four halogen lamps per ramp (ninety-six lamps total) on a road that I have never seen a pedestrian go through.

Do road builders not understand that curves should be banked to the inside of the curve? Other countries seem to understand this strange concept. We have a great deal of road deaths every year because some rocket scientist figured we should build roads with curves that are flat or roll outward. How many more people have to die before they figure this out?

The people in charge of the prison system are jackasses. Why is more money spent to house a prisoner than some people live on in a year? We have people living on $12,000 a year, but the government figures it pays over $20,000 a year per prisoner. Where is all of this waste coming from? Maybe we should quit spoiling them with televisions, bodybuilding equipment, exercise mats, good food, or whatever makes their lives miserable. No one said prison was supposed to be a country club. If food costs are the problem, hire someone to bring the food in for cheaper. As for this ridiculous death row nonsense, I, along with the majority, want to know why it takes over a quarter century to put someone to death after a conviction. I think in an open-and-shut case, with very strong evidence, the death sentence should be carried out within a year. If you have proof on video or a mob of witnesses, and there is no doubt they committed the crime, kill them quickly. Brian Nichols, the judge killer from Atlanta, pleaded not guilty after shooting a judge, a court reporter, and two police officers. His case will take forever. Why? There is no question of his guilt or innocence. He is a murderer, and I think in this type of case, you skip the trial and go straight to the sentencing phase. It does not matter if he says he was insane or not. You do the crime, you do the time. There should be no reasoning to explain why he would commit this type of a crime. I personally do not care why he is crazy. He is a worthless piece of trash and needs to pay for his crimes. He needs to stand in front of the Atlanta police force and get shot in the stomach, slowly, time after time, until he dies. Shooting him in the head would be too quick and too painless. A year is more than enough time to exhaust any appeals and beg the governor for forgiveness. After that, you have to go!

Those in charge of making federal holidays are jackasses. We do not need a federal holiday every single time someone important dies. Government employees already have more days off during the year than do other Americans. Who do you think pays for all these holidays? That’s right, you do!

We do not need to rename every road on the federal highway system after someone. Do we need to rename every hospital after someone? When I die, put my name on an urn and throw it in the ocean; that will be your tribute to me. Do the people who make these changes understand the costs to you and to every other taxpayer? Every business, person, and entity on that road has to get all new letterheads, envelopes, address stamps, bank records, checks, and not to mention business cards for all their employees. The business ultimately passes these costs onto you, in the form of higher prices for whatever product or service they are selling. If you get a chance take a look at the bills Congress is debating on, usually there will be over fifty different bills on renaming projects. What a colossal waste of time and money!

Am I the only person in America who thinks it is ridiculous to name an airport (Atlanta–Hartsfield) after a dead mayor, then try to rename it after another mayor dies? This is not the way it should be. What are you supposed to tell the grieving relatives of the person you are taking the legacy away from? Oh no, we were only renaming the airport after your husband for twenty years, then giving it to someone else. Did you know that after you are dead for twenty years, everything you are remembered for gets taken away? Some people seem to think so. It does not matter who was the greater person. I think it is disgraceful to dishonor someone in this manner.

The people looking after our inner cities are jackasses. How hard is it to pass a law that says if you own a building in the downtown area, you have to choose to keep it in good condition, sell it, or tear it down? Am I being simpleminded? I do not think so. We spend millions of dollars making laws with thousands of pages, but something this simple could be written on one sheet of paper. Make it the “clean it, junk it, or sell it” law. I ought to right laws for a living. One last note: you cannot rename a street infested with hookers and crime and make it sound sweet and innocent.

The war in the East is full of jackasses; none of which are the soldiers. To all you antiwar crybabies, you have to decide if you want to fight terrorism in the Middle–East, or do you want to fight them in downtown New York, Dallas, Los Angeles, or your hometown. Sometimes you have to stand up for yourself, and I believe we are doing that by not letting them scare us into submission.

Did you know our soldiers have to find their own way home after fighting for our country? They take them to an eastern U.S. airport, pat them on theass, and say “See you in two weeks.” I am one American who thinks this is just idiotic. Millions are spent on a single warhead, but nothing is spent to get the soldiers home to their families.

The Democratic Party is really making an assof themselves in regards to the war. All we ever hear about is: where are the weapons of mass destruction (WMD)? Did any of the Democrats ever hear of the scorched-earth tactic in war that has been used for centuries to screw up the aggressors? When and if we do ever find WMD in Iraq, the Democrats or the liberal media will spin it into a new lie, saying that Bush staged it, and that we planted the weapons. Everyone knows he had WMD; he used them to murder thousands of northern Iraqi dissidents. Do you think Saddam Hussein is dumb enough to be caught with them? I don’t. Hussein may be a nutcase dictator and murderer, but he is not stupid. Everyone in Iraq was so afraid of him that not one person, not one, voted against him in their election. You have to be pretty powerful and intelligent to screw a whole country over and smile while doing the screwing. It would have taken only one bullet to solve this situation, long before it escalated to this point. Someone decided years ago that U.S.-sponsored assassinations were illegal, but that does not mean someone else could not have performed this gift to society.

Does anyone in America know why all the European countries, such as France and Germany, hate us unless they need something or need someone to come to their rescue? France and Germany loved us during the World Wars but not now. Only until this terrorist war shows up on their soil, will they hate us. When the war on terrorism shows up in their countries, they will be squealing to the United States and the United Nations, “Help us, we love you!” Everyone you hear about in the news media shows hatred toward Americans. Whether it is out of jealousy, lack of freedom, tyranny, or whatever, these countries show hatred, most likely born out of ignorance. In eastern countries, the burning of the American flag seems to be a pastime. These countries preach hatred toward us, but their countries have thousands of our troops helping and protecting them. It seems to me that Germany is a second home to all the armed forces personnel. Everyone I know or have heard of in the armed forces has done their time in Germany. Why do we not get our troops out and let these countries fend for themselves? I think all our troops that are in countries that hate us would be better appreciated here in the United States, where they are needed more. Could we actually secure our borders with extra troops? No, that would make too much sense. I am not saying bring all the troops home but reduce the numbers according to each individual situation.

If the American people will think for a while about the issues in this book and act intelligently and not emotionally, we will still push for Republicans and Libertarians and still head uphill on this roller-coaster economy ride we have been riding in the past.

Good Luck!

Bear Brooks

Author of “A Jackass at Every Turn”