I just dis­cov­ered this Debt Clock which is one of those things that you really do need to see to get its impact.  Words fail.  So, hav­ing said that I will shut up and pro­vide a link… EXCEPT (sur­prise, sur­prise) to say that it is no rev­e­la­tion to see that reg­u­lar cit­i­zens really do get it and the politi­cians really don’t.  All cat­e­gories of pri­vate debt are going down and all cat­e­gories of pub­lic debt are going up.

It’s pretty scary, because our GDP is going up and up and so are the tax rev­enues at the state and fed­eral lev­els and the debt at those lev­els is going up even faster.  No mat­ter how much is brought in more goes out.  It’s like we’re going down a steep hill in a fully-loaded truck with no brakes. It’s hard to believe these politi­cians even pre­tend they’re work­ing for our best interests.

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Demo­c­ra­tic con­gress­man opposes Gitmo move — because it would upset the Muslims

Today’s adver­tise­ment for term lim­its is 17-term con­gress­man Demo­c­rat Ike Skel­ton of Missouri.

He heads the House Armed Ser­vices Committee.

He wrote Defense Sec­re­tary Robert Gates to protest the pro­posal to move Gitmo detainees to Fort Leav­en­worth, Kansas.

It might upset Muslims.

“I have strong indi­ca­tions that, if detainees from Guan­tanamo were to be trans­ferred to Fort Leav­en­worth, a num­ber of Mus­lim coun­tries would decline to con­tinue to send their stu­dents to the Com­mand and Gen­eral Staff Col­lege. This would have a very neg­a­tive out­come for our mil­i­tary offi­cers, the school, and the health of our rela­tion­ships with Mus­lim nations,” the con­gress­man now in his 33^rd year in Con­gress wrote Gates.

I entirely agree with Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Skel­ton. He is a Demo­c­rat and he knows how they operate.

First the ille­gal com­bat­ants are housed in a deten­tion facil­ity, but, hey, they’re show­ing Gal­lipoli at the base cin­ema, so let’s let them out for the evening. After all, they haven’t killed any­body LATELY. Duh!

As long as they’re at the movie let’s give them all cars so after­wards they can stop at the malt shop in town for a goat split. And since they’re going to town they’ll need some money. And while they’re in town they might decide they like it there and want to stay, and set­tle down, and find a same-sex part­ner to marry, so they’ll need cit­i­zen­ship papers.

Since they’re cit­i­zens they’ll be enti­tled to the free Mon­day Car Wash to wash the blood from the hood of the car they were given which spat­tered up there dur­ing the honor-killing of those girls who were walk­ing by the side of the road and shame­lessly show­ing off their legs.

And after being given the money, the car, and the cit­i­zen­ship papers (not to men­tion see­ing a great movie where The Mus­lims Kicked Ass!) one of them might get a job and save a lit­tle money and then reg­is­ter to vote as a Republican.

Part of the respon­si­bil­ity of lead­er­ship is know­ing where to draw the line.

(H/T: Don Surber)

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