Tea

Teabag photo by Tomasz Sienicki

Today is your day to show your displeasure with the insanity and wild spending going on in Washington. There are tea party protests scheduled all over America--find the one in your area and go. Please. And wave a sign for me while you're there.

Also, today is the day we fly to England (ironic, yes?) to begin our vacation. I've arranged a little surprise around here while we're away--you'll just have to come back tomorrow and see.

1934

I got a great email from my penpal Dewey containing this cartoon published in the Chicago Tribune back in 1934:

..close ups so you can read it better:

and the comment in the email:

"The more things change, the more they stay the same! Those who fail to heed the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them. A review of the economic history of the 1930’s demonstrates that Roosevelt’s spending programs failed to turn the economy around. Unemployment temporarily dropped and then rose again in the late thirties to more than 15%. It took World War II to reverse that trend."

I think Americans are getting very impatient with politicians in general, and in particular with politicians who think it is perfectly okay to vote for the largest spending bill in the history of mankind without even reading it which pours billions--trillions!--of dollars we don't have into programs that have nothing to do with economic recovery. We're in a recession and our politicians have decided its a great time to install a swimming pool in the back yard and buy an Italian sportscar. They've lost their damn minds.

Washington politicians are out of control. They're on the mother of all shopping sprees and they're paying for it with their Capitol One Visa, also known as "loans from The People's Republic of China". And why shouldn't they enjoy splurging on every social program, every agenda they can dream up? After all, they don't have to pay back all those borrowed trillions--our great grandchildren will have to do that.

May I interest anyone in a nice cup of tea?