Where does it end?

Dear Americans,

I have chosen today to announce who I think will be the perfect candidate for president. I’ll give you a hint. He ran for president in 2008, and has received favorable reactions from the audiences of both The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. (Both hosted on the Viacom Network Comedy Central) I won’t let you hurt yourself much longer; it’s Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas. Why you ask? Here are a few fast facts. He was a Republican governor in a very Democratic state for over 10 years, which means that not only does he have a lot of executive government experience, but he managed to push a lot of conservative policies that proved to be of great benefit to his state (He left the state with a SURPLUS!) including tax deductions, educational reform, and pro life policies. But what impressed me even more than these things was how he ran during the 2008 primaries. He managed to take second place in the Iowa straw poll (Mitt Romney won with 31 percent of the vote) spending only 58 dollars per vote, while Romney spent over $1000 a vote. And Huckabee went on to win the Iowa primary, and was the last man standing in the national primary behind John McCain losing in Missouri by one and half percent in a winner take all state. If Huckabee can run that well on as little as he had, imagine what he could do with the full political and financial backing of the Republican Party. I highly encourage you to pick up his newest book titled. “Do the Right Thing” Did I mention that he’s Chuck Norris approved?

Catherine Sibelius was confirmed today based on the ‘news’ of a swine flu ‘pandemic’ and the first thing she asked for was 1billion dollars. (Remember, she is the president’s second choice for the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The first one came under fire in much the same Timothy Guithner did with tax issues, and the fact that Sibelius’s campaign was funded by doctors who administer partial birth abortions) This all happens all the while the World Health Organization says that it’s only a flu variant, and there are only 7 confirmed deaths worldwide. This administration is passing spending bills like John Edwards at a beauty parlor. (In case you didn’t know, he’s the dumb guy who ran for president a while ago, and spent $400 on a haircut,) And it’s all under the guise of either “this is an extreme emergency”, or “this crisis was handed to me” and you the tax-payer, are left to pay the bill to the tune of over 32,000 dollars per person for their unnecessary haste this year alone.

A couple of weeks ago, I talked about the National Debt and Deficit, and how it now totals around 12.5 trillion dollars. Let me illustrate for you exactly what a trillion is. If federal government spent 1 dollar every second it would spend 86,400 dollars in a 24 hour day, or 31,536,000 dollars in a 365 day year, or over 126,144,000 over 1 presidential term. How long is a trillion seconds ago? I’m 21 years old so that’s roughly 662,256,000 seconds ago. My mother is roughly 42 so that’s 1,324,512,000 seconds ago. Years were being counted as AD instead of BC 63,324,288,000 seconds ago. Experts place the beginning of human history according to the Bible as roughly 189,499,824,000 seconds ago (6,009 years). 315,360,000,000 seconds will add up to be 10,000 years. If my math serves me correctly, it takes just a tick under 31,710 years for a trillion seconds to expire. Now that we have established this, I’ll put it into even more perspective. If the federal government were spending a dollar every single second, it would take 396,372 years to spend twelve and a half trillion dollars. If that doesn’t scare you, 1 trillion dollars would make a stack of $100 bills approximately 986.43 miles high.

In conclusion, the protesters at the April 15 tea parties were absolutely right to be fed up with the out of control spending, and general disregard for taxpaying Americans. I am sick and tired of being marginalized as a mere constituent, and politicians that toy with our national security, and our hard earned money. I’m not saying that there aren’t good people on Capitol Hill, but we need to be actively involved in the process of voting for policies and representatives that will uphold what is right and righteous instead of the dying ideals of left and right. This is a fight that we can win, and must win.

Glen Beck will be performing live in Kansas City on June 4^th and will be broadcast live nationwide to a theater near you. Tickets are now on sale. Log on to www.glenbeck.com for details, and be sure to subscribe to his daily news letter. Seriously, this guy gets it.

Next time, I’ll talk about what’s making me shoot blood out of my eye sockets. Injustice, scandal, corporate greed, moveon.org and talking heads will all feel the lash sometime next week. Also, if you can prove that I posted something in this blog that is false, or you have any insight into a particular subject, please let me know. My goal is to deliver opinion based on the facts. You can also follow me on Twitter at www.twitter.com/the0ath Dear Americans, always remember …

“…When the people fear their government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.” – Thomas Jefferson