My blog was used to brief both Obama and Bachmann

   Evidently the politicians are following my blog.

   After the highlights of my blog yesterday were read to Mr. Obama, he responded during the deficit meeting, "Enough is enough!" He repeated what I had written, "...everyone is more interested about posturing, political position and protecting their base." He claimed he wasn't interested in "a short term fix" and "at the risk of bringing down his presidency" he was holding his ground and he walked out.
   On the other side of the political arena, Michele Bachmann responded to the President's threat of denying senior citizen's their right to August's social security payments with, "We don't believe that for a moment."
   What a show!
   The war is over folks. We lost a long time ago when we failed to maintain a budget—when we spent more than we had, to provide what we wanted, not what we needed. We've grown up on a diet of prime rib, 55" flat screens TVs, Smart Phones... and stupid politicians. We can't have everything we see and want. We can have, however, everything we work for.

   Now, there is a campaign promise, a bumper sticker worth honking for and an idea worth rallying around. Let's all work for what we need. Seems I'm on a roll here. But isn't that just like a politician? Slight of hand, a little mis-direction. Don't focus on the problems, move on to "change."
   And talk about mis-direction and shifting focus—Tim Pawlenty made a statement early this week about Bachmann's record in congress, claiming, "her contribution in Congress is non-existent." When Bachmann was asked to respond to Pawlenty's remark, she—as she often does when asked a question she doesn't want to answer—said, "...my focus in not on negativity." Obviously her focus was not on answering the question and/or making a difference. Her focus is on getting elected, not solving problems.
   I am looking more and more like a real candidate everyday, talking badly about the political adversaries and my promises of a brighter future while disowning yesterday's problems. Yes, we need change. We need to change the way we have dealt with the problems created in the past. We need to quit doing the things that created today's problems and start doing the things that will fix them rather than move on to bigger and better—whoa! make that bigger and worse problems. If what we did yesterday didn't work, doing more of the same thing today is not going to make it better!
   Yes sir, I'm sounding more and more like a candidate everyday. Your future is in your hands. Do something about it because if you don't, they will.

Mark my words...IT WON'T HAPPEN.

   It won't happen. Mr. Obama threatened yesterday that those who receive Social Security checks may not get their check next month, in August. When I first heard him say this, it brought a shiver down my spine. That is exactly the response he wanted from me and everyone else who depends on their monthly check.
   Now, if in fact, we don't get our check in August, he will get the credit for warning the conservatives if the liberals don't get their way—it will be the Republicans at fault. On the other hand, if the checks keep on coming, he will take the credit for saving us from financial disaster. Either way, his irresponsible prediction will get him a predictable response.
   It won't happen. He knows it won't happen. Watch and see. We have no choice but to hold our breath and watch and see as the politicians continue to wring their hands and posture themselves as wise and prophetic. The next thing you are liable to hear from them is that to stave off such an economic disaster, one of our elected officials will recommend suspending congress's salaries until the crisis passes. That won't happen either, but it will make a good sound bite.
   The entire country will hold their breath while the politicians wring their hands and point their fingers across the aisle. The end result will be they will get what they wanted all along and we will be thankful for their wise and timely decision to forego disrupting the delivery of social security checks—this time. But they will continue to hold the threat over our heads for some time to come.We will re-elect them because they dodged the bullet for us. Getting re-elected is and has always been their number one priority. (I know that sounds too general a statement—stand up and show me I'm wrong and that you actually care more about the country's interests than yours.)
   The stock market will take a huge dip because of the uncertainty of our future. Unemployment numbers will increase—they were going to anyway. Housing markets will continue down. Yes, they were going to decline anyway. After saving our social security system, we will be told it was at the expense of raising taxes and cutting some other programs. We will have been told to look away while they give us the needle containing the medicine they were prescribing in the first place.
   There are no easy answers to the problems that beset us.They think we can't handle the truth. It has always been the best policy to tell the truth. It has always been the best policy to be fiscally responsible.
   It has always been the best policy to do for the American people what is in their best interests—not the interests of any special interest group.
   If you, your company or industry, your campaign contributors or party is benefiting by the eroding of our economy, the establishment of over-funded programs to help the poor, underemployed, undernourished, undocumented workers, and undeserving in order to secure their votes while cutting services to those that have funded our government through their Social Security taxes since 1937, (It was 3 years later, in 1940, before the first Social Security benefit was paid.) shame on you. Stop it! Come clean, do what is right.

   Please do what is right and in our best interests.