Saying it my way . . .

Dear Senator Schumer:

So we common, average, working, middle-class, ordinary Americans have now been classified into another group called the chattering class that you say do not really care about a little pork here or a little pork there.� I remember what the late Senator Edward Everett Dirksen said some 38-years ago about pork projects and government spending, A billion dollars here and a billion dollars there and pretty soon youre talking about real money.  I believe that is where we are today notwithstanding the fact that you define it as only a little pork.� Have you lost touch with reality or are you suffering from some traumatic form of brain damage?

Einstein was correct about his Theory of Relativity.� A billion dollars 30 years ago is relatively small compared to the hundreds of billions of dollars that we are throwing into the sewage system of government waste and bloated payrolls and overblown feckless government bureaucracies.� Perhaps the real amount will total in the trillions of dollars.

Probably a better description of this new "Chattering Class" of 'average Americans that don't really care about how much Congress is spending' and as coined by pompous New York Senator, Chuckee Schumer, is OUR right of Free Speech guaranteed by the First Amendment to the Constitution (until some moron decides that that phrase is not what the Founding Fathers had intended).  So, let's keep on "Chattering" while we can.  Sounds like Chuckee is trying to start a class warfare.

I would like to vote against you but I live in Oklahoma and would never consider moving to New York State even though I have two daughters that live there in your Empire State.� They say that you are as big an idiot in person as you appear to be on television.

Good night and good luck!

Boraxobama says:  Over-inflating your tires will reduce gasoline consumption.  So, I am going to add four more tires to my car and instead of 35 psi, I am going to put 70 psi of air in all eight tires.  So instead of the 28 mpg (highway) that I now get, I should be getting 112 mpg (highway) - an increase of four times the mileage.  Sounds to me like an energy plan whose time has come.  So what school and discipline did Boraxoabama attend and study when he went to college?  It wasn't M.I.T. was it or Mechanical Engineering? 

Maybe we need more "BigFoots" on the highway . . . WOW - where do these great energy-saving ideas come from?  It's like magic or something . . . . (perhaps it was pulled from a body orifice) - and why were we not told about this years ago?  Was this all part of a vast right-wing oil company-funded conspiracy?  Makes you wonder don't it  . . .

Boraxo also wants Universal Health Care for everybody in the U.S. (legally or not - and regardless of the cost).  But did you know that you are three to four times safer on the highway going 75 mph with cars and 18-wheelers only a few feet from you than you are in a hospital lying in a bed going "0" mph?

Oh, by the way, I accidentally broke a fluorescent (CFL) bulb in my bathroom while trying to screw the damned thing in the socket.  Which government agency(s) do I notify and which forms will I need to prepare in order to be in compliance with those federal standards?  I was able to clean up the toxic spill with my bare hands and without the required federally approved air regulator and asbestos space suit but then I used to play with Mercury and Lead when I was a kid.  The Mercury made for really shiny dimes and quarters back then.  How the hell did any of us ever survive childhood without all this government "assistance?"

Because of the accidental dropping of the CFL light bulb, we have already evacuated the house and are living in a tent outside even though neighborhood covenants do not allow for this type of lifestyle.  We have told the neighborhood association to take up the issue with the federal government and their elected officials since they make up all the rules.  No word yet from the neighborhood association.  They meet next year.

Sounds as if Oregon has their own version of Death Row.  If you have a 5% survival chance with less than a five-year "estimated" life expectancy (by a physician "practicing" medicine -the operative word here is PRACTICING), then the state expects you to call Dr. Kevorkian for an "assist" into the next life.  Your medical care will cost the state too much, but they will build a bridge to nowhere, or fund studies to determine why tricycles tip over, or send 10,000 mobile homes to Arkansas for Louisiana hurricane victims, etc., etc., etc., etc.  Where does it end?

Convicted murderers on Death Row have a better survival chance even in Texas and their upkeep has to cost much more than chemotherapy.

What is this country becoming?  Apparently the lawmakers feel that life is just not worth the fight even if they are not involved in the fight.  Sounds too much like Nazi Germany during the 1930's and early 1940's.  Perhaps this "wind" will blow their (lawmakers) way, or have they exempted themselves from this law?

Jim Woodward

Broken Arrow, Oklahoma

A hypocritical reply from the Governor of Oregon:

Thank you for sharing your ideas and concerns. I believe citizen input is vital to a strong and healthy society and I urge your continued involvement.   Should your comments require an additional response, appropriate staff will contact you.
I look forward to hearing from you in the future.

Sincerely,
Theodore R. Kulongoski
Governor