Are you a domestic terrorist?

[kandrathe]

This is the same Al Franken you described not a week ago as a "bright person"?

He is a bright person. I also think he will vote the party line, and he hasn't exhibited an ounce of independent thinking. He's still a clown.

You work for your supper. What other choice is there, unless manna rains from the heavens?

Yes, I work for my supper, and then I pay for 2 to 4 other people to have supper, and maybe 1/2 a days pay for some soldier suffering in Iraq, or maybe part of somebody's hip replacement surgery. I might also be paying for part of 10 bureaucrats to watch over 1 teacher. Then, with my take home pay, I also choose to donate money to charity and still have just enough left over to help the new grade school teacher buy pencils for her class. When do we get to stop working?

If we've sunk back to the 90's or 80's in terms of net worth, we still spend 2009 dollars. This means that that person who's 55, now is looking at adding another 20 years to their years of service before they can contemplate retiring. Me? I had saved a bundle and tucked it aside in a Schwab account to pay for my kids college in 10 years. Now, it's become hardly enough to pay for a single semester. You might sense that I'm discouraged. I look around me at the shattered lives, and the ruin and I have to get angry.

So, no, manna doesn't rain around here, although I believe I may be the source of it for others.