You can't make this stuff up!

 

 

"If only he could just be graded on his vacations and campaigning, history would be very kind to him..."

As a good friend of mine will say from time to time, "God love him, he is one of ours!" Well, that is almost true with our 44th President. I will agree with the "God love him" part - and that is where it ends. He is not part of any circle I run with. He is however, an interesting study. If not for putting the future of our country in jeopardy, he would be an interesting case study to observe.

He is rumored to be a very smart man. That may be true, but I don't believe him to be very bright. As an example, yesterday our Campaigner in Chief was on the Left Coast, playing to his "Holly weird" base. Tickets were cheap to get in to see him - $10,000 per person and up, depending on how much of VIP status you wanted. What was the theme of his speech? Inequality. I kid you not. In a room full of members of the "One Percent Club".  As my wife will commonly say, "You just can't make this stuff up!"

As things start to heat up with the Benghazi and IRS hearings, one would think the CEO of this mess would be interested in getting to the bottom of these scandals. If he had studied history while getting his Community Organizer degree, he would know that every Administration which had a scandal, carried it into the history books. Watergate, Whitewater, Iran-Contra and so on. This President has a half dozen or so.

The group Judicial Watch came up with an interesting story at the beginning of the week. As we are constantly chided and schooled on the "gross inequality of income" in this country, our President and Vice President have racked up a hefty sum in vacation expenses. Golf outings, overseas trips, Hawaii, golf outings, and so on. While many of us working stiffs are just trying to hold on, our royal families have spent over $40,000,000 on vacations alone since 2009. No kidding. You just can't make this stuff up!

Here is the real kicker. Once again, our royalty have once again taken the "One Percent Bogyman" out of the closet to stir up some resentment with the masses. Just as a refresher on how much money one needs to make to be in that illusive club, it was $390,000 in 2011. The President fits nicely into this club, with a net worth of over $12,000,000 and climbing. Smokin' Joe on the other hand, not quite. Nobody really seems to know what he has done with all his money, since his net worth is only $500,000. He has been in Congress since 1973, and made a tidy sum ever since. We know he does not give his money to charity, as his tax returns show less than $400/year in charitable deductions.

As for the rest of us, we will continue to look on in awe on how our nation has gone from riches to debt. One needs to look no further than the rulers of our Emerald City. One figured out how to game the system and has become quite wealthy. The other spends money like a drunken sailor and does not have a pot to pee in. One more time, you just can't make this stuff up!