The intent of this blog is to promote human equality, human progress, human peace and justice, and optimism. To accomplish this, to encourage the discussion of ideas after identifying and discovering problems, and then creating positive solutions for "we the people," in order to provide for the "general welfare" and "domestic tranquility" of America now and its "posterity" into the future. To encourage an emphasis on separation of religion and state for all, no matter if this is for those "of faith" in a Maker / Creator (Deists, God-loving people, Christians, various people of spirituality) and atheists or agnostics.

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31 July 2011

Often on this post, I have commented about my Dutch family relationships to the Roosevelt family.  By marriage, my Dutch family, the Schoonmakers, are related to the Roosevelts.  This is well documented in the Schoonmaker genealogy which is available from the Huguenot Historical Society in New Paltz, NY.

Had it not been for my ancestor, Capt. Frederick J. Schoonmaker, financing the American Revolution to the brink of his own bankruptcy, this nation may have had a Schoonmaker with a huge mansion running for president.  But Capt. Frederick “lost his shirt” by financing the building of the chain across the Hudson River (one end of the chain was on the present-day location of West Point).   He is an example, unlike the Bush family, which derives from the same geographic area as the Roosevelts and Schoonmakers, of commitment to community and one who takes a dim view regarding the love of money.  This is the same contrast of a wealthy Schoonmaker with the Koch brothers and others today.

The hateful people of the 21st century tea party quote the original Tea Party, but abandon all sense of community which existed among those who funded and supported the American Revolution.  They all do this out of love for money and reckless abandonment of love for the human community.  The tea party’s actions are being performed in the name of a 20th-century atheist bitch (so-called Jew – a traitor to her Jewish roots) who was pissed at the Soviet government when she came to America acting like she was some kind of expert about what life in America should be about.  These things are being done in the name of a wealthy family which once owned a chain of salons in a Caribbean nation and also in the name of a former legislative leader of the government on that island nation.  None of these people understand the American way of life and our heritage for love of community, so there actions are those of hatred – in support of the fascist Bush family.  There is no toleration of an opinion regarding hatred.  It is not an opinion.

Last night, I viewed the DVD, Eleanor and Franklin.  It was quite revealing.  Many people, both Republicans and Democrats, could learn from Franklin D. Roosevelt.  Having read a great deal about FDR and Eleanor, the film appeared to be quite close to reality.

A scene the ideological Republican tea party members need to consider.  A belligerent reporter approached President Roosevelt (standing on crutches, by the way, due to his polio – need I remind pigs today who don’t know what it feels like to be helpless), he asked four questions and the president addressed each one.  The reporter asked FDR:  “Are you a communist?”  The president answered, “no!”  The reporter continued:  “Are you a capitalist?”  FDR:  “No!”  The reporter:  “Are you a socialist?” FDR:  “No!”  The reporter:  “What are you?”  FDR:  “A Christian and a Democrat!”

Today, FDR’s answer to the last question probably should have been:  “An Episcopalian and a Democrat” – because so many so-called Christians have lost sight of the focus of Jesus Christ and mis-represent Him.   But then, a Nigerian Anglican archbishop, the Episcopal bishops in Pittsburgh and central Florida also mis-represent Jesus Christ, too.

A lesson for President Obama and the Democrats.  FDR made a comment about “putting Americans back to work,” but I never heard him talk about “jobs creation.”  To me, jobs are just one part of “putting Americans back to work.”  But Democrats today focus ONLY on that one little aspect, forgetting the opportunities (as do the tea party folks) which give Americans the ability to invest in their future.  On the opposite extreme, the tea party folks think ONLY about entrepreneurship (greedy selfish entrepreneurship which abandons any sense of community) and these tea party people toss out every aspect about creating jobs.  Thus, we have a polarization in America today – stimulated by the vengeful attitudes of fascists like the Bush family.

FDR created opportunities in the form of “bonds.”  Victory Bonds and the like.  Democrats never propose strings attached to the tax cuts of the wealthy.  For instance, Democrats never propose the following to the wealthy of America:  if you want the tax cuts, then here is where you need to invest the money from your tax cuts:  Bonds… in Housing, Education, Food, or Health bonds.  Government bonds underwritten by the private sector.  An alliance of public and private in order to make this nation healthy and “put Americans back to work.”

FDR believed in “unemployment compensation,” but I believe he would have been appalled at what he would see in the system today.  Corruption.  People who have become lazy and LOOK for the “shortest distance between two points.”  Construction workers located in the cold snowy areas of the nation who collect during times when weather prohibits them from working.  Teacher unions don’t get this type of unemployment during the summer, but are under attack today.  I knew a union member (now deceased) in the trades who was appalled at the existence of such horse s*** unemployment “handouts.”  Yet union members are the ones taking it on the chin today?  During World War II, this now-deceased CWA member fought valiantly against fascist Mussolini, losing a thumb in the conflicts in Italy.  This union member also admired FDR and Nelson Rockefeller of New York.

Solution:  if weather prohibits people from working, then the government provides funding to help such people bring home income, rather than handing out unemployment checks.  For instance, Vermont imports students from Australia to run the ski lifts during the winter – while unemployed construction workers in the northeast sit on their asses with no work.  The government could be the catalyst to help bring employers and potential employees together, rather than providing handouts which ultimately create lazy people.

I believe, if the Bush family and others would drop their goddamn vindictiveness against FDR – which clouds their decision-making capabilities – then we could, as a community of Americans solve our problems more effectively.

Drop the goddamn ideology and solve our problems  – NOW!  Stop the horse s*** and develop a better cup of ice cream!

30 July 2011

Wicked Evil tea party

I discover my heritage and belong to the SAR because I wish to learn from the past and make life better for the future by building upon our proud American heritage.  The tea party is negative and wishes to tear apart our American heritage – while proclaiming a false interest in our heritage.

I chose to reduce my involvement in SAR when I learned Jeb Bush joined it.  I believe the Bush family, in the name of fascism and nazisim, wish to mock our American heritage rather than build upon it.  Jebbie’s graddad, Prescott was a Hitler sympathizer when Hitler was spewing forth hatred in Europe.  I have no toleration for hatred and there is no opinion when it comes to hatred.  Obviously, President Franklin D. Roosevelt felt the same because he froze the assets of Senator Prescott Bush – due to Prescott Bush’s support of hatred.

That is what it comes down to.   You can call it what you wish.  But the Bush family has supported hatred.  They might have money, but they use that money to support hatred and invoke an ideology they believe, as all fascists do, there will be utopia if everyone conforms.  Obviously, they worship money so much that “frozen assets” would be a point of vindictiveness to put this nation through hell – all for the love of money.  I believe the agenda of Jebbie, George, Neil, Marvin, and George, Sr., is to tear apart what Franklin D. Roosevelt did.  And I believe they have many friends with gobs of money – friends who worship money and hatred – who are willing to help them.  The Koch brothers and others affiliated with Bush and the tea party are despicable lousy evil people – the type of people to whom Jesus Christ directed his anger while living on this earth.

If what I am saying is not true, then why did George Bush wish to tear apart Social Security – a government program implemented by a true American – in favor of a program from South America (Chile) where corrupt banana republic greedy bastards rule the nations?  The love of money would be so immense that Georgie Porgie and Jebbie would not wish to build upon what we already have in OUR America, but would wish to tear it down.  Why?  Due to vindictiveness and vengeance towards FDR.  That is a hell of a reason to force what these piggies are doing to America today – via the obstructionist tea party.

To the tea party person who denounced the idea of “all Americans having a home,” first of all, you can go to hell – you son of a military careerist who takes money from our people and then condemns the Middle Class.  Secondly, you and the other tea party dimwits condemn the ideas of American home ownership which have proven to be a better way to do long-term investments.  But then, I suppose that is too capitalist for your low-life tastes.  My investments outside home ownership have been volatile.  George Bush and company made home ownership into a volatile investment because they don’t believe in the wonderful humanism which COULD exist in this nation – among a wonderful people here.  Humans in communities can pull together far better than the 1% which owns and places in slavery a community of people by forcing conformity through fear and intimidation.  The contrast between the Dark Ages run by a brutal fascist church and the “re-birth” of humans during the Renaissance demonstrates the differences completely.

The tea party wishes to plunge our great people backwards into the age of feudal landlords and mercantile economics – a time when people were enslaved and not given opportunities to pick themselves up by the bootstraps and make life better for ALL PEOPLE, rather than just a greedy selfish piggish 1% of the population.

29 July 2011

George Bush, Jr, promoted the idea of the Chilean retirement system.  The Republicans today wish to tear apart our PUBLIC SOCIAL INSURANCE RUN BY CAPITALISM (in reference to Social Security) and create a culture like that of the Chinese Communists (actually, it is an age-old Chinese culture, but the communists are in charge):  children take care of their parents and senior citizens are relegated to the garbage heap with no independence and no choices.

To Georgie Porgy and the fat cat Republicans:  what’s wrong with AMERICAN ideals and to fix them when they are broken?  Fixing means getting to the root of the problem:  “the love of money is the root of all evil.”

Ayn Rand’s philosophies are evil because they promote the love of money, which is translated as greed.  Ayn Rand is an antithesis to Jesus Christ, yet proclaimed “Christians” such as Georgie Porgie, Jebbie, Rick Perry, and other fascist bigots proclaim Ayn Rand as god.  Selfishness and greed are the number one priority.
Jesus Christ was against fornication and adultery.  But both fornication and adultery are the products of greed – “the love of money [greed] is the root of all evil.”   Those who push their religious thoughts down our throats – regarding anti-abortion, anti-recreational sex among consenting partners, anti-homosexuality – are greedy.  Fascists who stubbornly insist on only ONE WAY of doing something are greedy.   Yet I never hear these fascists condemn Rick Scott or others for stealing and acting in a deceptive manner.

Deception is another product of greed.  Jesus Christ took an adamant stand against deception and greed.  Two times.  It led to his crucifixion.  In order to make people forget this little fact, the “opiate of the people” mesmerize the people with Jesus dying on a cross and the “passion” which is evoked due to that.  Fact is, Jesus Christ got their due to his CLEAR opposition to deception and greed by lousy SOBs who called themselves “business people.”  The truth hurts, so Jesus got crucified.

Jesus Christ actually stood among the prostitutes, pornographers, and homosexuals of his day.  He did not call for their arrest – like a bigoted bitch from Minnesota might do.  Christ’s beef was with the deceptive lawyers of his day.  Christ’s beef was with corrupt government officials of his day.  Christ’s beef was with deceptive, greedy business practices of his day.  Taking undeserved bonuses and raising CEO salaries beyond belief are greedy and deceptive practices today.  Yet, conservative bitches and bastards look the other way while condemning the lives of peaceful people in the Middle Class who attempt to do the best they are able to do –  in order to survive in a world created, perpetuated, and sustained by these beasts of the devil.

28 July 2011

Some people think I will come out better if I just go along with the religious right and ultra conservatives.  I have not come out better in the past, so why should I now?  When the toombifier gang at my former employer (remember the words of Grayson) gave us this horse s*** about the layoffs being some kind of altruistic measure for “deregulation” and making it better for the consumer – and for the way electric utilities do business, I knew it was a bunch of horse s*** then.  It is still a bunch of horse s***. But alas, for the sake of my family, I was FORCED to conform.  Oh, yes.  I had a choice:  an offer I could not refuse (words from the movie, The Godfather).

The company shut down its administrative / management operations in St. Petersburg, forcing thousands of employees out of work and the industry never really became a more competitive one – as portrayed by the liars who earned millions as a result of those actions of the early 1990s.  Instead, the company joined the ranks of the company “flipper”-type CEOs who lost sight of the goals and missions of companies and merely purchase them to “flip” them and make money that way.  These people are lazy SOBs who don’t know how to EARN money – just take it from others.  Rick Scott is one of them.

My bet is these guys in the early 1990s were pissed off at the election of Bill Clinton, which made George Bush, Sr., a one-term president.  Most of them were of the younger baby boom generation who f***ed us older guys over – at the request of the greedy SOBs who were closer to my age and did have the money – quite possibly because they f***ed our government by not paying back student loans – as I had faithfully done, despite the lack of “profit” in my family unit.  Oh, yeah, it’s called “disposable income” – something us “little guys” are not supposed to have because we are too stupid to know what to do with it.

These are the same guys who are TRYING to manipulate a one-term presidency out of Barack Obama.  Why?  Not out of altruism, but out of vindictiveness.  We don’t need vindictive leaders, we need those who will get the job done – like Nancy Pelosi and a House of Representatives which accomplished more – perhaps things distasteful to these lazy bums with money – but more.  Excuse me, but were these guys elected by the people or by lazy bums with money and only one motive?  That motive (besides stubborn fascist ideology which nixes any form of reasoning or logic) is vindictiveness towards Bill Clinton and the Democrats.

These wealthy pigs mock democracy while repeating words like, “democracy,” “liberty,” “freedom.”  The “Empire” is getting too big, so they feel compelled to destroy democracy, while giving the appearance we still have it.
“You hypocrites!  You offspring of vipers!  Your father is Satan the devil!”

 

Gee!  Where did we hear these words before?

27 July 2011

Balance the U.S. budget on the backs of the wealthy who need to begin sacrificing for this nation.  The Middle Class has sacrificed enough.

26 July 2011

Suggestions for America

Make a truly democratic legislature in Washington.  Forget the crap with ethnic this and ethnic that.  Make all America one America.  Direct democracy is difficult and time-consuming for Americans.  They would not, on the whole, participate.  Do the next best thing.  Expand the size of the House of Representatives.  The current formulas and the horse s*** of gerrymandering needs to go.  Simply place one representative from each county (or parish in Louisiana) in the House of Representatives.  Make the geographic boundaries the voter boundaries.  People would understand it better.  Return the control of the Senate to the governors of the states (as originally written in the Constitution) rather than what is happening today – people THINK they are voting for a senator, but in reality it’s the American Politburo – the U.S. Chamber of Commerce which has purchased these guys to sit in the Congress.  If people don’t have a voice in the senator chosen, then at least place it back in the indirect hands of the people – an elected governor.  But the House of Representatives should be based on a representative from each county.

Actually, the same should happen in the Florida State Senate and House.  The Florida Senate:  one representative from each county.  The Florida House of Representatives should consist of one representative from each municipality.  People don’t understand the numbering of all these different districts.  No one is able to remember the district numbers.  Make it easier for THE PEOPLE.  Lawyers – the career politicians – understand it.  The lobbyists understand it.  The people don’t understand this horse s*** in Florida and America today.

The idea of districts, Electoral College, and all this other stuff is antiquated – established by people who did not have the telecommunications we have today.  We need a change.

We need to also stuff the birds like Rick Scott and their wealthy greedy friends who steal from the people.

25 July 2011

Solutions for America

Eliminate the Electoral College.  Eliminate the presidential political conventions.  A waste of money.  Consolidate all presidential primaries into one national one the beginning of October, with an election day holiday for all.  Hold the presidential election in November as always, but make election day a holiday for all.  Replace the Electoral College with a third election holiday – a runoff election of the top two candidates for president.  Open up the field for qualified candidates not tied to a political party.  Let the people decide in a true democracy.  Eliminate the money which now provides all the decisions.  Sounds simplistic.  It is.  So let’s do it.  Simplify the election process and throw away the lawyers and greedy Ayn Rand moneymakers who make it too complex.

24 July 2011

BlogYYY

Responsible people who faithfully pay their bills on time, have counted on long-term investments in Social Security and Medicare, have been model American citizens – all are being screwed by lousy American leadership with plenty of money.  The lousy leadership sucks big time.  Rick Scott has stolen from my long-term investments and then screws those of us who are trying to make it in Florida – despite the Bush shit which has caused my house to lose value.

Franklin D. Roosevelt knew what it was like to go without.  Bush, Scott, Walker, the Koch brothers – they don’t know what it is like to be helpless and go without.  For one momentary second when polio struck down FDR, he was lying on the ground, helpless.  Is it any wonder he recognized that welfare in the form of bounty land grants (from the time of the American Revolution – the TEA PARTY – you fucking bastards – self-righteous know-it-alls) were no longer possible, but that Americans needed a safety net.  The types of safety nets which have been developed have been abused and misused.  But that does not mean they need to be eliminated entirely.

The tea party sucks.  It is a lousy organization lacking humility to learn.  Rick Scott sucks.  And the more I say in this line, the more the screws are liable to be tightened on me and others who speak the truth.

We have solutions, but these solutions are being brushed aside by thieves who have illegally attained their money and wormed their way into public office.  Rick Scott and others mock our institutions of government.  The U.S. Chamber of Commerce – the American version of the old Soviet Politburo with the wealth concentrated in the hands of a few – honors thieves like Rick Scott and Scott Walker.  They don’t know what they do.  However, these bastards would oppose the collective control of a company by its employees (calling it communism), but then institute a centrally-planned economy similar to one which existed in the former Soviet Union (now exists in COMMUNIST CHINA) and think nothing of it.  The communists are those thieves who have taken our money and galvanized wealthy people to screw us all.  And then if we say there is better morale and teamwork in organizations in which the employees have a larger say in matters, these shitheads call THIS communism.  Rick Scott and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, setting itself up like a centrally-planned communist politburo ARE THE COMMUNISTS!  Allen West is a communist.  Rick Scott is a communist.  The Koch brothers are communists.  Donahue at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is a communist.  Marco Rubio is a communist.  Toomey of Pennsylvania is a communist.  They impose communist-type top-down systems upon us – and tightening the screws on us – taking away our long-term investments.

Screw the American evil wealth and its love for money – which causes anarchy and the creation of animals, not human beings.

23 July 2011

Blog 0708

 

In an advertisement for Charles Schwab, we are led to believe Mr. Schwab made the following statement:  “I make money the old-fashioned way – I earn it.”

 

I challenge Americans to find someone who lives up to this.  Not to brag, but the abrasiveness I feel in today’s society might possibly be due to my attempt to live up to this core value which is lost to Ayn Rand horse shit of greed and selfishness.

 

Americans today look for the easy way out rather than considering how to earn money.  Our society of Ayn Rand worshipers creates this environment and encourages it to perpetuate it.  I think it is deplorable, it stinks, and it makes for a lousy life in America today.  There are better solutions for ridding us of this, but no one is willing to listen.  Why?  Because everyone has become so “me, me, me…”  … thinking only about how solutions will help each individual.  Rick Scott only thinks about himself.  The career politicians in Tallahassee and Washington only think about each self, not about our society.  Fuck them all because they are leading America astray.  They use propaganda in the media to encourage bad solutions which benefit only a few people.  And meanwhile those of us here at the bottom are at each other’s throats when we should all be working together as a team of Americans, not individually.  That sucks and I am stating my disgust over it in hopes SOMEONE will recognize how much it sucks and DO SOMETHING about it – change this fucking environment which I have come to despise.

 

I should be afraid of Rick Scott and other cowards who don’t know how to lead – just know how to invoke their stupid laws to bring down hard-working Floridians and NOT create new opportunities so we can EARN our keep, not go for handouts – as Rick Scott did with his corrupt practices in Medicare.  I should be afraid of these cowards we have as leaders because I speak out and cowards would rather seek vengeance on a little guy like me – even use others who are around me in order to invoke fear, intimidation, and take away my ability to EARN rather than to seek a handout.  Fuck Rick Scott and other cowards with money.  THEY ARE NOT LEADERS, BUT THEY ARE COWARDS, so FUCK THEM.  They don’t know what it means with regard to Charles Schwab’s alleged statement.  In fact, my bet is that the company with Charles Schwab’s name on it conforms to the Ayn Rand rules of individualistic greed and selfishness – take from others before they take from you.  YOU BASTARDS.  YOU make human beings into animals rather than the higher order humans we are supposed to be.

 

These guys react this way because they are racists and bigots who disliked the Martin Luther King, Jr., movement to protect the rights of GROUPS of people, rather than the rights of individuals.  The rights of individuals leads to anarchy and humans becoming a bunch of fucking beasts – animals – and I despise this and the leaders who do this.  May they go to hell.  I seek positive HUMAN solutions rather than those which lead us to anarchy.

 

As I have said, my hero is Teddy Roosevelt.  He almost pulled off a third-party presidential win a century ago.  ALMOST.  There were several factors which I have discussed in this blog.  Another factor was an assassin’s bullet.  While giving a speech, an anarchist shot at TR.  Fortunate for TR, he had protection in his pocket which did not allow the bullet to penetrate very far.  But the ANARCHIST’S BULLET curtailed TR’s campaigning in 1912.  Fuck anarchists – and Rick Scott, Scott Walker, Allen West, and others are anarchists.  The Koch brothers are anarchists.  Anyone who believes in Ayn Rand is an anarchist, so fuck you.  GO to hell and the sooner the better.

 

Anarchists and fucking violence in America.  Yet these bastards HATE the non-violent stuff of MLK, Jr.  Fuck you, all of you, in your power to bring us all to being animals and at each other’s throats – you bastards.

 

Does this sound positive?  No.  But positive solutions are being brushed aside.  Due to the cowards and anarchists in the Republican Party, those of us who have worked, tried to save, been responsible with our money, and attempted to make LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS are being screwed – in favor of the anarchists and the pervasive attitude in America to take from one another – and as Rick Scott did – TAKE FROM THE FUNDS WE AS AMERICANS HAVE INVESTED.  I am angry at a man who took from the money I INVESTED IN MEDICARE.  YOU BASTARD WHO NOW LEADS ME AND COULD SCREW ME BIG TIME. YOU BASTARD.  WHY WOULD I NOT BE ANGRY AT SUCH A BASTARD.  THAT IS MY MONEY, YOU FUCKING COWARD AND BASTARD.

 

Now, to solve the problem, stupid ignorant career politicians and a wimp in the  White House, chooses to put Medicare and Social Security at risk so that many of us who have invested big time in it will not have the money WE INVESTED. YOU BASTARDS.  WHY AM I ANGRY AT THIS?

 

Furthermore, these bastards support big insurance.  Big insurance interferes with the patient-doctor relationship, not Medicare.  Yet, my deduction for Medicare is LESS THAN THE DEDUCTION TO BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD FOR MY SON WHO HAS FAR LESS MEDICAL NEEDS THAN PEOPLE MY AGE.  YOU GREEDY SOBs and BASTARDS.  You refuse to implement regulations regarding CASH VALUE EARNED… EARNED… EARNED – you SOBs…..   over time… EARNED … when we don’t make claims on auto, home, or whatever.

 

You cowards mock capitalism by CLAIMING no government interference, then you interfere on the side of the SUPPLY SIDE – the big greedy bastards who head the corporations.  YOU BASTARDS.  YOU COWARDS.  YOU SOBs.

 

You pick on the little guys in unions and what not – the guys who work hard.  Yet, I know many hard-working union guys all over this land.  YOU COWARDS who call yourselves leaders.

 

Rather than get at the roots of problems, you deny hard-working Americans the ability to EARN and INVEST.  You don’t do something about the waste in the FRS DROP program from those who double-dip.  Instead, you deny the rest of us the ability to EARN money in the DROP system.   YOU BASTARDS AND COWARDS.  You refuse to look at those who take unemployment due to layoffs in seasonal jobs (in the North, in particular), while a union man in the North stood up and spoke out AGAINST such practices of waste in unemployment.  You brush that little guy off – and one has to wonder why.  The Mafia which encourages such horse shit?  BTW.  Teachers have seasonal jobs and NEVER have such an opportunity.  But NON-UNION roofers are able to do this?  YOU BASTARD COWARDS WHO CALL YOURSELVES LEADERS.

 

And much of this also begins with catering to immigrants who come here and take the money WE HAVE INVESTED LONG TERM IN SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE.  FUCK THE LEADERS WHO WON’T DEAL WITH THIS PROBLEM AND CATER TO A FUCKING MAFIA AND THEIR “GIVE ME YOUR TIRED YOUR POOR…” So, as Mafia from Europe and the Roman Catholic Church has done – SCREW AMERICANS, particularly WASPs.  Americans, finding nothing, just participate in these charades which create handouts and slavery.  Fuck this idea because this is NOT America, the beautiful.  My AMERICA.

22 July 2011

Blog 0707

(Getting ahead of myself!)

I am disgusted with the fascist line of the Republican Party.  I am disgusted with the wimpish reaction of President Obama and the Democrats to the fascist line of the Republican Party.

We don’t need tax cuts for the wealthy and an austerity budget in America today.  This will only lead to disaster.  Use your heads, America.  It was the same type of Republican stonewalling that dug us deeper into the Great Depression.

Americans need a lesson in determining the difference between “a cup of vanilla ice cream and a cup of horse shit.”  (borrowed from Lee Iacocca’s 2007 book, Where Have All the Leaders Gone?)

We have a bunch of career politician / lawyers in Congress who “don’t know their asses from a hole in the ground” (borrowed from my outspoken, now deceased, Republican mother).  They live in a fantasy world of writing legislation.  George Bush was an expert about beer kegs.  It showed.  Our current president is an apparent expert on compromising, compromising, compromising – until the ultra-conservatives WIN!  It shows!  Sad what the Ivy League is teaching people (Georgie at Yale and Obama at Harvard) these days.