Since “follow the money” is the first rule of politics, that $8.5 million might be important especially in the light of the millions more to come and all of it from taxpayers’ pockets. How much of that will ultimately end back up as campaign contributions to Democrat PAC’s from the ACLU and its members? Foolish question?

The ACLU and fellow travelers get to push their socialist agenda, Democrat politicians get campaign contributions they don’t have to stump for and all of it on the taxpayers’ dime. Who says you can’t have your cake and eat it too!

Oh, one more silly little question, “who gets to pay for the added security for the trial and, just in case the worst happens, who gets to pay for the damage from another Islamic terrorist attack connected with the trial”?  Oh silly me, I should have known! It’s the taxpayers again!

Again, the question arises in my mind as to what will be my response to a probable Obama election win. My first reaction will be to blame the feckless Republican majority that misruled in Congress from 2000 to 2006, looking to line their own pockets instead of standing for the kind of good government and fiscal responsibility that they promised and who were so afraid of the Democrat minority that they caved in every time a filibuster was promised. Then I will blame an inarticulate president who failed to reign in the excesses of his own party and who failed to stand up and fight back against a poisonous left wing press that set about to destroy him as soon as he took office. I will not blame John McCain and Sarah Palin who have fought valiantly against the toughest odds any presidential candidate team has encountered since the McGovern campaign in 1972. The financial meltdown has probably doomed their campaign.

Again, tomorrow will be a new day but I fear it will be the first day of the slow death of democracy in this nation because the fanatical left wing supporters of Barak Obama do not believe in freedom.

I really have to say what’s on my mind today and that has to do with the election. It looks like McCain doesn’t have a chance. The economy has nixed his campaign. So, it looks like we will have a far left president and a further left Congress. The door is wide open for a real dose of socialism in this country. I have to figure out what to do because no matter what the Obama campaign says we all will pay a bunch more in taxes. It will be in the form of higher prices for all kinds of essentials because businesses will have to pass on their increased tax burden and we will have rampant inflation because the new administration will have no choice but to print a bunch more money to be able to keep even a part of the promises they have made. The irony of it all is that all those low income and middle class voters that have fallen for Obama’s promises of change will bear the worst financial burden of it all.

How easily we have forgotten the lessons of the 70′s and early 80′s when the Government Mint printing presses were running over time but I haven’t. I will always remember making $6500 a year in 1972 and having money to burn and then making $12,000 a year in 1983 and barely making it. The public lost over half its buying power in around 10 years. I have not forgotten the 18% interest on housing mortgages either although I, by the grace of God was exempt from that because I bought a house before the shit really hit the fan and my mom, God bless her, gave me the money for the down payment. I had a 7.5% interest rate and darn glad of it and we are now screaming because we think 6% is too high???

Sometimes we get what we wish for and then oh how we wish we had not gotten it. All of us who work or, like me, have worked all their lives and now are retired better get used to hard times because they are coming in spades. You think only the rich are going to get taxed?? Better get used to being rich!

More later.