Your mom

Having conversations with my "significant other" is really just torture. Even with politics ignored, we agree on nothing. Why is this? This is because no matter how much you vow to avoid politics in coversation or in practice, your partisan identities emerge through things you thought were neutral, like grocery shopping. We ran to the store the other evening to purchase things like chips, salsa, etc for a little party I was hosting. While standing in line at the check out counter we observed an elderly couple who had an overflowing cart full of food and prescription drugs. When it came time to pay, their credit card was declined. The cashier ran it again, declined. Little old granny was in tears and gran poppy looked like he was about to pull out his war metals and shove them in the cashier girls face as if to say "I served my country, for like four whole months...so you should give me my food biotch". Okay, he probably wouldn't have done that but I can imagine a certain politician who happens to be running in the coming election that would do that if only he still had his war medals. Haha. I crack myself up.

The lovely boyfriend of mine decided that this unfortunate event was the result of my beloved President Bush and his distribution of $90 billion dollars of social security surplus. I literally fell to the ground on the parking lot, convulsing with hysterical laughter. Dude if I had to pee, I would have done it right then and there. Anyway, Mr. Boyfriend decided that it is the governments responsibility to support mammy and pappy when they've blown the rest of their money on cruises and hair dye. It is not unreasonable to expect some minor compensation from the government once you've reached the good old age of retirement, but to demand practical welfare just because you didn't plan properly for retirement is just insane. And this my friends, is why social security should be privitized anyway. Give the people the money they are "entitled" to and let them capitalize on it as they choose. If that leaves them at 80 with a dozen spoiled to death grand children and no cash flow then tell them to give their kiddies a call, not my President.

As for Dubya's decision to distribute the surplus, I've got one thing to say...okay maybe a couple. You whining devilcrats complain about the economy and as soon as the President attempts to stimulate it, you complain some more. You offer no solutions, just more whining. The day you tell me how you would fix the problem is the day I'll give you some respect. I'm not so sure what kind of economics you've studied, but the way it looks to me is that in order to get money circulating you've got to give it someone so they can spend it. $90 billion isn't going to do anyone any good just sitting around looking all green and pretty. So there.