Time to be patriotic

... by weakening the upper class

Spike: A new liberator in a time of change

Yeah, a really strong middle class

This is what jobs-is-a-three-letter-word Joe Biden had to say about a task force designed to build a stronger middle class: "This Task Force will be an important vehicle to assess new and existing policies across the board and determine if they are helping or hurting the middle class. It is our charge to get the middle class — the backbone of this country – up and running again."

America is more than the middle class (of which I rest firmly). I wish our leaders would quit with the class envy stuff and promote policies that build a strong America. I don't want to be made stronger only so someone else is made weaker. I want to succeed based on my merit and not because the government taxed someone else to death to give me an extra $13 a week. Just give me back more of my own money instead of sticking your hand in my neighbor's pocket to alleviate my suffering, real or imagined.

Sign, sealed and delivered

Last week, after saying how important it was to do something now about the economy, a stimulus bill was rushed through Congress without any member really having time to read the 1,093 pages. So, what does our president do? After an agreement is reached between the Senate and the House, Barack Obama heads to Chicago for the weekend and doesn't sign the oh, so important bill until Monday afternoon in Denver. Wasn't it Congress that was up in arms about automaker CEOs traveling in private planes to D.C.? Yet, our president and vice president can fly across the country in a show of pomp and circumstance to sign a beheomoth spending bill. Yes, it is a spending bill that will likely have very little stimulative effect. Reach into your pockets and hold tightly onto your change because it will be the only lasting, positive change to come from this administration.