Here's one: If ten people have dinner and nobody can figure out the tip, they are probably a party of ten Republican voters.

I wouldn't get overly excited about this. Most states (although not most people) are red....conservative. ​ ...closed minded....traditiona ​ l....led by by the nose with old thinking. Too many people are uninformed, have no sense of history, and are hell bent to tell others how to live, what to believe, how to think....more

Here's a quick article translation: America is filled to the brim with beautiful clubs populated by gracious and lovely people, excellent health institutions, luxurious yacht basins, wonderful visuals, exciting vistas, fine restaurants, amazing entertainment, delicious foods, luxurious living. And YOU can't have any.

yeh....you're right. Too much. I apologize. But hell, how much redneck do we have to endure before we get back to a civil discourse?

Like we did with G. Bush even as he STOLE the 2000 election (and lost the popular vote, to boot), we honor the contract of majority rule. We put up with Bush's bs, his trumped up wars, his EXECUTIVE ORDERS, his ruining the economy then slithering off to Dallas to eat steaks on your dime for the rest of his regal days (...more

You ask, 'how does this spending get into the budget'? The Congress. Only the Congress. Congress controls the purse strings. The President controls ZERO of it. In this latest election, Boehner and all those spenders won control of the house...yet again. Voters put those spenders right back in those seats, and once agai...more

We "idiots" are the majority. If you don't like democracy and can't honor the outcomes of an election, we invite you to become a citizen of ....someplace else.

Last month Senators and Congress-people stood on the Capital steps, sang Amercia the Beautiful, then went home.  Nothing accomplished. How much does it cost us for these morons to fly to D.C. (yes...taxpayers pay for that) then sing a song. How much does it cost for these fools to assemble and name a post office and no...more

It's sad commentary of our day that one must adapt to brutal cynicism to accommodate economic reality, but alas, such is the requirement of our lives in order to maintain a steady fiscal personal compass. Unlike Army's comments above, I don't find the need to declare poverty in order to keep the pocket-pickers out of m...more