yellowtail3, as I sit here and type this, I have a gin/lemon/seven in front of me. Last thing I would want to do is deny anybody of a drink. And the first thing I'ld like to do down the road someday, is light up the biggest, stinkiest cigar. I gave that up about 12 years ago, and really miss it.
Point with Obama, can't remember exact details, but he wasn't in office 2 weeks, and he takes off on a plane ride somewhere. And it was a pleasure trip. This guy has logged more flight time in those 747's in one year than any other president to date. Maybe you don't mind paying for those baby's to be in the air, but isn't that what telephone's and 'puters are for? He wants to be green, how much carbon emissions has he put in the air, flying over to the ''earth climate'' meeting, and then to pick his Nobel peace prize. I guess I should be thankful he didn't make a seperate trip for that!He did fly to the Olympics meeting, and didn't pull that one off. Oh well, just about $64,000 an hour for that trip to South America. And the time he flew into Columbus to congratulate the police dept for keeping their present numbers of officers, and hiring 20+ from the new police class. Except it was a local radio dj figured out he spent more in expenses than what the dept got,from the Fed's in grant money, to hire new officers and keep a few of the old. Ya, that's real good economics. Bush started this bailout crap, and he was wrong. It was in Clintons term that they pushed for ARM loans for the low income. Yep, that worked real well didn't it. If Bush1 would have taken Saddam out in the first Gulf war, instead of listening to the UN, a whole lot of our ME problems would have been solved. I don't mind anybody taking a vacation, if they earned it. He hasn't. gypsyman