Who's down with OPP?

I'm kicking it old school. My boy Treach and his posse Naughty by Nature had me bumping and grinding it out on the dance floor of high school dances in the early nineties. What was not to love about that song? It gave this cracker the authority to mess with girls, in a relationship or not, while the other boys played it cool by the punch bowl. For the hip-hop-challenged, that's Other People's Property. You know, even though it doesn't belong to you, go after it. In this case, it was the homies going after the ladies, but it doesn't matter the object of the pilfering. It is the act of taking something that belongs to someone else that poses a moral dilemma. And so it goes with our current administration.

When given the opportunity to spend another's money, why not go on an all out spree? If you are a frugal American, you are very aware of your own expenses. But if you were given a blank check to spend it on whatever you want and some of what you buy would benefit you personally, why not go hog wild? You don't care exactly where the money is coming from, you simply know that you were given a task...spend money. The POTUS BHO has become the nation's personal shopper, spending money we don't have on things we don't necessarily need. He is cramming legislation through that is a combination of spending and welfare. Americans should be furious.

This is our money, no matter how you look at it. Either through taxation or printing soon-to-be-worthless paper: THIS IS OUR MONEY. And to celebrate his victory in signing the stimulus, Obama held a bipartisan dinner where he served Wagyu steaks. For those that do not know what this is, it's the most expensive cut of beef in the world. The animals are tediously cared for and raised in immaculate conditions. You can do your own research on the history of Wagyu and Kobe beef, but the bottom line is that the steaks produced by the cows run around $150 per pound.

Obama's down with OPP. He and his liberal cohorts will chastise CEO's flying around in private jets, Republicans for not grabbing their ankles, and the rich for not wanting to pay higher taxes, but they can avoid their own taxes, accept sweetheart deals, and jet across the country or to Italy, all on our nickel. I am not sure whether citizens don't know or don't care. Either way, if someone or some group does not have the cojones to step up and put a stop to this, we are in danger of continuing the slide down into depression.

I heard the other day that if all income taxes were suspended for twelve months, it would equate to approximately one trillion dollars that the government wouldn't receive. Think about that. The dollar figure associated with performing this action approximately equates to the spending bill that was just passed. Who do you think would be better caretakers our money: The federal government or American citizens? Regardless of your answer, this is your money they are playing with. Wouldn't you want to make the decision as to what businesses survive and which ones fail? We decide where to spend our own money. If government continues to prop up failing businesses and pigeon-hole where dollars are spent, our money is wasted. Of course, the Democrats will never consider this option because their voting base, the bottom 30-40% of income earners already do not pay any sort of income tax.

Now when it comes to spending his own money, PBHO is a little more stingy. Whether or not you were aware, Prime Minister Gordon Brown made his first trip to the U.S. of A. since Obama's inauguration. As is traditionally done, the heads of each state present the other with a gift. The gifts symbolize the special meeting where the item typically represents their respective countries. Items have included artwork and antiques that are almost always put on display in the Capitol, the White House, or Presidential Libraries. The importance of the first meeting requires that a great deal of thought be put into the gifts and the significance of this gesture is profoundly historical.

PM Brown gave our POTUS a pen holder made from the timbers of the HMS Gannet (commissioned as an anti-slave ship), a framed portrait of the HMS Resolute, and a first edition seven-volume set of the Winston Churchill biography ("the greatest argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter"). On top of that, Brown brought gifts of clothes and children's books for the Obama girls. To reciprocate, our POTUS gave Brown a DVD collection of 25 classic American films (not even Blu-Ray) and die-cast models of Air Force One and Marine One for the Brown children. This equates to receiving a box of Allen Brothers Wagyu ribeyes and in return giving the Hickory Farms country sampler basket (MMMMMM..........Summer Sausage...........nom, nom, nom, nom).

So there you have it. Our President is definitely down with OPP, but when it comes to reaching into his own pocket, not so much. In my humble opinion that's wiggida, wiggida wack. You be the judge.