Political Break

I will be glad to get away from election politics for a while. It has become tedious to listen to the usual blather from all politicians and especially those who spout the usual democrat talking points. The following are especially grating:

1. "I want to protect the tax breaks for the "working man". This implies the surgeon, for example, who goes to the hospital at 5:00am and sometimes doesn't leave until 8:00 or 9:00pm after rounds doesn't work. The small business owner who opens his store at 8:00am and works into the night trying to make it better and grow does not work. Their problem is they work too well to get a tax break.

2. War on terrorism. As I have said before, we are in no such war. Our war is with Islamic terrorists and we should say so.

3. "45 million Americans are without health care. "This is nonsense. There may be that many without health insurance, but if they get sick, they get health care if they are intelligent enough to ask for it.

4. "Bush has lost more jobs than any President since Hoover." Of course, Bush didn't lose any jobs. He is not in charge of hiring and firing workers who lost their jobs following the attacks of 9/11/01. He did not burst the internet bubble or close the ridiculous dot.com outfits which closed when the market crashed before he was elected. Furthermore, we don't want to live in a country where the government can come in and tell an international company residing in the U.S. that it must do business in a certain way or hire certain workers at a given salary. Shear demogoguery.

I need a respite from all this nonsense.