Good question

Following a statement on the Floor of the House of Representative, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement:

“Why is it we have finite resources for health care but unlimited money for war?

“The inequities in our economy are piling up: trillions for war, trillions for Wall Street and tens of billions for the insurance companies. Banks and other corporations are sitting on piles of cash of taxpayer’s money while firing workers, cutting pay and denying small businesses money to survive.

“People are losing their homes, their jobs, their health, their investments, their retirement security; yet there is unlimited money for war, Wall Street and insurance companies, but very little money for jobs on Main Street.

“Unlimited money to blow up things in Iraq and Afghanistan, and relatively little money to build things in the US.

“The Administration may soon bring to Congress a request for an additional $50 billion for war. I can tell you that a Democratic version of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is no more acceptable than a Republican version of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“Trillions for war and Wall Street, billions for insurance companies... When we were promised change, we weren’t thinking that we give a dollar and get back two cents.”

Thanks, George. Let's do it again sometime.

George Carlin ~ May 12, 1937 - June 22, 2008

Friday Fill-in

Mystery Dialog from Mystery Movies

1. "I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, and make the hair in my nose glow in the dark."

2. "Why is the marijuana always gone?"

3. "Harold, *everyone* has the right to make an outlaw happy."

4. "Nine companions, so be it. You shall be Three Wise Men, Thelma and Louise, Scooby-Do, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Charro, and Dorothy Parker."

5. "Nonsense, I have not yet begun to toss cowpies."

6. "Mama says they was magic shoes. They could kick your ass into next week."

7. And as for the weekend: tonight I'm looking forward to sleep sleep sleep; tomorrow my plans include a long walk in the park; and Sunday, I want to avoid the kitchen!