No Wonder the Taxpayer's are in Debt!

The House of Representavive's Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, called a press conference recently to show off their new $140,000 cafeteria! There were top-of-the-line units that were equipped with motion sensors, connected to automatic window shades that open and close according to incoming light levels. When ask, "Was there anything wrong with the old fixtures?" She should have replied, "Nothing that taxpayer money can't cure!"
And the taxpayers are supposed to save the Postal Service from going "broke" by raising the price of a postage stamps from 44 cents to 46 cents; and the price of a postcard from 20 cents to 30 cents!
Then we have the problem of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It was the Secretary of State that revealed there was going to be a lawsuit brought against the state of Arizona's immigration law; not the Justice Department! It was news to Gov. Jan Brewer, she had been told the matter was still "under review." (The lawsuit could easily cost millions, but what the heck, the taxpayer's can afford it!)
There was an e-mail, reported by Foreign Policy, that 13 offers of assistance had come from the governments of Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, the Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United Nations. These offers included "experts in various aspects of oil spill impacts, research and technical expertise, booms, chemical oil dispersants, oil pumps, skimmers, and wild life treatments."
The answering e-mail read, "While there is no need right now that the U.S. cannot meet. The U.S. Coast Guard is assessing these offers of assistance to see if there will be something which we will need in the near future." (After all, it's only the taxpayer's money!)
According to The San Francisco Chronicle, "The Dutch offered to fly their skimmer arm systems to the Gulf three days after the oil spill started. The offer was turned down because the EPA regulations did not allow water with oil to be pumped back into the ocean."
And on June 15th, Politico broke this story: "Phil Schilito, White House congressional liaison, [said] that ... [the] Cap and Trade bill" would be combined with the bill already passed by the House in a lame-duck session, after the election, so House members won't have to take another tough vote in the midterm elections. (The "six-month moratorium" which Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) says will cost 154,000 jobs and prolong the recession. The Obama Administration seems not worried about this at all!)
However, the industriousness of the American people will clean up the oil spill! The Americans will not sit around and wait for a commission! And they are not going to wait to take the "boot off the necks of their people!"