A-Z ALLITERATIONS

Apple analogies always annoy Android.

Bankers bank Bitcoins before bankruptcy.

Can cantankerous Camels conquer cancer?

Damaging damns during draining diatribes deemed dangerous.

Engaging engineers entwine exigencies exiting energy exercises.

Freakin’ fabrications foil faithful fable fosterers.

Great globs glue gleaming gastronomical gizmos.

High-strung Henrietta hails hack haltingly.

Instant iPhones instigate investigation.

Jelly jiggles joyfully joining junior’s jumper.

King Kong kicks Kipling’s kangaroo.

Lanky longshoreman lassoes loose llama.

Mawkish macaw masticates mate’s mash.

Noteworthy notaries nix nasturtium network.

Octopus occupies octogenarian’s ocarina.

Pius pensioner pushes pink pinafores.

Quaint quack quickens quivering quaff.

Roofer rips rompers razing ragtag ridgepole.

Silly Sally slips solecisms selling sports.

Titillating tattlers tender tall tales to tattletales.

Ukrainians unveil ukase undercutting unicorn understanding.

Valiant valet vaulted valley vanquishing Volker.

Washington wag wishes Walmart well whacking wage warriors.

Xavier Xeroxes Xmas X-Box.

Yankee yanked yak yesterday.

Zack zaps zinnia zombie.

ANNOYING ALPHABETIC ALLITERATIONS

Alliteration almost always amalgamates advocates avowing adverbial acrobatic antics anchoring aggravating announcements and adversarial aliens aligning any anecdotal apprehensions available. Ahem!

Basic babyhood begs boyhood ballyhoo before beguiling beautiful babe batting baby-blues bewitchingly.

Cough cancels Carl's conjoining Cheesehead chopsuey cohort conclave.

Doughnuts devour dollars delivering delicious delights deviously denying desirable derriere dimensions.

Easy enterprises exhaust electrifying elementary elocution emasculating energetic educational excellence exceedingly enervating enfeebled evasiveness.

Flat feet flabbergast fledgling fielders flagging flies falling fleetly from fouling fellers.

Giggling gigolos glare glowingly glad-handing gangling girls gaily gaining grotesque grams gradually.

Hens holding hands haltingly hear hollering hellions hanging halters heifers hate.

Izzy insists inking investment instrument instinctively involves instant insanity, insecurity indubitably.

Jazz junkies jamming jinx jerks juggling javelins joyfully jigging.

Kitchens keep ketchup kettles.

Look, Lizzie leaps leopards lazily lassoing lollygagging llamas.

Migrating moose mosey mountain-ward miming misunderstood mammals minding masticating minions.

Nostrums neither negate nor nettle notoriously negative nemeses.

Oleaginous onions offend oleomargarine operative.

Pallid pallbearer parades parquet preceding platypus planting,

Quaker qualms quiet quarrels.

Rally Rotarians render raucous rondos recounting racy reunion roguishness.

Sassy senorita sashays sideways sloshing Singapore Sling so senor senses serious sensibilities.

Tormented toreador treads tenderly tending tipping tequila toward tongue.

Unfortunate unctuous uncle understands unicycle union upsurge.

Vacuous vegetarian vandalizes veldt vouchsafed voluntarily.

Wacko weirdo wacked while watching Washington wastrels.

Xenophobe xerographs Xerxes’ X-ray.

Yahoo yanks yammering yeoman.

 Zany Zulu zaps zebra.

PENNIES EARNED

 

Is there one penny of governmental revenue that does not somehow originate in business?

Obviously, the answer is no.

At any level of government, from sewerage district to the federal establishment, business earnings pay all the bills (or build the debt), directly or indirectly. Yet, how often does a politician cite that basic tenant of government finance?

Seldom, if ever, it would seem.

Even truly non-profit enterprises, such as charities, raise money from people who have it. They pay salaries, which in turn are taxable. For-profit organizations sell products or offer services or combine both for money derived from customers, who get their money from working or from inheritance. But even inherited money had to come from work-produced income sometime.

Thinking caps can come up with no source not connected somehow with business. Even treasure uncovered from the earth or dredged from a sunken galleon somehow had to be derived from licit or even illicit work that was somehow taxed.

So does this mean entrepreneurship and business enterprise are always good. Again, obviously, not. Leaving criminality aside, not all legitimate businesses are ethical. That, also, is a given. Government has a place to oversee administration of justice in keeping business honest.

Elected and appointed governmental officials at all levels often show no acknowledgment of the true source of public revenue. How could they when they ignore deficits and debt in running – or ruining -- the machinery of government?

We citizens will get no relief from the oppressive governments we unwittingly have put into place until we demand through the ballot box our due.

Partisan politics has not been conducive to providing the commonweal. But we are stuck with it. Thus, we must pick and choose between candidates, regardless of the party flag they fly, to find those truly willing to work for the good of all rather than for a career slurping business-produced revenue for their personal egos.

Workable government, even if it might require more revenue, is dependent upon the golden egg of private enterprise. Protecting the goose is everyone’s concern. But force feeding the goose for political foie gras is not right, either. All that’s needed is to recognize that the healthy goose keeps laying eggs if permitted to range relatively free.

PLAYER OR REFEREE

Fifty years of war on poverty. Twenty trillion, 700 billion tax dollars spent. Poor people still some 14 percent of the population, meaning more now than in 1964.

LBJ, in declaring the war, said he wanted to replace poverty with jobs. Some tax “investment” was needed to accomplish that, he said. Lyndon Byrd Johnson was wrong. Barrack Hussein Obama is wrong in seeking to spend more and more on continuing the tax-funded “weapons” in that unending war.

Two real attacks, which might be called principles, could reduce poverty (poverty may never be eliminated because of the nature of humanity).

Teach youth Reading, ‘Riting and ‘Rithmatic.

Foster an economic climate that encourages business in all its form.

First, teaching is the job of parents, who must demand that schools do their jobs, too.

Secondly, voters must demand that government at all levels recognize the reality that each tax dollar is generated by private commerce, and that each dollar belongs to the governed not to the governors.

Putting those principles into effect will be pretty hard to do with the present climate in this country. The family is in trouble. Governmental functionaries think they know all the answers.

Voters must learn more facts. They must try to spread those facts. They must agitate.

Then they must vote the rascals out. They must vote in common sense people intent upon letting the American system work – imposing only meaningful restraints, eliminating the fanciful – for the benefit of all.

Rich, poor, middle class all can gain when government stops playing and just referees.

The Wonder!

They made the trip because the government said so.

There were no vacancies, and she was about to give birth.

They could find only a stable.

There the Child was born.

News spread with angels singing.

Sheep herders welcomed the Baby.

Three stargazers from the east looked for the Baby.

These wise men gave the Child expensive gifts.

A royal threat forced the family to flee the country.

Back home, the Boy grew and learned carpentry.

He traveled the land telling of His Father and of His real home that He wished to share with everyone.

At his last Passover meal He began the sharing of His very self.

His life ended in torture so that all who had ever lived or who would live could find happiness forever.

A couple thousand years have gone by.

This history remains central to human life.

God is with us.

No wonder the celebration of His birth.

The Wonder!

May peace embrace the earth

 this Christmas and beyond.

The New Year brings another chance.

MAKING TIME TO DO THE IMPOSSIBLE

Very strange is the contemporary treatment of the tea party.

Democrats – and much of the news media -- treat it as a villain of deepest depravity; many Republicans see it as an obstructionist power.

But in reality, is not the tea party a popular movement having little organization that seeks to encourage politicians to operate the government in accord with the Constitution? Supporters, who are not active in the movement, seem to view the tea party as such. The perceived goal is not pernicious but rather patriotic.

Critics of the tea party from all sides focus on congressional Representative and Senators who were elected to do something about unrestrained public spending and the debt that precipitates for trying to deliver on their campaign promises. In recent political maneuvering they hung tough in an effort to make progress on their goals. They were excoriated for ignoring the solidified voting of a Senate bloc and a spin-driven President, and for not joining the Republican establishment’s recognizing that reality.

Under the system, the constituents who in the 2012 elected voices in both houses heard their concerns raised in the Congress. What is wrong with that?

George Will in a recent column uses an article by Jonathan Rauch in National Affairs quarterly on James Madison’s design of the U.S. government. Wills argues that President Obama wants to change Madison’s plan by wielding legislative branch rubber stamps to his fiats, while the tea party defies the Founder’s design though intransigence.

A fair reading of tea party goals is this: enough government by the consent of the governed to permit people to live in freedom at a public cost  they can afford.

There’s nothing unreasonable about that.

But finding such balance in the country’s current condition involves a philosophical clash of politicians loath to confront legislated federal aid obligations that grow in cost without legislative restraint. Those obligations are called entitlements.

That term in itself explains the problem. A congressional search for reduced tax burdens caused by guaranteed claims absent rancor becomes neigh on impossible.

As the Seabees said in WW II, the difficult we do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer.

How much time do we have?

DO THE JOB!

So, realistically, is there a way to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling that constitutes compromise and no capitulation on the part of the Republican federal lawmakers?

Conservatives and liberal Republicans both seek an answer. So far, no proposal has moved President Obama and his Democrats, who seem an immovable phalanx in opposition. Except for a few demonstrating veterans trying to open war memorials and some tourists ignoring or removing blockading cones and portable barriers at national parks, the U.S. citizenry seems nearly bored.

When the computers behind food stamp electronic cards failed for a few hours to record limits, some savvy users denuded shelves in several Wal-Mart stores; but those opportunists were moved by greed not political anxiety.

Democrats, it seems, can hardly wait ‘til the $17 billion debt limit is breached with ensuing chaos haunting 2014 voters – such as food stamp users – so that Republicans join Whigs as historic curiosities.

And, of course, the problem of funding government for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1 also requires resolution.

Had elected members of our federal governmental done their jobs, none of this would have happened. Government would be up and running and domestic and foreign investors in U.S. securities would be paying for it. Done their jobs? Well, they have not done that for a long time – even when government kept running – because that debt kept growing and growing. Jobs well done would not have permitted that, except in time of war and crisis.

Even though Oct. 17 may not mark Armageddon, it could be the starting line of a race into a dark national future.

From past history, one can assume that some temporary solution will be had in a rather short time after the deadline. Chances are, that won’t be a final solution, and it shall not be good for the country, its economy, its future.

Being optimistic, Election Day 2014 will arrive. That will be the time something should done.

But before then, the what of done has to be articulated and sold to the electorate. That’s a nationwide campaign.

Campaign? A campaign to turnover – completely – the Congress. All new members. Democrats where there are now Republicans in the House; Republicans where there are Democrats. Plus, one-third of the senators turned out by their opponents.

A Democratic House dominated by new members of both parties would be smart enough to know they were now in office to do the bidding of an aroused and demanding citizenry wanting actual representative government. Similarly, the Senate – having a third of its members awaiting perhaps a similar fate in 2016 and another third in 2020 – would consider a change in work habits mandatory.

Realistically, the election results needn’t turn over 100 percent of the House to get members doing their jobs; even losses by 25 percent of incumbents would be significant; the higher the percentage, the higher the chances of bringing sanity to Washington.

And what about President Obama under such circumstances?

The country would learn his true character.