We'll Always Have Emerald City

They had a big football game in San Diego last night in part to honor U.S. service men and women. We'll skip the other controversy there that captured its share of attention.

This is about just how whimpering and weak the U.S. economy remains after monstrous unprecedented gobs of money have been tossed at not just the country but the entire globe after eight years of this administration's stewardship.

We recognize that Helicopter Ben, also known as former Fed Chairmen Ben Bernanke, recently noted why the Fed should keep a negative balance sheet. It's not a long word, though it's tough for some to spell and others to digest, bankruptcy. If the nation goes bankrupt, the premise is you'll need and want even bigger government.

One of this president's early acts in his first term was to seize any cost of inflation allowances for retirees, the elderly and such. It's a feat he carried out twice in eight years while spending wildly on other issues. Returning to that football game celebration of America's arm forces, we offer Mr. President' recent quote that is prime material for stand-up comics fluent in all languages.

In a letter to Congress, Obama said: “I am strongly committed to supporting our uniformed service members, who have made such great contributions to our nation over more than a decade of war. As our country continues to recover from serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare, however, we must maintain efforts to keep our nation on a sustainable fiscal course. This effort requires tough choices, especially in light of budget constraints.”

Now there there too much laughable material in there for a short pice like this, such as "in light of budget restraints," so we are strongly committed to search for any signs of a serious recovery that will affect the general welfare to take a serious path to a sustainable fiscal course, notwithstanding tough choices, and our first not so difficult choice would be to cut the salaries of Congress people and their staffs 75 percent so the money could go in part to boosting servicemen and women at least to a 2.6 percent pay hike. If we can toss in one retiring Congresswoman's retirement plan, we will opt for a full three percent.

Such, in case anyone out there is listening, a promise carried out would most likely put this upcoming election out of reach for one of the two remaking candidates, MSM lying or no. Meanwhile, there's always good comedy club material coming out of the Emerald City. Like that famous movie couple and Paris, we'll always have that.