Don't Buy Stuff You Can Not Afford

I've officially joined Twitter. I had joined about two years ago, but did nothing with it till #SCOTUS upheld #obamacare. And now I'm a little #addicted. #ifyoucouldnttell.  Nevertheless, I follow @BarackObama to keep up with his @truthteam2012. 11 hours ago, the President tweeted this twitpic. (And we wonder why journalism has deteriorated? Possibly it is because our journalists use more symbols than letters, and can only produce thoughts of 140 characters or less. But I digress...) This twitpic could be used by the @MittRomney campaign to characterize the #commonsense discrepency between our current President @BarackObama, and the candidate who will be elected

November 6, 2012, @MittRomney.

As a fan of @SaturdayNightLive, it made me immediately think of the brilliant skit including the fantastic @SteveMartin: #dontbuystuffyoucantafford. A few of the classic lines are:

Wife: Let me see that... [grabs book, reads] "If you don't have any money, you should not buy anything." Hmm, sounds interesting

Husband: Sounds confusing.

Wife: I don't know honey, this makes a lot of sense. There's a whole section here on how to buy expensive things using money you save.

Husband: Give me that... [grabs book, looks at it] And where would you get this saved money?

Spokesman: I tell you where and how in Chapter 3.

Wife: Ok, so what if I want something but I dont' have any money Spokesman: You don't buy it.

Common Sense at its finest. Even SNL gets it.

I'm not buying another 4 years of President Obama in November 2012. I know we can't afford it.

@Momsin2politics

#iapprovethismessage



Encroaching power

"Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon the American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality

swallow up the whole society. "

-- John Adams, Novanglus Letters, 1774