Thank God, "The Summer of Recovery" is almost over.

Well, it's the first day of school and that means summer is coming to a close. As far as I'm concerned, it's not a minute to soon; for a couple of reasons. Number one, I'm tired of having a heat stroke every time I go out on my patio but, most importantly, I'm hoping that President Obama's "Summer of Recovery" will also be ending soon. Frankly, I don't know how much more we can stand. A few months back, the president's genius PR people came up with that brilliant slogan and for the last couple of months he's been touring the country trying to sell us on how great everything is. Someone might want to tell him that the only reason there are some many people in the audiences of those speeches is that those people don't have jobs. The Department of Labor announced that there were 500,000 new applications for unemployment last week. Holy Crap! How bad would things have been if he hadn't saved us? Incredibly, that's actually the Democrat's party line; "It would have been much worse if we hadn't spent a trillion dollars." Mr. President, stop peeing on our heads and telling us it's raining. I know you think we're all incredibly stupid and, based on the fact that you managed to get yourself elected, a lot of us must be. But there is a limit to how much BS people are going to buy. Where I work, we've laid off about 30% of our work force in the past year and next year isn't looking any better. There is also little doubt that we'll lose our health insurance when the new law goes into effect and be forced to either find less coverage of pay substantially more. These things aren't unique to my industry and they're not market or corporate driven; they're government driven. George Bush and the Republicans definitely did their part to put us here, but Obama and the Dems own this now. Maybe, with the end of summer, and the November elections, we'll get some relief. Speaking of shoveling the horse crap; is there anything funnier than Democrats standing up for freedom of religion? Last week the president and Nancy Pelosi took bold stands for religious freedom; denouncing the persecution of Muslims who are trying to build mosque on top of the death place of three thousand Americans who were murdered by Muslim terrorists. Really? Where are they on the issue of school prayer or a federal judge telling the State of Utah they can't place crosses along the highway to honor fallen state troopers? I bet Jesus roared with laughter like Ed McMahon when he heard those two talk about freedom of religion. What else do you guys support; fiscal responsibility, controlling the borders, tax cuts...? If there are still people out there who are buying this crap, give me a call; I've got some Enron stock I need to unload.