Thursday, April 30, 2009

Fight Against Tax Increases Tonight!

Tonight the Macomb County Board of Commissioners will vote on a 9% millage tax increase at 7 p.m. If you wish to protest, please come to the Administration Building at 1 South Main in Mount Clemens at 5:30 p.m. For more information, please log on to www.macombgop.com. I hope to see you there.

G.J. LaRouche, 30 April 2009

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Happy 100 days, Mr. President!

Today is President Barack Obama's 100th day in office. Everybody wants to give him a grade. I'd like to give him a D-. The only reason I'm not giving him an F is because the American flag is still flying on our flagposts, at least for now. On foreign policy and national defense, I must give him an F for several reasons.

First, Obama is reducing our defense budget by about $50 billion. This includes shutting down the F-22 Raptor jet fighter program and reducing missile defense. He's also going to great lengths apologizing about American greatness and kissing up to world dictators. He even went to France and claimed that America was arrogant. Our military cemeteries are filled with the graves of soldiers who paid the ultimate price to defeat oppression around the world for over 200 years. If that is arrogance, I can't imagime what humility looks like. Obama has done noth-ing to keep our enemies at bay. He should've shot down North Korea's Taepodong-2 missile that traveled over Japan. He is also making us captive to China as that country is buying more of our crushing debt.

Now his administration is thinking about bringing charges against the Bush administration for using interrogation techniques on terrorists. Although these techniques have given America valuable information in preventing future attacks on its own soil, Obama wants to bite the hand that kept it safe. And then on Monday, Air Force One flew by at low altitude in New York City for the sake of a photo opportunity with the Statue of Liberty! Obama has gone too far this time. That stupid stunt costs $328,835 according to Fox News. It also scared thousands of New Yor-kers who still remember 9/11 very vividly. No wonder Obama wants to blame Bush for using harsh interrogation methods. He practically inpersonated the terrorists who killed 3,000 of our brothers and sisters! Neither Mayor Michael Bloomberg nor the public was notified of this. It was as if Tom Cruise's character Maverick in 'Top Gun' buzzed the city and scared everybody to death. One 9/11 was tragic enough. We don't need any reminders.

The Obama administration will last 1,461 days and hopefully not a minute longer. Let's ride out the remaining 1,361 days and pray it gets no worse. In this era of higher taxes, bigger govern-
ment, and a shrinking economy, we now have to worry about our own President hitting us with an airplane. I might have to change my D- to an F very soon.

G.J. LaRouche, 29 April 2009

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

The Swine Flu, Part 2!

The swine flu may be a small epidemic for now, but it could turn into a major pandemic if we are careless. However, we must learn from history to prevent making the same mistake. According to Fox News, America faced the swine flu back in 1976. A group of American soldiers from Fort Dix acquired the swine flu, and one sadly died. Then President Ford ordered a nation-wide vaccination to combat this flu. 40 million Americans were vaccinated, but hundreds got sick from the vaccines. This led to the death of at least 100 people. The cure was worse than the disease, courtesy of the United States government. I wonder how many people will die when we get universal healthcare?

When I think of how the press covers tragedies, I'm reminded of Hurricane Katrina back in 2005. Everybody blamed President George W. Bush's administration for the poor response fol-
lowing the hurricane. But there are three factors that you must consider. First, New Orleans be-came flooded only after the storm passed because the levees gave way. They should've been built to handle stronger storms, but politics got in the way of that. Second, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin should've lined up the buses to help the poor and disabled evacuate the city. The people had warning five days ahead of time. The local government sat around for too long. Third, the military rescued dozens of people from rooftops in New Orleans, saving their lives. I wish people would've given President Bush a little credit for that.

I don't know how President Barack Obama will ultimately react to this situation, but he has yet to appoint a Secretary of Health and Human Services or a Surgeon General. Considering his poor track record of his first 100 days with higher taxes, rising deficits, and a weaker image around the world, I fear the worst. I won't wait for Washington to come to the rescue. In the meantime,
I'll just advise all Americans to take their vitamins and wash their hands.

G.J. LaRouche, 28 April 2009

Thursday, April 23, 2009

I wish they all could be California girls!

I'm sure that most of us have seen the controversy between Miss California, Carrie Prejean, and the gay activist judge Perez Hilton over Prejean's answer to the question of allowing gay mar-riage at the Miss America pageant. Hilton asked Prejean if she believed whether or not gays should be allowed to be married. She answered by saying that although people have the right to believe what they want, she believed that marriage should be reserved exclusively between one man and one woman. Good for her. I'm so sick and tired of the same old 'world peace' answer that all those contestants give. What made this so incredibly disgusting was that Hilton actually had the nerve to video himself on his blog, call Prejean a b@#&*, and declare that he would've taken the tiara off her head had she won. These butt pirates have been very sore losers ever since Proposition 8 (which kept the traditional definition of marriage intact) in California won last November. Perez also actually said that Ms. Prejean should've said that the gay issue should be reserved to the states. This is in reality a non-answer. Hilton asked her opinion on traditional marriage and she gave her honest answer. If he didn't want to hear her answer, he shouldn't have asked it in the first place.

Hilton attacked her personally because she is a Christian who believes that Jesus Christ is her Lord and savior, nothing more. He has officially declared open season on devout Christians. But there's something else that nobody else has commented on. Hilton's attack on Prejean was really
a diversion. Gay activists love to attack the Christians because they can't afford to blame the people who defeated Prop 8 - the blacks. Seventy percent of blacks voted for Prop 8 even though 95 percent of them voted for Obama. If the gays started attacking the blacks, the Democratic Party base would be splintered permanently. Prop 8 won by four points thanks to the blacks.
Without the blacks, Prop 8 would've been defeated!

I wish Perez Hilton and his fellow gays would lighten up. The Democrats won big in the last two elections. They should just lick their wounds and try again. Christians aren't preventing them from being butt pirates. They just don't want their marriages made official. And I want to thank Carrie Prejean for standing up for her beliefs despite all of the criticism and for forgiving Hilton for wanting to destroy her life. She's ten times the human being Hilton could ever hope to be. She may have come in second in the contest, but she's Miss America to me. I wish they all could be California girls!

G.J. LaRouche, 23 April 2009

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Help us, Obi Wan Kenobi. We're wearing Snuggies!

All of us have seen it on TV, the Snuggie, the armed blanket that is literally sweeping the nation. Millions of them have been sold. Drinking parties have now been inspired by this new creation.
By the next school year, Snuggie parties will replace toga parties on college campuses. But it suddenly occured to me last night. I've seen this before. The first person to don a Snuggie was Princess Leia from Star Wars. Of all the weapons, inventions, and gadgets that George Lucas inspired, the one that has come to fruition was the Snuggie.

Think about this for a minute. We're not flying around in Millennium Falcons. We can't travel at light speed. We don't have laser pistols or light sabers hanging off of our waists. We don't have laser beams that could blow up entire planets, although the Democrats are working hard on this one with all the money they're spending in Washington. We don't have cars that could hover off the ground. We don't have bionic arms that operate as well as authentic flesh. Instead of any of that, we created a fashion fad from a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away called the Snuggie.

George Lucas should be demanding a percentage of the royalties on this one. What's next? Will women wear their hair to look like cinnamon buns? We should concentrate our efforts into
making technological wonders from the Star Wars movies. It's bad enough Carrie Fisher had to be so humiliated into putting on that notorious hair style. Now she'll be known as the woman who inspired the Snuggie sensation. Help us, Obi Wan Kenobi. We're wearing Snuggies!

G.J. LaRouche, 21 April 2009

Monday, April 20, 2009

Another poor excuse for the government to take our money!

Last Wednesday (April 15th), Warren Mayor Jim Fouts was issued a $100 ticket for going five miles over the speed limit on 12 Mile Road near Ryan. The police officer initially gave Fouts a warning, but the mayor insisted that he receive a ticket. Fouts quipped 'government officials aren't above the law. There's a perception that it's not what you know, but who you know. If I
don't respect the law, how can I expect others to?' Fouts, who was caught speeding while driving his 2009 Dodge Charger to show his support for the American auto industry, said his car attracts police. This is the thanks he gets for buying American? To make matters worse, he was ticketed on tax day.

While the mayor did the right thing by paying the fine, the libertarian in me wants to demand why he should pay in the first place? Violent crime is on the rise with all these mass shootings.
We have at least 12 million illegal aliens in America, many of whom have committed felonies like murder, rape, and drug smuggling. But Janet Reno thought a six-year-old Cuban boy was such a threat to the national security of the United States that she sent dozens of armed thugs to grab Elian Gonzales in the middle of night and send him back to Cuba. Our government has become more than oppressive enough as it is. The Democrats in Washington are running the federal government to the left of the Soviet Union. Our debt is approaching $11 trillion and will double within the next decade, but there's no talk of slapping our politicians with heavy fines. Taxes are skyrocketing at all levels of government everywhere. And now to add insult to injury, a Warren cop extracted an extra $100 from his boss for going five miles over the government-posted speed limit. Gimme a break!

This is just a sad microcosm of how the government will use any dumb excuse to take more of our hard-earned money. The government is making people starve with high taxes as it is. Mayor Fouts was not driving drunk or recklessly. He wasn't harming a sole. He got smacked with a $100 fine for going 5 miles over what the government says we should do. That's ridiculous! Any decent American could be nabbed for that. Meanwhile, Tim Geithner, who owed ten of thou-sands of dollars in taxes for several years, now runs the Treasury Department and the Internal
Revenue Service. We have to voice our concerns against big government. I got it. Let's hold massive tea parties across America.

G.J. LaRouche, 20 April 2009
Source: Steve Neavling (Free Press staff writer)

Friday, April 17, 2009

Thank you for a great Lincoln Dinner!

As we celebrate the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln, I must congratulate the Macomb County Republican Party on putting on a wonderful Lincoln Dinner on April 15th. The food was great. It was also nice seeing former Governor John Engler speak there. Most of all, I want to personally thank all of you who signed the card (actually it was the paper with the card) for Megyn Kelly to wish her well on her baby which is due in October. I did not plan this ahead of time. On Wednedsay morning while watching 'America's Newsroom,' Megyn was interviewing Congressman Pete Hoekstra on his proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to protect the rights of parents. Hoekstra passively mentioned Megyn's pregnancy. I then went on the internet to confirm the story. I thought of giving her a card just from me. Then it suddenly hit me. Since I was going to the Lincoln Dinner that night, I had to help all of you to wish her well. My mission was a smashing success. I was able to collect about 200 of your signatures. I sent the card and your signatures to Fox News yesterday. I'm anxious for Megyn to receive our everlasting love and support. Thanks again for everything. This is to prove that the Republican Party is the pro-life party because I couldn't have achieved that with Democrats.

G.J. LaRouche, 17 April 2009

God save the Queen and Susan Boyle!

Thursday morning on 'America's Newsroom' on Fox News, Bill Hemmer and Megyn Kelly showed a video of a woman named Susan Boyle. Boyle, a 47-year-old who claimed she's never been kissed, appeared on the show 'Britain's Got Talent' hosted by Simon Cowell. Ms. Boyle, who was dressed in an old-fashioned house dress and looked older than her chronological age, sang the song 'I Dreamed a Dream' from Les Miserables. She pierced right through the thousands of fresh-faced twentysomethings and the three judges - one of whom was Cowell - as soon as she started singing with her lovely soothing voice. It was as if heaven opened up while Boyle fascin-
ated the crowd with her golden pipes. She received a rousing standing ovation and three very enthusiastic yesses from the judges.

Millions have watched her performance on YouTube. I thought it was one of the most inspira-tional performances ever. I don't think Susan Boyle will remained unkissed much longer. I think her dreams are about to come true. It was a moment truly worthy of royalty. God save the queen and Susan Boyle. Bravo!

G.J. LaRouche, 17 April 2009

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

MEGYN KELLY IS EXPECTING!

Fox News anchorwoman Megyn Kelly is going to have a baby! She and her husband of one year,
Doug Brunt, are expecting their first child on October 6th. I want to congratulate them on bring-ing a new life into this world. As some of you know, I have Megyn's autographed picture which
is a permanent fixture on my nightstand. Now I appreciate it more than ever. On a day when everybody is worried about higher taxes, more government, and less freedom, it's nice to hear some great news. Let's wish the Brunts nothing but the best.

G.J. LaRouche, 15 April 2009

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

It was April Fool's Day on smokers!

While on the campaign trail, Senator Barack Obama promised that he would cut taxes for 95% of all Americans. Obviously, all smokers are un-American because he recently increased taxes on cigarettes. On April 1st, the federal cigarette tax will increase by 62 cents to a total of $1.01 per pack, to fund the expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program...(1) S-CHIP was originally designed to provide health care only to poor families. Now it has been expanded to the middle class.


According to a survey commissioned by the marketers of Nicorette, smokers are very concerned about the price of cigarettes. (2) 56% of smokers say the April 1st price increase will prompt them to smoke fewer cigarettes and 72% say the price increase on cigarettes would increase their intention to quit. (3) 47% of smokers say they would cut back on cigarettes because of the economy. (4) Fox News also reported that poorer people are more likely to smoke than weal-thier people. This is wealth redistribution in reverse because the poor are paying for health care for the middle class. These poor people are the ones who put President Obama into office. To add insult to injury, they can't even enjoy a fine Cuban cigar because of the Cuban trade embargo. Speaking of cigars, Fox News reporter Phil Keating stated that the tax on cigars went up 700% - from 5 cents to 40 cents per cigar.


"Research shows that smokers are more likely to try to quit when the price of cigarettes goes up," said Dr. Frank Chaloupka, professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago

and affiliate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. "Given the recent tax hike and the state of the economy, now would be a great time for smokers to re-evaluate how smoking affects their finances and calculate how much they could save by quitting. A typical pack-a-day smoker

could be spending approximately $2,000 each year on cigarettes, but no matter how expensive

it is to smoke, quitting smoking is a big challenge." (5)


Did you catch that last sentence? It now costs about $6 for a pack of cigarettes thanks to taxes.

The percentage of those who smoke has been going down for several years. When these poor smokers start dying off without having as many people to replace them, what happens to S-CHIP? The politicians will then increase the cigarette tax again very soon and very steeply. I find it tragically ironic that Republicans as well as Democrats pushed for this tax increase on a very unhealthy habit to pay for health care for others. Yet these are the same politicians who will probably increase funding for smoking cessation programs. Can't they make up their minds?

Either way, the taxpayers are the fools because the joke's on us. I hope all of you will have a happy Tea Party Day tomorrow. In the meantime, we need all you smokers to light up so the government can pay for health care. This includes you, President Obama.


G.J. LaRouche, 14 April 2009


1-5. Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com, "Federal Cigarette And Current Economy Will

Change Smoker's Habits.

Thursday, April 9, 2009

LET'S CONGRATULATE THE LADIES!

The University of Connecticut women's basketball team became the team of destiny as it defeated Louisville 76-54 to win the NCAA national championship. UConn not only won the championship as an undefeated team (39-0), but it also won every game in double digits. This has never happened before in college basketball. Head coach Geno Auriemma has now won his sixth national championship with the Lady Huskies. In fact, this is his third undefeated team.
He also achieved perfection in 1995 and 2002. This means that Auriemma has had three perfect seasons seven years apart. Following this pattern, the Lady Huskies should achieve another perfect season in 2016. Coach Auriemma should start recruiting the best 13-year-old basketball players in the nation right now just for this purpose. It would serve the program well. I really need to congratulate the UConn women's basketball team for an incredible season.

G.J. LaRouche, 9 April 2009
(from the Detroit News Wire Services)

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

NORM COLEMAN VS. STUART SMALLEY

The election for the U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota between Republican Senator Norm Coleman and Democratic challenger Al Franken (aka Stuart Smalley) still rages on. After election night,
Coleman had a lead of about 750 votes. Now after several recounts, Smalley has a lead of about 312 votes according to Fox News. Many huge legal battles have ensued in the meantime. There have also been a lot of suspicious things going on in this election. Remember all of those ballots for Smalley that were found in the trunk of a car? Remember the precincts that had more votes for Smalley than registered voters? This has become more confusing than just about anybody can imagine. I fear that this will rage on for a long time.

Everybody is always emphasizing that this race is so close. What we should examine is why it is so close. About a month before the election, Senator Coleman voted in favor of the original $700 billion stimulus package that was designed to bail out the housing crisis and had tons of pork in it.
Minnesotans were very upset at Coleman for abandoning the Republican Party's conservative roots with just that one vote. Had he voted no on that bill, he probably would've won by about
100,000 votes and avoided this whole mess in the first place. I have no idea how this mess will be settled, but if Coleman loses, it will be his own doing. The simple lesson here is that Repub-
licans cannot afford to abondon their principles. This is too bad because Smalley isn't good enough, smart enough, and doggone it, people really don't like him to be a U.S. Senator.

G.J. LaRouche, 8 April 2009

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

CONGRATULATIONS, TAR HEELS!

Last night at the NCAA national championship game in men's basketball, the North Carolina Tar Heels defeated the Michigan State Spartans by a score of 89-72 at Ford Field in Detroit. I'm sure almost everybody in Michigan (even some Michigan fans if I can say that) wanted the Spartans to win. Sadly, it wasn't meant to be. The Tar Heels caused a lot of turnovers and converted them into fast-break points. I do want to congratulate MSU head coach Tom Izzo for making an incredible run for the championship. The Spartans defeated two number one seeds in their previous games (Louisville and Connecticut) to make it to the big game in their home state. North Carolina was another #1 seeded team, and they proved to be too much for the Spartans. I do want to congratulate the North Carolina Tar Heels for winning its fifth NCAA championship in its program. They deserved their victory.

G.J. LaRouche, 7 April 2009

Monday, April 6, 2009

ARMS FOR BONDS!

Over this past weekend, North Korea launched a Taepodong-2 missile, a 3-stage rocket that has a range of about 4,100 miles. North Korea, one of the most oppressive Communist regimes in the world, is sharpening its swords and telling the rest of the world that it means business. North Korea claimes that a satillite was on the rocket, although it could've been topped with a nuclear device destined to kill millions. The rocket most likely went about 2,000 miles before landing in the Pacific Ocean. Even President Barack Obama condemned the action. The United Nations Security Council convened, but did nothing. (typical) Fox News analyst and national security expert K.T. McFarland concluded on 'Fox and Friends' Sunday that North Korea was doing this as a demonstration to attract interested buyers like Iran. In other words, it was a sales pitch.

Whoa! Stop the presses! You mean to tell me a Communist country wants to sell products for profit? How dare they. The profit motive cuts against everything that Communism stands for. Karl Marx is turning over in his grave. North Korea must spread the wealth around if it is going to sell missiles. Something must be done about this. China must intervene, but it has two prob-
lems. First, China may not want to buy up our trillions of dollars of United States Treasury Bonds because America is in tremendous debt. And second, I hope China doesn't want North Korea to become an unstable nuclear threat. Therefore, China should kill two birds with one stone by implementing the "Arms for Bonds" program. Here's the plan.

If North Korea sells any nuclear or missile technology to any country, The Chinese government shall tax North Korea at 90%, which is the normal Communist tax rate. If 90% is good enough for AIG bonuses, it's good enough for North Korea. Then China should devote all of that money to pay our US Treasury Bonds. If North Korea is discouraged from selling nuclear material, great! If North Korea sells anything, America's debts go down. Either scenerio is a win-win outcome for America. But from now on, if any evil country launches a missile, America must shoot it down and take appropriate military action. In the meantime, America should never tolerate North Korea's unstable regime.

G.J. LaRouche, 6 April 2009

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Let me formally introduce myself and DREAD!

I know some of you have been reading my blog without knowing much about me. My name is G.J. LaRouche, and I've been an active member of the Macomb County Republican Party since 1997. I've volunteered for many campaigns and participated in many events like parades. I've been a precinct delegate and a state delegate from Michigan representing Macomb County since 1998. Today, America faces huge challenges since Democrats control the White House, both chambers of Congress, most governorships, most mayorships of big cities, most state legisla-tures, and countless local offices. In Macomb County, the Democrats enjoy a 20-6 majority on the Board of Commissioners. They are about to vote on a huge millage tax increase later this month. They also possess a 22-4 majority on the Charter Commission, which will author the new charter for Macomb County. Two of the biggest issues for this charter involve the establishment of a County Executive and a reduction in the number of County Commissioners. This will in-crease taxes sharply. The Democrats also have a monopoly of all five county-wide seats. In Michigan, Governor Jennifer Granholm (whom I call 'Jihad Jennifer') rules the state with an iron fist as she has ballooned taxes and spiked spending to great heights. Democrats also control the State House and have a 20-18 minority in the State Senate. Conservatives like me have a huge mountain to climb, but there is a solution. This is where THE DREAD BLOG comes in.

So why is it called DREAD? It's actually based on an old idea. Back in the 1970s when disco topped the charts, a Detroit radio station (WRIF, 101.1 FM) established DREAD, the acronym for Detroit Rockers Engage in the Abolition of Disco. The DREAD card united rock fans across Michigan. It evoked their visceral emotions and galvanized their resolve to destroy disco once and for all. Now I'm bringing back DREAD for today's tough times. But this time, DREAD stands for Devoted Republicans Engage Against the Democrats. I want to do to the Democrats what the original DREAD did to disco.

I ran for the Charter Commission last year because I wanted the Macomb County Charter
to reflect the values and virtues of the United States Constitution. (I didn't even win in the primary.) Sadly, the Democrats want to use the Charter as a weapon to oppress the good citizens of Macomb County. In my flyer that I used to advertise my election, I wrote something very haunting. I wrote: 'I do not fear that America will be a socialist country. I fear America already is a socialist country.' Even I am shocked at how prophetic I am. I honestly believe that the Democratic Party has literally become the American wing of the Communist Party. This may sound harsh, but it's true. The Democrats want to cut billions out of the military budget, print trillions of dollars of money we don't have, raise taxes through the roof, tripple the national debt in the next ten years, fight for abortions on demand, and take away our God-given freedoms. This is madness, and it must stop now.

But my number one issue is entitlement reform. These programs (Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid) currently have about $60 trillion in unfunded liabilities! This means that the govern-
ment won't be able to pay for the benefits of future recipients unless taxes go way up and bene-
fits go way down. I don't have a Ph.D. in economics, but I know a catastrophe when I see one. I want to use DREAD to advance a plan that I'm developing that will completely privatize these entitlement programs in the next four decades while lowering taxes and stabilizing the benefits.
I will keep you posted on my progress. Then I'll let you know what you can do to help. I will dedicate my life to this goal. If we don't reform the system soon, America will literally go bank-rupt within the next ten years. This will be tough because a lot of special interests will be fight-
ing. But I don't care. America is in trouble, and we don't need Democrats getting in the way. Together we will succeed. Thank you.

G.J. LaRouche, 4 April 2009

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

TO THE MOON, AMERICA!

We all know that the Democrats are creating budgets and deficits to dizzying heights. It may be hard for us to grasp the numbers, so I'll give you an astronomical perspective on the situation. If our current budget woes could be stacked in $100 bills, how far would that take us? Let me give you this demonstration.

A dollar bill of any denomination is about 0.0043 inches thick. (1) This means it would take 232 bills to equal one inch; 2,790 bills to equal one foot; and 14,734,883 bills to equal one mile. So a pile of $100 bills stacked a mile long would equal $1,473, 488, 300. Given this projection, it would take 678.66 miles of stacked $100 bills to equal $1 trillion! This would literally put you in orbit now. We don't need NASA to take us into outer space. The federal goverment, with the Democrats controlling the spaceship, is already doing a fine job of that. It's time for the Republi-cans to take over the ship and land it back on earth.

Now let me give you more numbers that'll blow your mind away. This is how our budgets look like in stacks of $100 bills:
1) The $4 trillion budget for Fiscal Year 2009 = 2,714.65 miles;
2) The $13 trillion national debt = 8,822.60 miles;
3) The $60 trillion in unfunded liabilities from the entitlement programs (Social Security,
Medicare, and Medicaid) = 40,719.70 miles.
4) The $165 million in AIG bonuses = 591.4 feet! (This is less than two football fields.)

Did you catch the last one? We have to stop the madness now before we float aimlessly into space. This crisis is the monetary equivalent of a non-stop heroin fix because America will eventually overdose. Heck, not even the Dr. Carl Sagan could comprehend numbers this large. There's one other statistic I need to give you. The distance between the earth and the moon is about 240,000 milies. (2) So if you stacked a pile of one-dollar bills from the earth to the moon,
that bundle would equal about $3.536 trillion, which is approximately the budget for FY 2010.
We're all familiar with that famous sit-com "The Honeymooners" when Ralph yells to Alice, 'one of these days. One of these days. Pow, right to the moon!' I'm afraid we've reached that destin-
ation, but that is just one giant leap in human suffering. America, we have a problem.

1) Source: Purky, William W. and Stanley, Paula H. "Blue Leader One: A Metaphor For
Invitational Education."
2) Source: www.funtrivia.com.