Predictions, Dems lie and Government Stinks

Here’s the short, short version of a personal story. My daughter was sick as a baby, we took her to the doctor over and over and over and over and ...(you get the idea?) The doctor told us it was allergies and then it was a cold and then allergies and when the fevers started it was an ear infection and prescribed amoxycillin. When the fevers got worse and her breathing deteriorated we took her to a different doctor who sent us to the pediatric ER. We were worried about the fevers and the breathing (it turns out the breathing issues were caused by double pneumonia, RSV and the fever) and had no idea that the whole ear thing was caused by a VIRAL ear infection. The ER doc shot her up with steroids, sent us home with oral steroids, and prescribed steroidal breathing treatments. Also told us to go to an ENT to have her hearing checked ... tests revealed she was stone deaf, and probably had been for most of the 7 months we were taking her to the idiot doctor. Not so short story short, she is ineligible for the Olympics and can hear fine (little surgery fixed that) and is 3 and has speech issues. But that’s not what I came here to tell you about The county we live in offers “free” speech therapy to PK age children. We took her in November to be evaluated. After making twice weekly phone calls for 4 months we got her a second evaluation in March. She failed both. The 5 to 6 weeks until she would meet with a therapist turned into 9 weeks, a multitude of phone calls later we were told that the first appointment was in 18 days. “Can’t we bring her sooner?” No. There is a rule, you see, parents must be given at least 14 days notice of a child beginning speech therapy. “Can we wave that?” Yes, yes you can. You could come in tomorrow if you want to. REALLY! Come to find out we need a million documents to enter the school, birth certificate, SS card, shot record ... would have been nice to know in November ... or March ... or last week. So the county offers a program that taxpayers pay for, of which I am one, but the rules make it impossible to actually receive the service with out badgering county employees over and over and over and over ... and even then they are off in the summer, so while she failed the evaluation in November and could not have received 6 Months of therapy, instead she will get 4 WEEKS of therapy. I tell this story to point to the public workers that want so badly to be treated fairly ... we have been your customer, I’m sure all of us have, you get no sympathy because you are what we say you are, inefficient, lazy, unempathetic and you move at the speed of tectonic plates. It didn’t take you 6 months to protest budget cuts, did it? Oh, and I guess the first part is for doctors, most of you stink too!
I’m going to let Kevin Glass tell you about the Democrats “Democrats are constantly railing against "the rich" and Wall Street, but the biggest "fatcats" are some of their biggest donors. One of the heaviest hitters is Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, who maxed out donations for John Kerry, Harry Reid, Blanche Lincoln, Chuck Schumer and others. Disney CEO Robert Iger and JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon also went big for Democrats. The two in the past gave $75,000 combined to the festivities surrounding Barack Obama's nomination and their giving was heavily slanted this election cycle toward Democrats. In fact the top twenty CEOs invested heavily in Democrats, giving 55% more in campaign contributions to Democratic candidates.” So do you still think that they’re serious about getting all that “dirty millionaire” money and giving it to the poor? Oh. Yeah, I’m not so sure either. I don’t think that CEO’s are going to support anyone without some assurances. Can you say BAILOUT?
But now what you’ve all been hankering for, my predictions for the next year. That’s right it’s time for the first annual prediction post! Ihey ’m no Nostradamus, but here goes. Greece’s economy is going to completely collapse and they are going to default. This will prompt Ireland and Portugal to do the same thing, the value of the Euro will plummet and in full on panic mode response the EU is going to kick the three of them out and there will be huge bank runs because nobody wants to get stuck with the worthless Kroner. Riots, chaos, you know, the usual. The revolts in northern Africa are going to settle back down and the people there will go back to being ruled by crazy people and there will be no democracy and there will be no civil rights. The UN will have had enough of Quadaffi and authorize a full scale invasion to remove him. Lybia will rejoice and then elect a leader who will be replaced in a coup de e’tat by their next dictator for life. Bloody civil war will break out in The Ivory Coast, or Chad or Zimbabwe or Uganda or Somalia or all of them... But Sudan will come to a peaceful resolution and divide into two nations that live in harmony. Obama and Hillary Clinton will continue to say that we will not invade Yemen (18 months after we invaded Yemen) while we deploy more and more special forces “advisors” to Saudi Arabia’s neighbor. Let’s not forget sports, everyone loves sports! Phil Jackson will unretire, the Mets will continue to bring shame to NYC and the Yankees will not win the world series. For all my Tampa readers, the Bucs will lose the 12 games they should have lost last year ... and all the games will still be blacked out.
Happy Tuesday!