old man 76
old man 76's JournalWhat would a child choose.
Yesterday while waiting for a doctor appointment, a woman with a wee one in one of those car cradles you carry came in. The little one was wrapped up in a number of blankets and the woman unwrapped him once out of the cold. The little one wiggled around as babies will do and soon managed to pull off his sock and with his foot touching his chin he studied his toes intently. Now with nearly an eighty year age difference between the baby and myself, what was easy for him was impossible for me. I was looking at the future and if I looked in a mirror about all I would see was the past.
Upon returning home I was reading the Republican budget outline for 2016 and how a balanced budget was for our grandchildren. I thought about the baby and wondered which he would choose. A balanced budget or food, shelter, health care, education plus clean air and water. He has no voice in the matter.
Graham's Plan
Lindsey Graham said if he were president he would send the military to force congress to increase the military budget. He seems to feel we need a much more powerful military. Cotton and fellow Republican senators sent a letter to Iran saying no deal, no way. Israel wants the United States to use military action and no negotiations. Remember, Cheney and Romney sold the notion to George that they could nation-build seven countries in five years with military force. The Middle East would just love to be Christian right wing democracies. The notion didn’t work even if George did land on a carrier and proclaim mission accomplished. Here we are over ten years later with even more unrest in the Middle East than there was. The Republicans just can’t let the idea of controlling the world go. This is just my opinion, but if Graham would use the military to control Congress than why can’t the President send in the troops to clean out the obstructionist Republicans.
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