Refrigerators? Certainly! Why not? Here’s a supposition: Let’s suppose that all refrigerators had to be made by the federal government. Why? For the same reason that the federal government has cornered 6-7% of the national product with Obamacare. See, a lot of people can’t afford a new refrigerator with ice maker, vegetable drawer, freezer compartment, etc. They only have the old fashioned refrigerators that get cold, and you have ice cube trays you fill with water to make ice. They are satisfied with the old ones, because that may be all they have ever known, but they work fine. Obama’s Democratic Representatives and Senators, as well as himself, decided that old style refrigerators, and even even older ice boxes, were unhealthy, and their owners and users were deprived. A law was passed, with not a single Republican vote, to make all refrigerators products of the D.C. Democrat crowd. Special factories were constructed, and non-experts in anything, were hired to do the drawings for Obigerators. Hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars were spent on the neophyte, inexperienced, non-engineer designed Obigerators, and promises were made to the public that the new Obigerators would far excel their old ones, and the old ones, considered ’unsafe’ were all collected and crushed, because the new Obigerators would take their places. Obigerators were to be released October 1st, and were promised to be cheap, and simply wonderful.
As always happens when government does things to ’help’ people, who politicians have decided need it so much, it all goes wrong, unbelievably expensive, and people suffer, rather than being helped. The Obigerators didn’t work correctly, many refused to get cold, cost far more to run than the confiscated ones, and millions of pounds of food spoiled because of a lack of being kept cold. The Obigerators were to be delivered October 1, but two months later, only a few showed up. Millions had spoiled food, with no relief in sight. The few that had received their Obigerators, discovered that they used far more current to run than their old ones, which had been taken and crushed. Millions were trying to keep healthy by buying all the ice they could and vainly trying to keep their foods cold while waiting for their new Obigerator. The Obigerators were much heavier than their old ones,. and the ice makers worked intermittently, while gobbling a lot of current and making loud noises. Endless promises were made by the president and his lady in charge of the project, and blame was always placed on various and sundry companies, designers, production chiefs, and bureaucrats, none of which were fired or disciplined. As usual, the public was screwed, to put it mildly.
Republicans had warned when the Obigerator Law was passed, that it would not work, and billions of dollars would be wasted for what would turn out to be a disaster. Not a single Democrat paid the slightest bit of attention, and all voted for the law. They had the majority in both houses at the time. After it became law, and all the Republican warnings came true, and only 39 Democrats seemed to realize what a huge mistake the Obigerator Law was. Republicans even took it to the Supreme Court, but the chief justice betrayed his promises and his vote allowed the Obigerator law to stay on the books. The President, losing popularity, unconstitutionally changed the law many times, without a vote of the Congress, but no one took that to the Supreme court. We leave it off at this point, because the Obigerator folly, has yet to be proven to be the ultimate D.C. Democrat folly.
There is no Obigerator law on the books, but there is Obamacare on the books, and it has worked out about the same way.
I’m an eastern boy, having been born and grown up in Washington D.C. I came west in 1971 to stay, to save an old hotel from demolition. It didn’t take me long to realize the incredible difference between the East and the West, big city and small town, high humidity and low humidity, and the Western style and personality. Someone sent me ’Cowboy Rules,’, and I have edited it a bit. This is supposed to apply to Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, Idaho, and the rest of the Wild West, except the Left Coast of Oregon, Washington, and California, which seem to have have seceded from our west.
Cowboy Rules
1. Pull your pants up. You look like an idiot.
2. Turn your cap right, your head isn’t crooked.
3. Lets get this straight: It’s called a ’gravel road.’ I drive a pickup because I want to. No matter how slow you go, you’re going to get dust on your Lexus. Drive it or get out of the way.
4. They are cattle. That’s why they smell like cattle. They smell like money to us. Get over it. Don’t like it? I-10 & I-40 goes east and west. I-15 & I-17 goes north and south. Pick one and go.
5. So, you have a $60,000 car. We’re impressed. We have a $250,000 combine which we use 3 weeks a year.
6. Every person in the West waves. It’s called being friendly. Try try understand the concept.
7. Yeah. We eat trout, salmon, deer, and elk. You really want sushi and caviar? It’s available at the corner bait shop.
8. The “Opening’ refers to the first day of deer season. It’s a religious holiday, held the closest Sunday to the first of November.
9. We open doors for women. That’s applies to all women, regardless of age.
10. No, there’s no ’vegetarian special’ on the menu. Order steak, or you can order the Chef’s Salad and pick off the 2 pounds of ham and turkey.
11. When we fill out a table, there are three main dishes: Meats, vegetables, and breads. We use three spices: salt, pepper and ketchup! Oh yeah…We don’t care what you easterners call that stuff you eat…It ain’t real chili!
12. You bring ’coke’ into my house, and it better be brown, wet, and served over ice. You bring ’Mary Jane’ into my house, and she’d better be cute, know how to shoot, drive a truck, and have long hair.
13. College and high school football is as important here as the Giants, Yankees, Mets, Lakers, or Knicks, and a dang site more fun to watch.
14. Yeah, we have golf courses, but don’t hit the water hazards, it spooks the fish.
15. Turn down that blasted car stereo. That thumpty thump ain’t music anyway. We don’t want to hear it anymore than we want to see your boxers. Refer back to #1.
16. The best way to stop using so much gasoline is to deport 15 million illegal immigrants. That would be 15 million fewer people using our gas, and the price would come down.
17. Bring our troops home from Afghanistan to guard the borders. When they catch an illegal immigrant crossing the border, hand him a canteen, rifle, some ammo, and ship him off to Afghanistan. Tell him if he wants to come to America, then he must serve a tour in our military. Give him a solder’s pay while he’s there, and tax him on it. After his tour, he may be allowed to become a citizen. If so, he will be registered and taxed, which probably will deter illegal immigration. If they refuse to serve, ship them to Afghanistan anyway, without the canteen, rifle, or ammo. Problem solved.
It’s totally or partially true, but believe me, the American West, with its glorious skies and sunsets, 14,000 foot mountains, low humidity, and gracious people, will keep me here forever. Protect yourself with gold and silver, and GET OUT OF THE BIG CITIES…if you can anyway.