10 Questions:

1) When will actors, actresses, models, film directors and professional athletes realize that no one cares what they think about: the war in Iraq, the US healthcare system, the war on terror, US tax policy, or global warming? Given the academic credentials of most of the people in these fields, especially the mouthy ones, why do they believe they have any standing or credibility whatsoever?

2) When will the media figure out that the United States will “spit the bit” on soccer as a national pastime no matter how many times they try to cram it down our throats?

3) When will American politicians realize how little the vast majority of their constituents care about them?

4) Do politicians really believe all the drivel that they spout on a daily basis?

5) Why is it that so few American understand that the simplest way to increase the quality of healthcare while lowering the cost is to get government out of the healthcare business?

6) Did the framers consider the impact on the nation of a mostly uniformed electorate?

7) While the flood of illegal immigrants is intolerable and a tremendous threat to the country, a funnel has two ends. Why does no one talk about the ridiculously long time it takes to immigrate legally to the United States? We should completely seal the boarders by what ever means necessary with the promise that any request to enter the United States legally will be adjudicated in 90 days.

8) When did healthcare and retirement income become a right? I know when it started down the path to becoming a right (FDR anyone?) but when did we cross the bridge that for some odd reason people feel “owed” by the government? I have paid into Social Security for over 20 years, so I am owed….the money my employers and I have paid into the system, but if I could cash that money out tomorrow and be owed nothing I would.

9) Why is it okay that there are winners and losers in the entertainment and athletic fields, but among many in the United States, those in business are not entitled to get too far ahead?

10) Why is so much attention heaped on celebrities? Who the cares what they eat, where they vacation, what they name their children, or what they wear to bed? It must be hard to live in that kind of a fishbowl, but then, they bring much of this on themselves, I guess they and their obsessed fans deserve each other.