"Rube Goldberg and Duct Tape!"

I love to laugh, just ask my wife or daughter. Mel Brooks, Red Skelton, Bill Cosby, Bob Hope; the list is endless. Some of you may have heard of Red Green; he has a show that originates from the "Possum Lodge" where Red is the proprietor. One of the segments of the show is usually Red designing some weird device such as a "perpetual motion machine", a "cloud seeding cannon",and a "water powered car". The construction of these contraptions required huge amounts of duct tape and great imagination. Oddly enough they all seemed plausible in their explanation. When demonstrated they were hilarious in their operation. Those of you who are a bit older may remember the name Rube Goldberg, he was a cartoonist who was famous for cartoons about convoluted devices so ridiculous in their design that the term a "Rube Goldberg operation" became part of our national language when describing a complicated mess. Rube designed the "self-operating napkin" and the "automatic parachute opener"; both unbelievably complicated and both hilarious.

Most of us appreciate the above described humor, after all how many of us have tried to figure out short cuts on a project and repaired things in our own homes with some "unusual" inventive techniques, and sometimes with disastrous results.

In the last few days our "fearless leader" has made statements about his health-care proposal and his intent to pass it regardless of the wishes of the people of the United States. We over the past several months have watched this monstrosity of a bill grow with exponential ferocity. Each representative, each senator, got their "piece of the action" on this molesting of the American taxpayer. The bill masks itself in the guilt of provision to those who can't get insurance on their own, when it's real purpose is creeping government control of the insurance industry. Real reform has been ignored by Obama and his minions as he has applied pressure to his democrat controlled congress to force this bill into law. Over seventy percent of the people have expressed their opposition to this plan.

With unemployment at record levels, with Iran developing nuclear weapons, why must we rush into a program that the American people want re-examined? Are there not more pressing issues confronting our nation?

We need to take a new look at this "Rube Goldberg" bill; how much "duct tape" is being used to hold it together? C'mon Mr. Obama, what's the rush?