"This Might Hurt"

I have to go to my dentist this week for a teeth cleaning. I like my dentist, he is pleasant and personable; he is a baseball fan and he is PAINLESS when he has to do any procedure. I have recommended him to other people because of his skill and amiability.

I used to have a dentist in Chicago named Dr. Freeman, and when we moved away, I felt like I was losing a dear friend as well as a great dentist. He treated my whole family and we all looked forward to our visits with Dr. Freeman.

Dr. Freeman did everything possible to make all of our dental work as comfortable as possible, and he did a great job. His wall was covered with pictures of the children he had treated over the years; all of them were full of smiles, including my daughter. If I could have brought Dr. Freeman with us when we moved, I would have done so, although I like my present dentist. I would gladly go back to Dr. Freeman, a fine dentist who always tried to make his work PAINLESS.

We are now in the midst of the government shutdown, and several things have happened; government agencies and installations have been shutdown or their services have been trimmed back to “bare bones” operations, and the general public has had to adjust to these recent changes.

Last week, a group of WWII veterans were told that they couldn’t go into the WWII memorial in Washington D.C. because of the government shutdown. The efforts of some attending Congressmen stepped in and physically moved the barriers to the memorial allowing the aged veterans inside, regardless of the government forced closure. The idea of keeping these brave soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines out was abhorrent to all real Americans across the nation.

Several other national monuments were closed; the Lincoln Memorial, and the Washington Monument are numbered among the scheduled closures. National parks and campgrounds have all been closed for the duration of this current situation and many American families have been “inconvenienced” by these actions. The House Republicans have tried to relieve these closures and restore funding for these facilities, with little cooperation from their Democrat counterparts.

It seems that the closures have been directed to programs and facilities that would inflict the most pain on the average American citizen, and the blame has been cast toward the Republican House by the Obama White House and the Harry Reid Senate.

The House of Representatives have already offered several accommodations to the Senate Democrats and President Obama without receiving a cooperative effort from either party. Delight in the painful effect on the American public seems to be what the Washington Democrat elitists seem to be enjoying at this time, even though there are other areas that could be trimmed with much less effect on Mr. and Mrs. America. It appears to me that this administration wants to exercise a sadistic policy on the public and then, once again, place the blame on the Republicans who are trying to alleviate this severe situation without compromising their principles.

America is now sitting in its own version of the “dentist visit” and it looks like we have, at least one dentist, who is enjoying the pain, while another want to be PAINLESS.

Watch out America, especially when Barack Obama says “OPEN WIDE”, IT COULD BE VERY PAINFUL!!!