Don't know about you, but I am FIRED UP about Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's speech last night. After "Communist-in-Chief" Barack Obama spoke to Americans like they were a bunch of babies (all the while scheming to steal their money and give it to the banks, which he would then nationalize, meaning he would get a huge year-end bonus), it was refreshing to see a politician who isn't afraid to speak to Americans like they're adults.
I'll admit, I haven't really been paying attention to the USA Leninism Stimulator Act, or whatever it's called. (All I knew was that it cost about fifty quadrillion dollars, and if you started stacking $100 bills on top of each other the day Jesus was born, they'd eventually reach all the way around the equator and into outer space and we'd all be forced to walk to the moon on a stairway of dollar bills made from how wasteful the government is.)
But it took Bobby Jindal's confident, manly speech and ferocious, slashing hand gestures to really bring home to me just how wasteful the Stimulator Package really is.
Did you know the USA government wants to spend your money on something called "Volcano Monitoring?" Are you kidding me?
Like Jindal said, "Americans can do anything," and that includes monitoring our own d*mn volcanoes. Seriously, how hard can it be? It's probably like ice fishing. Just get some binoculars and some graph paper and a thermometer and sit around looking at a stupid volcano and every once in a while, write down some data, like, "The volcano is still sitting there, lookin' like an off-brand mountain with a hole in it. 10 + 50 - 20. Pie chart."
Remember: Americans can do anything. They don't expect the government to fix everything. True Americans aren't afraid of the drama and risk of the free market -- the transformative thrill of creative destruction -- the hot explosion of the unexpected -- the dynamism of having your outmoded assumptions (and your home) buried in the burning lava of innovation -- the full-throated cries of agony as yesterday's losers are turned to ash and new, more productive members of society are birthed!
Ladies and gentlemen, Americans can do anything! Let's prove it to the world! LET'S ALL GET KILLED BY VOLCANOES!