Another Day, Another Show

At a time when 42 out of our 50 States are running severe deficits and at a time when most of America's cities are hard pressed to scrape enough cash together to provide toilet paper in public restrooms, Mr. Obama has decided to have an audience of 60 of the top Mayors of America fly into Washington D.C. for a photo-op over the recently passed Stimulus Package (See Full Story).

Given the current financial circumstances in this country and with city worker after city worker losing their jobs, I find this irresponsible. You would think that Mr. "High-Tech" Obama could find a better and less costly way to collectively talk to those mayors. He might try using teleconferencing as an example of doing something high-tech that has been proven, for years, to save airfare, hotel, and per diem expenses. But, when you're so used to flying around the country on someone else's hard-earned campaign donations and on the billions of dollars of so many hard working people's tax money, travel expenses appear to be immaterial to this President.

Of course, the reason that Mr. Obama wants all these mayors in attendance is because they are all too happy to pull tax payer money off of the Federal money tree instead of making any hard decisions about spending. I just wish Mr. Obama would stop all the campaign shows and start trying to govern this country back to life.

As usual, he opened this conference of mayors with another one of his patented speeches on how things like broadband technology to rural areas is going to pull this country out of a recession. This guy is so off-target, it is unbelievable!