Message to Susan Roesgen of CNN - paging Susan, paging Susan

I watched your little interview with the gentleman holding his baby at one of the Tea Parties the other day. Ma'am, with all due lack of respect, you made a fool of yourself on national television.

Ahem - where do I even begin? First of all, your ridiculous and condescending comment to this man about "Do you realize you're eligible for a $400 tax credit?" Golly gee, what a lot of money! Woo hoo, let's go on a spending spree!! Did you see he was holding a baby? Do you know how expensive babies are? How far is $400 going to go when you have a baby to support? Especially when it's doled out in dribs and drabs ($13 per paycheck - wow, that'll really stimulate me to run right out to the nearest store and spend, spend, spend! That's about enough for me to buy a few lunches at McDonald's and that's about it.)

More to the point, IT'S HIS MONEY TO START WITH. What the government is doing by oh so magnanimously giving us $13 extra in each paycheck, up to a total of a whopping $400 in one year, and then patting us on the head and telling us to go away, we should be happy now, makes me think of what it would be like to be walking down the street and suddenly a robber jumps out from the bushes and waves a gun at me. "Gimme all your money!" he snarls. I protest that I have only $100 cash on my person at the moment. "Then give that to me!" he insists. I do, fearing what he might do if I don't comply with his demand. He then proceeds to lick his thumb and peel off a $5 bill and hand it back to me. "Here, you can have this back. I'll take the rest," and he runs off with my money. Gee, how generous of the robber, to let me have a whole $5 of MY MONEY back after he STOLE it from me at gunpoint!

As for the $60 billion the Land of Lincoln is going to get that you so sarcastically pointed out to this gentleman, Susan - well, Susan, where do you think that money is COMING from? Some of it is being printed as we speak, which will inevitably lead to hyperinflation (do you want to be able to afford groceries, Susan, and have some of your paycheck left over after you go to the grocery store?), and most of it is coming from the bank account of that little baby in that man's arms, and all the little babies around the nation who aren't even old enough to start PRESCHOOL yet, and are already in massive debt up to their little EARS because of the so-called "stimulus!" Do you have any children, Susan? Do you even CARE that you have mortgaged their future away? If you don't have children, do you care about kids like my grandnephew Patrick, who just turned 9 in February, and HIS CHILDREN are in debt up to their ears, and he's at least a decade away from even being a DAD yet!

Susan, I close my diatribe against you and your ilk by quoting a famous saying: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."

I guess these comments make me a "hatemonger." Well, I do hate - foolishness and stupidity.