Good post Steve. I betcha if politicians didn’t draw a salary some of these issues might go away. If it is their job to help the public via policy implementation and creation, why should they get paid? They are doing it to help humanity aren’t they?! hahahahaha The corruption in government just tans my hide and the spending over stupid stuff is crazy. I will check out the Report by the CAGW, and I don’t know if you saw the CATO report that came out last year about GWB and his spending habits…Uh oh. Say, I cannot find the link and will post it after I found it, but here is the CATO url: http://www.cato.org.

And you are Armenian eh? I figured your last name was from that part of the world. One of our dearest buddies is Armenian and he and his wife had their baby blessed last year. I bring this up because I had never had the privelige of going to an Orthodox Armenian service and the spirit of love was everpresent there. I loved the litergies and the depictions of Christ in the artwork and the people were very warm. We also talked alot about how closely the Orthodox Armenians are with the Coptics. Without rambling too much, you certainly come from a very intriguing and rich heritage. There aren’t too many people i come across who can say they fought one of the first holy wars and so forth:)

Sorry for rambling:)