With tales beginning in 13th century England, folklore spread about a man known as Robin Hood.
This fantastical story that was especially endearing to youngsters whose imaginations were running wild with seemingly endless, noble possibilities.
As long as I can remember, societal classes existed that drew delineations between “the haves,” and “have nots.” This mysterious invisible line divided British citizens who were not much different from citizen world-wide today.
The way I recall the narrative of Robin Hood, he may have been a blue-blood, or fought in the Crusades, after which time he returned to England only to discover local lands had been confiscated by the Sheriff of Nottingham. This injustice laid the groundwork for our lead character’s adventures – real or fictitious.
According to legend, Robin Hood used special skills to exact revenge on The Sheriff in order to return loot and properties stolen from the underclass. In other words, taking from the rich to give to the poor.
Nonetheless, Mr. Hood’s escapades have been told and retold for centuries to tickle the imagery of countless people searching for honesty, justice, and a sense of law and order.
This destination to literary delight can be found in books, movies, television shows, plus story telling times in schools worldwide. Robin Hood seems to be not only a master swordsman, but also a skilled archer, only lending to the continued titillation that has endured for hundreds of years.
Enter 2025, along with a new president, a talented group of private sector volunteers, more united Congress and Senate majorities, as well as a robust backing by the electorate, and you find yourself in a whirlwind of perplexity searching for sanity.
It seems as though the United States federal guvment has been running out-of-control for decades with little in the way of checks and balances. Cleverly hidden behind a cover of humanitarian aid plus sexual freedom, these “gifts” of America’s generosity have been literally breaking Uncle Sam’s bank.
Finding ourselves $35 Trillion in debt, the interest thereupon is currently an astonishing $1,000,000,000,000 per month. If this represented my household I’d have a come-to-Jesus meeting with the entire family. We’d discuss seriously cutting back on buying and spending for frivolous things, until our household budget descended from the stratosphere.
But the guvment being the guvment, run almost exclusively by non-private sector mental giants, are totally unfamiliar with the concept of ‘turning a profit.’
For the benefit of politicians and career guvment employees, the words ‘turning a profit’ mean that money and efforts are invested into the business in order to reap a profit. The larger the profit, the more money is returned to the business toward the goal of making money, or even hiring new, more capable personnel.
It’s actually pretty simple. But viewed from the guvment prospective, any and all money spent comes from a bottomless wallet, one that has no consequences to failing to return a profit. In fact, the formulae for guvment is there should be NO PROFIT on monies spent. Otherwise, the issue/problem is solved thereby necessitating an end to the project in question.
Pretty neat scam, eh?
For example, for more than a half-century, I recall growing up watching telethons on television for various medical causes. Begging non-stop for several days, performers, celebrities, sports figures, as well as business folk would make pleas amid tearful prerecorded videos of people in wheel chairs, or on crutches, tugging on the audience’s heart strings.
Each year the income tally would be met and then some, continuously raising the bar to acquire monies to “find a cure,” for the telethon’s theme. And although each plea was sincere, the money garnered up to that point were simply not enough. Perhaps this year we could reach the elusive finish line.
Alas, it was not to be. Still, we, as a compassionate society would try our collective best to eradicate whatever malady was topical. So it was with interest that I was confounded by the lies Leftists and Commie Democrats have recently been peddling to the nation.
With the advent of the new Trump administration, an equally new department was established to determine if and where any cuts could be made in order to save taxpayer dollars from being frittered away without consequence.
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President Trump and DOGE's Elon Musk |
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was created out of whole cloth to search for inane waste and duplicated efforts. Hitting the ground running, with Elon Musk at the helm for only 130-days as a “special government employee,” along with his team, found billions upon billions of dollars misspent beyond imagination.
Around every turn, rabble rousers, began popping up to claim they were illegally dismissed or being scrutinized for simply massaging Trump’s and Musk’s egos. Of course, the rest of the story is that those lies were contrived by people who hadn’t seen the inside of their offices since the COVID-19 debacle ended in 2022. In other words, if they were not in their offices, they were getting paid for nothing.
But is was the smoke and mirrors at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that caught my attention. Those scientists and doctors and researchers have been hard at work since its 1953 inception to find cures for those same telethons who have been collecting bales of cash for research.
And here’s the rub: If and when a cure is discovered for an illness, the formula is given to pharmaceutical companies so that is may be tested, reproduced, distributed, and sold at a profit. So, exactly how does that free formula get any money back to the U.S. Treasury? Besides, where did all that telethon cash go?
I’m not implying anything illegal is going on here. I am asking for an accounting for the tax money demanded and coerced by the Internal Revenue Service.
You see, those scientists and doctors and researchers have been on the payroll for years.
Likewise, the Social Security Administration (SSA) has been found to be in a pathetic state of disarray. SS recipients aged 105 to 153-years of age have been getting regular monthly checks; of course most of those funds are the result of fraud.
These are just a few examples of the new Trump administration weeding out the offensive, legal theft of hard earned cash from unsuspecting taxpayers. Yet, when confronted with the illicit funneling of those monies by fraudsters and common thieves, those same fraudsters and thieves blame Trump for his overreaching, allegedly punishing innocent workers. That’s another lie.
Which brings us full circle to Robin Hood. Whether real or fictitious, Mr. Hood and stories about his adventures may be the unvarnished truth or merely an amusing narration to fit an agenda about theft disguised as guvment overreach.
Complicit politicians are usually the quickest to spend your money to feed their icky political hunger pangs, and the last to back down lest people realize the ever-important solution in bill form was actually a useless grift.
Now is an excellent time to end guvment confidence games at the expense of honest, unsuspecting taxpayers. And enough with the lies.