I had a dream

I cannot comprehend why the mind does what it does while it sleeps. I cannot understand why my mind would give me such a movie and then let me remember it. I cannot think of a good reason for having this dream. All I know is that I had it, and I remember it.

In some strange way, this dream has affected me. It has affected me in a way that dreams sometimes can. They can change your perception of reality. They can give you a sense of knowledge that you previously did not have. They can give you insight. They can even, on rare occasion, in some fashion, predict the future.

So what could I have dreamed that could have affected me enough to write about it? Let me tell you.

I don't know how I arrived there but that does not matter anyway. All that matters is that I was there. In the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. I was standing there in the Rotunda in the central part of the building. I was gazing upward marveling at the dome when all of a sudden I was surrounded by men in dark suits and dark glasses.

One stepped forward and simply said, "Sir, please come with us." I remember not dropping my gaze from the dome. I remember that there was an unusual bright light shining down from the dome that day. I remember telling this well dressed man, without dropping my gaze from above, "I'm sure you do."

They lead me down corridors that the general public is not usually allowed to travel. These were dimly lit halls with row upon row of closed doors. I remember saying to my escort crew, "Will we enter the first open door? Or will we walk until we run into the wall?"

There was no answer. But eventually we stopped. We stopped in front of a closed door. The door had symbol on it that I was not familiar with. The front man of the group opened the door and gestured with his head that I should enter. I did so alone.

The room was brightly lit. A rather stark contrast to the hallway I just exited. The room was sparsely furnished but I could hardly notice because on the large wooden desk sat a dark figure. It was Barrack Obama.

"I hear you are one of my biggest critiques and I wanted to meet a fellow black brother to ask him personally why he hates me so."

My reply: "Mr President, I hate no man but what you intend to do to our country is nothing less than criminal. I don't even really know you so how can I hate you? I only hate your policy."

"Well, Mr Eccles, it is time you get to know me. The real me. The personal me."

The next thing I knew I was in the Presidential Limo sitting next to President Obama. The ride was the most comfortable rides I had ever been in. I do remember saying out loud, "I gotta get me one of these."

We arrived at the White House and Michelle and the girls met us at the door. Michelle gave me a big hug as I got out of the car. I did not hug back. I did tussle the hair of both girls. Then Barrack gestured for me to follow him. The funny thing is, his Secret Service detail did not follow.

He gave me a private tour of the White House...the living quarters of the First Family and the West Wing. We entered the Oval Office and the first thing I noticed was that the carpet was dirty and needed to be cleaned.

"Bush had a going away party. They are coming next week to replace the carpet." Said Barrack.

"Is that part of your plan for creating jobs?" I retorted.

"You see, that is the kind of thing that hurts me, Mr. Eccles. I only mean to do what is best for our nation. For our people. And you are keeping me from doing it."

He sat behind what I would call a raggedy desk of wood. Barrack looked up at me and said, "This was President Lincolns first desk at his law office."

I don't remember all that was said after that. The next thing I knew, I was in the private bedroom of the First Couple. "You see, Rod, we are just like you and everyone else. We eat and sleep just like you."

I ended up spending two whole days in the White House with the Obama's learning about them all. Getting to know them.

It was only a dream. It was only a dream. And today when I saw our President on TV giving a news conference, I felt I was looking at a friend, at a person whom I knew. Yet in reality I know nothing about this man.

In reality, what I see is someone who needs to be stopped because what I have learned in my dream is he a man determined to force his will upon us all. That will will destroy the America we know. I feel like I know exactly what this man will try and do. I feel like I now know exactly what this man is capable of.

So was it a dream or was it reality.

What the Hell is going on

We have a ton of stuff going on in Washington, D.C. Most of this "goings on" is not what the American people want. We have our representatives, let me repeat that, our REPRESENTATIVES, doing what they damn well please, not doing what the people they represent want them to do.

We have a bill in Congress that is loaded with pork spending that have nothing to do with stimulating the economy. I mean, do they really want to stimulate the economy or do they want to take advantage of the economic down turn and seize nearly unlimited power.

The Liberals have chosen to not do what is best for the country but to take the power grab. I can say thank you to the Republicans in the House of Representatives that voted against this stupid, non-stimulus bill. They actually got back to their conservative roots. At least on this one issue.

But shame on the three Republicans in the Senate who voted for this. You can bet they will have a hard time getting themselves re-elected. Which is not so good for the Republican party or Conservatives. Or is it? Could this be the opening that the Republicans and true Conservatives have been looking for? I think it is. Think about it.

The Liberals were warned about taking this past election out of context and over reaching. They seem to think they won the election because people want socialism. Well all polls that are taken on this stimulus bill would suggest the opposite. Not to mention all the phone calls and emails each representative has been getting against this so-called stimulus bill.

Americans rightly so, do not want this bill to become law. It is full of things that are socialistic and have nothing to do with creating jobs.

By the way, how the hell does the government create a job? It can not create a job unless it is a government job. The private sector creates the jobs that get and keep our economy moving. If there is a road project, then sure it employs the private sector but that project goes away when it is done.

Then what does that private employer have to do? They have to find another project to keep those workers employed. So if there are no private sector projects then that worker gets the pink slip.

Hell, we can see that F.D.R. had a policy that failed and it failed big time. The Great Depression was bad in and of itself. However, studies have found that those policies extended the financial turmoil by at least 7 years. So that means the Depression of the 1930's was probably 7 years longer than it needed to be. The government policies did nothing to help the economy.

In fact those policies, which are similar to what they want to do now, extended the Depression. This stimulus bill will only serve to extend and maybe even deepen our economic problems.

Ronald Regan said, and rightly so, "all to often, government is not the answer. Government is the problem." This cannot be more so true today when one get a look at the stimulus package. It is so large that not even the people who were voting on this thing know what is in it. Yet they are voting on it and approving it.

Including this socialized medical part of the bill which every Democrat that is interviewed on this says it is what the American people want and that it only helps usher our American Medical Records system out of the dark ages. Even when they are faced with the language in the bill that tells exactly what will happen, those same Democrats tell us that is not what the bill says.

I mean how stupid do these people think we are? Well, they obviously think we are very, very stupid because we keep voting these people back into office each and every election season.

So once this "ginormous" bill hits the streets as law, will that finally break the average Americans back enough for them to do an about face with the elections and send all of those idiots packing? Probably not. But maybe the American people will throw another temper tantrum like they did this past election and vote at least some people into office with Liberty, Freedom and common sense on their tongue. One can only pray and hope.