Yup .. I think it is, and so a good Monday morning everyone!  I’m out and about somewhere on the BoortzBus … and enjoying every minute.  So, no.  I’m not bored with retirement yet, so I’m not ready to come back. 

 One day last week … perhaps it was Tuesday … I was driving to see my grandbaby when it struck me.  For the first time … the absolute first time … since the summer vacation months between my Junior and Senior years in high school in Pensacola, I’m completely free.  Well, as free as anyone can be in today’s USA with thousands of rules and regulations being added to the books pretty much 24/7.   I couldn’t, for instance, decide to start some sort of a business without massive government interference, and then I would only be permitted to keep a fraction of what I earn from my efforts.  There are parasitic mouths to feed, as you know.

 Actually … thinking back … I wasn’t all that carefree between my Junior and Senior high school years either.  There was that small concern about whether or not I would be able to pass enough courses and stack up enough credits to graduate high school on time.  I have mentioned to you what a pitiful government school student I was, haven’t I?

 Worries?  Sure … who doesn’t have worries.  Number one is health.  I have no problems in that area, and the job is to keep it that way.  Number two --- Obama, our Dear Ruler … the Destroyer.  This man is not going to be satisfied just to place confiscatory taxes on the evil rich, he’s going to go after accumulated wealth at some point as well.  I can almost hear the propaganda now.  It will go something like this:

 “These Americans who are living high while no longer working and paying their fair share of taxes are doing so on wealth accumulated on the backs of America’s middle class.  Now that middle class is seeing their financial security evaporate while retired millionaires and billionaires live without a financial worry.  Now the time has come for economic justice.    These people have far more wealth than they could reasonably need, and it’s time for them to share some of this wealth with the less fortunate.  I call on the congress to levy a 15% tax on the outstanding balance of all pension and tax-deferred retirement plans owned by people with a net worth of over one million dollars.”

 Laugh all you want.  Just know that the Clinton Administration was mulling over a very similar plan before the voter revolution of 1994.  The trouble this time is that there aren’t enough 1994-type voters to pull that off again.  The Democrats have increased government dependency so much that people who work for a living have little chance of holding off the people who vote for a living.

 Anyway … I’m enjoying this, thanks for asking.  And Herman Cain is doing a great job with his new show.  Sooner or later he’ll schedule a vacation and I’ll step back in to see if I can still do this stuff. 

SAYING GOODBYE TO SAXBY CHAMBLISS

 Georgia’s Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss is hanging it up.  There are two years left in his current term, and this is going to be it.  He sees Washington as hopelessly dysfunctional and he sees no real purpose in continuing to tilt at these windmills. 

 I’ve known Saxby for a number of years, and admire him as an individual and a senator. I know a lot of folks have disagreed strongly with him on matters such as immigration reform and taxes, but at least in Saxby Chambliss we had someone capable of having a civil conversation with the other side of the aisle.  At some point you realize that the taxers are going ride roughshod over the makers, and big government with limited freedom is the American future. 

 So now Georgia faces two years of maneuvering for an open senate seat in the 2014 election.  Herman Cain says “No way.”  Some people with massive reduced mental capacities have suggested that I might want to give this a go.  Well, first of all … I live in Florida.  Secondly … I’m retired.  The,mn we have the fact that there is no way in hell I could ever get elected, and the most important reason --- The Queen forbids it.

 There is, however, one name being bandied about that the good folks of Georgia should 86 right now.  That would be Congressman Paul Broun from the Athens area.  Make him the GOP candidate for Senate and watch the Democrats break out that recording of him saying  “Evolution is a lie from the pits of hell!”  Followed by snarky comments about his belief that the earth is somewhere around 6,000 years old.  Perhaps you can get away with these absurdities when you’re constituency is limited to one essentially rural congressional district, but when you’re representing an entire state this nonsense will only bring derision.  To put it bluntly, Paul Broun in the United State Senate would cost Georgia prestige, business and money.  If you want Georgia to be a national joke, put a joke in the Senate.