I suppose when our country is enmeshed in a war in a far off land that is costing its citizens over $195 million dollars a day. Wait. Do you all actually realize what that number truly represents to you, the tax paying citizens of this country?
$195 million dollars a day could instead be used to purchase 63.1 million gallons of fortified whole milk. Or it could be used to provide health insurance coverage for one year to 380,900 uninsured children in America. Or it could instead be used to employ 4,269 elementary school teachers or 4,027 secondary school teachers for one year. Maybe we'd like to use just take one day of the war and instead use it to employ 4,919 fire fighters, 4,222 police patrol officers, or 7,052 paramedics and emergency medical technicians for one year each. I don't know, how would you like to spend that money?
It's a lot of money. And we're spending that much every single day in our war on terror in Iraq. Every.Single.Day.
But what I was going to say before I got side-tracked by the thought of all those dollars and how we could be spending them was that with all that going on over there in some foreign land, is it any wonder that we're sitting here at home and are instead completely and overly obsessed with the death of a former Wal-Mart employee turned waitress turned stripper turned Playboy Bunny turned model turned trophy wife to beat all trophy wives turned reality-TV star turned movie star turned TrimSpa spokesperson?
And if the news of her will and the fight over the embalming of her body and where to bury it and who is the father of her baby is not enough to keep us glued to CNN for the latest ticker updates then certainly we must be watching because we have to know if Britney is in rehab or out of rehab, is wearing panties or not wearing panties, why she shaved her head and what exactly was that tattoo she got and did she have the kids with her in the tattoo parlor? Did she? Huh???
I know we need to escape. I understand. But is there nothing else that we can find to obsess about? Like maybe that it's Chinese New Year's and we're ushering the Year of the Pig?
Do you know what this means? It happens to be a GOLDEN PIG YEAR! That just happens to mean good luck and prosperity for all.
Now that's something I'd like to focus on. Good luck and prosperity for all. Even for Britney. She seems to need all the good luck she can get these days.
