Brothers and Sisters, gather round for today’s sermon. The taxt for today is . . . . Well, tempted as I am to write about “taxes are due today” and related matters, I think I won’t.  I will NOT go off for 200 words about wasted money, etc. etc.  I will NOT talk about how BILLIONS of dollars are being spent to kill Iraqis and Americans even though Iraq had never in its short history ever attacked the United States.  Think how much cheaper it is to kill Americans through drunk driving and street violence! Think of the tax money saved if we do it at home.

I will NOt talk about the waste of money in the Social Security Disability and SSI systems.  Bleeding-heart liberals talk about how the poor disabled have such a hard time getting benefits, and the system is loaded against them. Right-wingers complain about the cheaters who are getting benefits, and how the disability money just goes to pay for drugs and booze. The truth of the matter is that one-fifth of those receiving benefits are cheats, but on the other hand, the government relies on fraudulent reports and faked evidence to deny benefits to people who should qualify under the law.

Instead, I’m going to try to emulate Greg and make this post light-hearted and humorous. 

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Sorry, I just wrote the checks and sent in my returns. I don’t feel very light-hearted.