I grew up in the big city most of my life. I was fortunate that my parents decided to enroll me in the Boy Scouts, so I was one of the lucky kids who got to get away from the skyline a couple days a month and get out into the country. When I wasn’t distracted by the hysterics of thirty pre-teen kids with minimal adult supervision, I occasionally looked up into the sky and got to see actual stars. Not the usual one or two peaking through the street lights, but true, majestic, beautiful, breathtaking, all encompassing stars.

I’m the first person to advocate lower taxes. My single biggest problem with the Democrats is the redistribution of wealth socialist mentality that pervades that party. Lower taxes means more economic freedom. Less government involvement means more competition. Both are vitally important to a healthy capitalist system – and let’s make no bones about it, capitalism is a guiding principle of our way of life.

But the economic stimulus checks dolled out by the President are nothing less than the bastard poster children for government waste.