Episode 14 of 2 1/2 Men includes a skit where Charlie has spent so much money gambling, boozing and whoring that he ran out. Charlie’s income is primarily derived from royalties on jingles he sells commercially, but he is told that the next royalty check he is due won’t be arriving for two months.

Charlie and Allen then go to Charlie’s accountant who tells Charlie he is temporarily broke. Charlie doesn’t get it. He keeps asking, “But where is my money“? Clearly, Charlie doesn’t have much of a work ethic, and he is one of those rarities who strikes it rich in the most undeserved manner. Charlie doesn’t understand what it takes to make money, and he sure as hell doesn’t know how to spend it. Sound familiar?

Charlie’s inability to comprehend and appreciate the finite aspects of overspending frustrates his accountant so much he feels he has to give Charlie a demonstration, so he takes a medium-sized paper cup and uses a pencil to poke one hole in the bottom. He takes a water bottle and tells Charlie that most financially secure households look like this: The accountant tells Charlie the water is money, and he pours the water into the cup and tells Charlie, “You see the large amount of water going into the cup, and the small amount draining out”? “That reserve left in the cup is set aside for a rainy day”.

Carl F. Worden

Then the accountant tells Charlie, “Now this is your financial picture”, and he pokes the bottom of the cup until it is gone, pours the balance of the water through the cup into the garbage can, and empties the water bottle entirely. He tells Charlie, “Now you see this empty bottle? This is a picture of your current financial situation. You have NO more money to spend right now”. “You are broke, Charlie”.

Charlie then asks, “But where is my money”?

Democrat Harry Reid of Nevada is classic Charlie, only instead of blowing his own money, he’s blown American taxpayer money and still thinks he’s got more to spend. Reid clearly does not understand the concept of finite assets. Reid has obviously risen to the point in politics where he really doesn’t understand human nature, what it takes to make a buck and more importantly, what it takes to manage that money like any financially secure household in America would.

But Harry Reid can break those silly, restrictive rules, don’t you know? Sure! He knows the fed is printing more money to cover our national debt, so those silly rules of finance don’t apply to him or how the U.S. Government operates. Harry Reid knows how to spin wood pulp into gold, don’t you see?

You’ll love this one, and it is local to my area. The local BLM office recently installed more than 200 solar panels, and according to the article, it will save that BLM facility $14,000.00 annually in energy costs. Looks good so far, right? Wrong. The funding for the project came from $1.8 million in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, but they only used a bit over $400,000.00 for the solar panel installation. Only? Let’s do the math. We all know or should know, that solar panels have to be maintained and replaced when they wear out. Well, if it is a no-interest grant it will take over 28.5 years to recoup the original expense of $400k, and that is ASSUMING the solar panels won’t have to be replaced long before that 28.5+ year period expires, so I can comfortably predict this is just another waste of American taxpayer funds.

That $400k came from taxpayers and was given BLM as a form of grant, but the taxpayers of America have to pay that $400k back WITH INTEREST, so even if there is a hard realization of $14,000.00 locally for a very finite period of time of considerably less than 28.5 years, the taxpayers of America have once again been fleeced by incompetent fools who have the Charlie/Harry Reid mentality that money will just keep coming in no matter how much they spend on financially stupid projects like this.

It gets worse: The Medford Mail Tribune article by reporter Paul Fattig (4/6/11) further reports that nationally, the BLM has been granted $41 million dollars to blow on renewable energy projects like solar, wind, etc. You can just imagine what the other BLM offices have done with their portion.

The other problem with these stimulus funds is the potential for corruption. This, “free money”, is in the hands of government morons who don’t have a clue what wealth creation means or how it is accomplished, and they do understand kick-backs. All that money is being pursued by people willing to bend the rules to get it, and I would love to review the process of how the contractor was chosen to install those 200+ solar panels at our local BLM Office.

We have what I call a Mormon Problem here in Southern Oregon, where certain Mormon individuals have wiggled their way into local government municipal positions and coincidentally award contracts for various projects to fellow Mormon owners of businesses and contractors. I was born and grew up in Logan, Utah, and I know most Mormon folks are some of the finest people on earth — and that is NOT an exaggeration. But the Mormons of Southern Oregon are a different breed entirely, and I’ve had numerous people tell me they were proselytized to become a member of the local Mormon Church in return for, “business opportunities”, that have nothing whatsoever to do with the worship of God or his son, Jesus Christ. The Southern Oregon Militia busted a Mormon judge in the Klamath Falls area for stealing money from his bail bonds account, and we found that Mormon Medford Airport Manager Bern Case had used his subordinate maintenance employees to do work at his home on county time. The judge was criminally convicted, but Bern Case still serves as Airport Manager because, in the words of former county commissioners Jack Walker, he is such a good and talented airport manager!

Let me explain something to you: If a government employee gets caught stealing from the taxpayers who employ him or her, they need to be shown the door immediately and never be allowed to serve in government work again. Not here in Good ol’ Boy Southern Oregon; no, here they reward them!

Back in 1934, the Medford Mail Tribune won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing local corruption. The local Good Ol’ Boys made sure that wouldn’t happen again and it hasn’t because the Medford Mail Tribune is loathe to assign investigative reporters to dig up the dirt that lies just below the surface here. All that has done is to embolden the lowest forms of life who co-exist here, and until the local newspaper starts conducting hard-hitting investigations into local contract awards and police misconduct, among a myriad of other problems, things will remain pretty much what they were when the KKK openly ran Jackson County, Oregon in the 1920′s.

April 6, 2011

Carl F. Worden
Liaison Officer
Southern Oregon Militia