Smarter Than A 5th Grader? Not Politicians:

World News: As the U.S. burns our food supply by producing government subsidized corn ethanol, riots over food shortages and skyrocketing prices are taking place around the globe, some resulting in deaths.

Yet the president has mandated the burning of our food to make a “green” fuel. Hold on now; don’t get your exercise jumping to conclusions. George Bush ain’t the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he has 535 buddies who take a cue from the chickens as to when it’s time to come in out of the rain.

The folks on the Democratic side of the aisle nearly died from joy when “Badlands” Bush announced the “great green plan.” I watched that particular speech and I thought the riot police were going to have to be called in to calm down the celebration that broke out on both sides of the aisle.

Have you ever seen Jeff Foxworthy’s, “Are You Smarter than A Fifth Grader?” They ask adults grade school questions, and for the most part, they can’t answer them. So far, no one from Congress has qualified to be on the show.

Let’s play a little game today on Brother Foxworthy’s theme. Here’s the question, “If in years past, we planted and harvested crops across America for use as food, or to produce food such as meat. And, you suddenly started to burn these crops up in the tank of your automobile, what would happen? The fifth grader would answer, “I don’t have an automobile,” after which they would say, “Buy corn and grain futures and you will become a millionaire while people all over the world starve.”

Congress would answer, “Huh?” After which they would say, “I had no idea why my stock broker invested my money in commodities.” They would then look into the camera and say, “I’m not smarter than a fifth grader.”

Readership on this site is up…a lot. Thanks to all of you who are reading and commenting on these important issues. While I add a little humor to the mix, I predicted the ethanol debacle from the outset and so did the fifth graders.

It’s important to understand just how barn broom dumb our leaders are. Consider the childish behavior and name calling of our top three contenders for president as a sterling example. If even one of them had the slightest clue as how to bring back the jobs, rather than talk about he said and she said, they would trot out a plan to save Middle America…except that, they don’t have a plan.

My friend and fellow author Jack E. Lohman who penned “Politicians Owned & Operated by Corporate America,” put it nicely in a radio interview that we did last week by saying, “It’s this simple; the economy is not coming back until the jobs come back.” I’d say Jack put it in a nutshell.

How can a regular guy like me predict exactly what was going to happen to our economy two years before it occurred and our leaders said absolutely nothing and stood by and let it happen? Why; because that’s what they are paid to do.

The lowly Clinton’s who were receiving money from public donors for Bill’s legal fees less than eight years ago, have earned $109 MILLION since leaving office! That is a near Herculean feat, considering Mrs. Clinton’s salary is only $169,300 per year and Bill is unemployed. It pays to play the game.