Patient Jane (or Joe) has her (his) annual physical, and the doctor scans through the lab results.

"Jane (Joe), your blood pressure is up, and so are your cholesterol and blood sugar levels. What are you doing differently?" the doctor asks, without mentioning the obvious, the extra 35 pounds the patient has packed on.

"I dunno. Hereditary, I guess."

"Possibly," doc responds, "but these things often reflect changes in your body. Not atypically, they rise as people put on weight."

"Can you prescribe me some medicine?"

"Yes, I will, but I strongly urge you to get down to your body’s desirable weight–and to start adding some exercise to your routine."

Anyway, you get the idea. Patient Jane/Joe ate herself/himself into the health mess the doctor described–and likewise has all the personal means to reverse those health symptoms–by eating less, losing weight and learning the discipline of exercise.

Now, how is this a metaphor for our nation’s economy and our personal finances?

Gee, let’s see–haven’t we all just gorged ourselves on debt and spending, all the way from the federal, state and local governments to each of us personally (granted, there are exceptions, but I’m referring to our overall state)?

So, using our health care analogy, if we got ourselves into this mess by overindulging, shouldn’t we reverse course and underindulge?

Then–logical question–why are we trying to spend our way out of trouble at the national level? Isn’t that just more debt, the cause of our problems to begin with? (Likewise, if you’ve just jacked up your "bad" vital signs by eating too much, if you eat even more, you’ll just be making matters worse."

Sobering thought: How many years, or perhaps a decade or two, before China forecloses on the White House, Treasury Department, Federal Reserve and Congress, when we as a nation can no longer service our debt?

Maybe someday some voter out there who isn’t a left-wing nut and thinks Lenin was the first coming of Ronald Reagan will figure out that Mikhail Obama is just (hold on for this revelation, you daydreamers!)…a lawyer who really, really, really knows how to bull shit. Unfortunately, I wish I could give that much credit to the American electorate, but no, I have this feeling that most of the people who swung from right and center to the (far) left to elect the man somehow really, really, really think that health care is going to become accessible (which it already is) and free (which it never can be). Or that you can sit down with terrorists and their lamblike natures will blossom.

Anyway, that being said, the stimulus plan being greased (get it, like a pig?) in Washington, D.C., is nothing but a hundredfold payback for the Obama greedies who raised $750 million for his campaign. The package that will emerge this week–let me call it Obamulus–will rest around the magic number of $800 billion, or thereabouts, and will favor every special interest group Obama courted in the last election except one, the Everyday Voter who got fooled by the rhetoric and the fawning media’s intentional cover-up.

I’ll take a hundredfold payback for my donation any day.

Now you know the real challenge facing Republicans,which is to become so stealthily corrupt in your campaign and your administration (a tax cheat running the IRS? only with Democrats) that you can honestly rape the taxpayers to the tune of $100 for every dollar raised for you–and give it back to your donors–while calling it recovery and reinvestment.

I can’t wait for an electrical grid that carries solar power from the west to the east–and hot air from the east throughout the nation.

In China, if you speak up, even by filing an official grievance in Beijing, there’s a good chance you can end up in a "law education center," a cover-up term for jail.

That’s what happened to Yuan Rongbao of Yunxi, who, after returning home from filing a grievance about the demolition of his home (another police tactic), was thrown in a "law education center" for a week to learn "law."

However, there were no books or classes and the guards played mahjong and cards all day.

I’m sure lurking somewhere in the Demofiendish mind is a plan to re-educate everyone who votes Republican, or at least its leaders, starting, it appears, with Rush Limbaugh.

If the drumbeat of criticism of the Obama oligarchy continues (a large portion of it from the left, by the way, since the far-lefties are never satisfied short of total state control of everything), look for the Fairness Doctrine to be reinstated to silence those on the right.

If you don’t hear from me for awhile, you’ll know I’ve been herded off to a "law education center."  And the law is, "You must always vote Democratic and then shut your mouth."

For further details on China’s "education" efforts, read "Re-education Through Labor Abuses Continue Unabated."