“I can say without fear of contradiction, that under no circumstances and at no time, has the current administration expended any public monies whatsoever for the purchase of the fluffy flower print toilet paper.” – A quote from the cult movie “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.”

A funny thing happened after the American Revolution. Americans forgot why the revolution happened in the first place and allowed a government to flourish that makes King George of England pale in comparison.

I have stated it before but when one compares incomes and taxation between then and now, the colonists were not taxed as heavily as we are now by our own government. Under the Obamanation, our government is increasing not only in size but in the scope of governing more and more of our business and private lives while the masses cheer without having a clue that the government places more and more control over them.

Immigration reform is one area where our federal government fails miserably and more than likely, intentionally. And please remember my parents came from Finland which makes me a first-generation American. As many citizens already know, the federal government has sued Arizona because it wants to remove illegal immigrants from the state. Evidently when someone works in Washington they must become brain dead because they fail to understand what the term illegal means. My feeling is the present administration is the one doing something illegal. Here’s a state that wants to enforce immigration laws while Washington does nothing to those cities which have declared themselves sanctuaries for illegal aliens.

I have to wonder how much larger the federal government will become because of recent legislation on national health care and financial regulation of Wall Street. I shouldn’t have been shocked to learn that the federal government will increase its payroll by 800 just to watch over Wall Street’s financial institutions. I really wonder who is going to hire these people because I am still looking for intelligent life since Obama was crowned president.

They are also going to hire thousands of federal dead-heads to watch over us to make sure that we have health insurance while their health insurance is paid in full by the few taxpayers left that can afford to pay taxes. Many Americans have probably already forgotten about all the new government screeners in our airports. I am so impressed by their lack of anything tangible that I have promised that I will not get on an airplane again.

I really am at a loss to explain to the readers why the government screens the airlines so heavily while our children can consume, in the government’s own words, healthy cereals like Fruit Loops. Or should I state that the government allows the makers of pure junk food to advertise it as healthy. Maybe I can understand some things because this is a government that allows companies that make hot dogs to label them as pure beef. Of course, you and I would tend to believe that this means pure beef in the form of meat but unfortunately they also contain beef fat.

Forget about lean just like our government. I would like to think that there is a government inspection of everything we consume but I once witnessed the opening of a case of the great old Maine red hot dogs which turned out to be a solid brown. I have to guess that not one person on the hot dog assembly line witnessed the fact that the machine ran out of red food dye.

Lane Hiltunen of Windham will not eat products that contain beef lips.