To put it bluntly, I’ve had enough. I am sick and tired of the ever-increasing amount of stupidity I see on a daily basis. I have a sense as to why that is happening and I know that many people of my generation feel the same. It’s because one can now have an electronic device that will do all the thinking for you. It researches, it corrects misspelled words and can locate your friends faster than Dick Tracy ever did. It doesn’t matter that on the worldwide web some idiot posted x-rays that proved cats have no skeleton or that the world’s largest house cat weighed 300 pounds. Unfortunately this trend has also infiltrated into government and some forms of news media.

Last Saturday evening, my wife and I were watching the 6 p.m. local news about the three people who were bitten by a rapid fox in a Cape Elizabeth park. As luck would have it, there is a connection to us but that’s not the story here. The local reporter stated that it was not unusual to see foxes in daylight because this time of year is their breeding season. If that reporter had stated it was their feeding season, especially since they have young ones to feed, it would have been much more truthful. Just to make sure I was correct, I consulted my “Audubon Field Guide to North American Mammals,” which stated that red foxes breed between January and March. But then again, this is the same station that proclaimed the ancestors of the people buried in a 300-year-old cemetery were still walking around town.

And if that isn’t confusing enough, have you ever tried to figure out who is telling us the truth about what the number of unemployed Americans really is? This week figures from the federal government stated that there was only a gain of 18,000 new jobs and yet the unemployment figure went from 9.1% to 9.2% so I have to ask you this question. If the government states the number of new jobs went up, how did the unemployment figure go up also? I say this because government minions consistently state that 300,000 new jobs must be created every month in order for the unemployment figures to remain the same and it doesn’t matter how many more people are unemployed. Are you confused yet because I am!

And if you think it can’t get any worse, take a look at the idiots in control of our nation’s capital and it doesn’t take long to figure out that the inmates are in control of the asylum. I have no problem in stating that if we, the taxpayers of America, want to make a difference, then it is high time for Congress to have nothing less than a 100 percent replacement. The very idiots that we elected have yet to solve the very problem that they created. That problem? They like to spend our money and now they have a greater problem because they now have to borrow money in order to do the same amount of spending. It doesn’t make any difference if they are spendocrats or robbercrats. In the end, they want to spend more of our money than they can legally collect. As a matter of fact, out of every dollar Congress spends 40 cents is borrowed money. Could you do that for long before some collections service came calling?

Of course, it doesn’t make any difference if one looks at Windham, Cumberland County, the state of Maine or Washington because in the end, they all waste our tax dollars in the name of operating government. I propose that we, the people, tell government what to do instead of government telling us what to do. Take for instance, registering vehicles and paying ransom that government labels excise taxes. We purchased that vehicle so why are we taxed continuously for that vehicle, year after year? That’s outright robbery that our government allows. I sense that someone in government named Robbing Hood figured out let’s tax vehicles every year, make citizens pay for driving licenses and then tax the heck out of gasoline in order to make more money for government.

Is there a better way? Yep! How about a one-time license plate for life? Why not a driver’s license for life unless there are problems? Are you ready for some screaming from your local town government? It’s time to decrease the size, scope and cost of our government at all levels. Everything government does causes us to pay more and more taxes every year. It is time for us to draw the line in the sand and reduce government at all levels. Government itself has begun the decline in America and the sad part is that the American voter has allowed it.

And if you are on Social Security you had better pay close attention because if the Republicans and Democrats don’t settle the problem of our national debt by Aug. 2, the Secretary of the Treasury (you know, the one who couldn’t fill out a tax return properly) is threatening to withhold payments to those on Social Security. In other words, your wallet will be empty but at least you can claim you helped solve our nation’s debt crisis.

Lane Hiltunen of Windham wonders if the opposite of pro is con, is the opposite of Congress, progress?