Salary of retired US Presidents ………….$450,000 FOR LIFE
Salary of House/Senate members ……….$174,000 FOR LIFE
Salary of Speaker of the House …………..$223,500 FOR LIFE
Salary of Majority/Minority Leaders …….$193,400 FOR LIFE

Average salary of a soldier DEPLOYED IN AFGHANISTAN – $38,000
Average income for seniors on SOCIAL SECURITY – $12,000

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment.

The woman apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this green thing back in my earlier days.”

The clerk responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations.”

She was right — our generation didn’t have the green thing in its day.

Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn’t have the green thing back in our day.
Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books. But too bad we didn’t do the green thing back then.

We walked up stairs, because we didn’t have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn’t climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn’t have the green thing in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby’s diapers because we didn’t have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts — wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn’t have the green thing back in our day.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house — not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana . In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn’t have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn’t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she’s right; we didn’t have the green thing back then.

We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn’t have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn’t need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.

But isn’t it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn’t have the green thing back then?

We don’t like being old in the first place, so it doesn’t take much to piss us off.

So the GSA in hot water with the HOC and the COGR after the WRC scandal in LV was discovered by the IG. The WRC, who took the 5^th, is still being paid because the SEIU. GOP members of the HOC and TIC rip the TSA CFO and DHS IG for X-Ray and AIT equipment stored in LV warehouse. The GAODHS&JI tells the HOC that the TSA plans to reduce expenses in the near future. SASC and DOD leaders are briefed on the SS sex scandal in Cartagena  where POTUS was attending the SOA conference. The DOD and DHSS, along with JSO officials are briefing PC Carl Levin (D-Mich) and RM John McCain (R-ARZ) Tuesday in DC. POTUS interviews on ABC saying same sex marriage is OK. LGBT community along with MSNBC, CNN, NBC, and CBS are all ecstatic. NYT sees risks after NC becomes 31^st state to ban same sex marriage and the GOP cites DOMA which was signed by a DEM POTUS 16 years ago. BHO has ordered his DOJ not to defend DOMA. The LGBT wants the 2012 DNC to move from the NFL BOA stadium because of the NC ban. The IRS wasted 4.2 Bill due to ITIN#’s used by illegal Immigrants in lieu of SS#’s. Refunds under the ACTC paid $29,000 in one case for a claim of 20 children by an illegal according to TIGTA, a USTD watchdog group.

All I can say is…..WTF!!!