Needless to say, I liked the movie and so should you. There is at least one subject matter in the film, which touches on everything from family values, government, and work place issues, that everyone can relate to. I’m too tired to construct anymore sentences  so I embedded a clip of the movie below. Looks like youtube has 13 more clips which could very well be the entire movie. Enjoy please!

What upsets me more about this is what Obama said, but more importantly what he didnt say earlier this week. BO outlined a plan that would cut defense spending by $40 billion. Sounding as if he were still campaiging to be the Pres, BO’s plan was to have more over sight, more competition, more reform, and no more no-bid contracts. This certainly caught my attention since he was talking about something that affects my livelihood. Although I agree that some programs are too costly (F-22, even though it’s so cool), I disagree about the need for more oversight, especially for non-in-theater programs (I can’t think of a better way to say, programs that aren’t directly fighting/supporting the war). In fact, all the oversight is the reason why programs are overrun because everything needs to go through so much scrutiny, aka process. Take for example the tanker deal that went kaput. The competition started four years ago (?) and we STILL don’t have a tanker! How much more oversight and competition can there be?! I’m sure the competition has cost everyone, including the taxpayers, millions of dollars. Thank goodness for all that oversight.

But all that ranting from me is a digression from my original point of why I’m upset. If BO wants to come down with a hammer on wasteful defense spending, that is alright with me but he better bring a sledgehammer to domestic spending programs like “pig odor research” or “honey bee labs” that’s stuffed into the spending bill. Let me save those programs some money and suspense; pigs smell but they’re real tasty and bees don’t need a lab, they don’t need to conduct science experiments. I haven’t heard a peep out of the White House about how much crap is in that bill and how it needs to be trimmed. Instead, everyday is another day where some bank/industry gets bailout money and ridiculous spending bills get passed.

It’s frustrating but I do have a solution; try to get a piece of the pie by coming up with some ridiculous ass research program like the mating habits of the striped desert gecko. If you can’t beat em, join em.

As for me, things are looking alright but I don’t want to get too optimistic. I found out today that I did indeed get a raise, most likely because 750 people aren’t. But I’ll take what I can right now, especially since the raise will merely counteract the increased taxes  be hit with next month.

Off topic, but did anyone realize that LA held its city election on Tuesday? Supposedly only 250k of the 1 million registered voters of the 10 million residents of LA voted. The voters of this city are too apathetic – a = pathetic. Throw me in that bunch since I didn’t vote, but at least I blogged about it.

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