"The Borgen Project has some good info on the cost of addressing global poverty.

$30 billion: Annual shortfall to end world hunger.

$540 billion: Annual U.S. Defense Budget."

Man oh man, the difference a day makes. On Monday,

Backtrack Obama was promising us all if he got

elected, we was going to be sailing down Easy

Street in gravy boats. He  was going to take Oprah's

and Michael Jordan's and Whoopi Goldberg's millions

and gives us all free health care. Then he was going

to cut up some Golden Parachutes and pay off all them

overdue mortgages. Then, he was going to tax the Wayans

brothers, the Baldwin brothers, Richard Parsons, Bill

Gates, Charles Barkley, Shannon Sharpe and Antonio

Perez and pay off all our college tuition. Backtrack was

going to put up a couple of windmills and cut OPEC off

at the pump. Recession, we don't have no stinking

recession, because Obama Claus was coming to town.

Just a few hours later, in his victory speech, the

complexion of the entire world changed. The gravy boats

have been swamped, the millions of free health care

and tuition and mortgages available to us all for a

ballot, just hours earlier, have disappeared amid dire

warnings of a "tough climb ahead, up a steep road".

What changed? It was all sunshine and lollipops when

he was running, then, come time to deliver, Obama Claus

got shot down by the Ruskies. BS, BS, BS, Washington,

it seems, is in for a bad case of BO.