GOVERNMENT ISSUED BALONEY is alive and well in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). CNN reports that the EPA has announced that the nation’s drinking water systems are so deteriorated that a $384 Billion upgrade must be accomplished within the next 17 years in order to maintain a safe supply.

But don’t worry, says Peter Grevatt, director of the EPA’s Office of Ground Water & Drinking Water (they probably call this the OGWDW). “The drinking water is safe.”

Thank you, Peter. I feel so reassured and, by the way, extremely thankful that I thought several years ago to install a triple filtration water system in my house.

Of course, our aging water pipes aren’t the only aspect of the country’s infrastructure needing updating, and President Obama has pushed this topic since he first took office. The problem, of course, is that all this costs M O N E Y (pronounced moan-eee). How much improvement of our water systems might we accomplish with the money presently being misspent overseas? How much highway repair could be done with the money thrown into war materials? Might not the U.S. citizens who see their government spending money to better their lives be more grateful than the Afghans who hate our guts notwithstanding all the billions of American dollars given to them?

If John McCain had his way, it’d be even worse. He wants to save every victim of despots all over the world. He feels we have the moral obligation to be the planet’s policeman. With his more than comfortable senatorial salary, he is not capable of grasping the nature of the suffering of people right here in the good ol’ U S of A.

Our own government may not be killing us with guns and mortars, but they are certainly doing a good job of looking the other way (e.g. overseas) while many of our own citizens suffer from ongoing governmental neglect of home issues. What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

I think one of my problems is that I’m not bilingual… I don’t speak Bureaucratese.