It sure is early while I’m writing this, but hey it’s got to be noon somewhere I suppose.

Government debt figures are out and it isn’t pretty. 12.3 TRILLION dollars is the outstanding public debt? While the operating balance is 142.45 Billion dollars? And we are supposed to support new programs like health care for what reason?

Call Bush an idiot for looking dumb while he was reading a book to a bunch of grade school kids after he was told about the 9-11 attacks, maybe he would have done better with a teleprompter.

In other news, I really can’t wait to hear how eeeeeeeeevil Apple is for having a 50% rise in profits last quarter. What’s next, bailouts and subsidies for Microsoft? Ugh. Even worse, the eeeeeeeeevil pharmaceutical company Novartis AG recorded a 54% rise compared to the same time last year. I suppose the threshold is 50%.

Ever want to see how the Washington bureaucrats live it up on the taxpayers dime? Check it out. I would slap any employee that tried to expense out over $2k per day for food and lodging.

It seems that President Obama will ask that non-security spending be halted in his State of the Union address. Source. Really? I thought there would be no end to the bottomless pockets that was shown the first year. Funnier, he’s asking that it be halted for 3 years starting in 2011. So 2014 in the middle of a new presidency(count on it folks) domestic spending can increase again? I hate to see how much pressure that this will put on his pet programs like health care reform and climate change. Oh, never mind, that funding will come from new taxes.

That does it for now. Maybe we’ll get an update later today. In the meantime, discuss these opinions and more on the Phatooine.net message boards.