Tax-Day Bummer gone? Awesome! Here's CPA David Walker with his Bigger, Better Bummer for y'all.

Chronicle of a journey from youthful
know-it-all to old-fart astonishment.

Glass half-full Shrinks, of which I am one, NEVER EVER "bum out" Clients or Readers! Got it? Not for nothing are we key players in what most of us and a few of y'all call the Helping Professions. Not that I ever said it with a straight-face in 37-years. But all fields have blemishes to mar the careful gloss. It's too late in life to "front,"so lemme say it now: Ron and Nancy made ME feel good!

It may not have been for the same reasons most of America felt good and the times mighta been shorter - LOTS shorter to be truthful - but I liked seeing my late, great dad take his final foreign trip [to Cuba, where else?] and make back probably all the money and more playing the Reaganomic stock market
that he'd lost back in 1929. I'm an only kid, like you couldn't tell, but I truly had no eyes to inherit his dough. Dad was aces, worked his ass off and my dream was him kicking, age 104, leaving total assets of $1.73. Nothing succeeds as as planned.

To come outta Economic DisneyLand once he died in 1988 took a
now-disbarred lady lawyer from Fairfax High, dumb-luck, her ripping off a deaf couple for another $109K and four years. Undeterred, she enrolled at USC and got her Ph.D. in Deaf-Studies. She has since sued a deaf graduate student from another school whose M.A. Thesis on her unfactual and plagiarized Doctoral Dissertation annoyed and embarrassed USC's Graduate School considerably. Some other time, if ever, for this One Woman Crime Wave. Back to David Walker, CPA.

Walker is a good deal more than just another CPA. More to the point he was Comptroller General of the United States until March 12, 2008 Walker didn't resign in order to "spend more time with my family" as did, say, Alberto Gonzales. But Alberto never told Chancellor Cheney much less going on tour of the country to tell anyone who would listen the USA is now $50-trillion [FIFTY-TRILLION DOLLARS] in debt and that's increasing by $3-trillion each year and unless we address it now we're SUNK! But that was after Walker testified before both Senate and House Finance Committee telling the new Democratic majorities the same thing. ONLY NOBODY WAS LISTENING! Paul O'Neill, this White House's Den of Thieves first Treasury Secretary, wrote that when he said something like Walker said, the Chancellor snarled: "Reagan said deficits don't matter!" Walker, exasperated that neither Dems nor GOPs were, are or will be receptive to his message: MEDICARE ENTITLEMENTS ARE MORE DANGEROUS TO THIS COUNTRY THAN OSAMA EVER THOUGHT OF BEING. resigned. Is it true that Americans can't handle the truth? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9FuOXdPtrA&feature=related
Several weeks ago Medicare bought me a new Power Wheelchair. Less than a week ago, Medicare delivered and installed a brand-new Electric Hospital Bed in my home. Are both nice? Bet on it! Could I do without both? Bet on that too! I'm a healthy, tolerably rugged guy, 70 years and Cerebral Palsy not withstanding - and damned fortunate to boot. My previous power-chair is battered but FIXABLE. A Lamborghini bed? Been sleeping great on one of the old beds the twins had as teeny kids. Years ago, me and a buddy hopped the same freight-train Jack Kerouc wrote of in "On The Road." Why? Because we could. The future Dr. Bawb fell asleep on a damn flat-car! Like Walker, though the comparative scale is microscopic in my case, no one listened to my :"I don't need a new chair" It equaled "Low self-esteem." My ass and M.C. Rove's face! Still it's merciful not all 70-year olds, disabled or not, are like me. OTOH U.S. wretched excess is stunning. I don't keep good records but people like David Walker do. It's their Job Description. Here's who Walker works for. Check out the YouTubes on it and DON'T call a Shrink in morning.

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