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How Our Government Fixes Things

By Pat Racimora on December 1, 2009 at 11:45 AM in Current Affairs

When I look at this image, I think about the Obama administration’s many attempts to make us all believe that everything broken will be put back into perfect condition , and I thank “Ms. Fix-It” for permission to use her photos to interpret in my own way.

Here are some more:

#2. This (above) is the Stimulus Package. Maybe it avoided something worse in the short run (while lining the pockets of those who got us into this mess and not creating many jobs), but it’s not sturdy. It could still come crashing down again on the rest of us.

#3. This (above) looks a lot like Afghanistan to me. A questionable solution to a perplexing problem.

#4. This (above) is the current mish-mash versions of the Health Care Reform Bills, with us sitting up there praying to God that we never get sick.

#5. Oh boy, here you and I are (the umbrella, above) forced to keep corrupt financial corporations from getting wet. Of course, we all get soaked.

#6. Here we all are (above) again, this time trying to protect ourselves as best we can with what we now have to work with.

#7. (above) Here’s to all those promised fixes that didn’t quite happen yet.

#8. (above) I see Iraq here—The USA is the stool just stuck there and can’t figure how to gracefully get out.

#9. I see you and me again here (above)—trying to do whatever it takes in this broken system to keep the water (read: necessities of life) dribbling.

#10. Finally, us all being screwed—too many were led to believe that the new administration and Congress were going to bake us a cake! Suprise!

(Photo Credits: There, I Fixed It)

Do you see other interpretations?

West Virginia

Number 3 is quite fitting because it is a short circuit. It’s a backyard iye eee dee!
Portia Elizabeth

LOL! A couple of those pix reminded me of me! I *ahem* broke the window to my sunroof trying to close it during a storm and had to use my umbrella.
I loved your appropriate captions, Pat! Such a great sense of humor, which is seriously needed to keep sane under this administration.

(30,000??? WTH???)
Stan Davis

Re #6: That’s not protection. That’s a guy transporting two recently-bought new tires home.

I’ll give a nod to the innovators in these pics. Hey…you gotta use what you have. It’s like the game played in management seminars. They form however many small groups (four or so each) to generate how many uses the groups can come with to use a paper clip.

#3 gives new meaning to the term “battery clamp.” But the handle is dangerously close to the other battery terminal, risking a short and God-knows what kind of sparks. Maybe the clamp will melt down.

Laid up with a leg problem and have trouble lifting a leg to get in bed? Put a loop in one end of a necktie (I loop the fat end), slip the loop under the foot of the injured leg, and lift the leg with your arms without using leg muscles. An occupational therapist taught me that trick. A belt would work, too.

What to do about the poop when you walk the dog? Use one of those wrappers/sleeves protecting your newspaper and stick your hand/arm in it. Pick up the poop, then turn the sleeve inside out to put the poop inside. Wrap it up and put it in the park trash receptacle. That one comes from my ex-wife. (I use the newspaper sleeves to throw away my coffee grounds.)

Invention is the mother of necessity.

Stan Davis
Lakewood, CO
Don X

Very funny! In a sick sort of way. Got a lot of laughs while really feeling the pinch. Great accompanying text. We are all in a very precarious position on the eve of escalating the war in Afghanistan and the pending passage of a bill that nobody can quite figure out.
Solara 9

Very funny, very true. Wonderful photos!
blue orchard

As the saying goes: each nation gets the government it deserves.
Peggy Sue

Love the pics, Pat. How painfully true. Numbers 2 & 5 are perfect images and despite what Obamatrons say and/or post here, there is a growing sense of unease and dissatisfaction.

We all knew the tipping point was coming and that the Big Lie had a limited shelf life. After 8 years of nonsense, this 9th year is wearing very thin.

I scanned the Far Left blogs last night. The inevitable howl has begun. For the Far Left, Afghanistan may be the last straw. Even Michael Moore has registered his complaint.

The New Year should prove very interesting!
Rich

Very interesting article. You forgot to add that the fixes in the pictures would end up costing more than if it was done correctly in the first place because the work would be done with no-bid contracts, no inspection of work performed before payment is made, and it would be justified as creating jobs and helping either an industry or community.

When will people learn that there is no such thing as a free lunch? Communism tried to make is look like everyone should be the same and everyone should be entitled to everything, and look how well that worked. When we say anything should be free, like school or education, what does that mean? The utility will be provided for free, the teachers or professors work for free? All union employees will work for free? All administrators will work for free? The food will be provided for free? And which one of you would be willing to spend your life working for free to make this happen?

It is interesting to me that so many people know the saying “that if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.” And yet if a good looking well speaking politician says something that if we think about it sounds too good to be true, we end up believing the promise anyway and vote for that person. What does that say about us?

Rich

http://www.noquarterusa.net/blog/2009/11/27/what-i-now-love-about-the-holidays-thanks-to-the-crobonomy/ Silence Dogood

And yet if a good looking well speaking politician says something that if we think about it sounds too good to be true, we end up believing the promise anyway and vote for that person. What does that say about us?

In the case of the present squatter in the Oval Office, the will of the people was subverted. The will of the people had it right except the the fact when the rightful nominee was robbed in the process. Yes, we know there are differences of opinion on the matter.

As to “What does that say about us?”: Many of us found out early on, there was nothing but an empty suit with in our view an unholy agenda (Obama), and we tried to warn everyone else, screaming at the top of our lungs.

“Us” as a general species-wise pattern of most people, sure. “Us” as many on this blog, hell no! My conscience is clear. I tried.

samb

You can’t put the Jennie back in the bottle, now please excuse me, while I start screaming.
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Doc99

How the Government Fixes Things OK, so it’s really an IBM ad but it fits here.
Sassy

My interpretations:
1-Baling wire bailouts
2-The mast of the Ship of State
3-The autopsy of government corruption
and moral decay
4-Federal Flood Insurance
5-Subsidized Housing
6-Border Patrol Agency
7-Bend over, one size fits all
healthcare
8-Chinese support of a washed-up economy
9-Joe the Plumber is unemployed
10-Spinning military drills and war
strategy batter

Pat Racimora

Terrific Sassy!

lark

I haven’t laughed so much in a long time.

Larry Johnson (Bio)
@noquarterusa

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