The Dick..."Tater"

I was on the everlovin' elliptical machine at the gym this morning.
I thought about the players in the Senior US Open.
They are at Del Paso golf course just a mile or so from me.
It will hit 110 degrees Fahrenheit today.
That will surely cook some of them right off the course.
Maybe they will have volunteer cool mist applicators at every tee.
My pal, Don Brunelle is one of them out there...
One of the volunteers that is.
I will ask.
If he survives the day.

I also noticed a little girl in the pool area outside the gym.
She was wearing a one piece suit.
She had a diaper on underneath.
I was thinking...is it permissible to put a little kid in diapers in a public pool?

But then, I looked up and one of the flat screen TV's was on.
Full of outcries about today's SCOTUS decision.
You know, the one upholding the Affordable Care Act.
After five years the fight continues.
Instead of offering viable alternatives,
or focusing on fixing the pieces of the 20,000 page behemoth
that are broken, those opposed vow to fight on.

I am getting tired of trying to keep up with the endless bickering,
with the threatened and actual government shutdowns.
I am tired of the spin doctors trying to sell me hasty generalizations instead of arguments biased in favor of the people.
I am really tired of our Congress; incapable of constructive legislation, refusing to represent the people, uncompromising, suited dandies pandering to anyone who will show them the money.

So, I have decided to shelf democracy for a few years.
I have decided to be the United States dictator.
My approach to running this country will reflect this quote from a now retired Air Force Medical Service Corps Colonel, Bob Mills.  "Gentlemen, you have (this much) time to make a collective decision.  If you haven't by then, I will make it for you."

(He was addressing a joint group of military health care facility leaders; participants in a test program of capitation budgeting in the Northwest US. His threat inspired us to act.)

I will give Congress a certain amount of time to act on an issue and if they can't I will show them the door and act for them.

I think you pretty much know the types of decisions I will make.
They won't all be right either but they will certainly be biased toward the Common Man.  Some of my decision drivers will include:

• To protect and preserve dignity, for all races, colors and creeds
• The opportunity to seek and hold gainful employment 
• A fair shot at a decent health care system
• To uphold the Constitution with as fair and contemporary an interpretation as possible 

One of the first things I will do is remove the parasites from our busted health care system, you know...like the one that costs your cancer-stricken family member more than $100,000 a year just for medications.

The list goes on and on but this I will be clear about...we will leave this country a better place for our children and grandchildren. We owe them that much and we haven't been producing....have we?

So I'm gonna' be the Dick....for you "Tater" and all you other folks who don't have that cute nickname. Get ready for a hellofa ride.