The USA is only two lives long

A while back I read where a 116 year-old woman died. If, as an infant, she had been held in the arms of another 116-year old, that woman would have been born during the winter of Valley Forge.

How can congress spend as much much money in one year as we have since George Washington's army had no shoes? Is it because politicians consider it merely two lifetimes of spending, or because politicians just don't give a damn about George Washington's army anymore?

I bet many of our elected officials think Valley Forge is a ski resort out west and that no person could live to 116 in a country with such horrible health care...