Senator Barbara Mikulski

April 13, 2011

Senator Barbara Mikulski
212 W. Main St, #200
Salisbury, MD 21801

RE: Debt ceiling vote and “Easter Duty”

Senator Mikulski,

I read your bio before writing this letter.

You say that you are undecided about your vote on raising the Federal debt ceiling. Further, you say that Republicans are “extreme” and that “they don’t know anything about economics”.

From your bio it seems that you missed a chance to learn economics from the ground up.

Your parents ran a corner grocery store. At the end of the day the cash register told them whether they had made the right choices. Cheese. How many kinds? Salads. What kind of pickles? How much rice pudding compared to tapioca. Who gets credit? Rye with seeds versus without. Chrischicki. Prune or cheese Danish. How many of each? Who doesn’t get credit? At some point the books had to balance or the key wouldn’t work the next day. The cash register was the umpire. It was a game without Mulligans.

Too bad you didn’t learn from them.

My Uncle Adam said it perfectly.

“What is prudent in running the affairs of a household
can scarce be folly in running the affairs of an empire.”

As to Easter Duty…I count 16 years of Catholic education fused into your DNA. How do you square the circle of abortion for a modern American Liberal who was a Catholic before debt ceilings became important? Either it’s a sin or it isn’t. Easter Duty, anyone?





Kevin Smith