Spygate: U.S. Government Has Bigger Fish To Fry Than The New England Patriots

Senator Arlen Specter has called for an independent investigation into the New England Patriots' alleged taping of opposing team's signals and practices.

Specter has stated: "I have documented the strong factual case that a NFL investigation was neither objective nor adequate. If the commissioner doesn't move for an independent investigation, then there will be a permanent black mark on the NFL, and the Patriots' record will be historically tainted. Depending on the public reaction, I may ask the Senate Judiciary Committee to hold hearings on the NFL antitrust exemption."

If our tax money is going to be used for a Senate investigation, here is a list of some other things they might want to investigate first:

1. What are we going to do about the recession we are in at this very moment?

2. Why are the United States and South Africa the only two countries in the developed world that don't provide their citizens with health care?

3. Why are American citizens statistically as likely to be murdered as a citizen in the still war-torn country of South Africa?

4. Why are health care costs rising at over 7 per per year, gas rising at an astronomical rate—yet the average salary of an American employee is rising at a real rate of 1.1 percent? This indicates that year by year, American citizens are actually getting poorer.

5. Why have school shootings become a part of everyday life in our country? I guess if something happens often enough it becomes normal...

6. Why is Mr. Specter's home state of Pennsylvania one of the easiest states in the entire country to purchase a handgun in?

7. Why are there an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in the country (probably closer to 20 million)?

8. Why are our children's test scores now ranked twelfth in the world—a clear decline over the past 10 years?

9. Why is a college education turning into a luxury only available to the ultra-wealthy in America?

10. Oh yeah—why there is a war on quickly approaching the longest conflict our country has ever been involved in?

I think it might be best for our government to investigate some of these issues before spending valuable time, resources and money on investigating whether or not Bill Belichick taped some practices.

If, by some miracle shot straight down from the heavens, government is able to solve these problems and still have some time left over to investigate the New England Patriots—then go for it.

Until then, though, I think it is scarily obvious that government has bigger fish to fry than the New England Patriots.