When I was a girl I didn’t have an allowance. If I wanted to go to the movies or get a cold drink I’d have to ask for the money. Since I hated asking for money I very seldom did it.

When I was working I can remember being shy about picking up my paycheck because I felt it was something given to me even though I had earned it.

When I went on business trips for the company or the union it was with an expense account. The company was much more generous than the union. I guess the union had to keep their funds for political purposes. I joke there.

I never took advantage of the expense accounts and looked for places, even in Manhattan, where I could get a decent meal and not pay a fortune for it.

After all, it wasn’t my money to spend recklessly.

Now I read about former President Clinton taking advantage of every possible benefit available to him and I think he’s nothing but someone who never had anything and is now going to get every single thing he can get for free.

Yes, real estate in Manhattan is expensive, but I remember the big fuss over how much he was spending for office space when he first left office. There were other places just as nice with less expense associated with it.

If he is spending more than all the other former presidents combined (including Reagan and Ford while they were alive) for office space, telephone calls and staff the question comes to mind “why?”

This man and his wife are worth over $100 million on their own.

I almost flipped when I read before that his house payment is being made by us. Here’s how he does it: His house payment is a certain amount of money each month and he has to have secret service protection as a former president. He has rented space to the secret service on his protection detail that is equal to the amount of his house payment, so it appears that apart from eating, everything else this man gets is from using the system to get it.

Somehow I just feel he should be a little more fair to the American taxpayer since he says he shouldn’t be getting all these tax breaks for himself, and stop receiving the maximum of what the law says he can get.

Just because you can get it doesn’t mean you need it.

This unjustified lifestyle is enjoyed by the man whose flunkies never failed to call someone trailer trash. I have found that when you point a finger at someone you have three pointing back at you.

Here is a man who never had anything as a child or as an adult until he became president and now thinks he’ll just reach into the nation’s cookie jar and take all he can take, and he does it with no shame.

Those are the Clintons for you. No class and it shows.

The usual Friday-Fly By will be pre-empted this week by a reading of Michael Yon’s, “Moment of Truth in Iraq.”

Due to the generosity of a very dear friend, I received my autographed copy yesterday afternoon. It was a long wait until free time late last evening allowed me to begin what I knew would be a compelling, factual account of events in Iraq.

At this moment, I have completed the first half of the publication and as expected, Michael continues with a writing style which transports you into the center of action. There are moments as with his dispatches, where the readers senses are in tune with those who are tirelessly fighting for not only our security but the freedom of the Iraqi people.

Thanks you dear friend for this gift and thank you Michael Yon for your honesty, candor and most of all your personal sacrifice so we may have a clearer picture of the horrors and successes of this war.

Now, back to reading.