Looking at all the finger pointing going on right now, I almost have to laugh. Especially at those who blame the downgrade on not collecting even more taxes. Put very simply, for even the biggest airhead to understand, when was the last time Congress didn't spend every dime of tax revenue it received, and then about forty percent more on top of that?
Social security is the biggest example of this, hands down. The so-called "Trust Fund" is empty of money and full of IOUs (US Debt) that now have less than AAA rating on top of everything. Or how about the cutting Medicare by $500 billion? Did that go toward reform and putting the program into the black? No. It went to form an even bigger, unsustainable welfare program, "ObamaCare".
The government could raise taxes by 50% on everybody and Congress would still piss it all away and then need to borrow more on top of all that. The only way to get this fiscal mess turned around is to CUT SPENDING NOW. Not fake cuts that say we'll lower the increases in spending over ten years, real cuts.
The fault lies squarely on both Democrats and RINO Republicans that would not get behind -- and stand behind -- a serious proposal for cutting spending. (Read the S&P commentary and they mention the Paul Ryan budget by name as a plan that could have avoided all this). If RINOs had the testicular fortitude to stand up to Obama and Reid, and if Obama, Pelosi and Reid themselves weren't so irresponsible in their spending the last two and a half years, this wouldn't have happened.
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Sunday, August 7, 2011
Friday, April 1, 2011
The 28th Amendment to the Constitution
The 28th Amendment to the Constitution has been proposed, and it's a good one. All 47 Republicans in the Senate have signed on to support a Constitutional amendment that would fix the financial problems in the country from getting any worse -- overnight.
The biggest aspect of the amendment states that the federal government can spend only 18% of the nation's GDP unless a declaration of war has been made. This by itself is huge in that it would immediately reduce government spending from the outrageous rate of 25% of GDP that it is now under Obama, to 18% .. lower than it was during the Bush Administration.
Other aspects of the amendment include needing super majorities of Congress to raise taxes and the debt limit, requiring Congress to balance the budget and the President to submit a balanced budget. This amendment will finally force the spendaholics to put a finite amount of money where it is needed most -- prioritize in other words -- just like we have to do in the real world. And since there's a cap on spending, statist "liberals" will not be able to balance the budget by increasing taxes and spending at the same time -- they can only spend a set amount of money per fiscal year.
It's nice to see the new Senators like Mike Lee and Rand Paul getting a coherent solution put together and supported. Of course this is a long way from being approved -- super majorities of the Senate and House have to approve the amendment before it is sent out to be ratified by the States. The good news however is, since so many State Legislatures were taken over by Republicans in the 2010 race, if the amendment can get out of Congress then it is almost assuredly going to be ratified.
Still a big if -- but it's just the beginning of gathering support for this. If statist "liberals" refuse to go along -- which they undoubtedly will -- they will have to be exposed and further voted out until this thing is passed. This has to be made the top priority and campaign issue alongside the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. This political one-two punch to the statist "liberals" will be the combination to knock them out of power and get the financial health of this nation turned around in short order.
The biggest aspect of the amendment states that the federal government can spend only 18% of the nation's GDP unless a declaration of war has been made. This by itself is huge in that it would immediately reduce government spending from the outrageous rate of 25% of GDP that it is now under Obama, to 18% .. lower than it was during the Bush Administration.
Other aspects of the amendment include needing super majorities of Congress to raise taxes and the debt limit, requiring Congress to balance the budget and the President to submit a balanced budget. This amendment will finally force the spendaholics to put a finite amount of money where it is needed most -- prioritize in other words -- just like we have to do in the real world. And since there's a cap on spending, statist "liberals" will not be able to balance the budget by increasing taxes and spending at the same time -- they can only spend a set amount of money per fiscal year.
It's nice to see the new Senators like Mike Lee and Rand Paul getting a coherent solution put together and supported. Of course this is a long way from being approved -- super majorities of the Senate and House have to approve the amendment before it is sent out to be ratified by the States. The good news however is, since so many State Legislatures were taken over by Republicans in the 2010 race, if the amendment can get out of Congress then it is almost assuredly going to be ratified.
Still a big if -- but it's just the beginning of gathering support for this. If statist "liberals" refuse to go along -- which they undoubtedly will -- they will have to be exposed and further voted out until this thing is passed. This has to be made the top priority and campaign issue alongside the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. This political one-two punch to the statist "liberals" will be the combination to knock them out of power and get the financial health of this nation turned around in short order.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
On the Public Sector and Taxes
I live in the State of New Jersey. It's well known by the people of this State, and outside of it as well, that we pay the highest property taxes as a percentage of income. And the #2 state is not even remotely close. Before I bother to give out my own anecdotal information, you can look at this map showing the figures from the year 2008 and compare for yourself. And that was 2008 before salaries stopped going up, house values went down, and taxes by golly kept going up. And oddly enough, those assessed property values that they use to determine your tax bill just never comes close to matching up with what you would actually get for your house if you sold it.
The annual cost to keep me from being thrown out on the street and the government taking ownership of the house that I live in is over $4,000. That was well over 10% of my income. (And that was before I lost my full-time job. Now it's even worse). Tack that on to my federal and state income taxes and well, I was working close to 40% of the time for the government just in the form of income and property taxes. That's not counting sales taxes, excise taxes, and other taxes. It's really no wonder I struggle from week to week to make sure all the bills are paid on time. Yet if I were to listen to the Left, all my woes are to be blamed on Big Oil, Big Pharma, or Big This, That or the Other. No, my eyes are quite open, I live in reality, not Propagandaville, and the problem is Big Government. Government grows in good times and bad. And even when you say NO to more property taxes as you struggle through losing your job and working three part time jobs, elected officials over turn your vote and raise taxes anyway in deferment to the public sector unions. In good times we're told it's our patriotic duty to pay our taxes. In bad times it's "Oh you're going to lose your house? Suck it up. The government employees are still underpaid." If I only sleep five hours a night instead of six, maybe I can cram another seven hours of work in...
I'm sick of it, and so are many other people. Not just in this state, but other places where hard working, tax paying citizens are being abused as well. People voting with their feet and moving to more tax payer friendly States is resulting in places like NJ and California having a shrinking tax payer base which further results in more people sucking money out of the system than paying in. It's a death spiral all the way down, and now the Leftists want to impose it upon us at a national level as well. Checkmate. No escape.
Now be a good little boy/girl and go work very hard so you can pay your taxes to fund government excess and waste.
The annual cost to keep me from being thrown out on the street and the government taking ownership of the house that I live in is over $4,000. That was well over 10% of my income. (And that was before I lost my full-time job. Now it's even worse). Tack that on to my federal and state income taxes and well, I was working close to 40% of the time for the government just in the form of income and property taxes. That's not counting sales taxes, excise taxes, and other taxes. It's really no wonder I struggle from week to week to make sure all the bills are paid on time. Yet if I were to listen to the Left, all my woes are to be blamed on Big Oil, Big Pharma, or Big This, That or the Other. No, my eyes are quite open, I live in reality, not Propagandaville, and the problem is Big Government. Government grows in good times and bad. And even when you say NO to more property taxes as you struggle through losing your job and working three part time jobs, elected officials over turn your vote and raise taxes anyway in deferment to the public sector unions. In good times we're told it's our patriotic duty to pay our taxes. In bad times it's "Oh you're going to lose your house? Suck it up. The government employees are still underpaid." If I only sleep five hours a night instead of six, maybe I can cram another seven hours of work in...
I'm sick of it, and so are many other people. Not just in this state, but other places where hard working, tax paying citizens are being abused as well. People voting with their feet and moving to more tax payer friendly States is resulting in places like NJ and California having a shrinking tax payer base which further results in more people sucking money out of the system than paying in. It's a death spiral all the way down, and now the Leftists want to impose it upon us at a national level as well. Checkmate. No escape.
Now be a good little boy/girl and go work very hard so you can pay your taxes to fund government excess and waste.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Don't Say Your Vote Doesn't Count
Here in New Jersey we vote on the local level on school budgets. Most years the teacher's union wins their massive increases with rhetoric about "the children" while they continue to rake in what now surpasses private sector wages and pay nothing for their health and other benefits. This year however the feeling was quite different among the people with a new more responsible governor pushing back against the union, and all other kinds of out of control spending. So the local school districts took it upon themselves to try to authorize a massive increase in local property taxes.
In my town, the elementary school alone wanted 1.4 million dollars OVER and ABOVE regular base curriculum spending at a time when people have been out of work for six months or more in record numbers. In my town, the budget was defeated by TWO votes.
Two votes is going to force some actual responsibility from these people for once.
Now don't say your vote doesn't ever count for anything.
Across the state, nearly 60% of budgets were defeated in a promising sign that people are not going to put up with any more out of control spending from the local level all the way up to the federal government. Watch out come November.
In my town, the elementary school alone wanted 1.4 million dollars OVER and ABOVE regular base curriculum spending at a time when people have been out of work for six months or more in record numbers. In my town, the budget was defeated by TWO votes.
Two votes is going to force some actual responsibility from these people for once.
Now don't say your vote doesn't ever count for anything.
Across the state, nearly 60% of budgets were defeated in a promising sign that people are not going to put up with any more out of control spending from the local level all the way up to the federal government. Watch out come November.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Moving Right Along...
I've been away busy with moving, but as of next week I should be somewhat settled again. I only mention this because it is relevant to the content of this blog. I live in the corruption-tax happy state of New Jersey, and the town that I was living in jacked up the taxes this past year an insane amount. Insane even for a good economy, let alone what is going on now. People are losing their jobs, or taking jobs making much less than they were two years ago and government keeps on spending like the cash is flowing in at a record rate. It is just yet another example of how government is beyond out of touch with reality. Tax and spenders keep raising taxes, keep spending, keep lining their and their friends' pockets and then wonder why tax revenue is going down. Well, it's because people are moving out of town, and out of state. And it's why keeping some semblance of federalism alive is so important. Because once you can't escape the outrageous taxes because it's the federal government getting you instead of a state like New Jersey, Massachussetts or California, there is no escape.
I will soon be moving out of this god-forsaken state myself as soon as I can arrange it. For now however I will take solace in the fact that I am now only going to be paying a share of one tax bill as I am now living with someone else.
I will soon be moving out of this god-forsaken state myself as soon as I can arrange it. For now however I will take solace in the fact that I am now only going to be paying a share of one tax bill as I am now living with someone else.
Monday, September 14, 2009
More on Chicken Little
Here's a radical idea: Why don't we actually play up a real threat to the United States and western civilization as we know it? Something that is happening now. Something that is going to affect us in 15 or 25 years, not 150 or 250.
It's the double slam-dunk of falling birth rates and the loss of identity due to liberalism and the transformation of people from self-reliant citizens to wards of the state.
In parts of Europe, notably Russia, Eastern Europe, Greece, Italy and Spain, the birthrate has become so low, that the population of some nations will be halving a little over each generation. That sort of presents a problem as to who is going to work to fund the welfare state that Europe is.
Europe has already felt the tip of the iceberg of the consequences of relying on immigration of people from North Africa and the Middle East. Forty percent of these immigrants end up permanently on the welfare system, and the refusal of these people to integrate into European society along with the Europeans' birthrates is going to sound the death knell for these countries identity in its entirety. But who cares right? So long as those checks and state health care keep on coming.
People have had their will and identity so drained by the social liberal nanny state that they can't even be bothered to breed anymore. And those that may still want to can't afford to because of the fact that the tax structure in the welfare state just doesn't reward families. It punishes them. Faced with their extinction as a people and culture, they'll apologize themselves out of existence before actually finding the balls to do anything about it.
And this is the path that the current administration has laid out for us, to follow the Europeans into the abyss.
I'd say that's a bit more of something to worry about than Global Cooling (oh wait that was thirty years ago, now it's Warming).
This is the REAL population bomb.
It's the double slam-dunk of falling birth rates and the loss of identity due to liberalism and the transformation of people from self-reliant citizens to wards of the state.
In parts of Europe, notably Russia, Eastern Europe, Greece, Italy and Spain, the birthrate has become so low, that the population of some nations will be halving a little over each generation. That sort of presents a problem as to who is going to work to fund the welfare state that Europe is.
Europe has already felt the tip of the iceberg of the consequences of relying on immigration of people from North Africa and the Middle East. Forty percent of these immigrants end up permanently on the welfare system, and the refusal of these people to integrate into European society along with the Europeans' birthrates is going to sound the death knell for these countries identity in its entirety. But who cares right? So long as those checks and state health care keep on coming.
People have had their will and identity so drained by the social liberal nanny state that they can't even be bothered to breed anymore. And those that may still want to can't afford to because of the fact that the tax structure in the welfare state just doesn't reward families. It punishes them. Faced with their extinction as a people and culture, they'll apologize themselves out of existence before actually finding the balls to do anything about it.
And this is the path that the current administration has laid out for us, to follow the Europeans into the abyss.
I'd say that's a bit more of something to worry about than Global Cooling (oh wait that was thirty years ago, now it's Warming).
This is the REAL population bomb.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Wealth Redistribution is Legalized THEFT
Here's a scenario for you. You are walking down the street. A man comes around the corner and points a gun at you and demands your wallet/purse. He opens your wallet and takes out 50% of your money and gives your wallet back before taking off.
After getting over the shock of him taking only half your money, what do you do?
Do you stand there and say to yourself: well he's going to use the money he stole from me to pay his sick mother's health care bills?
How about: he's going to use the money he stole from me to give to a homeless person?
No. You call the cops and report the crime and hope he's caught before he can rob someone else. You feel violated and afraid to go out again.
How is this different from what the government does to your paycheck every week?
I have an answer for you: you'll probably never see that man with the gun again, but you can bet your bottom that the government will be back again next week to rob you again.
Wealth distribution is legalized theft and you allow it by voting liberals into office that push harder and harder for this. And now with Obama and Pelosi and crew, it's gonna into overdrive.
Yes, the government needs to tax to pay for certain things. However these certain things are things that should benefit every American. The military is something that needs to be paid for that benefits every American. And it's pretty much one of the only things the federal government should be taxing you for to pay for.
But the last few decades we've allowed the federal government to rob us to pay for things we'll never see a dime of return in. Everybody paying taxes to fund a bill that pays for removing tattoos of gang members (one of the many provisions in the "Stimulus" package) is certainly worthy isn't it? I don't know where you live, but we don't have gangs here. I shouldn't have to pay for gang tattoo removal. If you live somewhere that has a problem with gangs and want to give your money away so they can have their tattoos removed, go for it. But I say: I'd rather spend that money on food, clothing or the heating bill, thanks.
And this is just one small example. One of these days trying logging on to the Congressional web site and try actually reading some of these bills they write up and pass. You can see some of the outrageous things your tax dollars are being spent on. Stop being ignorant and apathetic. Get involved. Make a difference. You could be amazed at how low our taxes would be if just the waste spending alone was eliminated.
After getting over the shock of him taking only half your money, what do you do?
Do you stand there and say to yourself: well he's going to use the money he stole from me to pay his sick mother's health care bills?
How about: he's going to use the money he stole from me to give to a homeless person?
No. You call the cops and report the crime and hope he's caught before he can rob someone else. You feel violated and afraid to go out again.
How is this different from what the government does to your paycheck every week?
I have an answer for you: you'll probably never see that man with the gun again, but you can bet your bottom that the government will be back again next week to rob you again.
Wealth distribution is legalized theft and you allow it by voting liberals into office that push harder and harder for this. And now with Obama and Pelosi and crew, it's gonna into overdrive.
Yes, the government needs to tax to pay for certain things. However these certain things are things that should benefit every American. The military is something that needs to be paid for that benefits every American. And it's pretty much one of the only things the federal government should be taxing you for to pay for.
But the last few decades we've allowed the federal government to rob us to pay for things we'll never see a dime of return in. Everybody paying taxes to fund a bill that pays for removing tattoos of gang members (one of the many provisions in the "Stimulus" package) is certainly worthy isn't it? I don't know where you live, but we don't have gangs here. I shouldn't have to pay for gang tattoo removal. If you live somewhere that has a problem with gangs and want to give your money away so they can have their tattoos removed, go for it. But I say: I'd rather spend that money on food, clothing or the heating bill, thanks.
And this is just one small example. One of these days trying logging on to the Congressional web site and try actually reading some of these bills they write up and pass. You can see some of the outrageous things your tax dollars are being spent on. Stop being ignorant and apathetic. Get involved. Make a difference. You could be amazed at how low our taxes would be if just the waste spending alone was eliminated.
Sunday, September 6, 2009
A Note to All You Billionaires/Millionaires
And especially to you Hollywood morons: This isn't a rant of a class envying person. In fact, it's just the opposite. So long as you came into your money through legal means and pay your taxes every April 15, I am happy for you. Enjoy.
When I am not happy for you is when you start going on one of your guilt trips and decide you are an awful person for having so much money when there are so many people who are not so lucky. Then you get on TV and all kinds of other exposure and endorse people for public office who want to take other people's money and give it to somebody else that it doesn't belong to.
My advice to you:
1) Sit down, shut up and enjoy your new yacht. We're only here a little while and you can't take it with you.
2) If you honestly feel so badly that you can't sleep at night, then give all your money and possessions away and go live under a bridge or pledge to become Obama's slave.
My point is, if you want poor people to have money, then give it to them yourself out of your own pocket and stop forcing me to pay more in taxes because YOU feel guilty. As I said, you can go live under a bridge if you want, I do NOT want to be there next to you.
Typical guilt-ridden rich person: "I feel so guilty. Weshould do something about it!"
Note how the "I" becomes "We".
Well I'll tell you: I'm not rich. But when I bring home a paycheck at the end of the week there's still about 30% of it missing between federal taxes, state taxes and other taxes. That's not to mention the sales tax I have to pay whenever I buy something on top of all that.
I'm not rich but yet still almost a third of my money that I work hard for disappears every week to go to someone else that either doesn't work or has not enough respect for themselves to work to better their situation in life. Newsflash people: there are people who do not want to work and think society owes them a living. Going down that road is going to be the ruination of this country and we're already starting to get up to cruising speed.
When I am not happy for you is when you start going on one of your guilt trips and decide you are an awful person for having so much money when there are so many people who are not so lucky. Then you get on TV and all kinds of other exposure and endorse people for public office who want to take other people's money and give it to somebody else that it doesn't belong to.
My advice to you:
1) Sit down, shut up and enjoy your new yacht. We're only here a little while and you can't take it with you.
2) If you honestly feel so badly that you can't sleep at night, then give all your money and possessions away and go live under a bridge or pledge to become Obama's slave.
My point is, if you want poor people to have money, then give it to them yourself out of your own pocket and stop forcing me to pay more in taxes because YOU feel guilty. As I said, you can go live under a bridge if you want, I do NOT want to be there next to you.
Typical guilt-ridden rich person: "I feel so guilty. Weshould do something about it!"
Note how the "I" becomes "We".
Well I'll tell you: I'm not rich. But when I bring home a paycheck at the end of the week there's still about 30% of it missing between federal taxes, state taxes and other taxes. That's not to mention the sales tax I have to pay whenever I buy something on top of all that.
I'm not rich but yet still almost a third of my money that I work hard for disappears every week to go to someone else that either doesn't work or has not enough respect for themselves to work to better their situation in life. Newsflash people: there are people who do not want to work and think society owes them a living. Going down that road is going to be the ruination of this country and we're already starting to get up to cruising speed.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Liberals: "You're Too Stupid"
"You're too stupid to know what's best for you."
That's the implicit liberal declaration in just about every one of their policies. Implicit that is, until someone decides they're wrong and what they're pushing is not best for them and their family. Then the implicit feel good rainbow speeches become vicious and specific personal attacks upon you and/or your family because you dare to disagree with them.
So are you too stupid to take care of yourself and your family? I'm not, and I doubt there are very many people out there that don't know what's better for their family than some bureaucrat
sitting behind a desk somewhere whose only real concern is drawing his federal paycheck and benefits because that helps their family.
But that's the rallying cry. Government knows better than you. Government will protect you from the big bad companies that just want to take your money. And people keep falling for it because they keep believing there is a such thing as a free lunch.
I don't know about you, but corporations don't take my money unless I willingly give it to them in exchange for a product or service I want. The government takes my money every payday and I rarely see anything out of it I want or need.
Yes, the government knows best and has my best interests at heart indeed.
That's the implicit liberal declaration in just about every one of their policies. Implicit that is, until someone decides they're wrong and what they're pushing is not best for them and their family. Then the implicit feel good rainbow speeches become vicious and specific personal attacks upon you and/or your family because you dare to disagree with them.
So are you too stupid to take care of yourself and your family? I'm not, and I doubt there are very many people out there that don't know what's better for their family than some bureaucrat
sitting behind a desk somewhere whose only real concern is drawing his federal paycheck and benefits because that helps their family.
But that's the rallying cry. Government knows better than you. Government will protect you from the big bad companies that just want to take your money. And people keep falling for it because they keep believing there is a such thing as a free lunch.
I don't know about you, but corporations don't take my money unless I willingly give it to them in exchange for a product or service I want. The government takes my money every payday and I rarely see anything out of it I want or need.
Yes, the government knows best and has my best interests at heart indeed.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Let's Keep Rewarding Failure
Why is it we keep throwing money at failing institutions and ideas?
The public school system is one of the biggest failures of this nation. Yet year after year we keep throwing more and more money into it. American students are near the bottom in nearly every standardized testing category by the end of secondary (high) school when compared to other industrialized nations.
The "Stimulus" program is another example of this. Monies are directed toward failing areas and programs. In other words, we are rewarding failure. Hello? Aren't you supposed to reward success?
Do you reward a child that doesn't clean his room? Or do you punish him? Do you reward someone for murdering a person? (Well, yes liberals think we should reward murderers... it's why they give them weekend furloughs from prison and gigantic book deals). We continue to reward failure even as we continue to see the results of rewarding failure to be... you got it. More failure!
If a business, industry, or town/area fails, it's for a reason. It's because policies and decisions made were poor and the results are showing. Propping up such business/industry (bailouts), or areas ("stimulus") just exacerbates the problem. If somebody knows that every time they get into trouble financially even if it's their fault, the government will come rescue them, what incentive is there to actually make good decisions and be responsible? The answer is simple: there isn't any. And it's why the Clinton bailouts of the savings and loans in the 90s, and the Bush/Obama bailouts of the financial industry and car industry of the last two years will encourage companies to continue to make lousy business decisions because they can be confident that the federal government will be there to save them at the expense of our tax dollars.
Until we get back to the tried and true method of rewarding success and re-introducing things such as competition and responsibility into all of these systems including schools, we will continue to see the failures pile up, the the costs to us as taxpayers continue to soar.
It's just common sense. And it's why people who have common sense and an actual brain they are able to use wonder if this really is some kind of conspiracy to make people unable to fend for themselves and totally dependent on the government for every aspect of their lives.
The public school system is one of the biggest failures of this nation. Yet year after year we keep throwing more and more money into it. American students are near the bottom in nearly every standardized testing category by the end of secondary (high) school when compared to other industrialized nations.
The "Stimulus" program is another example of this. Monies are directed toward failing areas and programs. In other words, we are rewarding failure. Hello? Aren't you supposed to reward success?
Do you reward a child that doesn't clean his room? Or do you punish him? Do you reward someone for murdering a person? (Well, yes liberals think we should reward murderers... it's why they give them weekend furloughs from prison and gigantic book deals). We continue to reward failure even as we continue to see the results of rewarding failure to be... you got it. More failure!
If a business, industry, or town/area fails, it's for a reason. It's because policies and decisions made were poor and the results are showing. Propping up such business/industry (bailouts), or areas ("stimulus") just exacerbates the problem. If somebody knows that every time they get into trouble financially even if it's their fault, the government will come rescue them, what incentive is there to actually make good decisions and be responsible? The answer is simple: there isn't any. And it's why the Clinton bailouts of the savings and loans in the 90s, and the Bush/Obama bailouts of the financial industry and car industry of the last two years will encourage companies to continue to make lousy business decisions because they can be confident that the federal government will be there to save them at the expense of our tax dollars.
Until we get back to the tried and true method of rewarding success and re-introducing things such as competition and responsibility into all of these systems including schools, we will continue to see the failures pile up, the the costs to us as taxpayers continue to soar.
It's just common sense. And it's why people who have common sense and an actual brain they are able to use wonder if this really is some kind of conspiracy to make people unable to fend for themselves and totally dependent on the government for every aspect of their lives.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Stop the Entitlement Mentality
I was listening to one of the more popular political programs the other day and a caller complained about how her friend "had to" work three jobs and then got "punished" because she then made too much money to "qualify for free medicine".
Okay, let me get this straight. You're complaining because you make too much money to get something from a nanny welfare state program? I've got the perfect solution! Quit all your jobs! Live in a box! Then you should qualify for ALL the welfare programs that working people have to pay for every day. Otherwise can you turn off your cable/satellite TV, drop your Tivo subscription, stop eating out, get rid of your cell phone, walk to the corner store instead of driving down there, turn off your air conditioning or buy a few less pairs of shoes? Then you could actually pay for your drugs and still have money left over.
But oh no, you could never do that. That would be crimping your lifestyle. Or maybe the government (aka me, and everyone else that works and have our own bills) should pay for all that for you too? Maybe you don't make enough money to get that new Coach bag you want? Yes, let's start a government welfare program for that. How much does your friend make in her three jobs so we can have a baseline income level to get the program rolling?
Okay, let me get this straight. You're complaining because you make too much money to get something from a nanny welfare state program? I've got the perfect solution! Quit all your jobs! Live in a box! Then you should qualify for ALL the welfare programs that working people have to pay for every day. Otherwise can you turn off your cable/satellite TV, drop your Tivo subscription, stop eating out, get rid of your cell phone, walk to the corner store instead of driving down there, turn off your air conditioning or buy a few less pairs of shoes? Then you could actually pay for your drugs and still have money left over.
But oh no, you could never do that. That would be crimping your lifestyle. Or maybe the government (aka me, and everyone else that works and have our own bills) should pay for all that for you too? Maybe you don't make enough money to get that new Coach bag you want? Yes, let's start a government welfare program for that. How much does your friend make in her three jobs so we can have a baseline income level to get the program rolling?
If you want something, pay for it yourself. If you can't afford it, don't buy it and go into debt and then complain you have to work three jobs to pay just the interest on your credit cards. I work, and I recently had to cancel my TV and internet at home because I couldn't afford it after my taxes went up drastically. Taxes that support leeches that think they should get everything for free. So now I'm supposed to go without TV and internet to pay more taxes so someone with TV and internet can get free drugs?
Wake up people. Get your priorities straight. Listen to yourselves when you talk like this. Why don't you take a recorder (yes that $50+ mp3 player you could afford on your three job salary probably has a voice recorder) and record yourself talking about the things you make too much money to get for free. Then listen to yourself. If after this exercise you still see nothing wrong with what you are doing/saying you are officially brain dead. Congratulations.
Friday, August 14, 2009
Go Save the Trees and STFU
If you're like me, you don't like other people telling you what to do. If you're going to tell me what to do, you better be paying me to do it. And even then I might decide it isn't particularly worth it.
I used to be a Democrat and left leaning in my thoughts and voting. That was when I was a teenager and in my early 20s. Then a funny thing happened. I had to graduate college and actually get a real job.
Turns out I don't like working all of Monday just to pay for stuff that other people think is important. That's bad enough. I don't want that to turn into Monday, Tuesday and half of Wednesday. That is where we are headed every time we allow the government to get bigger and more expensive. And allowing this ObamaCare thing to become reality will pretty much get us there instantly.
I used to be a Democrat and left leaning in my thoughts and voting. That was when I was a teenager and in my early 20s. Then a funny thing happened. I had to graduate college and actually get a real job.
Turns out I don't like working all of Monday just to pay for stuff that other people think is important. That's bad enough. I don't want that to turn into Monday, Tuesday and half of Wednesday. That is where we are headed every time we allow the government to get bigger and more expensive. And allowing this ObamaCare thing to become reality will pretty much get us there instantly.
And please don't tell me that Obama said only the rich will be paying (more) taxes. That's what the government said when trying to make the income tax permanently legal too. How's that working out?
So if you want to save the (trees, homeless, animals, whatever) go do it yourself. Donate your money, your time, and God bless you. But don't be sticking your grubby hands in MY pocket to fund your little projects, thanks. You spend your time and money on what you think is important and I'll spend my money on what I think is important. Like feeding my family.
In other words, don't expect to tell me what to do AND expect ME to pay YOU for it.
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