Well, they're at it again. Our friends in big government seem to think that the appropriate way to keep this country running is to raise the debt ceiling. Hmmmmmm. Yeah, apparently this worked great for the 30% of homeowners who lost their homes over the last few years. I'm betting any of them would tell you that it's not a real smart method of fiduciary responsibility to extend your credit to the point where you can't pay all of your obligations.
I'm willing to make a bet that I can give my 4th grader a short pencil & ask him to figure out the following problem. If I give you $20, how much can you spend? It's really that simple. I don't care if the number is $20, or $20million, or $20 trillion. You can't spend more than you have. I say you can't, but we've been doing a pretty good job of it as a country. We fund research projects to study the length of Komodo Dragons tongues, and to study the circumference of an average Gerbil's left testicle, but then we turn around and threaten to take away money from the very people who made this country great in the first place.
The Democrats in Congress think the way to get us out of this mess is to spend. The Republicans in Congress think the way to get us out of this mess is to spend. It's all a joke. I'm not sure I want a bunch of third world countries laughing at us because we can't pull our heads out of our asses long enough to fix the problem.
I'm as American and patriotic as you'd want. I don't mind paying my fair share of taxes. But the fact of the matter is that I DO pay mine and a couple of other peoples fair share of taxes. I'll be damned if I want to pay more when we're spending TRILLION's on stupid crap. I'm not sure why we need to fund all of the stupid research grants, or the welfare system, or the food stamp system, or any of the other myriad of social programs that teach people not to work, but to suck off the government.
Before any of you get your panties in a wad, let me give you an example. A friend has a daughter. She has 3 kids. Every time she squeezes out another pup, it doesn't cost her a dime. She gets food stamps.(almost $900 per month) She gets WIC (women and infant children). She gets free daycare. Did I mention she's not married?
Another friend has an adult child who needed a bunch of medical tests last year. Hospital bills totaled just shy of $20,000. He didn't pay a dime.
In my household, we had a pretty hectic surgery schedule last year. 4 surgeries in all. Cost my family just shy of $40 grand out of pocket. I'm happy to pay it too! The result would have been disastrous if we hadn't had them.
Guess what? In the first 2 examples, both of these people are unemployed. So what I'm saying is, it's okay to keep getting knocked up and having babies, because government is going to take care of you. You shouldn't have to get a job to support your family. That would be mean! And because of this, we create a society of dependants.
It's no different than the family who gives their kids everything they could possibly want in life without requiring anything out of them. 25 years later, the same parents are wondering why their kids won't get a job and leave home. Would you?
We have got to make a stand against the politics as usual crowd in Washington. I don't give a crap whether you're black, white, brown, green, grey, yellow or purple. Don't give a crap if your straight, gay, bi or tri. I don't give a crap about your educational level, your income level, where you live or the kind of car you drive. You can be a red-neck, a hill-billy, a city dweller, a cave dweller or live in a box. I don't care what you do for a living.
What I do care about is the fact that we are all Americans. And every one of us should be to the point where we wanna go kick some politician ass. I know I am!
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