Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Same Old - Same Old
Didn't take long, did it? President Obama - in just a couple short weeks - has started stepping into the Washington D.C. morass of cheating, corruption, and influence peddling. His cabinet is supposed to be composed of some of the top minds and people in the country. It seems like a large percentage of them are already shown to be cheats. Really; "Oops, my bad, I didn't know I was supposed to pay that $125,000 in taxes. I'm not a working class slob."
The IRS was after me when I didn't file a state tax form for which I didn't owe any money on. At the time, military income was exempt from state tax, so I didn't file the state tax form. I was a kid and figured if I didn't owe anything, why should I file? I had to track down five years worth of paperwork to make the tax folks happy. So how does someone miss paying $125,000 they owe until they are vetted for a cabinet seat?
And where are these trillions of dollars coming from? We just had a president who built the largest deficit in history and almost (we're not done yet) bankrupted the country. Now our new president's plan is to go even deeper in dept. So now, because some invester and home-buyer and widescreen TV buyer overspent themselves I'll have to pay their debts?
Those trillions in bailout bucks have to be coming from someplace -- and my taxes are it.
So how about instead of throwing more money at businesses who business model is broke, just let them fail and let the businesses who are actually successful reap the benefits of doing a good job? It's going to hurt, but so, eventually, is throwing trillions into the crapper.
Labels: crime, government
