If I am spending too much money and I cannot pay my bills- I just go into the other room and print up some more 20's. Or I go to my boss and ask for a raise. If I decide I want more money- I just add some zeros to the number on my paycheck. If I don't want to spend my hard earned money- then I just get into a car that someone else had paid for & filled up with gas at their own expense. If I want something I can't afford, I just go ahead and get it, and I don't even make an excuse as to why I cannot honor my agreement to pay for it. And if I screw up my budget or mis-appropriate the use of my bank account- I don't sell the boat I have used twice in 5 years or the private jet that cost more to store than to fly- I just go and get more money that I won't account for or answer questions about. How about you??
Does ANY OF THIS sound familiar. Does any of this ring a bell. If you read the newspaper, listen to the radio, or watch the 6 pm news, then it does. I REALLY find it difficult to believe that when the constitution or bill of rights or declaration of independence was written .... that it was with the intention of governments (AKA politicians) taking advantage of the people they SUPPOSEDLY represent. IT IS TIME for all of them to take the money out THEIR OWN pockets to pay the piper. It's time to eliminate the expense accounts that allow them to party on when they should be WORKING for the people who trusted them. LOOK AT THE VOTING records of some of these guys ...... I get more upset at the times they DON'T vote at all then for the times they vote WRONG!! Can you imagine what the hourly rate comes out to if you divided their pay (including their benefits and perks) by the number of hours they are ACTUALLY on the job??!!! AND- while I'm all riled up now ...... who's the idiot that decides that a CEO should be making millions from the get go. WHY would someone be making soooooooooo much money when the people who actually DO THE WORK that they are benefiting from are losing their own jobs (or decent medical coverage) okay, okay ..... so I am not offering any answers and I am ALSO not telling you anything you haven't thought about yourself so- since this ALSO doesn't make me feel any better either since I am not a vent-er by nature. I consider this soapbox officially dismantled. (and maybe it's not what saturday was made for) let's go for a walk.
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I agree with you, but want you also to keep in mind that greed is the current American Mindset. We all have to have bigger and better houses, fancier and nicer cars, designer clothes, bags and shoes... problem is, we really don't have the money to have all of these things. We keep taking out credit from the greedy banks, who know we can't afford it, but let us have it anyway. Not like on "It's a Wonderful Life" where the savings and loan was actually "helping" people to buy homes. As far as I am concerned government BAIL-OUTS are something that should never happen. This is a ridiculous concept. If a bank gave their credit honestly instead of greedily, they wouldn't be in the situation.
I don't even want to get started on Government spending - especially when I see how much we (Andy and I) are paying in taxes this year. Simply put, there is too much BIG government. Said well in my favorite quote this week:
"Let us then turn this government back into the channel in which the framers of the Constitution originally placed it".
--July 10, 1858 Speech at Chicago
Abraham Lincoln
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