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Current mood:  pissed off Category: Life
DISCLAIMER: After reviewing the initial curse-a-thon this piece started off as, it has been sanitized for those with a feint heart and a lower tollerance for "f-bombs." If any stray curse words have made it into this rant, I apologize in advance.
I'm about to start banging my head on the keyboard. I have so much to say and I don't even know how to word it, lest it fall at my feet in a pile of word-vomit.
So I'll sum it up with this question: "Why work?" Our government is systematically eliminating the need to work by taxing those who work for a living, and handing it out to lazy dregs, many of whom make cash on the side they never claim.
Do this one day: Sit outside of your local government-funding hut and watch what kind of vehicles pull up and what people are wearing. You're going to be sick.
Last year the government received a good chunk of change from me. We're talking Medicare, Social Security, State, Local, and a host of other ways beauracratic fat cats nickle-and-dime me at every turn - not to mention all the taxes on damn near everything I buy. Now, all this talk about budget defecits and how do "we" make up the shortcomings always seems to come around to talk of new taxes. Lets tax booze, lets tax tobacco, lets tax soda, lets tax pet owners, lets tax people listening to music about left-handed lesbian albino midgets. Can't afford a house? We have HUD for you. Can't pay your utilities? We have all sorts of programs to assist with that! Can't pay for food? Welfare and food stamps are here for you! Don't have medical coverage? Just jump on the wonderful MediCare program we have!
Everyday I'm watching a power-hungry government who thinks its their job to get involved in everything grab up bankrupt companies and failed business ventures to save idiots. Because history has proven that when government gets involved it always improves the situation greatly. History has taught us that! <---- denotes sarcasm.
I have no idea how many people are sucking me dry through these giant governmental tits I seem to have grown, but one of the reasons I feel like someone is pissing in my Cheerios is I'm not even getting to make the call on where my tax dollars are going to! How do I know my money isn't going towards something like teaching chinese hookers to drink responsibly? I know alcohol plays an important part in the lives of Ling-Ling and Suki-San when trying to lure Wang into the brothel for making some boom-boom, but how - much less why - does this concern the US or me?
Every year we hear about "cutting government spending and programming" and every year a large pile steaming excrement seems to be heeped onto my plate - and these lying politicicos have the nerve to tell me its roast beef.
I know taxes are something which come with living in the US, but I've developed an idea in which we can have a say in our tax dollars. We're a voting people, we deserve a say!
Right?
So, at the end of the year, when all of us working class stiffs, small business owners, as well as others I may have forgotten, sit down to do our taxes I want an additional few pages. And on these pages I get to select what programs my tax dollars are funding! I'd have a pretty short list: National defense, education, oil exploration, and nuclear energy developement. Most likely in that order. And if we discovered syphoniing the tears from weeping environmentalsts and global warming Chicken Littles could provide oil, I'd set some money aside to routinely stage baby seal clubbings on CSPAN to increase production.
I absolutely guarantee, by process of elimination and by tax-payer say, we'd eliminate a ton of wasteful spending as well as cut a huge number of useless programs when Americans say, "I'm not paying for something stupid."
So, I'm sorry Ling-Ling and Suki-San, but you're going to find it hard to get that triple-shot of Petrone to numb the pain from the chaffing.
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