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Thursday, February 21, 2008
Tax and Spend--The Death of America???
It all started with a bar-room arguement--or disagreement as they called it.
The bartender and some patrons were complaining that if Obama gets elected we would be subject to the classic Democratic blunders of the tax and spend philosophy.
After listening for a while I asked what would be worse, taxing and spending, or spending and not finding a way to pay for it.
The fears that the bartender had was that we often spend money giving food stamps to the poor and they turn around and "buy steak and the other most expensive shit they can buy with it."
But these are the same people who are alright with the government taking less money from us (whom I'm told actually by those present are the government being a democracy and all) than they pay for things like the war in Iraq.
I know I am only one person, but I respect the person who can buy steak on food stamps a lot more than I respect the government who for all intents and purposes went to the Pay Day Loan store and bought a multi(and I mean super multi)-billion dollar war in Iraq.
Is it worse to attempt to feed a family and also attempt to pay for it than it is to give billions of dollars of handouts to companies like Halliburton who repeatedly rob our government (and by that I mean us because we are the government)? Are the conservatives finally afraid of being financially responsible?
How is it that I, a human-minded conservative-deemed liberal can see that if we are going to spend billions of dollars more than we make that it will eventually become a problem but conservatives themselves are actually fearing having to pay for everything the government does?
Did they really think that we could spend hundreds of billions of dollars on a war and the war-time economy would somehow pay for it. Christ, these geniouses aren't even trying to sell us war bonds!
I dare someone to explain to me why it is alright to go into debt for something that nobody can prove is helping America but it isn't alright to pay for something that many Americans can't live without like better schools and healthcare (and don't try to tell me healthcare isn't a problem because I have a sore wrist which just cost me $300 on top of what I pay for what is considered good insurance).
I think it is time we all stop living in fear of paying more taxes, especially if we support the war in Iraq which we obviously can't afford to pay for. There are plenty of idiots who get hunted down by pay-day loan stores every day, I don't want to live in a country where the president gets hunted down by one and my taxes have to pay the interest.
A smart man (it doesn't matter which one because they were right) said it best, "If you can't pay for it, don't buy it." So lets stop worrying about paying more if we are already buying things we aren't paying for.
The bartender and some patrons were complaining that if Obama gets elected we would be subject to the classic Democratic blunders of the tax and spend philosophy.
After listening for a while I asked what would be worse, taxing and spending, or spending and not finding a way to pay for it.
The fears that the bartender had was that we often spend money giving food stamps to the poor and they turn around and "buy steak and the other most expensive shit they can buy with it."
But these are the same people who are alright with the government taking less money from us (whom I'm told actually by those present are the government being a democracy and all) than they pay for things like the war in Iraq.
I know I am only one person, but I respect the person who can buy steak on food stamps a lot more than I respect the government who for all intents and purposes went to the Pay Day Loan store and bought a multi(and I mean super multi)-billion dollar war in Iraq.
Is it worse to attempt to feed a family and also attempt to pay for it than it is to give billions of dollars of handouts to companies like Halliburton who repeatedly rob our government (and by that I mean us because we are the government)? Are the conservatives finally afraid of being financially responsible?
How is it that I, a human-minded conservative-deemed liberal can see that if we are going to spend billions of dollars more than we make that it will eventually become a problem but conservatives themselves are actually fearing having to pay for everything the government does?
Did they really think that we could spend hundreds of billions of dollars on a war and the war-time economy would somehow pay for it. Christ, these geniouses aren't even trying to sell us war bonds!
I dare someone to explain to me why it is alright to go into debt for something that nobody can prove is helping America but it isn't alright to pay for something that many Americans can't live without like better schools and healthcare (and don't try to tell me healthcare isn't a problem because I have a sore wrist which just cost me $300 on top of what I pay for what is considered good insurance).
I think it is time we all stop living in fear of paying more taxes, especially if we support the war in Iraq which we obviously can't afford to pay for. There are plenty of idiots who get hunted down by pay-day loan stores every day, I don't want to live in a country where the president gets hunted down by one and my taxes have to pay the interest.
A smart man (it doesn't matter which one because they were right) said it best, "If you can't pay for it, don't buy it." So lets stop worrying about paying more if we are already buying things we aren't paying for.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Ignorance for President
It all started when a co-worker was talking about voting for Hillary in the Wisconsin primary because she has a "lesser chance" of winning than does Barack, and that if Barack were elected, God save us, "our taxes would go up."
Playing reality advocate, I posed the question to her, "Are things any better with America blowing billions of dollars in Iraq without having a way to pay for it while the dollar is worth basically nothing around the world than things would be if Americans faced a tax-hike?"
And she had the nerve to say, "Freedom isn't free."
Freedom isn't fucking free? Are you kidding me? Someone who is worried that Barack might raise her taxes is actually okay with the war in Iraq because, "Freedom isn't free." She further went on to say that if Barack was elected, I might not even have a country to live in.
Too bad ignorance isn't running for president. There are actually people who on one hand are afraid Obama will raise their taxes but on the other hand think that the almost $500 billion and counting war in Iraq (the war which took the focus off Osama Bin Laden while two more dangerous countries openly developed nuclear weapons) somehow makes America safer and more free.
"Freedom isn't free" says a woman who lives in constant fear of a possible tax-hike which might actually help pay for the war she is glad we are spending money on. Where does she think this money comes from?
Perhaps the government has been hiding that "money tree" that our parents accused us of believing in when we asked for money as children? Even if that is true, it would seem that the tree hasn't been able to grow money that is worth anything outside of the United States.
Who even says that Obama is going to raise taxes anyway? Assuming we can somehow afford the war in Iraq (which we can't), as soon as Obama ends the war America will have hundreds of billions of dollars a year extra which we could actually spend elsewhere, possibly even on tax-cuts.
Are we so greedy in this country that our biggest fear is that someone might raise our taxes? My biggest fear is that American soldiers and innocent Iraqis will continue to die while our children will be forced to foot the bill and if any of the real terror threats that we have ignored throughout the Iraq war attack us we will not have the soldiers, the money, or the resources to protect our country, our people, and our freedoms.
Playing reality advocate, I posed the question to her, "Are things any better with America blowing billions of dollars in Iraq without having a way to pay for it while the dollar is worth basically nothing around the world than things would be if Americans faced a tax-hike?"
And she had the nerve to say, "Freedom isn't free."
Freedom isn't fucking free? Are you kidding me? Someone who is worried that Barack might raise her taxes is actually okay with the war in Iraq because, "Freedom isn't free." She further went on to say that if Barack was elected, I might not even have a country to live in.
Too bad ignorance isn't running for president. There are actually people who on one hand are afraid Obama will raise their taxes but on the other hand think that the almost $500 billion and counting war in Iraq (the war which took the focus off Osama Bin Laden while two more dangerous countries openly developed nuclear weapons) somehow makes America safer and more free.
"Freedom isn't free" says a woman who lives in constant fear of a possible tax-hike which might actually help pay for the war she is glad we are spending money on. Where does she think this money comes from?
Perhaps the government has been hiding that "money tree" that our parents accused us of believing in when we asked for money as children? Even if that is true, it would seem that the tree hasn't been able to grow money that is worth anything outside of the United States.
Who even says that Obama is going to raise taxes anyway? Assuming we can somehow afford the war in Iraq (which we can't), as soon as Obama ends the war America will have hundreds of billions of dollars a year extra which we could actually spend elsewhere, possibly even on tax-cuts.
Are we so greedy in this country that our biggest fear is that someone might raise our taxes? My biggest fear is that American soldiers and innocent Iraqis will continue to die while our children will be forced to foot the bill and if any of the real terror threats that we have ignored throughout the Iraq war attack us we will not have the soldiers, the money, or the resources to protect our country, our people, and our freedoms.
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