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.