(ref blog Feb. part 1 and part 2)
I have tried, very hard, to leave Politics out of my blog, except to appreciate the humor in it..........but NO! some readers just can't leave it alone. SSSSOOOOO, my friends on the right............take note!!!!! I must say that I do listen to political TV, read the paper each day and factcheck whatever I have questions about correctness. I have somewhat given up listening to FOX simply because this Murdoch developed list of programs are so overwhelming over the hill and INCORRECT on most of their information, that it just doesn't make any sense at all. They apparently do not edit anything about what they say to see if its at least half correct but they also do not have the intelligence to photoshop some of their photos or videos before putting them on the air. Between Beck, Russ and Bill plus the backing of some of the minor players there is much to be desired as far as their reporting of political news is concerned. They have basically, in my opinion, been able to misinterpret and misrepresent any little amount of information available. Now, they have added another personality to their staff.......who I basically label as ...........SH.. for brains............MS. Palin, Although she has been able to establish a following..........of not knows........into her darken halls of nonsense. This is news reporting generated ...............by..............opinioniated......personalities, thereby creating misinformation to the masses. "Tokyo Rose" second generation.
It's very surprising to me, the amount of people that have written to my email, regarding these two posts back in February. It is JUST as surprising to me that those people, not only apparently do not know how the Government gets its money, but they can't read either. Thirdly, it is also apparent, that those are the people asking the government for something THEY WANT, but refuse to pay for it............Let me be perfectly blunt with you my friends......The ONLY WAY ,the government accounts for income is through TAXES AND DUTIES. It is beyond my comprehension that one does not know this. If you want a bridge to nowhere, you have to also be wise enough to know that someone will charge to build this bridge, but why would you want a bridge to nowhere to begin with. People do not just wave a magic wand and .......POOF!!.........you have your bridge. NOW! the government will help pay for a part of this bridge.........(after, of course your Senators and Congressman lobby for it . .......and get it.......in exchange for their vote on another totally different bill), after all, THAT'S THE AMERICAN WAY. Then when the OTHER SIDE does the same .......OOOOHHHHHH NNNOOOO! that's against the law. We cant do that.
Listening to and reading about our two major parties going at it is the best part of life. The amount of dirt you can get is unbelievable. They are like a bunch of 5th graders fighting over a ball. "ITS MINE,,,,,NO ITS MINE.....NO ITS MINE AND I WANT TO PLAY THIS WAY.........NO ITS MINE AND I DON'T WANT TO PLAY THAT WAY...................OK, THEN I'M TAKING MY BALL HOME. until you agree to play my way. WHAT THE HELL!!!!!! WAH! WAH! WAH!, if you take your ball home, I'm going to tell everybody that you like Suzie and you kissed her. " If you say that about me, I'm going to tell everybody I saw you play with yourself in the boys room"...........WHAT ON EARTH! IS HAPPENING. HAVE WE LOST ALL PRIDE? or are we just so stupid as a people to constantly bring these so called intellectual politicians back again and again to make our laws. We are their bosses, we have put them where they are BUT.....they have gotten together to not only ignore our wishes but to give themselves pay raises whenever they want........along with cutting their hours. WHERE ELSE CAN THIS HAPPEN, where else can the employee tells the boss how much they want and what they will do or not do for it. They have found a way to even make it law to cut MY PAY and I happen to be one of the bosses, but for some unknown reason, we continue to let them RULE THE ROOST and run this country into CAVEMAN territory so THEY CAN BENEFIT.
I must admit, that I do not really understand the NEW MATH however I also must admit that I consider myself a master of the OLD MATH, since I can add 2 + 2 and get 4. WOWEEE!! MUST BE THE GENIUS IN ME. To bad some of our politicians can't do the same. Now, "Here my friends", are some things that perhaps you can understand. IF, you can't then it's to bad for you. If you find the numbers are just to big for you to understand, replace them with easy numbers.........like 2, 3, 4 and 5. not all together.
MONEY COMES IN FROM
Individual income taxes..........$1.121 Trillion
Corporate Income taxes..........297 Billion
Social Security/payroll taxes....934 Billion
Excise taxes...........................74 Billion
Estate and Gift taxes...............25 Billion
Customs duties.......................27 Billion
Other taxes 87 Billion (taxes from sales,Utilities,and whatever else they could squeeze)
Total $2.57 Trillion
WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO
Defense..................................$895 Billion
other discretionary..................520 Billion (war, helping other countries,unemployment)
Social Security.........................730 Billion
Medicare.................................491 Billion
Medicaid.................................297 Billion
troubled asset relief....................11 Billion
Jobs initiatives............................25 Billion
Other 612 Billion (special projects and Congressional pork, probably incl. salaries)
Interest on debt........................251 Billion (more than likely to the Chinese)
Potential disaster........................ 3 Billion
Total $3.83 Trillion
As you can see, we are already into a deficit of $1.27 Trillion dollars and growing with each new expenditure. DUH!!!! You can also see, that the only income is from Taxes. Simple question now is why lower taxes??? am I missing something????? You basically have only two choices. Increase income (taxes)or start a business or lower expenditures...........why not cut out some of the Pork, THEIR SALARIES, for one ( that's short for some of the crap Congressman ask for in exchange for their votes, I call bribery) but they don't want to do that.........WHY? you ask. Because their constituents may think they are doing nothing, vote them out and now they have to live like 10% of the out of work population.
If a town in Illinois wants the 100 park benches painted, the congressman looks around for a bill needing one more YAH VOTE...... and lobbies for his park benches being painted........ let the town figure out how to paint them. Don't let the government pay a portion of it , if not all of it.
Another thing we as a country, can do is STOP BORROWING MONEY!!!!!. We could automatically save 251 Billion of interest on this borrowed money that does nothing more than pay for non essentials in the form of PORK!!!!!. AM I MISSING SOMETHING???? My dad, was the expert they needed. He lived by the rule that when you were close to using all you money STOP BUYING until you were able to afford it. Why can't someone in the government simply say NO! YOU CANT HAVE THAT UNTIL WE HAVE THE MONEY FOR IT, so stop crying and figure out how to get the money.
Now, to make things even more simple so our elected officials can understand things, I will simply refer to the Conservatives as the RED party and the Liberals as the BLUE party. Now, the RED group of people want to give back to the SMALL PEOPLE something called taxes. This, they say will give the SMALL PEOPLE more opportunity to buy things......from small businesses, who would also have their taxes reduced.........so they can buy from larger companies who would pay less tax than now...... but most of the taxes overall. Lets analyze this. I, as a small person would get more money in my paycheck to buy more things, I need gas for my car to be able to drive to my job to earn money, so I go to the local Exxon station, fill up for the next week of traveling to work. The local Exxon station, buys from a larger distributor but pays less taxes since he is also a small business. Now, the distributor buys from a larger distributor and the exact same thing happens........UNTIL EVENTUALLY.......the money arrives at the main EXXON guys place, not in the U.S.A. at the end of the year they make out their income taxes...........by the way folks.............THIS IS TRUE...........EXXON PAID $18 billion dollars in taxes..........BUT NOT one red cent to the USA.......and also got a $156 million dollar refund check from the IRS. That was one law passed by a 61-35 vote in the senate. GUESS WHAT PARTY VOTED for that law and the year??? Check it out, it's public record....If I did that with my taxes, I would be writing this blog from prison. IS THIS WHAT REDUCED TAXES DO??????????
Now, in fairness, I must say that the BLUE guys are just as bad. They spend all the income and go out and borrow....................this primarily to bribe the RED guys for votes needed to buy STUFF! that both the red and blue guys want.
Where does it end?? When does it end???? and congress asks Why does it end??????
Finally, if the REDS want to cut the deficit and save our children, perhaps they should look back over the 70's-90's check at what the deficit was then and check if they were so concerned about our children at that time. Personally, since some readers did not like my idea of leasing out our military and equipment to other countries, perhaps the government should go into business and sell a product and let the private businesses compete for the business. The government, could make some money other than taxes and duties. Now, they should choose a business that perhaps could be exported to other countries. HOW ABOUT HEALTH CARE!!!!!. or they can sell......PROTECTION INSURANCE!!!! since it seems we are taking care of most of the world anyway.
