The past year of 2011 brought much talk about the concern of illegal immigration. In the view of some politicians the way to defeat this was simply to round up the 20 million put them on buses and ship them back to wherever they came from. Sounds normal until someone discovered that it simply could not work. These people were HIDING .........and not willing to be found....DUH!. More time would be spent hunting them down then it was really worth....................so the idea transferred over to why can't we just balance out the numbers and reduce the deficit at the same time. WOW! what a great idea............kill two birds with one Stone..........................so the new idea of the conservative party is:
To help save the economy, the Government will announce next month that the Immigration Department will start deporting seniors (instead of illegals) in order to lower Social Security and Medicare costs.
Older people
are easier to catch and will not remember how to get back home.
I started to
cry when I thought of you...
Then it
dawned on me ... oh, crap ... I'll see you on the
bus!
NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS
I have decided this year to eliminate the task of thinking of, enacting, and then trying to keep a New Years resolution. Thinking back in time, I really could not give you any year that a NY's resolution lasted more than any of my diets........so why waist ( and I did not spell that wrong) the time on any stinking, useless resolution ...................or diet. OH sure getting into my size 38" pants put the pressure on me into thinking I was stuffing myself like an Italian sausage but what the hell......I'm 75, how many more years have I got to fit into pants I wore when I was 40 years old. Besides that, I can still look at myself in a mirror and remark (of course to myself only) how I have been able to hold my astonishing good looks in tact, still take no medication, have all my own teeth and hair, still able to think reasonably about all subjects................much to the questioning of my Republican friends as to whether that is sound or not..........................................walk without using a balancing stick ......or whatever that is called.........drive normally but need the aid of something called GPS.................but in my own defense only when I leave the neighborhood................so I will just go on living and dreaming back to those days of yesteryear. I say FORGET the resolution nonsense unless you just want to put more unwanted pressure on you mind.
Now, regarding the last 2 "run on" sentences, as my old teacher Ms. Griswald use to say.......brings up the subject of using a route memory system (GPS) OR map quest. I don't know how many of you use map quest but recently Margot and I were going somewhere........can't remember where..... but I set the GPS and Margot got a printed copy of map quest, just in case the "recalculating bitch goes crazy". I'm not sure but I think I can save map quest a lot of unnecessary directions and certainly save me the cost of printing paper and ink from my ink cartridges, if they can eliminate steps 1-10 since I'm sure most people can find their way out of their neighborhood.
TAX TIME
This brings up the subject of preparing for the IRS tax time portion of the year. Now that I have spent November and December thinking of ways to reduce the debt and reduce the amount of my cost to reduce the debt I have come to the conclusion that it's quite apparent that some of our legislatures apparently did not pay attention in math 101 in high school.
One group of politicians are saying that 43% of the qualified tax payers ARE NOT paying taxes. At first, I said to myself..........self ?........just how despicable is this, how unpatriotic this is, then I sat down for.................OH at least 10 minutes..............and have come to the conclusion 43% really?.........Just in basic figures, say unemployment is at 9% and those that are no longer able to claim unemployment insurance is ..........oh 2% and those that have given up looking for a job......2%. and those that are lucky enough to have found a job @ minimum wage 2% those that have started their own little business and prefer to eat and live and have no more money causing them to NOT pay payroll taxes 2% and the balance of 26% just DON'T have income for other reasons to send their hard earned money to the government to throw away on roads to nowhere, we can meet the 43%, otherwise I don't know how they come to that figure. Now, if I look at this logically and honestly, taking into considerations the allowances that the IRS gives to normal wage earners and we know who those are the adjusted gross income (what the tax amount is based on) is BELOW the taxable amount, therefore those people HAVE NO INCOME to pay tax on. In the eyes of these proclaiming that such a great amount pay no taxes, have they ever tried living on less than $33,000 per year with a family????? Sure it can be done!!!, no problem and here's how
Live in a cardboard box
Eat from leftovers discarded but only by fancy restaurants
wear only those clothes that are rejected by Salvation Army
pick a skateboard as you mode of transportation
Write out your job resume on toilet paper (preferably unused)
Collect empty bottles and cans to supplement your income
and lastly and most important
GET A FRIGGIN' JOB
(disclaimer, all figures are estimated and this is meant as humor...........but how true it is!!!!)
SO, IN A NUT SHELL.............NO INCOME..........NO TAXES!!!!! so to this old Liberal give people jobs.......collect payroll taxes. WPA here we come................again.
I saw a guy standing on the corner, holding a cardboard sign, reading OUT OF WORK,.......... HUNGRY,.........FAMILY AND DOG AT NEXT RED LIGHT.........PLEASE HELP.........GOD BLESS YOU. I stopped and asked if he would be willing to come down to my house and help me rake the yard and pick some weeds. His reply was simple and to the point. "Why would I do that when I can make more money begging"
Thanks for listening.
