What Are You Willing to Give?

The Republicans want us to cut back and the Dems want us to spend. How about we each ask ourselves, what are we willing to give? 

Our country is broke and we did it to ourselves. We voted people into office that have no fiscal sense. Heck, some of them can’t even balance a checkbook and others use military aircraft to fly back and forth from California to Washington D.C., but then you know that don’t you and you did nothing about it. Granted, for us Californians there wasn’t much choice. I like Carley, but I don’t like elections being bought. There’s enough in that statement to write another blog, but I digress. 

When we are building bridges to nowhere and overpasses for turtles you can pretty much guess things are out of hand. When fed workers are making 150k a year plus for pushing paper, ahem, it’s time to renegotiate pensions. (I mean, really.) Think Bell California.

So, instead of everybody getting their tail feathers ruffled, I thought maybe, instead of shoving things down people’s throats we might VOLUNTARILY come up with things we are ready to give away on our own.

I love my country. It is the best place in the world to live and I hate the fact that we are at each other’s throats. I am a Tea Party person and attended the first protest in Sacramento two years ago. In case you are interested, Tea Party people are not all white, they don’t all carry guns, yet they are mostly conservative and are SICK AND TIRED of being taxed to death.

Every heard of the Boston Tea Party? If not, Google it.

Imagine this, I am taxed on my paycheck. I use part of my paycheck to purchase a stock. I am taxed on the dividend and interest and then when I sell it, I’m taxed again. That’s four taxes so my little investment has just been taxed four times by the feds. And now they want to tax my stock when I buy it too! 

Uh-uh, that’s not good.

The reason gas is so high in California is because we are taxed on the gas we use. We are taxed on liquor and cigarettes, and taxed on everything we buy that isn’t perishable food.

C’mon. Aren’t you tired of it all? 

Our constitution is an awesome thing. In it, the feds are accountable to the states, not the states to the feds. You can see where that’s gone wrong. The feds are responsible for securing our borders—well I won’t even go there. I have no idea if that thing in So Cal was a missile or an airplane, but what scares me the most is it took the feds/military over 48 hours to decide if it was a ‘threat’ or not. Since I’m not dead, I’d guess it wasn’t a threat either. Sheesh. THIS ISN’T ROCKET SCIENCE PEOPLE. Well, maybe it is.

Most of the world is angry with us for debasing our currency. Uh, yeah, since we’ve blasted them for doing the same thing in the past. So, what are you willing to give up freely so we can balance the books of the United States?

1. I’ll work until I’m 68 before getting Social Security. (I challenge my fed friends to do the same.)
2. I’m willing to take a pension of 50k per year, down from 100k. OH WAIT, I DON’T WORK FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. I don’t have a pension.
3. Okay, I promise to give up the 200k the government gave me to train economically challenged Ultimate Impact Wrestlers.
4. I’ll give back the 8k given to me to teach hand folding Origami decorations to seniors.
5. Dang, my husband just sent back the check he received from stimulus funds to add four dancers to a Cleveland-area ballet company.

 
If this keeps on going, I’ll be broke.

So, man up and tell me what you’re willing to give up to save our country. I gotta go, the money they gave me to test crack cocaine on monkeys accidentally got into the dog food. Gus is outside, chasing down deer.