Thursday, July 14, 2011

Piper Time

You know how the saying goes. "If you want to dance..."

WTF (Washington Town of Fools)?

They are all going crazy in Washington this week about raising the debt ceiling limit.

The Democrats want to raise it and promise future cuts to try to get the country's financial house in order.

The Republicans are playing politics and won't agree to the myriad plans being offered as long as tax hikes are a part of the solution.

What is wrong with these people? Is it because they don't have to pay for anything that they don't understand the relationship between services offered and the need to pay for them?

We are fighting three plus wars, unemployment is high, our infrastructure is crumbling and our food, water, air and health system are all in crisis.

But "NO TAXES!" is the cry from The Right.

No taxes?

How else to pay for everything?

A first grader knows that if you want a candy bar you have to have a nickel.

You can borrow the nickel from Uncle Morty but he'll want the nickel back and a penny on top of it for good measure.

So you either earn the nickel outright or you borrow it or you forego the candy bar.

Or you steal it...

We, as a society, want a lot of services. From Medicare to Social Security to national defense and safe food, we want a lot from our government.

Over the years we have wanted more and more yet the Republicans continue to maintain that we can have everything without paying for it.

We can have troops in 3 theaters of operation for free.

We can have good health care and retirement funds for nothing.

We can have confidence in our food supply by the good graces of the Easter Bunny.

And they want to extend the Bush Tax Cuts...an economic policy which didn't work for Reagan any better than it worked for Dubya, whose father correctly labeled it "Voodoo."

Again I say...WTF?!!!

People object to high taxes in part, I suspect, because of two things.

One is that they see the rich and the political class being unaffected by those taxes.

And, second, they see the tax money either being squandered or misappropriated. Can anyone say "Bridge to Nowhere", "Bank Bailout" or "$600 Hammer?"

I don't think we, as a people, would mind paying money for the continuation of good quality services as long as we felt that the taxes were fair and that corruption was being stopped at all levels of government.

But until that day we will bitch and moan about having to pay for what we want.

I think that Congress and Obama will reach an agreement, albeit at the eleventh hour, when they realize that their paychecks will be in jeopardy if they don't.

They couldn't care less about "The American People."

We're disposable

No comments:

Post a Comment