Between guitar practice, (Dear Prudence... deceptively simple drone fingerpicking in drop D tuning) and painting the bathroom, I've got a minor rant (major rants forthcoming, once I return to standard tuning). Minor is just more emotive... check out any ancient folk ballad, even the jolly ones like "John Barleycorn Must Die"
Anyway, I've been hearing these toxic-asset Republicans complaining about "spending" our "taxes" (aka "Tax and Spend")
Well, I'm not going to get all preachy and liberal, because this is "OVERSIMPLIFICATIONS MADE SIMPLE." Taxes are what we pay to our government to spend. What else are they going to do with it - start a Ponzi Scheme? Buy drugs from Panama? C'mon, this is AMERICA.
The question is obviously: How would we like it to be spent? In 2003 we all decided - at least 90% of the population (Bush's approval rating going into the war) - that we should spend it in IRAQ. So, our government shipped TONS of CASH on PALLETS (aka taxes) over to IRAQ. But wait, that was like losing a quarter in your couch, because we have spent - and continue to spend - somewhere around THREE -TRILLION DOLLARS! (aka taxes) in IRAQ.
Now, our new President is sending BILLIONS (aka taxes) to... where? what? HERE! Crazy, but true. He's proposing spending lots of money (yes, taxes) in OUR OWN COUNTRY, on silly stuff like education, children's health, maintaining highways and bridges, and even on AMERICANS!
But wait, conservative Republicans cannot abide this wasteful frivolity. They won't stand by and let bleeding-wallet liberal- tax and spend socialists spend our money in our own country, on our own people - what are they thinking??
Some Republican Governers (Sarah Palin...) are even refusing to accept money (aka TAXES) to help their own State! You go Republicans. Stand up for what is right. People should not have to tolerate having their own taxes spent in their own country for the good of the people.
2 comments:
Damn republicans.
That's right liberal-girrl.
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