Ideology doesn’t matter anymore. We can’t afford ideology. They’re
robbing us blind. We can all understand that. Was I right about The Boner? They’re
in it together. We’ve been sold down the river. The Dems and Reps have united
to form the two-faced Party of Greed. Not for their constituents, for them.
Congress has just passed two bills. One for Sandy-bucks and
another, just hours after they’d marched us over the “fiscal cliff”, to reinstate
most of the “Bush” tax cuts.
But what they didn’t tell you was what else these bills do. Just
like they didn’t tell you all the things Obamacare does. Like tax your house
when you sell it. And spend another five or ten billion dollars a year, beefing
up the IRS to collect the new swag.
The two new bills have the now-standard blend of bribery and
pork. You hear the word “pork”, but do you know what it means anymore? After the
bill is written, the congressmen add their own pieces. This is feast time. They
heap their plates with money for the lobbyists and the “special” people back
home. Bringin’ home the bacon.
“Oh well, that’s the only way they can get money for the
people who elected them.” Really? You mean they should have that money whether
we want them to or not? I thought you were big on Democracy. Can’t we tell
these bozos to have one bill for each item, so we can decide on its merits,
rather than the company it keeps? Can’t we say “yes” if it sounds good and “no”
if sounds bad? That’s simple enough.
Let’s say the add-ons are all good – they aren’t; some are
downright objectionable. But even if they’re all good, so what? Wouldn’t it be
good if you could have everything in the world you want? But you don’t have
enough money, right? Neither does the United States.
We’re maxing out our national, our global and maybe our
cosmic credit cards. When people stop lending us money (that is, set the price
too high), we won’t be able to do anything, go anywhere, or maybe even eat,
because the rest of the world will not give us food-stamps. Damned if our
capitalist system of old didn’t make us just about the only country in the history
of the world that could afford to help others.
You once lived in a rich country, but they’re pissing away
your money.
Take the tax bill. Obama’s friends in Hollywood get tax
write-offs for producing in the USA. Bigger ones if they do it in depressed
neighborhoods. How much do you think those depressed neighborhoods get? The
production companies bring everything. They don’t even buy their coffee
locally.
And we need some “red-state” votes to pass the bill, so…
let’s see… a chunk to help NASCAR maintain their tracks.
Track maintenance? Different tracks, but lots of money to
the railroads for that very purpose. Have to keep those trains running smoothly
from Washington up and down the East coast.
They are dozens and dozens of these. So many that it just
about eats up all the money they’re getting from the main provision of the bill
which is to “tax the millionaires”. There’s no deficit reduction here and they
know it. That’s how come the big debt ceiling issue is next, and the cry for
the trillion-dollar platinum coin.
The hurricane damage bill: A little red flag here. Plum
Island, is getting some money. Did something go wrong there? Again? These are the
people who brought us Lyme Disease; it escaped from their labs and showed up
where their boat docked in Lyme, Connecticut. Maybe something bigger and better
has been blown our way this time.
Lot’s of goodies in this bill too. There’s money for the old
Harwood homestead. You want to pay for that? I was going to do it myself, but
hey, if you’re also paying to restore Guantanamo, I’ll take mine, too, thank
you. I wonder why they’re fixing up Guantonamo. Didn’t they say they were going
to close it?
There’s some big money for Alaskan fisheries, the Manhattan
VA hospital and the Kennedy Space Center (which we used to use to send shuttles
to the space stations – Now we pay Russia for carfare.) This may be nice stuff
but does it belong in the Hurricane Sandy Relief Bill?
If Washington paid every penny of the loss in New Jersey,
New York, and Connecticut, the bill would be about $20 billion. Watch the news next
week. It’s going to be something like $60 billion. That’s a lot of pork and
they’ll smile and tell us how well they’re taking care of all those storm
victims.
But don’t take my word for it. Go to one of those websites
you’re afraid will poison you. You won’t find it on your websites. Your
websites only tell you what your rulers want you to know. You have to find one
of the voices they want to shut down. Of course, you could go right to the
source and read the bills themselves. But they’re so long! And they’re packed
with obscure language repealing and amending parts of other bills that you’d
also have to read. That’s why even the congress who votes on these things
doesn’t know what’s in them. So go to some sites that have culled the bills for
you, to show you what’s happening to you. It would behoove you to pay them some
attention. The ass you save may be your own.
