Ain’t Nobody In Here But Us Chickens!
I knew I should have bought The Biltmore when I had the chance! Man! I BLEW it! I could have gone in with a library card, no job, no collateral and no hope of ever paying it back, and Fannie, Freddie or Countrywide would have given me a 6,000 year mortgage (Interest Only) with no money down. How cool would that have been? 175,00 square feet of house for $185 a month. I could be sitting in the conservatory with Colonel Mustard sipping on a mint julep while all of you poor saps grab your ankles. A TRILLION DOLLARS? Are you friggin kidding me? Bill Gates can’t even count that high. Remember when tax freedom day used to come in April? Well, it’ll still be in April; only, it won’t be until April of 2150.
Regardless of your political leanings, you should be royally pissed at every Asleep At The Wheel politician in Washington. Bush will get blamed for it, even though he was one of the few to try and put a stop to it, while Chris Dodd and Barney Frank will come out smelling like; well, scotch and pre-pubescent teenage boys, I guess. The old joke used to say that Barney didn’t need a bookmark because he liked his Pages bent over; I guess you can add taxpayers to that now too. I could care less what he does or who he does it with, but he and his buddies are messing with my kids’ future now. How the Hell are you supposed to pay off a TRILLION DOLLAR debt? Is congress going to send each of us a little payment book like we used to get when we bought a car? Maybe they can add it to our grocery receipts; that way I can look at the bottom and see;
“Thank you for shopping Harris Teeter today: Your VIC card savings today are $4.73, BUT you still owe the Government $494,987,033,289.21 for all of those beautiful little white picket fence houses they sold to people they knew couldn’t afford them, but thanks for doing YOUR part! It’s the PATRIOTIC thing to do!”
How about this Franklin Raines character? He pays himself almost $100 million dollars for running a company into the ground? Steal $100 million, get caught, only have to pay back $25 million and not serve any jail time? Where can I fill out an application for that job? This is nothing but one big check kiting scheme with politicians and their buddies (Republican AND Democrat) lining their pockets knowing that you and I will end up paying for it. Now they have the testicular fortitude to say; “Don’t worry about it, little taxpayer, WE’LL get to the bottom of this, don’t you worry!” You don’t bring a knife to a gun fight, you don’t let the fox guard the hen-house, and you certainly don’t let the idiots who got us into this mess in the first place try and get us out! Did you hear that Lehman Brothers staff are going to share $2.5 BILLION dollars in bonuses for doing such a bang-up job in that whole bankruptcy/end of the company thing they did? Again; why didn’t I see that listing when I was looking for a job on Monster? Sorry to go all Joan Crawford with a political wire hanger on you, but it’s all getting to be a little too much. I guess that’s what we can expect when 30% of people get their news from “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report”. Don’t get me wrong, both shows are hilarious and a necessity to keep one sane, but whether you get your info from them, Limbaugh, Olbermann, Savage or Maddow understand that you are hearing what they WANT you to hear. It’s still up to you to decide for yourself. It’s too bad no one has, or makes the time anymore. God help us.
Weaselmomma
Palin- NukeDad for President!!!! Can I get a yard sign?????
(NukeDad) Need a car magnet too?
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Sep 23, 2008 @ 7:22 am
Weaselmomma
I’ll take one if you got one! Sign me up!
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Sep 23, 2008 @ 11:34 am
tom
Let’s get back on the gold standard. Oh, and for the picture up there: ewwww. I need eye bleach.
(NukeDad) Sorry about that. People won’t believe unless they see with their own eyes. I always thought Barney was a leg man.
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Sep 23, 2008 @ 1:47 pm
matt
I completely agree with you on this one. This is all a bunch of junk. I have endured utilities increases, so union DWP workers can enjoy the biggest pay raise in history, soaring gas prices, higher property taxes, lower home value, a rapidly shrinking 401K and so much more just so I can now owe 2300.00 (4600 if you count my wife too) more to help bail out the people who got me here in the first place? When this kind of complete meltdown happens within any company I have ever worked for, you know what happens? House cleaning. I don’t understand why the opposite seems to be the case here.
(NukeDad) It’s maddening, isn’t it? Unfortunately, in a world that lives and dies by the soundbite, not enough people will pay attention or care enough to vote the bums out of office. I know a few freeway medians that need trash cleaned out of them. What size orange suit do you think Chris Dodd wears?
Sep 24, 2008 @ 12:34 pm
matt
Yes it is…oh, and by the way. In case anyone brings it up. I DID pay attention to what I was getting myself into. I did NOT accept a snake-oil-salesman-drafted balloon-payment, suicidal ARM. I read all the fine print, researched and got help with what I didn’t understand, and invested my money (that I worked every day for and paid taxes on), as intelligently as I knew how to do. I am not standing on the edge of the abyss and looking for someone to blame for my own actions. I, as a voter and a taxpayer, did NOTHING to contribute to this downturn. Nothing.
Just had to get that in. Sorry for the double comment.
(NukeDad) No apology needed.
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Sep 24, 2008 @ 1:52 pm
Karen
Nuke them all! We need more term limits, we need to get rid of career politicians, we need to not depend on foreign oil, we need to stop exporting all the damn jobs. I told my dad that Obama’s “Change you can believe in” is actually referring to the change that is left in your pocket after he taxes away the rest.
When I was a deli clerk I was forced to join the union, it was required in order to work for that store. Every month they took my money, I don’t think I ever benefited from them. They very likely donated money to candidates that I didn’t want to support and when our contract was up they pretended to fight for us but in the end lied and we basically got the original contract they told us was so awful. I think there should be a law, if a union is going to endorse a candidate they have to have a vote of all members and whomever the majority chooses gets the endorsement, and if they are going to donate money to a campaign the money allotted for it should be split by whatever percentage each one got in the vote, that is how much of the money they get. To me it would just be better if they weren’t allowed to donate to nor endorse campaigns in the first place.
Perfect example to me of how no one gets off their butt and gets rid of a corrupt official would be Mayor Daley, how many scandals is it going to take?!
(NukeDad) Preaching to the choir… Daley is safe as long as people keep voting him in; or he keeps stuffing the ballot box.
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Sep 25, 2008 @ 6:06 am
Karen
Well when more than 100% of the population votes for him you do kinda wonder…
(NukeDad) Vote early, vote often!
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Sep 26, 2008 @ 11:06 pm