politics, finally
Okay, someone finally just set me off today. Not for any particular reason, except that I'm sick and irritable, and likely to be downright honest when I don't have the energy I normally put into biting my tongue and smiling and letting people say whatever they want about politics, no matter what.
I will admit that our choices for President are woeful. but. I will not vote for anyone going around spouting shit around about wanting to spread the wealth. Or taxes being patriotic. Bull shit.
And I don't care that someone claims he's going to share my "wealth" in order to "narrow the gap" between the shameless, evil rich {which apparently means anyone who's worked hard enough their whole life long to have been able to have more than two nickles to rub together}, and the more noble poor. {which means WHOM, exactly?} That's supposed to be laudable.
It's laudable if he's going to do it by helping the poor to better their situation. Not so much if he intends to "narrow the gap" by taking from me.
And even tho I can't afford to send my boys to college without the excellent scholarships they got, and we consider ourselves just average middle class, because we can just afford to live in (with a mortgage which we made sure we could actually afford before we got) a house in the mid-price range in AL (which would be the price of a shed in California), Obama's economics places us in his evil rich category. He might not like the socialist/communist label, but that's what he's proposing.
So, just like I'd like the government to keep its damn laws off my body, I'd like it to keep its damn laws and programs off my stuff, too.
If I want to help others, I do so by my choice. MINE. I give money to The Church, which is excellently efficient in its work around the globe, or to a worthy cause, like Habitat or the Red Cross (which also gets my blood every 8 weeks) or I'll take in a foster child, or do volunteer work with the Autism society or at the library. But letting some government bureaucrat get ahold of my money because he claims he's going to do good with it? Come on, how naive would I have to be?
I will admit that our choices for President are woeful. but. I will not vote for anyone going around spouting shit around about wanting to spread the wealth. Or taxes being patriotic. Bull shit.
And I don't care that someone claims he's going to share my "wealth" in order to "narrow the gap" between the shameless, evil rich {which apparently means anyone who's worked hard enough their whole life long to have been able to have more than two nickles to rub together}, and the more noble poor. {which means WHOM, exactly?} That's supposed to be laudable.
It's laudable if he's going to do it by helping the poor to better their situation. Not so much if he intends to "narrow the gap" by taking from me.
And even tho I can't afford to send my boys to college without the excellent scholarships they got, and we consider ourselves just average middle class, because we can just afford to live in (with a mortgage which we made sure we could actually afford before we got) a house in the mid-price range in AL (which would be the price of a shed in California), Obama's economics places us in his evil rich category. He might not like the socialist/communist label, but that's what he's proposing.
So, just like I'd like the government to keep its damn laws off my body, I'd like it to keep its damn laws and programs off my stuff, too.
If I want to help others, I do so by my choice. MINE. I give money to The Church, which is excellently efficient in its work around the globe, or to a worthy cause, like Habitat or the Red Cross (which also gets my blood every 8 weeks) or I'll take in a foster child, or do volunteer work with the Autism society or at the library. But letting some government bureaucrat get ahold of my money because he claims he's going to do good with it? Come on, how naive would I have to be?