Tuesday, August 02, 2011

August 2nd

I was sitting at my computer this morning. Spread out on any unoccupied flat service was the financial information from the last month at the bike shop. As I balanced this and entered that into the loose dog balance sheet I use to keep myself from spending more than I have, I thought about Congress and this date.

At first, that flash of anger I have been nursing since this whole cluster f......this whole mess began surged up to the front and I lost my concentration on my own efforts to curb spending while still trying to keep my doors open. I had not realized just how angry I was at Congress. I screamed, 'You fuckin assholes".......and then softer but with deep seated disgust, "you fucked us again".

No matter who claims victory out of all this, it is a sure thing the main losers are the 95% of the American population not flying in corporate jets and smoozing poolside in Palm Beach. We got screwed again. They kicked the can further down the street for someone else to deal with. What a bunch of gutless wonders.

I thought about what I would have done had I been in Congress. This thought stopped me cold. I have never been one to say, "If I was in charge...." Oh, I am quick with "You oughta do this, or not do that". But as far as imagining my reaction or action as the man in charge, I have never done that. I know this fiscal crap is way more complicated than the simplicity of the talking points tossed out there for public consumption. I also know, running a government is not as simple as running a business, no matter how big. So applying my own rules of fiscal responsibility would not really fit. But the basics might.

First of all if I am facing a debt ceiling, and believe me when I say I am always facing one, I look for new income streams besides budgeting what money I do have or expect to have. Closing loop holes is akin to me looking for back door ways to make my bottom line healthier. Closing loopholes is like finding money, and Congress did not even consider it for long. What is up with that? Are tax breaks for corporate jet rides that freakin important?

Second of all, I would never drop my price on anything, unless the cost to me went down. But Congress does not think along those lines. It seems that Congress has decided that even though for most of us, costs have gone up, Congress has allowed a privileged few to keep stuffing more money into their pockets on the the backs of the rest of us.

I am fed up with this notion of entitlement handed over to the corporations and those who run them. The rich have done nothing for me I did not earn through my sweat or my purchases. My life will continue on as usual even if they have to ante up and pay more for the privilege of being called Americans. It is not a matter of fairness. I just feel they should pay more for the privilege of picking my pockets.

Later.........................................

11 comments:

squatlo said...

Your level of disgust with this "process" in DC matches mine, and I'm having a hard time writing about it. I don't write well when I'm nauseous.

Kulkuri said...

I just feel they should pay more for the privilege of picking my pockets.

That's the best line I've seen in a long time and describes the situation very well indeed!!

jadedj said...

I am even more pissed at Obama, and can't believe his hard core supporters are making excuses for him. What the fuck happened to "this has to be balanced", meaning an end to the tax breaks, which he stated just last week.

This was no compromise...this was a butt fuck rape.

It is absolute insanity...we have to produce more revenue and the middle class (what's left of it) and working class can't contribute anymore.

I am with all you here...so pissed I almost can't open my mouth...except to scream. I will also say, I feel like beating the shit out of some rich bitch motherfucker. Of course I won't, but the feeling is there.

Nan said...

Calling them gutless wonders is being much, much too kind.

John Myste said...

The rich have been relentlessly burdened with taxes on their wealth. They are barely scraping by now. Be fair. Enough already. The rich need to survive too.

BBC said...

Well, if you can make a living and not get caught up in shit you can't fix maybe you are doing okay??

John Myste said...

My heart breaks over the plight of the rich people. Their tax burdens continue to mount and it just feels like no one cares. No one!

Demeur said...

I'm beginning to think that the only way out of this shit hole that our government has created is for us little guys to create our own micro economy. It would work something like a small savings and loan did before they screwed things up. You might need capital and I have a bit in savings. Rather than get raped by the usual bank rates I lend you the money somewhere between what a savings account pays (near to nothing these days) and the going business rate. You pay much less and I make more, a win win situation. And I think that would work seeing as how banks aren't lending to the little guys anyway.

Just a thought.

Ol'Buzzard said...

A tirade against the rich is mis-directed. The people that have fucked us are the Congress and the Senate. Of course, it all rebounds to the morons that vote for representatives on the basis of sound bites, feigned rage and religious convictions.

El Cerdo Ignatius said...

Time permits me to share just one observation at this time: I cannot remember an instance in recent American politics where both the Right and the Left have been so thoroughly convinced that their guys caved, sold out, gave away the store, and just got royally screwed over, as both sides are this time.

1138 said...

Ol Boner said he got 95 percent of what he wanted. He lied. He got 100 percent of what he wanted and 95 percent of what the people of this country didn't want.

Tariffs we NEED tariffs to force corporations to bring jobs back and stop fueling communist China's ambitions.