Obviously these tea parties were a bad idea, because the left wouldn’t lash out with childish anger against something they actually found threatening, would they?
Obama has high approval ratings and apparently majorities or near majorities like Obama’s spending plans and taxes, but I’m pretty curious how those polls would look if they were weighted with people’s tax burden. The top 50% of income earners pay about 97% of the taxes. So basically we have about half of the country voting how to spend the other half’s money. I don’t think that’s a sustainable system. There is no democratic right to screw me over. And it would be nice if when the Congress votes to spend hundreds of billions of dollars of our money, they would be at least motivated enough to try and get some idea of exactly what it will be spent on.
So what now? I dunno. I’m gong to blog about how I don’t like Obama and think he’s stupid. And work for a living. And secretly continue my research on breeding dinosaurs that I will arm with rocket launchers to help fight high spending and taxation. Hopefully the DHS won’t catch on, because that is exactly what they warned about in their report.
I have no comment other than that Frank’s link through Twitter made me FIRST!
Waddaya mean, Frank? Obama is clearly monitoring this site. He used our ideas, and HIRED a man-eating dinosaur (Napolitano) to head up DHS. What an evil, brilliant move…to hire his own fire-breathing (she devours WAY too many jalepeno peppers and cigars by the looks of her) dinosaur to combat the courageous patriots (us, of course) that oppose him.
Not sure what kind of dino she is…the awful, grey furred apparatus on her head…the thick torso….the wide, blubbery legs….the long, forked tongue, and the 6-fingered claws it bares. This is a serious enemy, and you’ll need to work harder to come up with a dino force of our own to defeat it. Better bring lots of rockets……
Using IRS figures off Rush’s site, the bottom 50% average about $480 in taxes a year (and some people actually get money back). That probably explains the 48% who feel their taxes are “just right”. Once the bottom 50% hit $0 we’re screwed.
You mean we’re not already screwed, Andrew?
There is no democratic right to screw me over.
No, but Obam…uhhh… is pretty sure there’s a Democratic right to do so.
I sent $4100 to the IRS yesterday – my brother in law who pays 0 taxes and milks the system so he can sit at home all day got a “refund” of about 5k. So next year I should just hand all my money to my dear BIL and save the IRS the trouble, correct?
Taxes sucks. Do you know what sucks worse, Outrageous spending. I find it funny the general consensus is the economy got in this position by people over extending themselves and living outside their means. The federal government thinks the best way out of this is even more insane and undirected spending. Yeah!
The silver lining is every other civilized country’s economy is tied to us, so we will take them all down with us. Great because I don’t like going into dark places alone.
I’m very tempted to take a Thoreau-esque act of Civil Disobedience and not pay my taxes. However, the IRS of the 21st century is a bit more powerful than that of the 21st, and the jails far more scary.
Democrat parable:Two wolves met up with a sheep on the road to Shang-Ri-La. They asked,” What shall we have for breakfast?” The sheep bleeted, “I’m screwed.” And the wolves had breakfast. The two wolves continued on, and met up with another sheep, on the road to Shang-Ri-La. They asked,” What’s for lunch?” The sheep bleeted,” I’m screwed.” And the wolves had lunch. They continued on and met up with another sheep, on the road to Shang-Ri-La. The wolves asked,”I wonder what’s for dinner?” The sheep bleeted,” I’m screwed.” And the wolves had dinner. By now it was night and the wolves lay down for sleep. “What shall we dream about,I wonder?”, pondered one. “I’ll dream about who we’ll meet, on the road to Shang-Ri-La.”, said the other.>>>Moral: Don’t think you can sidle up to a Democrat, or you’ll be like the sheep, and say “I’m screwed.”
What do you mean there’s no democratic right to screw you over? I demand my right to screw Frank J over, even if he does entertain me with dinosaurs and robots. I’ll take to the streets if you try to deny my rights.
Is it just my imagination, or is Janet Napolitano actually John Kerry in drag?