greenjeans
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When I personally get in debt so far, that all I can do is pay the minimum balance on my credit card, I seriously need to change my budget. I, in my personal life do not have the option to increase my income. On a national level that equates to raising taxes. In THEORY that's how you get more money. Raise taxes. I can't tell my employer to up my wage/salary by 10-20% because I need to pay my bills. He's gonna tell me to go pound sand. Who does my government work for? Me. You. Him. Us. He's got bill's to pay. I should tell him to go pound sand. How do I balance my budget when all I can pay is the interest and no principle? I shoot less. I drink less beer. I take my wife out to dinner less. I buy cheaper clothes for my kids to wear. I eat bologna (baloney where I come from) instead of prime rib. I CUT SPENDING. I take the money I saved and put it toward the principle. I pay it off. Does it happen in the next month? Not a chance. Do I get there? Eventually. If this works on a 2 income budget of less than $100,000, why can't it work on a umpteen kabillion dollar budget?
Here's another add-on. If in my dreamy little world where I can tax my employer because I have debts....and I give away part of the increase to my co-worker that does less and get paid less for what he does, does that pay off my debt faster? Nope. Now I work harder, and my goof-off co-worker who doesn't do a thing, essentially get paid the same. Is my productivity going to go up or down? It's human nature...why work any harder than you have to. I wanna get paid the same as "Sleepy" on the other side of the line from me and do a whole lot less for the same amount of money. WHY SHOULD I work harder?
To steal a line from Larry the Cable Guy. "It don't make no sense....it's like wipin' before you poop!"
Redistibution of wealth...for the good of the whole....for the good of the commune.....equals communism.
I too served in the middle east. USMC detachment on a naval vessel in the Persian Gulf in '91 when we should have marched forth and whipped their keesters the first time. I heard then General Powell speak. Sounded pretty impressive to a 19-20 year old farm kid from the upper Midwest. Right now I wouldn't trust either him or Obama to feed my dog. The one thing those two have in common, is an uncanny ability to speak, with charisma no doubt. They are good at it. The problem is, you need to be very careful and LISTEN to what they are saying and HOW they are saying it. I'm not a huge McCain fan.....but I will not lower the standard of freedom in this great nation by voting for Obama. We can only speculate what will happen after the election for what either candidate will do or will not do. My speculation is that everyone's taxes will increase. Unemployment will go up. AR's will be collected and crushed, heck, we're probably talking Remington 7400's and Browning BAR's! More of my paycheck will go to seedy welfare mongers, and the good-talking charismatic nice little boy next door Chicago kid is gonna get run over by every country in the world that wants to take a shot the the US and all its freedoms that I and so many others have tried to protect. Then again, if all the other stuff happens first, we won't have any freedoms to protect, this place will be so far in the crapper that they'll just laugh at us and say "Leave them alone....they are miserable enough already." I sure hate being a pessimist and all...
Here's another add-on. If in my dreamy little world where I can tax my employer because I have debts....and I give away part of the increase to my co-worker that does less and get paid less for what he does, does that pay off my debt faster? Nope. Now I work harder, and my goof-off co-worker who doesn't do a thing, essentially get paid the same. Is my productivity going to go up or down? It's human nature...why work any harder than you have to. I wanna get paid the same as "Sleepy" on the other side of the line from me and do a whole lot less for the same amount of money. WHY SHOULD I work harder?
To steal a line from Larry the Cable Guy. "It don't make no sense....it's like wipin' before you poop!"
Redistibution of wealth...for the good of the whole....for the good of the commune.....equals communism.
I too served in the middle east. USMC detachment on a naval vessel in the Persian Gulf in '91 when we should have marched forth and whipped their keesters the first time. I heard then General Powell speak. Sounded pretty impressive to a 19-20 year old farm kid from the upper Midwest. Right now I wouldn't trust either him or Obama to feed my dog. The one thing those two have in common, is an uncanny ability to speak, with charisma no doubt. They are good at it. The problem is, you need to be very careful and LISTEN to what they are saying and HOW they are saying it. I'm not a huge McCain fan.....but I will not lower the standard of freedom in this great nation by voting for Obama. We can only speculate what will happen after the election for what either candidate will do or will not do. My speculation is that everyone's taxes will increase. Unemployment will go up. AR's will be collected and crushed, heck, we're probably talking Remington 7400's and Browning BAR's! More of my paycheck will go to seedy welfare mongers, and the good-talking charismatic nice little boy next door Chicago kid is gonna get run over by every country in the world that wants to take a shot the the US and all its freedoms that I and so many others have tried to protect. Then again, if all the other stuff happens first, we won't have any freedoms to protect, this place will be so far in the crapper that they'll just laugh at us and say "Leave them alone....they are miserable enough already." I sure hate being a pessimist and all...