The United States should commission Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich and Ted Turner and Neal Boortz and Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich together and put them in charge of the money.

Taxpayers marched in front of the AIG building recently to protest bonuses for executives. Meanwhile, Obama and Clinton and Congress are throwing around borrowed billions for anybody and everybody in the world who they think needs it. I need some, too, but there is no money available for me, because I am a United States citizen who does not speak a foreign language and is a straight single white male who works. Of course, that puts me in the one and only category of persons on the face of the earth that does not get any breaks from the United States government. Can't Clinton or Obama or Harry Reid have one of their aides swing by my apartment and slip me a couple billion dollars? What's a couple billion? I wouldn't tell - promise! (My word is as good as a campaigning politician.)

Meanwhile, the taxes coming out of my checks are going to line the pockets of the people in charge of Mexico and Afghanistan and Iraq, because I am told that throwing money at them will fix all of their problems and make the world a happy place. I keep hearing things about how this generosity being displayed by the fools in charge of the United States will somehow make the United States better by improving our image around the world. If we sent a billion dollars a day to each and every country in the world, they would be our BFFs for about as long as it takes to get a lap dance, and then just like an exotic dancer, they will expect more, and then they will not like us again until they get more money. This is our current foreign policy.

Going back to marchers in front of AIG, why is it that nobody is organizing marches with millions of people around the White House and The Capitol? The best thing that the big cheeses in the Republican Party can come up with is mailing tea bags. That'll work, huh? But if Republicans are the only people griping about the bankrupting of our country and flushing hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars down the toilet every week, then nobody is going to take them serious because they were happy as clams when Bush was in the White House and Republicans controlled everything, and they were doing the same thing with our money, and they were getting us into more debt at a record breaking rate. So if it is good for Republicans, why shouldn't the Democrats do the same thing, only speed it up and double up and go all in.

I am not one of the extremists for lower taxes, because I know it costs money to have a decent environment and basic amenities and standard of living for people living in our country who are paying taxes, and the debt needs to get paid down to reduce interest payments, which is a real waste of taxpayer money. I do not believe that if people making more than one million dollars a year have to pay the same rate of taxes as they were when Clinton was President, that it would have a negative effect on the economy except for their own personal portfolios. So I am in favor of paying taxes and increasing taxes on the top 1% income earners, but only if the debt is being paid down and the amount of interest paid by taxpayers is reduced. If the government keeps spending money the way it has for the past eight years by Republicans and Democrats, I say that everybody's taxes should be cut in half and Bush and Obama should be sent the bill to personally pay all the debt we acquired for the reckless bills and budgets they signed into law, and if they don't pay, then there should be a new bill signed into law to exile them to Guantanamo until it is all paid.

by Phil Staudt
March 27, 2009
The Phil Staudt Blog

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