Before I go out of town tomorrow … I had to share.
Getting on my yahoo.mail account today, I saw the headline “Obama wants ‘higher-paying, higher-skilled jobs in the future’”.
And I want a pony. And a winnebago.
Now, I haven’t read his entire speech, so not sure how this statement came about in context, and I know Republicans have said dumb things too (especially Bush) … but come on.
(The following has been brought to you by ancient Irish sarcasm) Really? You mean, our plan to have lower paying jobs filled with people with no skills isn’t working? This really is change I can believe in! High paying jobs and higher skilled workers! Why didn’t I think of that? (The preceding was brought to you by … well, you know)
On a serious note … why would we want higher paying jobs? The current administration and Congress will just tax me out the wazoo … so what is my incentive for upping my skills to get that higher paying job that just materialized out of thin air? Paying a higher tax bracket so I give more to the government to waste?
The current rate of spending is so outrageous, I can barely wrap my brain around it. After criticizing Bush for bloating the deficit, I guess what Obama really meant was that Bush didn’t bloat it nearly enough. The conservative estimates are somewhere around a trillion dollars of debt … per year … for the next decade.
The gubmint’s gonna have to get this money from somewhere, and as some of the current administration has a problem paying their own taxes and Obama gave .5% of his salary to charities … it’s not coming from them … it’s gonna come from us, the citizens of our country, from the pockets of the rich AND poor. Don’t believe the hype about tax cuts for the poor … higher taxes on gasoline and stuff like that affects the poor WAY more than the rich.
A trillion dollars. Okay, so you know how much a million is? well, it is a thousand thousands … A billion? A thousand millions. A trillion? A thousand billions … in other words, a million millions. I can’t even begin to tell you how much that is.
A trillion dollars a year would give every person in India a thousand dollars … which is A LOT to them. Some could live a whole year off of that.
We’ve only just begun, too, as the Carpenters would say. “White lace and promises” indeed. We’re only a couple months into this thing. This is gonna be a wild ride to be sure.
Let’s put this on a scale I can understand. Let’s say, for argument’s sake, that I make $30,000 a year. I’m having trouble making ends meet, so I max out my credit cards and begin to accumulate $10,000 of debt a year … for ten years, still only making $30 grand. Oh, and by the way, I already have a debt of $20,000. No biggie. After ten years of racking up debt, I now owe over $120,000 of debt … all without paying any of it off. This isn’t like a house payment where I start out with a big number and pay it off and have some equity at the end. This is like racking up a hundred and twenty thousand dollars worth of debt and no equity in anything, just wasting money on things I think I need or may want. To make the analogy pure, I’d have to be able to print money from my Lexmark to try to make it up … funny but probably not gonna happen.
What would you say about me? Keep the names coming … I’m having a hard time not saying them about our current president.
Now throw in that they are seriously talking about growing embryos to experiment on … wow. Just wow.
I’m staying positive, though. Maybe Obama knows something about the world I don’t and this will work out swimmingly … doubtful, but we’ll see.
Peace.