Guns, Money and Politics: Sometimes words fail....

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Sometimes words fail....

I am always at my least eloquent and sarcastic on this day. At least I've warned our kids that they'll see Mommy and Daddy crying a lot over the weekend and not to worry. So, as I passive-aggressively enjoy my breakfast of pork sausage and remember the day that radical Muslim terrorists murdered almost three thousand of my countrymen for the crime of being American, showing up for work and doing their sworn duty, I'll simply post the images that move me most.

I am not ready to "move on", you sons of bitches. Check me again in another decade.

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If the U.S. government was an American family....

Enter your annual income. Let's say that you're the US government and this is what you "bring home", so to speak, in taxpayer dollars. Now click 'Calculate' to see what your debt looks like (ratios current as of 26 August 2011, per the Treasury Department's website).

Knowing how much you have coming in, this is what you already plan on spending this year:

In addition to deliberately planning to spend more than you are bringing in, here’s how much you already owe other people:

Do you really think you should be allowed to borrow more? Do you really think your credit would be worth anything?

And which would be your first choice to fix the situation – robbing your neighbors’ houses for cash (the equivalent of raising taxes on people that do know how to live within their means) or cutting your expenses (even if it means living poorly for a few years and no longer picking up the tab for people who have come to expect you to)?