I dropprd my check into the mail today to pay my federal income tax.
I made the check out to IRS-AIG
If I could have paid by credt card it would have been an AIG PLASTIC transaction. :banghead: :banghead:
Thats a good one Jack.bd
:biglaugh:
HE HE.
Sad fact is, it's pretty dang near true :banghead:
:goldtooth:
Actually, the sad fact is that they decided to do the "incentive" bill with all of the pork and new job creation in it before they "realized" that they also needed to get the credit flowing again so businesses could hire back the people they have been laying off for the past 6-12 months. Interesting how they decided to get the pork before doing what was really needed.
Sorry for venting...
Larry
It's Washington...you expected something different?
stupid,friggin democrats. I also had to pay alot this year. :banghead: :banghead: enough that I could have bought a new widow ironwood plx and a new takedown morrison :banghead: :banghead:
Nighthawk-
What you paid this April 15 2009 was for what was done last year by stupid, friggin BUSH/CHENEY. Mission Accomplished!
I just remember a huge surplus the year before stupid, friggin BUSH/CHENEY began turning it into trillions of dollars of deficit. We just dumped 8 years of stupid, friggin BUSH/CHENEY, so we have to wait until April 15 2010 to see who is stupid this year. I bet stupid, friggin Bush and stupid, friggin Cheney are laughing all the way to the bank.
Last time I checked, the bankers, AIG executives, Oil billionaires, and the other idiots that sucked up our Social Security to pay for Haliburton's overtime weren't Democrats or grassroots Republicans.
Right now my trad bows are worth more than dollars or euros.
Well said Tony...but I do expect the Democrats and our illustreous "savior" to milk it more.
I expect that all the bailout will have us in double digit inflation within a year or two.
The problem was that we had no stellar choice in the last election. Where are the Jack Kennedys and ronald Regans when we need them
Next election I'm voting for the BowDoc/Droptine ticket.
Yeah Jack, I figure the next few years are going to be touch and go.
Bad as it gets, I'll still be able to afford sticks and strings.
EVERY CITIZEN NEEDS TO READ THIS AND THINK ABOUT WHAT THIS JOURNALIST HAS SCRIPTED IN THIS MESSAGE. READ IT AND THEN REALLY THINK ABOUT OUR CURRENT POLITICAL DEBACLE.
Charley Reese has been a journalist for 49 years.
545 PEOPLE
By Charlie Reese
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don't propose a federal budget. The President does.
You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does..
You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred Senators, 435 Congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices , 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority.. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it... No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits... The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes.
Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million can not replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red .
If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ , it's because they want them in IRAQ .
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power. Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.
They, and they alone, have the power.
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.
Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
Charlie Reese is a former columnist of the Orlando Sentinel Newspaper.
What you do with this article now that you have read it is up to you, though you have several choices:
1.. You can send this to everyone in your address book and hope "they" do something about it.
2. You can agree to "vote against" everyone that is currently in office, knowing that the process will take several years.
3. You can decide to "run for office" yourself and agree to do the job properly..
4.You can sit back and do nothing or re-elect the current bunch.
5.PRAY FOR OUR LEADERS
That is the truth,
Only the choice's we have had at every level of Gov. is the lesser of EVILS,that is a no win game, IMO.
I can't see myself running for an office,it seems to affect every single person the same,1st you work together,then the Greed comes and everything goes to, well, what we have now