Soap Box

My soapbox, or blog for those who are too young to know what a soapbox is and/or what it was used for. Here I express my opinions for all to see and criticize. For those of you that are easily offended, I apologize for nothing, it is my personal opinion that those easily offended, are so offended because they have not put enough thought into their own beliefs and opinions, and when they read something that causes them to second guess what they think they believe, they get upset. Sarcasm, something I love to use a lot, is in italics.

Liberals and Taxes

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Taxes, now that the liberals are in control of Congress, there has been a lot of talk about them raising our taxes. They try to claim that they don't want to raise taxes except that they will raise them on the rich. Well, I have news for you, unless you are on welfare in this country, you are considered rich. They will, without a doubt, pass legislation that will raise our taxes and I fear that President Bush may in fact sign it although I have to admit I'm not sure what he will do.

I listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity to name a few, big surprise I know, and I hear them spit out facts about how revenue to the federal government has increased due to the tax cuts implemented by the Republicans, and how much better the economy is doing and they are correct. God, it must suck to be a liberal and see such proof that tax cuts work. anyway, they are banging their heads against the wall trying to figure out why the libs still want to raise taxes. I know why. Taxes have a lot to do with money, but they have more to do with power. The higher the taxes, the greater their power over the people. Think about it, if you were forced to give me a percentage of your paycheck so that I could spend it for you, I would have power over you, the more of your money I could get, the more power I would have. The amount of your money wouldn't be as important as the percentage of your money that I controlled. They want to raise the percentage of taxes on the people, even if that means a lower amount of revenue is collected.

Foot in Mouth Disease

Thursday, November 2, 2006

I haven't had a blog going for several months now and it kinda bugs me because there are so many times that I need to vent something and this is always a good outlet. I suppose that the event that really prompted me to start typing again was John F. Kerry's comments belittling our troops fighting in Iraq. Now these comments alone didn't prompt me to start again, but it was the straw that broke the camel's back.

John F. Kerry, a Vietnam war veteran and failed Presidential candidate, said Monday "...education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."

Now, taking into consideration that he has never said anything bad about the U.S. armed forces before, I think we should all believe him when he claims it was a botched joke.