written - 1/24/08

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political payoff at our expense

So they think that increasing the public debt 150 Billion and giving me less than a third of my monthly mortgage payment, or a little over my last power bill will actually offset the fact that most peoples income has gone down and their debt has gone up.

There are three things that have actually brought us to this point.

We are sending our assets and our jobs to other countries that don't have the same industrial burdens as we require from our producers.

We have been forced to pay for the vendetta of a clod who used brute force and lies to involve us in his school yard squabbles, rather than using quiet investigation and intelligence to actually find and capture those people causing the unrest in the world.

We have been told that we should buy today and worry about the cost tomorrow, while the banks are charging interest rates that used to get mobsters thrown in the pen, including a pecentage on top for each swipe of a card, whether their credit card or your bank card.

Well tomorrow is here.

And it's time to pay the piper, not to order another tune to keep us happy for another round of beers, and put it on our tab.

It's not free money, in fact it will cost us more than we get.

Not only in the interest on the new debt, but in the delay in the repayment of the current debt.

It is simply another slight of hand to trick us into believing the pongee scheme that can not last much longer.

Why doesn't anybody seem notice that this payment will be charged on the national credit card that Bush has maxed out beyond belief already?

They might as well just tell everyone to go out and charge a new GM car on their cards.

The only people receiving a true benefit from this payoff will be those holding the debt needed for it, assuming the U.S. doesn't default on the loan.

Has anyone figured out how much this new loan to the tax payers will actually cost us with interest?

It's not free money, it's a loan I don't want added to my debt load, taken out in my name by someone who refuses to stop spending money I don't have on things I receive no benefit from, besides the delightful opportunity of paying the interest to those wealthy enough to hold the government bonds.

I see this as another political game at the expense of the tax paying people, and not for their benefit.