I tried to call my senators today. (calling my congressman is a waste of time, as he is a party hack and will vote the party line no matter what his constituents might think)..

One had a “Please hold, we’ll get to you as soon as we feel like it” message, but did eventually come on line and ask what I wanted. If you’ve been reading this blog for long, you know what my comments were regarding the “budget debate”.

The other senators number just goes to voice mail. “we are experiencing heavy calls today….please, leave us a message to ignore as soon as we have time to do so”. And I tried twice an hour apart.

At least we constituents are having our say. Now if our comments could only be heard……

Here’s the deal:

You have money. I don’t.We need to come to some accommodation
You give me all your money.

No?

Ok, Lets compromise….I’ll meet you halfway. I’ll only take half. And one of your cars too….

Yeah, it’s like that.

Start out with an outrageous position, then work towards a “compromise”.

You should read this too.

The fact is that those of us who are for non government interference in the marketplace have a better track record that the socialists statists progressives.

HT: Scotty

$350K to spare, I’d think long and hard about buying this

of jacking us off”

You really should read THIS.

Congress Continues Debate Over Whether Or Not Nation Should Be Economically Ruined

Sadly, even the Onion can’t make this funny. 

I sorta actually hope that the Fed fails to make a monthly Social Security payment…..This will then be a default of the Social Security system. Which would allow me (and no doubt many others) to be able to stop paying into Social Security…..And demand what we have put in to the system back…in cash. We’d likely never get interest on the amount already stolen deducted, but we could likely get the actual contribution back…. At least then I could invest it into something which I could control and which could generate a decent rate of return….

Yeah, I know, pipe dreams.

That the issue in Washington regarding the budget and our current rate of increasing the debts is not going to be resolved:

1. The folks doing the negotiating are apparently insane on one side and stupid on the other. Neither side appears to be rational, nor do they accept that the issue is one of spending too much money. They apparently don’t realize the disaster that they are driving us towards…Or perhaps they don’t care. Either way, we as a country crash and burn.

2. This will not end well. The issue seems to be not if the free money machine explodes, but rather when. These folks seem to believe that they can kick the can down the road, and keep their jobs in the meantime. The only issue is that they will be wealthy enough to weather the shitsorm that ensues, but the rest of us will not. And they really don’t care.

3. It would appear that neither side really cares for much more than theatrics. Political theater.

4. The best thing that could happen to the country would be for a Tom Clancy like disaster to happen during a joint session of congress presided over by Mr. Obama and attended by Joe Biden. With the resulting wholesale change of leadership.

Got my first political call of the election season…..Disguised as a “survey”, When the push to tell me all about the incumbent’s virtues fell on deaf ears, the tried to go with “perhaps he’ll be able to convince you about his conservatism in the next few moths leading up to the election” gambit……Whereupon I pointed out that his voting record for the previous years was obviously NOT conservative….

I then suggested we get back to the next of the 20 questions….She asked the big one…”For whom would I vote in the republican primary”? My reply: “Anyone but your guy…Quite possibly, I’d vote for the South End of a northbound horse rather than vote for your guy…not that there is much difference”…

Seems that when push came to shove, there were only three questions in the survey, not 20. If I wouldn’t play the game by their rules, and let them preach the virtues of their candidate, they didn’t really want to hear my opinion on the rest….Maybe it’ll keep ’em from calling me back?

And why did we let the politicians exempt themselves from honoring the Do Not Call list? 

No, seriously.

Shut it down.

Why wait? I mean, if we are gonna have to save money, then lets start NOW. If yer gonna stop sending out old people’s Social Security checks, then start right now. Let the screaming begin.

And BTW, I thought that the Social Security money was all tied up in the “lockbox”…where it would be safe from plundering by evil Democrats and such…Or is that “lockbox” really just full of Hot Air? Empty promises? Unredeemable IOU’s? If that money is gone,  then you’ve lied to us all those years…..and I’m gonna quit sending you money from my checks from this point forward, ’cause you’ve reneged on you contract. So I think I’ll take my money and put it in another retirement fund. ’cause you’ll have proven that my money is not safe, and is not covered by the “full faith and credit of the United States”….Which is worth exactly NOTHING. forget about any of us 40 somethings, or 30 somethings, or even 20 somethings ever trusting you with all that money from our paychecks ever again.

Or were you folks lying when you said you’d have to cut off the check that is the only thing that keeps grandma and Old Mrs. Oleary from being tossed in the street and forced to eat dog food to survive or whatever.

As far as the rest of the government, shut it down. We’ll soon find out what portions are really needed to keep the country operating, and then we’ll know which parts we don’t need….so we can cut the rest down to size and get rid of all the waste that apparently takes place and save all that money.

Look: I fully expect the conservatives republicans Stupid Party to cave in at the last minute. But I hope that they won’t.

Lets find out which parts of our government are really needed….then trash the rest.