More hot air
Jul. 31st, 2011 09:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoAnd not just the weather, either. The BS from Washington has piled up so deeply that I can smell it from here. And though they've announced a last minute "settlement" I notice that no details are being released to the press and the supposed "agreement" calls for a joint congressional committee to work out the details of a huge spending cut "later". If you believe that won't lead to more acrimony and brinksmanship, you're living in a mousehole somewhere.
I suspect what finally happened is that some of the morons in the Capitol realized that a default would mean THEIR heads on the chopping block as fast as voters could sharpen the axes. I have more news for those guys, too. Any changes that mean Social Security payments or military salaries are not met will assuredly produce fast response from the population.
We know perfectly well that there's a huge amount of waste in the federal budget. But we also know that Social Security, schools, and health care do NOT have to be the targets of the budget cutting axe. We expect instead to see tax credits for big corporations stopped, and we expect that to happen NOW. There is no excuse for huge corporations, operating in the black, to get away with paying no federal taxes which is what many of them do.
Likewise, we want the Bush tax cuts for America's wealthiest to be dropped. The majority of US voters have no sympathy whatsoever for these guys who earn seven or eight figure incomes (or more) every year. No one needs that much money for personal finance, and I do mean no one. Most of us are struggling now to keep things balanced. The ongoing real estate foreclosure and unemployment levels are proof of that. We are not going to sympathize with millionaires. You can be very sure of that, and you'd better pay attention to what I'm saying here.
In other news, I wasted much of the day trying to port an old program of mine. Finally I figured out that it uses a function that is broken in the latest version of AmigaOS. There must be a workaround, but I'm waiting for someone to give me a hint.
Yesterday's bread turned out really well. It had cornmeal and coarse black pepper added, and the flavors blended to make a real hit.
I suspect what finally happened is that some of the morons in the Capitol realized that a default would mean THEIR heads on the chopping block as fast as voters could sharpen the axes. I have more news for those guys, too. Any changes that mean Social Security payments or military salaries are not met will assuredly produce fast response from the population.
We know perfectly well that there's a huge amount of waste in the federal budget. But we also know that Social Security, schools, and health care do NOT have to be the targets of the budget cutting axe. We expect instead to see tax credits for big corporations stopped, and we expect that to happen NOW. There is no excuse for huge corporations, operating in the black, to get away with paying no federal taxes which is what many of them do.
Likewise, we want the Bush tax cuts for America's wealthiest to be dropped. The majority of US voters have no sympathy whatsoever for these guys who earn seven or eight figure incomes (or more) every year. No one needs that much money for personal finance, and I do mean no one. Most of us are struggling now to keep things balanced. The ongoing real estate foreclosure and unemployment levels are proof of that. We are not going to sympathize with millionaires. You can be very sure of that, and you'd better pay attention to what I'm saying here.
In other news, I wasted much of the day trying to port an old program of mine. Finally I figured out that it uses a function that is broken in the latest version of AmigaOS. There must be a workaround, but I'm waiting for someone to give me a hint.
Yesterday's bread turned out really well. It had cornmeal and coarse black pepper added, and the flavors blended to make a real hit.
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Date: 2011-08-01 03:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-02 09:47 pm (UTC)Not to say some government programs shouldn't be trimmed or cut, but the Republicans are, as usual, going after the wrong stuff. They'd rather kill Medicare than take one ounce of fat out of the military budget, for instance.