Gimme My Money, Jerk!
So the economy is going in the toilet.
That's not news... unless you believe Bush's press releases where he says the economy's fine. I swear to god Bush is a reincarnation of the Black Knight from Monty Python's Holy Grail...
"Sir, there aren't any WMDs in Iraq."
"Yes, there are."
"No there aren't, sir. We've dug up the entire country and there's nothing there."
"Yes, there are."
"Sir..."
"They're invisible."
"What?"
"Could be... invisible WMDs. Mission Accomplished!"
"What mission would that be?"
"We discovered invisible weapons in Iraq."
"No we didn't, you just made that up."
"No, I didn't. It's a fact backed up by several people that agree with me."
"You're a looney."
"I am not a looney, I'm the bleedin' decider, I am!"
So...
The House of Uselessness has decided to give Americans a pile of money to play with in the hopes of kicking the economy in the pants. That's fine by me. I'll take my $300-$1200 depending on which article I read.
But wait... isn't giving me back hundreds of my own dollars kinda like an admission that they didn't really need it in the first place? Or if it was needed, what program got cut to cover the $178 billion dollars of lost IRS funds in the Treasury.
I'm of the mindset that we'd have been better off handing money back since 2001 instead of attacking Iraq. I'd rather have $1000 less taxes per year than the best case scenario in Iraq. I don't care if they're a democracy. I don't care if Saddam liked killing babies. I'd rather have my cash, please.
I saw that in a rare bit of bipartisanship, the Republicans and Democrats (by the way, both of those terms are drawing equal ire from me at this point) are going to extend refund checks to people who don't earn enough money to actually pay taxes. That's interesting. Stupid I think is the word I was looking for.
I'm tired of the hand out nation. I'm tired of financing wars that serve no purpose. I'm tired of financing daycare for teens who were too stupid to use a condom and now have a baby or five. I'm tired of seeing my money (taxes) pissed away on stupid programs.
I think the tax refund is a good idea... and maybe one day someone will go gut the federal government and it's spending and go back to the old days when government was the same thing as social services.
Also, I'm having surgery on 3/3/08... so... that's fun too.