the insidious ruse of "tax and spend"

[stellanoir]

"Tax and spend" is an utterly pathetic old accusation that has been levied against dems for as long as I can recall in this lifetime.

It's efficacy in demonizing the left is patently absurd when "tax and spend" is essentially precisely what most governments do.

"So you much prefer loot and waste sans accountability?" Is the most succinct retort I've conjured up thus far..

Unless dems strongly refute that completely disingenuous catch phrase, they'll continue to cave on matters great and small.

Tax and *invest* in education, infrastructure, technological advancement, alternative energies, and verifiable voting technologies might be a few humble notions for the greater enhancement of all.

Fundamentally our government very simply, requires upgrades on oh so many levels.

I find it peculiar that we are raised to believe that our government is relatively new when in reality, there are scarcely few countries whose governments haven't been modified to a great degree over the past 235 years.

For a presumed democracy, we have mostly been bereft of representative leadership for a very long time and will continue to be so as long as salaries and benefits of elected officials are dwarfed entirely by the costs of running for and getting elected to those positions.

"We work for rich people" a congress critter quipped in uncharacteristic bluntness.

This disparity coupled with both waste and gross malfeasance are far more of a problem than can be remedied by the potential thievery of the revocation of so called 'entitlements" which were mostly well earned and are very much deserved.

Our nation once lauded as the "land of the lively discussion" has digressed into juvenile idiocies and endlessly tiresome an inconsequential distractions.

Since most consider trimming the expenditures of the Pentagon as being less than patriotic, I just wish that we could at least address the costs of incarceration of non violent criminals. I can never wrap my tiara around why it costs more per year to incarcerate someone than the tuition for an Ivy league college. Advances in surveillance could easily facilitate home confinement at far less cost and more than likely reduce the outrageously high rates of recidivism.

Yet just as questioning defense spending is considered weakness, reviewing our practice of having the highest percentage of our citizen's locked up is routinely seen as being "soft on crime."

Thump, thump. . .thump, thump. . .thump, thump.

So our hearts beat.

Riddle me this. . .if corporations are people. . .how to their hearts beat. . .?

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

ka jing, ka jing. . . ka jing, ka jing. . .ka jing, ka jing. . . .

insert Floydesc bass line here>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

The fall of Rome redux is such a complete and total yawn fest.

Just sayin'.

/disjointed rant

[EC]

1. When someone throws that at me, I always ask

what else they are supposed to be doing with it, sit and admire it in nice pretty piles?

[RC]

2. Why do the good threads sink so fast?

"Tax and spend" is an utterly pathetic old accusation that has been levied against dems for as long as I can recall in this lifetime.

It's efficacy in demonizing the left is patently absurd when "tax and spend" is essentially precisely what most governments do.

"So you much prefer loot and waste sans accountability?" Is the most succinct retort I've conjured up thus far..


Bumper sticker:

Tax & Spend Democrat?
So you much prefer
loot and waste Republicans?

[stellanoir]

3. Yeah I've never had one sink so fast but I'm really way out of practice posting here.

Now I'm starting to wonder if this thread is only visible to people with screen names consisting of two letters and ending with the letter "C."

I'd probably edit the bumper sticker to ". . .so you'd rather. . ." for brevity's sake and in order to save some ink.

thanks