The Novice Blogger's First Foray

I've never blogged before (sounds like a Julio Iglesias song) and have never spent much time reading the blogs of others, but have decided to dive headfirst into blogging. I've decided I have some things to say, and I'm going to say them. I don't really care if anyone wants to hear them or not, at least I'll have said them, and that's my interest in this at this point.


I've been watching some of the coverage of the whole debt ceiling fiasco over the past couple of weeks and have to admit I've grown weary of the whole thing. A pox on both their houses. It's like watching little children instead of adults responsible for trillions of dollars of our tax dollars juggling them around in buckets like so much Monopoly money. It's not even real to them.

Neither party, neither house of Congress, and neither of the two branches of government involved is the adult in this conversation. They have all behaved badly. More taxes, less spending - how in the world did they get us into a situation where we owe $14 trillion - an amount so massive that it's even come to such a choice? Even worse, how have we let them get us to this point? It is our own fault, you know. We've let them feed at the trough for far too long, and we've been happy eating the leftover slop after they've finished, feeling grateful for their largess at letting us have the last few morsels of the feed we'd been sending them all along.


In any case, they've reached a 'bipartisan compromise' which is politician-speak for forming a committee to do the hard work, which they'll ignore later just like the President and everyone else did with the Simpson-Bowles commission's report. It was too responsible for the politicians to swallow so you don't even hear them talking about it. It's all a giant joke, but the joke's on us, my fellow taxpayers. 


Democrat or Republican or anything in-between or outside those two, you need to send a clear message in 2012 - "Go Home! We've had enough! We'll send someone who only cares about the country and not about themselves or their reelection."