Monday, September 30, 2013

Budget...we don't need no stinkin' budget!!

So here I sit as lawmakers try to figure out a way to piss on each other without getting themselves wet.  Honestly, I am so sick and tired of all the coverage about this budget issue for one simple reason:  It's like watching competing drunken frat houses try to "one-up" the other.  "Well if you are going to demand this, then we are going to do that and shut down the government, so blah!"

Is this what government has come to? Grown adults so invested in themselves that they can no longer see the forest of people that they took an oath to represent.  So self-centered and self-absorbed that they have zero concern for the people affected by the shutdown.  (FYI, Congress doesn't shut down and they will still keep getting a paycheck.)  Non-essential services are shut down but that begs the question, if is the government job to take on a task (like running our national monuments and OSHA) wouldn't they ALL be considered essential services? or are some more essential than others.

I voted in the last election but I didn't vote for any of this.  I thought I voted for people who would have not only my best interests at heart but the interests of my fellow man as well.  I will admit it, I got screwed on that one!! I was hoodwinked, snookered, and in some instances outright LIED to by people in office.

There is no compromise, there is no mercy, there is no justice in this group of elected morons who foolishly believe that they are representing their constituents and that they are representing the people of this nation.  I wonder how any of them can look at themselves in the mirror every morning and tell themselves that they are "keeping the best interests of the nation in mind" as they work so hard to prove that "They" are right and that "They" are wrong.  How much nicer would it be if "They" worked together to create a legacy that people will admire and point to for years to come as a model form of government.

Lincoln's Gettysburg address comes to mind and it fit in with this whole situation too.  Here it is in its entirety:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

 Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

 But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

 I'm so sorry Abe that the people that we elected to represent us have so badly screwed all of this up.  We have dishonored those who fought and gave their lives for this country by our pettiness, our insincerity and our callous disregard for our neighbor.  Instead we fight for higher taxes on the poor, we fight to remove services that will make our country healthy and we ensure that the upper 1% of this country actually have the ability to purchase Congressmen on the open market.  We bully those who don't look like "us" or think like "us" and we demand that anyone who isn't like "us" "go home". 

 I love this country.  I really do.  However, these polarizing entities that have come to power do not.  They want what they want and everyone else be damned.  Don't tell me that you care about the people who elected you and then remove funding for the Affordable Health Care Act.  Don't tell me that you care about women and minorities when you do everything in your power to ensure that they are unable to control what they do with their bodies and remove their right to vote and have a voice in our government.  Actions speak louder than words and trust me when I say that I will remember each and everyone of them come November.  

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