So… I’m 56 this November.
I am married, have two cats and no kids, own a house, own a business that supports two other families, have two vehicles (one personal and one company) that need to be replaced due to age and growing mechanical problems, pay my bills and pay my taxes (have a killer accountant and tax attorney in case the State wants to tangle with me over those payments) and generally go about my daily activities trying my best to”do no harm”, so to speak.
I am ex-Military, Conservative, am not a Hyphen-American group member, was raised Southern Baptist but am not particularly religious in the organized sense, tend to respect authority as long as it’s not intrusive, try very hard to be honest and fair with everyone, believe strongly in the individual’s singular capability but not so much in the Government’s ability, love my country, despise any form of Socialism, Marxism and other similar –isms.
In other words, I’m just a normal guy, nothing unusual or exceptional, just your average everyday American Mutt. But like many of you out there that are watching what’s going on in the current power grab called the Federal Government, I’m a mutt with teeth. Poke a sleeping dog and you are very likely to get bitten. Just ask the people at the Town Hall meetings about that.
Follow up:
I suppose I’m a defacto member of the “Baby Boomer” generation, chronologically speaking. However, I am not proud of this fact. After all, it’s my generation which is responsible for letting the current situation get so bad. I don’t really know what happened or exactly how it got to this point but apparently my worldview is a bit different from the Boomer generation which is in power.
If I’m doing something (a job or a career) for a fairly long time, I’d expect to get better at it, not worse. Yet the average age of Members of both Houses of Congress at the convening of the 111th Congress is 58.2 years; of Members of the House, 57.0 years; and of Senators, 63.1 years. The average length of service for Representatives at the beginning of the 111th Congress is 11.0 years (5.5 terms); for Senators 12.9 years (2.2 terms). So age and experience do not necessarily translate to capability.
Next, if I’m running my personal budget or if I managed an organization’s money like these guys manage the taxpayer’s money, I’d be in jail or at the least publicly ostracized. I certainly wouldn’t expect to be rewarded for it by continuing to get rehired or promoted. Yet the National Debt has continued to increase an average of $3.92 billion per day since September 28, 2007. The Debt now stands at $11,033,157,578,669.78. The estimated population of the United States is 306,772,407 so each citizen’s share of this debt is $38,214.82. This year’s deficit is now projected to soar past $1.8 trillion, or 13 percent of the economy. So after a certain point, numbers apparently have no meaning to them.
Despite only thirty-one percent of Americans in Gallup’s Aug. 6-9 survey stating approval of the job Congress is doing, 62% disapprove. That’s a two-to-one ratio against these people… but most of them will be rehired next year, mark my words on this.
I’m sickeningly used to that but what really bothers me is the 31 percent who think this group is doing a dandy job of handling things. Whatever happened to common sense?
–TechPro
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