Enough said…
Drug companies = gun manufacturers
The more we hear from the drug companies as they try to excuse their culpability in the opiod crisis, the more they sound like the gun manufacturers. It’s not their fault that people misuse their products. They believe they are immune from regulation or blame because they are so big and powerful – ie friends of the republicans and their idiot-in-chief.
It just another way for us to feel powerless and angry. There is no “god”, no sense of good for the republicans, for the Tramp, other than greed.
It makes you think that an apocalypse is needed except you know the only ones who would survive are the 1% staying on the top of Tramp Tower.
We’re all chumps
It’s tax season again and I’m feeling like a first-class chump, a real loser, a victim.
My wife and I make plenty of money and pay what I would have always called our “fair share” of taxes to support the governments – state and federal. But for the past two years I’ve seen that money wasted on insanely stupid things, on hurtful things, on illegal things and I feel so hopeless and angry.
We know the Tramp doesn’t release his tax filings because most normal people would be outraged by either how little he pays or that he doesn’t pay anything or that he probably got a refund. That’s how the big bad boys play the game – let the suckers pay. And pay. And pay.
Isn’t it time for us suckers to take back the system? What if none of us paid? File Don’t Pay. Let them go after hundreds of millions of us. Force them to acknowledge that the system is rigged by the fat cats. Simplify the stupid system and make it equitable – for everyone.
National Emergency!
Yes. For the first time ever I agree with the Tramp.
There is a National Emergency.
And HE IS IT!
Somehow, someway we have to get rid of this idiot.
taxes
Sending in my last estimated tax checks for the year. Never fun but particularly painful the past two years. I’m helping to pay for that insane person in the white house and all the terrible things this government has done in the past two years. At least with the budget impasse many of them aren’t working and can’t do any more harm. Unfortunately many good people are also not working.
I think we should all just say no more tax payments until the tramp is gone.
I always thought that as I got older Life would make more sense, but just the opposite happened
The horizon is nearer and the options and possibilities are fewer.
Signs of sinners
It was reported today that a massive mass transit project in our neighborhood is over one year behind schedule and 10% over budget. And this is less than 9 months after the project started.
The consortium of construction companies that are involved are the same ones that nearly bankrupt the transit system a few years ago with massive overruns in cost and time on another project. Yet they were hired again. Why?
Politics and greed. Pure and simple.
The companies make big political contributions. They take the politicians and the bureaucrats on lavish trips. They dramatically underbid the project to get the award. And you know they have a timetable for when they will announce the predetermined overruns that will eventually get them to where the bid should have been in the first place (but they never would have gotten the job with an honest bid).
This happens everywhere and we just roll our eyes and let it slide.
Wake up people!
things never change
I was just looking through some old idea books/journals and got depressed that so much that’s wrong with the world hasn’t changed in the past 10, 20, 30 – 50 years.
Greed, racism, intolerance, child and spousal abuse, environmental neglect, crime … all as bad today as in the late 1960s when I graduated from college as part of a generation that was sure it would make a difference. We made some superficial changes but we certainly haven’t changed anything fundamentally. And in fact with the current mad man president we’re seriously regressing.
Entry from August 3, 1991: “We have grown so cynical with politicians, and the examples of corruption and self-interest are so extensive/pervasive that they seem to have lost all impact. Would have to be truly heinous to have any impact and maybe not even then.”
Next step
Now that the democrats have some control of the house, it’s time for new leadership. Pelosi has been more than ineffective, she’s been a disaster. Is there no one in that party who can be a leader, strong enough to stand up for what’s right rather than cower in the bunker and pray that we will survive the next two years? Van Holen from Maryland is a prime example of a scared politician who is more concerned about keeping his job than standing for principles like decency, fair play, the truth…
Anticipation…
What will today bring?
Will we see some sanity return to the life of the American public or will the haters continue to win because they know no bounds of decency.?
I hope every misguided person who screwed up by not voting for Hillary (the lesser evil) and who therefore allowed the greater evil to win will get off their butt and vote for people who can begin to stop the madness that has taken over our government and is sending our country into a death spiral. And no that is not hyperbole – just look around.