Auntie Charo's Soapbox

The headline in the daily fishwrap, actually, it's good for doing windows and lining litter boxes too....okay already, it's a sign of things to come....rob Peter to pay Paul.....when we needed to all those years ago, we took money from the retirement fund and never paid it back.......then, we took the funds from government employees and never paid the retirement fund their share........now they can't retire...some where along the line, they made it law that we had to pay it back so that they could retire....so, we're having to go to the very pockets of the agencies where these employees just got the good news of increments and are now taking the funds to pay the retirement funds for these long overdue payments which will shortchange these agencies....to make a long story short.....if DOE was in trouble with busing, teacher and textbook problems and trying to figure out where to put 600 students in the fall, well guess what, now they have to figure out where the hell they're going to get the money to pay the increments, the retirement interest fees and all of the above......and if there's a typhoon and or an earthquake thrown into the loop, well, there's just going to be more poop onto an already poopy situation......and on those tax refunds? Don't even try to figure out when you're going to get yours.......those increments and EIC payments are going to figure in before your returns will, that is unless someone gets really sick or someone in your family dies and you have a really good excuse to use to get a refund with/for(like a letter you can use at a school principal's office when you're late to school).
Of course, it's getting near election time so we're going to be dancing the dance.......no one's going to raise taxes and no one's going to be laid off.....we're going to kinda 'hunker' down and try to hold tight until after the election is over then we'll raise taxes or GRT and shorten work hours like we did the last time....that'll probably be the only way we'll survive total bankruptcy....we certainly won't be able to survive the way we're spending money at the rate we're spending it today....we're spending it as if it was going out of style........travelling as if there was no tomorrow!
The gas prices are going up and up and up, and the government vehicles seem to be growing in size as if it needed to grow in gas consumption as well....
How many more ways can we give away money in order to get re-elected?