TAX INCREASES!?!?!?

Let me see if I've got this straight. The administration that appointed at least four admitted tax cheats to Cabinet Posts, and got two of them cofirmed by the Senate, is now telling us that our taxes may have to go up?!?! And the mouthpiece used to deliver this information is King Scofflaw himself, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner?!?! We may need to raise taxes to cut the deficits, he says. HEY TIMMY!! I have an idea. Instead of raising taxes, how about you brain surgeons in Washington CUT SOME SPENDING!!

For starters, lets do away with the "successful" cash for clunkers program. Calling this program successful seems like a no-brainer, I mean, how hard can it be to give away other peoples money? Want a new car? Well trade in your old one and we'll give you $4500 of someone else's money towards the purchase of a new one. Oh, and forget the fact that we're broke and can't afford the program... we'll just put it on our tab. What's a couple 100 billion dollars of debt when we're talking about the survival of a "successful" program? The government actually has the auto dealers destroying the trade-ins so that they cannot be returned to the roads, making it impossible to recoup any of the expense of the program. Government bureaucracy at work. Only in goevernment could this reasoning make sense. We are out of money, in such dire straits that we need to raise taxes on the people, but hey, take $200 billion more for buying back clunker cars!

Our national debt is set to DOUBLE for fiscal 2009, but our so-called leaders can't find anything worthy of budget cuts?!?! Well then, I say let them form a commission of successful business owners and managers and blue collar, working parents. These folks are used to surviving within the confines of a budget. I guarantee that given a week to review it, they would find plenty of useless, silly pork to slash from the budget. Come on people. Wake up! Our federal government has metastisized into something never intended by our Founding Fathers, and we are losing control. It's time for new leadership... folks committed to fiscal responsibility, reigned-in government, and the power of our Constitution.