Daphne, he didn’t sound mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore. He sounded mildly ticked as golly jee willickers and probably gonna take it some more. Now this, my friend, THIS is mad as hell and not gonna take it any more!
But that’s a well scripted movie Jewel, the man in the clip is a very frustrated, exasperated but polite American small businessman (like so many I know), coming to the end of his tether with the fuckwittery of the Elite that have never produced a productive dollar in their lives, but still expect to live like Kings on the backs of the “ordinary people” and their stolen taxes.
The fact is (well, for the UK where I live, and I’m sure it is the same for the USA) that 60% of Govt expenditure comes from our taxes and the other 40% from borrowing from the financial markets. How do Govts think they can ever pay back their loans if they continue to live beyond their means?
To quote a Dickens character, Mr Micawber…
“My other piece of advice, Copperfield, said Mr. Micawber, you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result
happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes down upon the dreary scene, andand, in short, you are for ever floored. As I am!”
And what the fuck are they actually spending it all on?
I want an Audit of all the Western Governments, ALL of them. Tell us poor sap taxpayers what you want our hard earned money for, and maybe we’ll give you some, but you are going to have to make a damn fine and convincing case for most of it arn’t you, you eternally entitled scumbags, because beyond Defence and Justice, we reckon we could a do a bloody better job between ourselves, thanks all the fuckin same! And have sixpence left over to invest at the end of it.
Oh yes, I know that’s a script, and a good one at that. My larger point is that we aren’t yet angry enough. Melting down the phone lines of Congress is one thing. A TAX revolt is quite another. I don’t think the government will really listen until we show up with torches and pitch forks.
The one that led to the creation of a fatally flawed document that resulted in the corrupt, statist morass we’re living in today.
What exactly is the purpose of the United States, besides serving corporate interests and the top 1%?
I think we need to scrap the whole damn thing and call it a day. That nice, angry man in the video still thinks this government can fixed, I don’t think that’s even remotely possible.
I am not quite sure what better thing could have happened to the flawed document to make it less flawed, but all good things decay and come to ruin. Even the best become bad, given a few generations.
I don’t think the government can be fixed, but the documents and the philosophy of a minimalist state are still a good idea. Maybe at this point wreck and ruin are inevitable before it can get better.
We really do have one great advantage no one in recorded history has had–the experience, not the theory, of the Experiment that worked.
All success contains the seed of its destruction. The reverse is not necessarily true.
But it is true of creative destruction. Still, that is exactly the kind of success that has always scared people, before, during, and after. Perhaps the trick is to scare people into liberty once again, as they were were once scared out of liberty by the not greatest generation.
The old crank that nobody reads: “Each generation must learn for itself and when it does it is time to die.”
Daphne, he didn’t sound mad as hell and not gonna take it anymore. He sounded mildly ticked as golly jee willickers and probably gonna take it some more. Now this, my friend, THIS is mad as hell and not gonna take it any more!
But that’s a well scripted movie Jewel, the man in the clip is a very frustrated, exasperated but polite American small businessman (like so many I know), coming to the end of his tether with the fuckwittery of the Elite that have never produced a productive dollar in their lives, but still expect to live like Kings on the backs of the “ordinary people” and their stolen taxes.
The fact is (well, for the UK where I live, and I’m sure it is the same for the USA) that 60% of Govt expenditure comes from our taxes and the other 40% from borrowing from the financial markets. How do Govts think they can ever pay back their loans if they continue to live beyond their means?
To quote a Dickens character, Mr Micawber…
“My other piece of advice, Copperfield, said Mr. Micawber, you know. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result
happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes down upon the dreary scene, andand, in short, you are for ever floored. As I am!”
And what the fuck are they actually spending it all on?
I want an Audit of all the Western Governments, ALL of them. Tell us poor sap taxpayers what you want our hard earned money for, and maybe we’ll give you some, but you are going to have to make a damn fine and convincing case for most of it arn’t you, you eternally entitled scumbags, because beyond Defence and Justice, we reckon we could a do a bloody better job between ourselves, thanks all the fuckin same! And have sixpence left over to invest at the end of it.
Oh yes, I know that’s a script, and a good one at that. My larger point is that we aren’t yet angry enough. Melting down the phone lines of Congress is one thing. A TAX revolt is quite another. I don’t think the government will really listen until we show up with torches and pitch forks.
I seem to remember you having a Tax Revolt a while back… That turned out pretty well in the long run, didn’t it? ;-)
What tax revolt! I want a tax revolt. Dammit.
Aww you know, that little ol’ 1776 one :-)
I knew where you were going with that, Rab.
The one that led to the creation of a fatally flawed document that resulted in the corrupt, statist morass we’re living in today.
What exactly is the purpose of the United States, besides serving corporate interests and the top 1%?
I think we need to scrap the whole damn thing and call it a day. That nice, angry man in the video still thinks this government can fixed, I don’t think that’s even remotely possible.
I’m apparently drunk this morning and unable to form coherent sentences.
I am not quite sure what better thing could have happened to the flawed document to make it less flawed, but all good things decay and come to ruin. Even the best become bad, given a few generations.
I don’t think the government can be fixed, but the documents and the philosophy of a minimalist state are still a good idea. Maybe at this point wreck and ruin are inevitable before it can get better.
We really do have one great advantage no one in recorded history has had–the experience, not the theory, of the Experiment that worked.
All success contains the seed of its destruction. The reverse is not necessarily true.
But it is true of creative destruction. Still, that is exactly the kind of success that has always scared people, before, during, and after. Perhaps the trick is to scare people into liberty once again, as they were were once scared out of liberty by the not greatest generation.
The old crank that nobody reads: “Each generation must learn for itself and when it does it is time to die.”
Just to close the loop on the budget deal ….
Culberson (my guy) votes Aye on the Boehner no cut bill.
Allen West votes Aye on the Boehner no cut bull.
vs.
Michelle Bachmann votes No on the Boehner no cut bill.
Daphne’s crazy uncle Ron votes No on the Boehner no cut bill.
Opa!
Are y’all feeling your inner Greek yet?
I like my crazy uncle much more than your weird aunt.
Jewel said:
And rope. Don’t forget the rope.