Our New Budget

Dear Mr. President, Congressmen, and Senators,

While I realize that it is virtually impossible for any of you to imagine the consequences of your actions doing more harm than good, I am going to attempt to break it down for you. When you extended tax cuts for the wealthy adding an additional $858 billion dollars to our deficit, so that everyone at your country club would be so excited to pat you on the back when you walk through the door, you did a disservice to 95% of the country that can only dream of making more than $250k a year. Now to make all of this work you intend to squeeze a little more, from the top I would think, but no I wake up to find out that rather than “Trickle Down” economics you have decided to do “Trickle Up”. Because while arguing with Bank of America about refinancing my house at a lower rate, trying to find a good charter school for my child (because the public school system has gone to crap), and desperately searching for a job online and hoping that you will continue to approve more unemployment benefits. I must also simultaneously live with the fact that you are going after Planned Parenthood. Which I can simply say is one of the dumbest things that Republicans have done to date, oh but then I remember that you want to re-define “Rape”. You only want to pay for “Forcible Rape” abortions. So let me point this out, RAPE by definition is a forcible thing. So while you argue about the Health Insurance that I can’t pay for but need, you also want to make sure that the one resource I do have to prevent another alarming hit to my pocket book is taken away. Do you want me barefoot pregnant and on welfare? I think that’s where I will end up, maybe not as a mother but as a grandmother. Then I hear that there is actually an argument about taxing Wall Street, because there million dollar bonuses shouldn’t have to take the same hit my 401k got a few years ago when they all just messed up. When you and your predecessors had the brilliant idea that people who make money out of money don’t need any regulations, they aren’t greedy after all just really smart. Even though they did manage to loose $114 billion dollars of the TARP money we lent them, why should they have to pay it back, did I mention I was still on hold with Bank of America. I mean GOD forbid that they have to pay for anything like there regulators, Senator Scott Brown who just thought it was a ludicrous idea. In some ways he might be right, I mean the oil industry was wining and dining with the MMS and that worked out well in regards to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. But you know my problems are small in comparison right?

Then I read that some of you (Republicans) have a problem with extending veterans benefits, even though you have a fit if someone forgets to thank the Veterans and people serving in the armed forces. As well you tout your own horn as a supporter of taking care of the people that guarded our borders. But hey they are old now and the fact that 135,000 of them sleep on the street because they can’t seem to work the system or they are too sick to figure it out, they don’t matter to you. You also seem to be upset because Mr. Prez would like to stop spending $140 million dollars on promoting democracy abroad. I find this one as disgusting as anything because based on the way things are going right now, you haven’t proven that democracy works here. So we spent $140 million on promoting democracy and then we wonder why we have an immigration problem, tea party I would think you would have a major problem with this. But hey this is America land of the free, so we can just throw more money at the immigration problem, because that works so well, but hey maybe if we spend $263 million on the department of Homeland Security and $55 million on border patrol then people will stop trying to cross the dessert or swim across the river, again, and again, did I say again. Comprehensive immigration reform is way harder! All that border walking is okay, but lets go ahead and cut the Drug Enforcement Agency down a peg, they don’t need the money to try and stop the bad guys from putting more drugs on our streets. While simultaneously spending $118 billion dollars to stay in Iraq and Afghanistan, we have to keep there streets safe and make sure they get democracy, because it works so well right? Now I know you are still enjoying your buddies at the Country Club, how’s that Mint Julep holding up? You hang onto it and sip slowly because if Mr. Prez actually finds a way to make those 12 tax breaks enjoyed by the oil industry go away I have a feeling that your friends might be a little mad. Just take a sip and remind them to tell OPEC to make sure that the price per barrel goes up right after this happens, I mean they shouldn’t have to pay for that stuff they are providing man kind with a service.

So I guess the moral of the story is that you keep sipping that Julep and staring out at the 18th green, that was cut by Jose who ran across the border last year, all cozy and comfortable with your rich buddies. But remember this, the little people who you seem so obliged to step all over and outright LIE to, we out number you. There isn’t a wall in the world that we can’t scale and one day I think we might get it together and come after you, and thanks to your defense of hand guns we’ll be armed. So stop and take a moment to consider how you vote and what you argue for, because one day we may just come for you. As well I know that you all read the Constitution, and while I am glad that you all brused up, it shouldn’t have cost me almost $1.5 million dollars to do it, you need to do that on your own time and not mine.

(PS I am still on hold with Bank of America)