Stealing Money

This subject is so simple that it makes my head spin.

• Do not spend money that you don’t have.
• Be honest and honorable in how you make your money.
• Do not cause harm to others in order to make your money.

Why can’t we get it? The primary role of government is to provide security for its people. Running the country into bankruptcy provides insecurity, not security. It makes us vulnerable in the world market, and makes our way of life less secure every day. Yet our government is racing us toward bankruptcy at a rate that makes your head spin, and nobody seems to be paying attention.

When I talked about religion, I talked about the Republican party today using Christians to get elected, and then stealing us blind. This is what is going on. For 25 years, they have continued to shift the tax burden further and further onto the backs of the lower and middle classes, all the while reducing the tax burden on the wealthy, (which is them). They have stolen from the trust funds of programs meant to help the most needy in this country in order to fund these tax cuts for the wealthy. While they were stealing it, they said they were just borrowing, and that the money would be paid back in better times. But when better times came, they chose instead to give the wealthy more tax cuts, and continued to steal from the trust funds. The rhetoric that is now coming out of the Republican party makes it quite clear that they have no intention of ever paying the money back – they expect to simply shut down the programs when the programs look to them and ask for them to repay what they have stolen.

Again, the Democratic party is led by the rich as well, but they were shackled by their constituency into doing more of the right thing over the years – that’s how they stayed in power. Now, the Republicans have become master magicians, and have learned how to keep our attention focused elsewhere while they pick out pockets.