There’s an old proverb.. I think it’s russian about 2 neighbors. One has a goat and the other does not. He hates his neighbor for having a goat while he goes without. One day he’s blessed by finding a genie who offers to grant him one wish. So obviously you’d think since he admires his neighbors goat so much, he’ll wish for his own, right? Wrong. He wishes that his neighbors goat will die. He wants his neighbor to be as miserable as he is. Lately I think that should be an american proverb.

What is wrong with us? We voted a guy into office to help fix the huge mess the last guy made and now it seems every time I turn on the tv all I hear is criticism of everything the guy does or wants to do. He wants to take his family on vacation and you’d think it was the worst thing any president had ever done. No one cares that Bush was on vacation something like 1200 days out of his presidency. Maybe that’s why he messed up so much shit? To busy cutting brush and throwing back a few beers.

But it seems like Obama can’t do anything right anymore. He wants to fix healthcare. Something we need desperately. But omg, they are going to unplug grandma. (something completely false) The gov’t failed running a brothel in nevada, what will it do to your health care? (omg…the gov’t never ran a brothel. Hello fact check) The gov’t could never run a successful health care plan… funny since the military get one and the seniors get one and the poor get one.. it’s just the rest of us in the middle who aren’t entitled? What’s up with that?

I keep hearing how all the stimulous money that’s out there to help us rebuild america.. ya know.. the crumbling roads and bridges that plummet into the rivers they are supposed to carry us over, is a huge waste and the gov’t should just cut us all a check for $10k. THAT will stimulate the economy! Really? And how are you going to get to the mall when the bridge near your house is out? Be sure to save some of that $10k to put new tires, shocks and do alignments on your car as you drive down the pot hole filled streets.

Oh but then everyone will cry that the gov’t isn’t doing enough for them. I want my $10k check AND a new bridge and I don’t want to pay 1 cent in taxes for it either!

Ok. Now you’re bordering on delusional.

I keep hearing about the cash for clunkers. Something like 650,000 cars were sold under that program. Sounds like a success to me. But then you have all these dealers crying because the money fairy didn’t appear with their reimbursement checks the next day. Especially after they filled out the paperwork incorrectly. One guy was crying about how he couldn’t meet payroll. Now wait a minute. You had 50 unsold cars on your lot. You sold them.. and now you can’t make payroll? How is that possible?

The average citizens complaining about it really crack me up because you know they are just people who didn’t qualify for the program. “I think it’s a waste of money”, they say on the news. Well, I guess no one in your family relies on getting a paycheck from the auto industry, right?

We gave trillions of our money that evaporated to banking institutions that have been raping us with high interest rates and bullshit fees for decades, and people are crying because the gov’t made it a little easier for middle class people to buy a car? Guess it’s lucky a car can’t die like a goat can or there would be a lot of dead cars if these people had their way.

Is there anything your gov’t can do to make the average american happy anymore?  Short of sending them a million dollar check every year so they can live in a mansion, drive a lexus and take lavish vacations… all while paying no taxes, it sure doesn’t seem like it.

Ya know.. when this country was founded, people sent money to help run it voluntarily. Today, you’d think the gov’t was asking for your first born to be able to provide you with schools for your kids, police to protect you and a road to get to the mall so you can buy another pair of crocs to jam your feet in.

Get your priorities in order people. Without a gov’t, where would you really be today? Would you even be able to read? You certainly wouldn’t be reading this because it was the gov’t that funded the internet and said it was important for all of us to be connected. But you’ll never hear something like that on fox news.

Quit wishing for your neighbors goat to die already. It’s embarrassing.

Tags: cash for clunker, rebuilding america, stimulus, stimulus package

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