I posted this thing yesterday, and it kinda got some attention.  It’s not even my original work, it’s just something I found.  Usually when I post these kinds of things, they get 3 notes, 7 notes, 12 notes, or even once I got this herb spiral thing to get like 160 notes.  I was stoked.  Well since yesterday afternoon, my new thing got 920 notes and counting.  I got 10 new followers overnight, which to this piddly little blog is a big deal.  I’m reading through some of the reblogs, and I just wanted to clarify my position on this, since there is a lot of criticism (almost all of which I actually agree with).  I didn’t think anyone would notice a lack of commentary, so let me take a minute to say some now.

I do enjoy the simpleness of taking away the zeros to make a massive budget like one for the U.S. government easier for us all to understand.  It’s terms we can all relate to.  But I do totally understand that the government cannot and should not be run like a household. Especially now!

  I whole-heartedly agree that we should be spending more right now (like, 10 times more) to stimulate the economy because it’s not coming from the private sector.  We should be over spending in education, infrastructure, housing initiatives, and many other areas because that’s what’s going to get us out of this mess, not austerity and budget cuts.  I think that’s kind of a funny point about this graphic; we’re a “household” that’s racked up $142,000 on the credit card and we’re talking about cutting back by about four hundred bucks next year.  What’s the point?  It’s not even significant compared to this year’s budget shortfall alone. 

  Why aren’t we seeing that the only real, long term solution to this problem is investment in the future?  We have to get the economy producing again on it’s own, then we can deal with budget issues.  Not to mention that the budget issues are really coming from incredible tax cuts for corporations and the rich that aren’t doing anything for us.  They’re called the Bush tax cuts for a reason, they were started 10 years ago under Bush, and the country fell into a massive recession while they were in effect, so clearly they weren’t the miraculous, job creating boon to the economy they’re defended as today.

  And lastly, the wording at the end.  Yes, it is insane.  By Einstein’s reasoning, at least.  Yes we should vote them out.  At a current 12% approval rating, Congress is one of the most disliked groups of people in the country.  The problem is who are you going to replace them with?  More assholes who can only get attention by raising the most cash from whoever they can sell their souls to.  So, that brings me to Citizens United, which is another whole conversation and I’ll just skip that for now.  Finally, the balanced budget.  I think the balanced budget amendment is stupid and don’t support it, and I think the whole idea of fixing taxes and only being allowed to spend on one program if you take the money away from another is political strategy, not governance.  I think we should balance the budget by taxing the shit out of millionaires.  I liked this picture and had to be stuck with the wording.

Alright, that’s it.  End of rant.  Thanks for listening.

tl;dr  It’s not too long, read it for crying out loud!  Alright, I guess: I posted this pic, don’t totally agree with it but like the message, tax rich people, I hate citizens united, and the politicalization of the budget crisis is one of the worst things ruining America’s chances of recovery.