this weeks rant, courtesy indirectly of Davita Petty, who brought it up last year, (thanks muchly) comes at the expense of Rudy Takala from Pine City, Minn, who wrote this for a "mindworks" article about a year ago. Let's begin the mockery.
If I controlled what happened to tax money, I would give it back to the people who paid it. I would take the minimum for things such as roads. I would stop funding people who do not work. I would stop feeding families who have lived off of welfare for generations.
I would stop feeding the pit known as government schools. More money and smaller class sizes obviously are not the solution; in 30 years of liberal whining and involvement, America's literacy rate has gone down astronomically. When Minnesota is one of the top five most highly taxed states in America, my peers who have attended the government schools all their lives have no excuse for being as stupid as they are if "money is the answer."
If you want to eat, do not depend on the government for food stamps.
If you want an education, do not depend on someone else's money.
Sell your television. Get a job. Read a book.
When you forcibly take money from someone and give it to someone else, it's called theft. When the government does it, it somehow becomes compassion.
High taxes are not an ingredient of capitalism; they are detrimental to it. That is why I would give the money back to the people who worked for it, rather than trying to create a socialist utopia, as I know many of the younger writers who have been indoctrinated by our lovely government teachers would suggest.
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okay, it's not too much to ask for tax money. You live in society, you enjoy it, right? well taxes help pay for the maintainence of that society. without a police force, roads or sanitation facilities, we'd be robbed from our piles of trash and the cop's couldn't get there fast enough to stop them. taxes are just a way of saying, 'yeah, i like this society, I want to keep living in it, so I'll pay" it's entirely okay, because it does end up benefiting you in the end.
also, some people cannot work because they don't have enough availible jobs. the current economic situation hasn't helped either. that's like taking the plate out from under the creme brulee: it'll hit the bottom eventually. same thing for feeding welfare people? welfare isn't a failure because there are still poor people, that logic is asinine. by that logic, the fire department is a failure because there are still fires, or Rush Limbaugh is a failure because there are still liberal weeners.
the pit known as government schools? ouch. that one hits very close to my spleen. not my heart, it's too atrophied by television and deviously brilliant marketing schemes. listen Mr "I'm right because I'm homeschooled you poor schmucks, you who have parents that don't care about you" two responses:
1. post hoc ergo propter hoc. just because our whining has come before the failure of the school system, does not mean it's because we whined. Also, just because you're stupid doesn't mean the schools are failures.
2. this plummeting literacy rate is at: 97% for adults, as of the year 2000. astronomical my... well, my ass.
finally, I'm not stupid. I've been kicking your ass up and down the website, and I'm not even trying too hard.
now, I'm not even going to mention the rest of the shit he spews simply because it's all conservative jargon with about as much substance as a bowl of 'air-flakes'. besides, I already responded to the point of taxes. so let's just review the lesson for today.
1. Creme Brulee is far too precious to hit let it the floor, but if it does a simple solution of soda water and bleach will get the resulting stain out.
2. Rush isn't a failure because I still exist (weener pride!). That doesn't mean he isn't a failure.
3. Air flakes: while they don't exist, they're probably atkins friendly, despite the word "flakes" in the title.