Rants and Raves

I’ve got two words today that are sure to aggrevate anyone with an ounce of sense or a drop of integrity. Now that we’ve ruled the liberals  out, those words are Tim and Geithner.   

We might as well dispense with the overplayed rhetoric and sidestepping of every crooked politician who supports the appointment of yet another crooked politician. Geithner is a tax-dodging greed machine, much like every other suit in Washington, which is exactly why no one is pointing the finger at him. When in Rome, I suppose, you gotta eat your heart out and then barf like the rest of them or you don’t earn the official golden seal.  

The new political catchphrase to justify Geithner’s tax evasion is “sloppy.” “He’s a sloppy guy, which I can appreciate because I’m sloppy too…”(paraphrased). …Know what that  means? He’s not considered sloppy because he “forgot” to pay his taxes; he’s sloppy because he got caught. For four years. After he got paid extra money for the sole purpose of paying his taxes.  

The only reason this guy is not in jail is that he’s a politician, and when politicians commit crimes-even Federal offenses-they’re not really crimes anymore. They’re momentary judgement failures, or coincidental slips of the [lack of] mind, and nobody would hold a guy accountable for only four years of consecutive Federal crimes. Come on guys, is this America, or isn’t it? Just look the other way like the rest of us….    

So, despite the public outcry for something approaching sanity, Geithner is going to head up the IRS. And the next time the IRS sends a letter to a citizen who didn’t pay their taxes, the reply will read something like “I’ll pay mine the same way you paid yours. See ya in about 4 years, sucka, and I’d better get a nice position in the government for my trouble.”   

Does anyone even realize that Geithner doesn’t even qualify to work the offender’s line at the IRS? Doesn’t it seem odd for someone who couldn’t obtain one of the lowest positions available to take charge of the whole operation? Maybe we should all follow the example and oust the existing corporate leadership structures in America, to replace them with janitorial temps. (Wait a second, that’s actually not a bad idea…)  

For anyone out there who doesn’t have their head buried in the sand (again, just plug your ears, lefties, this won’t take a minute), I pray that people like you, who still choose to think and use reason, can take and hold positions of influence before we all find ourselves subjects to King George Obama III the all-merciful.  

Maybe I just can’t stand all this because it seems like we’ve been here before. As  a matter of fact, it seems like we’ve fought and won wars, simply to remove ourselves from corruption. United States Constitution sound familiar to anyone? No? I didn’t think it would. They say history repeats itself, but I’m personally not a big fan of deja-vu.   

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