Comment on a Colleague's Work

Link to Ben Chang's Original Blog Post "Blindfolded Judgement"



I agree with absolutely everything you say in your post. The government has been disconnected with the average citizens for many years, and now the connection is at an all time low. It's really sad to see just how much they don't care about our less fortunate citizens. My mother, who was single while I was growing up, really depended upon WIC to cover the little things, so I can relate to what's going on. I mean, cutting down on health care programs and NOT taxing multi-billion dollar corporations? It's no wonder we're in a 15 trillion dollar debt! Could you imagine what just a mandatory 5% tax on every company that operates in America could do for this country? Certainly much more than the 20% they're taxing the average citizen!

The rich can stand to be taxed too, but they're finding ways to pay off congressmen to lower taxes (see the irony?). I see no problem with cutting government paychecks either, because they really are getting paid too much to sit in an office and gripe every time you call them (looking at you, Texas State Board of Pharmacy). And about that defense spending, we are spending over $600 billion for defense according to the 2010 budget, which is more than any other country's spending, and really all that's doing is making us look big and scary. Ooooh! We can definitely cut from that, because like you said, we spend money on things that don't work well or don't work at all.

It's really a shame more people don't have this mentality about our country's budget, because the world would be a much better place if we all did.