YOUR TAX DOLLARS NOT AT WORK

Why is it that a corporation can waste money and get a tax break and we only shrug or groan while if it is the government we want blood? Maybe I'm being unfair on this subject, but I don't think so.

From my view it is a double standard. Even though the loss of tax dollars when a corporation screws up costs just as much in its own way as if the government screws up.

Perhaps at the core the problem centers around idea that if person is voted into office then in part those that voted for him are just as guilty. But nobody wants that kind of blame so instead we prefer to just get upset, piss and moan.

Oh perhaps we can avert a little of the abiding sense of guilt by one lie or another, but otherwise will just find a reason to grump. But that is the part I wish to take issue with if I can.

In the first place I would like to point out that as a rule most politicians probably were involved in corporate America at some point before running for office. It doesn't matter, it just is important because if that was the person's model then wouldn't follow they would make any other function apart of that system?

Does that make it all better? I didn't say that, I'm just suggesting we are silly to expect people of a given life philosophy that focuses on greed to abandon that approach when in public office.

Shoot even those who pursue spiritual lives have demonstrated they have trouble being other than occasionally corrupted by the process. So how can we expect people following a system inherently flawed be other than flawed?

Is that a valid question? It is from my point of view. And I don't say that just as a politician either.

Although, admittedly I'm not honestly defending they system. What I am doing is reporting.

Why? Because before you can change something you have to be prepared to understand it. And I think most people do understand it to a degree, but aren't prepared to truly delve into the reality that it is all flawed.

I think what we need most of all is to wipe our brow and go 'whew' whenever the government does anything right. That's because unless we are prepared to someone find perfect people then we better prepared for the fallout.

So when you see government blundering and know that is the reality of our tax dollars not a work, we should smile and be grateful that there are the times it does work. Not enough to be a source of pride, but enough to know it is better than not at all. Hey, I didn't say was a good thing, just time to feel good about what is crap.