The State of our State

Ok this blog is pretty much a rant about all the crap I've been dealing with lately...

So it's Tuesday and its already been an interesting week. I'm so sick of the economy and people playing the system!! How is it that a mother with four kids by four different men, with no job and no desire to get a job, can get the state to pay for her child care?? Literally this girl drops her kids off half a mile down the road then goes home and sits on her ass all day until it's time to go pick them up. Our tax dollars at work right there! And if someone is doing that up here I know it's happening all over the country. Yet Scott and I work 40+ hours a week and get ZERO help with any of our bills. I really hope Obama makes good on his promises and turns this country around. Maybe while he's at it he can reform the welfare system.

Now I'm not saying that everyone who receives benefits is a bad person. I can see if someone looses their job and need assistance for a little while, but there are people that live on the system their entire lives. Their parents were on it, and as soon as they turn 18 they go on it. Where does the cycle end?

And on another rant. There is a man, who remains nameless as well. He did subcontract work for a company I work for. This man in the last 7 years has not paid any taxes. Has never filed his tax return. I would guess he's made at least an average of $75 grand a year in those last 7 years. Then he goes and quits. Keep in mind he's a subcontractor so he's not subject to payroll taxes, he's required to file those himself. Now the state is letting him collect unemployment insurance under this company's account. Now NYS is so desperate for money and they have huge budget deficits, yet they are paying someone to live on the system who hasn't paid taxes in 7 years and probably owes them tens of thousands of dollars. Yet if I was to default on my land taxes or student loan payments they would be all over me. And they wonder why the state has no money. Let's tax people to death then give their hard earned tax dollars to no good rotten SOB's.

Well I've decided if Obama doesn't fix these problems, I may just run for president. What do you think? Will you vote for me? What do you think I should work on first? How about we start caring for the people in this country who break their backs everyday to make sure the country keeps going. And I know I'm not really talking about myself because I certainly don't break my back at my desk. But people who work hard every day for crappy wages while their boss has 12 mistresses and takes 20 vacations a year....

Ok that is the end of my rant. Hopefully I will have a happier blog tomorrow... until then,,,

God Bless America... or what's left of it anyways.