I'm seeing and hearing a lot of stuff lately. Grumbling about the president throwing all of our tax money to the greedy big businesses, bailing out the auto makers, and now healthcare. The big cry seems to be, "Who's going to pay for all of this?".
I started thinking, "What happened to the war?" It's still going on, right? Aren't our guys still getting shot at every day? But, that is not what is on the table right now. It's real funny how the most important thing in the world is suddenly something we no longer even discuss. On the other hand, talking about taxes going up, when times are tough, well sir, that's real easy to get riled up about and we have plenty of people getting all riled up.
It doesn't take a lot of smarts to see what is coming and it won't matter who is president when it happens. It will be the local taxes that will get us. Real estate is in the toilet, the population is dropping and new construction is almost non-existent. They have only one way to get that money and that is raising our taxes.
If life is but a game, and the game is Monopoly, then we are in the part of the game where somebody has a bunch of hotels on Park Place and Boardwalk and the only thing you have going for you is how many hits you can take.
Maybe someday they will trace all of this back to one single person that said, "Hey! Let's start making some really bad loans to people that could never pay them back!"...then we can tar and feather and ride him out of town on a rail, but until that day comes, it's best to be prepared to land on Boardwalk....
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