Kwitchyerbellyachin'!!

I saw a post on Facebook today that I thought was kinda funny.  I listed the salaries of the members of Congress.  They were all around $200k or more.  Someone was saying that we should cut their salaries in order to pay the budget.  So I did the math.  There are a total of 535 members of the House and Senate.  If you took half their salary, let's say $100k from each of them.  That's $53,500,000.  If you devide that by the number of people in the country (307,000,000) that comes out to about 1.7 cents per person.  Since our debt is 14 trillion dollars, I don't think that would make much of a dent. And besides, WE THE PEOPLE ELECTED THEM SO IF YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT YOU HAVE, GO VOTE TO CHANGE IT!! 

I hate to say this, because my grandma always said if you can't say something nice about someone not to say anything at all.  But I guess since I am not talking about anyone in particular, I might be okay.  So... I seem to get into a lot of debates on Facebook about what is better, liberalism or conservatism and all the details about why which one is better than the other.  The problem I have with the liberals is that they are always complaining about how bad everything is and that it's all the fault of conservatives.  When I reply back to them with a logical point to prove them wrong they always, to a person, resort to name calling and going on and on about their intellectual superiority and bashing everyone who does not think like themselves.  What I have yet to hear from any of them is a plan in any shape or form about how they would go about making things better.  Whenever I ask them for that, they stop responding to me.  Imagine that. 

I guess some people aren't happy unless they are complaining about something.  Maybe, just maybe, if everyone would quit complaining about everything and put that energy into actually doing something to make a difference, we as the citizens of the United States could make our country the place we all dream that it can be.