Am I the only person really pissed off at the government in general right now?

In my city job centers are being shut down. Next year middle school athletics won't exist. They are shutting down 10 schools, all in poor areas so they can bus the ghetto children to other schools till there overpopulated an crap. BTW at bus stops I see lots of small children paying to take the city bus to school by themselves in dangerous areas cause the school bus budget was cut. The library is now open 2 days a week, and they wonder why people with computers can't find jobs? The bus fare is now $2, and 3 months ago it was $1.50

I see homeless people every day with no legs sitting passed out in there own urine. At night those same people are still passed out in there own urine under the interstate bridge cause theres no room at the shelter. I see children stealing from stores to feed themselves. Almost everyone I went to high school with is selling drugs or there body to pay rent and feed there kids cause theyve filled out 50 applications an got no interviews, and the ones with jobs are getting 10-20 hours a week.

Than I turn on the TV and hear the republicans wan't to cut healthcare and education more so they can keep making sure the rich stay rich.

Than I turn on the TV and hear the republicans wan't to cut healthcare and education more so they can keep making sure the rich stay rich.

BIG-BOSSMAN

You shouldn't watch MSNBC so much.

Life unfortunately isn't perfect and the government doesn't have the ability to make it so.

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Than I turn on the TV and hear the republicans wan't to cut healthcare and education more so they can keep making sure the rich stay rich.

airshocker

You shouldn't watch MSNBC so much.

Life unfortunately isn't perfect and the government doesn't have the ability to make it so.

Pirate700

Life unfortunately isn't perfect and the government doesn't have the ability to make it so.

Pirate700

The Government can be doing thousands times better now.

I am extremely pissed off at the gov... especially for their failure to secure the border!!!!

I'm always pissed off at the government.t3hrubikscube

Sometimes I get so pissed off at the government, I just run outside and start punching the sidewalk because the government put it there.fidosim

Life unfortunately isn't perfect and the government doesn't have the ability to make it so.

Pirate700

Yeah, but life would be alot better if they wern't shutting down all the schools in the ghetto and raising the price of everything while people are unemployed and can't find work. I really am starting to believe that the government does not care about you unless you make 200K+ a year. If you are not in that group you don't exist to them unless you live in the projects, or are on welfare and than you only exist for them to talk bad about you, even though all senators and congressman basically live millionaire lifestyles on the taxpayers money.BIG-BOSSMAN

I guess you better thank your Democratic administration.

Why are you raging at Republicans, now?

[QUOTE="Pirate700"]

Life unfortunately isn't perfect and the government doesn't have the ability to make it so.

BIG-BOSSMAN

They cut spending on education, but what about Military?

They cut spending on education, but what about Military?

Avian005

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They cut spending on education, but what about Military?

Pirate700

[QUOTE="BIG-BOSSMAN"]Yeah, but life would be alot better if they wern't shutting down all the schools in the ghetto and raising the price of everything while people are unemployed and can't find work. I really am starting to believe that the government does not care about you unless you make 200K+ a year. If you are not in that group you don't exist to them unless you live in the projects, or are on welfare and than you only exist for them to talk bad about you, even though all senators and congressman basically live millionaire lifestyles on the taxpayers money.airshocker

I guess you better thank your Democratic administration.

Why are you raging at Republicans, now?

Dem Governments be stealin mah moneys. WHERE MAH MONEYS GOIN TO EH?

NO you are not the only one. The one thing you wont see being cut is politicians funds. 150k to sit and argue and never agree on anything. Just taking money while cutting anything they can think of to "save" money.Mephers

[QUOTE="Mephers"]NO you are not the only one. The one thing you wont see being cut is politicians funds. 150k to sit and argue and never agree on anything. Just taking money while cutting anything they can think of to "save" money.BIG-BOSSMAN

There is not unlimited money and schools end up getting combined to save money.LJS9502_basic

I'm more pissed off at the people for electing the nimrods making this government incompetent.Theokhoth

I love how people scream "reform" or whatever and nothing ever changes.

That sucks where do you live.

[QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"]There is not unlimited money and schools end up getting combined to save money.agpickle

If you don't hate the government in some way, shape, or form your not American.:P

So, no your not alone.

Heck a new "party" is being formed because of the current hate.

[QUOTE="kayoticdreamz"][QUOTE="BIG-BOSSMAN"] It already is. I'm a target for robbery where I live because I have a job and a car. If we really need to quit spending than why can't we start by stopping giving unprecedented tax cuts to the richest Americans who already get breaks thru loopholes.mattbbpl

Edit: I forgot to add in State income tax which varies from state to state(although it is deductible from your federal income taxes if I'm not mistaken) and property taxes and other minor misc. taxes.

[QUOTE="mattbbpl"][QUOTE="kayoticdreamz"] because they already pay close to 50% of their income in taxes. and these are the same folks that hire people for work if you keep robbing them theyll hire less people. because ive never worked for a poor man. rich people own businesses and create jobs because they have money. and there is also a whole ton of folks collecting welfare that dont even pay taxes. or dont even work. they contribute nothing to society from that point of view. it is largely a waste of money if we cut that and let them go beg for jobs cut taxes on the rich so they can spend more on creating jobs also WIC basically just gives you free stuff for having a kid its ridiculous. if they lowered the price of getting a patent from the current 10 000 dollars to a more reasonable 500 or 1000 which it was it was 10 or 20 years ago if i recall. we would see some economy growing. also countless businesses arent sure where we are going because healthcare is about to rob them blind so they dont want to hire people. the bottom line is shrink the overgrown government. i mean its broke when your broke you stop spending. its basic common sense. and the rich dont have unprecendented tax cuts america has some of the highest corporate tax rates floating around. and some places like new york are just insanely bad. and california as well which are two of our biggest states but are also in the most trouble in part because of their rob the rich mentalitiy. at this point we are in such a hole that anything short of a blanket 50% stop in government spending is a waste of effort. even then i say that needs to be more like 80% at least. are people going to cry ya? is it going to suck? probably....but thats what happens when you debt is off the charts and you have like 50 maxed out credit cards.metswonin69

The SS tax is regressive - only income below 106,000 dollars is subject to it so their SS tax rate is much lower than that of the middle class

Capital gains tax is also much lower which is where a significant amount of the income the wealthy receive is from.

Let's not make the rich out to be victims the government is robbing. Most of them pay lower tax rates than those paid by the middle class. If that's the way you like it, then fine, state that. But let's call a horse a horse.

[QUOTE="Pirate700"]

Life unfortunately isn't perfect and the government doesn't have the ability to make it so.

Oh, so you're complaining that they pay roughly the same in taxes that the middle class does? And, BTW, many pay much lower, in fact.

The SS tax is regressive - only income below 106,000 dollars is subject to it so their SS tax rate is much lower than that of the middle class

Capital gains tax is also much lower which is where a significant amount of the income the wealthy receive is from.

Let's not make the rich out to be victims the government is robbing. Most of them pay lower tax rates than those paid by the middle class. If that's the way you like it, then fine, state that. But let's call a horse a horse.

mattbbpl

[QUOTE="metswonin69"][QUOTE="mattbbpl"] Where did you get that 50% figure from in the first sentence?mattbbpl

The SS tax is regressive - only income below 106,000 dollars is subject to it so their SS tax rate is much lower than that of the middle class

Capital gains tax is also much lower which is where a significant amount of the income the wealthy receive is from.

Let's not make the rich out to be victims the government is robbing. Most of them pay lower tax rates than those paid by the middle class. If that's the way you like it, then fine, state that. But let's call a horse a horse.

i'm pissed off as hell as well, ok sure, government can't fix everything but dear god we are one of the world superpowers and china and india are making us look like chumps... and i don't blame a single party, both are at fault, damn canada is looking good right now:x

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[QUOTE="metswonin69"] Well the current highest marginal tax rate is 35%. Add in sales tax of 7% and that is 42%. Add in Social Security and Medicaire and that is an additional 7.65% bringing the total to 49.65%. Of course with that said, one would need to make A LOT of money to have their real federal income tax rate to approach 35%. sonicare

The SS tax is regressive - only income below 106,000 dollars is subject to it so their SS tax rate is much lower than that of the middle class

Capital gains tax is also much lower which is where a significant amount of the income the wealthy receive is from.

Let's not make the rich out to be victims the government is robbing. Most of them pay lower tax rates than those paid by the middle class. If that's the way you like it, then fine, state that. But let's call a horse a horse.