I still have checks!
Once upon a time, that exclamation about summed up my
understanding of my bank account. However, late fees became expensive tutors
reminding me I could not spend
more than I had – except when I tried [often unsuccessfully] floating a check
or two. My banker dad disabused me
of the wisdom of this wishful thinking. So did the mail: a check returned with NSF
(nonsufficient funds) emblazoned on a check was embarrassing. Now e-mail arrives pronouncing my financial
mismanagement.
Sigh . . . How I live my life depends on how much money I
know I can get my hands upon. I
[still] understand the limits of debt I can incur, for I understand what I can
afford to repay – there is a bottom line. And we’ve paid for the privilege of
ignoring it!
Now it seems our government can’t come to terms with its
bottom line. We want to do so many good things – and surely feeding, housing
and educating our citizens who need a helping hand are wise and good decisions.
So, too is helping the elderly and infirm. However, now we are all at the
trough. (Cost
of the feed)
It seems I now owe fifty-thousand bucks or there about for the government's programs. So does my
husband, our children, each of their kids, and you, too, gentle reader. And this debt is not a one-time bill.
Writing an overdraft
sounds so much nicer than kiting bad checks sounds if I blow the budget, and
the bank account. Can it be our
government is exclaiming, “We can’t be out of money . . . We still have
checks!”
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Or, do our leaders know about checks coming into
the treasury that we do not –like, we don’t have to worry about owing this much
because we are getting a check for triple the amount from income or products we are
producing -- that we don't know about?
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Or, could the US be on the verge of running
through the money its citizens and businesses in fact have? (See Mrs. Thatcher’s
comment)
I want my elected leaders to tell me how they can plan to
get us out of debt, and on a solid footing of incurring no more debt than we
can reasonably repay. (I am repeating myself here.) Doug and I have had to do that; maybe you have too. And I
would like to see a discussion, a bi-partisan, American loving, common-sense discussion that tells me what they need us to do in plain language – the plainer the
language, the better.
- Who is paying for the healthcare?
- And how much will it cost whom?
The next several months promise many more debates over how
and who will pay for the “Affordable Care Act.” I haven’t read it – nor have I read the Supreme Court’s
rendering of its constitutionality.
What I know about it is too frequently connected to the last opinion
piece I read. And I am reading
opinions expressed on Real Clear
Politics.com and FactCheck.org. Radio talk shows and TV pundits
rarely help me understand if in fact the emperor has new clothes, or is still standing
there buck naked.
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