I'm back...and the world is still messed up.

Hello Blog, nearly a billion blogging years ago, I left to get my internet provider changed and in that time (a week) we had the usual hilarious campaign ads.

The downright crazy Sharon Angle “Look, it's a Mexican” ad.

And this gem from a California (or Carlyfiorina if you’re crazy) candidate.



While they all will be lined up sometime later this week for me to dig into, I want to talk about something I saw earlier.

I was with the family at Dillions. (A Kansas market trying to take down the Evil Wal-mart) Anyway, we went to checkout and I noticed before I walked out an older man who was sacking the items we purchased. He looked over sixty to me. I glanced at his name tag, his name was Lou, and he has worked at this store since 1997.

I started thinking about how potentially; if the Republicans get the house, want to scratch Social Security. (Oh wait, maybe now they don’t since they won the Republican ticket for their respective states.)

I know people, notably Republicans, hate paying taxes and they should. I'm sure I'll hate paying taxes when I reach that point in my life. Why I'd hate taxes is because what I'm paying into never really benefits me or anyone around me. But one of the few things -- like Social Security -- that people DO benefit from, they want to scratch.

Now the big thing Republicans always talk about on Social Security is how it's going to drive us bankrupt or destroy us. Yet, on a recent poll, a majority realizes this but at the same time didn't want to pay taxes. However, there’s also over 30% who don’t want to pay taxes BUT WANT Social Security to stay.

Yeah, I'm going to complain and see how high the debt in this country goes, but at the same time I don’t want to pay taxes for it. You see, it's this kind of stupidity and not contributing to my own society to complain about the deficit, but not wanting to make the sacrifices to get us out of it that will one day...make us all Lou's.  Working when we are so old that our arthritic hands can barely keep up.

And republicans want to raise retirement age to 70?!

It seems to me we'll be working until we croak. Throwing away something like Social Security for a guy who's probably been doing labor jobs for 3/4th's of his life, you tell me how that’s right.