This is a nonpolitical political view of a story I read:
Ok so today I read a story of our national debt which now stands at 35 trillion dollars. That is $100,000 for each US citizen. In 1992 Ross Perot campaigned on the subject. In his comments (they are on YouTube) he stole quotes from a speech from Cisero of the Roman Empire, which were “You must have a balanced budget”. We continue to increase this debt every year no matter what party is in office. The problem is that no party with political ties will try to decrease the deficit. Any form of government that tries to raise taxes to pay off the debt or take away public benefits to pay off the debt, will get voted out of office, and the problem is this will inevitably fall on our children’s shoulders. My wife and I are trying to figure out how to take care of our 2 disabled children the rest of their lives. If the banking system collapses it would be worse than the Great Recession and that would especially affect the disabled. We must somehow make this an apolitical solution, and the only thing I can think of (and this is why I am not running for office) is to instill a national sales tax. I know that sounds terrible, but we have to do something. Maybe if we can just reduce the debt by a small margin each year, that would at least show some progress we haven’t yet achieved. But we have to do something.
And now for something serious:
I was in the downstairs bathroom, where we have this freestanding shower (I have spoke of before), when I noticed a cookie rapper hanging off the top. Ok, so my son is at it again. So I went and got a ladder, and looked on top. OMG, pineapple cans, girl scout cookie wrappers and the list goes on and on. And this is why you do not adopt tall children.