I woke up in a cold sweat at 4 A.M. this morning.....

I heard that the U.S. Budget that the President and the Congress is workin' on for 2008 is in the neighborhood of $3 Trillion American Dollars. Pardner's I don't even know that neighborhood! I ran to my keyboard to see what it looks like: $3,000,000,000,000!!


Then I got to thinkin' about all these new things bein' proposed by presidential wannabe's. Five thousand dollars for each new born baby - $1000 to each citizen's gov'mint run 401K's. Free health care for kids of folks makin' $80,000 a year... Whee Doggies! It hurt my head jest to think about it. But then I remembered, these politicians stood up on their hind legs in front of the cameras and said that they; "will tax the rich people" to pay for all these programs. Well, hell I felt better already. Bein' an "OAPie" (thats Old Age Pensioner) I shore ain't rich so it ain't no skin off my hide. Started back to my rack when the thought hit me... I ain't pay'n my share now of that $3 Trillion - who's payin' my share. Let's see, $3 Trillion divided by a 150 million working wage earners in this country ... that's $20,000 that each of us are supposed to be pay'n! Hot damn! I sure ain't payin' $20K a year, so who is paying my share?


Well - I looked her up and guess what, them rich folks are already paying my share and a whole bunch of other folks' as well.

I don't know how well you can make out this Gov'mint chart... but if you look close, any ole cowboy can see that the top 5% of wage earners are already payin' over half the cost of our country's expenses -- the top 10% are payin' 2/3rd of that $3 Trillion and just half of the wage earners in this country are paying the freight for 96% of Federal Gov'mint spending!

Where in tarnation are these wannabe's gonna find folks who got more to squeeze out. More important - how many of them limousine, lear-jet folks gonna get the hell out of Dodge and either find a tax haven or move to one? If my ranch owner has his entire fortune tied up in this lash-up, and the gov'mint is gonna take any profits he might wrangle out of his 24/7 work, he might just as well sell out and clip Munie coupons! He'd be better off, but where am I gonna bunk?
Maybe y'all ought to think about that when you hear the professional hucksters make promises that either they can't keep - or if they do, they'll ruin the country!

Check back in a couple of days, and I'll tell you about this $52 Million ($52,000,000) off ramp they're building near my abode......