Tea Tax Anyone? I'd Gladly Pay The Queen Her Few Pence!

By Craig: I live in a bubble...I go to work, come home, go running or ride my bike, eat supper, read a book, and go to sleep. I don't watch the news. I don't have a TV...At least one that is working. I like my bubble. I had someone ask me today my opinion of the government shutdown here in the United States of America. I kind of looked at them with a blank stare and replied: "The government shut down?" Seriously though...who cares? Except perhaps the thousands of people who found themselves unemployed because a bunch of numskulls in congress can't do their job. Since the corporate mafia has taken over the United States the two impotent political parties cannot compromise because they are beholden to their corporate sponsors. Member of congress might as well wear corporate logos on their high dollar Italian suits to let everyone know who they are in bed with.

I am certainly no political science expert but from what I see, and have seen in the last few decades leads me to believe that the system that the United States is using as its governing body is not working. So why don't we scrap it. Who needs a Constitution? Great Britain doesn't have one and they get along just fine. Everyone over there has health care and the tax rate is comparable to what it is over here in the Corporate States of America. In fact, if one adds up all taxes which include federal income taxes, state income taxes, county taxes, sales taxes, and many, many other hidden taxes we idiots in the United States actually pay more and don't get a damn thing for it. We actually pay for our corporations security overseas by using the military. Why don't they pay for their own damn security? I don't know...I'm just asking a question...sort of writing in a stream of consciousness now...more of a rant than anything else. What do I know of such things...I'm just a runner.

Freedom you say? What freedom? This country seems to be heading down the road to perdition. You hardly ever hear of a gunman going into a school or a movie theatre over in Europe and blowing away scores of people. Why is it so prevalent here? Do you feel safe? Or do you find yourself constantly looking over your shoulder? When you go into a restaurant do you take notice of the exits? When you go to a sporting event or a movie do you scan the crowd around you to see if there might be a disreputable character lurking about. I took my son to a Tampa Rays baseball game a few years back and we got fairly good seats along the third base line. The whole game a security guard stood at parade rest along the foul line with his back to the field staring into the stands. In fact there was a whole row of them strategically placed so that they could gaze into the stands. He seemed to be constantly staring at me and it was a little unnerving to say the least. Is this freedom? I hardly think so. It seems like fear to me. I constantly hear, It's the Democrats!!!! It's the Republicans!!! It's the Liberals!!! It's the Conservatives!!! It's Obama!!! It's Bush!!! BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH!!!
The government is nothing but a seven headed hydra that lashes out at everything in its path to feed the corporate gods that it is serving. The constitution is a vapid, outdated, and antiquated document that needs to be discarded. The same goes for the precious Bill of Rights which are there in name only as a historical document that once served a purpose. Today these Rights that are suppose to be held so sacred no longer exist because other federal laws, state laws and county laws supersede or negate them. So, put it in a museum somewhere, or better yet sell the original to a corporate sponsor so that they can charge people to look at it. That is where it will eventually end up anyway.

I was in the U.S. Marines for six years. Would I serve now knowing what I know? Absolutely not. Why would I serve a country that is run by  BIG drug company cartels, BIG oil, BIG banking, BIG government, BIG BIGGERS, BIG BIDDLES and BIG BOOBS! And oh Ya, a country that has sold out to China. Ok forget it I'm done ranting! What is my remedy you might ask? I don't have one. I'm just an average guy that is overwhelmed by the Bigness (Is that even a word?) around him. The Bigness causes confusion, and the confusion is too widespread to get it under control. Let's be existential and keep running around the mulberry bush. Wait I have an idea! Eureka! Let's bring back the monarchy! Didn't we rebel against King George III and parliament because of a tax on stamps and tea! Yes, that's it!! I'd rather pay the Queen her few pence tax on tea than pay these corporate monsters half my salary wouldn't you? Then it is settled. I am a monarchist!!!! Damn Thomas Paine! Bring out Edmund Burke! Conciliation I say!! I'll take Cornwallis over Washington any day!! We surrender!! The United States is a big greedy cannibalistic mouth reeking of halitosis that is trying to devour itself. Long live the Queen!
It serves the person right that asked me my view on the government shutdown. Let's all just go for a run. Now I will crawl back inside my bubble.