Money is the key to end all your woes
Your ups, your downs, your highs and your lows
Won't you tell me the last time that love bought you clothes?
It's like that, and that's the way it is
Hun!
Bills rise higher every day
We receive much lower pay
I'd rather stay young, go out and play
It's like that, and that's the way it is
Hun!
Government tabulators made it official, but most people already knew their incomes, already in a long downward drift, have begun to spiral much lower. Yes, bills like gasoline and groceries rise higher every day, and most are lucky to get any pay. And now, there is real disappointing news from the CBO on Obamacare. Because of lingering high unemployment, sagging wages, and states opting out of Medicaid, there will be 30 million people without healthcare insurance with six million having to pay the penalty, up from two million the last time the CBO combed through the numbers.
The taxes range from non-compliance, to the new healthcare kick-in for those with incomes above 500 percent of the poverty line, which comes to $60,000 for individuals and $123,000 for family of four. That's a massive tax hit for families significantly under that $250,000 threshold promised by the White House. While those folks are paying this tax bill a lot of others will not, including illegal immigrants, members of Indian tribes, low-income households, those with religious beliefs, and up to 12 million that will get an out via hardships.
This is going to prove to be the biggest scheme for income redistribution ever, and it's not going to end well for anyone. It will be yet another reason not to try to make the transition from poor to rich, which is becoming like those African gazelles making a big river migration through crocodile infested rivers and lions on the other side of the shore.
Wars going on across the sea
Street soldiers killing the elderly
Whatever happened to unity?
It's like that, and that's the way it is
I realize we are out of Iraq responsibly, but that country is in great turmoil. I think within a decade, we will be back. The Afghanistan timeline seems to have emboldened attacks. Sadly, many are coming from people America trained and trust to walk among our great men and women with weapons. But, it's street soldiers killing the elderly in Syria that I cannot believe is happening. America backed the civil war in Libya by claiming Khadafy was ready to slaughter his own people. Well, up to 30,000 people, including elderly and women, have been slaughtered by Assad. I guess we had to secure oil for Europe, and using Libyans as pawns was the easiest way to pull it off.
Unless there is a major find in Syria soon, the blood will continue to pour into the Mediterranean.
Disillusion is the word
That's used by me when I'm not heard
I just go through life with my glasses blurred
It's like that, and that's the way it is
Hun!
Disillusion is a word that drips from the lips of too many people these days. I call it the dropout nation with people exiting the job market, marriage, children and choosing apartments over homeownership (that good housing number yesterday shows first time buyers down month to month and year to year). This is the one piece of the puzzle that frustrates Ben Bernanke, because all the money-printing in the world cannot spark enthusiasm on Main Street. There are long term implications from mass disillusionment.
You should have gone to school, you could've learned a trade
But you laid in the bed where the bums have laid
Now all the time you're crying that you're underpaid
It's like that (what?) and that's the way it is
Hun!
For all the outrage about Romney's comments on the 47%, few people want to be honest about the crisis of sloth in America. More and more people that drop out can't get back in because the sofa is too soft and the benefits too good to be afraid. I'm always shocked when someone that can't read complains about opportunities or potential salaries. The cover of fairness is a damn shame because not only does it financially punish those that make the effort, but it attempts to shame those people as well. In a market-driven society, you typically earn more money based on learned skills.
Sure, a great slap shot can make up for trouble with eight grade math, but those instances are rare, indeed. For now, America is about largely rewarding merit, and that's the way it is! Hun
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