In the fog, again!

It's not the weather condition I'm talking about today. I'm talking about political opinions. And not yours, but rather mine! This is a rant about me, and my opinions. I could careless, about vetting cabinet appointments. Doesn't mean a thing to me, at this point in the game. Yeah, some guys look real good until they are under the microscope. Mr Daschle for example: His sin is not the tax thing, it's who he decided to lobby for, vs. the position they wanted him to fill. (I'm going to skip all background on that, once it's not the focus of this article).

I don't care about Tax problems. Tax problems, if you hadn't noticed, are nothing unusual. Why do you think that is? If you've never been self-employed, you haven't a clue! The tax code evolved into this monster, which even your tax professional have a hard time figuring out sometimes. And scary thing is, that even they (tax preparers) have become quite dependent on third party software like Turbo Tax. Problem is that if anyone ever made a profit anywhere at any time, fluke or not, there is a tax on it! And may of these things, are not graduated taxes, either. So, you did something, and now you owe $1000 to the government, even though you only made $3000, which is well below poverty on that one thing. Welcome to the real world, of a broken tax system!

Point is that we are seeing these things, more with this President. Maybe because, Obama has a higher standard? And what the reactionary public is over looking, is that it takes time, to really figure out how and why good candidates ended up on the bad side of things, and if it's actually important, or just fodder for partisan politics?

Bush found little problem with any appointment, because he never looked for problems!!! He wanted Anti-Government people, holding government positions, to make the laws ineffective. George never cleaned any air, like he claims. What he did was lower the bar for what is considered clean air! Lower standards means higher compliance, and therefore cleaner air? If only it worked that way, everything in life would be easy, wouldn't it? Instead, it is in our interest as people as a whole, to not want our industrial base to profit at the expense of your health. Meaning the air we breath shouldn't do bad things to us, should it? Lowering standards means you just don't get it!

To me, failures along the way are not the important issue. The issue is, who is going to be a good public servant? Who understands, and will keep that trust? So I think the President is doing a great job so far, which is why it puzzles me that he's taking the blame? For what, vetting people, to a higher standard, publicly? I think that breath of fresh air, for government, even with a disappointment or two.

But once they are aware of the problem, why can't these guys, get it together, and PAY YOUR TAXES? That is another issue all together!

Here a clue to the Republicans: Pound the issue tax simplification (based on what your seeing, there is clearly a problem), dump this stupid TAX-CUT nonsense that nobody buying anymore. The real issue is taxes being too complex, for anyone to get RIGHT, including LAW MAKERS! You want smaller government, draw a road map to getting there.

Meanwhile, I'm not understanding the fuss over capping bonuses. I don't like the government having to do that, but clearly those who call themselves too big to fail, need to get a clue, and there was one delivered! Personally, I think we should break them up, so they aren't too big to fail. So I think they got off easy. Particularly, once there seems to be a lot of things, now guarded as trade secrets, that should be sending people to jail, for what they have done to manipulate markets, and cause this crisis.

There are the things I find important. Not a few candidates that didn't quite make the grade. But I live in fog. Or is that SMOG?