Good morning my friends. How are you guys doing today? We’d like to welcome you all back to Ridin’ Out the Recession.
Well, I guess everyone saw our President expressing to the Nation that we’d all like to see our taxes raised. Is this guy on planet Earth along with the rest of us? I mean, he basically said, that in our hearts we would like to give back to our Country for what the Country has done for us.
Sure, I don’t mind giving back to our Country, it’s all the ones who don’t, that I’m having a problem with, how about you?
You know, I’m not an educated man in any sense of the word. Deb likes to say simply that, “I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer,” and in reality she’s right of course. I’m not, and have never professed to be, but in the same breath, if you’re a married man like me, you understand as well…your wife is always right.
You young guys out there, newly married, you just know “you wear the britches in your family,” right? Wrong! You only think you do!
Oh right now your testosterone is off the charts…”Macho Man!!” Ha! Your wife understands this is, but it is only a fleeting arrogance on your part, so what does she do? Wait! She just waits around.
You’ll see, the day’s coming this whole scenario changes! This doesn’t take a whole lot of time when the role reversal takes place, so listen you young whippersnappers, I’m trying to teach you something here this morning.
I swear, you go to bed one night, and you’re Hulk Hogan…you see what happened to him, didn’t ya? Got a divorce, lost a ton, if not most all of his money, and to rub salt in the wound, his ole lady,( dad-gum it that slipped), don’t ever call them “your ole lady!” I’m not furnishing an explanation for that last statement, BUT, just take my word for it!
Where was I? Oh, his wife, after the divorce, rubbed salt in the wound by taking up shop with a YOUNG man…I think he was like 13 when they started dating. No, actually I believe he was 18, 19, or maybe even 20 when they started dating.
Well, I have to say in Hulk’s defense, when you’re a man in your fifties, and your wife has just divorced you, clipped you of your money stash, and is involved with a man, let’s just say he was 20, shoot, what’s the difference? 20, or 13, you could be his parent for sure, and possibly even his grandparent, so really, what IS the difference?
I wouldn’t be able to resist asking Deb if this were to happen to us, “Where do you take him shopping…Toys-R-Us??” Somehow though, I just can’t see her being too concerned with my wise-cracks at that point though, cause she’ll have no time to be!! Trying to get him to school, ball practice, you know the routine.
Plus, after, “cleaning my plow” in the divorce, she’d be content in her own thoughts knowing, I could only dream of going to Toys-R-Us, or anywhere else for that matter…cause you cain’t squeeze blood from a turnip!
I believe it was Jerry Reed, who sang, “She got the goldmine…and I got the Shaft!” Pay attention youngsters, the man pegged this subject…Husband versus wife…you gonna’ lose boys!
But anyway, as I was saying earlier, you go to bed one night Hulk Hogan, you wake up the next morning…you’re Danny DeVito. Not knocking Danny at all because he’s of a short stature, but you’re going to be a whole lot shorter in regards to a number of things!
“King of the castle?” Nope, those days are long gone! Protector? Well, they usually let you keep the title, but only as an ego factor for you. If they break you down completely, you’re of no more use to them, or yourself! So that won’t fly, you still will be “the protector,” but again, only in theory.
Provider? Now here’s an interesting one. Yes, you will still be the provider, by all means! But will you, yourself reap any of the rewards of being so? Of course not, are you crazy? Your days of being able to stop at the store and pick up a can of Copenhagen, right down to a bag of chips, are over my friend.
You will go to the store still though, but only going after what SHE instructs you to go for. Word of advice here…try to keep change from your purchase whenever possible. Keep it in the ashtray of your truck, at least that’s where I keep mine anyway!
Why, because nine times out of ten, what money she’s sent you with…probably won’t be quite enough. Not that she did this intentionally, but prior to your going, she’s going to have tried to total the entire purchase in her head. I know a lot of times after doing this, Deb has forgotten to add the tax to the total she’s used in regards to whatever I’ve been sent after.
Not intentionally once more, but merely an oversight on her part! But by keeping change in your truck, I’ve found most times, there’s usually enough to make up the difference. This just saves you the embarrassment of having to put something back, on account of you not quite having enough money on you.
On top of this, it saves you the hassle of having to listen to your wife getting on you for not picking up everything she needed. I’ve been down that road before too, and believe me…it’s not a pretty sight!
The VERY FIRST thing outta’ their mouth is this…”What did you do with the 35 cents you had left from the last time you picked up something for me?? Do you think I let you keep it to use on yourself?? Well mister, that wasn’t the case! I didn’t say anything to you about that dern 35 cents simply because I knew, if you ran a little short this time, you should have had enough change leftover, to make up the difference, right??” The correct answer to this guys,…is “Yes ma’am.”
So to all you young married “macho men,” out there today. You sure better take heed to what I’ve tried to let you in on. If not, you’ll soon see, the “oldtimer” knew exactly what he was talking about. Enjoy being “King of the Hill” while you can son, because it’s short-lived, and there’s nuthin’ I like better than saying to you “young bucks”…I told you so!
So back to President Obama and his remark that we don’t mind paying more taxes?? What is wrong with that guy?
First off, we as the men, I’m sorry, I meant to say we as providers of our families, don’t see the first “red-cent” of what we’re providing for our families anyway! Something from nothing, is still nothing…how hard is that to figure out, Mr. President?
So what taxes you took out of our paychecks, that’s it, buddy! What’s left then goes through the front door and into Mama’s hand, and just a word of advice, Mr. Obama…Mama ain’t sharing hers! Like Deb tells me…you already gave at the office!
You might better rethink your, we’d all like to pay more taxes statement, cause once you get on the bad side of the “Mamas” Nationwide….you going to have one tough road to hoe!
Thank you all again for coming by to visit with us this morning, and we’re always glad to see you!
God Bless you and yours!
Dub and Deb
HAPPY to pay more taxes; I just somehow don’t think so! Do I recall in another life, in another nation (I don’t recognize the one I live in anymore) hearing something about no “taxation without representation”? Also somewhere in my now distant, foggy memory it seems I recall something about guarantees about no “double taxation”! Hm! Guess I was really just dreaming! At least you guys in FL don’t have to pay tax on groceries. We pay taxes on EVERYTHING, including state taxes.
Whatever way you slice it, the feds have taxed ALL of us to death. After your paycheck is taxed, you then start whittlin’ it down with taxes everywhere you go. Now, even the FCC gets it’s cut on phone bills. This is just WRONG!
We first need to void the treaties that our politicians have agreed to that make us nothing more than an insignificant part of a “global” world, bring OUR jobs back home to the USA, and start charging tariffs to companies that expect us to import THEIR goods as part of our economy! Let us all remember that our founding fathers gave us the SOVEREIGN republic of the United States of America! The UN needs to get the heck our of MY nation and MY nation needs to stop supporting the UN with MY money to the tune of over three billion dollars a year!
We all need to fax, phone, and write our reps in DC and remind them that “We the People” are supposed to own this nation, not the president and congress. Read the Tenth Amendment: it will tell you that powers not appointed specifically to congress are reserved to the states and to the PEOPLE! Oh, POOH! Don’t get me started this morning, Dub, or I will still be here tonight spouting off on politics. Grrrrrr!