Wake Up, America!!!

The fact that our President is using the military, veterans, and social security recipients as his 'hostages' in order to blackmail Congress to raise the debt ceiling is so reprehensible to me that I could literally throw up. He is the Commander-in-Chief and the fact that he, basically, said he was willing to throw his employees under the bus makes him a traitor against his own troops, in my eyes.  Should he actually prove good on his threat, that would be an act of treason, according to our Constitution, and he should be tried for it.

The fact that he talks out of both side of his mouth and is a freakin' two-faced hypocrite doesn't surprise me. It appears to be a requirement for the job of politician to be such.

"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that “the buck stops here.” Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better."

~Senator Obama in 2006.

Now, just this week he introduces a new gun bill.  Sure - let's pass this new bill that will ONLY cost $500,000,000 (and gives nothing to law enforcement to afford enforcement of the bill) - we can afford it - we are going to just raise the debt ceiling OR not pay the military and veterans - SO NO PROBLEM!!!

There's nothing worse than the government doing something to you and you having no say or control. Our first paycheck came in after the country went off the 'fiscal cliff'. Thank YOU Mr. President and Congress. My husband not only doesn't get a DIME of his measly 1.7 military pay increase but you are also taking an additional $60 a month away from us! Just using the figures from our single-family, middle class income that equals roughly $1400 a year we do not get - but the government does.

Let's play this out to the entire 240 million middle class working Americans. You are now taking in an additional $336,000,000,000 a year in revenue. Yep, $336 BILLION. But you can't lower the debt ceiling, decrease spending, or guarantee that after February you will be able to pay the Military, Veterans, of Social Security recipients.

An 8th grader with a rudimentary civics lesson would be able to see the ludicrousness of your leadership, Congress' theft and moral bankruptcy, and the joke the USA has become by claiming to be a world leader.  The entire US government - President, VP, Congress - the whole lot of them are now officially asstwats in my book. I wish they would start coitusing themselves instead of the American people

I never thought I'd see the day when I would actually lose faith in my government. So congratulations, Mr. President and Congress. You all also accomplished that as well.

I hate to be a downer, but clearly we are well encased in our basket on our way to hell and we are too busy keeping up with the Kardashians, Honey Boo Boo, Duck Dynasty, and all the other mindless pursuits we pursue to numb ourselves from the drudgery of our lives to clearly see the erosion, rather the decent, that is taking place. They are going to take away all our rights and control us completely. We will be a bad sci-fi novel come to life, one day.

They want our weapons - taking away our ability to protect ourselves from those who want to rule over us. They want to take away our other freedoms, including freedom of speech - and with the media's help, already have in so many ways. They want to tax us to death - and beyond.

I'm so disgusted with the United States of America - and mostly because even though it will be too late, the day will come when we look back and realize we had no one to blame but ourselves!!

There is one thing the President has said that I totally agree: "Americans deserve better." 

We should demand better. Our government caused these problems with their greed, selfish legislation, regulation, and continuing compromises that put us in a worse and worse position. They all need to be voted out, every last f*cking one of them. We need to start anew....making sure the newly elected understand we won't put up with the game being played the way it has been for the last 70 plus years!

~Mari B.

Preparing...

In less than six weeks my husband, Punky’s father, will be leaving us for one year to serve on a remote tour in the desert.  We are a proud Air Force military family and have been for 23 years.  A remote tour was always a possibility; he knew it and I knew it.  How we managed to ‘dodge the bullet’ as long as we did is unexplainable, really.  Nonetheless, we did and we are so close to the ‘finish line’ that I don’t think either of us thought it was a possibility any longer; or at least we thought is was only a remote possibility – see what I did there?

That remote possibility is now a literal remote and we are preparing for living a year apart.  I do not want to whine about this.  I don’t even want to sound like I’m whining about it.  It’s part of the military life and we will suck it up and get through.  But you know what, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t suck.  I used to think about the military wives who dealt with constant long-term, or frequent, deployments frequently and feel deeply for them and their situation.  Now, I’m going to be one of them – sort of.  This is the longest deployment we’ve ever faced, it is coming at the end of his career time, and he’ll be in a ‘relatively’ safe location doing a ‘relatively’ safe job.  Other wives can’t say that and that’s why I *know* I’m not one of them in all the ways I could have been.  Still, I’m going to be a single-parent for a year and my guy, my life-mate, my rock, will be gone.

I haven’t talked about it all that much and I’ve hardly mentioned it on public forums such as my facebook or this blog, mostly because I was afraid of the emotions it might raise up in me and that I’d end up looking like a wimp.  He needs to know that we’ll be fine.  He needs to believe that I can handle whatever comes my way while he’s gone.  I know that.  Breaking down doesn’t make one weak though; laying down and giving up does.  I will not lie down and I certainly won’t give up, but I can’t guarantee that I won’t break down now and again.  And I will probably blog about it some through the coming year, hence my writing this post:  giving the background of the situation, if you will.

Punky has a very close relationship with her father.  She spends the majority of the day with me and we are very close.  But I’m the guarantee.  Daddy, who has deployed for 3 or 4 months at a time each year her whole life, isn’t.  His absence, both during deployments and just during the day while he works, is something she feels.  She loves it when he takes leave and is with us all the time.  She loves the weekends because Daddy is home.  They have their own things they do, their own relationship.  They bike ride, fish, shoot nerf guns, wrestle, play games, work in the yard, and go on ‘Daddy-Daughter’ dates to dinner and a movie.  He is the one she cuddles up with to watch a movie or TV.  My husband loves Punky more than he likes to breathe – the way all girls deserve to have their fathers love them.  Better than that, he shows it.  He spends time with her, answers her questions, pursues her interests, and just genuinely enjoys her company.  All that will be missing from her life for an entire year.

It’s an important year too, I fear.  She will be 11 ½ when he leaves and 12 ½ when he returns.  BIG changes occur during that period of a young girl’s life.  He will leave behind his still little girl and return to a young woman in many ways.  That alone breaks my freakin’ heart.  To know that the last real year of her being a young girl he will miss has tears streaming down my face.  I know my husband’s heart aches over having to leave her to grow up for a year without his daily presence.

There’s nothing more we can do more than just get through it as best we all can.  I will be missing my rock, Punky will be missing her best guy, and he will be missing the two people who mean more to him than any other people on the planet.

May the Divine Creator keep us all safe, healthy, and sane until we are reunited.

~Mari B.