Is it really that hard to pay your taxes?

I can't stand it one second longer. Why can't people, who profess to be public servants, do their part and hand the requisite number of pesos over to the gubment?

Not only have these people shirked their financial responsibility to our nation but they don't seem to have any real regret. It's all excuses and I didn't realize. Call me old fashioned but if you can't get your own house in order, I'm not sure you should try to right mine. A United States Senator cannot figure out how to pay his own taxes to pay for the legislation which he lobbies for and votes into existence. He doesn't even do his duty as a citizen to pay for the very social programs which he hopes to administer.

He says it was a mistake. He did not realize his car service was income and not a gift from a good friend. We should all be so lucky to be in this position - divorced from the reality of day to day life. Does he even have a clue as to the issues facing the population which he is nominated to serve? Somehow I don't think so.

I've become so disillusioned with our national government. Doing what's right has gone out the window for too many. I know that corruption has always been there as has the grab for power and influence. Is it just that they were so much better at hiding it?

It's difficult for me to watch an administration that I so badly want to succeed make choices that seem so business as usual. Where is the change? I did not get all caught up in the hype during the election cycle and I don't believe that any person is "the one". Even when I didn't hear a tremendous amount of sustance in the message, I had faith that it would come. I really hoped we would see change in the way things are done. I began to believe. I still believe because I need to but my faith is fading.

I miss Teddy Roosevelt. Not perfect by any means but a genuine reformer.

Max is up now so my rant is over. Here's a few recent pics of Max and one of Lyle.