flag burning == gays getting hitched
Jun. 6th, 2006 12:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walbournThe taxpayers of America paid something like $63,500* in Senatorial salary alone today for them to "debate" a ban on gay marriage. Get some fucking perspective, people. Would you waste $63,500+ dollars a day to angst about what the gay couple down the street might be getting up to with one another?
Somehow I think the growing cost of gas/energy, run-away deficits and the long-term impact on interest rates, the slowing growth of job creation, a failed disaster preparedness policy, a twisted relationship to sex education and premarital sexual behavior, a faltering public education system, skyrocketing health-care costs, and a crumbling retirement system are putting just a little bit more pressure on the families of America than whether or not two dudes or two chicks want to shack up and not get screwed at every turn by banks, rental agents, car dealers, the IRS, mortgage companies, hospitals, funeral homes, and just about every other aspect of adult living as a couple.
*The salary for 2006 for a member of Congress is $165,200 a year. There are 260 working days in calendar year 2006--frankly they work a lot less than that. There are 100 of them. The House of Representatives will piss away something like $276,000 a day when they do the same thing. That ignores all the costs of the staff, security, and the facilities. Plus lunch. On us.
Somehow I think the growing cost of gas/energy, run-away deficits and the long-term impact on interest rates, the slowing growth of job creation, a failed disaster preparedness policy, a twisted relationship to sex education and premarital sexual behavior, a faltering public education system, skyrocketing health-care costs, and a crumbling retirement system are putting just a little bit more pressure on the families of America than whether or not two dudes or two chicks want to shack up and not get screwed at every turn by banks, rental agents, car dealers, the IRS, mortgage companies, hospitals, funeral homes, and just about every other aspect of adult living as a couple.
*The salary for 2006 for a member of Congress is $165,200 a year. There are 260 working days in calendar year 2006--frankly they work a lot less than that. There are 100 of them. The House of Representatives will piss away something like $276,000 a day when they do the same thing. That ignores all the costs of the staff, security, and the facilities. Plus lunch. On us.
