Budget

 

We all have a budget; even the government. You collect so much cash to use for what you want to spend. If you don’t have enough money you check bounces or you have to switch payment from a credit account. If you can’t pay your bills you go into collection. If you can’t pay collection, your stuff is reprocessed and you are declared bankrupt. If not you go to pauper’s prison to work hard labor for the rest of your life.

So we invented a thing called ‘work’ where one person says they will pay you an amount of acceptable currency to do a chore. If you succeed to perform the job to satisfaction, you may continue to earn money and thus make a budget of an income.

With this income as a regular salary, you can pay for your necessities and possibly put some away for savings. The savings can be used for high-ticket items like autos and houses (not relating on the number of offspring).

We pay our bills, but don’t question the eternal addition of fees and increases for what never changed. We don’t question how much of our taxes are given away to other countries or how many bombs and guns we need to defend our neighborhood. If gasoline prices go up, we have two choices. Pay (and gripe) about the increase or don’t drive.

Worked with departmental budgets before. The ‘company’ assigns so much money for a department to have. The manager is allowed to divide the money for salaries and supplies. If under budget, the manager gets a bonus or maybe another title. No one ever looked ahead to evaluating the available budget to expand the value of the department and add to the stockholder’s wealth.

I, personally, try to maintain a budget. I didn’t always balance the books and had to go through some hard times, but with a “fixed” budget, I take a second thought about what I ‘want/need’ to consume. That is just I.

Unfortunately, with more time to listen to the news and research some of the facts and figures, I see reports of our government (who ½ of us pay taxes to) make these astronomical bills assigning money to all sorts of public works that will help the voters knowing full well that new commissions or task forces or bureaucracy will have to be credit assigned how to distribute the piles of dough throughout the country with staff to be hired for resources and offices with desk and telephones and computers set up to function this trickle down return of our government budget.

Whether any of these quadrillion dollars reach their intended destination will be evaluated on podcast influencers and touted by political aristocrats trying to be reelected.

I’ll just wonder if only ½ of the households pay taxes and the government is handing out cash, how do we balance a budget?