I just cannot believe it!   The way our military is treated upon returning home by the very government they serve is atrocious.

I’m on the St Christopher Conference of the St Vincent dePaul.   We help low income people in the county with utilities, food, rent, etc.   This morning I get a phone call from the St Vincent dePaul store.   A man came in this morning with his water bill.   He was told it was going to be shut off today.   He filled out the application like everyone else and guess what?    Yes, he’s a returning Marine and he’s waiting for the government to  pull it’s  head out of it’s arse and take care of him.   I do not see why it has to take so long for the social security office to determine someone’s disability.    Not to mention the mountains of paperwork.  

There really should be a fast track for our returning military.   They’ve had enough to deal with over there.

Recently I was helping a friend with their taxes and because of the tax changes last year, her husband didn’t pay in enough taxes so he owes the IRS.   She was understandably upset and immediately blamed Obama.   I told her he had changed it so that working families would have more money each week to try to help them out.   So many people these days want to blame someone else for everything happens, especially the president.   The Republicans are blaming Obama for the mess right now.   They don’t want to blame Bush who made a complete and utter mockery of the presidency.   Maybe I missed something, but I thought Clinton left us in pretty good shape.   Then Bush came along and everything went to hell in a huge handbasket.

Now Obama comes along and he’s trying to help the situation.    Do I blame Obama for the tax things?   Nope.   Last year I noticed on my paycheck that my federal tax withheld seemed too low.   I asked a couple of coworkers and they said yeah there’s was too low too, but nobody seemed to know why and no one had done anything.   I went looking for answers and found them.   Everyone should have gotten a W-4 from their employers, sat down and figured out how much tax needed to be withheld so they wouldn’t owe any taxes this year.    Fairly simple to fix I thought.

So who’s fault is it?    Is it Obama’s fault for trying to help working families out with a little extra money each week or is the people’s fault for not doing anything?    I say it’s the people’s fault.   It was all over the news that the tax changes were happening.   Everyone should have taken a minute or two to check to see if enough was being withheld.

It’s time to stop passing the blame and take responsibility.