Since WHEN?!?!?

"Democrats say a balanced-budget amendment is a political sideshow that is unlikely to pass..."

Does anybody understand why our Federal Government doesn't have to balance the checkbook? I truly hope that Congress votes for putting a Balanced Budget Amendment on the November 2012 ballot.
We are WWAAAAYYYY Past "what will happen if the government runs out of money." It is OUR money that is taken, OUR money that is handed out, and we do not EVER get to say who gets it.
Charity begins at HOME. I decide who I want to give my money to. That's because I'll know that some thief hasn't taken a cut before it gets to a needy person...IF it ever gets to that needy person.
It is time to clean house. Do you realize that members of the House and Senate, and staffers at the White House all earn MORE now than they did in November, 2010 and more than they did in January, 2009. Do you earn more now? Plus the suburbs of D.C. (where they all live) has higher real estate values than 2 years ago. Is that true where YOU live?!?!?
I know that Marie Antoinette didn't really say, "Let them eat cake." However I'm pretty sure that while she sat in her palace, well fed, while the French people who did all of the work were starving, that she thought of ridiculous solutions. I'm also pretty sure that everyone in the French palace in 1791 NEVER saw the violent revolution coming.
Tommorrow is Bastille Day, and it was 220 years ago that the French people stormed the Bastille prison to show their opposition to tyranny. People inside were imprisoned primarily for freedom of faith (Huguenots) and disaggreements with the government. They never saw a court of law or a defense counsel before imprisonment. The Bastille represented oppression of Liberty, Censorship and Torture. It also represented power of a King on the backs of the people. THAT is how I see our Federal Government in 2011.
NOBODY can work for cash today openly. You cannot hire even a kid to mow your lawn for less than the minimum wage. If you do and he complains, YOU are in trouble with your government. (Remember the grandmother who hired her 2 granddaughters to help in her small grocery store in Chicago a few years back? The girls were happy and willing to help her for pocket change. Somebody--unrelated--complained and a judge ordered her to stop and charged her with fines.)
ANYBODY who runs a business has to pay quarterly taxes at the highest rate in the world, and you will have to provide health insurance for 50+ employees. THAT is an incentive to get machines to do the work for you, and to NOT hire new people. Sounds like the argument between the sun and the wind about who inspires the man to take off his coat.
HALF of Americans share NO tax burden! True, you buy at a store and pay sales tax, but I do NOT see very many Americans without food today, and a third of Americans are making nothing, living in free housing and living off of the rest of us and the money WE pay through our INCOME taxes. There is no good feeling that comes from constantly taking BUT when our government gives you more to NOT work (welfare) than to get off your backside and contribute, people swallow their pride and keep taking. (...more on Since When?!?!?, page 2)