My state representative held a

meeting today to explain where our property tax money goes. He tried to explain the "Levee" tax. He said they can readjust and redistribute the portions in a way to lower your taxes. So, appeal if you wish. Bascially he was giving us lip service.

A younger woman in the crowd got up with her pictures and tax charges of several houses in her more affluent neighborhood and stated that they all paid $17,000 while she and her husband had to pay $30,000 in property tax. Her husband personally spoke with the county assessors office and she said they laughed in his face and said nothing was going to change. The state presentative had nothing much to say.

What is so discouraging is the wide range of percentages of increase amounts through a single neighborhood. My property taxes went up about 19%. Others complained that their's were up anywhere from an increase of a 30% to an even moe outragious 75% increase. The state presentative said his increased by 75% too. I wondered? See how suspicous we have become. We no longer are trusting anyone in politics.

The meeting room was filled with noisy child-like elders who wouldn't stop moving about and talking long enough to listen to the state presentative. In time, although about half way through, some stood up and very clearly articulated their concerns. They knew and could explain for a fact that the Hancock Act which was to put a cap on property tax at 2% was misprepresented. The Homestead Act which was supposively intended to benefit the elderly was evidently mispresented too. Tempers flared and rightfully so, one elderly gentleman with a heavy Russian accent demanded change as he shook his fist in the air and said that the government is supposed to protect us. Sorry sir, even in America, that's a hoax.

The government at all levels sees tax paying citizens as money producing machines and wait desperately on the sidelines for more and more of your hard earned tax dollars to benefit them, not you. They can't wait to spend and probably pocket half of your tax returns that are intended to come back into the folds of the citizens in ways of social benefits.

The govenment is supposed to collect the money and redistribute it in the way of benefits for the tax paying citizens. But, it doesn't work that way. Personally, I believe they pocket a huge portion and businesess and the rich people get a larger portion it in the way of tax protections, windfalls, and tax breaks.

The woman sitting next to me kept fanning herself with an evelope. God, I wish these women would just get on hormones. I have the most even kyled thermostate on earth. Of course, I'm fit and at my proper weight. The constant fanning motion in my peripheral vision was getting on my nerves and drying my eyes. I asked my friend seated to my left, if she was hot and she was yes. I said would you liked to be fanned? At first my friend wouldn't switch places with me and then she. What a relief.

People get on my nerves sometimes when I'm tired or juiced up on sinus medicine. At yoga the other night, the instructor had be put my mat between two women of which I was ablivious too evidently, because I had to keep readjusting myself to perform the moves without bumping into them. They totally acted as if I was invisible reaching out and hitting my hands. On the floor I had to scoot every which direction in order to have space enough whileon my back and turn my knees out to the side and straighten my arms out.

I don't even bother to let it aggervate me anymore.. I don't have the energy. I just see that many people are sightless and without consideration for others. Some people are worse than others with having their stights set on their goals and unable to be willing to adjust or compensate for another. They just forge on through with eyes casted dead ahead.