"Money can be taken away from you, by the IRS or by pistol. That's why I always measure riches in terms of wisdom. No one can ever take from you what you know." ~ Juan Gabriel

Welcome, my friends, to another edition where I will do my best to put something on the page that will connect to someone, somewhere. It is Wednesday, April 16, 2025. I open with a comment intended for Mr. Elon Musk and those who make up the Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE. I wanted to let them know while there's no doubt H-U-G-E (think Trump) amounts of waste, fraud, and abuse within the workings of the Internal Revenue Service, IRS, the collection process is working effectively and in a timely manner. I realize that I gave them permission to take the money from my bank account, and, they followed my instruction precisely, I still, at least in the back of my mind thought it might take a few days for the bureaucratic process to get its act together well enough to fetch my funds. Not on your life! People wait for months to get through some of the obstacles that delay their entitled government service. But, when it comes to collecting the money, well, they are very efficient. My point? Take the model from the collections process and transfer it to the areas where service is either lagging or non existent. Think about it. Look it up but when you do you will find that in 2024 the IRS had collections in the trillions of dollars. They do it very well. Very well indeed. For an agency that oversees the federal tax code which is incredibly complex—so complex that it covers 6,871 pages. If you add in the U.S. tax regulations, which are the U.S. Treasury's official interpretation of the tax code, to that, you'd be up to 75,000 pages. But, when it comes to pulling money from your bank account, as the Jackie Gleason's character, Ralph Kramden, on the mid 1950's comedy sitcom, "The Honeymooners" might have said it, "It's bang zoom to the moon." They did wait until the evening of the 15th, therefore, I suppose I should be grateful. I'm just joking here. Make government as a whole as efficient as their money snatching process and we all will be better off. Thanks for allowing me this time to do a wee bit of venting. (Venting is the act of releasing intense emotions, often negative ones like anger or frustration, to someone else, sometimes in a way that is dramatic or unfiltered. It's a way of expressing feelings and can sometimes offer temporary relief.)

 

I agree. That's a lot of words to explain something that shouldn't require that many. Here is the proper way to identify my style of writing: A run-on sentence, also known as a fused sentence or comma splice, occurs when two or more independent clauses are joined together in a single sentence without proper punctuation or conjunctions. Essentially, it's a sentence that has multiple complete ideas strung together without being properly separated. I couldn't have said it better myself. This type of writing can be a hassle for the readers. However, some of the recognized greatest writers were frequent users of the run on. I'm not trying to get my name added to that list because for me, I just write. What you see is what you get. I sometimes re-read some of my blogs and I can see how laborious getting through them can be. I will do my best to do my best to try and be more succinct, however, I must tell you, it's a little like losing weight. As the song puts it, "Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love you, tomorrow You're always a day away." Meanwhile, you just get out there and count today as precious, thank God for it, and do your best to love Him and to show that love by touching the lives of others. May God bless. Amen.