Politicians: "We are not a witch". "We are you."

Our leadership, our government, our congress, our senate, are saying, "We are you.", "we care about you", Republicans say we want to give you "less government", "a lower deficit", "lower taxes."  At the same time Democrats say, "you have national health care."  Nice, I like insurance but I already had Kaiser.  What does our government want for us?  What are they going to do for you?  I guess to answer that we have to ask which "YOU", are we talking about?  The "You" that is working a job making about $10k, $20k, or $30k per year or, the "You" that is making over $250k per year?  The "You" that makes over $250k already has tax cuts, STOPS paying into SS after about $108k.  Why, I don't know.  The "You" that makes over $250k can afford accountants and lawyers to insure they pay as little taxes as possible.  They also get tax cuts for shipping jobs out of the country, while the "You" that make less than $108k pay every cent of the SS tax, has lower and lower wages with less safe work places, gets kicked out of their home while the banks won't help with the bad loans.  What do the Republicans mean when they say less government in your life?  Does that mean I won't have to go to the DMV anymore and be there all day to get a drivers license, or spend hours getting my car through emissions, or maybe I won't have to renew my tabs or, maybe I won't have to bother with filling out confusing tax forms every year.  Maybe they will stop SPAM in my INBOX or my mailbox from being flooded with ads I don't want.  That would be nice.  But no, what they mean by less government means .....  hmmm,  well I don't know what it means.  Does it mean they will stop fixing roads and bridges?  Nope it can't mean that, they stopped doing that a long time ago.  Maybe it means they will stop going to wars all over the world.  Probably not.  Ok, so were not to sure about less government.  What about a lower deficit?  Well they want to extend tax cuts to the richest Americans which will add to the deficit so, I haven't heard too many other things that will lower the deficit.  They say they will cut spending but, over the last ten years they spent like there was no tomorrow.  OK, so we are not quite sure how they plan to lower the deficit except they did say they want to take away working peoples retirement money (pensions) to do it.  I must say I am not down with that.  Maybe the rich bankers that got all those big bonuses should pitch in a little something to lower the deficit instead of taking away the retirement money from middle class hard working Americans.  They say they want to lower taxes.  Cool,  who doesn't want lower taxes.  I wonder how they will do that?  They could extend the tax cuts that we currently have but that is not really lowering taxes that is keeping it the same as it is.  Do we start to see a pattern here?  Not really doing much of anything are they.  Just sayin.  Now lets look at the Democrats and what they want to do for "You" under $250k a year.  Well so far they have already cut taxes for 98% of Americans that make less than $250k a year.  I bet you didn't even know that.  They actually did get a healthcare bill that really does help "You".  Did you know that right now your insurance company cannot drop you because of a preexisting condition?  Did you know that your children can stay on your insurance plan until they are twenty six?  There are some other things in it that are good for "You", but it would make my blog way to long.  They want to make it even better by having more choice and more competition.  The Democrats want to have prescription drugs prices lowered by buying from the drug makers directly in bulk like Walmart, Kroger, and Target do to get the lowest prices for their products.  For some unknown reason Republicans are against this.  Democrats want to create jobs by investing in our country building fast rail, new bridges, better roads, and new schools and new government buildings.  Think of how many jobs could be created with just the hight speed rail project alone.  Construction, cement, steel, wood, and a whole lot more will be needed for this project creating lots and lots of jobs and a high speed train would be really cool.  But Republicans are against this too.  They say it is wasteful spending.  How is a high speed train across the country a waste?  The skys are already really overcrowded and not everyone likes to fly.  I don't understand why they stand in the way of what you would think they would want to do to help regular middle class hard working Americans.  Well folks I hope you start to watch what the Republicans are doing to "You" and not for "You".  You still have a chance to fix it though. Next election vote for the people that really do want to help you.