What Do You want for America?

Did you know that the tax rate on the rich has actually been cut to less than half of what is was in 1950?  It has actually been cut by almost 2/3rds.   The Democrats compromised with Republicans and extended the lower tax rate on the rich even though most Americans didn't want that.  Do you really want health care repealed when it just got started?  Why not improve it especially since they GOP has NO replacement plan.  None!  Even though many Americans are already being helped by it.  Do you want to wait until you're 70 to get your Social Security?  Did you know that anyone making over $110K only pays up to that amount on SS?  We all pay taxes for schools even though many people do not have children in school.  Do you really want good programs cut while the military wastes millions?
             Now that the GOP has power again in the House they have changed their message.  The message is they will focus on spending cuts, not jobs.  When the GOP starts making big spending cuts to programs that also means cutting jobs.  The president put in new protections for our food.  Now since these Tea Party People got elected our food is not safe because they cut all the money out that would pay for the jobs that would protect our food!  Do you really want unsafe food?  They want to make cuts in education.  I find it hard to believe that this is what most Americans want.  Please let me know if how you feel?    

"Lets Do IT! " America!

I can hear Ty Pennington screaming it out, "Lets do it!"  Then the action begins, a house destroyed and a new home built in a week.  We need an extreme makeover American addition!  Remember when we actually did build cool stuff?  We were first on the moon.  We built the interstate freeway system, bridges like the Golden Gate, Dams like the Boulder, buildings like The Empire State Building and icons like The Seattle Space Needle.  We have just been through the worst Recession since the Great Depression!  I am not sure people get what that means.   Right here in the USA 1931there were people starving to death in the streets of America, "Food riots start in various pockets of the United States. Grocery shops get looted by people.  It was bad, really bad.  Fortunately we as a country didn't have to watch people starving and dying on the streets because President Obama, Democrats and even some Republicans knew we could end up there and did Tarp and the Stimulus to try and save us from what did happen back in the thirties.  The Stimulus did work but not fast enough for the American public.  The Republicans did not seem to care what regular Americans were going through since they were against TARP.  Mr. Paulson's proposal, labeled the Troubled Asset Relief Program, was backed by President George W. Bush, both presidential candidates and the Democratic leadership in Congress, but opposed by most Republicans. Passed on a second attempt, it led to a series of enormous loans to banks that inflamed widespread public anger but were later widely credited as being one of the crucial factors in helping to avert a global depression.  The Democrats were not able to go far enough in helping Americans in these most difficult days.  The GOP Tea Party Republicans stopped them at every turn.  They used the filibuster more than anytime in history to block legislation that would have brought many more jobs and improvements in our weak infrastructure.  Now the the GOP Tea Party Republicans want to hurt Americans even more.  Their intention is to make sure that there is as little to no job growth from now until 2012.  They want all the power and if you, the regular working American, have to suffer a little longer so they can get all the power again, that's what they will do.  They plan to STOP ANY legislation that will create jobs so that they can blame Obama for it and take the presidency in 2012.  If you want to help do something about this then please pay attention to what the Republican Congress is doing NOT what they tell you.  They have messages that sound impressive.  Messages like "We want to cut taxes", "Stop the JOB Killing Health Care", and so on.  Those messages sound good to the average American but those messages have nothing to do with the facts of where we are as a country.  We do not need to cut taxes when we have a huge deficit.  We don't need to raise taxes.  Taxes can stay right where they are.  What we need are jobs and tax paying citizens that can afford to pay the taxes we currently have.  The GOP Tea Party uses the same messages over and over again because they sound good to people that need every dime they have.  The GOP Tea Party Republicans will stop at nothing and say anything to get all the power and to make sure your wages are kept low and tax burden is higher.  Vote for Democrats in 2012 that want to help you.  They want to create jobs for the middle class and protect us with regulations from the Wall street banksters that want to gamble with your mortgage money, improve the health insurance bill to lower costs by spreading the cost of insurance and buying medicine in large quantities using the power of our US government which will lower the deficit.  Do not listen to the GOP Tea Party Republicans but watch what they actually do and pay attention to what it means to average working Americans.

My Response To Bill

Bill Said This on the Meet the Press Forum. "These people are just collecting a check instead of taking anything that pays beneath $15 an hour and actually working. Yes, there are a lot of people having problems locating work but when your sights are set at $40K a year plus, sorry those jobs are just tough to come by. Times are tough but at what point do we say enough is enough for the unemployed"  
 How come it's OK with you that the richest 2% get 80% of every dollar?  How come it's OK with you to hand out $850 Billion with a B to rich people, many of whom don't even want it and Your OK with that, but your fellow Americans that are just trying to keep their house, pay their bills, and feed their kids right before Christmas you don't think deserve enough money to get by?  They should just go live in their cars I guess.  It's OK with you to give $850 Billion to the Rich but NOT to help out your fellow man with 1/3rd of that amount of money.  Shame on you!  There are very few jobs out there, even low paying jobs.  How about we ask our government to stop giving a tax breaks for businesses that are outsourcing all our jobs.  There should be a tax penalty for shipping jobs out just for cheaper labor.  You are so short sighted it's unbelievable.  Your side won't be happy until we are all working for $2.00 a DAY!  How about we stop crucifying anyone that makes a decent wage and ask our government and Corporate America to give us ALL a decent wage?  Are you kidding me?  If we all had good paying jobs think about how that would spur the economy.  If people have money they buy stuff.  How about giving the big corporations some incentive to bring jobs back home and helping out Americans.  How about we tie the amount a job pays to the amount the highest paid person in the company makes including all their perks?  Employees should get 5% of what the highest paid CEO is getting.  Now that would be patriotic,  that would make America great again.

Welcome To The Real Wonderland

Everything is upside down in the land of the White house.  Even Alice would be dizzy.  Republicans who are not the majority (yet) are the leaders of the country calling all the shots.  They are the party of family values but do NOT want to extend unemployment benefits for people who cannot find work.  So I guess these families don't count and they should just live in their cars.  Which family value is that?  I'm not quite sure.  The Government is supposed to be we the people, helping protect our freedoms.  To worship God , as long as that God is Jesus, liberty as long as you are not queer, and the pursuit of happiness as long as you don't expect bankers that were given billions to actually do what they were supposed to do and adjust your mortgage so you can keep your home.  Apparently  a patriot is someone who waves the American flag, sings God Bless America and then says to the guy living in his car, "screw you, you lazy bum.  Pull yourself up by your boot straps" not noticing the guy has no boots.  The Tea Party Republican patriot believes that if we just cut more taxes everything will be fine.  This is the definition of crazy when you keep doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result.  The tax cuts that were in place for ten years did not create jobs or we wouldn't be in the worst recession since the Great Depression,  when you give a millionaire a tax cut they just have more money.  Unless that millionaire is forced to use the tax cut to create jobs they have no reason to.  If on the other hand you raise taxes on that same millionaire but give tax incentives to invest in new technology or other business opportunities that millionaire is more likely to spend it on a new investment opportunity than give it to uncle Sam. Yep everything is upside down, wacky, crazy, but I still believe we have hope.  We will get threw these hard times and maybe see that the crazy rules that lets a Senator invisibly put a hold on good legislation is a bad idea, and that the filibuster rules need to change, and we need to raise the cap on social security, so it will be their for our children and grand children.  Maybe we will pass a bill to put a two million dollar cap on all election spending.  Maybe we will stop billions of dollars coming into our elections from who knows where, and we will require any candidate in any national election to participate in ten debates that are paid for by our government and televised around the world.  Maybe we will invest in our country, rebuilding our roads and bridges, build new high speed trains, build a modern electric grid for solar, wind, and other energies to be used and have more energy efficient cars that won't pollute and will get us off oil.  That will be the Wondrous land I look forward to seeing.  And maybe just maybe you could even be a Muslim, Hindu, Christian, or any other faith in America and not feel oppressed.

Compromise Or Stand On Principal?

The president gives Republicans Billions in tax cuts to the rich to show he is reaching out to Republicans.  Happy now?  Is this what you really want your good Christian Republican leaders with all their high morals to do?  Throw Americans out in the streets with nothing, because there are no jobs, so they can give the ultra rich more money, and increase the debt by BILLIONS!  They are sooo worried about the debt.  So now the rich businessman that has a few billion already, has the Republicans hand him another few million that he/she already had in his/her pocket because the taxes were never taken the last ten years.  They have had the money in their pocket for the last ten years!  Why didn't they create jobs with it?  What will they do with the money?  There is no more demand for their products today than yesterday because regular working folks don't have enough money to feed their families and pay their bills and stay in their homes.  So they are going to keep it and say thanks Uncle Sam!  They are not going to hire people just to have them sit around and in the mean time Americans will be put in seriously desperate circumstances that might force them into homelessness or crime!  Is this really what you want from your government?  I hope the Tea Party sees they are being punked by Republicans!  Is it time to make some sacrifices and stand on the principal that it is WRONG to hold hostage the small amount of money to help struggling Americans?  There would have to be some pain and some sacrifice from all of us but it might be worth it to hold back the sheer greed of the Republican right!  But after much thought I know Republicans will learn nothing and stay as greedy as ever while there will be millions cut off of the small amount of unemployment that keeps them afloat.  Once again the President is correct.  We must allow this completely irresponsible tax cut for the ultra rich that was supposed to end in January continue.  Shame on the Republicans for putting the rich above what is best for America. 

Spurring on the economy while riding a lame Elephant.

Once again Tax breaks do NOT create jobs.  Demand for products creates jobs. Middle Class Americans with good jobs that have money to buy your product creates demand.  In my opinion it is that simple.  Here is an idea,  Some really rich dude should look at my argument as an experiment and buy a town then have some kind of business that pays the towns people really good and a rule that every new business that comes into the town must pay that same good wage.  Then see what happens.  What would this town look like in five years.