Those at the top should stay at the top. Anyone else will not be able reach the top. The Romney/Ryan ticket wants to lift the drawbridge on the rest of America. Let's have another round of tax cuts to further separate the social classes. Cut Medicaid. Who needs health care? That's just something for the wealthy. Repeal Obamacare. Raise the minimum age for Medicare. Cut food stamps. The poor don't need to eat. Why don't we put a freeze on Government wages until 2016? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/24/paul-ryan-poverty-speech_n_2010827.html
These afore-mentioned topics are all addressed in Paul Ryan's proposed budget. What a winning plan. It's a win/lose. The rich win and everyone else loses. Never has a GOP ticket been so brazen about screwing over so many Americans and suggested that doing so was a path to prosperity. I normally stay out of politics, but this campaign has awoken the "give-a-shit" in me.
Upward mobility will go away very soon in America. Other countries provide better opportunities to achieve the "American Dream." Poverty will worsen as a result of the R/R budget. 40 million people will be frozen out of health insurance from the Medicaid reductions. The food stamp program would reduce by $183 billion. Turning a blind eye to the poor will not make the problems they face go away. The destitute will become even more desperate with dwindling resources and many will turn to crime. Locking up the poor will cost more than feeding them.
As bad as R & R will be for America, the real source of bad policy is congress. The the radical right-wing has control of the House of Representatives and the Democrats hold a slight majority in the Senate. The Senate Minority is able to block bills from even seeing the light of day by the threat of a filibuster. Very little gets done under the current elected officials. Bipartisanship is a dirty word. The right does not believe in compromise.
The drawbridge needs to stay down for the rest of America. The rules must not tilt in favor of so few. A rising tide lifts all boats. The more Americans who succeed the better. Let us not hoard our pieces of the pie.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Sunday, October 14, 2012
The 1% Cares About the 1%. Period
It seems that the 1%, AKA the extremely wealthy members of society, is informing its employees that they should vote for Mitt Romney or else. Or else what, the Koch brothers will fire a bunch of people they would fire anyway? Let's face it, the political system has been leaning hard right for too long. It is in need of re calibration. http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkrss.php?f=Koch-Brothers-Rounding-Up-in-Common-Dreams-121014-503.html
Only the 1% sees something like the Bush tax cuts as some noble thing. The tax cuts were made from 2001-2003 and created a huge budget deficit from the beginning of W's putrid reign. When tax revenue is removed from the budget without being balanced, the country accrues major debt...about $3 trillion. Conservatives have abandoned the balanced budget approach in favor of "Starve the Beast". This concept attempts to run up a huge deficit so that government entitlement programs will be cut to make up the gap.
Romney wants to cut taxes even more and does not have a sound way of paying for the cuts. Pretty much, the national debt will get even bigger than it is now. Pretty soon medicare will need to be slashed to make up the gap. Maybe the EPA can be trimmed. Regulation is bad because it costs the 1% profit due to government red tape. The 1% does not need to be policed. They are ABOVE the law. The banking industry does not need regulation, either. If there seems to be a discrepancy or hypothetically, a market crash, they can just take money out of petty cash. You know, petty cash, money from the rest of the population in the form of a bailout.
I have no idea why so many people identify themselves as republicans. The party has a pro business motto that really only applies to the owners and senior staff. Major companies don't care about anything but their profits. How many jobs have left cheaper pastures? Many folks in the south switched parties after President Johnson and congress passed the equal rights amendment. Maybe race matters quite a bit. The conservative religious community also makes up a good portion. If someone is not that religious or racist, what is in it for them? Especially if they are not in the 1%.
Businesses lobby congress to cut any type of regulation and any tax. Apparently they prefer the Wild West approach to Mayberry. They rely on Mayberry to vote with them even though their greed led to the housing bubble and financial crisis that forced many Mayberry Main Street folks out of their homes. Very little bailout money went to the victims while those responsible are making record profits. Why vote with this group if it only erodes the quality of life for the 99% each and every November?
Our voice and our vote matters.
Only the 1% sees something like the Bush tax cuts as some noble thing. The tax cuts were made from 2001-2003 and created a huge budget deficit from the beginning of W's putrid reign. When tax revenue is removed from the budget without being balanced, the country accrues major debt...about $3 trillion. Conservatives have abandoned the balanced budget approach in favor of "Starve the Beast". This concept attempts to run up a huge deficit so that government entitlement programs will be cut to make up the gap.
Romney wants to cut taxes even more and does not have a sound way of paying for the cuts. Pretty much, the national debt will get even bigger than it is now. Pretty soon medicare will need to be slashed to make up the gap. Maybe the EPA can be trimmed. Regulation is bad because it costs the 1% profit due to government red tape. The 1% does not need to be policed. They are ABOVE the law. The banking industry does not need regulation, either. If there seems to be a discrepancy or hypothetically, a market crash, they can just take money out of petty cash. You know, petty cash, money from the rest of the population in the form of a bailout.
I have no idea why so many people identify themselves as republicans. The party has a pro business motto that really only applies to the owners and senior staff. Major companies don't care about anything but their profits. How many jobs have left cheaper pastures? Many folks in the south switched parties after President Johnson and congress passed the equal rights amendment. Maybe race matters quite a bit. The conservative religious community also makes up a good portion. If someone is not that religious or racist, what is in it for them? Especially if they are not in the 1%.
Businesses lobby congress to cut any type of regulation and any tax. Apparently they prefer the Wild West approach to Mayberry. They rely on Mayberry to vote with them even though their greed led to the housing bubble and financial crisis that forced many Mayberry Main Street folks out of their homes. Very little bailout money went to the victims while those responsible are making record profits. Why vote with this group if it only erodes the quality of life for the 99% each and every November?
Our voice and our vote matters.
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