The country’s getting more and more divided. Today, party Republican/Tea Pot spokesman House Speaker John Bohner refused to be in the same photo with Kenyan Communist Muslim Democrat President “Hussein” Obama; you know — the one without a birth certificate?
The dreaded “fiscal cliff” is approaching. Politicians treat it more fearfully than the boogie man. Maybe it is. Hitting this “cliff” will cost middle-classes an estimated $2,200 a year. But if the cliff is in place only a month, it’ll cost one-twelfth of that, or about $180. So it’s not much in terms of cliff.
The nation’s two divisions are the wealthy, the filthy rich, the 1 percenters, the self-labeled “job-providers,” plus all those people who feel sorry for them and support them.
The other group is the working stiffs, the paycheck-to-paycheckers, the 89 year old lady my brother knows getting $389/month social security heating with wood and trying to make it on her own, the unemployed who weren’t “provided jobs,” the blocklayer forced to work to age 65 whose body currently has multiple locations of carpal tunnel and is now a “47 percent moocher” on Medicare.
The fight breaks down to this: who are you gonna side with?
Mr. Boehner feels sorry for the first group, those like “Mitt” Romney, another party Republican who collected (not ‘earned’!) $14 million last year alone, paid about $2 million taxes and refuses to pay an extra 3 percent taxes, or less than $1/2 million. A real whiner. “Take it from the poor!,” he says.
The second group includes people like Warren Buffett, saying he gets plenty of money. “Why should I pay 14 percent taxes when my secretary pays 30 percent?” Not at all a whiner.
Which group am I in? That’s who I should feel sorry for. I can either feel proud or ashamed of myself.
A. Martin
Merrifield
Comments (14)
Add commentMr. Roman Witucki
Seriously, Mr. Roman, if the proposal of the President's were so serious as you say, then why won't Harry Reid put it up for a vote in the Senate? He refused to do so, as if he would, he may find that even Democrats in the Senate won't vote for it.
His plan is just spending more taxpayer money not cutting.
Also, increase taxes. Making the rich poorer, doesn't make the poor richer.
If Mr. Martin
didn't just put a period behind the A, I bet I could guess the last two letters in his first name!
Oh what should I do?
Decisions - should I feel proud or should I feel shame?
Mr.A obviously doesn't know anything about the Romney or the Buffett tax returns . If you don't know there are 70,000
pages to the tax code and increasing everyday thanks to Obamacare you don't understand their tax returns. Buffett is no hero , he has his money all put into trusts for the kids and the rest is donated to Gates because he knows that would be better than giving it to the government.
This is just more left wing email, blog stuff.
Oh Fair...Those Ladies in the Arizona Cafes...
Be a reporter, capture some nuggets, and share with us Northern folks...
Perhaps more insight that Mr. Hanson (VP of Audience Enhancement).
Casual conversation often gives insight into the day and day outz of lots folks in the areas you are staying at...
I could be wrong with lots of Northerners escaping to the Southern United States Tropics to not turn on the Furnace/Heater (they do know what a thermostat is, and how to use it, believe me)...
Do your unofficial paid job...
Report to the Brainerd Daily Dispatch on your travels and observations of folks south of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico,
Colorado, Wyoming, or Kansas...Groovy...
I'm east of the main
Mexican ghetto where it's safer tonight scribbs.
69 but cooling off tomorrow to only 60, darn! People here are in their long coats and scarves, go figure.
Oh, boo hoo...
...my grandfather worked as a stone mason into his 80's. Working past 65 used to be the norm if you were still alive or capable. I plan to be working until I'm physically not able to (which I anticipate will be well past age 65), so don't expect me to cry any rivers over people who have to work until they're 65.
And BTW, Obama has done a crappy job with unemployment in this country, and the great numbers of "unemployed" you speak of (and I would add underemployed) are largely due to Obama's misbegotten policies. All that stimulus money wasted on crony capitalism and "green" black holes sure made Obama's friends rich, and got him re-elected, didn't it? Meanwhile, those of us who aren't part of the favored political class (read "the majority of people") are sucking wind.
So 2 quick points
Reading through this posting I am curious but I think there are a few quick points that need to be made.
1. First of all I will state that I don't like the current President, but sitting online bashing either side is getting nothing done. Our arguing about it is getting nothing done. My question to everyone who has such strong opinions on both sides is.. How many of us are involved and continually contacting our elected reps to hold them to their word? or are we just sitting and arguing about it.. Get involved, then maybe together we can get something done instead of this arguing.
2. Republicans or Tea partiers what ever you want to call those divisions, the republican party is pretty much dead. So over the next 4 years I really believe that you will see an even bigger split in the republican party. Goodness knows they need to do something because they are so out of touch with either traditional values and the newer generations. Time to get back to basics guys..... So yeah I hope they let the tax cuts expire and all that cause that will be the end of the current republican party. (Oh yeah I have voted Republican in most cases over the past 15 years)
3. Presidential mandate of the people (or what ever ). We are told how divided the country is and all of that.. However its kind of hard to base that off of the actual voter results right. After only 57.5% of eligible voters turned out to vote, and of that Obama won 51%'ish... So that means 57 people out of every 100 eligible voters turned out.. Out of that 51%'ish voted for President Obama.. That means that out of every 100 eligible voters, 57 voted and 29 of those voted for Obama. WOW. that really is a mandate when you have a total of 29-30% of eligible voters voting for you..!! And to think we complain about how the majority rules and oppresses minorities in America.. looks to me like the minority really is the ruler in a representative democracy, particularly when people just SIT BY and watch rather than being involved.
JeramieJ
You prefaced by saying "So 2 quick points"
And then you put 3 points in your rant. You sneaky little devil!
Mr. Martin
Just wondering, has Mr. Buffet coughed up his fair share to the government or is he still just talking that it would fair for him to pay more?
two classes
I believe it was Robert Benchly who once observed that the world is, indeed, divided into two classes of people; those that continually divide the world into two classes of people and those that don't. The big "A" has every right and reason to feel ashamed.
Unemployment rate hits four year low at 7.7%
Sounds like we are heading in the right direction.
If Obama was actually concerned about money issues in DC
he wouldn't have just approved using corporate money for another lavish Inauguration!
Southie
I wish that were true. Look at the numbers of people that have dropped out of the workplace in other words, they have quit looking for a job. That number has gone up. There are
less and less every day that are working and contributing.
That is not the best way for the unemployment numbers to go down.
Pdnet...better corporate funds
than government funds.