Muscatine

Just when we thought it was safe to dig out the spring-wear! Here we go again, OH WELL---might as well go back to the cave and snooze another month.

Oh my gosh! I sure hope I have not possessed another mind in that way????? Though I dearly enjoy a long thoughtful explanation and meaningful release of opinions and facts. It isn't easy for me to keep things as pointed and tight as posters like D.Max, Gta, and a few others. Thus I must thank you for the recognition and possible fear of diatribe infection. ---It is certainly a complex topic! One that seems to get folks rialed a bit, especially those who support a lesser obligation for those who have more and the most. I actually liked your assessment better. Good treatment of the issue, and I hope everyone in this nation understand that it IS A SERIOUS ISSUE. Especially those who punch the clock 9 to 5, living  paycheck to paycheck, or start the doughnuts at four every morning in his shop, hoping to get a small scratch of the profits the major corporate gangs take. It's a silly notion, but to demand a lesser tax obligation because you have more is ridiculous.

I have an idea..........Lets come up with an "I am rich card" that when presented to any clerk at any merchant, for ANY purchase no matter how small or large, we  get a 10% discount. While anyone else who isn't rich, pays the retail price. To think that anyone of a certain height in wealth deserves to pay less income tax is no different. The idea isn't to over tax the wealthy, but to require the same percentage as anyone else like it once was. If you have more to tax, well then by God you pay more. How much depends upon what you earn. The rate will be the same, and fairness will not be an issue, and revenue will go up. Anyone in business already knows and understand that they have that tax as well. It's just that when a huge corporation walks away with huge tax breaks and leaves the country as well, then gets subsidies and more tax breaks to manufacture our toys and clothes, than ship them back to U.S. soil, because it's now foreign trade, gets another break, tossing millions of good paying jobs out the door with those gifts, well folks that's just plain wrong. Obama didn't set up those amazing GIFTS to the wealthiest since 2000, Congress and GW did. And look at how well that SUPER IDEA has worked out for our JOB MARKET, GDP and economic malaise. Our economy didn't fall into this terrible mess because the working folks in this country were leaving their jobs, borrowing too much and soaking the rich, it happened because the rich have closed and moved our factories, packaged up massive loans and sold them as solvent and soaked the rest. While government simply held the door open at the borders and the vaults with new hollow coprorate rules, then went to sleep. What a good job these con-men have been doing the past eight years.  There have been five Free Trade Agreements at the tap-root of these problems along with deadly legislation of deregulation and tax cuts, geared to create the greatest amount of wealth for the top 5-10% in the quickest amount of time. Starting with NAFTA. CAFTA, SAFTA, BAFTA, SKAFTA and what ever other AFTA they can dig up. THEN, then have the testes to cry that any change, for the better of our nation, especially now MIND you, is seen as soaking the rich. When one feels they have just cause to think that way, supporting this ludicrous notion, one is either rich, too partisan-blind, or too stupid to see what the hell has been done to our country in the name of capitalistic gain. One major problem is that these greedy louts just don't know when they have enough. We need major change and we need it SOOOOON!

God Bless!

Lstreat,

"Obama didn't set up those amazing GIFTS to the wealthiest since 2000, Congress and GW did."

Has that liberal-controlled congress that have sat on their bums for the last two years since being put in charge done anything to correct your ire toward them? Two years seems to be a big waste for all that "change" the world was promised.

We need change soon? Why, then, aren't you crying out against those who actually are in charge of spending and promised us change over two years ago? Wasn't the word "soon" used then too?

Good Morning Big B!

Oh but I did and I do. I have to step in line with you here and there once again. I give congress no leeway either. I want term limits and and a powerless split. It's why we have a president. I have been mindful of the last two years and though I must agree with much of your assessment Big B. It still rests with the Oval Office in the end. Again, it's why we have that position. I'm not merely resting my elbows on him, not by a long shot, but.... It's painful to have him look (me in the eye after having vetoed every bit of my legislation, save two, then have the guts to call me inactive). Agreed, libs and conserves, are hardly a measure of the mantra they pretend to be or do they seem to understand, and no longer does any true form of democracy exist. But By God B, we elected a man to step up and hold the reins as they ALL promise to do. Cooperation is a must and common sense legislating is a must. But when neither camps agree nor cooperate with one another, the man in that big office takes the pen and sets the stage.

EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY TWO BILLION dollars later, we have discovered the measure by which our leaders can be trusted. They cannot .....So, as I said, the "BUCK" stops in the oval office regardless of those EVER LASTING GOBSTOPPERS in congress, and holding back that decay was GW. Big B., I have ALWAYS stated-Good or bad, fair or not, what GW promised by his oath along with ALL the rest, dems and repubs alike, has not been the truth. I still liked my Disney request and pray that before I mount my cloud, this country finally sees term limits for all our elected. As before, it's a new team at bat and I for one will start to look ahead and like I always have, will vote em back or out once they show me what they are made of. I will answer that too now. What they have been made of the past two years isn't quite the candy I hoped for but they had an uncooperative boss then too. Lets give it a couple more years now and see where they stand then, in or out. I need to go roust a recipe for Frazz.

God Bless. 

Sorry...lstreat. Not a new team at bat at all. Only one new leader. And he is not even their leader; he is our leader. Same old team been sitting on the butts for two years. Give me one major economic accomplishment of the current liberal congress, as they sat and watched this current economic situation develop. One may speak to Bush all one wants; but the term "lame-duck" was put in place for a reason....and through no fault of any single president. A lame duck accomplishes little.