Yes I am the one who posted the joke "Breaking News S&P downgrades tea party to KK+", it has been repeated a few times even got a mention on Countdown with Keith Olberman. After the post I got a few DMs from some unhappy republicans/tea party members and rather then respond to them I will make one response.
Do I think the Tea Party is racist? No, not very bright in a lot of cases but not racist. That being said it doesn't help when David Duke wants to run for president as a tea party member and you have the CofCC organize and attend Tea Party events and you have people like Russel Pearce a tea party leader and congressman standing arm in arm with a chairman of the Neo Nazi movement in Arizona. These are not proof that the Tea Party movement is the Klan but it doesn't help.
Now my thoughts on the Tea Party itself, it's a disgrace that you would corrupt on of the most historical events in American history for your right wing political agenda. The tea part of the 1770's was not all about lower taxes and less government but then again hearing seniors of the Tea Party tell government to keep their hands off my medicare so I am not surprised. I've also seen a few tea party members say like the original tea party they just want us to follow the US constitution, that's news to me and I really don't know what to say.
The original tea party was all about what is good for America, they knew we needed taxes and that companies like the east india tea company having a monopoly where a bad thing, they wanted what was best for America and where willing to put their lives on the line to fight for those beliefs. The "tea party" of today wants no taxes and no government and believes that business should be free to do as they please even if it means buying politicians. Todays tea party doesn't care about America all they care about is themselves and aren't willing to give up even 3% of their income to rebuild failing roads and bridges or putting their neighbor back to work let alone help the sick. I doubt there is any member of the tea party willing to put their lives on the line for this great country and if they "say" they are then ask them why they would die for America but refuse to even give one cent more to help America?
When a bridge falls and people die or when someone who can be cured of their disease is forced to lay down and die so their family doesn't lose everything I blame you, when the country almost goes under because you do not know that a debt ceiling is to pay bills we owe and tell lies that it's for Obama to spend more I blame you. You can only preach so much hate before it will blow up in your face, you are doing your best to help make sure that Osama Bin Ladens dream of America crashing and burning will come true.
So do I believe you are racist, probably not, uneducated? probably, Terrorists no better then Bin Laden? HELL YES
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Friday, August 12, 2011
Solutions for America
While I don't expect politicians to take their job serious if they want a plan that will upset everyone at the same time have things that make everyone happy here is my plan to fix America (yes it is broken).
TAXES
This is the easiest thing to fix, first personal taxes
Take income - subtract 20K dollars that is what you owe taxes on, no deductions and no credits
Stock options count as income, otherwise stock purchase/sales are not taxed
Stock dividends are counted as income
New tax rates
0$-50K$ = 5%
50K-100K = 10%
100K - 250K = 15%
250K - 5Million = 20%
5Million and up 25%
Corporate taxes are even easier, take your profits no deductions and no credits and lower the rate to
18% if more then 60% of workforce is outside the country
15% if More then 60% of workforce is in America
Inheritance tax 20% on cash/stock over 1 million dollars homes, property etc. excluded for tax
ENTITLEMENTS
Medicaid - do away with, there is no need for this program
Medicare - Expand it to any American who chooses to buy in for 6% of their income for person or 8% for family, kids of people making less then 20K a year are included for free. Seniors with net worths over 500K dollars have the option to opt out with the agreement they can not buy back in when they get sick. Adding millions of healthy people to the role will help pay the bills for the sick/disabled
Prescription program -allow Medicare to negotiate with drug companies to save the American people money
Welfare - put a 2 year cap on the program, every person deserves the help for their first child or if they lose their job but we should not be paying for people to keep having children or who choose not to work. You receive assistance for the first child but if you choose to have another one the responsibilty is on you.
Social Security - raise the cap that SS "taxes" are paid from 100K to 1Million, means test and anyone worth over 1 million dollars or who chooses not to receive SS will not get any gov. help. Slowly raise the retirement age for HEALTHY people by 3 months a year after 2035 until it reaches the life expectancy - 10 years.
Cutting Spending
Military - 5% decrease in military spending each year for next 4 years, after 2013 when a politician votes to go to war they must also approve a 10% war tax to pay for it, if we are going to use the military then every American must be willing to make sacrifices.
Dept of Homeland Security - would do away with the program, allow the CIA, FBI etc to do their jobs and appoint the VP as the head of national defense who can be the go between with all the federal agencies when there is a problem or threat. DHS is a huge waste of money and was only created because one administration couldn't put 2 and 2 together.
Dept. of Education - would do away with the federal version and allow the states to handle their own departments, put more pressure on the states to solver their education problems.
Cut 3% from EVERY government program and use it to rebuild America, put it aside so that it can be used to rebuild roads, bridges, electric lines etc. both putting people back to work and helping make America great again.
POLITICIANS
Put a cap on money they are allowed to use for travel, dinner, rent etc before they have to pay out of their own pockets, Cut their paid staff by 15% and limit the amount of employees they can have.
ANY raise or change in benefits MUST be voted on by the American people, they work for us so we get to decide if they get a raise or no.
Those are just some of the simple yet painfull solutions they can do, not many people would be happy but I believe it would really change the direction of America
TAXES
This is the easiest thing to fix, first personal taxes
Take income - subtract 20K dollars that is what you owe taxes on, no deductions and no credits
Stock options count as income, otherwise stock purchase/sales are not taxed
Stock dividends are counted as income
New tax rates
0$-50K$ = 5%
50K-100K = 10%
100K - 250K = 15%
250K - 5Million = 20%
5Million and up 25%
Corporate taxes are even easier, take your profits no deductions and no credits and lower the rate to
18% if more then 60% of workforce is outside the country
15% if More then 60% of workforce is in America
Inheritance tax 20% on cash/stock over 1 million dollars homes, property etc. excluded for tax
ENTITLEMENTS
Medicaid - do away with, there is no need for this program
Medicare - Expand it to any American who chooses to buy in for 6% of their income for person or 8% for family, kids of people making less then 20K a year are included for free. Seniors with net worths over 500K dollars have the option to opt out with the agreement they can not buy back in when they get sick. Adding millions of healthy people to the role will help pay the bills for the sick/disabled
Prescription program -allow Medicare to negotiate with drug companies to save the American people money
Welfare - put a 2 year cap on the program, every person deserves the help for their first child or if they lose their job but we should not be paying for people to keep having children or who choose not to work. You receive assistance for the first child but if you choose to have another one the responsibilty is on you.
Social Security - raise the cap that SS "taxes" are paid from 100K to 1Million, means test and anyone worth over 1 million dollars or who chooses not to receive SS will not get any gov. help. Slowly raise the retirement age for HEALTHY people by 3 months a year after 2035 until it reaches the life expectancy - 10 years.
Cutting Spending
Military - 5% decrease in military spending each year for next 4 years, after 2013 when a politician votes to go to war they must also approve a 10% war tax to pay for it, if we are going to use the military then every American must be willing to make sacrifices.
Dept of Homeland Security - would do away with the program, allow the CIA, FBI etc to do their jobs and appoint the VP as the head of national defense who can be the go between with all the federal agencies when there is a problem or threat. DHS is a huge waste of money and was only created because one administration couldn't put 2 and 2 together.
Dept. of Education - would do away with the federal version and allow the states to handle their own departments, put more pressure on the states to solver their education problems.
Cut 3% from EVERY government program and use it to rebuild America, put it aside so that it can be used to rebuild roads, bridges, electric lines etc. both putting people back to work and helping make America great again.
POLITICIANS
Put a cap on money they are allowed to use for travel, dinner, rent etc before they have to pay out of their own pockets, Cut their paid staff by 15% and limit the amount of employees they can have.
ANY raise or change in benefits MUST be voted on by the American people, they work for us so we get to decide if they get a raise or no.
Those are just some of the simple yet painfull solutions they can do, not many people would be happy but I believe it would really change the direction of America
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Who killed the American Dream
What is the American dream? As a child we would jump in the car and take a family vacation to Sea World or Cedar Point, it was the one time of year where we could all be together and not have any worries. That was about 30 years ago when the dream was to own a home, have a car and raise a family, it seems like a lifetime ago, forget owning a home or family vacations, today you are lucky if you can afford to die without leaving a huge financial hit to your family.
So when did it all change? The answer to that question is simple, about 30 years ago America elected the worst president in the great history of our country. His decisions would lead to the destruction of the middle class and his terrible choices would be felt for years to come. In 1980 the people of this great country decided to elect Ronald Reagan, a charismatic leader who they thought could put America back on the right track. While he made many, many mistakes here are just a few that would change the course of our history forever.
Trickle down economics, he gave huge tax cuts to the richest Americans with the belief that they would pass the money around. While the theory was sound he didn’t account for greed and instead of passing the money around the rich just used it to get richer while the poor suffered. For 30 year the working class and poor have stayed that way while the rich just keep getting richer. With the price of everything going up Americans could no longer afford to have only one parent work and the Nuclear family was destroyed, now both parents had to work just to be able to lead the same lifestyle that they led just 10 years earlier. The tax breaks blew a huge hole in the money the government received causing America to become a debt nation.
While the economic policy was a nail in the coffin of the American middle class his foreign policy while applauded at the time would come back to bite him and the rest of the world in the ass. While he is credited with the downfall of the Soviet Union many educated people think they where on the verge of falling and he was just lucky enough to be the man in charge when it happened. While he spent trillions of dollars that the government didn’t have to build the biggest army in the world he was afraid to use it and that to would come back to haunt us. Again here are just a few of his foreign policy decisions that effect us today.
He cut and ran from Lebanon when soldiers started to die, showing the world that we where weak and that when push came to shove we would cut and run. President Reagan then oversaw the sale of weapons to Iran, the money from the sale was then funded into terrorists hands, making one wonder if the weapons Iran is giving to people killing Americans are the same weapons that Mr. Reagan put in their hands? While those events where bad, his worst decisions wouldn’t be felt for years after he left office.
Iraq was becoming a threat to it’s own people and the people in the middle east, after attacks on his own people the world wanted Saddam Hussein out of power as the dictator, the whole world except of course for the American president who not only stood by Mr. Hussein he sent people with gifts to show his support. While the Soviet Union was fighting in Afghanistan it was our policy to not get involved, if only we had stuck with that policy. The USA decided to arm a small group of afgan fighters to help defeat the Soviet union, with the help of the Americans the group was able to defeat the Soviets. The man that we decided to aid in the fight was Osama Bin Laden, we aided him with weapons and training and after he won the war the first thing that America he asked for help in rebuilding his country. Rather then admit we helped them win the war and to rebuild we turned our back on them. Who would have know the man we where once allies with would plan and execute the worst attack on American soil, leading us into war in a country we where allies with and helped just 15 years earlier. The attack by Bin Laden and the horrible policies by the Bush administration lead us into two wars and cost us trillions of dollars and thousands of lives, all of which could have been prevented if the great Ronald Reagan was even a competent leader.
This doesn’t even take into account his horrible record on AIDS, financial regulations, immigration policy that made millions of illegal aliens legal and other issues that history has shown him on the wrong side of. If you want to know when the American dream died look no further then Mr. Reagan, he may not have killed it but had a big hand in its demise. If you look at almost all the problems we are facing today the majority can be traced back to bad decisions made by the Republican president in the 1980’s, the man who many of the republican party today see as their idol and role model.
So when did it all change? The answer to that question is simple, about 30 years ago America elected the worst president in the great history of our country. His decisions would lead to the destruction of the middle class and his terrible choices would be felt for years to come. In 1980 the people of this great country decided to elect Ronald Reagan, a charismatic leader who they thought could put America back on the right track. While he made many, many mistakes here are just a few that would change the course of our history forever.
Trickle down economics, he gave huge tax cuts to the richest Americans with the belief that they would pass the money around. While the theory was sound he didn’t account for greed and instead of passing the money around the rich just used it to get richer while the poor suffered. For 30 year the working class and poor have stayed that way while the rich just keep getting richer. With the price of everything going up Americans could no longer afford to have only one parent work and the Nuclear family was destroyed, now both parents had to work just to be able to lead the same lifestyle that they led just 10 years earlier. The tax breaks blew a huge hole in the money the government received causing America to become a debt nation.
While the economic policy was a nail in the coffin of the American middle class his foreign policy while applauded at the time would come back to bite him and the rest of the world in the ass. While he is credited with the downfall of the Soviet Union many educated people think they where on the verge of falling and he was just lucky enough to be the man in charge when it happened. While he spent trillions of dollars that the government didn’t have to build the biggest army in the world he was afraid to use it and that to would come back to haunt us. Again here are just a few of his foreign policy decisions that effect us today.
He cut and ran from Lebanon when soldiers started to die, showing the world that we where weak and that when push came to shove we would cut and run. President Reagan then oversaw the sale of weapons to Iran, the money from the sale was then funded into terrorists hands, making one wonder if the weapons Iran is giving to people killing Americans are the same weapons that Mr. Reagan put in their hands? While those events where bad, his worst decisions wouldn’t be felt for years after he left office.
Iraq was becoming a threat to it’s own people and the people in the middle east, after attacks on his own people the world wanted Saddam Hussein out of power as the dictator, the whole world except of course for the American president who not only stood by Mr. Hussein he sent people with gifts to show his support. While the Soviet Union was fighting in Afghanistan it was our policy to not get involved, if only we had stuck with that policy. The USA decided to arm a small group of afgan fighters to help defeat the Soviet union, with the help of the Americans the group was able to defeat the Soviets. The man that we decided to aid in the fight was Osama Bin Laden, we aided him with weapons and training and after he won the war the first thing that America he asked for help in rebuilding his country. Rather then admit we helped them win the war and to rebuild we turned our back on them. Who would have know the man we where once allies with would plan and execute the worst attack on American soil, leading us into war in a country we where allies with and helped just 15 years earlier. The attack by Bin Laden and the horrible policies by the Bush administration lead us into two wars and cost us trillions of dollars and thousands of lives, all of which could have been prevented if the great Ronald Reagan was even a competent leader.
This doesn’t even take into account his horrible record on AIDS, financial regulations, immigration policy that made millions of illegal aliens legal and other issues that history has shown him on the wrong side of. If you want to know when the American dream died look no further then Mr. Reagan, he may not have killed it but had a big hand in its demise. If you look at almost all the problems we are facing today the majority can be traced back to bad decisions made by the Republican president in the 1980’s, the man who many of the republican party today see as their idol and role model.
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