Please wake me when something actually happens, when the six
year-olds that seem to be in charge of the Republican Party finally are forced
to face reality and are made to do something positive for our nation. You know,
those six year-olds that have been bribed by the obscenely wealthy to insure
they can be made even more obscenely wealthy. The same six year-olds that,
along with their MSM allies, want us to believe they are engaging in something
called “government,” when in fact they are actually engaged in a giant criminal
conspiracy to convert taxpayer money into more and more wealth for the upper 2%
of the population. We have had quite enough of posturing, pretending,
procrastination, prostitution, and prevarication. We are now well enough aware
that the upper 2% are not truly “job creators” and their pretense to be such is
nothing more than an example of propaganda at its worst.
I find it almost unbelievably ridiculous that we are arguing
over whether or not the fantastically wealthy should be an additional 3 or 4%
more in taxes when we could be arguing they should be paying far more as they
have traditionally done. Taxes on the wealthy are apparently at an all time low
and over time have fluctuated at times from the current percent to as much as
90% during the Eisenhower administration. At a time when we desperately need
more revenue this argument over a small percentage of revenue from individuals
so wealthy they probably wouldn’t even notice it (unless their team of tax
lawyers pointed it out to them) is, frankly, mystifying, if not just plain
silly. Four percent may seem a lot of money to those of us who do not have it,
but it is basically just “chump change” to those who do. As those, mostly in
the Tea Party, who oppose raising taxes on the wealthy are not themselves all
that wealthy, I can only surmise their motivation for resisting increases must
have to do with their being bribed to do the bidding of those who are bribing
them to resist. Or, perhaps, they are in fact stupid enough to believe that government
can exist and fulfill its obligations without collecting taxes. Even worse,
they may believe government has no obligations to its citizens and should just
stand by and watch them suffer and die. Their philosophy seems to be merely,
“he who has, gets” (and he who don’t have don’t get). It’s the Republican way!
I find it more than merely curious that you often hear some
people claim that the only way to solve the deficit is to cut “entitlements,”
Medicare, Medicaid, Food stamps, unemployment insurance, even Social Security
(that has nothing to do with the deficit). You rarely hear anyone seriously
mention the defense budget which apparently gobbles up fully fifty percent of
our taxes and is so outrageously overfunded as to be completely absurd. I honestly
believe we could cut this bloated gift to the military/industrial/political
complex by 50% and not be any the less safe. No other nation on earth is about
to attack us with a developed war machine, we have no earthly use for tanks and
other heavy ordinance, and the threats we do face come from small bands of
terrorists rather than militarized nations. The money we spend on defense is
only partly for defense and mostly to enrich the corporations that are engaged
in manufacturing war equipment we don’t really need. Furthermore, we certainly
no longer need to maintain troops in places like Germany and Japan and most of
the other somewhere around 150 other bases around the world. Nor do we need to
hand Israeli 3 or 4 billion or more a year.
And speaking of Israel, is no one, not even the majority of
nations that oppose their criminal behavior, going to ever reign them in? In
full view of the entire world Israel is committing war crimes, stealing land
that belongs to the Palestinians, herding Palestinians into Gaza where they are
kept in prison-like conditions, assassinating their leaders at will, bombing
innocent civilians, and so on, and deliberately blocking any genuine attempt at
a just settlement with them. Our shame is that we are deliberately aiding them
in their criminal behavior. Will it
never end? It appears probably not. We prefer, I guess, to continue our
sanctions on Iranian civilians, especially children, apparently because we
believe the Israelis when they falsely claim Iran is a danger not only to them
but to the entire world. I am still living in fear of Iranian missiles,
submarines, battleships, and landing craft. What a bunch of absolute crap!
There will never be peace in the Middle East until Israel is “curbed.”
Unfortunately, the only nation that could curb them would be the U.S., which
prefers to join them.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to
learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent
disinclination to do so.
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