Except for Iran's little problem with a computer worm that will likely disintegrate their whole country when their nuclear weapons all implode, there's nothing much going on in the news. But, some of the comments about the tax cut deal caught my eye, because they, as usual, reveal so much about how some folks think.
The deal they seem to be heading for would extend tax cuts for all taxpayers for two years, although Democrats wanted them discontinued for the "wealthy." It would also temporarily cut the payroll tax on employees for Social Security, extend long-term unemployment benefits, rein in the estate tax and provide breaks for businesses.
The president believes the compromise necessary because Republicans were prepared to let everyone's taxes rise and to block the extension of unemployment benefits for jobless Americans if they didn't get much of what they wanted. So that means a key to passage rests in the fact that the hard core unemployed are going to get their free ride continued.
While typical of the Democrat party to pose and posture as champions of the downtrodden while their leadership rakes in more cash for themselves than Vegas, another of their comments blew me away this morning. In discussing their unhappiness with the president's acquiescence on tax cuts, many House Democrats were "unmoved." It seems they particularly criticized Obama's proposed estate tax rates, which are far more "generous" than most Democrats had expected.
As I've been writing the last few days, I genuinely can't fathom that these Democrat thieves evidently truly believe that what others earn belongs to them. And the more successful working folks are, and the more they earn, the farther into their pockets these parasites try to crawl. And not one politician adds a nickel to anyone's coffers, unless they're jobless, on welfare, or otherwise draining the system of cash while never adding anything to it.
All this leads me to believe that the problem lies in the greatness of the American system for those with talent, smarts, a willingness to strive, or all three. Because in this society, folks are free to become whatever they want and rise to wherever their abilities take them. So, the successful ones don't have time to stop and analyze what's going around them as far as politicians are concerned. And because this country's done so well, it could easily afford government's ineptitude, ignorance and dead weight. But right now, when things are tougher, and our economy's stagnant everyone has more time on their hands and can readily examine exactly who's "running' our nation.
I think a good comparison would be to a useless rock in the middle of someone's garden. It could stay there for years, and though people see it all the time, they really don't pay much attention. And then one day, for whatever reason, the rock has to be moved. And that's when you find the vermin hidden under and around it that's been there forever, it's just that up until now, nobody cared. The rock just sat there.
But now that times are a little tough, more folks are watching the garden and I truly believe that fairly soon, the garden party in DC is going to be over. And maybe it'll become a nice place to build a golf course, once all the rocks and dead wood are gone.
That's it for today folks.
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