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wwcitizenMaybe the end is near. Maybe this is the death toll of America and the country (that had lots of things) that I loved. Maybe the Mayans were right: Palin or someone (*gasp*) worse will become president and in 2012, the world will end.
I just posted this on Facebook:
I don't think in my years of paying taxes that I've been this upset - not for me necessarily - but for small business owners, the really, truly poor in the country, and ENORMOUS gains for our nation's top 2% money holders!!! I actually shed tears as I read through the MSNBC article prelude to economic fall.
Yes, I'm preaching Doom And Gloom.
Strap yourselves in for years of more & greater unemployment, larger national debt, unnecessarily protracted wars (because that's where the rich war machine makes money), and more Republican/Tea Party control. Because Obama conceded on their issues and gave them practically everything they wanted, when this plan fails (and it will - BIG TIME), the Republicans will say that it was Obama's economic plan from the outset.
The Republicans will distance themselves as far as they can from their 2010 involvement like the hypocrites they are, and lean on the rich people they helped this time around. There's no corporate cap on spending! Usher in the billions of dollars in donations, boys! They'll have it to spend since - after all - YOU helped them keep it!
Meanwhile, our nation's children will be faced with unimaginable debts and economic turmoil for decades. Unless something HUGE happens in the next 2-3 weeks. HUGE. And unprecedented. That hope is probably beyond hope. I thought Obama was smarter than this, had a LOT more guts, and had a firmer backbone. But Obama bends over backwards for narcissistic egomaniacs just as easily as a $2 stripper on a pole.
In 2008, the decision for me was easy: McCain for president was a beyond idiotic choice. And had he become president, we would have definitely been worse off now as it is. THAT yellow-bellied groveler flips more than a fish on the beach!! The stress of the job would probably have killed him and we would have been left with Palin, who has no clue how to run a town, much less and state, much less a support campaign for political candidates, much less a TV show, much less a book or talking tour, much less OUR F*CKING COUNTRY.
I'm so pissed right now and I have to go to sleep. I'm so upset that I want to run out into the snow and scream, maybe punch a tree.
I keep watching the Senator Sanders' impassioned speech thinking, "Seriously!! DOES NO ONE HAVE A VOICE ANYMORE? Where have we stashed our reason and logic?!" (If you haven't watched this speech, please watch it - it's scary, truthful, and hard-hitting.)
If you haven't seen it (we saw this first on the Rachel Maddow show), here's a graph (by Ezra Klein) of the Dem vs. GOP tax proposals and how they play out on each American in the increasing tax brackets:
Based solely on this graphic alone, can't you see the problem and the differences between money coming into the government?? How can our president in his right mind (which he must be out of) look at all this information, review all the data, listen to the American people, and STILL make such a detrimental decision?? I'm baffled. I'm sorely sad and disappointed.
I just posted this on Facebook:
I don't think in my years of paying taxes that I've been this upset - not for me necessarily - but for small business owners, the really, truly poor in the country, and ENORMOUS gains for our nation's top 2% money holders!!! I actually shed tears as I read through the MSNBC article prelude to economic fall.
Yes, I'm preaching Doom And Gloom.
Strap yourselves in for years of more & greater unemployment, larger national debt, unnecessarily protracted wars (because that's where the rich war machine makes money), and more Republican/Tea Party control. Because Obama conceded on their issues and gave them practically everything they wanted, when this plan fails (and it will - BIG TIME), the Republicans will say that it was Obama's economic plan from the outset.
The Republicans will distance themselves as far as they can from their 2010 involvement like the hypocrites they are, and lean on the rich people they helped this time around. There's no corporate cap on spending! Usher in the billions of dollars in donations, boys! They'll have it to spend since - after all - YOU helped them keep it!
Meanwhile, our nation's children will be faced with unimaginable debts and economic turmoil for decades. Unless something HUGE happens in the next 2-3 weeks. HUGE. And unprecedented. That hope is probably beyond hope. I thought Obama was smarter than this, had a LOT more guts, and had a firmer backbone. But Obama bends over backwards for narcissistic egomaniacs just as easily as a $2 stripper on a pole.
In 2008, the decision for me was easy: McCain for president was a beyond idiotic choice. And had he become president, we would have definitely been worse off now as it is. THAT yellow-bellied groveler flips more than a fish on the beach!! The stress of the job would probably have killed him and we would have been left with Palin, who has no clue how to run a town, much less and state, much less a support campaign for political candidates, much less a TV show, much less a book or talking tour, much less OUR F*CKING COUNTRY.
I'm so pissed right now and I have to go to sleep. I'm so upset that I want to run out into the snow and scream, maybe punch a tree.
I keep watching the Senator Sanders' impassioned speech thinking, "Seriously!! DOES NO ONE HAVE A VOICE ANYMORE? Where have we stashed our reason and logic?!" (If you haven't watched this speech, please watch it - it's scary, truthful, and hard-hitting.)
If you haven't seen it (we saw this first on the Rachel Maddow show), here's a graph (by Ezra Klein) of the Dem vs. GOP tax proposals and how they play out on each American in the increasing tax brackets:
Based solely on this graphic alone, can't you see the problem and the differences between money coming into the government?? How can our president in his right mind (which he must be out of) look at all this information, review all the data, listen to the American people, and STILL make such a detrimental decision?? I'm baffled. I'm sorely sad and disappointed.
