Support grows for tackling nation’s debt – washingtonpost.com

Some say that the only way to ratchet down the debt is to increase taxes.   Now  that’s a satisfactory solution to me.   With over 50 percent of my income already going to Federal, State and Local taxes, I’m really in favor of that.  How about cutting spending, how about cutting programs?

Big government, in its search for equality amongst the masses on the one hand, and its financial support of big business on the other wants me to give more…   Oh yeah, I am really in favor of that.

Support grows for tackling nation’s debt – washingtonpost.com.

Obama and Socialism

Right wing rabble rousing journalists (RWRRJ’s) are  pushing the idea that Obama is bringing socialism to this country… At best this is disingenuous, but I think it a more finely crafted strategy to discredit Obama with the masses of ill-informed Americans.  After all this is the flag-waving old USofA, by God, and we’re Capitalists with a Capitalist C… right?

“If Obama is a socialist… that sure as hell ain’t right!  Can’t have that… No way!… Now just where did I put that Social Security Check, sweetheart?”

Let’s face it.  Socialist creep has been going on since the days of  Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt and their progressive ideology.    The  government instituted the current income tax in 1917 and then they had lots of other people’s money (OPM) to spend on social engineering, and we all know that that is the best kind of money to spend.  Cash for clunkers?  No problem.  Billions to the banks… no problem.  Ain’t coming out of my pocket.

Of course, the income tax was first instituted in the Civil War by the Revenue Act of 1861 under the first (gasp) Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, to finance (of all things) the “War of Northern Aggression”  (Yeah, I have southern roots).

The sixteenth amendment was the brainchild of Nelson Aldrich, a prominent US Senator from Rhode Island who was of all things a (gasp) Republican during the administration of William Howard Taft, another (gasp) Republican.

And lets not forget the Troubled Assets Relief Program.  $700 Billion (just how much money is that?) to help the Banks that hosed every damned one of us with their house of cards, and who I might add have done pretty darned good since that cash infusion. This was under the Bush administration… another (gasp) Republican.

I’m not trying to just bash the Republican party here.  The Democrats are up to their elbows in this pie also.  In fact, these parties, despite their vitriol with and finger-pointing at one another are just two sides of the same coin (except perhaps for the extremes of both parties).  They all sleep together.  Republicrats… All of them.