The US Debt

emperor — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 05:04:13 +0000

Our spending problem is the bloated Military Budget, Corporate Subsidies, tax advantages for the rich, and preferential treatment of some types of income over income earned by labor.

We also have an income problem. We have the lowest federal tax rates since 1950. Tax cuts made the rich richer, the poor poorer, and the middle class in insurmountable debt. Lower taxes didn’t create jobs or strengthen the economy, at least not in the U.S. We need new tax brackets for each millionaires and billionaires.

The rabid right is willing to destroy the economy, push us into default on our debt in order to further their political goal of preventing election of Obama to a second term. That has been their sole goal from day one, at any cost to America or Americans.

Cutting government spending now will be disastrous for the private sector. “Why cutting government spending now would be disastrous.” http://bit.ly/bvTEuS

There are other alternatives as well: Budget of the Congressional Progressive Caucus: Fiscal Year 2012: Read the People’s Budget http://bit.ly/g7aep8 and my own 2 cents Nobody asked me, but here’s my solutions. http://bit.ly/bvTEuS

The best way to solve our debit and deficit problems is to revitalize the economy and create good living wage jobs. What has this congress done to improve the economy or create private sector jobs? Nothing, because that’s not in GOP’s best political interest. Our unemployment is high because the rabid right wants it that way.

Opposing Views

emperor — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:58:56 +0000

Our public discourse on a wide range of topics from local to world wide has been dominated by extremists – at both ends of the political spectrum. Too often we find ourselves talking to people that think and believe like us, share our personal values, instead of reaching out to people we don’t agree with. Not to argue. Not to denigrate and insult. Just to understand. Perhaps with more of us truly trying to understand opposing points of views, we may find that there are some things that we can agree on.

I bring this up because I came across a site through twitter that I expected to disagree with it it’s entirety. I was surprised that I found a lot that I could agree with. Sure there is more that I disagreed with, but I did get a better understanding about at least this one individual.

We often forget that writing of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution wasn’t without passionate disagreements from the wording to the substance. Instead of vilifying and condemning each other, they found a way to reach compromises that the majority could agree with. I wonder if we could do as well today.

Oh and that site I am talking about can be found here A Bold Step Back

My favorite Steven Covey Quote “Seek first to understand, the to be understood.”

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The US Debt

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