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Oct. 16, 2008 Although McCain did better then in the
previous debates, he failed to "close the deal". He had several chances to call
out Obama on various issues such as the tax and spend plan that Obama is
touting. He never asked Obama where he was going to get the money to carry out
his plans to lower taxes and he didn't explain how he was going to give tax
breaks to 95% of the American people when 40% don't pay taxes at
all.
Will he be sending non-tax payers a check when they
haven't contributed?
A lot of small businesses (my son's included) make
a quarter of a million dollars a year but their overhead is about 70 to 80%
of that amount therefore leaving them with barely enough to live on. If he
considered the NET profits that these businesses make then they would surely
fall below the taxable level. How can you tax the GROSS amount when most
of that goes for inventory and payroll.
My son's actual salary is around $50,000 per year
so how is it fair to tax him on the entire amount that his company generates? By
doing this Obama will guarantee that people like my son and "Joe the Plumber"
cannot run a small business nor hire employees. They certainly won't be able to
afford to provide their employees with medical insurance.
There were several areas where McCain missed the
boat when confronting Obama on his plans for America and for that reason he
(McCain) lost the debate and probably the election as well.
Obama is a very eloquent speaker but he really says
nothing about how he will execute his sweeping tax reforms. I for one, do not
believe that he will be able to accomplish anything that he speaks about. I for
one, do not believe that in this failing economy he will be able to cut taxes
and still pay for the many freebee programs that he outlines on the stump and
during the debates. How will he help pay for college tuition, health
insurance and build new forms of energy if there is less revenue coming in to
the government? Does he believe that the large corporations who are currently
going abroad due to lower taxes will stay here if he taxes them even more?
I don't agree with McCain on some issues but I do
agree with his proposal to have an across the board spending freeze until each
and every program currently in use is closely examined. Those that don't work
should be eliminated and those that are broken but serve the greater good should
be fixed and reformed.
The first thing that the new President should do is
eliminate lobbyists and their influence over the Congress. I believe that in
doing so we would see an immediate growth in funds available to the people. No
more ridiculous amounts of money going to various states for useless and
non-beneficial items. No more bridges to nowhere and over-head projectors to
name just a couple of ways that lobbyists influence our elected officials.
I believe that if an elected official votes for any
bill that is influenced by a lobbyist or if any elected official accepts
contributions in any form from one of the above that he or she should be removed
from their position.
Next, I would make sure that there are over-sight
committees formed; made up of not only experts in the various fields of interest
but of American citizens who have everything to gain and everything to lose from
how our tax dollars are spent.
We should be over-seeing the government and how
they spend our money and it's obvious that by simply electing someone to hold an
office in our state or district is not enough. It is also obvious by now
that once these people are elected they apparently forget about the people they
represent and do whatever they like with our money.
Another area I would address is the ability of
Congress to vote themselves raises without any accountability from the American
people. I don't get a $30,000 yearly cost of living raise; do you? I don't
determine how much of a raise I will get in my social security...the Congress
does. That would be the same Congress that is voting themselves ridiculous
amounts of money for doing NOTHING.
On many local ballots the salaries of the elected
officials are voted upon by the people so why not do the same for the Congress?
If the haven't accomplished anything than why give them any raise at all? Why
not have a probationary period like most of us are subjected too when we work
for someone? If they fail to deliver what they were elected to do during that
period they are subject to immediate dismissal. If all of us were given four
years or six years to prove our worth on the job then the bad apples would ruin
a lot of businesses. We would not be held accountable until our term expired and
we all know what that means.
I see our biggest problems coming from the Congress
(both houses) and if we deal with that then we might actually get somewhere in
improving conditions for all of us.
It's time for Congress to stop getting a free ride.
With a Congress totally controlled by one party and a President of that same
party there will be no stopping them from doing whatever they please. There will
be no checks and balances and that is not a good thing for any of us.
We have a voice and we really don't use it or speak
loudly enough for them to hear or care what we think or what we feel.
It's time for that to change and time for the
American people to exercise their rights under the Constitution. This is
supposed to be a government by the people and for the people but it isn't. Only
a few decide our fate and those few have their own special interests to fulfill.
We are getting the short end of the stick and there has to be some way to stop
this vicious cycle.
Simply voting is not enough. It's time for a
massive non-violent protest in whatever form that must take to change the
way things are run.
We did it before and we can do it again.
------------ About the author: Meri has a Medical/Legal background and is a former forensic researcher specializing in psychological profiling. Visit the Xlibris Bookstore! Email: writers2@cox.net Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com. Please link to this article rather than copying and pasting it onto your site (which would be unauthorized and illegal). |
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