Bettering our society

The news of the past few days has proven that Congress and this administration are so far out of touch with the vast majority of Americans that they would need to get in touch with everyone in order to get any more out of touch. Let's take a look at a few of the ways that they've decided to better our society.

In order to pay for health care for the masses they are contemplating taxing the health care benefits of those of us who actually have jobs and health care. Never mind the fact that health care has been a pre-tax deduction ever since I have been working but now we want to tax those who are already carrying the load even more to pay for other's health care. I realize that we already do pay for this, to some extent, with increased costs at hospitals but in order to make it fair to everyone we will tax those who are paying the freight even more.

Then we have the new CAFE standards that our friends in the White house are proposing. It is estimated that this will raise the cost of a new car or truck by as much as $1,300.00 per vehicle. This is another concept to make things fair, after all if it is good enough for California it should be good enough for all of us.

Lastly we have the ever popular Cap and Trade policy that is another guaranteed tax on everyone starting at the lowest income level and going from there. The CBO estimates that this will hit the lowest income households approximately 3.3%, the middle quintiles between 2.7% - 2.9% and the highest income quintile 1.7%. It seems that the hardest hit groups would be the 95% of Americans that the President is constantly saying that he is least willing to add taxes on.

It could just be me but I'm pretty sure that the idiots in Washington need to start facing the same taxes that they lay on everyone else. They constantly write laws that they are immune from, starting with taxes, and then claim that they don't understand why we are getting tired of them. Personally I think it is time for a wake-up call. Contact your reps and tell them that it is time for the government to live within it's means and to leave our wallets the hell alone.

ETA: Pushing more taxes on the people in a time of recession has been tried in the past. The last time round brought us the great depression. Maybe those on capital hill need to read more history.

Hypocrisy? Nah...

I was just reading an article from Newsweek about how the President is once again attacking businesses that are sheltering money overseas, as well as persons who are doing the same, and how he wants to put stringent regulations on businesses that are moving jobs overseas. Immediately after that I found another article about Fiat taking over Chrysler. Is it just me, or does anyone else see hypocrisy in an administration that will damn business for moving jobs overseas and then force an American company to sell out to an Italian company? What, are none of those jobs at Chrysler going to go to Italy? None of the profit will be going to Italy either I guess. Yet no one in any major media outlet seems to be able to identify this as being an issue, or are they just too far in love?

Missed during the Spector debacle

Last week, on the 29th to be specific, the Attorney General of the United States, Eric Holder, was asked a question about co-operating with a Spanish judge who is contemplating bringing charges against officials in the Bush administration because of the "torture memos" that were released by the Obama administration. (See final two paragraphs: http://tinyurl.com/cnwvuf) Mr. Holder, in his infinite wisdom, decided to say that he had not ruled out co-operating with the judge's investigation. Perhaps Mr. Holder needs to have someone re-read his oath of office to him, particularly the part about "uphold and defend the constitution" since it seems to be foreign to him that this type of decision would be above his pay grade and only for the president himself to authorize. Mr. Holder is best known as the man behind the Elian Gonzales decision under the Clinton administration where he came to the conclusion that we should ignore the laws that allow Cuban citizens immunity once they are on U. S. soil. Is it any wonder why some of us question his appropriateness as Attorney General to begin with?