Michael1942's Blog

The current all consuming struggle to raise the debt ceiling has generated a lot of talk from the high profile participants but no solution. The simplest solution involves cuts and increased taxes. The proposed increase in taxes would affect the wealthier individuals, this group involves many of the Congressional members as well as the President. The President has previously mentioned this but the Congress in their own self centered way have distorted this to seem that every taxpayer will be assessed in this raise. While the “cuts” are ones that affect seniors and the neediest people. The purpose of this deceit is to get public opinion on their side and thereby garner votes at election time. To make a point, Warren Buffet expressed the thought that he would not be against paying more taxes but this was never widely publicized. Our Congress in all of their self serving rhetoric do not feel the need to join in on this because they do not represent anyone but themselves. Where else can a person gain an office where the annual pay increases come regularly without discussion ( a law enacted by Congress makes this possible), receive a generous pension after one term and have a broad coverage health plan at a good price? The Scamocrats and Dupublicans have spent the last 10 to 15 years with this problem looming on the horizon and done nothing about it. Now they apparently want to pin this problem to the lapel of the President.. It is unfortunate that America’s politics is as dirty as ever and possibly as bad as it was pre-civil war. Our erstwhile elected officials have made a mockery of the offices they occupy and completely forgotten what the job is about.