I am going to use my Medicare check to bolster the American economy. I will be going next week into an America hospital to have eye surgery performed by an American doctor.
My doctor has two big houses (housing industry) filled with fancy furniture (furniture industry) and four fancy cars (automobile industry). He has fancy clothes (clothing industry) and eats out at least once a day (restaurant industry) and eats in the rest of the time (grocery industry and farmers). I could even be supporting prostitution, for all I know. :p
Me? I've been waiting 32 years and haven't been trickled on yet. Yes, eliminate the Free Ride: Farm subsidies, a lower tax rate for investors, tax cuts for shipping jobs overseas, frivolous deductions, tax havens in Bermuda, the list just goes on.... It starts at the top!
"One thing about discipline ... you don't discipline the bottom," Tom O'Brien, the head football coach at N.C. State University and ex-Marine, said. "You discipline the people at the top and when you do, then everybody stands up and pays attention."
;O I used my work ethic and innovative ideas to get ahead. But Ronald Reagan's BOOM never trickled down to me or my family. All I can say is that I am better off now than I was fours ago -- not impressed with (or scared by) Republicans who have no numbers to
believe in.
In fact, of the Presidential elections I've voted in, I have gone backwards under Republicans -- '84, '88, '92, '04, '08 -- and gone forward under Democrats -- '96, '00, '12. I'd rather vote for Jill Biden's husband -- in case there any James Earl Rays reading this -- than Mitt Romney.
If I had the reins, I'd start by:
1. Adding a Constitutional amendment saying that the Bill Of Rights applies to individual living adult humans -- none of that "corporations are people" nonsense.
2. Eliminating the Social Security tax cap -- make Mitt Romney (and members of Congress and the President) pay the same rate as I do. My Grandma, when she died last year, was drawing $470 a month. That works out to a little bit less than what someone pays who pays the cap.
Members of Congress support a little more than one Grandma every year but could support two Grandmas (if they paid the same rate as I do on all of their income). John McCain supports a little more than one Grandma every year but could support four Grandmas (if he paid the same rate as I do on all of his income). Barack Obama supports a little more than one Grandma every year but could support 17 Grandmas (if he paid the same rate as I do on all of his income). Mitt Romney supports a little more than one Grandma every year but could support 300 Grandmas (if he paid the same rate as I do on all of his income).
Who is ripping off Grandma? Not me -- I am a lil' job creator: Where's my tax cut!?! :p
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