Who Is in Your Wallet?

Remember the ads the Republicans ran once about the Democratic Fat Cats in Washington, DC. They were talking about members of Congress who were in office and all they wanted to do was tax and spend while the rest of the country had to pick up the bills. Well where are those ads now that the largest budget surplus in American history under the Democrats has turned into the largest deficits by the Republicans in the history of mankind? Now, this was before all the good pastors on the Religious Right made the Republicans officially good people, so it does not really matter that your grandchildren are going to be paying $500 billion on the War in Iraq.

Have you paid the Alternative Minimum Tax yet, so a few ultra millionaires can go on a vacation with your IRS money? Have you signed on for Social Security cuts of up to 30% for a family making $35,000 a year so Republicans can raid the Social Security Trust Fund and avoid paying it back? Now granted this might make your retirement years one long struggle to survive, but you can comfort yourself with the knowledge that some ultra millionaire is doing great on their private accounts they funded with your money.

Have you gone golfing in London, South East Asia, Hawaii or anywhere paid by a lobbyist then ruled in their favor to give tax breaks to American companies with a foreign mailing address and sent American jobs overseas paid for by tax deductions from your pay check? Have you looked in on the ethics of these people or are they good people anyway and don’t need censure? Have you ever heard of a con man that anyone didn’t think was a good guy until they lost all their money? Have you tried to compete with the lowest-paying jobs in the world?

Have you seen your own income shrink so these same companies can pay for the takeover costs of former good-paying employers that they bought out, but did not really have the funds to pay for the buyout? Have you seen taxes on the local level rise, fees, and costs of petroleum rise, but your own income decrease? Have you seen healthcare costs increase dramatically, the insurance premiums cost more, and medicine cost more, but wages pay less?

Have you ever considered free trade and enterprise was what a pirate called stealing your money? Don’t you think that Black Beard, Morgan the pirate, and the Vandals that pillaged the countryside were against limited restrictions on their wealth too? Don’t you think it’s finally time to ask, “Who Is in Your Wallet? “

-Thomas P Love