Budget Plan

So, apparently, there is some movement on the budget. And, it appears, it isn't good movement.
Some Republicans have agreed to a White House plan that includes a $1 trillion dollar tax hike--that's no misprint, one trillion dollars! Who are these loons?!?!? And our own Michigan Congressman Sander Levin claims, "The Republicans are trying to get rid of the second half of the 20th Century." This guy is supposed to be intelligent. Maybe much of the second half of the 20th Century needs riddance! How can he not see how bloated the federal gov't is? Isn't he one of the wealthiest in the Congress, at least his family? Why doesn't he give up all his wealth, maybe down to $50K a year, and donate it to taxes if he believes so strongly federal programs and spending? Oh, he doesn't believe in it if it's his money--it's other people's money he wants to spend.

Gee, am I surprised I haven't received any answer to my lengthy letter to Governor Snyder? No, not really. As several people told me, he won't answer because he thinks he has all of the answers. Well, as I've blogged here, I think he has some answers. I've refused several opportunities to sign recall petitions. I don't think he should be. But I do think he needs to listen to people other than merely the ones to whom he listens. Are all of these politicians alike? Do they all think they and only they have the answers? Are they that arrogant? Are they that elitist?

Note, the above cites a member of one party and one from the other party. I think both parties are bad. They need to be replaced. They have made it difficult, some say impossible, for a new party to emerge. Is there any more evidence needed that both the Dems and Reps are anti-democratic?

Gee, $1 trillion in new taxes????? BTW, who is going to pay these new taxes? And, when those (could it be the dreaded wealthy?) folks lose their $1 trillion, how many jobs will be lost or not created? Steve Wynn, the Las Vegas billionaire, ripped on the federal government, specifically Obama and his folks. He said he and other people of wealth are not investing because they fear what they see coming out of DC. They are sitting on their money until the climate becomes more favorable for investment. I wonder why the unemployed aren't parading in the streets--it's jobs for them which aren't being created. It's the people they voted for who have created such an anti-investment climate. We all know why. The gov't gives them money to keep them quiet--unemployment, welfare, ADC, Medicare/Medicaid, etc. What is the derisive term historians have given to the exact same thing the Romans did to keep the masses quiet when they were being raked over--Bread and Circuses? Give them all that gov't money and then pound them with football, American Idol, and other smut on television. Bread and circuses, almost 2000 years later.

Yes, what we've created in "the second half of the 20th Century" isn't always so good. Some senior citizen was moaning about cuts in Social Security, what he "worked for and deserves." It's as if nobody else, certainly not the despicable wealthy, ever "worked for and deserves" what they get and have--just him. It's like the guy who thought the wealthy should pay more taxes, "their fair share." Trying to tell him they do fell on deaf ears. Asking why he opposed paying taxes on his public sector pension was met with, "But I earned it!" Again, I guess the wealthy don't "earn" their money. See what we've created, Congressman Levin? Thanks.