In his State of the Union address, President Obama stated “We can either settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do really well, while a growing number of Americans bearly get by. Or we can restore an economy where everyone does their fair share and everyone plays by the same set of rules.”
What a crock of bull. The biggest offenders of not playing by the same set of rules are the ones we elected to Washington, as evidenced in a variety of ways:
• Insider trading. What sent Martha Stewart to jail is legal for them to do.
• Social Security. What both I and my employer paid into they are exempt from. What took me 45 years to collect from they get to collect on their program after just one term.
• Medicare. Same as Social Security. I paid into it and it took me until I reached 65 to “collect” and every month I still pay for it out of my Social Security check.
• Pay raises. I was never able to vote myself a pay raise.
How is any of this “playing by the same set of rules?
How about being able to spend more than I make? I certainly can’t but our government continues to do so. Why? If you want to fix our country’s estimated $16.7 trillion federal debt and counting; stop spending money we don’t have. Stop all foreign aid. Stop research such as that on the sex life of the titsi fly. Stop government growth (agencies, czars, etc.). Enact a 30 percent excise tax on all imports (this will bring jobs back home). Get rid of the current tax code and enact a 20 percent flat tax on everybody (including our politicians).
Speaking of taxes, how can somebody who owes $40,000 or more get to be appointed to the Obama White House cabinet?
And finally, elect a president who hasn’t increased our federal debt by over 60 percent in just three years. Maybe this is just too logical for the Washington crowd, but it shouldn’t be to the rest of us.
The writer lives in Ocean Isle Beach, N.C.
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