From LaVern Isely, Monroe
Day after day, you hear about all those Republicans running for president. I wonder if any of them have a solution to our number one problem that is our growing debt. It's been taking place now for about ten years and it's getting to the point that Standard & Poors and Moody's say we can't keep borrowing to pay our debts.
The Republican solution is cut everything except taxes on the wealthiest two percent that have half the wealth. If Republicans insist that this is the only solution and the media doesn't want to question them about what a two-class system would look like in our country, the richest two percent would have high fences, a private police force, plenty of money to buy their luxuries because they have half the wealth.
Now the 98 percent of us that have the other half are going to have to get by with probably cuts to our public police force, probably meaning more crime, poor run schools and probably many more big jails to keep all these people in because it seems like politicians only respect the people that give them large contributions.
You've probably noticed some of these get-togethers where they can raise $10 million in one day. Now, as a candidate, they would work hard for the people giving them that kind of money. After all, every candidate wants to get reelected and certainly don't raise the taxes on the wealthy like President Franklin Roosevelt did. All these things this four-time elected president did and the Republicans called him a Socialist and the far right-wingers called him a Communist which is a lie.
Just read some of the excerpts I've been putting on WordPress written by James MacGregor Burns, who has probably written more on Roosevelt than anybody. His last one is "The Crosswinds of Freedom: From Roosevelt to Reagan, America in the last half-century: a time of economic depression, world war, social and cultural upheaval and extraordinary prosperity." The 98 percent of us in the middle class can't keep supporting the people on the bottom of the classes. We're a house divided and we could use some of Mr. Roosevelt's ideas but up to now, we haven't done that. The money to pay for welfare should be on a yearly basis from the income tax being put in the general fund and not using money borrowed from other sources.
Day after day, you hear about all those Republicans running for president. I wonder if any of them have a solution to our number one problem that is our growing debt. It's been taking place now for about ten years and it's getting to the point that Standard & Poors and Moody's say we can't keep borrowing to pay our debts.
The Republican solution is cut everything except taxes on the wealthiest two percent that have half the wealth. If Republicans insist that this is the only solution and the media doesn't want to question them about what a two-class system would look like in our country, the richest two percent would have high fences, a private police force, plenty of money to buy their luxuries because they have half the wealth.
Now the 98 percent of us that have the other half are going to have to get by with probably cuts to our public police force, probably meaning more crime, poor run schools and probably many more big jails to keep all these people in because it seems like politicians only respect the people that give them large contributions.
You've probably noticed some of these get-togethers where they can raise $10 million in one day. Now, as a candidate, they would work hard for the people giving them that kind of money. After all, every candidate wants to get reelected and certainly don't raise the taxes on the wealthy like President Franklin Roosevelt did. All these things this four-time elected president did and the Republicans called him a Socialist and the far right-wingers called him a Communist which is a lie.
Just read some of the excerpts I've been putting on WordPress written by James MacGregor Burns, who has probably written more on Roosevelt than anybody. His last one is "The Crosswinds of Freedom: From Roosevelt to Reagan, America in the last half-century: a time of economic depression, world war, social and cultural upheaval and extraordinary prosperity." The 98 percent of us in the middle class can't keep supporting the people on the bottom of the classes. We're a house divided and we could use some of Mr. Roosevelt's ideas but up to now, we haven't done that. The money to pay for welfare should be on a yearly basis from the income tax being put in the general fund and not using money borrowed from other sources.
