REPUBLICANS ARE HUMAN TOO

 REPUBLICANS ARE HUMAN TOO

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(All the News That Nobody Else Will Print)

Aha, I knew that headline would grab your interest, if for nothing else then to see what another wacko was talking about. The United States political system is not hard to figure out; in fact it’s really easy to understand…just as quickly as a person accepts just the three basic rules of survival. And those three basic rules are the same the world over…honest, and I’m not making this stuff up.

 

Everybody and I mean everybody needs somebody to love, three meals a day, and a roof over your head for protection. Almost like that old saying, “Three hots and a cot” and the quicker we all remember this basic rule, the better off the country and the world will be.

 

The United States is currently in the midst of the grand experiment that is called the country’s “Political process.” A sillier practice there never has been, muck-raking, and all that the term implies, tends to blur issues until they are actually unrecognizable to the electorate…and the US is the most informed peoples in the world!

 

There are some basic truths that US citizens needs to accept, truths that are rock solid facts that separate the dominate political parties, the Democrats and the Republicans. The divides aren’t shadowy, or secrets, they are as plain as the noses on people’s faces.

 

Democrats or liberals favor a sharing of financial resources; they like to get into everybody’s back pockets, grab some of your cash, and spread it around…to everybody. They like social programs, they like universal health care, and they like a kind of welfare state.

 

Republicans like to keep their money, they figure that they worked for it, and by God, don’t want anybody grabbing it for any reason. They think that 90% of social programs should be wiped away, and that people should work for, and provide their own benefits and care.

 

With regards to taxation issues, both sides of the political isle favor some form of tax cuts in some instances. Democrats favor a kind of pick and chose program to eliminate some taxation while Republicans favor a across the board slash and cut style.

 

Here I clash with both parties, I happen to believe that our system of taxation should, in fact, be of a higher percentage. I don’t feel that an 18% tax of lower income people is fair, nor do I figure that a 36% tax rate is fair for those people that are making more than $200,000. This issue should be at the top of the things that we should solve. Not our elected officials…but we all should sit, talk about this issue, and then collectively decide how to tax ourselves.

 

What Are Taxes Anyways and Where Do They Come From and Go

 

The question of how long people have been being taxed is actually an academic one; people have been paying taxes to a higher source since the beginning of time…almost. Ancient pharaohs road around in their chariots 5000 years ago collecting funds to operate the kingdom in Egypt, or anyways that’s what my source says.

 

The United States did not invent the habit of taxing legal citizens, however they might have invented the practice of taxing people at various levels, like state, regional, area, and local. Every time you pay an excise tax, or as they say, “A consumption or commodity charge” you are paying a local, state, and federal tax…kind of like a triple header attack on your wallet.

 

Most Republicans see red around April 15 of each year; it’s kind of like the “fess-up day” for people who guard their income like it’s a national treasure. These are the people who pee and moan about the size of their payments, or if they are like my brother-in-law, pee and moan every time they pay their quarterly.

 

Believe it or not…in my opinion, taxes are a good thing, “If spent for the proper programs, and kept away from those greedy bastard corporate entities.” Yup that’s right, you’re reading right, let me repeat it, “Taxes are a good thing.” But that is the trick, to get those tax dollars to the proper programs, and keep them out of the wrong hands...something that the government seems to be unable, or unwilling to do.

 

If you break down how much is spent on every single dollar that the government gets in tax payments for Mr. or Mrs. John Q. or Joan Q. Public, it’s broken down about this way, (1) military .27 cents, health care .22.7, interest on debt .13.9, unemployment .9.8, veterans benefits .5.1, food and agriculture .5, government .4.5, housing and community .4, education .2, energy and environment 1.9, international affairs .1.5, transportation .1.4, sciences .1.1.

 

The above should add up to a dollar bill, notice any discrepancies, I mean maybe too much is being spent in one category, or maybe one of your pet peeves isn’t being stroked enough with Uncle Sam’s greenbacks?

 

Let break our tax appropriations down so that even simple people like me can fully understand where our tax dollars are going: $3,174.25, military, $2,662.58, health, interest on national debt, $1,624.58, unemployment and labor, $1,146.58, veterans benefits, $592.00, food and agriculture, $591.12, government, $532.94, housing and community, $467.70, education, $237.97, energy and environment, $217.25, international affairs, $177.29, transportation, $159.35, sciences, $131.29. Added all together the above figures are what the average U.S. taxpayer pays…$11,715.00.

 

Tax dollars in varying degrees come directly from United States citizens, those taxes are paid in different ways, and in varying amounts. Our elected officials through committees, suggested bills, or in special interest situations decide where the money will go, and who gets their mitts on it.

 

Appropriations are packaged in request budgets from dozens of governmental departments, and sub-departments, and go before other committees before it is submitted to the President, who in turn relies on his advisors to hammer out a finished product that will be submitted.

 

Do you see where I’m coming from, both Republicans and Democrats are involved in the American process that decides how much, and where our tax dollars go. It isn’t a single bogie man or political party, it’s a cross section of people, people of different faiths, different genders, and different colors…it’s really the only thing that the United States is noted for, it’s melting pot of people.

 

The 2015 proposed budget “preliminary actual” was $3.249 trillion, down from $3.34 trillion requested. The total expenditures projected are $3.685, which will leave the United States in a deficit spending mode.

 

There are more figures, but my vision is becoming blurry, and I deal with statistical figures every day, so I figure to give you a break. Suffice it to say that to say that the United States is up to its butt in debt, and at the present time has no plans of getting out from under it.  

 

Once Again We Enter the Silly Season

 

The country is now entering what I refer to as the silly season, it’s the time where perfectly sane people begin to act like kids, slinging mud all over the place against people in their own political party as well as those of a different political persuasion. Each talk about how they will fix what is wrong in the country…depending on which party they are from.

 

These are perfectly intelligent, usually hard working, and patriotic individuals whose only flaw is that they have a different opinion from their opposition…in their own party as well as any other party.

 

This debate between the political parties has been going on for over 200 years, however in modern times the U.S. has managed to whittle the number of political thinking to just two parties, the Democrats and the Republicans. Also between the politicians and those powers that be have redesigned our political process to resemble a popularity, who’s the best looking, and who can be manipulated the best.

 

Oh yea…it also takes millions of dollars to operate a modern political campaign on many levels throughout the country. That task, of raising millions of dollars to run a 21^st century campaign cuts all sorts of good people, with wonderful ideas out of the equation.

 

Our political process not resembles something like a monarch, where just a few people have the power to operate the country. The United States is one of the older countries in existence today, 237 years old. What do you feel are the chances for the country to see its 250^th birthday…I would say less than a 50-50 chance, how about you smarty pants?

 

Have A Nice Day!