Impeding changes to our Health Care system

[Stormieweather]

No doubt. And that's the reason I don't bother coming here usually.

But as long as I'm hanging my ass out here, I might as well post another one - an opinion piece:

RJ Eskow-Huffington Post

The top 25 hedge fund managers in the United States collectively earned $22 billion last year, and yet they have their own cushy set of tax rules. If they operated under the same rules that apply to other people -- police officers, for example, or teachers -- the country could cut its national deficit by as much as $44 billion in the next ten years.

Yeah, why do we have different rules for different people?

I pay my taxes. I'm in the middle tax bracket and work 65-70 hours per week to earn it. I don't mind paying my taxes. I'm not resentful that I have to do so. What I am resentful of are the people and the corporations who don't "need" every last dime, who pay very little or nothing.

I know the very wealthy have no sympathy for those who earn very little, but I've been there, at the bottom. When you earn $200 dollars a week, you can't pay for child care (so you can work), or groceries, never mind a rent payment or car payment. To suggest that they need to pay another 10-20% of gross pay towards taxes is absurd. Snotting about how they should get better jobs is also stupid since the people at the top are the ones paying the $200 dollar a week wages. Who wants to pay the restaurant dishwasher $75k a year? Or pay clerks in your stores $60k? And what would we do if no one washed the dishes, dug the ditches or cleaned the motel rooms? People with wealth take for granted the services provided by those with low incomes.

I don't see anyone thinking beyond the end of their noses here. What happens to families who lose their jobs and homes and become homeless? We just ignore them and thank God it's not US? Let em get sick and die from malnutrition and exposure. No health care for them either. Fuck 'em. There are hundreds of people applying for grocery bagger position, many with degrees and 5 kids. Just praying for a few dollars so their children can eat. They were successful and on track, just a year or three ago. How is the average high school graduate supposed to compete? There is a local elementary school here, where 1 in 4 children are homeless. They live in cars and motels and tents. They have no food, no clothes and no school supplies. Most of their parents aren't homeless due to drugs or laziness or mental illness. They're there because a job poofed and unemployment ended, they lost their home and they had no where to go. But America doesn't give a shit anymore. Who the fuck cares, it's not my problem, is what we say. My money is MY money, those fuckers can work just like me to earn their own money. Every unemployed person I know (and I know quite a few) would LOVE to be out there earning their own money. And no, the very rich are NOT making more jobs with all these tax breaks they get. They're investing that extra money in fucking hedge funds and making even more money. That they can't possibly use and don't need.

You're rich. Get over it.

Hidden social programs for the wealthy ie: tax loopholes.

What really needs to be addressed is government waste and pork projects. Before we take the easy road and cut funding to poor people, we need to address the financial bleeding that goes on in every government in every state and city across the country.

Waste

24% increase in pork over 2010!!! <---just one agency!!


Alright...back to work. I won't be back to this thread, so save your breath.