Representative Michelle Bachman is a real uncaring BITCH! As I watched her interview with Gov. Huckabee, she stated she had a plan without increasing the debt ceiling, they don't have to go into default, just pay the interest on the debt, they have enough coming in to do that, and then set priorities for other payments.
So what would her priorities be? Hmmm... let's see now, you can be sure she'd be sure that all of the congressional members got their salaries & paid for their health care benefits, she'd probably be ok with making payment to our soldiers, but probably Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, WIC, Unemployment & Food Stamps wouldn't go out. But those tax subsidies most certainly would. (She has to make sure her business gets it's fair share doesn't she?)
To all of you who are so angry about our current situation, you have only yourselves to blame, you allowed George Bush to be placed into the presidential seat without the popular vote and let our Supreme Court to decide that Florida couldn't count all of the ballots to verify. We probably would have had Al Gore and he would have continued many of Clinton's policies like the balanced budget agreement, the paygo rule, and we probably wouldn't have gone into 2 wars, we might have been in Afghanistan but I'm sure we wouldn't have ventured into Iraq right now.
Also, we may have been out of Afghanistan by now, since we wouldn't have been trying to stretch our military too far. So when you scream and holler about what's going on.
The GOP is on a vendetta against the elderly, the poor and the disadvantaged, they don't care about the average american whatsoever. They've brainwashed you to believe that cutting taxes to corporations and the wealthiest, the rich are not "job creators" they don't need to create jobs anymore they've created their wealth and they can find cheaper labor overseas.
My current solution to the debt problem. First get rid of each and every tax credit, tax subsidy and deduction.
Second set the tax rate at 20% flat, then offer all individual tax returns a deduction based on the Federal Poverty Level, in other words the FPL for their family size is deducted right off the top, then they pay taxes on the balance at 20%. For corporations, they can receive a 5% research and development deduction and then they pay 20% on balance of all profits.
Take the cap off of Social Security entirely so everyone pays into it for their entire income and offer Medicare as a public option in lieu of a private insurance company for those who so choose. Allow young families the opportunity to buy into Medicaid by paying a monthly premium. Set it up similar to an HMO and start bartering for lower priced drugs through Medicare and Medicaid.
If you want to repeal the Health Care Reform Bill then find a solution that provides health care opportunities for all. Get Tort Reform, we need fewer lawyers and more doctors, nurses.
Cut your own salaries, increase your share of the health care benefit by 25%, invest in our infrastructure, get our roads, bridges and power grids modernized. Sell of some of your vacant buildings, now if any of you disagree with these ideas, explain to me why and which ones and what you would do instead.
How are you going to protect the children and families that rely on WIC, Medicaid, and the elderly and disabled who rely on their fixed incomes and Medicare to survive.
Are you going to let us have our Social Security Check on the 3rd of August? Or are you going to default on the millions of Americans who's only means of survival is that monthly check and let them lose their home, their transportation and their ability to eat?
It looks that way to me. I see a group of congressmen who just don't get it. They think that if you stand your ground the other side will cave. I guess go ahead do what you want to do hurt the poor, the elderly, and place more in the streets. Then explain to the world how you can justify your political genocide of the poor, the elderly and the disadvantaged. "We just fall through the cracks" We're just not rich enough for you to care about any of us out here struggling to keep a roof over our heads, a meal on our table or the medication we need to survive.
Feed your wealthy fat cats and walk to the bank. You'll see Saint Peter at the gates of heaven and I know God will remember what you've done.
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Friday, July 22, 2011
Jackson County DHS drops the ball again
Once again Jackson Country DHS fails to contact it's recipients via mail, email or phone to notify them of change in caseworker. This practice is just plain wrong, how can a DHS recipient provide information of changes in a timely fashion when they are not notified of a change. Even calling their last know caseworker proves fruitless, their only recourse is to contact the main office number only to discover that they have been re assigned to a new caseworker. This is appears to be a frequent occurrence with Jackson County DHS branch office. Not only does DHS not offer a toll-free number for their recipients, but because for much of the country a call to the office is long distance, those people in need spend what few dollars they might have in an attempt to contact their last known case worker without compensation for those lost funds. DHS could easily offer a toll-free number for those unable to afford the extra expense to have long distance service, or have a line dedicated for those outside the local exchange, such as Springport, parts of Albion (that are inside the Jackson Country line) and other small communities that don't offer a circle calling service to the city of Jackson, Michigan.
Director Ahmed please investigate this issue soon and try to rectify this situation ASAP, it's time we made it easier for those trying to get ahead, or just get help during emergencies easier to get in touch with their worker. As well as, knowing who their worker is at all times. If it weren't for people in need, they'd be out of a job as well as you'd be out of a job making the DHS program obsolete. Although some of the GOP members probably would like that to occur.
I realize that there is currently a huge caseload all over Michigan due to job losses, unemployment and business closings, but that doesn't mean we have to create an environment of despair for those in their time of need worse than it already is.
Director Ahmed please investigate this issue soon and try to rectify this situation ASAP, it's time we made it easier for those trying to get ahead, or just get help during emergencies easier to get in touch with their worker. As well as, knowing who their worker is at all times. If it weren't for people in need, they'd be out of a job as well as you'd be out of a job making the DHS program obsolete. Although some of the GOP members probably would like that to occur.
I realize that there is currently a huge caseload all over Michigan due to job losses, unemployment and business closings, but that doesn't mean we have to create an environment of despair for those in their time of need worse than it already is.
Monday, July 18, 2011
GOP Mantra Change Social Security
The GOP continues to say that Social Security is a ponzi scheme! That the money they're taking into Social Security now is being used to pay out to those who are retired. They fail to say that our government has had their greedy little fingers in the pot and borrowed from the Social Security fund for years.
Steve Jobs official salary is $1.00 per year but his stock options and stock owned in Apple equals $735B. Does that mean his total investment in FICA and MC equals 0.19 cents a year? And what about what he pays into Individual Income Tax? How much of his earnings on his $735B does he actually pay on? How many of the wealthy do this?
Let's take a look at who's paying into the Social Security program. Who pays the most and who pays the least.
If you're making $107K a year or less and your self-employed, you're paying both the employee side of SS and the Employer side of SS. So you're % is currently 11% (because of a 2% decrease in the employee side of the deduction) which is deducted from 100% of your salary, after that your share reduces as your earnings level rises. for example:
If you're making $250K a year you're paying 11% into SS up to $107K, you pay 0% on the other $143K of your earnings. So 107 x .11=11,770 paid in total for each year, so total expenditure for those making $250K is 4.74% of their total earnings, compared to those making $107K or less each year. This to me is a reverse progressive tax. Why is it that they can't raise the cap or remove it entirely? And to what extent do the wealthy actually pay into it?
No one pays into it from earnings on interest on savings, stocks, or from their private retirement accounts. Any earnings on non-payroll is exempt from being taxed either SS or Medicare. So how much do the very wealthy actually pay into this? More than likely less than .01% of their total income.
If we look at Steve Jobs for example is less than .000000000000259 of 1% of his total earnings. Now tell me is that fair? That's his total expenditure into both SS and Medicare. I know he's probably not using Medicare and has no need for Social Security, but it's the taxpayers who've bought his products that's made him his billions, why shouldn't he pay to help those same consumers who made him rich, continue to be able to consume his products in the future?
It's time we began to use common sense, rather than a political idealism to grow our economy. I'm sorry, but if reducing taxes to big business, corporations, etc. worked why did jobs leave during the Bush II Admin, when taxes were reduced to the highest income levels? And why, when taxes were higher during Clinton's last 4 year term was there job growth and a projected budget surplus of over $12B dollars? It's time we brought back the Clinton's PayGo rule, the Balanced Budget Agreement and the Clinton tax structure, and we began to invest in our infrastructure, create a WPA program for the long-term unemployed, like they did during the Depression. People could be repairing our roads, building out our broadband, repairing our older government buildings and so on and so forth. Let's do what we did during the depression, and get people back to work, once people have more money to spend, the business' will then be able to bring more jobs back.
Steve Jobs official salary is $1.00 per year but his stock options and stock owned in Apple equals $735B. Does that mean his total investment in FICA and MC equals 0.19 cents a year? And what about what he pays into Individual Income Tax? How much of his earnings on his $735B does he actually pay on? How many of the wealthy do this?
Let's take a look at who's paying into the Social Security program. Who pays the most and who pays the least.
If you're making $107K a year or less and your self-employed, you're paying both the employee side of SS and the Employer side of SS. So you're % is currently 11% (because of a 2% decrease in the employee side of the deduction) which is deducted from 100% of your salary, after that your share reduces as your earnings level rises. for example:
If you're making $250K a year you're paying 11% into SS up to $107K, you pay 0% on the other $143K of your earnings. So 107 x .11=11,770 paid in total for each year, so total expenditure for those making $250K is 4.74% of their total earnings, compared to those making $107K or less each year. This to me is a reverse progressive tax. Why is it that they can't raise the cap or remove it entirely? And to what extent do the wealthy actually pay into it?
No one pays into it from earnings on interest on savings, stocks, or from their private retirement accounts. Any earnings on non-payroll is exempt from being taxed either SS or Medicare. So how much do the very wealthy actually pay into this? More than likely less than .01% of their total income.
If we look at Steve Jobs for example is less than .000000000000259 of 1% of his total earnings. Now tell me is that fair? That's his total expenditure into both SS and Medicare. I know he's probably not using Medicare and has no need for Social Security, but it's the taxpayers who've bought his products that's made him his billions, why shouldn't he pay to help those same consumers who made him rich, continue to be able to consume his products in the future?
It's time we began to use common sense, rather than a political idealism to grow our economy. I'm sorry, but if reducing taxes to big business, corporations, etc. worked why did jobs leave during the Bush II Admin, when taxes were reduced to the highest income levels? And why, when taxes were higher during Clinton's last 4 year term was there job growth and a projected budget surplus of over $12B dollars? It's time we brought back the Clinton's PayGo rule, the Balanced Budget Agreement and the Clinton tax structure, and we began to invest in our infrastructure, create a WPA program for the long-term unemployed, like they did during the Depression. People could be repairing our roads, building out our broadband, repairing our older government buildings and so on and so forth. Let's do what we did during the depression, and get people back to work, once people have more money to spend, the business' will then be able to bring more jobs back.
Been busy with my Poetry Blog
I've been very busy working to move my poetry from my "At Home In Springport" blog to another one dedicated to my poetry and story writings, lately so I haven't been quite as active on this blog as I should have been. So sorry I haven't kept my readers updated like I should have been doing.
Anyways, here's an update for you. It's official I've finally gotten all of my poetry officially moved to it's own location now. You can view all of my poetry at "FamaSemperVivat's Poetry" I've also been busy learning new blogging skills and designing blogger templates for others.
Isn't the World Wide Web great? I have found and developed friendships via the internet with people from all over the world, via social networking, Chim she's from Capetown South Africa, she's a young writer I met and she is a co-author for another blog I've developed "Poets-In-Training" she is an accounting assistant in Capetown and she also has had a poem of hers published! She's working on her very first novel and I personally think it's awesome, I'm sure we'll see more of her words in print soon.
Many of my world wide web friends have been met through my love of writing and on one particular website devoted to writing and that is All Poetry. Recently AP (All Poetry) went through a major redesign and we all have been struggling to come to terms with all of the changes. Because of this I've ventured out to other writing networks and found a couple that I enjoy quite a bit Jabber Tale is one, and Writer's Cafe is another.
AP's sister site; Story Write is for those who like to write stories rather than poems, from short stories to full blown novels. My sister Terri (some of you may remember her from school here) is writing there, but she doesn't do much right now. She's just learning to navigate a computer and she's been into playing online games more than anything else, she has learned how to use Messenger and I get IMs all the time from her now, she's even learned how to send emoticons (learned all on her own) and I now get winks, nudges and emoticons from her almost every afternoon.
Living 1200 miles apart the internet has brought us closer together, she recently married the man she's lived with for almost 30 years. More of a formality, than anything. But I'm rambling, and getting off track here.
So for the time being. Do these things for me..
A. Visit my new poetry site: http://fsvpoetry.blogspot.com
B. Visit my facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/imalwaysintrouble
C: Follow me on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/suzie_qs
D. Follow my blogs: http://poets-in-training.blogspot.com ; http://pit-young-poets-corner.blogspot.com ; http://www.poets-in-training.com
E. Bookmark this blog!
Thanks and hope you're all having a great summer!
Anyways, here's an update for you. It's official I've finally gotten all of my poetry officially moved to it's own location now. You can view all of my poetry at "FamaSemperVivat's Poetry" I've also been busy learning new blogging skills and designing blogger templates for others.
Isn't the World Wide Web great? I have found and developed friendships via the internet with people from all over the world, via social networking, Chim she's from Capetown South Africa, she's a young writer I met and she is a co-author for another blog I've developed "Poets-In-Training" she is an accounting assistant in Capetown and she also has had a poem of hers published! She's working on her very first novel and I personally think it's awesome, I'm sure we'll see more of her words in print soon.
Many of my world wide web friends have been met through my love of writing and on one particular website devoted to writing and that is All Poetry. Recently AP (All Poetry) went through a major redesign and we all have been struggling to come to terms with all of the changes. Because of this I've ventured out to other writing networks and found a couple that I enjoy quite a bit Jabber Tale is one, and Writer's Cafe is another.
AP's sister site; Story Write is for those who like to write stories rather than poems, from short stories to full blown novels. My sister Terri (some of you may remember her from school here) is writing there, but she doesn't do much right now. She's just learning to navigate a computer and she's been into playing online games more than anything else, she has learned how to use Messenger and I get IMs all the time from her now, she's even learned how to send emoticons (learned all on her own) and I now get winks, nudges and emoticons from her almost every afternoon.
Living 1200 miles apart the internet has brought us closer together, she recently married the man she's lived with for almost 30 years. More of a formality, than anything. But I'm rambling, and getting off track here.
So for the time being. Do these things for me..
A. Visit my new poetry site: http://fsvpoetry.blogspot.com
B. Visit my facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/imalwaysintrouble
C: Follow me on twitter: http://www.twitter.com/suzie_qs
D. Follow my blogs: http://poets-in-training.blogspot.com ; http://pit-young-poets-corner.blogspot.com ; http://www.poets-in-training.com
E. Bookmark this blog!
Thanks and hope you're all having a great summer!
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