I am equally annoyed with democrats. Now-a-days I criticize both parties, its just in this instance the republican reasoning gave me a wtf moment. The political system in this country is corrupt and irrevocably broken. The same corporations and special interest groups hedge their bets by funding both parties. This ensures that regardless of the outcome they still end up dictating policy.
By-and-large I am a little left of the fence, but only because corporate pandering is so obvious on the right. Large corporations outsource jobs, they don't create them. Some seventy plus percent of jobs in this country are created by small business. I own a small business and can tell you the reason I am not hiring has nothing to do with my tax rate.
Just five percent of the people in the US control seventy-five percent of the money in this country and most have tax breaks that have them paying little more in taxes than their middle-class counterpart. If they paid around 10-15% (excluding that FICA bitch) like the rest of us...our governments financial problems would be solved...
Just to put it into scope, the US GDP is $14,000,000,000,000. The top 5% (about 1-1.5million people, not including corporations which are people as defined by the 14th Amendment) control $10,500,000,000,000. Fifteen percent of that is $1,575,000,000,000. Which happens to be the deficit to date for this year. Amazing...If the corporations and fat-cats at the top would play fair, we would actually be succeeding as a country.
