Money, money, money, moooooonay! Money! MMMMMMMMMoney! We all need it and want it, but right now, most of us just don’t have it. Hell, even the things we do have we’re starting to lose…our jobs, our housing, our sanity!
So, what’s the answer? Well, we could end the war in Iraq and let the Iraqis use their 70 billion dollars of oil profits to clean things up. We could stop giving the biggest tax cuts to the people who can actually afford to pay taxes. How about we only speak about the economy in general terms? There’s no need for specifics, right? It’s just money.
I know! Earmarks! We cut earmark spending! That’s all we need, it’s the magic cure to all of our economic woes.
After all, earmarks account for a whole $18 billion! Wow, that is a LOT of money! There’s the fix, right there!
Wait, what? Our national debt is over $400 billion per year???? Well, what happens to the rest of that debt??? Eh, who cares, it’s not like banks are closing all around us or the dow jones dropped some insane amount or anything. When that happens, we should start to worry about that other $400 billion.
Tax cuts are reasonable, especially if we keep giving the richest people the biggest benefit of these cuts, right? Not according to Alan Greenspan. He says the country can’t afford tax cuts of the magnitude proposed by John McCain — at least not without a corresponding reduction in government spending.
But, but, he is cutting spending…see “earmarks” above. $18 billion cut from $3.3 trillion…let’s see that’s….1%? So, why is a 1% cut in spending getting 75% of the airtime for the McCain campaign? We need some mathematicians around here to throw some logic into the situation.
This little letter highlights that a local news station shows that McCain’s economic plan would give us a national debt that is $1.2 trillion higher than Obama’s plan. Trillion?!?!? I can’t even comprehend how much that is! Billion is a lot, but trillion??? Holy hell! I’m sure that has nothing to do with giving all of the rich people tax cuts, right Johnny?
But, even if that’s the case, we know how honest John McCain has been. Republicans are even going out of their way for Michigan voters to make sure that those who can’t afford their houses and are being foreclosed on don’t have to worry about the hassle of voting. After all, if the government forecloses on houses because residents can’t afford to pay bills due to the economy being in the toilet because the government has screwed the pooch in the past 8 years, it is the homeowner’s fault. And if they don’t have a house, how can they possibly “reside” anywhere? It’s just plain common sense! Someone else craps on your life and you have to pick up the pieces with not even so much as your right to vote.
The economic problems of this country can be solved by cutting $18 billion dollars worth of earmarks? I realize we like to have things dumbed down for us sometimes, but if you put a pile of 18 million pennies next to a pile of 3.3 trillion pennies, even a Kindergartner can tell you they’re not the same. They’re not even close.
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