Why Romney's Tax Plan Will Hurt The American People

     Cutting taxes to raise the level of prosperity of the population will not work.  By cutting deductions for the top one percent and lowering taxes, you leave the American government vastly underfunded.

     This gives the leadership an additional mandate with far more sinister implications.  They can now cut education, and other things very important to the average american: Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

     Not to mention Food Stamps, I would like to challenge you all to $29.00 a week on groceries just like the mayor of Phoenix Arizona.  Unable to focus, concentrate and function at your best now when it is most needed.

     The times have changed since the founding of the American Republic when it was primarily an agrarian society.  We had a nation of independent communities that could function mostly independent of the other.

     Now we live in a new global era where the agrarian solutions to the nations problems no longer work.  However the agrarian foundation new that it's own time was limited, so they created a constitution, and a framework for a country whose government was limited enough to protect the civil rights and liberties of the people expand upon them. And to change with the times.

     We should be building our own nation, most of our infrastructure which when it was built kept the nation employed but also brought the nation together in ways it was not before, is crumbling  to pieces and expired around ten years ago.

     The amount of money that would enter the economy from the creation of all these jobs will prove crucial to the revival and recovery of the middle class.  Our new infrastructure will be able to carry more people more efficiently and thus further encourage economic activity.

There hope for America

     I here this question asked and am asked it myself sometimes.  My answer is yes.  There is hope for America and the rest of the world as well.  We have walked back from the brink of catastrophe before.  However we must not get complacent.  Napoleon Bonaparte once said "the best defence is a strong offense".

     We as a nation are at war.  Not only on terror but on human emotion.  We as a people must fight against a growing belief in the inevitability of the end.  We have not yet fallen into the abyss.  But ask yourself this.

 How much longer are you willing and how much longer will you be able to stare into it?

Citizens Divided

     It is no secret that nothing divides the nation more than a good election.  But never before has it been as bad.  I'm not talking about the level of partisanship, our economy or our environment.  I am talking about the adds.  They are on every channel every hour of every day.  Be it on TV or on the radio, they are everywhere.

     There is one good thing about all this though.  Not only does it show why Super-Pacs should be illegal, but  why campaigns should be publicly financed.  We the people have no Public Forum beyond the media, therefore every idea and agenda should be allowed to have the same amount of time opportunity to be discussed.
 
    And I do mean every idea, be it democrat or republican, liberal or conservative, communist or facism (nazisim).  I am confident that the ideology that is both morally right and realistically sound will be chosen by the American people.

     This would allow more people to speak, thus ensuring a free society.  Right now the money of the few drowns out the voices of the many.  I fear for my country, it doesn't matter how many voices speak, if only one or two can be heard, than it is bad for America, and her people.

The 2012 Election Why I Believe Mitt Romney Would be a bad President

     We all know that anything that is carefully built and maintained, does not fail easily, and will take a long time to fail when first neglected.  Mitt Romney may have on paper lowered taxes for certain demographics but created a much higher indirect tax. 

     Mitt Romney lead Massachusetts into an ice field and like Ismay on the Titanic escaped as the ship was going down. 

     One of many situations in the post-Romney Massachusetts, is that school children now have to cross at least one dangerous road/highway to make it to school because their parents are out of work and money that they would have paid to the town for bussing is now going to a health insurance company. 

     And for those who say "When I was a kid I walked to school everyday."  The year is 2012 not 1953.  The era we know live in is frught with more cars then ever before, on roads with crumbling sidewalks if any at all.  Drivers who can't be bothered to pay attention to the road, as their facebook status is in need of updating and they havent postedsomething on twitter for the past 5 minutes.  The roads are not as safe as they once were.  And due to the culture of our day the youth is not as vigilant or even aware as they were in previous generations.

Justification or Treason?

     I not too long ago have overheard during the summer from conservatives in everyday life talk hypothetically about "removing the president" and I heard similar talk from the more radical left regarding fmr. President Bush.

     We all have moments of weakness and indeed frustration, but one must ask what precedent is being set should our actions have been successfully executed actions.  And whether or not the root cause of our desire is simply a difference in politics or a real act of treason. 

     As radical as my politics are, I would never act against the republic unless the republic was no more, a government of, for and by the people, but usurped by a more insidious and anti-republican, anti-democratic power. 

     The failure to act against measures such as the Patriot Act, and now Citizens United is nota failure of government or the usurpation of government.  They could be used and if left to be legitimized by time against the republic, given to us by our forefathers who have now not only passed the torch but now the obligation to protect and defend our very way of life. 

The rising cost of College

     Paying for college is no easy feat, and it is one that is growing ever harder with the passage of time, exponentially so.  What many do not see is that our nation is slowly once again trying to form an elite class. 

    Yes college loans and scholarships are making it easier for more to go.  But they will be paying off this debt for the rest of their lives. 

    That means that there will be that much less consumer spending, meaning the economy will suffer. 

    Nationwide student loan debt tops 1 trillion dollars, and it is growing.  The cost of college is growing so fast it has outstripped inflation.  The best part is there is no real way to control it.  As we need them more than they need us.  Society needs to introduce measures to control the cost of a college education.  The amount of money the average American makes has flat lined since Ronald Reagan, inflation has skyrocketed.  The only reason why this has been hidden is a great deception on the part of the corporate world, by Firing Americans and hiring what is equivalent of slaves and paying them less then old Ebenezer Scrooge would give to charity before his spectral visits, they have hid their highway robbery of the American people, with lower prices on everyday trinkets.

    How can the average person pay for college, in such a world?

How Humility Can Save Our Nation

     Americans are known for saying their nation is number one.  Number one in what, having the best schools, or perhaps the most civil rights, longest life span, or best healthcare?  No we don't qualify for number one in any of those categories.  We do however imprison more people than any other people on the planet.  

     But somehow when everyone was cheering "we're number one!" I don't think our incarceration rate is what they are talking about.  

     While the pride of these people is in many ways justified we've stopped moving forward.  We may have been the first kid to the swimming hole, but we have been just sticking our big toe in the water and deciding after doing this for about half an hour the water is too cold while all the other kids have cannon-balled in.

     America can be number one once again.  By being humble.  In order to be number one we must first acknowledge that we no longer are.  This will remove the blinders upon which we have placed on ourselves as a society.  If we acknowledge the fact that we are not the best and in some cases not even close, the veil of complacency which has draped itself upon us will be lifted.  

     America had a manifest destiny once to expand from sea to shining sea.  Now we must make a second promise to the American people.  That we will make our nation the best of the best.  Not through the use of arms, enforcing a Pax Americana but through a new high culture that we can build.  

     The saying goes that "Rome was not built in a day" but then again the flip side of the phrase is "Rome did not fall in a day either"  Rome when a republic had a greatness although flawed by prejudice was still ahead of its' time, and thus "Rome did not fall in a day either".  Rome fell because it stagnated and the pride of the roman citizen stood alone when the deeds that made Rome great were no longer done.  Architectural wonders were built for the glory of a single person, and were wonders of prestige and social status.  Decadence replaced hard work and unless we as a nation wake up we will go the way of Rome.