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..............April 15, 2011 A day that will live in infamy. The day our commander and hypocrite had his tax return made public. The day that every word, every promise he made to that 97% of America was shown to be a lie. 1.7 million and change, 12,000 and change on his Refund. A millionaire who doesn't pay any rent on his current residence, doesn't have a utility or cable bill, doesn't buy his groceries, does not foot a bill for fuel and transportation. A man who is in fact the most expensive recipient of public assistance and welfare in this country. A man more than happy to push a useless health coverage bill onto Americans because he knows that it will never apply to him. A man who promised Americans he was going to help us, that he would bring change to our lives. Well Mr.Obama has certainly brought us 97% of Americans change. Food prices up from merely unaffordable to outrageous. Fuel prices up from "out of this world" to " I'm going to lose my job because I can no longer afford to drive there AND feed my family." Unemployment at sky high levels that will soon reach the stars when fuel hits $5 a gallon. But I suppose we should admit, the President promised change, he didn't really say a positive change. To those of you who intend to make excuses for Mr.Obama, save them to tell yourselves. There is no excuse, no explanation, that will ever justify his lies, nor his hypocracy. I was always kind of curious about the acronym POTUS. I know now it stands for: " Piece of Temporizing Undeniable @!$%#."
Did you know that at $20 a meal $1.7 mil. will purchase 86,250 meals? $12,000 will buy 600 meals @ $20 a meal. My partner Tami and I live off of $7656.00 a year. We have $400 a month available for food. At $15 a meal we can purchase 26.5 meals a month. Provided, of course, her boys do not come to stay with us. Provided, in fact, that we have absolutely no other expense what so ever in that month. Like for example toilet paper, shampoo, toothpaste, you know, the luxuries. In the last 365 days we have been out to dinner 0 times. We have been to the movies 0 times. In fact in the last year we have not been able to go out at all, nor purchase even the smallest gift or card for each other to observe a special occasion. If we owned a vehicle, we could not afford to operate it. Simple as that. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are faced with the same choices Tami and I have to make every month and more. Choices like: Food or medicine? Fuel or medicine or food? Clothes for the kids for school or the light bill or the car insurance or fuel or medicine for the kids or food? Pick one, pick 'em all. That is a large portion of America today.The POTUS, however, can have a chef flown in from the west coast to make him a pizza. Must be nice.
There was a story on the Vine the other day about a republican who held a fund raiser than only garnered him $650.00. This republican spent $55,000 on catering and accommodations for his guests. I could live well on that $55k for Five Years. But a politician who claims to be a representative of the people spent that in one night on a failed PARTY. $1.7 million. I guess that would put one close to being in the top 1% of "taxpayers" eh? Poor people and the working poor do not pay taxes according to that 1%. In receiving a refund our contribution to Uncle Sam is negated. Then LO and Behold the POTUS receives $12,000 and change on HIS REFUND! Using this as a reference point one can only imagine what someone making say $10 mil. gets back on a refund. Or $100 mil. ? Makes a poor man wonder alright. I have always known that relatively speaking, the working poor and lower and middle income earners pay as much or more in taxes as rich folks do. Mr.Obama's tax return while confirming this for me, also comes as no surprise. I have said it before; "I've never met a rich person who did not plead poverty at every opportunity!" The other truth I have always known is that a rich person will knock a poor man aside in their effort to be first in line for ANY government entitlement or handout. Oh they won't soil their own hands by mingling in line with the actual huddled masses. The rich send lawyers and CPA's to get them signed up for welfare, farm subsidies, and anything else they might qualify for. And even more disingenuous, the rich on welfare will never feel the guilt they attempt to instill in the poor and working poor, for taking the same handouts that the poor are. The rich tell themselves that they pay for those programs anyway, so why shouldn't they be allowed to steal from them? Not their fault the hurt/harm it causes. The working poor pay their share as well folks. Five dollars spent has a tremendous impact on the everyday life of a poor person. $55,000 has an impact on a rich person. The only difference is in the amount. The impact is the same. I suppose those numbers might be different if the working man had ever been paid an actual wage. But they are not.
I understand that the prevailing opinion in this country is that the poor and the working poor are dragging our country down. That America would be far better served were the poor and working poor simply turned into grease to slick the wheels of greed commerce and capitalism in America. I would like to remind some that the poor and working poor have won two world wars. That the poor and the working poor built a nation where by individuals whose only skill was accounting could prosper. We have labored in the fields while you have sat astride your mounts and surveyed your kingdoms. We have marched into bloody conflict while you have sat upon your valiant steeds and yelled "Charge" and galloped into the history books. We have fought and bled and died for causes we held no understanding of at your behest. Forget these things at your peril.
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