CT: I don't get how people can support the GOP. This might be old news but late last year, the Republicans filibustered the Zadroga Bill. For those who don't know, the James Zadroga Bill was a health care reform for 9/11 first responders - it would provide state funded health care for the firefighters, police, and medical emergency personel who were there on 9/11 and who cleaned up Ground Zero - many of these people are developing cancer and whatnot now due to all that exposure.
So, then you might ask - why in the world would any reasonable human being be against helping the first responders of 9/11? What could possibly be more important?
Now, they didn't vote no, because there wasn't a vote (after all, that's what a filibuster is). Rather, they wanted to see the bill that would provide tax cuts to people making over $250,000/yr was passed first.
Nice ******* set of priorities you got there, douchebags. How do these people sleep at night?
I agree with you on why the hell didn't they give them the medical attention they need. It's morally and just flat out wrong that they wont help those people out. They could've had their reasons and I would LOVE to hear why they didn't vote on it. To be honest, though, I doubt I would really give two ****s about their reasoning.
As for the tax cuts thing, I can about halfway explain it. Not taxing the wealthy keeps them spending on things that people in the middle and lower class would most likely not. Having those people spending the large amounts of money on those items helps keep the economy going better than it would if they were to actually be taxed. If you keep the tax cuts, cut the OUTRAGEOUS spending that the government is doing, start producing our own goods again, and allow us to drill our own oil here in the states, the economy may start to come back. PLEASE don't quote me word for word on this, but this is just from what I understand.
I for one am totally for just one flat sales tax. Everyone pay the same as everyone else. I put in what you put in. Get rid of the IRS, they aren't even doing the job they need to do right. Did you know that 20% of the taxes we pay just comes up missing? They have NO idea where it goes or why it's missing. *ahem* That's their job.
Again, I agree with you completely on why the hell did they let that bill just pass away like that. That actually ****ed a whole bunch of people off here in the States. While it is totally muffed up and just flat out wrong, I personally can't write off the GOP. They do things that questionable and muffed, but so does the other side.
CT: I think I broke my pinky toe on my chair. It's swollen and bruised and I stand all day at work. FML
