turtlshell
PMA Member
I told myself I'd refrain from getting involved with the politics...because elections always boil down to picking the least bad. People who whole-heartedly agree with a candidate on every single issue are living a life somewhere other than reality.
At any rate after the debates the other night I can't help but feel compelled to say something about the middle-class and how they will be "unaffected" by Barack 'Robin-hood' Obama's economic/tax plan.
I'm that middle class american whose parents separated when I was young...I made it through highschool, and took out large loans to go to college. Probably partied too much while in college, but had enough sense put into me by my parents (at times even physically, but always deserving) to know right from wrong...but when you're a 18-22 year old punk sometimes you say forget the parents and have to find things out for yourself...anyways I had enough sense to do just well enough to graduate in 4.5 years. I was the first person in my family to graduate college. My parents work hard and have always worked hard...something they passed off to me even though I now have a fairly easy job. I awake most days and go to work (sometimes fishing & hunting take priority) for 8-10 hours. I earn enough to pay all my bills and I even have a few pennies leftover to purchase bow tags and a few groceries. I live paycheck to paycheck like most of the people I know. I was smart enough to research the differences between fixed rate mortgages and ARM's and made and educated decision to go with a fixed rate even though i could've lived it up (well above my means) with the ARM. I have a lot of my salary dinged for this tax, that tax and the awesome health insurance state employees of Iowa receive. Without the student loans I could really be living the good life.
AT ANY RATE, I tell you my saga because I want to point out that nothing has been handed to me. I've worked hard to get where i'm at even if I diverted down the wrong dead-end a few times to get here. I don't make anywhere near the $250,000-magical income figure of 'Robin-hood's plan so I'm going to be "unaffected" right. WELL NOT EXACTLY, at least not in my opinion. With what I've read and understood concerning Robinhood's plan, is that those fortunate enough to be knocking down more than a quarter of million a year is that he's literally going to steal from the rich and give to the poor. POOR in this case is all the people who are unwilling to help themselves. The people who abuse all the welfare programs and live off of my taxes and your taxes and are unwilling to change. They're unwilling to change, which is probably why they're going to vote for CHANGE.
OK so my point, is that us middle class people aren't "unaffected" by robinhood's plan...WE'RE COMPLETELY OFF THE RADAR, TOTALLY UNCONSIDERED...we've got jobs, we pay taxes, we buy goods, we're the working class. Why is it that someone who is in the working class and has a job that affords them a handsome income of more than $250K should get a deduction to help spread their wealth to those who won't help themselves?
Sure the guy can out speak McCain and I certainly don't agree with a lot of what McCain has promised, but in my opinion more of my beliefs are protected by McCain or McSame as some call him than they are with the fancy-talker RobinHood.
At this point i should just highlight and delete, but I figure it's worth putting out for conversation.
At any rate after the debates the other night I can't help but feel compelled to say something about the middle-class and how they will be "unaffected" by Barack 'Robin-hood' Obama's economic/tax plan.
I'm that middle class american whose parents separated when I was young...I made it through highschool, and took out large loans to go to college. Probably partied too much while in college, but had enough sense put into me by my parents (at times even physically, but always deserving) to know right from wrong...but when you're a 18-22 year old punk sometimes you say forget the parents and have to find things out for yourself...anyways I had enough sense to do just well enough to graduate in 4.5 years. I was the first person in my family to graduate college. My parents work hard and have always worked hard...something they passed off to me even though I now have a fairly easy job. I awake most days and go to work (sometimes fishing & hunting take priority) for 8-10 hours. I earn enough to pay all my bills and I even have a few pennies leftover to purchase bow tags and a few groceries. I live paycheck to paycheck like most of the people I know. I was smart enough to research the differences between fixed rate mortgages and ARM's and made and educated decision to go with a fixed rate even though i could've lived it up (well above my means) with the ARM. I have a lot of my salary dinged for this tax, that tax and the awesome health insurance state employees of Iowa receive. Without the student loans I could really be living the good life.
AT ANY RATE, I tell you my saga because I want to point out that nothing has been handed to me. I've worked hard to get where i'm at even if I diverted down the wrong dead-end a few times to get here. I don't make anywhere near the $250,000-magical income figure of 'Robin-hood's plan so I'm going to be "unaffected" right. WELL NOT EXACTLY, at least not in my opinion. With what I've read and understood concerning Robinhood's plan, is that those fortunate enough to be knocking down more than a quarter of million a year is that he's literally going to steal from the rich and give to the poor. POOR in this case is all the people who are unwilling to help themselves. The people who abuse all the welfare programs and live off of my taxes and your taxes and are unwilling to change. They're unwilling to change, which is probably why they're going to vote for CHANGE.
OK so my point, is that us middle class people aren't "unaffected" by robinhood's plan...WE'RE COMPLETELY OFF THE RADAR, TOTALLY UNCONSIDERED...we've got jobs, we pay taxes, we buy goods, we're the working class. Why is it that someone who is in the working class and has a job that affords them a handsome income of more than $250K should get a deduction to help spread their wealth to those who won't help themselves?
Sure the guy can out speak McCain and I certainly don't agree with a lot of what McCain has promised, but in my opinion more of my beliefs are protected by McCain or McSame as some call him than they are with the fancy-talker RobinHood.
At this point i should just highlight and delete, but I figure it's worth putting out for conversation.
