BY RUSSELL TURNER
BLAME GAME
Over the past few weeks the mainstream media has done many reports on the so-called Fiscal Cliff; while the subject has been on the media constantly, I feel that very few Americans truly understand the facts behind the rhetoric. For those that support the taxing of the people in this country who make over 250k per year, they have the misguided belief that that one action will solve all of the problems that our country is facing and everything will be back to normal again. Instead of basing their beliefs upon hard numbers they are basing it upon the biased reporting of the mainstream media. Taking more money from the richest 2% of our population will not solve the debt crisis our country is facing. From the information that I have received, if the president gets all of the additional taxes he wants, that additional money would run the government for only 8 days. I am glad that he has found a way to operate government for 8 days, but I am seriously worried about the other 357 out of the year.
Even the Congressional Budget Office has come to the conclusion that increases of taxes will not benefit our economy. We conservatives believe that the best place to grow the economy is in the private sector. It seems ironic to me that, when I was growing up, the goal for most Americans was to get into the work force and use your talents to prosper and grow wealth. I do not begrudge anyone for becoming wealthy if they done it legally and honestly, but in today’s thinking they are being blamed for our economic problems because someone said that they didn’t pay their fair share. Frankly I am getting a little tired of all of this blame game that is going on in our society today.
From personal experience I have found that one of our biggest problems is that far too many Americans are more concerned about their own interests and couldn’t care less about the condition of our nation. Recently I read a quote by General Douglas MacArthur who, in a speech he gave in 1951, said, "In this day of gathering storms, as moral deterioration of political power spreads its growing infection, it is essential that every spiritual force be mobilized to defend and preserve the religious base upon which this nation's founded; for it has been that base which has been the motivating impulse to our moral and national growth. History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual reawakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster." Until we Americans start taking responsibility for our own individual actions we will never solve our problems.
BLAME GAME
Over the past few weeks the mainstream media has done many reports on the so-called Fiscal Cliff; while the subject has been on the media constantly, I feel that very few Americans truly understand the facts behind the rhetoric. For those that support the taxing of the people in this country who make over 250k per year, they have the misguided belief that that one action will solve all of the problems that our country is facing and everything will be back to normal again. Instead of basing their beliefs upon hard numbers they are basing it upon the biased reporting of the mainstream media. Taking more money from the richest 2% of our population will not solve the debt crisis our country is facing. From the information that I have received, if the president gets all of the additional taxes he wants, that additional money would run the government for only 8 days. I am glad that he has found a way to operate government for 8 days, but I am seriously worried about the other 357 out of the year.
Even the Congressional Budget Office has come to the conclusion that increases of taxes will not benefit our economy. We conservatives believe that the best place to grow the economy is in the private sector. It seems ironic to me that, when I was growing up, the goal for most Americans was to get into the work force and use your talents to prosper and grow wealth. I do not begrudge anyone for becoming wealthy if they done it legally and honestly, but in today’s thinking they are being blamed for our economic problems because someone said that they didn’t pay their fair share. Frankly I am getting a little tired of all of this blame game that is going on in our society today.
From personal experience I have found that one of our biggest problems is that far too many Americans are more concerned about their own interests and couldn’t care less about the condition of our nation. Recently I read a quote by General Douglas MacArthur who, in a speech he gave in 1951, said, "In this day of gathering storms, as moral deterioration of political power spreads its growing infection, it is essential that every spiritual force be mobilized to defend and preserve the religious base upon which this nation's founded; for it has been that base which has been the motivating impulse to our moral and national growth. History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual reawakening to overcome the moral lapse or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster." Until we Americans start taking responsibility for our own individual actions we will never solve our problems.
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