Media Painting

The news this morning tells one side only.  Obama won, he deserves tax cuts on everyone except the $250,000 and above bracket.  Shame on the GOP for not bending to the "mandate" of his re-election.  Note:  popular vote was less than 51% for Obama.

Have you ever taken a second job to make ends meet?  I have.  I worked 2 part time jobs one winter/spring.  The first one started at 6:15am, 5 days a week.  The second which was my main job started at 11:30am and I stayed until I "caught up" which was usually 5pm.  Our daughter was in college and my extra work covered the tuition increase for that year and part of the next.

Have you ever cut an expense to make ends meet?  We have.  We no longer miss HBO.  We did not cancel our cable but we removed all the premium channels.  Now we get the "senior basic" rate.  We called our phone carrier for our land line and had them remove long distance.  We visited our Verizon Wireless and removed the international portion -- my husband rarely visits Canada but there was a time when he did several times a year.

So, the media paints the picture that revenues is the solution.  The GOP will be the reason for the financial cliff plunge.  Of course, they don't see the other side.  The President is offering NO CUTS!  He is not offering to reduce a thing but promises in the future he will. 

I think 49% of Americans understand this as an empty promise, just one more empty promise.  There will never be cuts in spending.  In fact, he has proposed billions in "stimulus" spending.  That's not what he calls it.

I think it might be important for us to go over the cliff, to feel the pain, as long as we get to clearly communicate that it is not what we want.  It is because of President Obama and his mandated increase taxes on the rich but mostly because he refuses to reduce spending.  Because of envy, revenge, and even hate, he demands more $ from the rich.  That's why our Community Organizer and Chief is in front of the cameras out on the campaign circuit.  Still hating the rich and expecting that bucket of $ to be enough.

'til later