Rise Up!

Have you seen the movie trailer for The Rise of the Planet of the Apes? How cool does that movie look to you? I can’t wait to see that one although I’ll have to wait since I refuse to go the movies these days the way people act in them.
Of course I’ve seen all of the PotA movies and even saw all five of the originals in a row in a drive-in movie in Northern N.J. a very long time ago.
If you are someone who has never seen them its just simply about apes getting real tired of being treated poorly. They rise up and take over the earth and kick a lot of human ass along the way.
The series starts later in the timeline and now what looks to be a fantastic remake would put the movie in the early part of the timeline.

So where am I going with that opening?

Are you like me and have friends who have pretty much lost everything, or close to it in the last few years? Are you like me and have friends who are still doing ok because they work in sectors that haven’t been hit by this economy.
In any economy, good or bad, some rise and some fall.
I’ve never seen people fall so far though and I lived through the Jimmy Carter era.
But even the people that I know who are doing well because they have jobs have lost also.
Take one friend who works as a teacher and has a wife who is a nurse. Their jobs are currently secure. But they have a house that has lost value to the point where they owe more on it than its now worth. Their retirement accounts are also worth about 40% less or so.
Another friend of mine works as a programmer and his wife is a teacher. He has people bidding for his services and as an administrator his wife’s job is secure. They are trying to sell their house and can’t at the price where they could put the proper down payment on the new one they would like because the price has depressed there also.

Sure that is anecdotal evidence of hard times for people. But I can add plenty more and can toss in some personal experiences also.

Yet we recently watched the “leaders” of our government make decisions that are going to damage our economy even more. Nothing that has been done in the last few years has done anything to foster the possibility of any growth in this country.

We still hear idiots like Delaware’s own Joe Biden talk about this fantastic recovery. We hear the leader of the DNC, Deborah Wasserman-Schultz, talk about this “blazing” recovery.

Look, I could jot down a hundred quotes about how great everything was supposed to be with this new leadership and all of this fundamental change and all of that absolute bull shit. I could jot down hundred more quotes about how all of the changes and regulations that have been put into place are going to create jobs and yank us out from the ditch that they “inherited.”

Lordy…I could write a friggin book here now. How do I keep all of these things in my mind straight and precise and not long winded?
Since I mentioned the word inherited let me also mention that the two ass clowns who use it the most, Biden and President Obama, were both IN the Senate prior to their election to the White House. Obama had been there for two years and Biden something insane like 36 years.
Either one of those financial and government gurus could have penned legislation that would have helped our country fight off the evil George Bush and his evil economic policies. Especially in the two years before Obama took office since the Congress was under Democrat control and Bush couldn’t do anything. Where are thoese bills? Where were those budgets they created? Why doesn't a very-supportive leftist press in this country ask them about that...ever?

Obama, the genius who was going to save us from this terrible recession sent a budget to Congress recently that was voted down 97-0. It was so effing horrible that every single person in the US Senate voted against it.
Obama, trying to “lead” in the recent debt debate kept talking about how we needed to have the limit raised so we could pay our bills and maintain the full faith and credit of the US.
Ah, but when the evil George Bush wanted to do so in 2006, here is what the great leader of our government said then…

“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”

Can you believe that shit? Can you actually believe that came out of his mouth after watching him say nearly the exact opposite thing on National TV over the past couple of weeks?

So what is it? Was George Bush a failure of a leader or is Barack Obama a failure of a leader? The answer is most likely “both.” Obama has doubled down on failure though and is a complete disgrace in my opinion.

If I hadn’t been such a loser growing up and didn’t make so many bad decisions along the way, I swear I would run for some government office if not even the Presidency itself. Because I know I could run it better than this guy when it comes to this economy. (Now, I would nuke any country that messed with us instead of sending troops, so my foreign policy ideas would keep me out of office…I think....but the economy I could manage.)

Here is one thing that makes me yell at the TV or radio every single time that I hear it. “The rich should pay their fair share.”
Ok, if you are asking why that drives me nuts pay close attention because this is such common sense that some might need to get it beat into you. (Except if you are one of my female friends who reads this and then just consider this a more gentle nudge in the butt.)

Let me start with just some basic examples of personal income taxes.

If you make $50,000 your income tax rate is 15%. The income tax on that is $7500.
If you make $500,000 your income tax rate is 35%. The income tax on that is $175,000.

So, Obama tells me that the rich guy is not paying his “fair share.”

Does this make any sense at all? He is paying 2 ½ times what the first guy grosses in income tax.

They want to raise that 35% bracket back to 38% which is what it was before the evil George Bush cut taxes in 2001 and 2003. That increase would mean an additional $15,000 in taxes, TWICE what the first guy paid all year and jumping his total to $190,000.

That isn’t fair. The percentage isn’t fair and the dollar total isn’t fair. What would be fair? EVERYONE PAYS THE SAME PERCENTAGE.

In fact that rate should be 18%. Roughly speaking, that is the percentage of gross domestic product that is generated each year in this country. No matter if our leaders try to raise our tax rates they take in 18% of GDP. If our GDP is 10 trillion dollars we take in 1.8 trillion dollars. (Of course we then spend more than that every year so hence the mess.)

Now what we then hear is about “loopholes” and “deductions.” All of those deductions everyone has. One of them that this administration wants to close is the home mortgage interest deduction. That’s because the evil rich people have big homes and can take bigger deductions.
But then that means that I couldn’t take one either and I’m in the first-guy bracket, and I can use that deduction for sure.

So what we have here in Obama is the Great Divider. While he was supposed to be a great uniter he fights a class war in this country instead.

I know, I’m a little scattered here…two more examples of idiocy though; bear with me.

We keep hearing about evil corporations and how they are taking jobs overseas.
Well, the United States now has the highest Corporate Income Tax Rate in the entire world. It used to be second but now since Japan lowered theirs (to stimulate their economy!) we are now the proud leaders of that category at 40%.

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/u-s-corporate-tax-rate-the-highest/

So, why do you think that a company would take their business overseas? Well, let me tell you that its not just the corporate income tax rate, but lets just stick with that by itself.

If a company makes a million dollars the tax on that here in this country would be $400,000. If the company leaves the country the US Government (and I realize I am simplifying this) gets ZERO.
So, here is an answer and if you elect me for President I will do this right away. Lets cut the corporate tax rate to 25% (Canada is at 31% and Mexico at 30%.) Lets compete with our northern and southern neighbors which might also be taking our companies from here.
Now, if a company moves back here because there is a tax advantage to doing it, we would then collect $250,000!
THAT IS BETTER THAN ZERO.
Also, those companies…wait for it…would bring back jobs! It’s a freaking miracle!
The salaries on those jobs would generate tax revenue and would no doubt make up the difference from 400,000 to 250,000. In fact, depending on how many jobs there are with such a company we could actually make MORE money.

But these idiots insist on RAISING taxes when WE KNOW THAT PEOPLE LEAVE WHEN THEY ARE RAISED SO WE GET NOTHING INSTEAD.

In 2007 the state of Maryland imposed a “millionaires tax” that was supposed to generate 330 million dollars in additional revenue for their next three fiscal years.
They collected 100 million dollars less the very next year. That was a swing to what they budgeted of 230 million dollars.
The left-leaning, Obama-supporting Baltimore Sun even had to acknowledge the facts of this failure http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2009-05-14/news/0905130138_1_higher-tax-bracket-individual-income-franchot

We are told by the left in this country about how evil oil companies are, right?
We hear about how they don’t pay their fair share of taxes too, aren’t we?
Exxon paid 15 billion dollars in taxes in 2009, the highest tax bill in the world. They are an oil company. Chevron, another oil company was also in the top five.

Now, we talk about loopholes again. One of the loopholes that exist is that companies that do business in other countries are subject to the host nation tax systems. Well, I have a solution there too. How about we develop some of our own resources here?
Then we could generate tax revenue from those countries here. We keep it at a lower rate, as mentioned above and the cash will flow.
ALSO, there would be more jobs available.

Take a look at South Dakota as an example of a state which is developing its own oil resources. The state has an unemployment rate of less than 4% and in the western part of the state that rate is less than 3%.

But wait! We are told that developing our own resources is not the answer to our employment woes and revenue woes.

WELL IT SURE IS ONE OF THEM!

Yet our genius of a leader took 2 billion of our dollars…that’s some of YOUR money and some of MY money, and gave it to Brazil so they could develop THEIR oil reserves. Then he told that that we would be their best customers. That means more of our money is going to go there to employ, feed, clothe and house their citizenry.

I don’t mind helping out other countries. I want every country to do well so that their people don’t come here illegally. But we aren’t doing things that are helping our country.
Hey, did you know that Mexico’s unemployment rate is now under 5%? It turns out that, in an historic demonstration of irony, that Obama’s handling of our economy is so bad that he is helping our illegal immigration problem in the country as illegal aliens now start to head back to Mexico to find work!

You can’t make up how insane this is. He can actually run on the fact that illegal immigration is coming under control under his administration! BAHAHAHA.

But I want someone to run and promote a common-sense approach to fixing our economy. I want my friends to stop suffering. I want to stop suffering.

The Apes wanted to stop suffering too. You’ll see Friday night at the movies what they did.