taxes

When Mitt Romney was running for President in 2012, he stated that his income for 2011 was 2.4 million and he paid a whopping 13% in income taxes.  Well, my taxes always run at least 16% on less than 50,000.  We are being scammed and we have been getting scammed for years.  The middle class, what's left of it, and the working poor carry the weight of this entire country on it's backs.  There are no tax breaks for us.  There are no tax loopholes for us.  There is nothing but taxes.  And if you get job number 2 or three, it just ups the amount of taxes you are forced to pay.  And the illegals can file for earned income tax credits and child care credits.  We are already paying their free medical, schooling, food and on top of that we have to pay them EIC and child care.  We do indeed have a socialistic society--for the criminals.  The rest of us are so screwed.  There is no way to get ahead.  None at all.  And them we are told on top of that we need to save for a rainy day.  Well, if we do manage to save a little and we should earn $10.01 in interest, we pay taxes on that too.  I don't know about the rest of you, but my days are all rainy.  If you want to save, stick it in a cookie jar and don't tell anyone you have any money.  If you do let anyone know you have it, the government will find a way to take it from you.  And they wonder why we are so pissed off.  At this rate, I can't even afford to die.  This is just sad.  One has to laugh to keep from crying. 

Socilism

The Unites States is a socialist nation---for all the illegals.  It is not socialist for the taxpayer footing the bill.  However, illegals come here already breaking the law.  They get jobs.  They get food stamps.  They get medicaid.  They get ssi, or welfare checks.  They get housing vouchers.  They get free education for their brats. And we get screwed and without even a thank you.  And now I have heard Hillery Clinton state that she will not deport anyone and she will give a path to citizenship to all illegals.  And Bernie Sanders followed suit with agreeing with her.  Hillery has never had to wonder where her next meal is coming from.  Hillery has never had to chose between food for her daughter or paying the rent on a rat hole.  Hillery has never had to sit and dread the ringing of the doorbell knowing that it could be officers telling her her child had been killed in action.  In short, Hillery Clinton has had the proverbial silver spoon in her mouth all her life.  She does not have a clue about the working poor and the middle class nor does she give a tinkers damn.  And she thinks she is above the law.  And why not.  If she is willing to champion all these criminals stealing the taxpayer blind, why would she think she had to obey the laws of the country.  Setting up and using a private server for classified information is illegal and dangerous.  If hacked, it could have gotten our people killed.  Snowden is more of a patriot that Clinton is.  He has made a point of not revealing anything that would endanger any of our people.  Clinton just does not give a damn. 

Then we get to Sanders.  Sanders is on the oversight committee for the Veterans Administration.  Sanders did nothing to fix the VA.  Nothing.  He did nothing to force care of our returning vets.  Not one damn thing.  And he touts his days of anti-war demonstrations and protests.  Yeah.  He was military age and he did not go to Vietnam.  Think about it.  He did not go.  That means someone's son, husband, brother went in his place and maybe died in his place.  What we have in congress is my generation who did not have the balls to do their duty and take their place in the military and those that came directly behind them. They were either busy screwing and doing drugs or making money off the war.  And off the backs and bodies of our troops.  And that is what is wrong with the country now.  If Chuck Hagel had been Secretary of Defense at the time, Bengazi would not have happened.  But Obama did not like Hagel because Hagel was not a yes man and he put the troops first.  He cared about the troops because he was boots on the ground in Vietnam.  Obama could not stand that.  So we had Hillery in there. 

Of the men and women I would vote for:
Elizabeth Warren, democrat
Chuck Hagel, republican
John Huntsman, republican
Donald Trump, God only knows what party. 

All the political idiots

None of the politicians get it.  Not a damn one of them get why we are backing Trump.  Romney wants a "brokered" convention because he wants to pick the candidate and has "volunteered" himself to make the sacrifice and step in to be the candidate so Trump can't be elected.  I have news for those fools controlling the political parties.  We don't need them to elect a president.  We can write in Trump and still put him in the White House.  We the people have had on representation in Washington since Johnson, or maybe as far back as Eisenhower.  We have a bunch of spoiled brats in the congress who are there for what they can get to further their riches and force their agenda onto the populace.  Not a damn one of them has a clue what it is like to be poor in America.  Not a damn one of them has a clue about kids living in fear and gunshots and drugdealers on ever corner as the norm.  Nor do they care.  I would like to load them all on a bus and take them through the ghettos that these kids have to grow up in.  Through the abject poverty in the rural southern states, the hopelessness on the reservations.  Let them watch a family who loses a child and how these poor neighbors give money they can't spare to help bury that child.  How parents cannot take their kids to the doctor or hospital because they do not qualify for medicaid and have no money and no way of getting that much money ahead.  They treat their kids at home and hope for the best.  To see mothers in the ghetto hoping against hope that their kids can get out of the crime and poverty.  To sit side by side with child protective workers and deal with the child who has been beaten, raped by a parent.  To see a child picked up with nothing, not even clothes and that social worker frantically trying to find a place for that child.  Then I want them to tell me they "feel my pain."  That they understand how hopeless it is for those in poverty with no way out.  Let them clean grills in their fine clothes.  Let them cut wood in those expensive clothes.  Let them load and haul wood to an old woman living in a falling down house because she can't afford to use propane or electric.  She will cook what she can get on that wood cook stove.  She will try to stay warm by that wood heater.  And she is one of the lucky ones.  Yeah, I want to see all these stupid politicians experience this.  But the best we can do is elect Trump and hope like hell he will do a third of what he promises and hope like hell he will deport those criminals here and fine the hell out of the businesses hiring them.  I want to see tarriffs slapped on goods made by American companies and being shipped back here for the people trying to pay the bills to buy.  I want to see those companies stuck with their products that the American worker was not good enough to build but is good enough to buy the product.  We need a good house cleaning.  Maybe Trump can deliver that house cleaning.  I hope.  And that is why we are backing Trump. We need jobs, good jobs.  We need to not have to battle the illegals for those jobs.  Those jobs Obama touts as having created, yeah, 75% of those went to illegals.  We truly do have a socialist system here and the taxpayer is forced to pay for it for the trash of the world.  We are tired of this.  Time to hold the politicans feet to the fire.

Humans

It isn't often that I notice anything about people.  I am not a people person and I do not enjoy people watching.  That being said, I was at the Scott and White hospital today and I did notice something that just made me so sad.  A woman was in there with her mother.  The mother was in a wheel chair.  The daughter was sitting near her.  The old woman was just sitting there.  The daughter was on her smart phone and never spoke a word to her mother.  When they called her mother, she stood up, stuck her phone in her mother's purse and pushed her to the back.  She never said a word to her mother.  This struck me as just heartless.  Old people need to feel wanted and relevent.  They need interactions.  They are not dead.  This was so inconsiderate and disrespectful.  I just can't warp my mind around it.  I would give the world to have my mom back and be able to talk to her.  Then I saw a mother with three small children.  She was pregnant, very pregnant.  Her smallest was a baby.  The baby was in a stroller and the about 2 year old wanted to be in the stroller.  He was screaming and screaming.  She sat with her smart phone and ignored him. Just ignored him.  His older brother, around 4-5, calmed him.  Why in hell would that woman have children if she had no more feeling for them than that?  Humans never cease to piss me off.   Life is short and those damn smart phones do not matter.  Your family is what matters.  Sorry for the rant, but it really gets to me.