Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Insanity has taken over the Republican Party

One of the definitions of insanity, is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Over the last forty plus years the Republican Party has fought to decrease taxes, especially for the wealthiest and corporations, while telling us, this would increase jobs and lead to a better economy and country. I have breaking news for the people that continue to support this B.S., it is NOT working the way they have said it would. The income for the top 1% has increased dramatically. The profits for the largest corporations have skyrocketed. CEO's make 400 times more then the average worker. The real tax rate , on average,  for corporations is not 36%, as the Republicans continue to tell us, it is closer to 18% after they get all of their corporate welfare write offs. Corporations ship jobs overseas and get tax breaks. They get to make profits in foreign countries and pay no taxes here. They pay workers incredibly low wages and bring the products back into the U.S. and charge us top dollar. Right now corporations are sitting on trillions of dollars and they are screaming for more tax breaks. Now let's look at the middle class Americans side. Our actual income has stagnated. We are making less and are told that our greed is creating the economic problems. They have asked or are asking us to pay more for our health care, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, gasoline, energy use, groceries, utilities, electronics, automobiles, homes and every other product or service they can think of. WE ARE THE PROBLEM ACCORDING TO REPUBLICANS. Let me look at this once again. Forty years of the middle class having everything we pay for go up. Forty years of our wages going down. Forty years of the rich getting richer. Forty years of corporate profits going up. Forty years of complete B.S. and now they even want to blame us. I said in the beginning the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. What does that say about the sanity of the American people that keep electing Republicans and expecting a different result?

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