Much like us, the Catholics have a martyrdom strain in them too. All they need to spark them is the image of someone being dragged off to jail for contempt of court when he refuses to pay a fine for not paying for someone’s birth control. Look how they rallied behind Mel Gibson when they (correctly) perceived anti-Christian bigoty behind negative reviews of his movie. If Obama would so much as DARE try to enforce that law, there would be pitchforks in the street marching. If you think I exaerage, you dont know the Christian world. These guys are not rabbis. If Pastor John Hagee wanted, he could fire up a crowd of thousands such that they would quite literally storm out the church hungry for blood.

Since when was the tax system designed to give back to the taxpayers dollar for dollar for what they paid in. If that is the policy, why not just eliminate taxes and whoever can afford services will pay for them and those who cannot will do without. Mrs. Smith, your adorable daughter is being registered now for school. She wil be put in the 3 hour program and not the full day 6 hour program because our records show that your family pays only half the average tax rate in this jurisdiction. Mr. Jones, we can collect garbage from your home only 2 days per instead of 4 because you don’t pay enough taxes to justify it. Mr. Eisenhower, we know that you were a hero in WWII and served your country well, but now that you are 98 years old and not paying any taxes at all, you can’t use our library. Wait, here’s a letter from the government where they gave full benefits:

Dear Messrs. Citigroup, Bank of America, AIG, GM, etc.

We are aware that through your negligence, cheating and smug attitudes, you have brought our economy to its knees, making it the worse recession since the great depression. Even though you have accumulated obscene windfalls from your activities, you are too big to fail and we won’t ask you to dig into your own pockets to restore your profitability. Accordingly, we are slashing benefits to the elderly, disabled and even the middle class taxpayers, so we will be saving enormous amounts of money. We will even have the government go further and further into unconscionable debt just so we can spend close to $1 trillion dollars to bail you out. Get back on your feet and then continue ripping off the public like you have been doing all these years.

Sincerely,

Selected president bush and “president’ cheney

P.S.: We know that the opposition party will get elected in the next generation and we’ll keep blaming them so eventually we will get back into power.

You stated a major untruth in your post by saying the social security and medicare are welfare programs. Take a look at your paycheck stub and you will see deductions for each of these programs, with your employer required to make matching contributions (the self-employed pay both ends). This means that it is a plan that is funded by the beneficiaries, and definitely not welfare. You should unequivocally retract this mistruth. In addition, Congress has (probably illegally) raided social security funds to divert them to the general budget. While medicaid is more of an entitlement program, how would you solve the dilemma that so many unfortunate people find themselves in, particularly when they are elderly. A typical secenario would be a person who worked hard his whole life, paid his taxes and all his other bills, accumulated somewhat of a portfolio, e.g., several hundred thousand dollars, and perhaps also his own home fully paid. Then, a major illness strikes, wiping out all this person’s hard-earned assets and forcing him for the first time in his life to turn to the government. I’m not sure what the answer is but I do know that it is a shame that this happens to people through no fault of their own. Certainly, there are lazy, negligent people who milk the system and that is something the nation has to deal with.

I am not excusing Obama for his spending ways, indeed he has come nowhere near solving the problems he inherited, even though he claimed he would. Let’s not forget where this “borrow and spend, deficits don’t matter” policy got its start, from your neo-conservatives darling, none other than Ronald Reagan. It reached its crescendo during the administration of selected president Bush. “President” Cheney was quoted as saying Reagan proved deficits don’t matter. So, just like Billy Martin, the Republicans come in and create a wave of success, then offend a lot of voters, get kicked out of office, then blame the opposition for their own failures.

It is especially offensive when other Republicans attack Romney for being so rich. Didn’t he pursue the American dream and succeed beyond most people’s dreams to become super-wealthy. What’s wrong with that! If his business dealings led to downsizing in some companies, why is he criticized for only doing what was right for the companies to survive. If there were too many employees for a company to survive, were they just supposed to continue in business while losing money just to save these jobs. And yet these are Republicans who are criticizing him for that. Didn’t he help to create new business and therefore new jobs.

I am not so enamored of Romeny, and certainly less of the other candidates. Rick Santorum states that when a woman gets pregnant from being raped, she should not get an abortion but should consider it as a gift from G-d. Ron Paul is a bigot, anti-semite, etc. who is the only candidate running who I would not prefer to Obama. Why aren’t his real views out there in the open. Isn’t that more important than publicizing the statements of a woman who claimed to have had an affair with Herman Cain. Where are the good Republican candidates to oppose the incompetent, unpopular incumbent in the White House. It is a sad state of affairs.