YES!

Well, maybe stupid is too harsh. IGNORANT is probably better.

It AMAZES me at the continued stupidity (or maybe just IGNORANCE) of the current “Dumocrats” in the Congress and Senate regarding almost EVERYTHING important to our nation. Let’s look at just two examples.

They BITTERLY complain about the National Debt (currently at around NINE TRILLION or about $30,000 per PERSON!), but yet they CONTINUE to make STUPID decisions with respect to the economy!

EVERY TIME the federal income tax rates have been CUT (Kennedy, Reagan, and Bush in the “modern era”), REVENUES have INCREASED! Even the CBO (the Congressional Budge Office) confirms that revenues are at RECORD levels, and the fatalistic estimates of the deficit have been reduced every quarter by the strength and performance of our thriving economy, IN SPITE of the rampant spending that STILL plagues Congress, not that the Democrats would admit that!

But yet they have NO PROBLEM adding BILLIONS of dollars to the debt in stupid “feel good” programs that do nothing to “help” the people targeted to BE helped and they constantly add BILLIONS more than President Bush wants, forcing him to veto these obscene bills. According to the Dumocrats, we still have a “War on Poverty”, and things have only gotten worse! But we have spent almost TWO TRILLION DOLLARS on THAT war! If we are STILL in THAT war (after 40 YEARS!), maybe it is time to “surrender” and consider some “new strategies” there too, instead of blindly continuing funding for THOUSANDS of worthless, redundant programs that support even more thousands of “social engineers” but do NOTHING to solve the PROBLEM!

GENERALLY, Democrats think that “charity” begins with the GOVERNMENT. Conservatives (generally Republicans) believe that charity begins at home. Republican controlled states have the highest per capita charitable contribution rates in the nation. MISSISSIPPI, one of the “poorest” states has the HIGHEST rate of giving than ANY state! In fact, 27 out of the top 30 most charitable states (including ALL of the top 25) were carried by President Bush. Contrast that to the Democrats, 17 of the top 20 LEAST charitable states (including all 7 of the least generous) voted for John Kerry.

But EVERY TIME there is a “disaster”, ANYWHERE in the WORLD, ALL Americans, regardless of the politics, shame all other countries in the world with our generosity.

So why not ELIMINATE all the “War on Poverty” programs funded by the Government?

We would save BILLIONS of WASTED tax dollars (thereby eliminating budget deficits and the need for tax increases). Those that are TRULY NEEDY would be given all the help they need through PRIVATE donations (including all the social workers who will need to find another line of work, maybe FOR the charities?). Conservative Americans will gladly contribute to these causes as they do now. Liberal Americans (Democrats) typically donate VERY LITTLE to charity as you can see by the statistics above, because they feel TAXES have taken care of their “charity”. But the Government has been proven in study after study to waste between 30-40% of EVERY dollar collected! If any CHARITY performed that badly, NO ONE would contribute to it! Charities (the GOOD ones anyway) have “administrative costs” of less than 10%, and many ABSORB the costs and allow 100% of the donations to go to the “cause”, not the administrators.

Now let’s quickly look at TAXES.

Dumocrats have never seen a tax INCREASE they didn’t like!

They “HIDE” these taxes in many ways, calling them licensing fees, etc. To them, NOTHING is sacred and exempt from taxes, not even DEATH! To THEM, they run the country like a wife who thinks that as long as she has CHECKS in her checkbook, she has the money to pay for them. THAT is why we are burdening our children with massive debt. We have SPENT the supposedly “Social Security” surplus (to date, to the tune of about 2.9 TRILLION), replacing it with IOU’s, payable with INTEREST! Who is going to PAY those IOUs? Our KIDS!

Right now, almost 50% of all American households pay NO federal taxes! My source is the latest tax data released by the IRS!

The top 1% pays 36.89%! Over a THIRD! Does THAT seem FAIR to YOU?

The top 25% pay 84.6% of the taxes burden! Does THAT seem FAIR to YOU?

The top 50% pay 96.7% of all federal taxes! Does THAT seem FAIR to YOU?

The BOTTOM 50% pays LESS than 4%!

How can 4 CENTS on a dollar for close to HALF the country be considered a “FAIR share” when OTHERS are being asked to pay 40, 50 or 60 cents?

And these numbers are AFTER the TERRIBLE tax cuts for the RICH President Bush passed. It has been proven that the “rich” are paying an even BIGGER percentage of their income than they were BEFORE the tax cut for THEM! Some CUT!!!

The DUMOCRATS answer?

KILL Bush’s tax cuts and ADD almost TWO TRILLION in NEW TAXES!

The most widely discussed version of the Democratic tax plan would result (after killing the existing cuts) in $2.9-$3.1 TRILLION in new taxes, increasing the tax BURDEN on their “cherished middle class” by about $3000 per YEAR! To the Dumocrats, ANYONE (with a family of 4) making over $90,000 per year is RICH! Try saying THAT with a straight face to anyone who lives in the DC area as I do with NO KIDS in the house (all grown and gone).

That means about $900-$1200 year of that $3000 tax increase is going to be WASTED, according to current statistics!

Which would YOU rather have? A new plasma TV for your family to enjoy, or throwing that money into the Government TRASH CAN to be wasted by the idiots in Congress?

Give ME the TV!

Think about THAT as you Dumocrats blindly vote for Hillary or Obama, or the Dumocrat Congressional and Senate candidates. If you want to see the economy TRULY as lousy as the Dems say it is, just elect THEM, and you will get your wish. Hopefully YOUR job won’t be one of the MILLIONS lost because of your decision.

Nuff said.