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Saturday, November 26, 2011

No Super Solutions; just another Super Logjamb

A recent poll of Americans brought out something that by now should be very apparent to even those most resistant to facts and figures (you know who these Amuricans are): Congress' general approval rating has dropped to 9%, lower than the number of people in the country wanting a communist make-over of the government. And since the conservative branch of the Houses of Congress have seen to it that the moderate members of their Party were cut down in the fury of Tea Party madness,  there is no balance beam there to help bring about any stabilizing influence in this equation/rating.

But those of the Far Right of the political spectrum seem to still be blaming the Democrats for this decline. Why is it so hard for them to realize and acknowledge that the less advantaged of the Country need to be paying less than Those Who Can most afford it to pay their fair share of taxes to do so. They have the battle cry of They Need to Compromise with Us, when the whole idea of compromise is that both sides give up something and that the process not just be a unilateral sided one.

And the idea of a flat tax being resurrected by the Republican Party hopefuls will only further redistribute the burden once again to Those Who Can't Afford It. Most of the "solutions" that Conservative produce and heavily promote, only serve to entrench the status quo of the 1%, and further entrench the 99% in an ever increasing spiral of poverty. Going back to 1950's solutions is not a solution.

I would say to those of the extreme Conservative end of the political spectrum that if they don't want to see the Occupy Wall Street movement flooding into the streets of Middle America, I would highly suggest that they start to find solutions that actually represent compromise, and to right this economic Titannic before the Iceberg of public outcry extends even to those who are now loyal to the agenda of the Far Right which this Committee so obviously embodied.

And I would also say to the Conservative Wing of the 99%; wait till your job is taken away, and you find out which Far Eastern County it's been shipped to. Perhaps that might be a wake-up call to them. Then they might finally understand what the Occupy Movement is all about.

And then again, probably not. 'Don't confuse me with the facts! I know what's right!'

The Time is now to enact Real Change -- before...

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