Frankly when it comes to war, this one is getting old.

     

It’s time we put a stop to this war. It is killing us financially without a reasonable return.

     

Iraq?

     

Nope. The war on poverty taking place here at home!

     

Listen to all the hype from Presidential candidate Obama that he is going to end the Iraq war, bring the troops home, provide them an education, get them a good paying job, give them free healthcare and close loopholes for the rich and make America great again.

     

Well folks, when Mr. Obama talks about taxing the rich to pay for all his social plans you have to ask where the hell he has been living for the last thirty years?

     

Here is an interesting fact. Did you know that the top 50% of hardworking wage earners in the United States already pay 96% of ALL the taxes?

     

Of course this means that the bottom 50% of all wage earners pay only 4% of the taxes collected in the United States.

     

So just who is Mr. Obama talking about when he promises to tax those rich folks and take care of those who are less fortunate? This sounds like the same old Robin Hood rhetoric we have heard during every campaign for the last five decades. He wants to tax us.

     

And just so you know how the rich are already being UNFAIRLY taxed, try this. Of the top 1% of incomes reported in the US last year, that group paid 37% of the total taxes collected from all 130 million workers in America.

     

This does not mean they paid a tax rate of 37%, it actually means the richest people in America (about 1.3 million of them) paid 37% of all the taxes collected in America.

     

So please, let’s get off this crap about closing loopholes and taxing the rich.

     

Something is desperately wrong with this formula.

     

Washington has been spending billions of tax dollars annually for wars. Not just the war in Iraq but the war on poverty, the war on illiteracy and the war on drugs.

     

The poverty war payrolls alone make Iraq look like a neighborhood poker game in comparison.

     

For fifty years Congress has been giving billions away every year to poor folks….and they are still poor.

     

Since Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty in 1964 and Congress has voted every year to continue this war and we have spent over 9 TRILLION dollars to beat poverty.

     

Yes you say, but what about under President Bush? Funny you should ask. Clinton’s poverty budget was $191 billion annually and Bush’s budget is $389 billion. So it is not that hard hearted, conservative right winger causing the poverty problem in America.

     

Let’s face it folks, we went up against poverty in a brutal war…and we lost.

     

There are still about 37 million povertarians in the US living in government defined poverty.

     

After nine trillion dollars there is no end in sight.

     

It appears this is a quagmire from which we cannot remove ourselves. We are going to be in this war for another 50 years.

     

With costs soaring weekly it is difficult to feel comfortable as to whether new taxes on the rich folks will solve the poverty conflict.

     

Somehow, taxing the “rich” folks more does not seem to have the meaning as “them.” It sounds more like it really means “us.”.-

     

Government budgets expand in direct proportion to the amount of taxes that can be assessed on its citizens.

     

Citizen’s budgets contract in direct proportion to the amount of taxes they have to pay.