Only the Little People Pay Taxes

First of all, Barack Obama needs to replace Rahm Emanuel: discovering that Timothy Geithner, Tom Daschle, and Nancy Killefer were tax cheats was his job, and he failed to do it.  He certainly wouldn’t be my chief of staff any longer. This whole rich-people-don’t-pay-taxes thing has got to stop.  We’ve been having our noses rubbed […]

Payback: a Proposal

A proposal (which I have CC’d to my congressmen) for paying back the American taxpayer for bailing out Wall Street: Impose, as some have already suggested, a .25 per cent trading fee on all future stock transactions.  But better yet, put the money collected into an interest-earning fund, then return all, or a substantial portion […]

Scare Tactics and Scams

Listened to Nice Polite Republicans most of the day, and all I heard was scare talk.  We’re going to lose our savings, our 401Ks, our IRAs.  Putting the money in the mattress won’t work because that’ll cause hyperinflation and a cup of Starbucks’ll cost 6.5 million.  Unless we do something quick.  Unless we give this […]

A Point of Concern

About this proposed 700 billion dollar bailout: considering the people this administration has put in charge of every other huge mess it’s made for us . . . the L. Paul Bremers, Monica Goodlings, Donald Rumsfelds, Michael Browns, Alberto Gonzaleses, Paul Wolfowitzes, Scooter Libbys . . . how can we possibly expect anyone associated with George […]

Why Does This Make Me Think of Republicans?

Donna and I went riding with friends this morning in Green Valley, a retirement community 20 miles south of Tucson.  I’m glad I had the digital camera in my fanny pack, because this sign cried out for documentation: This long shot doesn’t show it well, but when you’re looking at the “buttes” with your own […]