It never ceases to amaze me how working people fall into the right-wing conservative trap of distortion and exaggeration of the facts, when there are much more important issues of concern.
The issues are not taxes, because the Republicans have cut taxes at a higher proportion for the wealthy than they have for the average working person in America. You're not getting screwed by the Democrats on taxes, you are getting screwed by the Republicans on taxes The issues of real concern are not gay marriage, abortion, gun control, stem cell research, Pledge of Allegiance or school prayer. Those are all issues right-wing conservatives want you to keep thinking and arguing about and ignoring the real problems.
The real issues to be concerned about in America is $5 trillion in trade debt; the fact that 48 million people in this country don't have health-care coverage. What we should be talking about is the fact that our public schools are now ranked among the lowest of all industrialized countries in the world. Bush created "No Child Left Behind" and then failed to fund it.
Let's talk about the fact that our national debt is $10 trillion and rising. Let us talk about the fact that we can drop hundreds of billions of dollars into overseas adventures and nation building, but we can't spend a billion-dollar to secure our ports and our borders. Let's talk about the 12 million illegal aliens in this country that are driving wages and benefits of working people lower everyday. Let's talk about right-wing conservative business owners who illegally employ the illegal aliens. If the Republican administration would start enforcing the existing laws on the conservative employers who illegally hire illegal aliens, the problem could be solved overnight.
It's a waste of time to talk about Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Imus and other insignificant people and insignificant events.
What we should be talking about is our idiot president and the war he created for oil and egos, not WMD, not terrorism, not to establish democracy, but for his ego and the Iraqi oil and now he doesn't know how to end it.
Wake up! The right-wing neo-conservatives in the Republican Party has never been for the average working person, i.e. linemen, and never will be. They are for the wealthy, big business the privileged and what they consider to be the "upper class" and you and me are not in that catagory brother.