And so it’s come down to this. Those making more than $250,000 a year don’t want to pay their fair share of the tax burden. Wait while I grab a tissue. Are the rest of us supposed to be up in arms? Should we be taking to the streets to assure your right to pursue happiness?
What I really want to know is where were you when my friends at Delphi Automotive were having their wages cut in half? And where were you when the bank sent the police to evict my neighbor and where the hell were you when the last Pontiac rolled off the assembly line in Lake Orion, U.S.A.? I guess you didn’t think the slow death of globalization would show up at your door. Is that a knock I hear? Recently, the little richburg of Clarkston has cut the entire police force. Waterford Township has stripped fire and police to the bone and Flint Michigan is considering the National Guard as a last resort. Is the picture in your etch-a-sketch of life beginning to take shape? Teachers are fighting to keep their wages and pensions as we speak and education debt for college students outweighs credit card debt for the first time ever. We are in a world of hurt. Our boat is taking on water so fast we will soon be submerged if we don’t all search for a hole to plug.
Wealthy folk, your part in the “Plan to Save America” is to accept the same tax rates that were in place during the Clinton years. You remember, that decade when we made more millionaires than ever before. Autoworkers, you will have to take wage and benefit concessions. Okay, that’s already done. Bankers, you need to start lending money to both businesses and individuals. From this point forward if you don’t lend we will pull your FDIC Insurance. Then we’ll see some money leave your bank. Business, your job is to keep your manufacturing and research and development in this country. Anything that leaves will have a 30 percent tariff added to it to bring the finished product back in.
The discussion lately seems to be around who is a true American and who is not. Well how can you call yourself an American if you are not willing to do your part? No one can do it alone and you shouldn't have to. If we stop plotting how to avoid the responsibility of being American and start to all pitch in we could solve the problems of our nation. This can once again be the land of opportunity but we must work together to make it happen.
What I really want to know is where were you when my friends at Delphi Automotive were having their wages cut in half? And where were you when the bank sent the police to evict my neighbor and where the hell were you when the last Pontiac rolled off the assembly line in Lake Orion, U.S.A.? I guess you didn’t think the slow death of globalization would show up at your door. Is that a knock I hear? Recently, the little richburg of Clarkston has cut the entire police force. Waterford Township has stripped fire and police to the bone and Flint Michigan is considering the National Guard as a last resort. Is the picture in your etch-a-sketch of life beginning to take shape? Teachers are fighting to keep their wages and pensions as we speak and education debt for college students outweighs credit card debt for the first time ever. We are in a world of hurt. Our boat is taking on water so fast we will soon be submerged if we don’t all search for a hole to plug.
Wealthy folk, your part in the “Plan to Save America” is to accept the same tax rates that were in place during the Clinton years. You remember, that decade when we made more millionaires than ever before. Autoworkers, you will have to take wage and benefit concessions. Okay, that’s already done. Bankers, you need to start lending money to both businesses and individuals. From this point forward if you don’t lend we will pull your FDIC Insurance. Then we’ll see some money leave your bank. Business, your job is to keep your manufacturing and research and development in this country. Anything that leaves will have a 30 percent tariff added to it to bring the finished product back in.
The discussion lately seems to be around who is a true American and who is not. Well how can you call yourself an American if you are not willing to do your part? No one can do it alone and you shouldn't have to. If we stop plotting how to avoid the responsibility of being American and start to all pitch in we could solve the problems of our nation. This can once again be the land of opportunity but we must work together to make it happen.
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