Just Saying:

There was a beautiful story on local news the other day.  A young military family was given a house mortgage free.  It was a very nice house and the idea warms the heart until.....

Where did this "free" house come from.  It was a forclosure by one of the large banks.  They could not seem to sell it for what they were asking so they "gave" it to this family.  Sounds good right.

I have nothing but good feelings for the military family who benefited from the gift.

My question is.  Why don't some of these multi billionares give one of their many homes to struggling military families?  Why doesn't the bank have the same feelings for those families that are struggling.  I am not talking about those people who bought way over their income level.  I am talking about middle class families who lost employment thanks to those same multibillionares who sent jobs to foreign countries and cut their US workforces by thousands of people.  Is the bank writing off these gifts in order to cut their tax burden from 10% to nothing?

I don't know about you but I checked my tax returns for the last 5 years and we paid 25% tax.  Why are a retired man and a teacher paying 25% and corporate executives are paying 12% at most?

I would love to be able to give to our military families, but I would hope I would not do it in order to cut my taxes and hide my other activity.  That just seems wrong.

Some people want me to believe that cutting taxes to the rich will create millions of jobs here in the US.  My question is how?  And if that is true, why are they not creating jobs now instead of giving their top executives millions of dollars in free money while cutting their workforce in order to afford it.

I just don't get it.  If you do, please explain in specifics.  I don't want "what the other guy is doing wrong"  I want what will you do, how will you do it and when will we see results.

Then the real question, How will congress get out of their pit and actually do something to help the American people?

Here's an idea!

There are so many negative things being thrown at us from everyone.  How about this....I will give my vote to the people who actually have workable solutions to some of the problems in the world.  I will vote for those who are willing to admit that they do not believe they can change things alone, but need to work together with others.  I will vote for those who admit that the "other guy does actually have some good ideas and we can learn from each other.". I will vote for the ones who understand that even though money can buy people, it is not the right thing to do.  I am looking for honesty, humility, and honor.  I don't care what religion you pretend to support, what your opinions are about people's personal lives, or what you do in your spare time.

I actually care about your plan for the poor, aged and children.  These are the ones with small or no voices.  You have nothing to gain from supporting them except the knowledge that it is the right thing to do.

I am sick of obvious lies from both sides.  I know I am not alone in this feeling.  I have ONE vote and I am not afraid to use it.