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**Percocetti** · 08-05-2011, 12:49 AM

You know, it just does not seem that hard to get the fiscal house back in order. Since much of the problem lies in SS, Medicare, and Medicaid, adjusting the retirment age, with means testing ought to fix it. Am I wrong?

And of course IF, we stop allowing decent jobs being offshored, more folks would pay more in taxes, and even SS and the rest. No, this just does not seem such an unsolvable problem to me, yet those jackwags won't touch it!

You mean like outsourcing our oil to foreign countries and all the jobs and money that go with it to buy oil.

I think a guy with good math skills and a 5th grade education could solve it, without impoverishing folks. Assuming we still have a middle class tax base here 30 years from now. And assuming we stop coddling the rich, and tax em more on those capital gains they reap from foreign investments. A one time tax on wealth of the rich should be considered, as we have to ask ALL folks capable of helping, to help and to feel the pain a bit. So, the problem can indeed be solved, if the lobbiests would take a 4 year vacation, or Congress would take a vacation from the lobbiests. Again here's the problem with the guy with good math skills and a 5th grade education is that 40% of our kids drop out of school. And of course we have our teacher's union to thank for that.

08-05-2011, 12:49 AM	#7
Percocetti Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 497 Senior Member	You know, it just does not seem that hard to get the fiscal house back in order. Since much of the problem lies in SS, Medicare, and Medicaid, adjusting the retirment age, with means testing ought to fix it. Am I wrong? And of course IF, we stop allowing decent jobs being offshored, more folks would pay more in taxes, and even SS and the rest. No, this just does not seem such an unsolvable problem to me, yet those jackwags won't touch it! You mean like outsourcing our oil to foreign countries and all the jobs and money that go with it to buy oil. I think a guy with good math skills and a 5th grade education could solve it, without impoverishing folks. Assuming we still have a middle class tax base here 30 years from now. And assuming we stop coddling the rich, and tax em more on those capital gains they reap from foreign investments. A one time tax on wealth of the rich should be considered, as we have to ask ALL folks capable of helping, to help and to feel the pain a bit. So, the problem can indeed be solved, if the lobbiests would take a 4 year vacation, or Congress would take a vacation from the lobbiests. Again here's the problem with the guy with good math skills and a 5th grade education is that 40% of our kids drop out of school. And of course we have our teacher's union to thank for that.
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