General Discussion

another week! But no, the institutionalists betrayed the American middle class YET AGAIN, just as happened with Mueller, Smith and Garland. Wait wait wait when it benefits the billionaires, corporations and their pet Congresscritters, but when waiting WOULD benefit us rank and file Dems, they showed UNSEEMLY, indeed COWARDLY haste.

Yeah, we have the mid-terms, but when are blue states going to start having the guts to create the conditions where businesses could stop paying the payroll taxes to the federal government and start funding state general funds.

And don't tell me we can't. It is time. Consider the dirtbag Grover Norquist. Clear back in 1985, the guy was saying that Republicans needed to CUT, CUT, CUT taxes for billionaires and corporations, and in 2001 made his famous comment about not wanting to abolish government, but cutting it to the extent it was small enough so he could take it and drown it in a bathtub. Kings govern at the suffrance of the people.

And that has happened AT OUR EXPENSE. Us working shmucks have been squeezed by these fucking reptiles for DECADES and I'm getting nickel and dimed to death. I don't give a shit what the Internal Revenue Code says. At this point WE THE PEOPLE need to cut revenue to the government until it is free of this corporate Wall Street corruption.

Consider this - corporations only pay 9% of the total federal revenue while individual taxpayers like us pay in 85%.

But guess what? Congress clearly DOES NOT CARE because they have corporate donors giving them all kinds of money for reelection provided they vote Wall Street's way. Fuck that. What are we, chopped liver? How is it that everyone has forgotten just how important the middle class is in generating PROFITS.

Not advocating anything, just asking the question: What if we all stopped cooperating with the do-nothing federal government that has been systematically screwing us and giving our tax money to billionaires and corporations since Reagan slithered into the White House in '81? How many people do you think would have to stop cooperating in order for the American people to actually get things that will benefit us and our families instead of corporate tax cuts and bloated military spending? Things like HEALTHCARE, DEBT-FREE COLLEGE EDUCATION, RESTORED ABORTION ACCESS FOR OUR DAUGHTERS AND GRANDDAUGHTERS, AND A SANE CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY.

Because honestly NOTHING has happened that directly benefitted me in terms of my kitchen table issues since 1965 when the Medicare Act was passed and I was like 6 at the time. I'll be 67 years old in less than a month for God's sake! Because tax credits, FMLA and all that other stuff sounds good but these are merely bones thrown so Congresscritters can pound their chest and tell us how they are 'fighting for us.'

Well, I'm not seeing much fight in the senior ranks of this party. I'm tired of these institutionalists figuratively peeing down my back and telling me its raining and then having the temerity to send me texts and emails begging me for money so they can 'fight for me.' Seriously, because I ain't seeing it...