I will admit, I did not get to watch much of the State of the Union, but I read about it all. I read about Obama’s pointers he had for this country and thought they were well meaning. Culture Slant normally doesn’t go into politics on the site, but it is a site about culture and politics is a part of that.
First off my thoughts about our current affairs. I think America personally needs to completely reform. Our founders never wanted it the way we have it now and neither parties seem to care. On one side you have the Dems who believe the way to a well balanced budget is to help out so much that it spends more money and not make any cuts to unnecessary programs. On the other side you have the Republicans who are the rich and have the mentality of, “I already have mine,” mentality.
In the Presidents Address he stated how we need to reform the tax code, and I true heartedly agree. Like Warren Buffett says, there is no reason that a billionaire should only be paying 0 to 15% of their total income to taxes while a person like me who makes little over 40k a year has to pay 25 to 30% of my entire income. Why should the poor be paying more of their income. I have a four year degree, I work in the job that I majored in. The world pays too low of wages for people like me to really live on anymore. I think we need to take a hard look in the mirror and ask ourselves is it really fair to our country and fellow Americans that we let people get away with it.
Rich people have no right to ever talk about people on welfare anymore in my opinion. The thing you hear all the time is, “Why should I be paying for them, they just abuse the system.” Here is my response now, “Why should I be paying more taxes, while you abuse the system?” These rich assholes are no better than the people on welfare who abuse the system. They abuse the tax system, so the poor abuse the welfare system.
Next up is Obama’s thoughts on education. I completely agree that colleges should be affordable to everyone. It is now getting to the point that it is only affordable to families who make roughly 100k or more a year. What fairness is that? My family wouldn’t of been able to support me, what I did, I joined the military to help out with my college. You know what he military is doing, paying late on my current school loans and making me pay them. What kind of system is that? Good way to support your military.
In all Obama will probably win the election again. The GOP’s candidates are so out there that they have no connection with most of the world. You have Romney who makes my total years salary two days work and hides his money and abuses the tax system. You have Gingrich who fucks about anything that walks in front of him. Then you have all these religious nutbags out there who believe that our country should be ruled strictly by a corrupt belief system.
God this country is so fucked in the head.
Morning KetchUp
- Demi Moore rushed to hospital for substance abuse–JustJared
- Jennifer Aniston bought 21 million dollar mansion–Radar
- Andy Dick sued for whipping balls out–Eonline
