Rancher, I meant I hope we can survive the next couple years without going into a depression. I, like you, know the damage a bad administration can do. For instance, Clinton allowed China to have designs of multi stage rockets. Can you say ICBM? There were many deals made with the Chinese and now I wonder what they will do with the technology that, before that time, was not to be given to China and like minded countries.<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>I feel extremely blessed to live in America.We grow up with the idea that a little hard work will get you somewhere and it'll take a little hard work to get this country back on it's feet.</end quote></div> I also feel extremely blessed to live in this country. You can get somewhere if you have a product or service people want and you pull up your boots and go for it. But the problem is, in the present mindset, that if you get rich (over $250,000) then you somehow are responsible for people who aren't willing to assert themselves and make their own way. You are penalized for achieving. Here's a little economic lesson. Bruce Henden (me) charges $50 an hour for his carpentry skills here in Massachusetts. After getting paid for a job well done he has to set aside a large amount of money for taxes. He is taxed 28% for federal taxes, 15.2% for Socialist Security (you see I'm the boss and employee. I have to pay 7.6% 2x), and 5.75% Mass. income tax. So, 48.95% of what I used to earn (before my back sidelined me) was already gone. Just makes you want to succeed, doesn't it? It's worse when you make more money. This doesn't include property tax, gas tax (federal and state), sales tax, meals tax, excise tax on vehicles, phone tax, tax on lodging when at a hotel, etc. When will it stop? We keep electing politicians who promise us the moon and we will keep getting gouged every time we make money. This is what I want people to see. We can still succeed but they don't seem to understand in hard times the spending has to come to a halt until the money is there to do what needs to be done. Oh wait, we can just raise taxes on the rich. I can't remember the exact numbers, but the top 4% or earners (those that work for their money) pay something like 60-65% of the taxes. The other 35% is from the middle class. We are not undertaxed in this country. We are overtaxed. I'd like to see the whole tax code thrown in Boston Harbor ala the Boston Tea Party. I don't know how much life experience some people have but I've seen that tax breaks stimulate economies while tax hikes slow any recovery. Watch your wallets. Someone is going to have to pay for all this spending. Vote for the guy/lady who is promising the least. We won't have to pay for his policies as much.

 

Being a fairly simple man I will trow in my .02 and that is Oboma is hurting the sport I love and for that alone I do not care much for this admin!