What Sen. Vitter wrote:
Dear Friend,
If you didn't get a chance to watch President Obama's address on fiscal policy yesterday, you might be better off. It was nothing more than a partisan campaign-style speech that doubled down on raising taxes.
What the president has failed to realize is that the problem isn't that our taxes are too low – it's that the current spending habits in Washington have created a recipe for disaster. The answer is not increasing taxes or perpetrating ugly class warfare, but to make bold spending cuts so we don't leave this fiscal mess for our children and grandchildren. Increasing taxes during this economy would seriously hurt America's job creators.
If it weren't such a serious problem, it would almost be comical that the president claims that Obamacare will help reduce the deficit yet fails to acknowledge how much his failed bailouts, stimulus and other reckless spending have contributed to the fiscal mess we're in....
What I wrote:
Dear Sen. Vitter,
I watched the speech, and I thought the president's suggestion that the rich pay their fair share of taxes for the privilege of living in this great country was one of the best parts of the speech.
I also noted that the president placed the blame for blowing the budget squarely where it belonged, on the tax cuts for the rich and two off-budget wars that were never paid for during the presidency of George Bush and his Republican cohorts running wild, including you.
You have a nerve, Sen. Vitter. Do you think I'm stupid?
June Butler
And if asking the richest amongst us to pay their fair share is "perpetrating ugly class warfare", then I quote George Bush and say, "Bring it on!"
UPDATE: My friend Counterlight reminded me in a comment of Warren Buffett's words in a CNN interview with Lou Dobbs:
BUFFETT: Yeah. The rich people are doing so well in this country. I mean, we never had it so good.
DOBBS: What a radical idea.
BUFFETT: It's class warfare, my class is winning, but they shouldn't be.
The interview took place in 2005! The inequities are even greater today.
Mimi--you are my hero.
ReplyDeleteAwww Doxy, thanks. I would not, for the world, unsubscribe to Vitter's emails. Of course, he may decide to unsubscribe me.
ReplyDeleteGive 'em hell Mimi!
ReplyDeleteTell Senator Blow-Dry what one of his constituents really thinks.
ReplyDeleteOh you go, Mimi. Ladies of a certain age DO have a way with words!
ReplyDeleteAnd Vitter's just plain wrong on another point: the taxes are too low.
ReplyDeleteIT, thanks. Writing in the heat of the moment is sometimes, but not always, a help. ;-)
ReplyDeletePaul (A.), thank you for the link to the view of the charts. The comparison of the US with other countries throughout the world is an excellent reminder of our low tax rates.
I am so mad at the Republicans and their lies and tripe that I don't even know where to begin... all I know is that if either the senate or presidency go Republican, I seriously will contemplate leaving this country... I land in the under-54 crowd so I would be fried financially in my later years. TBTG for Vermont's delegation. No need to write them!
ReplyDeleteThe the most recent and egregious of the lies is the claim on Fox News that Walgreen's does free pap smears and breast exams, so why on earth give money to Planned Parenthood?
ReplyDeleteGo Mimi! :)
ReplyDeleteCathy, I did, and I will continue to go at Vitter, even though the only benefit is that I feel better after venting.
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