Sunday, May 23, 2010

Arizona's Law

There has been A lot of fuss about Arizona’s new emigration law. Seems to me it is just supporting the federal emigrattion law. Every state ought to pass the same law then the states might be able to enforce the law which the federal government has failed to do.It’s easy to see why the illegal emigrants and their friends wouldn’t like the law.Criminals never like laws that criminalize them .But what would A country be like if we didn’t have laws and laws should be enforced.congress finaly passed A wallstreet regulation bill. And I hope it helps but I am afraid it is only A band aid on the big problem. While wall street seems to be prospering again We still have nearly 10 percent of our population out of jobs and many people losing their homes. We have to get this downtroden part of our population back into the main street, working and paying taxes. We are creating A society of have and have nots. We need to create some laws to level the playing field. Right now big money is running the show and they are running it to benefit themselves without regard to what it is doing to the country and the rest of the population . My opinion by John Zilverberg

Friday, May 14, 2010

The National Debt

The U.S. Government debt is now 94% of the nation's national gross product. That is 94% of our national income, and at the rate we are spending money, we will soon be a bankrupt nation like Greece. They say a big part of the problem is social security. The reason social security is in trouble is because our government that is our congress, has been using social security money for all kinds of pet projects. Some of which were probably good projects but they should have gotten the money to pay for them somewhere else other than the social security fund. The seniors paid that social security money to be used in their old age and that is all it should be used for.

The social security could still be easily fixed by raising the age bracket and raising the amount of income individuals would have to pay social security on. That way people with large incomes would be paying in more. They would also get larger payments. But with our present tax on social security we would recapture a lot of that. Right now many of the large company executives that get big bonuses in stock options that were in depressed prices and now have gone up are making millions and billions. An increase in taxes on those high incomes is what we need to get the country on a paying basis. That is not apt to happen because we have too many big money people making our laws. They are taking care of themselves and their rich friends that are putting up the money to keep them in office.

Of course, if we could find productive jobs for the 9.7% of the people that are out of a job, they would be paying taxes and that could bail the government out.

There's no way we can keep spending more than our income and survive very long.