Let me see if I get this right! Your son goes to another country and gets stopped by the authorities for shoplifting and is incarcerated. Your President happens to be in that country and gets you released and even brings you home on Air Force One, along with him. What do you say, do or how do you respond? Of course, if you didn’t vote for this president and happen to be a bit left leaning you chose to react based on your political feelings versus moral or common sense emotions. (We won’t insert racism into this senero). Does this sound like we are really trying to come together as a nation, especially if you agree with this response? If you happen to be a bit left leaning regarding your principles do you see this as acceptably sticking to ones principles or would you be thankful in spite of your political feelings?
This morning as I turned on the TV set on my way to make coffee, a national ( CNN:HLN Channel) news segment had apparently earlier asked its viewers to write in and tell them who "they would raise taxes on if they had the ability to do so". I'm paraphrasing now but here is how it was played out: One person wrote in and said, "raise taxes on the big oil companies but do it APPROPRIATELY". This individual's email actually had the word APPROPRIATELY spelled in capital letters. The second individual wrote in and said, "raise taxes on the junk food companies because they make food taste good which forces us to eat it and yet it is bad for us". (They will one day raise prices on Junk Food, mark my words!) Honest, i'm not making this up!!!!! As to the first writer, i'm ASSUMING (I capitalized this word to make a point too) they think raising taxes APPROPRIATELY would not effect the average consumer - ergo, their use of the CAPS! In o...
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