Dear Mr. Gingrich,
This letter is a response to:
I take showers every morning and have a job, thank you for your "advice" anyway. In fact, I'm one of those "job creators" you Republicans pretend to value so much, as I run a small business.
Unfortunately, I have not been much of a job creator lately. I've been forced to lay off much of my work force as my business is roughly half the size that it was at its peak in 2001. It isn't "high taxes" or "excessive regulation" that's killing me. It's the fact that market demand has shriveled up with the death throes of the middle class. What demand remains I must compete with cheap Chinese outsourcing for. Routing my deliveries has been complicated by the fact that one of our city's bridges has been closed as it is now too dangerous to drive over. Skyrocketing health insurance costs, the inevitable result of our asinine for-profit privatized health care system, is sucking up what profits I could eek out of the current market.
My wife needed life saving surgery in recent years. We're lucky enough to have health insurance so her care was only ruinously expensive, consuming both our retirement savings and throwing us into debt. One of my investments is my home which I bought for 277K. After putting roughly 30K into it, I'm currently selling it for 169K.
Despite the financial setbacks in recent years, I consider myself very lucky. I have a job. I have a roof over my head. I do not have any relatives who died in the recent Republican war of aggression in Iraq. There are many who are worse off than me.
We do NOT need more tax cuts. We do NOT need more deregulation. We need a jobs program, a more progressive middle-class friendly tax code and infrastructure repair. We could also use medicare for all.
I am the 99%.
This letter is a response to:
I take showers every morning and have a job, thank you for your "advice" anyway. In fact, I'm one of those "job creators" you Republicans pretend to value so much, as I run a small business.
Unfortunately, I have not been much of a job creator lately. I've been forced to lay off much of my work force as my business is roughly half the size that it was at its peak in 2001. It isn't "high taxes" or "excessive regulation" that's killing me. It's the fact that market demand has shriveled up with the death throes of the middle class. What demand remains I must compete with cheap Chinese outsourcing for. Routing my deliveries has been complicated by the fact that one of our city's bridges has been closed as it is now too dangerous to drive over. Skyrocketing health insurance costs, the inevitable result of our asinine for-profit privatized health care system, is sucking up what profits I could eek out of the current market.
My wife needed life saving surgery in recent years. We're lucky enough to have health insurance so her care was only ruinously expensive, consuming both our retirement savings and throwing us into debt. One of my investments is my home which I bought for 277K. After putting roughly 30K into it, I'm currently selling it for 169K.
Despite the financial setbacks in recent years, I consider myself very lucky. I have a job. I have a roof over my head. I do not have any relatives who died in the recent Republican war of aggression in Iraq. There are many who are worse off than me.
We do NOT need more tax cuts. We do NOT need more deregulation. We need a jobs program, a more progressive middle-class friendly tax code and infrastructure repair. We could also use medicare for all.
I am the 99%.
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
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