Reply #95: Loved that Obama referred to "Reagan's Homeless" last night in his speech . . .!!!

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Because several very old, very bad ideas are going broke, and taking the lot of us along for the ride down the chute

Though capitalism is certainly an old and bad idea, we had it somewhat contained with
the New Deal regulations/laws. As the founders pointed out we needed the Bill of Rights
...."because not all men are honest men." Well, those dishonest men set us back on the
road to national disaster because of their greed. Not to mention Bush's warmongering/
imperialism and tax cuts for the rich which helped bankrupt the Treasury and the States,
Cities and local governments.
We need to reinstate progressive taxation -- back to the Eisenhower years, or better!

Additionally, we have to readjust the proverty-guidelines which are ridiculous.

And, no one making Minimum Wage should be paying any taxes at all -- unless we adjust the
Minimum Wage to $25.00 an hour.

Finally, Congress should suspend it's own health care coverage which we pay for until we
all are covered by a Single Payer Health Plan. And, it should be Single Payer . . . as
former Gov. Howard Dean pointed out last week, Single Payer would have cost Vermont only
1/3rd of what the current privatized plan costs!!!

Feingold is also right about Congress needing to suspend their right to raise their own
salaries whenever they feel like it. Let's put that up to a public vote and see what
happens!!!

It's almost 30 years since Reagan gave us homelessness in America.
Homelessness and Poverty should be at the top of the list even before National Health Care --
and that should be No. 1. Oh, yeah -- end these wars!!!

Meanwhile, it's impossible to sufficiently acknowledge the pain and suffering of the many
going thru this now. We can think we understand what's being explained to us but we
know it's tougher even than what we're hearing.