I don’t know about you but I have been flooded with ads from Linda McMahon, almost daily I get something in the mail from her. I went to watch a Grateful Dead video and there was an ad for McMahon. Turn on the radio or the television and you get a barrage of her ads. Wherever I look, I see her face looking down at me; it is kind of like “Big Brother” from 1984.
In all the ads she says “I have a plan.” So I went to her website to see what her plan is.
Her first step she said is to cut the tax rate to 15%, do away with capital gains, give greater deductions for education and other tax cuts. She also wants to give tax cuts to businesses and eliminate loopholes. OK this all sounds very good, but… what are you going to do to offset the lost revenue? You say you want to cut the spending by 1% a year, well the numbers just don’t jive. To me it sounds like you are promising a pie in the sky. Tell them what they want to hear, dangling that old carrot of tax cuts.
Then she says she wants to do away with regulations like the ones that were put into place after the market crashed became of all the lies the stock market was built upon. She also wants to repeal the healthcare reforms and this from a person who doesn’t provide healthcare to some of her employees. Which cause those of us with healthcare pay more in premiums (about a $1000 a year) to pay for the uninsured
I have a problem with her energy programs, basically part of it is “drill baby drill!” Did you know that we are exporting natural gas, that we actually have a surplus in natural gas and are sending overseas?
In one of her ads she blamed Rep. Murphy for not passing a budget when in truth it was Rep. Paul Ryan who blocked the passage of any bill to balance the budget and to block the increase of the debit limit. This caused us to be on the brink of defaulting on our debit and caused a drop in the US bond rating.
She says she is going to save Social Security and Medicare, but she will not say how she will do it. We are supposed to trust her; we are supposed to buy a pig in a poke.
In all the ads she says “I have a plan.” So I went to her website to see what her plan is.
Her first step she said is to cut the tax rate to 15%, do away with capital gains, give greater deductions for education and other tax cuts. She also wants to give tax cuts to businesses and eliminate loopholes. OK this all sounds very good, but… what are you going to do to offset the lost revenue? You say you want to cut the spending by 1% a year, well the numbers just don’t jive. To me it sounds like you are promising a pie in the sky. Tell them what they want to hear, dangling that old carrot of tax cuts.
Then she says she wants to do away with regulations like the ones that were put into place after the market crashed became of all the lies the stock market was built upon. She also wants to repeal the healthcare reforms and this from a person who doesn’t provide healthcare to some of her employees. Which cause those of us with healthcare pay more in premiums (about a $1000 a year) to pay for the uninsured
I have a problem with her energy programs, basically part of it is “drill baby drill!” Did you know that we are exporting natural gas, that we actually have a surplus in natural gas and are sending overseas?
In one of her ads she blamed Rep. Murphy for not passing a budget when in truth it was Rep. Paul Ryan who blocked the passage of any bill to balance the budget and to block the increase of the debit limit. This caused us to be on the brink of defaulting on our debit and caused a drop in the US bond rating.
She says she is going to save Social Security and Medicare, but she will not say how she will do it. We are supposed to trust her; we are supposed to buy a pig in a poke.
It's amazing how little many politicians think of the public - and how so many of us meet their low expectations.... The examples you cite are the tip of the iceberg - they expect that we won't use common sense to test their assertions, and that we will vote for them because we are members of their tribes.
ReplyDeleteObviously, we are not members of their REAL tribes - if we were, they would be telling us the truth about how changes in the tax laws will make us, the small fraction of Americans in the elite, even richer.
Instead, we are members of the true outcast tribe - the people who are lied to, and insulted - many of us too ignorant to see these statements for what they are....
I am surprised that McMahon is able to get away with her lies. Does she really think that if she says something often enough that her fantasy will become truth?