and I agree you cant fix a country focusing on just one part

especially when it comes to a budget which includes spending AND revenue,,,

I too believe in our culture...Right now our country is faced with monumental challenges: A deficit that is growing by seconds, not months, states with record-breaking budget shortfalls, unemployment, widespread home foreclosures (still), escalating needs for public assistance, long-term concerns about education, economic competitiveness, and health care. Now is NOT the time to TAX and SPEND!!...

Doesn't anyone here think for a moment that the whole "Clinton had a surplus of money," think back for a moment where the momentum for the money came from? The Previous administration. When Regan inherited Jimmy Carter's Fiasco property and construction were hot but the economy was tepid. Bush Sr. was growth, Clinton was Deregulation but the growth momentum was still there. Bush Jr. momentum slows, market manipulation and the manipulation of the housing market causes the economic bubble to burst, and along comes Obama. Now Obama has done things to insure a death spiral of our economy if we don't get a grip on it FAST!

BUT BUT BUT! Does anyone also think our government is in control of money in America? You are sadly kidding yourself if you think it is! Now ask yourself, "Who is the Federal Reserve?"

FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL!

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and one banana

Letter to the Editor.....

[Editor's Note: The letter below refers to specific remarks made by President Obama during a campaign stop in Virginia on July 13. You can read more here.]

It is shocking to hear both President Obama and Elizabeth Warren demonize hard working men and women with their comments and it shows that they truly don’t understand how the private economy works. It takes a vision, commitment, dedication, and personal and financial sacrifice to live the American dream of owning a business and becoming successful.

Warren specifically has spent her entire life in academics. She doesn’t understand how jobs are created and how the economy grows. The fact that she is trying to pit business owners against everyone else is counterproductive to improving the economy especially since she offers no solutions. Americans do not need to be ashamed of success.

Scott Brown knows that we should all be working together to improve this economy, increase hiring, and get America back on track. He doesn’t play class warfare or attack America’s small businesses. Instead he encourages them because he understands the simple fact that private sector growth is good for our entire economy. Elizabeth Warren simply doesn’t understand this, and that is very revealing of how out of touch she is.

Scott Frasca,

Peabody

Letter to the editor from James Thompson, Las Vegas One pizzed off business owner!!!!!



To the editor:

The recent comment by President Obama that business owners did not create their businesses without someone else's help is only the latest slap in the face to America's job creators. We are not talking about a small slap either - this was a full windup, leave a mark for a week and have spit fly out of your mouth slap.

Mr. President, with all due respect, and I mean all due respect, you have no idea what you are talking about. Unlike yourself, I have opened and currently run a business. Government is the single largest obstacle that exists for every business in America. Everyone except you already knew that. It's like being in a rowboat and having someone throw in a 500-pound anchor and calling it "help."

I cannot remember any U.S. president having such low regard for people who are struggling night and day to salvage what little profit and equity that may possibly remain in something that they have devoted their entire lives to building. Has that occurred to this man? That something a person built over the past 40 or 50 years has been destroyed by this recession? That this same person, after working 10 to 12 hours every day during that period, has lost their retirement and may now have to file bankruptcy when they are 65 or 70 years old? How does a person start over at that age?

Make no mistake about it, this president is a reckless man with a reckless mouth. For a man who has never signed the front of an employee's paycheck and never tried to navigate the bowels of the IRS employer taxation system, he has a lot to say about people he knows nothing about. Each and every business owner in America knows more about hard work and courage than this man, who has never risked everything he owns, all for the chance to operate his own business and, yes, keep some of the profits if he is successful.

Each time I hear the key phrases like "wealth," "fair share," or "pay a little more," I want to puke. Who is this man to economically divide and then vilify every person in America who has a higher income than his arbitrarily determined threshold? The power to tax does not rest with this man, and yet he jabbers on every single day about who he would favor by continuing their same tax rate, and who he would punish by raising theirs.

The fact that higher taxes would not be needed if he could somehow control his compulsive desire to buy each and every vote in this nation through deficit spending is never mentioned by a fawning press that, even now, is picking through Mitt Romney's garbage looking for the next headline, but would never dream of asking the president anything more hard-hitting than what is his favorite color or his favorite song, or maybe who he thinks will win the NCAA basketball tournament.

I never thought I would voluntarily close my company, but I am warming up to the idea, I don't think I can stand much more help.

James Thomson

Las Vegas