$40 a Week Isn't the Issue

The Congressional Republicans handed President Barack Hussein Obama a crucial victory in "fighting" for the middle class by agreeing to continue the payroll tax cut so the average American can have an additional $40 a week in their paycheck. 

Really???  Congressional Republicans caved on principals to give the average American $40 more per week?

Think about this REAL hard - was does $40 buy the average American? 

You can't fill your gas tank with $40.

You can't feed a family of four for a week with $40.

You surely couldn't send your son or daughter (illegal or legal) to community college for $40 a week.

You can't buy a new home, a new car, a new business, and new anything for $40 a week.  So what were Republicans fighting for?

They were fighting to not be cornered by a brilliant campaigner in Mr. Obama. 

DID CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS MISS THE POINT HERE?

Shouldn't they have been fighting for $400 a week, or more?  It's doable if they had the fortitude to do what they said they were going to do when they ran for office - shrink the size of government.

The statistics in this argument were twisted by the Obama Press Corps and supported by Republicans.  $40 for the AVERAGE American is $40 for who?  It's not ALL Americans.  It's for a class of people that we have been repeatedly told is shrinking, the Middle Class.  And it's shrinking because of the greed of the 1% we're told.  I agree.

The 1% in my world is that millionaire elected and appointed "public" officials in Washington DC, who by the way, were not wealthy BEFORE getting into politics(?).

What you should be upset about and willing to fight against is that the arrogant bastards that think throwing you and me a crumb of $40 per week (which is most likely closer to $5 per week) will continue to kill us, financially until we want to become Government dependants like their constituents.

The Obama Press Corps has force fed the Congressional Republicans the virtue of letting the little people have some of their money back.

Now is the time to act on this issue because it will be up for debate in two months.  Don't allow Washington tell us how much money we can be "allowed" to have back temporarily. 

Semper Fi!