Love went to the emergency room in one of the nearby hospital s this morning, but after several hours, they released him, although he can't button his buttons, tie his shoes or speak well. His heart is still functioning, but something has happened, a slight stroke, perhaps. The Indianapolis VA hospital said that he could come there, but that was no guarantee that they would admit him. I am very, very frustrated and becoming more convinced that he will not live long enough to have surgery.
My food stamps haven't arrived yet this month, and I am out of groceries. I've arranged for one of Mom's friends to take her out to dinner tonight, because I am out of money too, until the third of next month. Dear Hunger in America Commission, there really is hunger in America!
President Reagon told everyone exactly what he would do if he were elected President, Why is it that everyone around my area is upset with him? Someone had to vote for him. He said that he would cut taxes and increase defense: he has done exactly that. Cutting taxes means cutting programs and jobs and increasing defense means increasing defense spending. When federal taxes are cut, states must raise taxes to keep the same programs and level of people employed. In other words, when federal jobs are cut, states should have created jobs and employed them. When the states also decided to cut taxes, then the counties should have raised taxes and created jobs to employ the amount of people left out of work by the federal and state governments. When the counties also cut taxes, then the townships should have raised taxes and created jobs to employ the laid-off people by the federal, state, and county governments. Unfortunately every government has decided to cut taxes and lay-off workers, which has a trickle down effect on employment. No one is raising taxes to employ all the laid off people. Companies are doing the same thing. When the government cut spending and taxes, companies found themselves on the short end of the stick, people didn't have money to buy their products and they had to lay off people, and there wasn't any money available to pick up the surplus of laid-off workers. It's another downward conical spiral: the less amount of taxes, the more people unemployed or underemployed, and the less taxes paid into the system, etc., etc. People have quit buying things, even though their cars, homes and personal belongings are in dire need of replacement. The longer the economy is in this conical, downward spiral, the more their cars, homes and personal belongings are in dire need of replacement, but fewer people can afford to replace them and start the economy moving again. The solution seems simple to me, townships must raise taxes and put people to work again, counties must raise taxes and put people to work again, states must raise taxes and put people to work again, and the federal government must raise taxes and put people to work again. Then the federal deficit can be lowered, and a plan enacted towards eradicating the deficit all together. Nothing can be done until the American people are put back to work.
