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[Ski]

I get these things once or twice a month, from both sides. Normally, I ignore them - but due to the recent market fiasco, and just other things, I decided to respond. I may disappear throughout the night, but this is what I sent...... OH and signed with address and telephone #

What I got..... This was in a nice HTML format - all colors and stuff.... Guess I can't copy that.



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Dear Friends,

In an opinion piece I penned for today’s POLITCO, below, there’s a specific solution to the nation’s economic woes. We have to stop the partisan finger pointing. And we have to realize we can’t just cut our way out of this mess. Take a look and let me know what you think via an e-mail under the “economy” topic. Thanks.





Close the tax loopholes

"There’s no mystery about what we have to do. It’s just common sense. In addition to the spending cuts Congress just made, we need tax reform. And by tax reform, I mean closing loopholes, special interest tax breaks and corporate subsidies. It’s just plain wrong to be protecting tax breaks for oil companies and to be rewarding businesses that ship jobs overseas." - Sen. Bill Nelson

By: Sen. Bill Nelson
August 10, 2011

After watching Standard & Poor’s performance in the Enron and housing debacles, it’s hard to stomach their decision to downgrade America’s credit.

But even coming from S&P, there is a message we should hear: The finger pointing and hyper-partisanship has to stop. If it doesn’t, we really will be on the road to ruin.

Democrats need to see tea partiers as something other than debt-limit hostage-taking Republicans. And Republicans need to see President Barack Obama and Democrats as something other than big-spending socialists.

We’ve got to stop this attack madness. We have to bring civility back to the public square. We have to put the country back on the path to fiscal sanity.

To do that, we need to cut some $4 trillion to $5 trillion. We made a down payment on this with the $2 trillion dollars we cut just last week. Now we need to go further.

To understand what we have to do, though, we first need to look at how we got here.

We went from a $236 billion budget surplus in 2000 to a $1.3 trillion deficit last year — and a record $14 trillion debt. A huge chunk of the debt comes from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We’re bringing the troops home.

Another significant piece stems from the Bush-era tax cuts. Warren Buffett, chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway, says the tax cuts for the wealthy should be left to expire. They’re set to do so at the end of next year. We should let that happen.

Agree or not, don’t you think most Americans were better off before the tax cuts than they are now?

Much of the rest of the debt comes from the economic downturn since 2008.

That brings us to today. And there’s no mystery about what we have to do. It’s just common sense. In addition to the spending cuts Congress just made, we need tax reform.

And by tax reform, I mean closing loopholes, special interest tax breaks and corporate subsidies. It’s just plain wrong to be protecting tax breaks for oil companies and to be rewarding businesses that ship jobs overseas.

As chairman of the Senate Finance Committee’s Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth Subcommittee, I’ve scheduled a hearing for early September to investigate closing many of these loopholes. Doing so will likely generate $2 trillion over the next decade. Add that to the $2 trillion in spending cuts we’ve made — and we’re in the $4 trillion range that we need to hit.

It’s time to stop the shouting and bickering and political attacks. It’s time to show the world that America can take care of business.

Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) is a member of the Senate Finance and Budget committees.

© 2011 POLITICO LLC






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My response..


Dear Senator Nelson;

This response in not specifically directed at you or your office.

Why is it that all the possible 'fixes' to the monetary fiasco we are in now, say that WE THE PEOPLE must tighten our belts; WE THE PEOPLE must toughen up and accept it; WE THE PEOPLE must

do this or that; WE THE PEOPLE have to pay it back when it is YOU the politicians who put us in the position we are in with no help from WE THE PEOPLE? Did WE THE PEOPLE have anything to

say about giving untold billions to the car companies, the banks, the housing lenders, and how about all of the foreign aid WE THE PEOPLE give to others. Isn't it about time to give to

US??? Other than daily governmental operation, let the people have a say on who gets money from now on. No more monies to places like Iraq, Afghanistan or Pakistan - they give us bodies

back in return - no more monies to any third world countries when it never gets to the people it was meant for. To the housing people and banks - you got yourself into it - get yourself

out!! To farming out products and services to other countries to be completed and returned to the US - 100% tax on the resale value paid for by the manufacturer prior to import. Illegal

immigrants are just that -ILLEGAL!! Drugs are ILLEGAL. Killing another person is ILLEGAL. Being an ILLEGAL immigrant just insures you get lots of freedoms and benefits that WE THE PEOPLE

worked for and will not get. They claim 'My child was born in America so my child can stay...' – fine your child can stay, but you have to leave. Not many would leave their children here

knowing they have NO free benefits, no free nothing!!


Bring our brave soldiers home to protect our own borders before it's too late.


WE THE PEOPLE elected YOU the politician to do a job - and YOU AINT DOING IT. WE THE PEOPLE are UPSET!!


On the positive side, I'm glad to see Florida is the first state in the union to call for drug testing prior to giving away welfare, and other free programs! Hurrah!! It should be extended

to include unemployment compensation. A good portion of WE THE PEOPLE that make the money available for these programs are subject to drug testing on a daily basis.


Again, not directed solely at you or your office, but if the shoe fits, I'm non-partisan, wear it on either foot.

Thank you for your time.....
I signed it - it's mine, I wrote it. Feel free to disseminate as necessary.... Will sign it again, if need be.

[Keeper]

Ski: This is one of the most heart rendering posts I have read in a long time. I applaud your tenacity.

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[Ski]

Thanx Ken