What Foxhole Do You Belong To?

Lets hear it for our Senate. If you think that having fewer, lower paid firefighters in your city will make you safer, boy does the Senate have a plan for you. If you think having fewer and lower paid teachers in your district will make for a better education for your children or grandchildren please raise your hand. The Senate just blocked a bill to fund the additional firefighters and teachers, because it would have meant a tax on people making $1 million or more a year. Why? Because they are the job creators. One thing I don't understand though. The tax wouldn't be levied on total income, but only after paying all employees and all business expenses. In other words the tax would be only on the "NET" income. So the tax really wouldn't affect their ability to hire more people, only their take home pay. Do you suppose that the Senate and the House of Representatives, for that matter, don't realize this? I find it hard to believe that these folks couldn't figure that out. My guess is, it has more to do with politics than with doing what's right for the people of this country. Ya know, I love this country. And there are a lot of reasons why I do. But the political parties aren't two of those reasons. They aren't even one of those reasons. That's why I think the time has come to abolish political parties. I suppose there was a time when it made sense to have political parties. The problem, is career politicians have turned them into mortal enemies of each other. Each election cycle turns into a war in which neither side will allow the other to do anything good for the people. They'll lie or cheat, whatever it takes to win. Now America has quite enough enemies, thank you very much. What America doesn't need is two more. And I contend that political parties are enemies of America because their fighting causes we citizens to suffer. We're collateral damage. These party leaders aren't citizen legislators the way our Founding Fathers intended. Our Founding Fathers were citizen legislators. They served long enough to get the job done and then they went home and back to work. That's why we need term limits, not professional, career politicians.