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Today Sarah Palin asked a crowd of her supporters in Ohio, "Are there any Joe the Plumbers in the house?" to roaring applause.

I think her question should have been, "How many of you are plumbers and make over $250,000 a year?"

That would be a more realistic question.

Equating Joe the Plumber with "the average American" is another typical trick from the pro-big-business conservative far-right.  Yeah, average plumbers make $250,000 a year - right, sure they do!

Plus, she thinks Obama's comments about "spreading the wealth around" prove he is a socialist.  What does she want, to keep all the wealth to herself?  Well, OF COURSE that's what she wants!  The key phrase here is "the wealth".  Whose wealth is it, anyway?  Obama wants to spread the opportunity to become prosperous around to ALL Americans.  The Republicans plan to keep that opportunity for the already rich and powerful.  It's as simple as that, folks.

She also made the usual comments about cutting our taxes, too - very difficult when you have a party agenda that includes continuing a $TRILLION war for another 100 years and bailing out multi-millionaire investment bankers.  What benefits for Joe the Plumber are they going to cut to do that, I wonder.

I think these kinds of statements just absolutely PROVE that she does NOT represent the average working American in any way, shape or form.  $250,000 is NOT average, folks.

So, what do you think about the Republican assertion that "average plumbers" like Joe make over $250,000 a year and hence will pay more taxes under Obama?  And what exactly is wrong with "spreading the wealth", anyway?

Today President Bush appeared on TV and said some things that could be interpreted as "scolding" Congress on the Economy.

Well, I'll keep this short: Why should anyone in Congress listen to a thing he has to say, anyway? He's the one who got us into this mess.

And Congress is supposed to listen to his ideas now?

I would think the Democrats in Congress, at least, would like to reverse this economic tailspin, but they're not going to do it by following a conservative economic agenda already proven to be a monumental failure.

Well, the market is tanking again, today.

It even went under the magical 1200 mark today, which if I remember my rules about market movement from my Series 7 exam (anybody else know the "Head and Shoulders" pattern of market change?), going below that mark will set a pyschological trend in motion, and we may see a prolonged dip now.

So much for Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy!  I guess not enough money trickled down to us little people!

Also today, though, the Feds announced a bailout of another private investment group (Beare Stearns).  Funny how the government under Republicans always has PLENTY of money to bail out the rich when they make poor investment decisions, but the working man and woman is always told "we have no money".  Or my personal favorite (heard on these very blogs) the "...people just bought more home than they could afford - too bad for them!"

Well Beare Stearns made an investment they couldn't afford - too bad for them, eh?

We shouldn't be giving money to them to bail them out - they took a risk (part of legitimate capitalism) and lost.  Oh, well.  They certainly would have kept the cash if they won and profitted!

We should instead be bailing out people who have high debt due to medical bills, ridiculous property taxes, or rip-off mortgages.

For those of you who still support Bush, or think McCain is your man, you'd better check your IRA and 401K today, and give some thought to this:  If you actually WORK for a living, whose agenda will make your retirement investment more prosperous - the "tax and spend" Democrat, or the "tax break for the rich-and-spend on the rich" Republican?

Monday is the day the Missouri Legislature gets together for a special session (at taxpayer's expense of about $1,700 a day!) to consider approving Gov. Blunt's special "economic development" package.

This "economic development" package will cost us taxpayers about $66 MILLION a year over the next few years.

What's it for? Economic development! And we all know what that means.

Remember how Governor Blunt just slashed Medicaid and displaced disabled people from state care to save us taxpayers money? Where are those savings? Did you get a state income tax cut? If you work for a living, no, of course you didn't! Did anyone get a tax break from his slashing $50 MILLION from the Medicaid budget?

Well, yes! several of the wealthiest people in Missouri are about to get one! In the form of tax credits! For important things like fattening up beef cows, and buying more than 75 acres of property to develop for profit!

And - get this - he wants to LEGALIZE ticket scalping! That's right! It seems some of those poor souls who buy season tickets just can't sell their unused tickets AT A PROFIT! They suffer so much because of this, he wants to allow selling sports and concert tickets at MORE THAN FACE VALUE!

His spokesman says it has NOTHING to do with the fact his brother represents TicketMaster, who resells tickets! No, absolutely nothing whatsoever!

What is the worst thing about this? They are more expensive government entitlement programs. Aren't Republicans supposed to be against government entitlement programs and big government welfare? Well, SOME are!

Just not enough. So write your local State Representative and Senator TODAY and give them a short note that you do NOT want them to support Blunt's economic development program. Right now, it is expected to be approved.

But most Democrats and several Republicans are against this as just another special interest handout.

Because it is. Just another welfare-for-the-rich big government entitlement program.

Which, apparently, is okay with Republicans if the recipients are the wealthiest of the privileged wealthy. Like Blunt and his family, for example.

Let's let them know what we think. And do it now! Here's the link:

http://www.house.mo.gov/default.aspx?info=/bills071
/member/memmail.htm

Find your Rep and send them a quick note to tell them you are against welfare - especially for the richest of the rich.

Okay, as a famous president said, "There they go again!"

I notice the poll this morning shows viewers here about 75% against the idea of more state tax dollars (spelled "welfare for the rich") being spent on the Ballpark Village.

I propose this as a test of how "representative" our fine Republican legislature is. If so many are against it, they should vote against it, right? It won't be approved, then, am I correct on this?

Yet who wants to wager the Republican legislature will approve the request, and more of our tax money will go to these rich deceivers?

Even worse, they promised to build and pay for this Ballpark Village as part of the deal to get the tax handout for the Stadium itself, remember? So now what are they going to promise to build to get this one, a spaceship?

What do you think about tax money going to the Ballpark Village? Do you think Republicans will take a stand against it?