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Sunday, March 27, 2011

I'm running for President in 2012.

I am finally angry enough at what the idiots in Washington are doing that I'm running for office.  I simply cannot take it anymore.  I cannot sit by while the GOP plans on slashing Social Security and Medicare while giving billionaires tax cuts.  I cannot sit by while people in power are hell-bent on destroying the middle class while sucking up to big corporations.  I cannot stand to see billions spent on useless wars while Americans are told they need to fend for themselves when they're 80.  I hate to break it to these people, but when you make $40,000/year it's a little hard to save a $1,000,000 to live on when you're elderly.  But you know, it's our fault that we've not prepared for retirement.  If you are just getting by, how is that being irresponsible?!  You are doing what you can!  I put money into a 401K but I already know it'll never be enough to live on 100%.  These people need to get a clue.  Personally, I've paid into Social Security since I was 16 years old, so it's not like I'm a freeloader.  There is a huge difference between people on welfare who continue to have kids so they don't have to work and people who've worked hard their whole life and are laid off at 55, but can't get a job due to ageism...which is rampant in this country.  That 55 year old deserves some unemployment while he/she tries to get his/her life straightened out.  Do I think unemployment benefits should go on forever?  No I don't.  But should it be abolished?  No way!  Our budget would probably be fixed if we ended all wars now, stopped acting like the world's parents and let other countries take care of themselves, and put a stop to crazy health care charges.  No doctor is worth over $5,000/hour who does nothing.  I am not making this figure up, by the way.  I had one neurosurgeon talk to me for 5 minutes (where he did nothing and simply told me I needed to see someone else) and charge a fee that when added up to an hourly rate came in at over $5,000.  My friend had to go on disability due to rheumatoid arthritis not because he couldn't work anymore (though it was getting very hard), but because the one drug that helped him, Enbrel, was $1,800/month for 4 injections and he couldn't afford it unless he went on disability!  So now he's getting disability each month and the government is paying for this insanely overpriced medication.  I'm sorry, but no shot should cost $450.  Is it made out of liquid gold?!  And companies who outsource American jobs should be fined/taxed up the butt. Jobs won't stay in the USA out of the kind hearts of major corporations, believe me.  They need to be forced to keep jobs here.  And don't get me started on CEOs' salaries...

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