http://www.thenation.com/article/158282/how-build-progressive-tea-party
The above article really addresses something that our country severely lacks: accountability. I wish that I were better acquainted with the details of our tax system, but sadly I am not, nor do I really have the time to research those things at the moment. What I will say is this: the wealthy are not paying their fair share and our esteemed congressmen are doing their best to help them do that.
My mother works for the food stamp office. This year, all state employees were forced to take six furlough days (six unpaid days off). Workers like my mother do not make very much and at the same time, do not qualify for the benefits that they are helping others receive. They have to live beyond their means without any savings in order to survive. The kicker? Our Commissioner of Agriculture, candidate for lieutenant governor, and former University of Kentucky basketball player (the best thing you could possibly put on your resume in this state), Richie Farmer, took his staff on a tax payer funded vacation to the Caribbean.
The elected officials of the state of KY are currently so busy trying to prove that their party believes in god more than the other that they've completely neglected to take care of the very people who elected them. Who can we turn to if we can't turn to our leaders and representatives whom we elect? Politics have become entirely too profitable and it is the poor who are suffering because of it.
The above article really addresses something that our country severely lacks: accountability. I wish that I were better acquainted with the details of our tax system, but sadly I am not, nor do I really have the time to research those things at the moment. What I will say is this: the wealthy are not paying their fair share and our esteemed congressmen are doing their best to help them do that.
My mother works for the food stamp office. This year, all state employees were forced to take six furlough days (six unpaid days off). Workers like my mother do not make very much and at the same time, do not qualify for the benefits that they are helping others receive. They have to live beyond their means without any savings in order to survive. The kicker? Our Commissioner of Agriculture, candidate for lieutenant governor, and former University of Kentucky basketball player (the best thing you could possibly put on your resume in this state), Richie Farmer, took his staff on a tax payer funded vacation to the Caribbean.
The elected officials of the state of KY are currently so busy trying to prove that their party believes in god more than the other that they've completely neglected to take care of the very people who elected them. Who can we turn to if we can't turn to our leaders and representatives whom we elect? Politics have become entirely too profitable and it is the poor who are suffering because of it.
