Changes in government

It's the magicians of the Republican Party at it again. Now they've come up with a new plan to take some of the fire out of any Democratic plan.

They want to cut taxes for small business, make cuts to their own budget, put caps on federal spending and a whole lot more including repealing the recently passed health care package.

Gee, that sounds great EXCEPT:

Giving tax breaks to small business sounds wonderful. As a former small business owner what the GOP is offering is claptrap. Where are they going to cut taxes? Cutting medicare taxes only saves less then $10 per paycheck per worker for most businesses. Cutting federal income tax withholding? Where is the government going to get the money to provide needed services? And what about the business itself? Businesses only pay taxes on profits. If the business is losing money the government gets nothing, nada. Unfortunately, the Obama team doesn't understand small business either. Instead of bailing out Bear Stearnes and the big companies, if they had given TARP money to small businesses around the country, we would have immediately bought merchandise, advertised the new merchandise and hired more people which would have stimulated the economy better than the TARP give-a-way did.

It's nice they want to cut their own budget but I have a better plan for them. Have Congressmen and women go on medicare and social security. If those programs were ailing before, with members of Congress aboard those problems would be fixed overnight. Also, no more franking privileges. When is the last time you received anything from your congressman in the mail?

Caps on federal spending.... Why hasn't Congress been doing that for years? Because this is an election year, that's why!

Why does the GOP want to rescind the health care reform when some of the best segments of the law just took effect? No pre-existing conditions, children covered through age 26. These are good so why do the Republicans want to throw them out?

If members of Congress really wanted to do something constructive they would propose term limits on themselves. Where are the tea party rabble-rousers? Why aren't they demanding term limits? We could even ease into it, having anyone elected from November on locked into a finite term of office...two terms for senator, three terms for house members.

If the 535 elitists in the nations capital want to be on the same page as their constituents they'll do as we tell them to do. After all, they're supposed to work for us.