Hello all. Today is my first day writing my column for The Political Movement. My name is Joe Piperato and I come from the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. I have been asking people all week, what the other three commonwealths in the nation are, and I can only ever get Virginia out of them. Believe it or not, Kentucky and Massachusetts are both commonwealths as well. Just thought that it was a nice little slice of trivia. I will have to do some more research on the issue because I am uncertain as to why these four are commonwealths and the rest are considered states. I study business at East Stroudsburg University and I have been extremely interested in politics and current events for some time now. I am writing to hear feedback and insight thoughtful discussion. I feel that the best way to learn is to listen, especially to opposing viewpoints.
Ok, enough on that for now. This week in Washington has people everywhere scratching their heads and wondering what the next phase in this budget situation will be. Like millions of others I’m sure, I frantically rushed home to see the presidents speech on Wednesday afternoon. I was extremely disappointed in his demeanor and rhetoric. I was expecting our Commander in Chief to address the nation on our ever-increasing debt, our failing government agencies and a way in which to bring jobs and successful business back to the United States. Instead, he simply blamed the wealthy, expressed his discontent with the Bush tax cuts and told the nation that the $38 billion budget cut will save us $750 billion over twelve years. Unfortunately, $38 billion times twelve years, only equals $456 billion. He threw around a few other “fuzzy” numbers throughout his speech and I will get into that in my next article. Our President said, “Everybody pays, but the wealthier have borne a little more. This is not because we begrudge those who’ve done well -– we rightly celebrate their success. Instead, it’s a basic reflection of our belief that those who’ve benefited most from our way of life can afford to give back a little bit more.”
I don’t believe this way. This says to me that we want the upper class to pay for our nations heavy financial burden. The quote is a contradiction. Now don’t get me wrong, I believe that helping people is a good thing and there is no greater good than giving back. However, President Obama loves bipartisan politics, as long as it falls on the liberal side of things. No one is going to like the decision we come to and a compromise is absolutely necessary. I just see our President trying to start a cultural disagreement and link himself again to his voting base. It really is a disagreement of the fundamental core values of what truly makes us fiscally liberal or conservative. I personally believe that we need to cut many of the hundreds of unnecessary government run agencies, contract out to more private businesses, find a way to make it realistic to lure outsourced companies back to the United States and bring the dollar back onto U.S. soil. I can guarantee that the opposition disagrees.
In my next article, I am going to research some of the numbers that our President threw around in Wednesday’s speech. I will begin to expand on why I believe unions and outrageous labor costs have destroyed our economy and I will review the mess that we are “not” involved with in Libya.
- Joe Piperato
I came across an interesting article in this month’s Smart Money Magazine discussing how the end of QE2 at the end of June will affect the markets.
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Hello all. Today is my first day writing my column for The Political Movement. My name is Joe Piperato and I come from the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. I have been asking people all week, what the other three commonwealths in the nation are, and I can only ever get Virginia out of them. Believe it or not, Kentucky and Massachusetts are both commonwealths as well. Just thought that it was a nice little slice of trivia. I will have to do some more research on the issue because I am uncertain as to why these four are commonwealths and the rest are considered states. I study business at East Stroudsburg University and I have been extremely interested in politics and current events for some time now. I am writing to hear feedback and insight thoughtful discussion. I feel that the best way to learn is to listen, especially to opposing viewpoints.
Ok, enough on that for now. This week in Washington has people everywhere scratching their heads and wondering what the next phase in this budget situation will be. Like millions of others I’m sure, I frantically rushed home to see the presidents speech on Wednesday afternoon. I was extremely disappointed in his demeanor and rhetoric. I was expecting our Commander in Chief to address the nation on our ever-increasing debt, our failing government agencies and a way in which to bring jobs and successful business back to the United States. Instead, he simply blamed the wealthy, expressed his discontent with the Bush tax cuts and told the nation that the $38 billion budget cut will save us $750 billion over twelve years. Unfortunately, $38 billion times twelve years, only equals $456 billion. He threw around a few other “fuzzy” numbers throughout his speech and I will get into that in my next article. Our President said, “Everybody pays, but the wealthier have borne a little more. This is not because we begrudge those who’ve done well -– we rightly celebrate their success. Instead, it’s a basic reflection of our belief that those who’ve benefited most from our way of life can afford to give back a little bit more.”
I don’t believe this way. This says to me that we want the upper class to pay for our nations heavy financial burden. The quote is a contradiction. Now don’t get me wrong, I believe that helping people is a good thing and there is no greater good than giving back. However, President Obama loves bipartisan politics, as long as it falls on the liberal side of things. No one is going to like the decision we come to and a compromise is absolutely necessary. I just see our President trying to start a cultural disagreement and link himself again to his voting base. It really is a disagreement of the fundamental core values of what truly makes us fiscally liberal or conservative. I personally believe that we need to cut many of the hundreds of unnecessary government run agencies, contract out to more private businesses, find a way to make it realistic to lure outsourced companies back to the United States and bring the dollar back onto U.S. soil. I can guarantee that the opposition disagrees.
In my next article, I am going to research some of the numbers that our President threw around in Wednesday’s speech. I will begin to expand on why I believe unions and outrageous labor costs have destroyed our economy and I will review the mess that we are “not” involved with in Libya.
- Joe Piperato
Tags: Barack Obama, National Debt