I've been told the only thing you have to do in this country is to die and pay taxes and deal with the politics which comes between taxes and death.
Yesterday was Tax Day. The television is on MSNBC and the Tea Baggers are on the stage and politics are on the agenda.
How can it be that all working Americans got a tax cut and yet the people are cheering when the politician tells them if you believe you got a tax cut under this administration then you must also believe we have free health care in this country. "Today you pay your taxes but 47% of the workers do not pay federal taxes." Who is leading these people? A New York Times Poll tells us who they are but not who is leading them. As if on cue, Rachel Maddow on the Rachel Maddow's Show pointed us to Google Search. There we found the culprit an old enemy that destroy my little hometown. in Fordyce, Arkansas: David and Charles Koch.
This rant is led by a super conservative group called American For Prosperity it is a grass root organization that is committed to engaging citizen in the name of limited government. The AFP offers training to not only educate citizens about economic policy, but also , to mobilize those citizens to become advocates in the public policy process.
American For Prosperity was founded by David Koch. David Koch and his brother Charles Koch own Koch Industries. The family's fortune is managed by the Koch Family Foundations. Koch Family Foundations funds American For Prosperity. Koch Industries is a 100 billion dollar company, the second largest privately held company in the world according to Forbes, the company is the largest privately own energy company. Koch Industries is gearing up for the cap and trade battle in Congress next year.
These two brothers killed my hometown of 4,230 in the south central region of Arkansas when it closed its Georgia-Pacific plant and lay-off almost all of it workers in Fordyce, Arkansas last October. The company founded a 'limited government' governing the city and left the workers with unemployment checks and until the benefits run out or the benefits are held up by a Republican, whichever comes first.
What does this mandated day mean to me? Get my taxes in the mail before midnight. Should have done this before now. I got a refund coming. The time line was used as a saving plan to keep the money out of my hands as long as I could.
(The phone rings)
"Daddy, don't you know, a Charles Menefee, age 63?"
"Yeah"
"His funeral is 2 pm Saturday".
"Damn!, another hustling partner bites the dust as well as another small town falls because of the greed and selfish ways of a big heartless corporation".
On this Tax Day, when you hear the vile lies told by the white elite, in the market place, against President Obama, it frightens me, When I think of the death of this old man that I shared a birth year with, he was once young as me, that unnerves me.
If the Republicans do not get back in office in the next voting cycle, I am afraid this country is going to caught hell. Most of the polls show whites believe blacks more than whites are benefiting from the president's rising tide lifts all boat approach to being a president for all of the people.