Wes,
I agree with Ernie on his points. I don't see how just raising taxes is going to save Social Security as they will just take the money and use it for their own projects anyway. That is what happened to a huge amount of what used to be in the Social Security fund. Congress moved it into the General fund so they could use it for pay raises or anything else they wanted. And I also don't think just trying to make the wealthy pay more is any solution. All they should do is have to pay their fair share which many of them do already. I wish I had some kind of idea of how to start solving the mess the country is in, but it can't be done by any one person and certainly not in a year or so.
And as for the percentage of people voting, they published the percent for Shasta County yesterday and I was completely surprised. I know this is a sparsely populated area, but I think only 40 some percent of the REGISTERED voters voted and there are many who don't even register. And the ones who don't vote are the ones doing most of the loud crying.
Ron
