Did Anybody Really Not Hear of the Tax Cuts???

Michael Cooper, wrote "From Obama, the Tax Cuts Nobody Heard Of" (NYtimes.com). How much money do you think a president could cut from peoples' taxes without anyone noticing it? President Obama cut $116 billion in taxes that nobody noticed. CBS took a poll last moth of whether people believed that their taxes had changed under President Obama's administration.  Here are there results: less than 1 in 10 respondents knew Obama lowered taxes. Half said they thought their taxes stayed the same. A third thought their taxes went up, and a tenth didn't know.  The tax cut was intended to be hard to notice. It was arranged so that people couldn't notice that their taxes went down. Obama wanted it this way so that people would spend the extra money and stimulate the economy.  A typical family was given about $65 extra dollars per month.

I believe that Obama was doing good for the economy and not for his reputation. He could have done what George Bush did and given citizens their tax cut at the end of the year in one big check, which would have been better for Obama politically. But the president wanted to help the economy and he wanted people to spend that money he gave to him so the economy would go up.

Don't Ask Don't Tell

In the NY Daily News article, "Lady Gaga Rallies Against 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'"  by Meena Hartenste, Lady Gaga protests against the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" law. "Don't Ask Don't Tell" is about the legality of gay soldiers fighting. The law is that the military can't ask if you are gay and you can't tell anyone or you can be kicked out of the military. Lady Gaga states, "I'm here today because don't ask don't tell is wrong. It's injust. I'm here today because I would like to propose a new law. A law that sends home the soldier that has the problem. Our new law is called 'If you don't like it, go home.'" I'm totally in favor of Lady Gaga's law because it should be the soldiers that have the problem that need to go home not the ones that don't. It should not matter if you are gay. Lady Gaga also says, "Doesn't don't ask don't tell seem backwards? Doesn't it seem to you that we should send home the prejudice? The straight soldier who hates the gay soldier, whose performance is affected because he is homophobic?". I believe that the soldiers who are against gays need to be sent home. It's not fair if only straights can go in the military. Gays can perform as well as straight soldiers. What happened to "every man is created equal"? The gays aren't prejudiced and saying "Oh well, I hate most people because they are straight".


My uncles are gay and I love them to death. It really doesn't matter if people are gay or not. It's just who they are and they shouldn't be judged or hated because of it.