August 4, Wall Street Journal, Teeing Up the Middle Class

Alan Phillips wrote:
"TEEING UP THE MIDDLE CLASS" IS MUST READING FOR EVERY AMERICAN.
This type of deceptive national leadership trumpets the neccesity for us to return to a "fresh pool" for choosing future executive leadership for this country. If this administration is the best we can do in choosing expertise, we must look, as did our foundners, for people of intergrity, ethics, truthfulness and incorruptible honesty. National leaders should not make a promise publicy they have no intention of keeping. At best such a false promise is a deception, in a worst case it is a lie.

Larry Summers on "Face the Nation" last week exhibited his pathetic expertise by stating "It is never a good idea to absolutely rule things out no matter what." This statement open's the proverbial Pandora's box, Larry would have no place in an administration of mine or any servant leader.. Timothy Geitner exclaims "We have to bring these deficits down very dramatically and that's going to require some very hard choices." I agree, let's begin by having all candidates who seek government office, to have paid their income taxes, to demonstrate their honesty, and true concern for the exisitng deficit. Also, officials proposing new taxes should be required to publicly air their ideas before the American people who believe in lowering taxes and did not create the deficit in the first place.

Also, the article predicts that "waiting in the wings is the biggest middle class tax increase of them all: a European style value added tax (VAT). As the article's author points out, "A European style welfare-entertainment state requires European style levels of taxation on the middle class. Frankly, I disliked "Read my lips, no new taxes," now it appears I will have to include with that infamous barb, Obama's no-middle class tax increase pledge, which as the author reminds us "was one of the greatest confidence tricks in American History."

We have elections coming in 2010, 2012, let's choose from a large citizen pool of honest, ethical, truthful, and strong leaders--servants of the people, who are proud of this great Nation.