COMMENTARY | I am not a professor of economics. Neither am I a man who possesses a political science degree. But I am blessed with the innate ability to point out things that are wrong or do not make any sense. Which is why all the talk between the Republicans and Democrats surrounding the payroll tax cut causes me to raise my eyebrows and wants to ask both sides: "Why are you gambling with people's lives?"
According to CNN, President Barack Obama said in a statement that a two-month extension of the payroll tax cut is the only way to keep taxes from going up after the New Year. The Republican Party wants to block any measure that Obama wants to set forward. For nothing more than to advance its own agenda. On the GOP side, it has somewhere around half a dozen folks vying for Obama's job. I understand you have to do what you have to do to get ahead, but doesn't the GOP realize it is messing with people's lives?
MSNBC is reporting House Republicans have blocked the extension that was passed by the Senate. They are playing games with people's livelihood. Even though this is not the first time the GOP has battled Obama on a budget issue, in an election year it can be seen in the eyes of some as petty political jabbing back and forth.
Fox News is reporting Obama is trying every way he can to get the GOP to compromise with him on this issue. There is no way that is going to happen. In an election year, it is impossible to get anything done due to the constant mudslinging. All of this is going to affect people that need as many breaks as they can get. Average people. You and me.
Remember something in all of this. Many of these people that are using the American taxpayers as pawns are going to be up for reelection themselves in November. It is time as a people that we need to let Congress know that if they use us, it is going to cost them as much as they cost us.
