Editor, Gazette-Journal:
The President of the United States believes that the private sector is doing OK under his administration. A lot of people would look at our 8+ percent unemployment rate for the past three years and disagree. Some people would look askance at our razor-thin GDP growth; others would check the price of gasoline, the price of groceries, the size of their electricity bill and be perplexed.
I am sure that a lot of people are thrilled to get the company when their adult children move back into their house. It is not hard to see the president’s point of view though. The private sector is paying enough taxes to afford his annual salary of about $450,000; his multimillion dollar golf vacations to Hawaii every year; his golf trips to Martha’s Vineyard every year; and to send his wife and children to mingle with Europe’s royal families every year. If the private sector can afford to pay for the president’s lavish, jet-setting lifestyle, it surely must be rolling in clover.
As a matter of fact, he thinks it is doing so well that taxes should be increased on the wealthiest Americans to bring in another $5 billion a year. This additional revenue will close the yearly deficit his administration has run up, from $1.5 trillion a year all the way down to $1.495 trillion a year. One can only imagine that the credit rating agencies are breathless with anticipation.
I think, though, that perhaps it is the president’s deep-seated fiscal prudence that desires this tax increase. I am sure that he is feeling overworked and that he will need to take additional time off if he gets a second term.
Nobody will expect Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt to eat hamburgers during their visits to the White House. Every time he hosts a $40,000-a-plate fundraiser on Wall Street or in Hollywood, I am sure how he explains to those 1 percenters just how in touch he is with Main Street America. The American people are lucky that they have a president who understands what they are going through during these wildly prosperous years.
He tops this empathy for the average voter by his great respect for the Constitution and our political institutions by issuing executive orders that exceed the Constitutional authority of his office. He makes illegal appointments to government posts, evading Senate approval. He is assisted in his efforts to spend this country into bankruptcy by a do-nothing Democrat Senate. These men have been stonewalling the will of the American people since November of 2010 and now they are running another Obamacare apologist in Tim Kaine to replace Jim Webb.
Virginia voters need to avoid electing another tax-and-spend Democrat. This man could not keep track of the money in the Virginia budget, and he wants to be trusted with the federal government’s multi-trillion dollar budgets. Vote Republican!
Keith Ellenberger
Hallieford, Va.