by Yusef Raahman Sudah

Created on: March 22, 2009   Last Updated: June 03, 2010

Local state wealth and taxation appears to be opposing forces for citizens but they are not. Politicians need money to provide services for the public services. Yet they appear to suffer a loss of memory when it comes to recalling who has the most money, the wealthy or the common man especially after having been elected. There is ample data in "Fortune Magazine" to let even the most illiterate person know who has the greatest amount of money, the wealthy 10 % or the bottom 90%. How is it when a state or the nation runs out of money, due to poor fiscal policy and management that the politicians, suddenly believe in the "wisdom" of the public. That same ninety per cent that are commonly ignored after the election and are usually played as dupes by politicians in order to get elected? When a politician wants money, the public is smart, when a politician does not need money, the public can go the hell! Sought like your teenage child, when they need something they "love you" but when they don't you are the last person they care to hear from.

Politicians are mature children and we, the public, are immature adults that allow our elected officials to sale us what we buy and usually what we buy is fertilizer! Logic says, tax the wealthy 3 - 10% which controls the lion's share of wealth. This 3- 10% of the state and nation should be taxed more heavily because they possess 75% plus of the local, state and national resources. Many receive "welfare" called subsidies for everything from "not growing food" to receiving grants for simply being rich. The wealthy, many of whom agree, do not pay enough taxes!

Yet the politicians, the friends of the wealthy, refuse to introduce legislation to raise their taxes. Perhaps the philosophy of "greed is good" is the unwritten national and local policy of the shepherds  (the politicians) of the sheep called citizens. Gov. Pat Quinn is not alone in his practice of "bestiality" on the sheep under his care. Fifty per cent increase on a bare sheep is a very demanding request especially when you are proposing it for the sheep's own good". What nerve!

The request for an increase in taxes on the common citizens who are already paying more for gasoline, losing his home, buying a car to get to work, hoping to eat (once and a while), feed his children, buy clothing, pay utilities etc. is like having hired a prostitute and in the middle of having sex saying to her this is going to cost "her" another $200.00! Local, state and national fiscal reasoning must change in order for there to be fiscal stability .

Mr Pat Quinn maybe a great and likable guy but he is another breed of politician that seeks power as a career and as such wants to be in the class of the rich that pay very little of their share of taxes. And that alone means his reasoning as a shepherd requires that the sheep to be sheared. 

After all isn't that what being a shepherd is about? Most politicians are striving to get a bigger flock to fleece. Few would disagree that many politicians are careful in their planned aspirations. Isn't it great to aspire to be governor? Even better to be president, each step offers a larger flock to fleece. The common man understands that the sheep in it's wisdom is not saying ba ba ba for nothing.

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