Obama offers savings in Medicare and Social Security along with closing tax loopholes?

Bottom line: This is about inequality. Obama and the Dems want to make it better. Republicans want to make it worse.

Here are some examples of the subsidies Republicans don’t want to talk about cutting: Oil and gas subsidies: $94 Billion Corporate jets and yachts: $4 Billion Hedge fund managers: $17 Billion Scrap the Sequester, Solve Inequality http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14711-... There was an article in WaPo this week that looked at income disparity. In 2011 the top .01% of this country made an average of $24Million. The bottom 90% made an average of $30,000.

One in three American families (46.2 million Americans) is living at or near the poverty line. Thomas Hungerford of the non-partisan Congressional Research Service hasreleased a new study on wealth and income inequality in America. He looked at a recent 15 year period in the country and found that, “by far, the largest contributor to increasing income inequality (regardless of income inequality measure) was changes in income from capital gains and dividends. Right now in America, the average teacher or public sector employee pays an average tax rate of 25% to 35%, and a surgeon or family with two college-educated incomes can pay up to 39%.

But then there are this nation’s wealthy elite, the Mitt Romneys of the world, whocurrently pay a maximum capital gains tax rate of only 20%, and often much less than that because the capital gains and carried interest tax is both progressive and subject to being reduced by thousands of loopholes and deductions. In fact, the capital gains tax rate hasn’t been this low since the late 1920’s, and we all know what happened then: The Great Depression. http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14711-... New study badly undermines GOP position on sequester.

Closing loopholes is just another form of raising taxes, which will further hurt our crashing economy. We don't need to raise taxes, we need to CUT SPENDING!

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.