Unemployment Extension on Americans' Minds

This may be my 1st and last time writing a comment on our countries affairs, I may be ridiculed because I haven't been keeping up due to health. I am sure that someone far more educated than myself has already brought this up, but did we not loan other countries over the decades past at least the amount we owe other countries now? Sometime later, did we not, for peace or trade negotiations, with those countries and others, "FORGAVE" the debt? Unless I remember what I read about that incorrectly, where are our fellow countries, that we helped in the past with money, our service troupes (sometimes their lives) and supplies and non-profit workers to help all over the world, were are they now when we need financial assistance? If we had the money from this war alone, we would not be in debt. Yes, we lost much on 9-11, far beyond the death toll...unfortunately we did not learn from the previous invasion on our soil. The need to not re-act, so fast, that we moved quickly, hastily, and without all the knowledge needed to get whom was responsible with the least amount of MORE casualty to our homelands people and our security, so we may loose more since 9-11...if that is even possible. Why are our allies, that we helped in the past, and currently help, not footing money for us without interest...and if possible, forgiven...like we tend to do. I am educated somewhat to the fact that it is not so simple, and a domino affect with trade and allies would happen if we stopped trade completely. If this conflict keeps going on, we will not have enough strong, young people to protect an attack on our soil. Someone should have been as strong and decisive as the hero's that attacked the hijackers on that 3rd plane on 9-11, to save other lives that would have been lost if that plane had also made it to its original target. When a plane was in New Yorks "no fly zone", I understand there was time to shoot it down, or at least the second one. I believe our country's citizens' would have been behind that decision, especially after the facts came in.

Instead of our allies financially helping, Let's see, a proposal to tax 1% on things purchased, except stocks. People making very little, maybe disabled or something and trying not to be on aid, selling small things on the internet and such...but it seems that PURCHASING "STOCKS", WON'T BE INCLUDED IN THE TAXATION OF 1%, to rid out trillions of dollars in debt. I owned my home and had a state job at one time, but I couldn't afford buying stocks....Yes the 90+% of Americans whom maybe order over the internet because of time factors for working, children activities and/or people whom cannot physically get to the stores are to pay more to help our country. Yes, that will get us out of the trillions of dollars in debt, paying 1% tax on 12.95 X-mas toy or medical supplies. If people knew how our tax system works for above 200,000. in a low wage state...made me ill when I found out.

Cindy of WI 7:50PM December 04, 2010