Superman Will Save Us: The Proposed Social Security Rollbacks

Superman will save us.

Maybe if we just had the right candidate, the right congressman or senator, the right president, or the right brand of breakfast cereal, we could stop (fill in the blank) and accomplish something progressive, something helpful, something life-affirming.

Forgive me, reader, but when I woke up today and read the Denver Post's article about Obama "backing away" from his pledge to withdraw troops from Iraq next year, I gave up looking for "the right person." I gave up expecting the president to do much more than draw an unearned paycheck.

You want the right person? Everybody who reads this should look in the mirror. If that person is not willing to act, there is no right person.

It's time to SLAM the House, Senate, and White House with millions of letters saying to continue plans to re-tax the capital vacuums (the top 1%), stop the proposed Social Security and Medicare insurance rollbacks, and continue plans to withdraw from Afghanistan.

But, do you think the Dems will figure that out? Hell no. They'll be too busy deciding what they stand for while blaming the GOP and looking for somebody else to save us.

Let's try an experiment. Let's start a drive to collect 5 million signatures on a petition to Congress and the president to re-tax the top 1% (rather than those making more than $250,000/year; there's a compromise) and not slash SS or Medicare. First, we'll concentrate on the Dems. Think we can get the signatures?

--- What was the original American Aurora? The Aurora was a newspaper published by Benjamin Franklin Bache , a grandson of Benjamin Franklin. The Aurora was published in Philadelphia, our nation's capitol at the time.

The Aurora was highly critical of what Bache felt was the tyrannous Federalist governments of presidents Washington and Adams.

The result? Adams imprisoned Bache for sedition, where he languished, awaiting trial, until his death from yellow fever at age 29.