Liberty and Justice: My American Journal

The federal gasoline tax is 18.4 cents per gallon for gas and 22.4 cents per gallon for diesel. This tax does not include the other taxes by the states and local communities. This federal tax is not generating the $260 billion GOP needs for a proposed highway construction and transit program! The cars are more efficient and people are not buying more gas. The GOP has a solution. They want to get the money from the federal employees. How? They suggest the federal employees should contribute 1.5 percent more of their monthly income for their retirement. At present the retirement benefit is calculated based on the average salary of the last five years of the service. The GOP has proposed to base the retirement benefit for the new employees based on the average salary of the last three years of the service. These changes would reduce the federal contribution to the retired employees’ benefit by about $4 billion a year. The GOP proposal would take money from the retired federal empl...

The federal gasoline tax is 18.4 cents per gallon for gas and 22.4 cents per gallon for diesel. This tax does not include the other taxes by the states and local communities. This federal tax is not generating the $260 billion GOP needs for a proposed highway construction and transit program! The cars are more efficient and people are not buying more gas. The GOP has a solution. They want to get the money from the federal employees. How? They suggest the federal employees should contribute 1.5 percent more of their monthly income for their retirement. At present the retirement benefit is calculated based on the average salary of the last five years of the service. The GOP has proposed to base the retirement benefit for the new employees based on the average salary of the last three years of the service. These changes would reduce the federal contribution to the retired employees’ benefit by about $4 billion a year. The GOP proposal would take money from the retired federal empl...

The statement that” Iran is a threat to US and an existential danger to Israel" is not logical. I don't believe a word of it! Iranians are anything but stupid to attack us or Israel. The story is just a fabrication to heat up the stuff before another war hits the fan. Israel will go to whatever length necessary to drag US into another war in the Middle East. Who would benefit from another war in the Middle East? Not Iran or USA. They both have a lot of internal problems, and neither one can afford another war. We need to stop the crazy people whose intentions are questionable. We have just started to make headway to economic recovery, if another war instigated by Israel would drag US into a new conflict, the war surely would derail our recovery for a longtime. In that case, let us say good bye to President Obama’s second chance for another term in the office. Do American workers and families have to sacrifice more to allow Israeli control of the region? Could President O...