If the republican'ts ran a business the way they want to run the country

Okay Here is another analogy.
If we compare the United States of America to a corporation, the President is the CEO, John Boehner is the "Chairman of the Board, Congress is the board of directors and the Citizens of this country are the stock holders. Now I need to point out that unlike all other corporations, each stock holder each gets one vote and can not vote the number of shares [read that, the number of successfully bribed politicians ] he or she holds.

So - We have the CEO saying that the corporation has been losing money and needs to cut expenses and increase profits in order to take care of the stock holders, who expect a return on their investment. That investment can be described as; Sons and daughters raised and - for a few - lost to war and other service, taxes paid, allegiance given and volunteerism performed.

We have the Chairman of the Board saying that we need to cut expenses - including dividends paid out to the stock holders but we can not and will not and dare no even consider trying to increase income for this corporation. Read his lips "NO NEW INCOME!"

We have the board of directors insisting that they continue to draw their large compensation packages but refuse to consider ANYTHING that will help the stock holders. In face, some of the members of the board of directors are trying to introduce corporate by-laws ht will authorize outright stealing investments from stockholders.

And we have stock holders. A minority - that has been getting way too much attention, feel that the only way for the corporation to continue is to dissolve the quality control department (regulation enforcement and citizen protection) and the legal department (Justices that are not privately and wholly owned "house niggers") and the human resources department (Hiring and training). We should liquidate the corporate retirement fund and use it to pay for current corporate expenses.
The majority of the stock holders just want to go about our lives and leave a better place for our children. We are willing to pay our FAIR SHARE to purchase the stock that enables us to enjoy out voting rights.
But another minority feel that they should be able to buy more votes and vote those votes "enbloc" They are will to buy the votes of the directors, BUT THEY ARE UNWILLING TO BUY SHARES IN THE CORPORATION!

So - I ask you President Obama - "How can you consider negotiating away the retirement and health protection benefits that we, the citizen stockholders, are purchasing with our own money. Money that you withhold from our paychecks and unemployment benefits with no options to opt out of the plans. Withholding that you do not levy on the rich. Withholding that you will not decrease in proportion to toe decrease on benefits you are willing to allow. And getting less product for more money is a price increase - a TAX increase. How can you consider negotiating with the republicans again. WHERE IS YOUR Czechoslovakia? When will you finally realize that you cannot appease these rabid conservatives? When will you go to war against those who seek to destroy this country, its government and its Constitution by "STARVING THE BEAST TO THE POINT WHERE IT CAN BE DROWNED IN THE BATHTUB?"

And I ask you Speaker Boehner, How can you think this country can survive by living off of the retirement plan of its poorest citizens?
Do you hate The United States of America so much?

And I ask you - the citizens of this country - HOW can you expect something for nothing? Where is the tradition of this great country that says that "as long as I got mine, I want some of yours, and some of his, and some of hers, but I get to keep mine? Where is the future of re-writing our our history to do things like remove Thomas Jefferson's opposition to a state sponsored church from our text books just like George Orwell predicted we would, to allow for religious INtolerance and purity tests like the Soviet Union used to do, To redefine a citizen as someone CONCEIVED in the United States so we will need o post conception police in our bed chambers just like the Chinese Dynastic Emperors were forced to do?

Citizens, When are we going to rise up and demand that EVERY ONE - PERSON AND CORPORATION - PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE.
When are we going to lock the legislature into their respective chambers and not let them out until they pass a tax code that we can understand?
When are we going to demand that, when doing the business of the Country and the Constitution, when debating legislation on the floor of the legislature, that everyone who speaks must first take the oath to "speak the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?"

THIS is how we take our country back, and THIS is from whom it needs taking

Peter Bradley
Narragansett, RI