It's not duck season, or rabbit season, it's election season....

Looney tune politicians are doing their thing, saying just about anything to get elected, or at least to stop the "other guy" from getting elected.  Mainly, that means trying their best to scare you into voting  for them.  The tactics are typically a combination of slogans, catch-phrases, sound-bites, name-calling, race-baiting, fear-mongering.... anything EXCEPT the issues that the general public really cares about!

The U.S. Census Bureau reported that 44 million American citizens -- about 1 in 7 American citizens -- are below the official poverty line.  The official definition for poverty in 2010 is, for a single adult, $10,830 per year, before any taxes or anything else is withheld.  Enough to buy ONE prime box seat at Yankee stadium.  Now, if you divide that by 52 weeks, and then divide that by 40 hours per week, that single person makes less than $5.21 per hour.  For a family of four, that annual income skyrockets to $22,050, or $10.60 per hour.  Compare this to the salary of U.S. Senators and Congressmen is about $174,000 per year... and most of them are millionaires anyway (Salary of congress) .

There are millionaires and perhaps billionaires who pay LESS in taxes than a person below the poverty line earns in a year.  How-some-millionaires-can-owe-no-taxes

It is interesting to note how little those running for political office on ANY level are giving this serious discussion as an issue. Sure, there is talk about "taking America back" or "Stop those tax n spend folk in DC" or "Let's not go back to the Bush days"... slogans and buzz words and sound bites are part of the game, but if you it's all form and no substance.

• Same-sex marriages (or civil unions) do not put food on your table, or take it off.
• A mosque near "ground zero" is not going to get your job outsourced
• The faith of our the President (and Ronald Reagan NEVER went to ANY church while President) will not affect your ability buy a home, or keep your home
• Abortion rights, or the removal of those rights, will not clean up oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico, nor prevent toxic chemicals from seeping into our groundwater
• Guarding our borders from illegal immigration will not stop businesses from hiring illegal immigrants so that those businesses can make more money

Why? Because millionaire politicians and wannabe millionaire politicians simply don't care about the bottom 95% of American citizens, let alone those in poverty. They live on a different plane of existance, just as you and I are on a different plane of existance from the cockroach. People like Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, Sarah Palin, and Nancy Pelosi, all have two things in common:  One, they are millionaires many times over; and Two, they really have no concept of what most Americans have to do to survive from one day to the next.  To people like this, only the polls and media ratings and book sales matter...  and their ability to manipulate YOUR thought process.

As long as we fall for the slogans and catch-phrases, the fundamental concerns of the general public will never be addressed.