Dear Mr. & Mrs. Middle and Working Class Reader...

Middle Class Small Businesses are the backbone―75%―of the U.S. economy! We can create our own jobs & our own healthcare if our top marginal rate on personal, business & capital gains income is reduced to 10% (from 35%). Why should our top marginal federal income tax rate be the same as the top rate for Wall Street and corporate America? The answer is, "It should not be this way." The President and Congress know this full well, but refuse to do the right thing.

Which is better―cutting Middle Class America's taxes & raising Wall Street and corporate America's taxes or overtaxing Middle Class America & under taxing Wall Street and corporate America? The answer is simple! The President and Congress know this too, but again refuse to do the right thing.

Which is better―cutting Middle Class America's taxes & raising Wall Street and corporate America's taxes or borrowing to subsidize the under taxing of Wall Street and corporate America? Again, the answer is simple! The President and Congress know this as well, and still refuse to do the right thing.

Where is the commonsense in borrowing to bail out Wall Street and corporate America (directly and by under taxing)―when Wall Street and corporate America simply cannot or will not create Middle and Working Class jobs! The 29-year old experiment in trickle down Reaganomics & trickle down Bushonomics failed before the Ronald W. Reagan presidency even ended in 1989. The stark repeat of the Reagan administration failure by the George W. Bush administration was an unmitigated disaster that brought America's Middle Class to its knees by 2009! In between (1989-2001), the George H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations made progress in reversing Reaganomics by raising taxes on Wall Street and corporate America―but that progress went straight down the drain between 2001 and 2009.

Dear Mr. & Mrs. Middle and Working Class Reader...

Iraq sits on a massive pool of oil and can hardly keep itself together and sustain itself. Iraq is an amalgam of dissimilar tribes that was never meant to be a country. Read its history!

Even worse, Afghanistan cannot sustain itself because of a near total lack of natural resources―and will never have a sufficient economic base from which to tax itself and sustain a standing security force in the hundreds of thousands. Like Iraq, Afghanistan is an amalgam of dissimilar tribes that was never meant to be a country. Again, read the history of SW Asia over the past century and a half! Both the British and the Russians pursued military and political experiments in Afghanistan―and both failed miserably!

It seems inevitable that the Barack H. Obama and George W. Bush administration counterinsurgencies will follow the British & Russian counterinsurgency failures (1842 & 1989, respectively) in SW Asia (Afghanistan)―just as the Lyndon B. Johnson administration (1968) and Richard M. Nixon administration (1973) followed France's counterinsurgency  failure (1954) in SE Asia (i.e., Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos).

Counterinsurgencies (especially by foreign occupying forces) are essentially unwinnable. The supply of insurgents is neverending. Therefore the last man standing in a counterinsurgency v. insurgency is the insurgent...not the counterinsurgent.

Why in the world then, should America's Best & Finest continue to risk and sacrifice their lives and limbs, sight, hearing and physical & mental health for a losing proposition? The answer is, "It should not be this way."

The President and Congress know this full well, but refuse to let go of their unwinnable counterinsurgency in SW Asia―the latest unwinnable strategy, operations & tactics for which, were hatched as a more or less academic exercise hatched by two general officer graduates of West Point with little or no experience down where the rubber hits the road, i.e., little or no counterinsurgency v. insurgency experience at the platoon, company and battalion task force levels.

Dear Mr. & Mrs. Middle and Working Class Reader...

Any law that makes end runs around―or otherwise conflicts with―the Freedoms, Rights & Privileges of Americans dictated by We the People of the United States in the U.S. Constitution―should never have been passed by Congress...should never have been signed into law by the President...and should never have failed to have been challenged by the Supreme Court. In fact, such laws should be repealed by Congress and the President.

The fact of the matter is that it does not take a genius to figure out that the following laws make end runs around―and otherwise conflict with―the Freedoms, Rights & Privileges of Americans dictated by We the People of the United States in the U.S. Constitution:

1. Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (passed by Congress and signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on October 25, 1978) conflicts with Amendment IV of the Bill of Rights ― "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." (emphasis added)

2. War Powers Resolution of 1973 (passed by Congress over the veto pen of President Richard M. Nixon on November 7, 1973) conflicts with Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 ― "The Congress shall have Power...To Declare War..." (emphasis added)

3. Patriot Act of 2001 (passed by Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001) conflicts with Amendment IV of the Bill of Rights ― "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." (emphasis added)

4. Military Commissions Act of 2006 (passed by Congress and signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 17, 2006) conflicts with Article I, Section 9, Clause 2 ― "The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it." (emphasis added)

5. Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999 [passed by Congress in veto-proof form on November 4, 1999 (House 83.2% Yea & Senate 90% Yea) and signed into law by President Bill Clinton on November 12, 1999] conflicts with the anti-stupidity Articles, Sections & Clauses of this Constitution for the United States of America ― Repealed those portions of the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 that prohibited consolidating the operations of commercial banks (deposit banks), investment banks, securities firms and insurance companies into financial services conglomerates...thereby precipitating the subprime mortgage-backed securities meltdown of 2007-09 and counting. (emphasis added)

Dear Mr. & Mrs. Middle and Working Class Reader...

Every morning we wake up to hear the same old tired refrain from television, radio & internet privileged class media (fourth estate) spokespersons about their clients―the privileged class public sector (president & administration and congress) and the privileged class private sector (Wall Street & corporate America).

What we hear is that the privileged class public & private sectors are somehow "struggling" with 1) Middle & Working Class Main Street America small business unemployment of 20% (jobs, jobs, jobs!) & 29 long years of privileged class public sector borrowing & accumulated debt of $15 Trillion to subsidize the under taxing of Wall Street & corporate America 2) Middle & Working Class losses of lives, limbs, sight, hearing and mental & physical health in SW Asia counterinsurgencies (war, war, war!) & the privileged class public sector end run around our Constitution's requirement to formally declare war 3) privileged class public sector (presidential & congressional & judicial) secrecy, inefficiency, greed, fraud, waste and abuse emanating from privileged class public sector laws that are in direct conflict with our Constitution (so called constitutional checks & balances a.k.a. finger pointing and the blame game!).

It's time for the morally and ethically corrupt privileged class fourth estate (media), privileged class public sector (federal government), privileged class private sector (Wall Street & corporate America) and the privileged class public/private sector revolving door to stop dancing around the three basic solutions to the aforesaid three basic problems.

It is you, Mr. & Mrs. Middle and Working Class Reader, who are consistently turned away from this privileged class revolving door―and excluded from its gratuitously low taxes, guaranteed incomes and accompanying privileged class perks.

Dear Mr. & Mrs. Middle and Working Class Reader...

Over the period of these last several years, you and we (the Middle & Working Class Disabled American Veterans here at OKJack™Group™) have discussed most (if not all) of the major issues facing our great nation―and particularly those issues facing our overtaxed and bloodied and wounded American Middle and Working Class.

We know where the solutions lie. The privileged class congress and president know where they lie also.

What's absent is privileged class congressional and presidential courage and implementation. What's present is the privileged class public-private sector revolving door and lots and lots of privileged class greed―and money for the asking. What's also present is 28 years of fiscal & financial mismanagement in the privileged class public and private sectors.

Yes, we mention the privileged class minority a lot, Mr. & Mrs. Reader. However, don't forget that it is the Middle & Working Class Majority who vote (or who don't vote).

So, if the shoe fits, then wear it.

Said another way, it is the privileged class minority tail that wags the Middle & Working Class Majority Dog every single day. Wouldn't you much rather be wagging the privileged class minority tail instead of...well...being wagged yourself?

Aren't you just plain tired of all of this?

America is run by the privileged class public and private sectors. America is also run into the ground by the privileged class public and private sectors.

There is nothing that the Middle Class & Working Class can do about the privileged class running the country―no matter how many votes are cast every 2, 4 & 6 years. That's simply what the privileged class wants you to believe. That's also why so many votes are never cast...by those who already know who is running the country.

That's simply the way our republican system of government is set up by our privileged class Constitution.

If you agree with the preceding brief and direct ExtraordinaryCommonsenseSolutions™ by OKJack™Group™, then we urge you to contact your representative and two senators on Capitol Hill―as well as the President and First Lady at the White House―and simply tell them how you feel.

You can make contact with Capitol Hill and the White House in several ways. One of these ways is by using the links to the right: President ―  House ―  Senate  ― First Lady.

If you want, you can give them our address, and just say that you support our three brief and direct solutions for America, i.e., for the American Middle & Working Class.

As a matter of fact, you can type our web site address into the subject line of each of your email messages (click the link at right for First Lady to see how this is done).

My Very Best Regards on Behalf of OKJack™Group™...