9,9,9 = Doom, doom, doom for the middle class

Hello. Godfather's Pizza? I'd like to order your 9-9-9 special. Just kidding. Living in the New York City area I'd never waste my calories on such junk when there are many real pizza places in the immediate area offering far superior pizza then a glorified version of what I could get in my supermarket freezer (guess this makes me a pizza elitist).

I take back what I said the other day, about how it doesn't really matter whether a Democrat or Republican wins the next presidential election, aside from what goes on between consenting adults. I wish Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan was a pizza special but, instead, it is a special deal for the wealthy as it would provide a flat tax that would transfer even more of the tax burden from those who have money to those without. Simple tax plans for simple people who can't be bothered to research whether this revision to the tax code is in their best interests. But hey, at least those too poor to currently pay a federal income tax will be forced to pay -- those hippie freeloaders.

The flat tax is an idea that it has been floated primarily by incredibly rich men over the decades who would benefit greatly by it, which made me instantly suspicious of it. And upon further review my suspicions are correct. A flat tax would be a reverse Robin Hood, taking from the poor and middle class and giving to the rich. Social Security? Medicare? Fuhgeddaboutit once the payroll taxes that pay for those programs are gone. Hope his plan also calls for subsidies so the supermarkets can run specials on cat food in the future.

These flat taxers are no friends of the average American, unless that American wants to continue to slide out of the middle class and doom their uneducated children to living in a 2nd world economy of grinding poverty, with falling apart infrastructures, unable to compete in the global market. And those who defend it by noting that a consumption tax would force Americans to save and invest money in lieu of spending it, don't bother to explain how that will "help" the average American business already hurting by consumers spending less. That a man whose campaign promise to essentially hurt every poor and middle-class American, plus discriminate against Muslims just because they are Muslim, is currently the front runner speaks volumes about both the GOP (and perhaps the failure of our educational system in the "red states") and how out of touch the Democratic party is perceived to be by much of America.

Fortunately Cain is only today's flavor of the day. He will be gone from the front pages soon, like Perry, Gingrich and the rest. If the GOP wants the White House in 2012, Mitt Romney is their only hope. Every other candidate would force unmotivated Obama supporters to go to the polls to save what is left of their middle class lifestyles. Romney is somebody they could stay home on Election Day (or vote for) and live with.