Response to James M Russel's Post on Huffingtonpost.com

This post is my response to James M. Russel's Post on Huffingtonpost.com.

James Russel is an avid poster on huffingtonpost.com. I found this post to be quite interesting. 

First off I would like to say this, I find what the top billionaires in the United States are doing is admirable, to say the least. However, they can only do so much.

As of now the United States Treasury is 8.8 trillion dollars in financial debt. To try to lessen this burden the U.S. Government has raised taxes. With the most percentile raise going to the middle class Americans.
     
That, in itself, is not fair. Why should the hard working, middle class Americans, be victimized by this? Certainly they alone are not the reason behind this country's enormous debt. So why should they alone be forced to make up for a Nation's mistake? Wouldn't it only make sense to raise the taxes on the wealthy, especially the billionaires?

In my eyes, there is a certain responsibility that comes with enormous wealth. Billions of dollars is plenty enough for one person, or two persons, or better yet, 1,000 persons. Congress should ratify laws enacting a certain percentage of this enormous wealth to be direct deposited to a U.S. Treasury debt relief program. MONTHLY! Which, therefore, would kick start the 'healing" process of this country's financial wounds.

Pardon me I'm rambling.

But back to the issue at hand. 

I find this to be nothing more than a publicity stunt. Aimed to make the Nation's billionaires look less of egotistical cash warriors, to more of a conservative, "we love our country" approach. Which, in reality, is a bunch of bologna.

However, not all billionaires are dirty cash wolves. Some actually do care about the well being of this country. That's why they decided to have their life earnings donated to the U.S. Government upon their death.

                                   Like I said before, this is very admirable and humble.

But why wait? Why not donate NOW?

The fact of the matter is, these billionaires are the top dogs of this country. Maybe even more influential than the President himself. It's time for the billionaires to step up to the plate and accept their responsibility's. To ensure that my children's children, can lead a normal American life. To ensure what our founding fathers built this country upon. They have a duty to defend the Constitution!   

Now of course I don't have a billion dollars,  never mind a thousand dollars. So I wouldn't know the hard work it took to make that kind of money. I'm sure it was extremely tiresome and hard. But to go down in history as a greedy billionaire is far worse than going down in history as a person who did his/her fair share, to make this country a better place to raise our kids in.

Bottom line. Yes. The progressive role of our nation's billionaires is increasing. But not yet close to what it should be.

Thanks for taking your time to read this.