I have worked hard all my life, so hard I ended up disabled at 50 and now 61. I am so disgusted with the Teaparty/Republicans. I am normally very open-minded but these overpaid politicians forgot why they were elected in the first place, for all of us citizens, NOT just the rich and privelged. Why is it okay to keep taking what little we mid and in my case below poverty level citizens, cut our EARNED benefits but keep giving all the breaks to the million and billionaiires ? Why do they keep getting off with all the tax breaks that they DO NOT need, they can afford to contribute more when our country is in trouble, not just us ! The other night I calmly sat down and listened to the ideas of both President Obama and Speaker Brehner had to say. To make it really fair, okay...take some from us but cut out the wasteful tax breaks from the rich, including no more loopholes and unneccessary bonuses of the oil companies. Stop taking from the poor only, how about getting real and have the politicians "kick in" a greate part of their pay. The face of the Teaparty and Republicans are showing us now are, keep making the rich richer and take everything from the poor/disabled and middle-income citizens. Take what we have left so the rich can keep all that they have, it's a kind of geniside so we can just "go away" and they don't have to think about us anymore. Well, the heck with all those greedy, self-serving parties who say "take away more from the lowest income to lower the budget but no change in taxes for the wealthy", that's crooked. I did vote for the President, which really bothers me when news casters refer to him as Mr. Obama, all previous presidnets were given respect in referring to them as Presedent...", I don't agree with all of the President's policies but as a whole, I believe he's done an exceptional job giving what he had to step into when he started and I'd vote for him again. The Republicans got us in this mess to begin with, then the "way out of touch" Teaparty joined in, the want to protect only the rich, no matter the cost and they will continue to hold the country hostage, no matter the cost.