President Obama and the Democrats have drawn up their battle plans for his re-election. It certainly couldn't be on his accomplishments. It's going to be the rich against the poor. It's going to be the 99 percent against the 1 percent. Of course, Obama, who made $7 million last year, doesn't consider himself part of the 1 percent.

Obama already has $1 billion in his campaign chest, far more than all the Republicans combined who are running against him. Who funded Obama's campaign chest? Have you heard the biased news media ask him? Don't hold your breath! Why then are the Republicans continually asked about who funds their super PACs?

In America you are taxed at different rates:

1. When you are employed, that tax is called income tax. Forty-seven percent of Americans don't pay any income taxes. The more money you make, the higher the percentage of taxes you pay. Mitt Romney paid 35 percent, the highest required by law.

2. When you invest your earned income money through a 401k, IRA, stocks, etc., and are fortunate enough in this Obama-economy to make a capital gain, it is taxed at 15 percent, the same as Romney's. So Romney paid taxes both when he earned it and again when he invested it. Some say this is double taxation, but that is another letter. When you add the two percentages together, Romney is paying a whopping percentage in taxes to an ever-hungry and wasteful government.

We also hear negative comments about Mitt Romney's wealth. First, he didn't inherit his money, he earned it the good ole-fashioned American way by working at a job.

In the last two years, Romney has given $7 million to charity and an additional $4 million to his church. An admirable trait, wouldn't you think? It seems that Time Magazine would look for someone like this as their Man of the Year.

However, they selected the Wall Street occupiers.

These people camp out illegally, for months, in public parks, don't pay any fees to demonstrate, are violent, defecate and urinate on police cars, use drugs openly, rape, litter, destroy the property of others, require extra police to keep order, etc. When they are finally forcefully removed, city employees have to put on hazardous material suits to go in and clean up the mess they've left behind. All the above is at extra taxpayers' expense. And this is what Time Magazine selects as their Person of the Year! And yet, Obama, the occupiers, and Time Magazine say that rich people like Romney are the problem. Thomas Jefferson said it best, "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just!"

The news media and this administration are constantly drawing comparisons between Wall Street occupiers and the Tea Party. Really? The Tea Party comes on weekends, pays fees to hold a demonstration, demonstrates peacefully, cleans up their mess, then goes back to their jobs the next Monday.

So compare these occupiers to Romney and the Tea Party, and then ask: Who are the true Americans?

You decide.

Garland Horn is a Granite City resident.