The biggest crybaby in America is man-child who also happens to be the president. During his 35 minutes of verbal diarrhea, President Barack Hussein Obama proved he can't handle the pressure of the most important job in the world. This was apparent through his lashing out at anyone that opposes his demented views of increasing the taxes on the wealthy Americans that produce jobs, but also his compulsive lying and fear mongering to scare the living death out of the elderly. The takeaway from the press conference? Obama doesn't believe in compromise; he believes in his way or the highway. And when addressing GOP leadership, the White House nor the Democrats have proposed any debt ceiling plans. As the CBO points out, you can't score a speech.
Obama's entire press conference was unbelievable, including the liberal press pool that asked the most pathetic softball questions. On two occasions, Obama cited corporate jets and talk radio as the problems facing America. His obsession with corporate jets is borderline insane because they aren't hurting America; his liberal policies are. Corporate jets are mentioned solely for class warfare to attack the wealthy. Whoever is doing his focus group polling needs new candidates. And talk radio? It was mentioned because Obama has unbelievably thin skin and cannot accept criticism. If Obama was truly the leader of a totalitarian regime, which we know he'd like to be, he would silence the opposition. He believes his message is the only one that needs to get out. He and Hugo Chavez have a great deal in common.
The president said he's going to release the tic-toc details of the backdoor, politburo negotiations. This will be good, but only if it includes the details of the entitlement reductions that Obama allegedly claims to have made, which we doubt he ever did. The bigger point is that these negotiations should have never taken place behind the scenes. This is America, not the Soviet Union. We'd also love to see the letters he cited and claimed to have received because it's almost guaranteed they're propaganda.
Moving on the compulsive lying and the demagoguery, it was sickening how America's leader lashed out at Republicans. His claims that the debt ceiling would be raised on the backs of the elderly and poor under the GOP plan is a flat-out lie, and he knows it. But that's the Democratic plan for 2012: Mediscare. God forbid Obama look in the mirror and ask whether his extreme liberal policies have hurt the elderly or the poor, policies which have racked up more debt than all other presidents put together. Let's not forget how unemployment has risen under his incredible leadership.
His calls for shared sacrifice is not transparent. What Obama means is that he wants the wealthy to bend over and take it to address the deficit. He hates the rich and has publicly waged a war on them. The better solution would be to tax the 51% of Americans that don't pay any taxes!
Ultimately, the coup de grace was Obama summoning House Speaker John Boehner to the White House tomorrow morning to discuss the debt ceiling. He has no right to do that because each branch of government is separate. This is not a Banana Republic. Obama is not Boehner's dad or boss, but it showed his contempt for the Speaker and how narcissistic he really is.
It's shocking to look back and actually take it in that President Obama held a press conference purely on emotion. This article is an emotional response to the man-child that needs to grow up and grow a pair, so it lacks structure, just like Obama's attack on the GOP. In the end, this lashing out at Republicans was expected because Obama doesn't have a plan. It's natural to lash out when you know you're losing. Kudos to John Boehner for ending the talks, which forced Obama to show America how unstable and incompetent he is.
Justin Credible is a contributing editor for Habledash.
Comments
Yes- we are in a political fight for our lives. Better run 'cause our patriotic Justin and his conservative brethren will be rounding up the army to hunt you down and carry you over the border...
Haha Obama the Constitutional lawyer. He was taught in the living room of domestic terroritst Bill Ayers. What an idol of an American. Obama is no different than a thug, degenerate union member. It's sick that liberals like his policies and support socialism.
This is one liberal that really likes his policies. You rant and rave and make a lot of noise, just missing one thing - facts to support. Must be a teaBa$#er
The Real American cannot even spell "BMac."
My bad, did your 'wil feewins get hurted?
Go cry to the Boehner. Even he has the sense that conservative policy is wrong. He was one of the first to admit that the proposed changes from the right weren't really that good anyway.
Please explain how GE pays no taxes and the CEO and Obama are good buddies. Or are they one of the good greedy Corporations because they are an Obama contributor? Wise up they are all corrupt.
Starbright has the facts! Thanks for posting some intelligent comments.
Lol nice try on the Demo talking points, no sals
the loop holes were never closed for Obama to open them.
It is intersting that Clinton was the one to pass NATCA and the one to revoke all those little econimc measures placed in 1930 to prevent economic distress, yet Bush gets all the blame.
and the corporations the poor and middle class would not have jobs?
If it is a corporate tax question, let me go ahead and answer it for you. I'd wager $100 that the law/regulation/ mandate/WTFever related to your argument was in place before Obama was elected or took office.
Now, can we have someone with some real intelligence bring up something other than the same old talking points?
Wealth has its earned priviledges as it should have but not at the expense of the poor and needy! Yet they call themselves Christians? mmm.
All Obama wants is that they pay their fair share on earnings and expenses. The whole system is hardly fair to all.
Change the tax system, get rid of lobbyists so politicians can vote from the heart rather than their pockets.
Re-elect Obama!
All the Bomber is asking is everyone pay their taxes. Bush and several others made the loop holes. They were NOT permanent. Close the LOOP HOLES. GE, Exxon, AT&T. all the big companies need to pay their fair share of taxes.
I'd put a tax on US owned goods returning to the US. The corporations make millions on the backs of poor people in foreign countries. Not quite slave labor but in China they PROVIDE housing and a food source. The workers do get to eat. There's still millions living on what they can forage from the earth. We don't see them . We spend millions of dollars making Billionaire's out of the big heads in large corporations and then they don't pay taxes.
I watched Bassett, VA turn into a ghost town as the furniture industry went overseas. The furniture is junk and the town is almost dead.
Obama is a shoe in in 2012. The GOP has no one that isn't just a head for big business.
Get the _(*#$^()^% lobbyist out of DC.
I hope you are right about Obama being a sure thing in 2012. You sure are right about the competition, but as a wise friend said: "never under estimate the stupidity of the American voter." You'd think people would wise up, but look Bush was elected for a second term and he did all those terrible, illegal things which are now part of his and the GOP's legacy. Are we letting ignorance reign?
"Socialize medicine so you can have less quality health care and wait for hours to be seen. Unless you've been outside of the USA you pretty much don't have a clue in my opinion."
you pretty much mean 3rd world countries, right? Because every other 1st world country has a better and cheaper health care system than the US if you go by official statistics (communist propaganda??), I know what I am talking about. I have experience with the American, Swiss and German health care system. I cant believe how brainwashed the American people is about this point.
Quoting Man Child:
Not true, these are lies from the same liars that made the birth certificate b.s.
In Illinois, voluntary inactivations require an order of the court to commence the cancellation of malpractice insurance, annual licensing fees and the continuing education credits otherwise required by law.
Hmmm- that's funny - I usually feel the same about wage earning liberals.....
No thanks to us! Bush and his cronies took the money and run!
2 simple questions: First, can you cite any constitutional cases he has argued? Next, where is the government granted authority to order me to purchase health care insurance????
It's called the comment clause of the constitution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause much in the way that you're 'forced' to have auto insurance.
If the gov't can force you to purchase health care, it can force you to purchase ANYTHING. So many liberals either don't know that or don't care. Well, I care because we're allegedly a free country and I shouldn't be forced to buy anything, especially something the gov't forces. So where's the line? Are they going to force us to buy green cars next? Organic food? Despite our obvious poetical differences, I hope you see how far reaching this has the potential to go. Maybe you love the gov't and don't mind, but it's not how America was to operate.
Wouldn't it be ironic if in an effort to bankrupt domestic policy these debt hawks make it impossible for America to obtain the finances it needs to slap around 3rd world potentates?
Same way they order you to carry auto insurance. If you don't carry auto ins, others have to pay for your mistakes. If you don't carry health ins, others have to pay for your health.
And why should the government be granted authority to tell a woman she doesn't have the right to choose? Republican nonsense.
You, kind sir, are obviously a product of the liberal education system populated by union teachers who were retained based on seniority and not merit. To wit: "doubtless" as used above means that you are "without doubt" that Justin has read the Constitution; therefore, you are sure he *has* read it. And although your statement was grammatically incomplete, we all understand that you meant to say that Justin had not read the CONSTITUTION. Unfortunately, your statement caused an illogical referral that implied Justin hadn't read the "CONSTITUTIONAL lawyer." I understand... big words are difficult for you to keep straight when you use them.
I'm sure that, just like Chris Matthews, you get a "thrill running up your leg" every time Obama opens his mouth.
I believe this site can best be summed up as an "Onion" wanna-be...
JUSTIN!!! DO NOT INSULT THE DEAR LEADER!!!!
TAXES! My way or the highway! yeah right
OBAMACARE! My way or the highway! oops, he got us on that one,.. REPEAL!!!
If you think Obama is stupid you aren't all that bright yourself. Obama is very cunning. Don't underestimate him
And your comment is somehow intelligent and informed? Is this the best you can do? Name calling? Really? Who is stupid, exactly?
It is interesting that we are told to do for ourselves, pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps, take personal responsibility, embody the American entrepreneurial spirit. And then we are also told that we NEED billionaires to create jobs for us. The passage of WTO and NAFTA, and the deregulation of the finance industry promised jobs and prosperity. The only people who have seen an increase in their income and share of national wealth during the Bush tax cut period are the top few percent. How much longer should we wait for the fruits of those tax and regulatory changes?
GOPs are afraid Obama is going to take away their tax loopholes that let them lie on their taxes and say they have a home-based business, when one doesn't exist. That's why they are hanging on to that "small business" mantra like a life preserver, don't want to lose more opportunities to cheat the government.
The U.S. has become a service based economy, and the type of work we do is being done at a cheaper rate in other countries so demand for it is falling. Unfortunately the government wants to spend like we still are enjoying that prosperity and it just isn't there.
We need innovation, we need hard work, and we need to do it for less.
Have you ever worked for a poor person?
When they stop buying, the greatest ideas, the most diligent efforts, and the biggest piles of capital can accomplish nothing. Cut down that deficit spending at a time like this and you can stick a fork in the USofA 'cause it'll be done.
You are right! CEO salaries increased 430% bet 1970 & 2005. Joe Sixpack salaries only increased 26%.
Just like the Affordable Health Care Act, NAFTA was a Republican invention which Republicans now blame on Democrats because reality is an unknown concept for them.
Clinton while signing the NAFTA bill stated: "...NAFTA means jobs. American jobs, and good-paying American jobs. If I didn't believe that, I wouldn't support this agreement."
I don't give a flying f#CK about YOUR God's blessing you arrogant piece of SQUAT. You think you have the inside track to God and that gives you the right to force everybody else to do what you believe to be best.
You are EXACTLY like the terrorist that crashed the planes into the twin towers. You would take the entire system down with you if people don't do whay you say.
Stay loose buddy. There will be somebody out to collect your kind after you break the system!
P.S. There won't be anybody out to collect your kind !!! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA (That means laughter )
A smart businessman knows that you have to spend money to make money. Invest in your business, lower your expenses where possible, and pay your bills.
If that fails THEN consider bankruptcy. Not as a first line of defense. Obama is doing exactly the right thing.
Ezekiel 34:2 ."Woe to the shepherds of Israel WHO FEED THEMSELVES! verse 3 "You eat the fat and clothe yourselves with the wool; you slaughter the fatlings, but you do not feed the flock. verse 4 "The weak you have not strengthened, nor have you healed these who were sick, nor bound up the broken,.....BUT WITH FORCE AND CRUELTY YOU HAVE RULED THEM.
And hey, the almighty St. Ronnie of Alzheimer did everything he could to show them that Laffer curves were hilarious and that the wealthy would always trickle all over us, but they just don't have his sense of humor. They think he was telling the truth no matter how many times since he left office that they've been severely beat over the head with his little joke.
And again, raising the debt limit has NOTHING to do with the future. It has to do with paying for things we have already charged. Why do so many of you not get this?
Is this a jr. high school blog?
I find it frightening that there is a small group of uninformed people who are will to destroy America for the sake of something they do not understand. The formality of raising the debt ceiling only means that Congress pays for things it has already purchased, i.e., its debts. If you buy something on your credit card and then refuse to pay it, you are a deadbeat, and your credit rating will reflect it. If we default on our national debt, our national credit will be downgraded and the nation will pay higher interest rates, thus costing us more money in future. Bachman and other Tea Party wackos are lying to you. Educate yourselves quickly before you throw us into a depression.
Cut the deficit spending now and that whole 'living above our means' thing will seem like a huge joke. We'll be so far in debt overnight from the sudden total collapse of the economy and the financial system that we won't recover for at least one generation, maybe two or three.
Get back to me when you learn something about macroeconomics.
You didn't know how jobs were created because you never had a job now did you ....I mean on the books that is .
Laziness ........... is a Ponzi scheme .
The only way to stimulate the economy is to tax the rich and corporations - whose low taxes and continual tax cuts are an incentive to ELIMINATE jobs - and use that revenue to make up for lost revenue from the 100% tax holiday for the bottom 90% of income earners, who will spend every cent as soon as they get it.
Pssssst..... I am a fanatic who supports destroying the Regressive Neocrats to improve the economy . And enough with the throat comments already everyone ..... Please ?????
funny how right wingers arent funny. angry peepul cant be funny thats why the left has all the comedians
chill out and get a life ass clown
from australia
if you ask the prez real nice maybe he will lower your tax
your tax dollars going to help Libyan rebels
rebels are arabs, burbers, and black africans
tea party don't pay tax, they are too insane to get jobs
If you are going to call people illiterate, maybe you should spell it correctly. Even a "lazy liberal" like me who only works 60 hours a week can take the time to spell properly.
Though you are right about one thing: this guy is not funny.
I personally agree with Obama that everybody should suffer in the upcoming debt reduction. I think his biggest failure was not keeping his hand held close to his chest. Offering cuts right off has irritated both his party and added "Obama's way or the highway" view on debt talks held here. Sure times are hard, and this is the last time that any one wants to here about either entitlement cuts or tax reform. Though if it weren't for the current recession, our deficit wouldn't be nearly so bad right now, and the political will to fix this issue wouldn't be here. I mean if reducing the national debt really meant so much to our leaders, why didn't they pay some of it back in 2001?
The AHCA gambit, though, is just your right-wingnut propaganda BS, with ZERO basis in fact...at least fact in the REAL world. In Teagagger world, of course, every delusion and fantasy is a fact so long as it fits in well with the talking point narrative. Hint: propaganda narratives destroyed Germany in the 1930s, once everyone believed them.
And, for those who have been following along in the real world, Obama isn't "using Social Security as a budget breaker". Republicans are doing that. They're also using Medicare as a budget breaker. They're using unemployment checks as a budget breaker. Essentially, they're using anything that might help the middle class as a budget breaker...but only because destroying all of those programs is the right-wingnut holy grail.
Stimulate the economy sufficiently to produce growth - i.e., slap another $450 billion tax on the top 1% to pay for a tax holiday for the bottom 90% for a couple of years and the economy will boom. BTW, a tax increase for the wealthiest is an incentive for them to take less out of the business enterprise and make an effort to increase the TOP line to increase income instead of just counting the beans and laying off employees to increase the bottom line when they get a tax cut.
I hear there are still a few companies left that do business in the U.S. Tax them some more! And bring in some unions to make sure that their labor costs go up. They love that! They'll be sure to hire a lot of new workers in response. Unfortunately, all of those new workers will be located in China. If you haven't begun to learn Chinese yet, now might be a good time to do it.
In fact, it would be an excellent idea to set up a dozen guillotines in front of the Capitol building and give the teagaggers within what they so justly deserve. Does anyone know where you can get those big baskets to catch the heads and carry them to the dumpsters?
I can't believe America has become a society of megalomaniacs.
It is obvious why you do not use your real name. What a bunch of claptrap. Please enlighten us as to why you claim that Obama has never had a real job? Really? From your wealth of wisdom, tell us all the jobs he has had, and then tell us from whence you have received your "facts." It is SO typical of Tea Party sympathizers to make wild claims with no factual basis! Rush Limbaugh and Fox News don't count. Give us your sources.
Now to seriously laugh [HAHAHA] that you are defending Mr. Obama's job history. I have nothing to defend as there is nothing there. Your request is ignorance because you are asking me to research what jobs he had. AH doesn't that mean you are really acknowledgeing he didn't have any real jobs.
So have fun searching as you will find anything there to defend, Mr. silver Parnell
I am so tired of getting painted with this lying brush. Any of you out there who think this is because Obama is black must someday realize that you are delusional. You buy the big lie that Republicans are antiblack. You buy the big lie that Democrats are problack. It isn't so, and never has been. Who was the first Republican President? Lincoln. Which Congressional party pushed for equal rights? Republicans. Which Party was founded by slaveholders, Jefferson and Jackson? Democrat. Which party tried to filibuster equal rights? Democrat. Which party controlled the south and seceded when the first Republican was elected due to worries about losing states rights for slaveholding? Yes, you got that right, Democrat. The Democrat party is today, and has been for 200 years, holding black America back. Someday, if you look, you'll see that.
Your delusional nonsense makes you appear so clownish...so thanks for the entertainment, and you may return to the carnival now.
Stop calling us rich fool . How can I be rich if I'm paying taxes for your lazy a$$ ?
mikey night : I'm not anti abortion . They are only future liberals .
We already know you're arrogant, as it tends to go with the stupid in the same package...but you must be so proud.
Tax cuts increase government revenue, FACT. Just move to Venezuela and enjoy dystopia there.
You are clueless. Gov't revenue is obviously down due to the Bush tax cuts and Bush's economic crash. The Laffer curve is nothing but a joke.
The Bank bailout (corporate socialism)did lead to a small profit for the government but definitely not the tax cuts. Please!
Obama is a knowledgeable person in economics with proven academic record and actions in support to that. He got this job when everything was setup for a failure for anyone who would take charge. Some presidents before him cared more about their image which doesn't make them good presidents. Now Obama sees what's coming and trying to do everything that in his power to stop it. DO YOU REALLY KNOW WHAT'S COMING? The corporate jet owners are obviously DON"T.
What I really think is coming is that America will be judged by God and broken into many fragments that nothing will resemble the Constitution we have now. This from all the sins that run rampant here. Homosexuality, abortions, stealing from taxes (yea Mr. Geithner),adult ery, fornication, purjury, and others etc.
And you're trying to convince people like me that you know something? You do realize that you know absolutely nothing but BS, don't you? I mean, I know you love your propaganda job but you can't actually be so incredibly stupid that you believe it that crap. Can you?
Start reading Paul Krugman.
Chris - where are you getting your facts? Bush tax cuts has NEVER increased revenue. AS a matter of fact, some of the oil companies that brought in billions in revenue for THEMSELVES paid not taxes whatsoever. In fact, the govt GAVE THEM MONEY in subsidies! Educate yourself.
At no time in all of American history has a tax cut increased revenue. At NO time. Not a single one. In each and EVERY case, bar none, tax cuts have ALWAYS cut revenue for at least several years, until inflation or - ultimately - economic growth makes up for it.
That's because tax cuts have always been weighted much more heavily to the richest Americans, who spend little of the cut and, therefore, it does not stimulate the economy. In fact, the exact opposite happens and an immediate recession is always triggered. That reaganite trickling you feel on your head may be warm and golden but it has nothing to do with money.
MEMO to genuine and patriotic citizens of the American Constitutional Republic: Serve notice on November 6, 2012 that come Jan., 2013 to remove the trash from the W.H. and Oval Office. JUST DO IT!
Love the sarcasm, Jennifer! Very effective. Yes, I would like to know, also, exactly how does it benefit the middle class and the poor when you shove money up to the richest 2% that owns more than half the wealth in our country?
Seriously, though, their tax cuts are an incentive to 'downsize' their employees, so they can take more capital out of the business enterprise and into their personal accounts from which they draw their stock market investments...w hich produce nothing. Downsizing the employee base results in more cash for management and/or ownership, and makes us all happy. And by 'all' I mean those in the top 1% of income earners in the country.
First the republicans get us into two wars (gotta help out the likes of raytheon etc whose contributions got us elected) -Wasteing a bunch of real american lives in countries we shouldn't even be in (afghanistan... seriously... it doesn't even have oil) (but hey all our military contributors are making lots of money... and thats the real important thing right?)
Now they're trying to make it seem like they're the sensible ones financially.... like we've got short term memories or something. And how are they doing that... by screwing the working class (you know... the kind of families most of our military comes from) and looking after their cronies in their mcmansions. (smell the hypocrisy yet?)
The problem is there aren't any real conservatives in politics today... just corporate mouthpieces spitting out enough one liners to get elected before they do their corporate masters bidding.
They do this on the propaganda theory that if you hear a big lie often enough, and from enough different points of the compass, ceaselessly, many people simply stop believing what they know to be true because they were there and saw it with their own eyes, heard it with their own ears - and instead will come to believe just what they're being told instead. Sadly, it works all too often for right-wingnuts because they are obsessed with the Fox Propaganda Ministry and Hate Radio.
developed world: only 23% of the GDP. In all other developed countries this precentage is between 30 and 45%.
Corporate Income Taxes in the US are also the lowest among developed countries: only 1.3% of GDP compared to an average of 2.4% in other OECD countries.
Therefore Justin Credible is not credible when he complains that taxes are too high. Justin Credible is ignorant.
Well, then "American Patriot," you are sick of paying for the rich, most of whom pay about 12% of their income into taxes because of tax breaks and loopholes. Warren Buffet brags that he pays LESS in taxes than his secretary. The rich are laughing all the way to the bank. CEO salaries increased 430% between 1970 and 2005. JOE SIXPACK salary increased 26%, but pays MORE TAXES than the CEOs. Wake up.
The Dutch and Germans have an economy that is doing better than the US, with lower unemployment, and bigger growth. And they don't emigrate to the US either.
Tax revenues in the US are simply too low.
You think Americans care about your existence . You are the pimples on the a$$es of farm animals . Now do what is best for the environment and stop breathing .
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this writer does not even know what satire is. Namecalling is not satire. this is political commentary. Poor sad writer trying to play ball with the big boys.
A Coup d'etat began in 2008 with Sarah Palin introduced as John McCain's running mate. This is when all the madness began. This is why so many sites are moderated and this is why nothing will work out for the democratic party. http://electnomorespys.blogspot.com
Just Incredible is a good name for you because it is just incredible that you are obviously as blind as the blind President you are criticizing. One on side of your mouth you defend the elderly from Obama's scare taxes and on the other side you say it is a good idea to tax them. LUNACY. Have you ever tried to live on only social security especially when you are over 70 years of age with all sorts of physical and mental problems. You want to tax them. Somewhere there has to be middle ground between socialism and feudalism. We don't need to become like a banana republic where and elite few live like kings and the rest live on dirt. Is this the world you want us to live in Justin. Remember Marie Antoinette? You sound just like her.
Now stop breathing and do your part for this country .
Even better , move to Greece and then die . Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha .
Yes, you moron, Hitler did have his misguided side caused by oppression from French bankers ie. the Rothchilds, who dictated the Treaty of Versailles and ravaged post WWI Germany, dismantling factories, stealing family farms and all the while fanning the fires of anti semitism which resulted in the deaths and mutilations of millions of innocent jews. - All because of greedy banking morons (STRIKES A BELL DOESN'T IT). Of course morons like you can't comprehend this. By the way Moron ....I am a Republican, a tea party member etc but that does not prohibit me from thinking clear. I am also an independent businessman employer but not vicious and greedy like you are.
The day is coming when these Republicans will have to answer for their treason.
Now, when a Democrat is in the House, suddenly the Republicans are against a deficit.
Republicans are hypocrites.
Dems controlled the oval office, senate, and congress last year and FAILED to pass a spending bill. NOw you want to point fingers at others?
To me Republicans are hypocrites.
Here is the other problem in 2008 we made a collective $8.25 Trillion dollars. of the wealthy they made $2.5 Trillion of it, the Federal Budget this year is $3.7 Trillion. So even if you raised taxes on the 'rich ( who in the IRS are broken out at the $200,000 mark Not the $250,000 ) and took 100% of their wealth we still do not get close to balancing the budget, and they are already taking it up the proverbial pie hole.
NAFTA started during George H. Bush, so just where did the National Free Trade Agreement gotten us?
Bankrupt banks, bankrupt unemployment funds, jobs promised to the rest of the world EXCEPT the United States of America. Arrest George H. Bush & George W. Bush for the TRUE reason for America is 17 Trillion in Debt
Since I do not have the IRS tax figures for anytime but 2008 I am guessing here but my guess is there are currently a lot fewer 'rich' in the last two years based on the fact that tax revenue has dropped since 2008. Anyway so lets run numbers$1.75 Trillion from the rich, $800 Billion from Social Security, $500 Billion from everyone else, $250 Billion from all our other tax sources and we are only $3.3/3.7 Trillion
So that means that even with a 70% income tax on the rich ( no loopholes ) we are still in the red right now. Now I think that Bush Jr spent WAY too much, I thought the prescription drug benefit program was a bad move, I dislike the decade long wars we have been in ( that Obama by the way has not stopped in 2 years of being president and has stated throwing billions at bombs at yet another country ) but in the end the main increases have not even been in Military spending, it has been in social spending. The Federal Government was ONLY supposed to be military and Judaical ( and postal ) back in 1900, now 75% of our spending in the Federal Government is Social Spending and it is going up. We have the most progressive tax structure in the world ( not the highest in taxes just the largest separation between rich and poor paying a portion of it ) Fix that before you go calling on the rich to pay more.
I don't always agree with Obama but he didn't create the mess we are in... the Republican party did and all the slight of hand in the world won't convince me otherwise.
I am so damn tired of a party that tries to force their extreme religious conservatism down my throat at every turn. What I believe in is between me and my maker. What I practice in my bedroom is between me and my wife. To think that shareholders will prefer creating jobs over paying dividends is ludicrous. To make the average working man less secure to insure the wealthy greater comforts is insane. Enough is enough. I'm changing my party as soon as I finish this comment and encouraging my fellow Republicans with similar "non-tea party" views to do likewise.
Good points. Republicans should be brought up on charges of treason for trying to tank our economy for the 2nd time.
I never killed a living soul, nor was anyone ever killed by anything on a ship I was on. Neither did we ever 'pillage' any cities and what makes you think I am an atheist? I personally take the Bible at its word and believe we are to care for the poor and needy and that greed is a major sin.
you would know...
The nut who shot Ol' gabby g , his girlfriend said he always voted democratic .
liberalism is one big loophole ERIC ..........
Those mugs who flew planes into the towers were fanatical religious extremists. They just have a different religion than OUR fanatical religious extremists.
wish we could send all the welfair collecting lazy people somewhere else.
Also the guys that flew the planes into WTC believed they would be met with virgins. Same as Americans thinking they will be saved by some god.
............Wai t , did you just say God help us ???
You are a closet God lover !!! God bless you ...... NOT !!!
He doesn't recognize you :)
You are a baby killer .
You are out numbered .
You have no soul .
You have no conscience .
You have no job .
You have no life .
You have fleas .
Should I go on ???
FACT 111
That's really grown up of you Keith. I see you cannot make any legitimate arguments.
you are an ignorant fool!!
I have no problem paying higher taxes as long as they used for education, health care for the elderly and infrastructure. I
I don't want ONE penny of my taxes to go to wars around the world
But if you feel so inclinced, then feel free to give more money to the IRS for your education & health care causes... you are allowed to do so.
I own my house , car and self respect . Other than your hemorrhoid , do you own anything ?
Doesnt matter if you believe he owns one or not.
I do own my hemorrhoid and I now call him Keith.
For that matter isn't Air Force 1 used in the same manner for the country's business as the executive of an international business uses to conduct business. Only the corporate jet is alot smaller and fuel efficient.
Which leads to the question of what the carbon footprint is of the President's jet.
thats because this is about race. even my siblings that receive handouts call themselves republican because they think democrats are the black people.
Also: Why is it that conservatives use Barrack's middle name when trying to attack him? It's bottom of the barrel insults and degrades from the rest of your information.
If you think that all democrats are screaming 'my way or the highway', I suggest you look at recent history in WI over the collective bargaining rights debate. Gov. Walker and the Republican majority did just that to the state: our way is the only way. No debate occurred, no compromise, nothing of the sort. If you want to call the President lacking in planning on this issue, go ahead, but look in the mirror once in awhile at your own party to see if perhaps 'the shoe fits here, too' regarding compromise in legislation.
The facts show that Mr. Boehner and his team did not accept any feasible approach of the President. Enough is enough of the failed negotiations!
In fact, consider the The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, in paragraph 4:
The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
We don't hate him for being a liberal, we hate him for being a fake liberal.
He hasn't been sticking it to the wealthy, he has sold out all of his "principles" for their benefit long ago.
Obama is the best Republican president you could have and the Democratic Leadership Council are a bunch of DINOs and sellouts.
The Republican won everything they wanted and are too dumb to notice.
In a few days, the president will have two options left if there is no deal with the Republican Party. He may use the executive power to avoid an economic Armageddon or he may refuse to use such power.
Of course, voters of both sides will learn a painful lesson if such an Armageddon occurs, but the president may lose the next presidential election and may lose his presidential dignity.
1.) Play the class warfare card
2.) Play the Republicans want to throw Grandma off a cliff card.
3.) Blame Bush
4.) Get off the podium quickly before anyone asks about excessive spending and unfunded entitlement liabilities
Let's analyze that. The wealthiest Americans are on Wall Street and working for hedge funds. How is it that they create jobs, when they make money off the economy losing? They do not create jobs. They skim money off of the jobs that already exist, and then after their speculation wreaks havoc on our economy, they get bailed out by our tax money.
Sorry, wealth does not actually trickle down. IT TRICKLES UP. Taxes that pay for infrastructure, weather forecasting, education, research, environmental protection all TRICKLE UP, by laying a foundation for regular people to function, which enables them to get to work, produce new ideas, be healthy. Venture capitalists who invest in new ideas and new businesses are fine, but stock brokers and hedge funds are an inefficiency in the economy. Let's benefit the venture capitalists and not the hedge funds.
Isn't it wonderful how these sites and some talk show celebrities can stir things up so much IT IS DESTROYING our country. Wake up! We need to come together otherwise it becomes a dangerous environment. Listen to yourselves!
That's not conservative at all. Conservative is balancing the budget. BALANCE THE BUDGET. That can only be done by cutting deeply and by letting the Bush tax cuts expire. And no whining about taxing the rich without presenting a plan.
I'm tired of these pretend conservatives who are really liberal whiners.
It's the greed in both parties,. The people are looking for honest , trustworthy leaders to make good decisions . Just think!! So people when you vote next time. THINK FIRST!! Stop with the Republicans, Democrats choose who works....
Its like a marriage with republicans and democrats they cant work together, or like each other and , stabbing each other in the back. is not what we need for a government
To take the full faith of the US and drag it on the mud, JUST SO YOU CAN KICK OUT THE PRESIDENT-YOUR ONLY AGENDA-IS well, stupid.
Pray that Christ does salvage your pathetic souls. The rest of America would have damned your souls to the pits of hell a while back and then some.
With 435 members of congress, it should be easier to ignore the Tea Party Obstructionists and find a deal that can pass with bipartisan support. This whole "Appease the Tea Party" boondoggle is a blight on the American political landscape. Hit one down the middle. Get moderates on both sides to work together to take America out of these perilous economic straits.
It is time to give up on trying to satisfy the Tea Party. It is time to satisfy the needs of the American people. Get it together congress!
A study published in Social Science Quarterly in March showed that young adults who identified themselves as "very liberal" had an average IQ of 106 while those who identified themselves as "very conservative" had an average IQ of 95.
Humans are evolutionarily designed to be conservative, caring mostly about their family and friends. Being liberal and caring about an indefinite number of genetically unrelated strangers is evolutionarily novel. So more intelligent children may be more likely to grow up to be liberals.
What we need is higher wages for the people that make up our communities such as teachers, police officers, firemen etc! The minimum wage needs to be riased. Cost of living adjustments should be mandatory and be adjusted to inflation. We need universal healthcare. Robust consumer protection and investment in our infrastructure as well as green tech! We invented solar panels but are way behind in production to China because oil companies spend the dollars they save using our tax loopholes to lobby against such technologies.
Interesting diatribe. This exemplifies the entitlement mentality of America. The fact that you say everyone "deserves" a fair wage is the reason corporation outsource US jobs. US workers are over paid compared to the rest of the world and we owe this to our dysfunctional unions. Are you suggesting that if you were a business owner, you would pay 3 times the rate for supplies because they are made in the USA? If so, I guarantee you are not a business owner. If we are to be competitive in the world market, getting rid of unions and restraining trial lawyers is a good start.
gary
“You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.”
“You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.”
“You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.”
“You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.”
“You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence.”
“You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.”
Abraham Lincoln
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