Some Democrats are not slinking away quietly. The House Democratic caucus let their voice be heard today when with a big fat rejection of Obama's tax cut deal.
Members passed a motion to leave the deal as currently written. This is more of a symbolic vote than anything.
An aide for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi respects the motion, and does not plan on bringing the tax plan up for a vote in her chamber.
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Man, I really, really wanted to hit that "Stand on principle" button. But I have to hand it to the Reptilians-- they win through lock-step unity. Face it, it works. I believe something Bill Clinton once said: "When people are scared, they vote for strong and wrong more than right and weak." Case in point is Dubya in '04. And I will always be more scared of the thought of Reptilian rule than anything the Dems can dish out.
The premise of the question is flawed. We should keep fighting, not for principal, but to save our selves from the corporate takeover of our country.
This deal sucks. it's sort of like putting groceries on a credit card you just hope the interest rate won't go sky high on, because it's gonna be a while before you can pay it back. You know that in January, they will start chipping away at whatever deal we get, as their word means nothing. The reduction in services will be far worse than the tax increase. If we have to, we can make some creative loopholes for the poor and middle class. Let all the tax cuts expire before extending the tax cuts for the rich!
Taking this deal is just kicking the can down the road -- two years for them and 13 months for the unemployed, who are expected to still be unemployed five years from now. Barney Frank is right in saying that unemployment insurance should not even be a "concession."
The corporations want to own us. The republicans are little ego-maniacal alter boys who sell our souls for their own personal gain. The reason the conservative pols want to extend the tax cut is because they will get more money out of it! It's the ultimate sellout! Collectively their campaigns were the ultimate con!
This deal is a huge step towards legally mandated indentured servitude. I was most disappointed to hear you vehemently slamming Grayson over his opposition to it last night. When you slam him, you slam me and just about everybody I know! If you don't like opposition to the deal, why don't you go work for faux news?! They picked one up from NPR, they might as well get another from MSNBC. Hmm... some socialist you turned out to be!
We must stand firmly! We must go on the offensive and call the conservatives on their attempt to loot the country into chaos! When their constituents start going broke, they will have to do something about it. If they make us wait until 2012, the result won't be much different than if we had taken the deal.
You are wrong about this one, Mr. O'Donnell.
NO COMPROMISE! NO DEAL!
Good for the House. If Republics are going to lead the White House around b y the nose, Congressional Democrats should start grasping onto the First Schnozzola as well. And if that does not quickly work, perchance they might remember the dictum of an earlier Democrat, President Lyndon Baines Johnson, “If you have them by the (lower anatomical parts) their hearts and minds soon follow.”
And now the Senate needs speak honestly.
President Lincoln became know in history as Honest Abe---this reflecting that a forthright public servant tries to tell the public what he think; an opportunistic politician tries to get the pubic to think what he tells them.
United States Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont is a forthright public servant standing in clear opposition to the continuance the scam that stuffs huge sum of diverted tax revenues into the pockets of the hoarders of national wealth---a self-appointed elite at the very top of the heap that the Republicans now pretend will start lending for good if their tax take is piled even higher.
If an independent Senator Sanders has the courage to stand-up to this backroom White House-Republican tax deal, perchance the Democratic majority in the Senate will exercise their constitutionally established legislative responsibility and do the same.
I believe the President made the deal because he knows that the Republicans mean it when they say nothing will get done - if you want a vote on DADT; the debt ceiling; the Dream Act; health care for 9/11 responders or anything else before the end of the year and the new Congress, then make the deal on taxes otherwise the answer is NO to everything else.
Instead of beating up the President, we should be beating up the Republicans who are not only willing to increase the deficit which they decry must be paid for except in this case, but are willing to let millions of working stiffs freeze, starve and become homeless. Why are we not incensed about that? Let them - no MAKE them - explain it.
Until I hear otherwise, I will assume that the answer is it is more important to the Republicans to garner ever more and more campaign donations than it is to worry about people who can't feed their families or heat their homes or don't have homes anymore. In my opinion, that makes each and every one of them selfish [fill in the expletive of your choice] and definitely not leaders.
I say we ask for a detailed accounting of just how, where, when these tax cuts have generated jobs in the past and will create jobs where and when and how much these jobs are paying going forward! Let's yell about that until their ears bleed!
I think we should be beating up the president. He deserves it!!!
Beating on Republicans is a waste of time, their skulls are too thick.
Good luck with DADT, the Dream Act, and the 9/11 responders. If they pass, it won't have anything to do with this tax fiasco.
The democrats are now saying that they are willing to let tax cuts expire for EVERYONE. That is what they are saying if they do not accept this deal. This is why they lost the midterm elections.
They are ALSO willing to end the extension of unemployment benefits.
For people to say that the democrats are trying to help working people is an absolute joke.
Don't believe me.
Read 'em and weep!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40565987/ns/business-going_green/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-hamsher/uaw-gets-800-jobs-for-end_b_792031.html
They don't care about you at all. They care about their lobbyists.
At least with this deal we ALL keep tax cuts and unemployment benefits are extended.
We are in this fiscal H-Bomb, Empire Killing national debt mess because of the historic "logic" of Finance Committee staffers like O'Donnell... as an example.
While Dems like O'Donnell "bargain" for the little guys, who contribute relatively nothing to the Treasury, Repubs bargain in earnst for the fat cats who's tax bills are mountainous by comparison, as they should be. And the O'Donnell's of the world think that's the "best bargain" they can get, fighting for the little guy. As a result, the O'Donnell's of Washington created the $22 Trillion in National Debt explosion over the last 29 years, over the $1.0 Trillion it was in 1981. Today's debt is now $14 Trillion, but don't EVER forget its carrying cost of some additional $8 Trillion in Net Interest over the past 29 years.
Thank you Lawrence O'Donnell and your fine stewardship on the Finance Senate committee as evidenced by your arguments the last two nights. Please do the percentage increase in the national debt over that 29 yr period and go on and on and on about it as you have with the bottom's rate EXPLODING back to Clinton's era, from 10% back to 15%, a 50% increase!!!!! Oh the horror. Now.... what's the % increase in your resided over national debt and the "bargains" you endorse?????
The passion Lawrence has for this Empire Killing fiscal subject matter debate is breathtaking. Trillions added to the debt.... for unpaid tax cuts... to be compounding into infinity. Our "best bargain"!
out of curiosity I looked up the 10% taxbracket on Wiki
SIngle 0-$8,350
head of household $0-$11,950
Married/qualifying widower $0-$16,700
This is actually an insanely low amount for someone to make---Federal minimum wage is $7.25 per hour time 40 hours times 50 weeks (2 unpaid off) is $14,500--so we are talking about someone part time working at minimum wage.
Most likely this person uses SOCIAL SERVICES which will have to be cut in order to pay off the deficit. So let's say that a person making $8K has taxes that go from $800 to $1200--a $400 increase divided by 52 weeks is an increase of $7.70 per week. I guarantee that they need to use more than $7.70 of services. I know that this small amount is A LOT of money when you are that poor but they will get hurt worse if the funds get cut off for the services.
I don't want to see the poor hurt but adding this much to the deficit is worse than adding $7.70 in taxes per week. You can work ONE extra hour a week to cover it.
I was a little harsh on O'Donnell... but he can understand... he was pretty harsh on Rep. Grayson. Still, Paul Krugman makes a great point, 2011 will have sucked ALL the investment out of 2012 and an election year's trends are MUCH MORE important than the previous year's false blip in economic activity. With the Obama deal on the table, 2012 is looking like 1980's economic environment all over again [caused by Volcker's Fed raising interest rates to kill off inflation].
1 - your poll needs more choices like 'ditch the Obama deal - we can do better'
2 - Obama caved the Congress is running an excavation operation to save this president from himself.
3 - For all the talk about morality on this, it is strangely silent that these proposals continue to "borrow" (read: steal) from the future.
I guess it's all about the baby boomers.
The American people have been held hostage by the GOP and its failed conservative policies for more than 30 years. Their mission is to bankrupt the government, and it is nearly accomplished.
Let the tax cuts expire. This country prospered under Clinton tax rates, including the wealthy, and now 1/3 of the deficit will be taken care of.
Adding in unemployment benefits and other issues to continue failed tax cuts is just more hostage-taking and extortion. Let the cuts expire. No vote is needed to do that.
Then vote on what matters, such as: Extending unemployment benefits. Cutting the Defense budget. Getting out of Afghanistan. Single-payer/Medicare for All.
Why couldn't the WH go around with this kind of badgering arm twisting with his campaign promises? The public option was not a small item on the Progressive wishlist. It was the only thing that would have gotten health care costs and the budget under control. There is no difference between a pragmatic Democrat and a Republican. This guy is worse than Bush with his pathological need to give in to the other side. Does he have any principles??
No, sorry, this is all defcit spending, it won't create jobs, and we can't afford the loss of revenue. The savings won't be spent. If anything,people will save it or pay off debt. And doing it for the unemployed? How am I supposed to take that seriously when they turned their backs on the long-term unemployed months ago without a second thought. Hypocrites.
At least with the right they're open about s*rewing you, this President is all bait and switch.
The Dems and Republicans are not going to allow the tax cuts to expire. The House votes are merely an indication that the deal needs to be renegotiated. Neither side can afford to walk away without passing a bill. The Dems need tax cuts for the lower brackets and unemployment. The Republicans need some tax cuts for their wealthy constituents. I have no doubt that Republicans will come under extreme pressure by their constituents to make a deal because the wealthy will be looking at a sizeable increase in taxes if there is no agreement. Neither party can pass legislation that will get to the President's desk now or after the new Congress convenes.
The democrats are going to destroy their president because they are neither smart nor united. in 2012 the republicans will prevail. cheers.
Let the tax bill be the Republican's bill, not Obama's. And make no mistake about it, they will call this piece of crap - 'Obama's Tax Bill' - When they get back home they will say they only voted for it to get unemployment benefits. Talk about turning the tables!
If they don't cave before Christmas - let them nail their own coffin shut by THEM giving tax cuts to the rich when they own the congress. Put this fiasco where it belongs - on THEIR heads.
Mr. O'donnell, your heart is in the right place but you are terribly wrong. I am in the 10% tax bracket and will email you my 1040 to prove it. I will gladly surrender my measly 500 tax credit if that means that the millionaires don't get their 100k+ savings. The deficit will be greatly reduced and everyone will prosper. The rich got a lot richer under Clinton's 39% rate than they have under Bush's 35%.
This package of tax cuts will have far reaching negative consequences.
Bundling the tax cuts for the very rich together with those for the middle and working class (including the child tax credit etc.) along with the corporate tax deductions and unemployment insurance extentions into one bill is a bad idea because it will just create the same "hostage" excuse two years from now to keep them in place.
What will be different two years from now?
If we are lucky will won't still need more unemployment extensions. If we are lucky, the unemployment rate will have dropped below 7%. Unfortunately, this does not look like a likely prospect, and even if by some miracle, this occurs, there will still be economists warning about the likelyhood of a double dip reccession.
As many Republican's have already admitted, unemployment extensions would almost certainly get passed without this so-called deal having been made. As would most, if not all of the other tax credits and deductions. The Republicans, despite their recent stance are on record (look at the "promise to America") as supporting many of them.
The Social Security payroll tax reduction makes absolutely NO SENSE whatsoever, especially while we have all of this BIG TALK about deficit reduction, and making Social Security a potential target for cuts. We don't need to make it any easier for this to happen.
These tax cuts will set the stage for a series of austerity measures targeted at the poor and the working class.
I think people, even those who do not support this unnecessary pact made with the senate republicans, are giving Obama way too much credit by characterizing him as a poor negotiator with a progressive agenda, which he just can't seem to pass.
He has abandoned his base, who worked so hard to make him a viable canidate, because as an incumbent who is likely to raise enormous sums of money from Wall Street and other corporate interests, he no longer needs them. Everyone knows that there will be no serious primary challenger. He is a corporatist centrist who is conning everyone that he is a liberal, with plenty of help from the right-wing and the mainstream media.
It is not likely that anyone in the lower income brackets will even notice a repeal of the Bush tax cuts and if they do, it will quite likely just be another excuse for their employers, who are already underpaying them, to not give them a raise.
Also, will this Social Security payroll tax reduction be 2% for the employee only, or will the employers also get a 2% reduction in the amount they chip in?
Finally, if anyone out there still takes Larry Summers' predictions, or anything else he says seriously, I feel sorry for you. It would be no great tragedy if these tax cuts expired in the effort to obtain a better deal, in fact it may be preferable.
curious why the democrats don't like america. or why they don't want to extend UE benefits. or even extend middle class tax cuts.
I don't believe this to be true but that is the silly things people brought up about repubs when they didn't like a bill based on thier ideology.
You guys are falling for it.
you say to fight the republicans, and you guys are falling for their traps no different then who you are accusing to be with them, it funny but sad :-(
I would listen to both sides Rush,Matthews,Keith,Savage,
The conservatives plan for the longest time was how could they get to obama.
Do you remember....
no matter what they said or try to do they could not make people think of him badly
Their plan was if they could weaken his base, and congress instead they could attack obama afterwards.
so first it was poloski they attacked, and guess what it worked, people without even checking what she was doing as house speaker assumed that what the right wing media said must be true.
and then they would attack the bills she would put out and right wing fox media would spin and lie about how bad the bills were and say its obamas bill example obamacare! he's part of it...
bit by bit they chipped away knowing they were getting momentum.
After the mid election was over and they convinced/lied to the people that they were the ones who are fair not the democrats, they Won back their seats in power, and we losted BIG-TIME!
WE have no more house majority and no more Sennett control!
Now what was their next step next step... to have people turn on OBAMA!!!
And most of you fell for it!
I've seen this plan in the making months ago.
Now before i judge someone i will give them their due time, i voted obama for 4 years not two.
the house sent their tax bill to the sennett to be voted on they lost 5 of their parties votes they needed just to have over 55 votes, that proves they can't do anything by themselves to make their bill LAW!!!
How important is this bill?
OK think of this over 2 million people cant buy things anymore some lose their apartments,cars, and livelyhood,taxes go's up, people can't keep their bills payed so they will have to cut things that they normally get, food, cellphones, cable tv,internet, clothes, gas, they can't afford it all,
now this can lead into a domino effect to all the shops and stores business,they are not getting revenue anymore.
So they layoff or don't hire anyone which means more people are out of work which takes more of the money out of the job market... Money is not flowing in the market reguerly anymore how can money come back?
well we are going to have a MAJORITY Republican house who writes the bills so next year now they could/will suggest to cut programs to get money back to them! social sercurity, unemployment, grants loans many things could be cut? money has to get to their greedy hands somewhere right?!!!
this is their plan that could mess up everything we came out of,
and who do you think they will put blame on,
US! the Democrats...
if we go into an emergency state of a depression that could lead people to have no jobs no money, unemployment and business go over seas for cheap labor it ain't going to matter who right or wrong to the mass of people they are going to be angry and depressed and are going to look for someone to blame,and the republicans are masters of putting blame on others and they will lie their way back into power 2012 just as they did 2010!
your falling for their trap!
The only thing that can stop the republicans of succeeding what they proved they started this past election is to stand together and not tearing each other apart that includes trusting the president and the congress we voted for in 2008!
I will make my decision 2012 and give president his full 4 years that i voted for and not jump to judgement of his governing when he did not finish his job yet.
THINK HARD, because the republicans been....
I hope you can understand together we stand divided we fall.
You have opened the Rove playbook! Wish Democrats will understand the GOP power play that never ended with Obama's 2008 victory.
Extension of Bush tax cuts and Unemployment Compensation are a payday loan to the poor and middle class. We are getting a penny now and we'll have to pay back a dollar later--either directly or through taking a hatchet to those things we need and care about. Lawrence O'Donnell doesn't feel my pain. I suppose he would like UC extended for decades in return for cutting off the revenue that makes our country run. UC discourages seeking employment as it not only pays you not to work but allows you to earn some money while collecting it. IF UC is extended, more should be expected of recipients; maybe even work (that is not to say that all those on UC are deadbeats). Free money is NEVER the answer. I would rather suffer now then have my children and grandchildren suffer later. The discussion shouldn't be about tax cuts vs UC. It should be about military budget, gov waste, bad deals with contractors and outright corruption. Why are we even focusing on these issues?
I share your concerns but we are a long way from discouraging UC. There must be jobs, jobs, and signs that the "wealthy" are prepared to invest more to create those jobs. Sure we need to deal with the "military budget, gov waste, bad deals with contractors and outright corruption" but we must get the jobless jobs or UC now!
Frankly I think the Democratic Party should just let the Tax Cut thing sunset. Look I'm a middle class guy who drives a truck for a living and I don't care if my taxes go back to Clinton era levels. Everybody keeps talking about tax reform and wa la, here's a easy fix. Call me the head of the "Let's pay the Damn Bills Party"! The American people need to be charged for the government they already have. IMHO
I hope I am not crossing some comment line but...
People, go to CSPAN and check out Bernie Sanders epic speech (it is Friday), I have heard it will go on for thirty hours.
This is an important historic moment, now matter how the vote on the tax bill goes.
He is showing Obama what a REAL leader is, what a REAL progressive sounds like and how one behaves.
This is more than political theater, it is substantiative.
Political theater is what Obama and his ilk engages in before they betray us.
DON'T MISS THIS!!!
Well, Senator Sanders just yielded the floor after eight and one half hours. My thirty hour source was obviously wrong, HOWEVER, after watching at least four hours... well go see for yourself.
Happy Holidays!!!
Bernie Sanders is a national treasure. Ignore him at your peril!!!
Now everyone wants to turn against Obama, who do you think is starting this ???
We are not mindless people that the media can controll!!!
Don't let the republicans and their allies turn us against each other!
Stand strong be stronger then them!
They turn us against the healthcare bill, They turned us agaist the congressthe house and now they are doing it agaist the president.
See it with your own eyes, they are playing agaist each other, they been planing this for years after the 2008 election.
We dems we libs we the people should not and will not be pupets for their games.
I belive us a the party must stand strong even if we may seem to be at the weakest part.
If we can become as one then The republicans fail EVERYTHING !!!
You are joking right???
I stand against corporatist plutocracracy.
I stand with Senator Sanders, and if you want to accuse me of being a republican puppet for doing so, go right ahead.
Im almost sure sanders is with us, but we are not going agaist one person we are coming agaist a force that is turning us agaist each other, you yourself are talking just like the right wing media did a year ago on the radio, you are sounding like them.
we lost the congress because of people not standing with each other we lost the poles, you can see it's a gamethey are playing and if you are not part of it you should understand, the republicans stand together and they came back into power,
are we going to let them turn us agaist each other, if you lost faith in everything you stood for, they won, if you can stand togerther and not let them play with are minds, they lost.
Look hard
think hard
what did the republicans do to us in less in 2 years?
As the minority.
they got our president to extend the bush tax cuts!!!!
duh
Remember what happened to Newt Gingrich and the Republican Party after he shut down the government. Well, the same thing will happen to the Democrats if they refuse to head off massive tax increases on the middle class on Jan 1, 2011. Lets take our medicine, give the rich their tax cut, put a few items on a credit card and live to fight another day. principles be damned...
I don't think so, Vern. That was a different time and place and, I think after all the attention the Tea Party scam brought to the deficit people are beginning to get this. Think about what unemployment numbers were back in 94, as well as the deficit at the time?
Reality, nobody was paying attention. Everybody got a tax break and yet the Republicans managed to get the FOX block voter to believe their taxes actually went up because most of those witless idiots never do anything other than cash their pay check and go spend it. (Hey that used to be me grabbing a 6 pack on the way home and drinking myself to sleep in the easy chair...LOL. I know these people) Pelosi and 60 Democrats have nothing to lose and I find it interesting even the vaunted Lawrence O'Donnell hasn't bothered to interview any financial people or economist who have made the case we should do just that. Great place to start would be David Stockman who actually was the guy who had to implement putting Jude Thaddeus Wanniski little political strategy (Two Santa Claus Theory) in to action. Who is Mr. Wanniski you ask? He helped design the tax cuts made during Reagan's first term in office.
Wanniski was instrumental in popularizing the ideas of lower tax rates embodied in the "Laffer Curve," and was present in 1974 when Arthur Laffer drew the curve on the famous napkin for Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. Over the years, Wanniski repeatedly emphasized high tax rates as the cause of poverty in Africa. Wanniski collected details about the tax structures of various countries in Africa, and explained how this was limiting the progress of the poor. So now in the year of our Lord 2010 we've been trying this for over 30 years with, the last 10 being the worst. I just caught Art still trying to hawk his book so; he didn't have to get a real job.
Sorry Vern, but I'm in the camp that thinks all the tax cuts should sunset and guys like Bernie Sanders should be leading the way by keeping media attention to that position. If the Democratic Party is smart and start reminding people what actual filibuster looks and sounds like, then in the era of hype and dreams the Republicans will have to step up to suck the air out of the room. Notice the whole news cycle is about the Democratic Party and not the unprecedented majority the Republicans just gained in the House.
Know your enemy, Know yourself: Art of War, Sun Tzu
Ah, Vern's & O'Donnell's defense of Kick the Can Down the Road yet again, ALWAYS live to fight another day. 30 years of that mentality DOMINATING. $1.0 Trillion in National Debt in 1981 after 205 yrs as a nation, exploding to $22 TRILLION a mere 29 yrs later in P&I costs, as if Washington has the devine gift of reversing the Power of Compounding Interest... by living to fight another day.
The horrors of Clinton flying in the face of that, and a recession, and boldly, substantially raising taxes, as a measure of fiscal discipline, and producing projected surpluses as far as the eyes could see by end of term, or until GW's arrival and national suicide pill Rx.
It seems to get lost on all: "a few more items on the national credit card" always compounds into infinity, given the rate of fiscal criminality in leadership AND VOTERS in this country. 10 year cost estimates? Hell, go apples for apples, it's been about 30 years since Reagan took us down this road of fiscal suicide, how about 30 yr cost estimates too, to set the horizon of what we should look back to, as well as forward to.
Thru no fault of his own, until this deal, by the shear size of crap dumped on his arrival, Obama is now dealing with larger sized decisions than any of his predicessors regarding to be fiscally disciplined... or NOT. The longer he waits, the more catostrophic his legacy becomes. He's deciding to OWN this Empire Killing fiscal mess. And has NO HOPE IN HELL of even dreaming of reversing surpluses, as Clinton gifted to America upon departure.
And at what point "down the road", given the nature of "American opptimism" do we come to terms that this might be a repeat of Japan's 20 year economic woes and decline... that continue today. At what point does fiscal discipline kick in? The Republicans' "Starve the Beast" strategy, in terms of killing off social programs, seems to be playing out right on track with all this 2010 Tea Party success of killing off programs and slashing spending rhetoric... as if the original problem of unsubstainable revenue slashing never occurred to even the best of the Lean Forward or lean backward gangs.
O'Donnell is as bright and sharp as they come, and has been in the belly of the beast experience hardly anyone else can tout. But let's face it, The Senate Finance Committee has been part of the fiscal problem, not part of the fiscal solution. NO... I take that back, O'Donnell WAS INDEED there when O'Donnell complained that Clinton reversed campaign promises to cut taxes, and instead called for raising them, and his staff was stuck with the unpleasnat task, but that they did and did it beautifully. By term end, Projected Surpluses as far as the eyes could see. Well done, O'Donnell!
So O'Donnell has walked the talk. But it's his responsibility to shed some light on HOW now do we reverse TRILLLON dollar deficits. His advocation of digging the hole further escapes ALL his viewers. And let's be honest and face it, Clinton's "actual" surpluses were tiny grains of sand compared the Himalayas Mtn Range size of debt we have. And GW boosted billion dollar level of deficits to TRILLION dollar levels of annual deficits. "Live to fight another day", or swallow our medicine like good citizens?
The enormous Lake Powell contains 5 trillion gallons of water, I heard on a doc a few days ago. $22 Trillion in national debt P&I has been accumulated since 1981, after 205 of amassing just $1.0 trillion by 1981. The size of the problem escapes pretty much all.
I remember when I graduated HS back in 76. I missed the draft by one year, my Dad didn't want me to join the military, figured pot would be legal and being taxed in 2 years and, all my friends were bright and ambitious. Made a couple of years in community college and then started working construction by day and factory by night. Time marched on and then the first child came and by that time I was abusing about anything I could lay my hands on. Then I decided after all the things I screwed up I was going to be a Dad no matter how much effort it took, I was going to get this one right. At this point I've got two kids and both have started their journey in to the American economy albeit just a little smarter than their old man. If you want your kids to do the right thing, then you have to do more than talk about it. You must set the standard and, hold that line no matter how difficult or long the task takes.
As Americans history is calling on us to step up and force those chosen to represent us to do the right thing. Don’t mean, cut aid to poor people, senior citizens and, then pretend like magically money will come from an economic system that has never worked from the time the idea was started. “Let’s Pay the Damn Bills”, tell the House of Saud to eat their sand and, the Chinese to sell stuff made in their country to their own citizens. Will this make things hard on your average citizen? Yes, but it will seem like picnic compared to what the guys who had to jump off Higgins boats at Omaha beach, not to mention the signer of the Declaration of Independence. Look around and watch some news then, ask yourself is this what people gave their lives for? A country where wealthy folks whine because they got to pay a couple of bucks for the privilege and security they enjoy in America. They want low taxes, property is cheap in a lot of places, call and tell us how that works out for you?
This country doesn't stand at the pinnacle on destruction; it stands at the crossroads of history but, the name of the game is screw you I want my money. Sorry but, it's not your money because, a lot of folks paid with blood for the little playground you hold that wealth in. Pres. Obama is trapped in the grips of the D.C. culture and, it has come time to make him famous. A lot is said about the historic steps FDR took to bring this country back from grips of a plutocracy. The truth is he was forced to do the right thing by his Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, first woman to hold a cabinet position.
Well I say now is as good a time to pull the plug on this little ponzi scheme the Republican Party dreamed up to win elections because they were too damn lazy to actually serve the people who elected them. Who am I to make that call you ask? I'm one of "We the People", the folks running this little popsicle stand. Now I'd be glad to do this on my own but, anybody who wants help this Nation become a standard for others to try an attain I'd appreciate the help. Yep, this is a representative democracy but, we got a few folks in the halls of power looking to actually do their job instead of shining up a resume for the Heritage Foundation. Call them, send a couple of bucks and post this simple message throughout all media where ever you get the chance. Change comes from one person talking to another and, that's how this nation actually came in to being.
Sunset the damn tax cuts, actually engage in trade that creates jobs for Americans, and “Let’s Pay the Damn Bills” we got. For God’s sake we’re only talking Clinton era tax rates!
These CEOs are not going to invest out of the goodness of their hearts or because they are grateful for their tax break. The only jobs created will be in China and India. There are no jobs in this country and the tax breaks for the middle class will barely be noticeable to someone making $30,000- $50,000.
No one seems to be worried about the uncertainty of people who are terrified to spend a single penny that is not necessary. That seems to kill more jobs that extra benefits for people making $65 billion a year. But I am sick of beating my head against this solid brick wall because it seems like we just can't make the 52% of tea baggers see this reality.
If you can't vote, at least Boycott Everything.
If you do nothing, they win! Just saw the earmarks in the budget they threw together and low and behold there's the extra engine for the F35 strike fighter. Hey, there's a story for ya Lawrence! That extra engine gets made in "Bipolar John Boehner's" district, the pentagon doesn't want it, the damn fighter would only be useful against Chinese or Russian fighter planes and, this is the guy crying about trying to give kids the American dream!
Where's the Tea Party? Hellooooooooo..... Is Anybody out there? Just turn down the volume on the Glenn Beck show and pay attention because you don't have to look real hard to find this stuff.