Buffett's secretary to attend State of the Union

[Mustang]

Of course...Can't whip up a little class envy without having a nice convenient prop for the cameras to pan to, can we?

A shame that embarrassment isn't in the repertoire of emotional responses of the progressive socialist.

Conservatives, (and more specifically, conservative Republican office holders) are minimizing the importance of the OWS movement and defaming them at the increasing peril of civil unrest like this nation has not seen in a LONG time.

George Soros on the Coming U.S. Class War - Print View - The Daily Beast

If there's a class war coming, you can bet your ass that a virulent little goon, who profits from the misery of others as much as has that bottom-feeding Soros, will expend a pretty good effort to drum one up.

And there'll be plenty of gullible, know-nothing, useful idiot saps willing to fall for it.

I didn't say there would be a class war. I just contend that which is known to anyone who knows history (ours as well as others).

First, when injustice (and I'm talking about systemic injustice) is not addressed, and it's allowed to fester, civil unrest is the result. Our own civil rights fights of the 60's comes to mind. But you can take a look at the ME for more recent examples. Leaders can keep a lid on it for a while, but ultimately, the lid will be blown off due to built up anger and resentment.

Secondly, do you know what it is that has made the USA the most long term stable society in modern history? It's a vibrant (and growing) middle class. Upward mobility was a real possibility for a majority of our citizens. I'm not talking about getting rich. I'm talking about the poor and the working classes being able to move into the middle class. That has pretty much ended. The wealthy Wall St masters of the universe tanked the economy, and not only got away with it without being prosecuted. They got a bail out. They were rewarded while most of the rest of the country got what's euphemistically known as a hair cut.

And now Republicans are mocking people as engaging in class warfare? They're clueless!

 

[Oddball]

Conservatives, (and more specifically, conservative Republican office holders) are minimizing the importance of the OWS movement and defaming them at the increasing peril of civil unrest like this nation has not seen in a LONG time.

George Soros on the Coming U.S. Class War - Print View - The Daily Beast

If there's a class war coming, you can bet your ass that a virulent little goon, who profits from the misery of others as much as has that bottom-feeding Soros, will expend a pretty good effort to drum one up.

And there'll be plenty of gullible, know-nothing, useful idiot saps willing to fall for it.

I didn't say there would be a class war. I just contend that which is known to anyone who knows history (ours as well as others).

First, when injustice (and I'm talking about systemic injustice) is not addressed, and it's allowed to fester, civil unrest is the result. Our own civil rights fights of the 60's comes to mind. But you can take a look at the ME for more recent examples. Leaders can keep a lid on it for a while, but ultimately, the lid will be blown off due to built up anger and resentment.

The biggest injustices are being foisted upon America by the people who are supposed to be providing it....Now they're shifting the blame and the people that they've "educated" are too thick-headed to see who is pulling their strings.

Secondly, do you know what it is that has made the USA the most long term stable society in modern history? It's a vibrant (and growing) middle class. Upward mobility was a real possibility for a majority of our citizens. I'm not talking about getting rich. I'm talking about the poor and the working classes being able to move into the middle class. That has pretty much ended. The wealthy Wall St masters of the universe tanked the economy, and not only got away with it without being prosecuted. They got a bail out. They were rewarded while most of the rest of the country got what's euphemistically known as a hair cut.

What a bunch of Marxist crapola.

Upward mobility is being crushed under the weight of the leviathan state, to the point that only the wealthy can afford to get into and stay in business.

And now Republicans are mocking people as engaging in class warfare? They're clueless!

The clueless ones are the know-nothing useful idiot occupiers...Too bad so few of you are up on your Lenin.

 

[Mustang]

If there's a class war coming, you can bet your ass that a virulent little goon, who profits from the misery of others as much as has that bottom-feeding Soros, will expend a pretty good effort to drum one up.

And there'll be plenty of gullible, know-nothing, useful idiot saps willing to fall for it.

I didn't say there would be a class war. I just contend that which is known to anyone who knows history (ours as well as others).

First, when injustice (and I'm talking about systemic injustice) is not addressed, and it's allowed to fester, civil unrest is the result. Our own civil rights fights of the 60's comes to mind. But you can take a look at the ME for more recent examples. Leaders can keep a lid on it for a while, but ultimately, the lid will be blown off due to built up anger and resentment.

The biggest injustices are being foisted upon America by the people who are supposed to be providing it....Now they're shifting the blame and the people that they've "educated" are too thick-headed to see who is pulling their strings.

Secondly, do you know what it is that has made the USA the most long term stable society in modern history? It's a vibrant (and growing) middle class. Upward mobility was a real possibility for a majority of our citizens. I'm not talking about getting rich. I'm talking about the poor and the working classes being able to move into the middle class. That has pretty much ended. The wealthy Wall St masters of the universe tanked the economy, and not only got away with it without being prosecuted. They got a bail out. They were rewarded while most of the rest of the country got what's euphemistically known as a hair cut.

What a bunch of Marxist crapola.

Upward mobility is being crushed under the weight of the leviathan state, to the point that only the wealthy can afford to get into and stay in business.

And now Republicans are mocking people as engaging in class warfare? They're clueless!

The clueless ones are the know-nothing useful idiot occupiers...Too bad so few of you are up on your Lenin.

You need to step away from partisan talking points pushed by talk radio and take a look at reality.

Right now, the so-called leviathan state in the form of extended unemployment and food stamps are the only thing that are keeping many people and their families from being in even more dire straights than they already are. Meanwhile, Wall St is recording renewed record profits.

 

[freedombecki]

Anyone want to guess what at least part of what the State of the Union address is going to be about?

Among this year's guests are Debbie Bosanek, the longtime secretary for billionaire Warren Buffett. Obama frequently cites Buffett's complaint that the nation's tax code is unfair because he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary....

Buffett secretary to attend State of the Union - Yahoo! Finance

Yes. It's going to be the most silver-tongued speech ever given, smarming the American public to support Marxist ideals with errors of omission its most obvious characteristic.

 

[Oddball]

You need to step away from partisan talking points pushed by talk radio and take a look at reality.

Right now, the so-called leviathan state in the form of extended unemployment and food stamps are the only thing that are keeping many people and their families from being in even more dire straights than they already are. Meanwhile, Wall St is recording renewed record profits.

...You have the gall to chide me about reciting talking points, while you regurgitate that rote "record Wall Street profits" bile?...I have news for you, pal, those "record profits" are in terms of a USD that has never been worth less...IOW, there's no buying power in the dollars going out.


I look at reality every day of the week..

Massive bureaucracies like the FDA act as defacto protection rackets for the likes of Merck, Johnson & Johnson, and Eli Lilly, while pricing the ability of smaller labs to get their products to market right out of business.

Trillions in bailout cash go to firms like AIG and Goldman Sachs, while Lehman Bros (their competitor) is left to sink...Move along, nothing to see here....

Every day there's a new rule, regulation, tax, you name it, that prices someone working at a J.O.B. out of going into business for themselves.

Maybe if you had an analytical thought in your head for once......

 

[Rozman]

Anyone want to guess what at least part of what the State of the Union address is going to be about?

Among this year's guests are Debbie Bosanek, the longtime secretary for billionaire Warren Buffett. Obama frequently cites Buffett's complaint that the nation's tax code is unfair because he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary....

Buffett secretary to attend State of the Union - Yahoo! Finance

Of course it wasn't translated into the amount of dollars each one paid in taxes, that would show the disingenuous nature of this stupid ass non issue........

Of course it wasn't translated into the amount of dollars each one paid in taxes,

Of course not because they want the impression to be that this secretary paid more
in taxes then Buffet.

Every left wing media outlet reported the story as her paying more in taxes....
And the dumb ass democrat voters fell for this big time.....

I don't know who to be angrier at, the ones that misled the public.But after all that's
the essence of liberal controlled media,or the dumb asses that believe this shit.

 

[Zander]

More liberal dishonesty. 97% of taxpayers pay less of a percentage in income taxes than Romney. You have to crack $200K/year to get close. I wonder what Buffet pays his secretary?

If you add up all the percentages in the third column ending with "100,000 under $200,000," you get 97 percent.

That means as a function of AGI - which is typically how folks look at taxes - if Romney pays 15 percent as he stated, he's paying a higher rate than 97 percent of his fellow citizens.

Read more: Media Myth Debunked: 97 Percent of Americans Pay Less Tax Than Romney's 15 Percent | NewsBusters.org

 

[Defiant1]

I'm having dinner with a few Congressmen this weekend. I'm going to ask them how they can sit there and listen to the idiot without puking their guts out.

 

[Rozman]

It's a campaign speech tonight plain and simple....

 

[CaughtInTheMid]

^ actually, it's the tax on capital gains that the rich fight the hardest against. they feel, since it's a gamble, that that income should be taxed less than regular income (less than some guy punching a time clock). surprisingly (okay, it's really not surprising), they make a gigantic amount of income from capital gains. as a trader myself, it's almost comical to me that i pay less tax on the money that i make than you do on the money you make. but hey, i'm gonna ride it as long as i can.

the real story isn't how much the uber rich pay % wise on capital gains. the story is that the poorest republicans fight for the right of the uber rich to play less % wise on the capital gains than what the poorest republicans pay outta their paycheck. now that's a trick that i wish i could pull on somebody.

There are also a lot of retired elderly, with much more modest portfolios, who benefit from the lower cap gains rates.

But I guess it's a lot easier to whip up envy and divide people, if those who only pay cap gains are portrayed as sipping Napoleon brandy and lighting their Ashtons with $100 bills, huh?

yeah, that's true. it isn't only the uber rich who pay less % wise, on their capital gains, than people who punch a time clock.

 

[Mustang]

You need to step away from partisan talking points pushed by talk radio and take a look at reality.

Right now, the so-called leviathan state in the form of extended unemployment and food stamps are the only thing that are keeping many people and their families from being in even more dire straights than they already are. Meanwhile, Wall St is recording renewed record profits.

...You have the gall to chide me about reciting talking points, while you regurgitate that rote "record Wall Street profits" bile?...I have news for you, pal, those "record profits" are in terms of a USD that has never been worth less...IOW, there's no buying power in the dollars going out.


I look at reality every day of the week..

Massive bureaucracies like the FDA act as defacto protection rackets for the likes of Merck, Johnson & Johnson, and Eli Lilly, while pricing the ability of smaller labs to get their products to market right out of business.

Trillions in bailout cash go to firms like AIG and Goldman Sachs, while Lehman Bros (their competitor) is left to sink...Move along, nothing to see here....

Every day there's a new rule, regulation, tax, you name it, that prices someone working at a J.O.B. out of going into business for themselves.

Maybe if you had an analytical thought in your head for once......

Lax financial regulation, not over regulation, is what LED to the financial meltdown in the first place. Commercial banks were allowed to merge with investment banks and gambled with depositors money even as their CDS had no cash reserves to back up the mortgage backed securities that were not worth the triple A ratings that they had paid the bond rating agencies to give them. THIS was an example of free market capitalism left unchecked by the very regulations that had been put in place in the aftermath of the Great Depression.

Sometime you should read about Gramm-Leach-Bliley and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act

You might want to consider reading a book (a non partisan book) about the causes of the financial collapse.

 

[freedombecki]

I'm having dinner with a few Congressmen this weekend. I'm going to ask them how they can sit there and listen to the idiot without puking their guts out.

They may respond that every job has its downside.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Its like Barnum and Bailey.

 

[Oddball]

Lax financial regulation, not over regulation, is what LED to the financial meltdown in the first place. Commercial banks were allowed to merge with investment banks and gambled with depositors money even as their CDS had no cash reserves to back up the mortgage backed securities that were not worth the triple A ratings that they had paid the bond rating agencies to give them. THIS was an example of free market capitalism left unchecked by the very regulations that had been put in place in the aftermath of the Great Depression.

Sometime you should read about Gramm-Leach-Bliley and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act

You might want to consider reading a book (a non partisan book) about the causes of the financial collapse.

More inane party man talking points form the drip who reprimands others.

Gramm-Leach-Bliley was the regulation framework...It wasn't the absence of regulation.

In the meantime, saps like you completely brush aside the roles the CRA, Fanny & Freddie, race baiting political hacks, opportunist politicians, the Fed, etcetera, played in enabling the people you blame.

It's like the brain dead morons who blame dope dealers, street gangs and drug cartels, for the fact that police/nanny state do-gooders have enacted a massive federal price support program, known as the war on (some) drugs.

The water only flows where your imperious masters allow it to, tovarich.

 

[freedombecki]

More liberal dishonesty. 97% of taxpayers pay less of a percentage in income taxes than Romney. You have to crack $200K/year to get close. I wonder what Buffet pays his secretary?

If you add up all the percentages in the third column ending with "100,000 under $200,000," you get 97 percent.

That means as a function of AGI - which is typically how folks look at taxes - if Romney pays 15 percent as he stated, he's paying a higher rate than 97 percent of his fellow citizens.

Read more: Media Myth Debunked: 97 Percent of Americans Pay Less Tax Than Romney's 15 Percent | NewsBusters.org

She probably gets a generous benefit from working for Mr. Buffet.

 

[Mustang]

More inane party man talking points form the drip who reprimands others.

Gramm-Leach-Bliley was the regulation framework...It wasn't the absence of regulation.

In the meantime, saps like you completely brush aside the roles the CRA, Fanny & Freddie, race baiting political hacks, opportunist politicians, the Fed etcetera, played in enabling the people you blame.

It's like the brain dead morons who blame dope dealers, street gangs and drug cartels, for the fact that police/nanny state do-gooders have enacted a massive federal price support program, known as the war on (some) drugs.

The water only flows where your imperious masters allow it to, tovarich.

Are you obtuse? Or just ignorant?

GLB repealed previous prohibitions on financial institutions which were specifically put in place decades before in the aftermath of what happened leading up to the bank failures of 1929 and the early 1930s.

The Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (GLB), also known as the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, (Pub.L. 106-102, 113 Stat. 1338, enacted November 12, 1999) or the Citigroup Relief Act[1] is an act of the 106th United States Congress (1999–2001). It repealed part of the Glass–Steagall Act of 1933, removing barriers in the market among banking companies, securities companies and insurance companies that prohibited any one institution from acting as any combination of an investment bank, a commercial bank, and an insurance company. With the passage of the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act, commercial banks, investment banks, securities firms, and insurance companies were allowed to consolidate.

To use your own analogy, it's like taking the cops off the streets.

 

[syrenn]

Of course...Can't whip up a little class envy without having a nice convenient prop for the cameras to pan to, can we?

A shame that embarrassment isn't in the repertoire of emotional responses of the progressive socialist.

And she will be sitting next to the First Lady....awwww. THAT should bring a positive subliminal message to the man's missive...

Got to love applause shots. BBOORRRINGGG

 

[Oddball]

Are you obtuse? Or just ignorant?

GLB repealed previous prohibitions on financial institutions which were specifically put in place decades before in the aftermath of what happened leading up to the bank failures of 1929 and the early 1930s.

The Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (GLB), also known as the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, (Pub.L. 106-102, 113 Stat. 1338, enacted November 12, 1999) or the Citigroup Relief Act[1] is an act of the 106th United States Congress (1999–2001). It repealed part of the Glass–Steagall Act of 1933, removing barriers in the market among banking companies, securities companies and insurance companies that prohibited any one institution from acting as any combination of an investment bank, a commercial bank, and an insurance company. With the passage of the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act, commercial banks, investment banks, securities firms, and insurance companies were allowed to consolidate.

To use your own analogy, it's like taking the cops off the streets.

You don't get to call the regulation a lack of regulation.

If it was bad regulation, so be it.

But the left is so bent on their "deregulation BAAAAAAAD" narrative, as though it equals total anarchy, that they don't bother making such distinctions.

In the meantime, y'all continue to completely ignore CRA, F&F, insane Fed policy, on and on, which enabled the people who crashed the housing market.

 

[WillowTree]

class warfare on parade tonight at 9pm est. can't wait for it. same shit for three damn years.. It's been said that the coward won't mention the Keystone Pipeline.. wonder why buffet's secretary won't release her taxes? ya know buffett wants all that oil carted around the country on his railroads.. the pipeline ain't good for him.. now we know obama is buffet's puppet.. don't we.

 

[Oddball]

I can wait...I'll find a hockey game to watch.