If Obama Was Serious...

[bodecea]

Ts got more guts than a good percentage of the board.

I would imagine so...that stuff goes right to the mid-section.

 

[Flopper]

I don't really like some of the extreme terms like "class warfare" to describe issues of obvious fairness within the tax code.

Doesn't feel like warfare on me to ask me to pay the same marginal rate as a plumber if I'm in the position of having my money work for me.

I also don't think it's unreasonable to let the Bush Tax Cuts expire on the top 2 tax brackets because a) from a conservative standpoint, we must course-correct since we can't afford them and b) the idea of them was that they were going to create millions of quality American jobs, but all we got was this lousy service-oriented economy t-shirt.

To the President's credit, if you look at any of the charts on his spending, roughly 75% of it is continued spending on Bush initiatives. He put the wars on the books, got Medicare Part D paid for, extended the solvency of Medicare, re-authorized the Bush tax cuts for 2 more years, spent nearly half of his stimulus on the single largest one-time middle class tax cut, kept funding the Dept of Homeland Security which was another Bush expansion of gov't.

What's ridiculous is how careless the previous administration was at putting almost everything on the credit card while putting the rest on layaway. This administration is cash 'n carry, and a lot of it is hold-over spending from the previous guy.

I'm not playing the blame game. All the spending is pretty bad, and I was upset about it in 2002 and 2003 while the folks who are most upset about it now think that it began just a couple years ago or something.

Blame Obama for real things, not made-up crap. I'm happy he cut into Medicare. First Democratic President to have the courage to want to bring some reforms to it. I'm happy with the defense cuts and wish they went even further. I think the Dept of Education needs to be reformed.

I'm happy with some of the streamlining stuff that this administration wants to do, but I'm unhappy about the fact that the House simply will not co-operate on anything that would be successful for the country, because then Barack Obama would be given credit for being competent and for bringing people together on some pretty common sense stuff, and we just can't have that, can we?

I even don't mind the energy policy of this administration. I'm not too big on much more drilling for oil, because the world's supply is diminishing, which is why countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia are drilling further and further offshore. But overall, domestic production is up, while imports are down, which is prudent.

I'd like to see us save upwards of half a trillion or so on the trimming of corporate welfare, but we just can't have that either because then President Obama would get some of the credit for getting done what three quarters of us want done.

I just don't understand the false outrage out there. The guy has been governing not unlike how I would have imagined a moderate Republican President governing only 30 or 40 years ago. Same kind of record and policy stances that are moderate and fair on a number of issues.

The opposition holds the president, regardless of who he is, responsible for all the nations problems that occur during his presidency. However with Obama it's not the typical blame the president for the bad things. When people lose their jobs, homes, and savings they get angry and they want to hold someone responsible and who better than the president who promised nothing but good things for the country in his campaign.

Economist told us that the recession was the worst since the Great Depression and Recovery would take a number of years. We didn't want to hear that so we ignored it and we expected the president and congress to work miracles. The democrats responded with corporate bailouts, job stimulus, and tax cuts that cost trillions. It did create jobs, and certainly helped those hurt by the recession, but it didn't produce the rapid recovery that everyone wanted. Republicans could then attack the president on two issues, a slow recovery and high deficits which will be the primary focus of Republicans in the upcoming election.

With the president taking flack because of the economy, it was easy for the Right to take the hatred that some people had for the government, blacks, gays, Muslims, and immigrants and focus it on Obama. Since he was black with a Muslim father, a proponent of gay marriage, and immigration reform, he was a natural target.

 

[The T]

Yes, Obama is serious. Some people say "Obama has AIDS"

And who would they be?

They would be Trolls.

*Yep*

 

[Neotrotsky]

I don't think any of his OWS crowd attended his $40,000/plate fundraiser

Maybe they were outside protesting

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Gotta love the "logic" of the whacked out rw's.

They don't want some people to pay their Fair Share but they want others to pay MORE than their Fair Share.

 

[Neotrotsky]

...in his Class Warfare/Wealth Envy rhetoric? He'd not take one red cent from those he badmouths on one side...and in private gladhand the same he demonizes...as he squirrels away the money...

A Game?

Wake up.

Bu then who would pay for his wagyu steak and vodka martinis ?

 

[The T]

...in his Class Warfare/Wealth Envy rhetoric? He'd not take one red cent from those he badmouths on one side...and in private gladhand the same he demonizes...as he squirrels away the money...

A Game?

Wake up.

Bu then who would pay for his wagyu steak and vodka martinis ?

Indeed a who's who list...