For class-warfare Dems: A reminder about who “the rich” are; Update: Senate Dems’ demagoguery rejected
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Today, the Democrat-controlled Senate will indulge in poisonous, nationally-televised class warfare demagoguery masquerading as a tax “debate.”
The pretext is the fight over whether current tax rates should be extended for ALL working Americans, or whether the Dems will succeed in punishing America’s wealth producers who earn more than $250,000 a year. There will be two Kabuki votes — one on extending the current tax rates for middle-class workers who make less than $250k, and another that raises the threshold to $1 million per year.
Everyone on Capitol Hill agrees the proposals are dead in the water. But the liberal Senate blowhards and crapweasels want their grandstanding moment in the sun to parallel the House soak-the-rich theater that took place Thursday. We’ll see which Senate Democrat tops House Democrat Rep. Joe Crowley’s gone-to-the-dogs screed comparing all people who earn over $250,000 a year to…convicted tax evader Leona Helmsley and her Maltese heir:
While the class warfare Dems take to the floor to bash “the rich,” here’s a helpful public service reminder of who their “rich” are:
In Congress:
The 50 wealthiest lawmakers were worth almost $1.4 billion in 2009, about $85.1 million more than 12 months earlier, according to The Hill’s annual review of lawmakers’ financial disclosure forms.
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) tops the list for the second year in a row. His minimum net worth was $188.6 million at the end of 2009, up by more than $20 million from 2008, according to his financial disclosure form.
…There were a few other new faces in the Top 50, including Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.), who received an inheritance after his late father, Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), died in 2009. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Rep. Tom Petri (R-Wis.) also made the list.
Twenty-seven Democrats along with 23 Republicans make up the 50 richest in Congress; 30 House members and 20 senators are on the list.
…Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), with a net worth of $160.1 million, is the second-richest member of Congress under The Hill’s formula, even though his wealth declined by more than $4 million in 2009.
He is followed by Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), who saw her net wealth leap to $152.3 million, a jump of more than $40 million from a year ago.
The rest of the top 10 are Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), McCaul, Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.), Rep. Vern Buchanan (R-Fla.), Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) and Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).
(Speaking of Kerry, has he paid his yacht taxes yet?)
On Obama’s donor list and inner Wall Street circle:
The Wall Street gamblers that Obama and his wife carped about on the campaign trail were shoveling money to his campaign hand over fist. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, hedge funds and private equity firms donated $2,992,456 to the Obama campaign in the 2008 cycle. Obama, erstwhile critic of the campaign finance practice known as “bundling,” happily accepted more than $200,000 in bundled contributions from billionaire hedge-fund manager James Torrey, more than $100,000 in bundled contributions from billionaire hedge-fund manager Paul Tudor Jones and more than $50,000 in bundled contributions from billionaire hedge-fund manager Kenneth C. Griffin, chief executive officer of Citadel Investment Group in Chicago.
No fewer than 100 Obama bundlers are investment CEOs and brokers: nearly two dozen work for financial giants such as Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, or Citigroup.
By comparison, multi-house dweller and Evil Republican Rich Guy John McCain received $1,699,525 from the industry—that’s more than forty percent less than Obama took.
Now, the hedge fund managers, statist bankers, corporate lobbyists, and lax regulators Obama incessantly cursed are the same ones whom he has appointed to “fix” the “system and culture” they created—and from which they all profited greatly.
“We can’t afford eight more years or four more years or one more year of the failed economic policies that George Bush has put in place,” Obama proclaimed on the campaign trail. But just like George Bush, Barack Obama is relying on Goldman Sachs/Wall Street power brokers to engineer massive government interventions to “rescue” failing businesses with the tax dollars of ordinary Americans. Obama had assailed John McCain for being “in cahoots” with CEOs and hedge fund managers. How are the myriad “public-private partnerships” Obama has embraced between government and corporate interests any different?
…In cahoots with Citicorp
By late November 2008, taxpayers came to expect midnight bailouts from feckless feds “in cahoots”—to borrow our president’s words—with Big Business. At 1 a.m. Eastern on November 24, 2008, Citicorp got its share of the bailout pie: $306 billion in government backing and $20 billion from the TARP banking bailout rammed through Congress a month earlier. The Citi “rescue” was the result of intense collaboration between Citigroup board member and former Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin; then Bush Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr.; and then president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York/Paulson-Rubin protégé/soon-to-be Obama Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner.
“[I]s it too much to ask Washington to develop a policy that isn’t crafted in a scramble of private phone calls?” an exasperated Wall Street Journal editorial board wondered the next day.
In January 2009, the Obama administration flexed its faux populist muscle in demanding that Citigroup drop its plans to spend $50 million for a luxury French jet. The same month Rubin resigned from the company—walking away from the wreckage with $150 million after 10 years at the company. Behind the scenes, more Citi men were sitting in the catbird’s seat. They included Jacob Lew, former chief financial officer of Citigroup Alternative Investments, who was appointed Obama’s No. 2 at the Department of State and will oversee interagency economic policy matters, and Michael Froman, another former CFO in the same division, who is now deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs. Obama and the bonus-bashers refrained from demagoguing Lew’s $1.1 million-plus salary and bonus and Froman’s $7.4 million-plus salary and 2008 year-end bonus of $2.25 million.
Both Lew and Froman now work closely with Wall Street crony and former Robert Rubin co-worker Larry Summers at the National Economic Council. National Journal connected more Rubin/Citi dots: “Director of the Office of Management and Budget Peter Orszag, and Summers’ deputy, Jason Furman, both served as directors of the Hamilton Project, a Brookings Institution initiative the produces research and policy positions on economic issues, where Rubin was a founding member of the advisory council. If that isn’t enough, Froman served as Rubin’s chief of staff during Rubin’s stint as Secretary of Treasury.” Three months after the Bush-Obama team engineered the first Citi bailout in November 2008, the Obama administration announced it was raising its stake in the failing company from 8 percent to 38 percent.
“We need a President who will look out for the interests of hardworking families, not just their big campaign donors and corporate allies,” candidate Barack Obama insisted in the halcyon days of his campaign. Still waiting. He promised Hope, but his Wall Street friends and backers got the Change—billions and billions of dollars worth of change.
The Subprime Gang
Former Fannie Mae corruptocrats Jim Johnson and Franklin Raines may not have official positions with the administration, but other subprime crisis-connected beneficiaries do.
…Obama’s close hometown crony, campaign finance chief, and senior adviser Penny Pritzker was head of Superior Bank of Chicago, a subprime specialist that went bust in 2001, leaving more than 1,400 people stripped of their savings after bank officials falsified profit reports.
Pritzer’s lawyer at O’Melveny & Myers, Tom Donilon, is now deputy national security adviser. He earned just shy of $4 million representing her and other high-profile meltdown clients including, yep, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs…
Plus: All the President’s Goldman Sachs men.
Plus: How privileged Democrats pay for their houses.
David Axelrod, the president’s top political advisor, reported in his form that he will get $3 million over the next five years from the sale of his two media consulting firms, ASK Public Strategies, LLC and AKP&D Message and Media. In addition, Mr. Axelrod took a salary of $896,776 last year from AKP&D and reported $651,914 in partnership income from the two companies.
In total, Mr. Axelrod reported assets valued between $6.9 million and $9.5 million. Mr. Axelrod’s clients were mostly political campaigns, including those of Rep. Patrick Kennedy, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, and Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. He also reported receiving money from large corporations such as AT&T Inc., Comcast Corp. and the nuclear energy company Exelon Corp…
…Valerie Jarrett, assistant to the president for intergovernmental affairs, lists a $300,000 salary and $550,000 in deferred compensation from The Habitat Executive Services, Inc., in Chicago.
Ms. Jarrett also disclosed payments of more than $346,000 for service on boards of directors that reflect her political ties, and work in Chicago real estate and community development.
She was paid $76,000 last year for service as a director of Navigant Consulting, Inc. a Chicago-based global consulting group with governmental clients. She received $146,600 for service on the board of USG Corporation, a building materials manufacturer, and $58,000 to serve on the board of Rreef American REIT II, a real estate investment trust based in San Francisco. The Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc., paid her $34,444 to serve on its board.
…Carol Browner, assistant to the president for energy and climate change, disclosed earnings of between $1 million and $5 million from lobbying firm Downey McGrath Group, Inc., where her husband, Thomas Downey, is a principal. She states $450,000 in “member distribution” income, plus retirement and other benefits from The Albright Group, a lobbying firm whose principals include former Secretary of State Madeline Albright.
Democrat class-warfare demagogues believe that wealthy liberals who don’t want to pay higher taxes deserve high public office, while everyone else with means deserves public excoriation.
I repeat: Politicians in “wealthy fat cat” houses shouldn’t throw stones.
Can’t wait ’til more of them are thrown out of office.
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Update: As expected, both of the Dems’ screw-the-wealth-producers’ proposals went down in the Senate:
Senate Republicans blocked legislation Saturday to let upper-income tax cuts expire on Jan. 1, a showdown scripted by Democrats eager to showcase GOP lawmakers as defenders of millionaires.
“Do we want to extend those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires at a time of huge deficits. I would argue vociferously we shouldn’t,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., shortly before the votes.
Republicans countered that no taxes should be raised at a time the economy is recovering from a recession. “It is the most astounding theory I have ever seen, raise taxes to create jobs,” said Sen. John Thune of South Dakota.
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We shouldn’t wish our lives away but 2012 cannot get here soon enough!
The sad part is they are too idiotic to know that they are being total hypocrites.
I believe two more years is way too long to allow these corrupt communists to push their agendas down our throats. In two years, we will be finished as a democratic republic. As I said on another thread, I think military intervention will be necessary to get these traitors out of DC. They must be stopped. Or do we just moan and complain while they steal our country? They have no right to do this, and must be stopped. I am an “elderly” grandmother and my ability to stop them is pretty weak. But I am intelligent, informed and articulate…so I will continue to contact these crapweasels and fight for good candidates to replace them. I just hope there is an election in 2012. That is seriously up in the air.
Just wait…they only have a couple more weeks as lame duckies and you can bet they will try to cram all their nasty programs down our throats. In the dead of night, with much arm-twisting, bribes and threats, they will get majority to vote in Cap and Trade, open voting for unions, net neutrality and that minor little bill for amnesty for millions of illegals. I know everyone says they are running out of time. Don’t believe it.
I watched a video of Pelosi stating that tax cuts don’t create jobs. What an idiot! If that’s true then why do liberals give business tax breaks not to move their companies out of their state. Just look at Boeing. “Progressives” gave them a tax break just to keep jobs in the Northwest. Yet, now the “progressives” claim that tax breaks don’t help create jobs?! Fine. Get rid of the tax breaks given to Boeing and I’ll believe liberals. Until then, to quote a famous person, “I won”, now shut libs and follow.
Make no mistake: the socialists aren’t just against the wealthy or “rich,” they also are against the middle class and poor, even though they say they champion the poor and middle class. They’re dead set against the poor and middle class BECAUSE they’re against the rich, who can provide the capital to invest in goods and services that provide the jobs the middle and poor class need. The socialists are absolutely ruining hopes and dreams of all of us with an oppressive economy and pitting us against each other with a cynical message that they’re these same people. The end result is pure, existential evil. Hence the utter cynicism of “hope, “change” and DREAM Act, etc. Everything they stand for is a perversion of the truth–no different than Satan himself.
It’s truly sad when one thinks of just how the very existence of one’s life is impacted negatively by such policies, that whole lives and the very passions and aspirations of people can be utterly crushed because of such evil.
Careful. You’re giving ammo to Garofalo & fiends who say we’re a bunch of violent revolutionaries.
(Of course history shows that violent revolutionaries are almost always leftists, but libs don’t let facts stand in the way.)
The liberals believe in crony capitalism. Just look at California. Despite their rhetoric for taxing the “wealthy,” they are willing to give tax breaks and other favors to those who are politically agreeable.
theres another name for that NATIONAL SOCIALISM.
I just don’t understand why so many rich people are against the very system that made them rich!?!?
Just how many rich people are in socialist/communist countries that they want to turn us into? NONE! China only became wealthy because they turned into a hybrid governemnt; economically capitalist while socialy communist.
A co-worker and I have an internet business idea we want to work on, and we don’t need to be hampered by dumb-old-craps high taxes.
actually there are a lot…national socialism, crony capitalism….whatever you want to call it insulates big business from competition…and the government takes care of them…as we have seen recently with GE. so the cronies of the government get rich…the rest of us stay poor.
The Democrat[ic Socialist]s always like to pretend that they are the “party of the little guy”…
But that couldn’t be further from the truth.
Back in the 2004 election cycle, I noticed that a site called Fundrace.org really liked to display their “Money Index” when in late 2003 the leaders were:
They didn’t like it when, once the race was just Kerry and Bush, the results were:
Those results didn’t fit their agenda, so they removed the link to that page from the main page (and from any other page).
But, since I had bookmarked the URL, I could still get to it directly.
Who was beind that? Well, it’s very interesting to see that if you type “www.fundrace.org” in your browser, it now takes you to “http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/”
Isn’t that special?
Democrats can’t handle the truth. They are the party of the rich, ruling elite with everyone else being serfs who serve them.
Democrats are the party of the FatCats, while Republicans are the party of the GrassRoots.
A commenter named Aaron left the following comment on my blog, and I think it’s worth repeating here…
Michelle,
Are you going to going to cover this Obama administration attempt at a HUGE, UNCONSTITUTIONAL POWER GRAB?
Unitary Executive, anyone? With Obama as the puppet dictator?
My only question is: Do “they” include “mom-and-pop” S-Corporations in this “over $250″ “rich” individuals?
Does anyone know?
As unemployment inches toward 10%, the democrats want to take more money from the people who sign the paychecks. This should prove beyond any doubt that their goal is to destroy our economy, not restore it. The more hopeless it looks, the more people will be willing to allow the government to take over everything.
I only said that military intervention might be necessary. Not that any of us peons should take up arms. Or that any of us should become violent. If communists are trying to take over our country, doesn’t it make sense for our military to rescue us?
And we have Al Gore, making $200 million on junk science. What do they all have in common? A lust for more. But they want the government to insure that it happens. So they want to make it harder for the middle class to compete with them.
Yes, but I have a campaign against that number. It is really $125K because of that marriage penalty.
Part of the reason the DEMS got their butts kicked, and their nose rubbed in it, because they keep treating the AMERICAN PEOPLE as the stupidest creatures on the face of the EARTH… Well POLS, here is a headline for you, the game is over, no more pitting the CLASSES against each other… News to THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST, I never got a job from a “MIDDLE CLASS” employer in all my years of working… All my jobs came from the “FILTHY RICH”!!! I am glad to admit that as a result I have retired as an upper middle class citizen!!!
We are in that group also and we ARE NOT RICH.
John Edwards was mentioned somewhere on this thread. It looks like he might end up in prison! One can only hope. At least they are indicting him and not letting it slide like so many other crimes committed by politicians. I have always thought John Edwards was the slimiest politician EVER! Like, eeeewwwww!!!!
To me, “rich” defines someone who himself does not have to work, especially work at a real job, for a living.
How do these dangerous, evil, socialist, statist, elitist, collectivist America-haters define “rich”?
What’s more irritating are those misguided folks saying that the Bush’s tax cuts got us into this mess. And since the tax cuts haven’t done anything for the economy, they’re useless.
To those misguided folks out there repeating Dem talking points: The reason businesses are holding onto their cash and not spending/hiring is because of the UNCERTAINTY of the future of the tax cuts. How can you plan your future not knowing if your taxes are going to increase? How can you plan investment not knowing what your capital gains taxes are going to be?
Get it????
Republicans frame the debate in the following terms:
But whose terms do the Main Stream Media use in their headlines to frame the debate?
Of course the fair and balanced news media repeats word for word what the democrats have been saying.
If the media was truly non-partisan, the headline would read:
Mainstream Media : Democrat Party :: Sinn Fein : Irish Republican Army
A little reminder about Kerry’s enormous wealth: most of it is from having married a rich widow. He wasn’t especially wealthy before he married Teresa Heinz’s inheritance. In short, John Kerry is living off of another man’s money.
A Republican man’s money.
Class warfare, eventually all wars end …
The race card now this … LOL
As I recall, McRINO dumped his bride for sexy Cindy’s family beer fortune, and the connections that got him elected to the Senate. Chumptastic.
And he pays very little in taxes on it.
These people make me sick. They have lined their pockets by being bought by those who wanted laws passed. All of this has shafted us in the process. these political sponges have driven the economy into the ground because they are not good at doing anything which benefits us or our country. These self absorbed ninnies need to be driven from politics.
How many on the donor list aren’t hurt by any changes in income tax codes because they aren’t paid a salary? How many of them are laughing at us because they have structured and stacked the deck against us? They have lied, cheated and stolen the future of this country. No wonder they got bailouts. I’m for sending them to GITMO to join the terrorists because they have more in common with the detainees than they have with us.
John Kerry is living off of another man’s money.
I think it was a republican’s money!
Whether or not you are interested in Obama’s (in)eligibility, you should know that a records request made under the Uniform Information Practices Act (UIPA), Hawaii’s Open Records law, for a black and white copy of the Hawaii Department of Health’s (HDOH) departmental seal as described as “Exhibit A” in their agency administrative rules has yielded disclosure of an electronic copy of the Department’s embossed seal.
And guess what…
The seal on the “COLB” that was produced at and by the Obama campaign headquarters doesn’t match! It has some significant differences.
MissTickly has done it again!
(She’s the one who helped surface that the State of Hawaii issued Dr. Fukino’s second news release AFTER the U.S. House passed H.Res. 593… in other words, the State of Hawaii was not willing to publicly state “Obama was born in Hawaii” until the U.S. House said so FIRST!)
Here’s a post I wrote about that:
VERY interesting! I do believe when Obama falls, he will fall HARD. This will not end well for him. On the other hand, Soros may decide to eliminate him before it all hits the fan. Once Obama is gone, all this investigation might just fade away. I hope not. I want some definite answers!!
Every politician who got rich by manipulating the system should redistribute that wealth directly to the treasury to pay down the debt that they voted to have. Those who do a poor job should not be rewarded for doing that job.
Kind of like Pollster? I strongly suspect we’ll never see a “poll of polls” show Obama with sub 40 approval on the new site.
On December 4th, 2010 at 7:34 pm, happyscrapper said:
I know what you’re saying, but I pray that that does NOT happen. I do NOT want to see Obama made a martyr.
On December 4th, 2010 at 12:44 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:
Sorry, I just had to fix the typo. I don’t like it when I make a typo, but I like it even less when my typo gets repeated when someone else quotes what I wrote. So allow my obsessive-compulsive nature to correct the typo. Thanks!
Bury these Democrat socialist traitors to America!!
After the Repubs voted down the special tax bills today the left naturally comes out pointing fingers at how uncaring the right is about the the average worker in America…it will be interesting to see how the public takes this. Will they buy the democrapic crap or will they see basic monetary thinking and side with the Repubs. Should be interesting as to how it is all taken by the “Americans aren’t stupid” people…you know the smart ones that elected this fraud to be the POTUS.
Amazing how these govt whores parlay their influence peddling (influence they obtained while “serving” the public) into millions, while they support policies meant to keep the “peasants” reliant on government. The sliminess of it is mind boggling. Whenever a pol talks about how he is devoted to “public service” I really do laugh. The only devotion they have is to themselves, and getting quite rich through their govt jobs.
Ah!!!!!! The Federal Reserve!!!
They must be laughing their gluteus maximus to this Kabuki Americana.
J.F.K must be very upset in his grave, if he could see it.
An American was once asked if he knew the difference between apathy and ignorance, to which he answered angrily, “I do not know and I don’t care!”.
Rio
Semper Fi!
If you want to peek under the emperor ruling class’s kilt, no better place than OpenSecrets. Could it be 7 of the 10 richest congresscritters are Demogogocrats? Say it ain’t so Bozo Joe…
And for the fun factoid of the week, who’s the seventh richest Rep is in the House? Alan Gruesome, you say? You betcha! Turns out he’s good for $78Mil – and he gets his tax breaks from claiming losses on a Ponzi scam he apparently orchestrated. Via Free Republic Alan Grayson: Lies, Tax Fraud and Deceit
With no due respect Congressman, go pound sand. God, I love the internet. Info you need at your fingertips the MSM and ruling class will never give you.
Crowley threw out the same number that Obama has on several occasions — $700 billion — as the amount that keeping the Bush tax cuts for everyone making over $250,000 will add to the deficit. I seem to recall Obama qualifying that by saying the $700B figure is the amount over a 10 year period. Who the hell knows what is going to be happening in 2 or 5 years, let along 10 years! Not Obama. And certainly not Crowley. That guy’s speech was a joke. He couldn’t even get his punchline out without stumbling all over it. Just once I would like one of these crapweasel Democrats to explain the math that gets them to this number instead of merely tossing out a silly wild ass guess. If they do not give the “rich” guys (job creators) the extension, millions more jobs will be lost. The deficit will go up sharply. Factor that into the mix and my SWAG is that giving the extension will actually reduce that deficit. Prove me wrong, crapweasels.
So many of these Progressives are indeed quite wealthy but relatively few of them got that way “from the system they want to destroy”. Franklin Raines made his money at the Federal trough of Fannie Mae-looting it while bankrupting it. Valerie Jarret-Federal and City Housing scams, Charlie Rangel–gifts galore.
Now John Kerry, Babs Boxer, Diane Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi all did it the old fashion way-they married money while Jay Rockefeller and the Kennedys have their money in nice tax safe trusts.
Our two big Super Billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffet talk about more taxes but manage to keep the great bulk of their wealth safe from taxes. They TALK about giving away their money but I don’t see either downsizing much.
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It seems to me the taxes that are hurting the economy most are Corporate taxes. I think those taxes should be eliminated.
I think they are far more important than if income taxes go up a couple percentage points, or whether they don’t. If the current income taxes rates were such great job creators, as opposed to the strangling Corporate taxes, we’d be in great shape now wouldn’t we?
After all, we’ve had the Bush income tax rates now for years. And in that time, my employer, had gone from 6 buildings in Charlotte, with over 5,200 employees, to 1 building and under 700 employees, of which, about 200 are temps. And of those 200 temps, over 90% are people we laid off, who now have no benefits.
Just something to consider, based on the reality I see in my own life.
Put another way, under the Bush Income tax Rate Cuts, we’ve lost over 8 million manufacturing jobs.
Corporate Taxes really need to be eliminated.
I’d also be for the repeal of the 16th amendment. But you’d have to eliminate all the programs and agencies we have now, that you wont find in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution.
Eliminate Corporate Welfare and it might well be revenue neutral.
Taxing ABC to aid XYZ is nothing but wrong.
Obama says he will extend the tax cuts for everyone, including the “wealthy” if they also pass the unemployment extension. So, it has been proposed (by republicans, of course) that stimulus money be used to extend unemployment benefits. Personally, I would agree with that. Use some of that unused stimulus money and go for it!! The problem is, there is most likely no stimulus money. It has probably been promised to Obama’s cronies in the labor unions, in Chicago, etc. That would be my guess. Otherwise…where is it and why aren’t they using it to “stimulate”??
“”Just Say No”" comes to mind.
It would not be wrong if it was done the way the idiot, reality challenged leftist theorists say it should be done. If we really took money from old business to subsidize r&d for future tech, then that could help to keep America at the front of all of the new goodies to be developed.
But that is not how it works, because that is not how government ever works. The subsidies primarily go to things like dairy and sugar or to idiotic things like ethanol, overwhelmingly to the industries and companies that already have political clout.
Leftists have a serious brain defect that keeps them from being able to understand the incorrigibly political nature of government.
It is no wonder they do not understand the importance of the Constitution.
Lets define wealth for what it is: what you have – not your income. A person making $250K has half or more taken away by government maggots. John Flushless Kerry has hundreds of millions in the overseas bank. Which one is wealthy? Lets change our tax structure to target wealth and leave income alone. And just to hear them scream, these azzhole tax crook demoRATS, lets tax wealth of a billion or more at 50% for 4 years. Bet Kerry would move to Vietnam.
Republicans need to highlight tax crook demoRATS each time they bring up the term, “the wealthy,” and every time they try to raise taxes. The IRS needs to audit every dem in congress – talk about a high risk group.
When will these people get the fact that we have an over-spending problem, not a taxing problem. These elites will never have enough money to keep buying votes to maintain their power. They have run this country as a dictatorship.
Did I not see that nasy excuse for a President, that Amateur-In-Chief, the “Condescending, Arrogant” One stand up there and make the false statement, the incendiary statement, that Republicans just want the hurt the Middle Class and forbid the Middle Class from getting a tax cut?
What an arrogant SOB that skinny, malicious, mean spirited, narcissistic snob is!
No, Obama! The “Tax Cut” was put forth by the previos president, George W. Bush. It cut taxes from income for all income earners, including the “middle class.”
The Republicans are standing in defense of the current tax cut for all income earners, including the middle class.
You, Obama, are a rich snob, yet you demonize the “rich,” engaging in class hatred, class envy, and class warfare, while your undereduged, snobbish, self absorbed, elitist snob followers-supporters are dumb enough to buy your nonsense and nor think to themselves, “Hey, Obama, Pelosi, et al are RICH, richer than most conservatives, richer than most republicans, and richer than most of the undereducated, racist, uninformed, misguided followers of the false Messiah, the non-Savior, Barack Hussein Obama.”
Too bad we have such dishonest, mean spirited, nasty people as Obama, Pelosi, et all still in high levels of government, pitting US citizens against one another via race and hate mongering, class hatred and class envy, and lying through their teeth!
Well said, William!
So cutting taxes costs money? Thats an interesting concept right there.
Is that universally agreed or just Democrat class warfare math? Another the science is settled moment.
Watching this lame brain/duck congressional session is at least entertaining when it does not sour your stomach or bring tears.
What else could we expect with the Queen of Hearts and the Mad Hatter back on their respective thrones if only. temporarily.
The poster children for what is wrong in congress can best be illustrated by these two:
Representative from Florida Alan Grayson
Senator from New York Chuck Schumer
What a pair to draw to, fortunately they are both gone on 1 Jan 2011.
Chuck Schumer was re-elected.
40%, or a little above, of all taxes are paid by 1% of the population. Extending the tax cuts, that have been in place for last 7 years keeps the tax rates as they are. I am sick to death of the mealy mouthed class warfare Demoncrats who are all hell bent on torching whats left of the USA. It is deliberate and malicious and these vermin know damn well what they are doing.
GOP and The Politics of Class Envy
PS – Google sucks a$$ and hates all things religious except for the the Religions of Death and Hatred [Atheism and Islam]. I say we need to delete “Google” from our lexicon. Just my humble opinion.
Here’s a guy who has been accurate for 15 years:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f18JIVk8hBw&feature=player_embedded
Enjoy!
Yes, back in 1998 I moved my retirement funds into gold and silver and away from stocks. If you look at the value of the dollar in respect to gold, (which has gone up 500 percent) or silver (which has gone up 600 percent), you see how much the dollar has devalued. It will devalue further with the bailing out of states by Obama. It will allow states to sell bonds, with full US backing, thus allowing states (controlled by unions) to create money out of thin air.
But of course tax cuts costs money, the money of which we deprive the government and its costly spending.
I believe most brain defective leftist in leadership DO understand the importance of the Constitution and the restrictions it places on the powers of government.
Because its importance impedes their agenda, the Constitution is deliberately not taught in school, ignored, twisted and contorted by CONgress, state and local legislatures, and the courts to benefit the left.
It’s that too many of our citizens are ignorant of the Constitution, thanks to the leftists indoctrinators in public education, government and courts.
The gist of the problem are the ignorant voting for these people who are bent on restructuring us into something communal, conforming, and ruled by them.
The only thing standing between these Democrat class-warfare demagogues and the “tar and feathers” for what they are doing to America, our lives, liberty and pursuit of happiness, is the “sound bite voters.” Seems they will not make the effort to find the truth.
Until we find a way to overcome the ignorance by design which keeps them in power, primarily via “political correctness”, which is really cultural Marxism. When we do not collectively object to their PC narratives that ignorance grows and our personal freedom is diminished.
See any major sponsors mentioning the word Christmas these days in their ads or do they just allude to it, while saying holiday or Santa instead? Too much capitulation has already occurred, and we are in real trouble due to the “sound bite voters” and who they vote for.
If there were term limits and after their 2 terms these scum bags were staring at going back into the private sector to find work AND benefits. We would see an entirely different situation.
I saw Lurch on Meet the Press yesterday; in spite of being a cretin, he sure can lie his arse off.