The GOP has always called it a "vicious lie" when Democrats charge them as being...

[GordonGecko]

"the Party more concerned with millionaires and billionaires, than with everyday Americans".

So....what they do yesterday? Instead of seeing taxes on millionaires and billionaires go up a few points to Clinton 1990s boom levels.....they rejected it. So now? Taxes will go up on ALL Americans.

It was MUCH more important to them to protect the very wealthy.

See, it's one thing if somebody else says "You're insane", you can deny it and there's always some room for doubt at the charge....

it's another if you yourself strip naked, cover yourself in chocolate syrup, and go screaming down the street singing "Doe A Deer, A Female Deer".

 

[Dino]

Maybe they're more interested...in the .... ECONOMY. And hope to fix that.

Hint for you: raising taxes on job creators and investors while not cutting a nickle of gov't spending is NOT the way to do it. That will have far worse effects.

 

[GordonGecko]

Maybe they're more interested...in the .... ECONOMY. And hope to fix that.

Hint for you: raising taxes on job creators and investors while not cutting a nickle of gov't spending is NOT the way to do it. That will have far worse effects.

Dino, I'm sure that EVERYBODY...firmly locked inside the Rightwing Media Echo Chamber will salute the Republicans in the House for letting everybody's taxes go up, in order to defend millionaires and billionaires.

 

[OldGaffer]

We are getting ready to gut the defense budget in January, that sequester thing you keep forgetting about. A triilion or more in cuts, right? Along with a trillion in 2% tax increases and we are moving merrily along.

 

[GordonGecko]

We are getting ready to gut the defense budget in January, that sequester thing you keep forgetting about. A triilion or more in cuts, right? Along with a trillion in 2% tax increases and we are moving merrily along.

Apparently the Right is now "fine" with big cuts in military spending.

 

[Dino]

Your spin. Obama is letting them go up because he refuses to cut a penny from the deficit and cannot move forward unless he raises taxes for simply political, and not financial, reasons.

Let him run with that, and try to blame others in the mid-terms while he rides the wave of an American depression.

I'll be laughing the whole time.

 

[OldGaffer]

How brain dead do you have to be to forget the sequester cuts coming in Jan?

 

[GordonGecko]

Let him run with that, and try to blame others in the mid-terms while he rides the wave of an American depression.

I'll be laughing the whole time.

PLEASE have the Republicans run on "I let your taxes go up, because I had to protect millionaires and billionaires from paying Clinton-level tax rates" in 2014.

Please???

 

[wobblies]

Dino~
A good definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again when you don't get the results one insists will occur. GWB taxes have been in place for a decade and a couple of trillion dollars of uninvested wealth is just sitting there because of a lack of effective demand. The GOP mantra about job creaters is thus disproved by experience. Most Americans get that even if the GOP doesn't.

 

[OldGaffer]

Dino~
A good definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again when you don't get the results one insists will occur. GWB taxes have been in place for a decade and a couple of trillion dollars of uninvested wealth is just sitting there because of a lack of effective demand. The GOP mantra about job creaters is thus disproved by experience. Most Americans get that even if the GOP doesn't.

Dino feels he has more knowledge of economics than anyone on the planet.

 

[amfh]

Maybe they're more interested...in the .... ECONOMY. And hope to fix that.

Hint for you: raising taxes on job creators and investors while not cutting a nickle of gov't spending is NOT the way to do it. That will have far worse effects.

WHERE ARE THE JOBS? And, BTW, 97% of ALL small business owners earn less than $250K

Dino~
A good definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again when you don't get the results one insists will occur. GWB taxes have been in place for a decade and a couple of trillion dollars of uninvested wealth is just sitting there because of a lack of effective demand. The GOP mantra about job creaters is thus disproved by experience. Most Americans get that even if the GOP doesn't.

Thank you, you beat me to it.

 

[Days]

they were fine with it or they would not have drafted it... the charade is to pretend that they are not fine with it.

meanwhile, over at the the Atlantic, I posted this...

old_athlete reply to mrisinger • 2 hours ago

Take three more steps back... how dysfunctional is this whole government? The republic handed its currency over to Wall Street banks a century ago, despite multiple warnings from every good leader it had, not to do so. Now it festers in the ruined money, pointing fingers at each other for a system that was designed to fail. But does anyone admit that the real cause for all our debt is the Federal Reserve debt currency? Nope, they just kick the debt down the road deeper into bankruptcy and point fingers.

 

[Dino]

All they have to do is show the date they approved tax cuts for all... this is Obama's albatross.

The GOP does the right thing, pass the cuts and let the chips fall where they may. Let Reid and Obama explain duing the midst of the depression they caused why they felt the need to crush the consumers and job providers over the 80 billion in tax money they couldn't mooch off the American people.

Please???

 

[Days]

finger pointing is better than getting the job done?

 

[BitterPill]

they were fine with it or they would not have drafted it... the charade is to pretend that they are not fine with it.

meanwhile, over at the the Atlantic, I posted this...

old_athlete reply to mrisinger • 2 hours ago

Take three more steps back... how dysfunctional is this whole government? The republic handed its currency over to Wall Street banks a century ago, despite multiple warnings from every good leader it had, not to do so. Now it festers in the ruined money, pointing fingers at each other for a system that was designed to fail. But does anyone admit that the real cause for all our debt is the Federal Reserve debt currency? Nope, they just kick the debt down the road deeper into bankruptcy and point fingers.

I have a question: if 'handing our currency over to Wall Street' created the mess we are in now, why did it take until the 80's for it to manifest?

I think the problem is reckless spending coupled with misguided taxation schemes. If so, then the outcome is the same whether or not the fed exists.

 

[Dino]

They've tried, but Obama refuses to compromise. Every time the speaker reaches an agreement, Obama moves the goal posts further back.

 

[Days]

the jobs are all found in the factories planted on the other side of the Pacific Rim, a decade ago. The billionaires that planted them there are very busy funding the political subterfuge being played out in Washington right now.

Do Americans read anything about how much business has been built up over there? Nope, that's never in our media. just flag waiving and wars to distract us. Meanwhile, the navy has sent three aircraft carriers to safeguard the giant hub port shipping lines being built by their booming commercial growth.

 

[Days]

you really buy into all that?

you can't spot theater when it is right in front of you?

 

[BitterPill]

They've tried, but Obama refuses to compromise. Every time the speaker reaches an agreement, Obama moves the goal posts further back.

You are delusional.

 

[Days]

The Federal Reserve currency was set up in 1914. Immediately our government ran up the national debt funding the great war (World War I)... that was followed by the farm depression of the early 1920's - engineered by the Federal Reserve system - and that was followed by the great depression, which was more of the same treatment for everyone else that they handed the farmers... then came the big plunge into debt with World War II... The Federal Reserve system hit us hard and fast. wake up.