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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Newt Gingrich Gives John Boehner Cover On Fiscal Cliff: We Survived Under Clinton Tax Rates (VIDEO)


We all know why a deal is taking so long. Republicans are angry at the fact that they must raise taxes on the rich, and for this, they will make you pay dearly. For every dollar that the rich will pay, they want YOU to pay that same amount several times over. They in fact want most of the money to come from cuts to "entitlement" programs and a much smaller fraction from tax revenues.... but don't take my word for it... look it up.

The GOP logic is the laughing stock of America and they know it. This holdout isn't about protecting the top 1%. It's about trying to force Obama into more concessions. If the GOP supports going over the cliff it will be their death knell.



I say good riddance to the moronic obstructionists.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Nancy Pelosi Predicts 'Democrats Will Stick With The President' On Fiscal Cliff Deal


If you don't support to increase taxes on the wealthy and leave the middle-class tax rate the same then you are in office to support the wealthy.

Republicans don't want to go to the public with this because they know that the middle-class and the lower-class put them in office.

They also know that the majority of the middle and lower class want the wealthy taxes to increase.

So where is the gray area?

What is there to negotiate about anymore?

Republicans are in checkmate with the America people and yet they still keep postponing the inevitable.

They will vote for President Obama's plan.

They will wait until the very last minute though.

They are scared of losing their BIG DONORS that want less taxes.



"Wake up GOP", you are not in reality. Your party is over.!
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Nancy Pelosi Predicts 'Democrats Will Stick With The President' On Fiscal Cliff Deal


I have played in sports all my life, & there is a name that is given to a player that does not change there strategy; its called a,"looser". The Republicans have failed to change there strategy more than once, and it has cost them the presidential election and our economy.

The Republicans should begin to realize at some point that they lost the election -- that has consequences. They were obstructionists for the last four years -- that didn't work. The voters are on to their game -- if they keep it up and they'll wind up in the trash-bin of history.

Don't be a looser, and think like a Republican.
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Monday, December 17, 2012

Senate Filibuster Reform Threatened By Fiscal Cliff Gridlock


Boehner & most Repubs have chutzpah on the subjects of taxes & spending! The key reasons why the US debt roughly tripled in the last 12 yrs are:

Repub promoted tax cuts that caused Fed revenues to fall dramatically (by about 1/3 per capita income tax adjusted for inflation);

2 undeclared wars that weren’t paid for;

other Repub spending they didn't pay for like Medicare Part D.

Repubs are like criminals who murder their parents and want Court mercy because they're orphans. Repubs deserved Voters’ ridicule and nothing more. Interest rates today are the lowest in 700 yrs, and the US is the only Country in the world that can finance its debt with its own currency. Countries buying US debt have no better place to invest.



Average incomes of the bottom 90% of Americans has fallen to 1966 levels. In current dollars, annual incomes of the top 1% of Americans went from $4mill when LBJ was President to $22mil today. In 2010 (the 1st year of the Obama recovery), 37% of the increase in income in the US went to 15,600 households.

Repubs tax policies favor creating privatized systems that redistribute wealth upward. The reason people at the top dis so well and now should pay a larger share of income taxes than others is the incomes of those at the top grew at enormous rates after their tax burden was lowered from the time when Reagan was President.
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Friday, December 14, 2012

Obama: John Boehner 'Doesn't Want To Look Like He's Giving In To Me'


http://seekingadventurequest.blogspot.com/

The Republicans should begin to realize at some point that they lost the election -- that has consequences. They were obstructionists for the last four years -- that didn't work. The voters are on to their game -- if they keep it up and they'll wind up in the trash-bin of history. Time to change the game-plan and the quarterback.. For all the whining the rich wannabes do about the injustice of our progressive tax code taxing the rich so much, the rich are doing just fine. Their wealth and incomes grow at faster rates than anyone else's, and there is reliable data showing this.

The Republicans wrote the fiscal cliff legislation and rammed it down our throats by threatening to default on the national debt if Democrats didn't vote for it.

Now the Republicans are pretending to believe that the fiscal cliff is somehow Obama's fault.
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Fiscal Cliff Poll: What Do Americans Want In A Deal?


Politics should not be about "WAR", & the power to control government!

Republicans are needlessly costing us money with all the drama. There is fundamental differences on how to govern and there is deliberate sabotage. This line is getting much clearer every time Republicans bring us to the brink of one avoidable crisis or another.



Why does it seem that the GOP cause all the problems and blames everyone else.



Great, another political war. That's what we need. Keep putting your party ahead of your country, GOP, as you quickly slide into extinction.
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Grover Norquist: Republicans Wobbly On Taxes Won't Face Opposition Yet


This past week, the senate minority leader Mitch McConnell became the first U.S. Senator in American History to filibuster his own bill, which he submitted in the well of the Senate chambers. He offered to give President Obama the authority to unilaterally raise the nation's federal debt ceiling while hoping no Democrats would vote for it and at the same time embaress them as well.

Unfortunately, McConnell's scheme backfired, when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called his bluff and accepted the bill that was being presented. Harry Reid then requested an Up or Down vote for this bill. McConnell immediately filibustered his own bill, because he realized it was the only piece of leverage that the GOP could try to use against a re-elected popular President of the United States.

http://seekingadventurequest.blogspot.com/
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Sunday, December 9, 2012

Jobless Benefits Should Be Included In Fiscal Cliff Deal, Democrats Say


The average CEO of a S&P500 company earns the same as 380 of their blue collar workers.. combined. In 1980 it was about 42 blue collar workers worth. Yet they continue to whine that if we raise taxes on them (keep in mind their tax rate in 1980 was 70%) that they're going to have to lay off workers.

What is going through the minds of the GOP congressmen that they want to reward this type of greed with a 35% rate instead of the 39.6% rate it was under Clinton. This should be a no-brainier here.

Republicans are needlessly costing us money with all the drama. There is fundamental differences on how to govern and there is deliberate sabotage. This line is getting much clearer every time Republicans bring us to the brink of one avoidable crisis or another.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Saturday, December 8, 2012

Fiscal Cliff: Lawmakers See Plunge Before Agreement


Republicans controlled all branches of US government when they had the surplus, and instead of being truly conservative, they spent it - saying "deficits don't matter." The record for "conservative" politicians is red ink, spend and borrow, empty the treasury on unpaid wars.

Letting them dictate the terms now would be a bigger mistake than the first time around. That lesson has been well learned.

This is where democracy fails. It's incredible that politicians are willing to play chicken with the economic wellbeing of the country they are supposed to serve in order to appease their special interest groups so that they have a chance of getting re-elected.



The answers are so clear, but no one wants to be seen to be giving in.

The republican party has just gone completely nuts in the last few years.



Unbelievable!
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Fiscal Cliff Poll: Americans Dislike Both Budget Proposals


I really don't see that the GOP has much to negotiate. I think Obama has consistently been the mature adult in this mess. The GOP, which seems to be three entities: the Tea Party, the religious right and the professional moderate Republcans, has been chaotic at best and a little irrelevant at it's worst. I think it's a fight the GOP, on many levels, is not equipped to win.

I think the president has a solution. I think the GOP, for a lot of reasons, has built it's platform on obstruction. Because of that, I expect the President to hold firm. I don't think the GOP idea is better. I think it's the best they can offer right now.

I'm what you might call rich. We don't pay more. There are a ton of people in this country who run out of quarters at the end of the month. I don't. I also don't demonize the poor or the unemployed. No one wants to be either.

The tax cuts initiated in the Bush era were the beginning of the red ink. Tax rates for the wealthy need to return to pre-bush levels. When a gentleman like Romney pays 13% marginal, it's time to reset.

As to evading taxes, the rich can afford top notch accountants and contribute generously to the congressional effort to set taxes.

http://seekingadventurequest.blogspot.com/
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John Kerry Secretary Of State: Top Dems Nervous About Political Ripple Effects


What is the subject of this conversation?

It is not the deficit, the budget, the national debt, the fiscal cliff, or entitlements.

The subject is Conservatism and nothing else. That is because it is Conservatives in Washington who are causing all of America's problems (with the possible exception of soil erosion).

The Conservative Strategy that has been followed over the years is called "Starving the Beast" in Conservative literature. Here is how it works:

1. Cut taxes but do not cut spending.

2. Create a large national debt.

3. This will create a series of fiscal crises, during which Conservatives will …

4. Cut federal programs, starting with the ones that do not benefit the wealthy class. The will work their way up to repealing social security and medicare

5. Keep cutting until there is nothing left, presumably, but just enough of an army to

put down riots and demonstrations.

Our government is FAILING because Conservatism is SUCCEEDING. Until we solve our Conservatism problem, we will not be able to solve any of our other, lower priority problems, like debt, global warming, etc.

(Note: By "Conservatives" I only refer to Republicans in elected office, not to the dupes who vote for them.)

It's not just a man-made disaster - it's a GOP made disaster. They are willing to drive the economy into ruin if they can't keep their precious tax-breaks for the rich.
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Fiscal Cliff Talks: Progress Quietly Begins As Both Sides Make Opening Bids


"The republican party has just gone completely nuts in the last few years".



Unbeliveable!



If the people agreed with the GOP plan to not raise taxes on the rich, Romney would be our president right now. He isn't, and the people want the Presidents plan pushed through...it's why America, re-elected Obama.
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Monday, December 3, 2012

John Boehner Fiscal Cliff Proposal Includes Payroll Tax Hike


If Boehner is so proud of his plan, He should at least give everyone the courtesy and indulge us with the details. Anyone with little common sense would expect to know what they are giving up in order to gain something else.
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John Boehner Fiscal Cliff Proposal Includes Payroll Tax Hike


If the people agreed with the GOP plan to not raise taxes on the rich, Romney would be our president right now. He isn't and the people want the Presidents plan pushed through...it's why they re-elected him.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost