President Barack Obama launched a rare direct attack Monday on the GOP presidential field, criticizing Republican hopefuls for their blanket opposition to any compromise involving new taxes.
"Think about that. I mean, that's just not common sense,"
Really?
But it's common sense to keep spending more than what you bring in?
See, there's a whole "Ying-Yang" thing going on here. Your side wants to raise taxes to bring in more money, while the other side wants to lower spending instead of constantly raising taxes.
Which side is right?
Well, your side is producing multiple generations of Americans who have never worked because your programs give them money to do nothing. The other side thinks that is stupid. Oh, and there's the whole "finite amount of money thing", and we won't even get into how the richest Americans can actually afford to hide money or even move away or how they're the ones who create all the jobs.
You're right! It IS common sense!
Obama didn't mention any of the candidates by name, and started the remark by saying, "I know it's not election season yet."
It's not? Could you do me a favor and tell me again why you're riding a bus on a 5 city tour, and why you're been attending multiple events to raise money for your re-election campaign?
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
So it is inevitable that a deal will be struck by August 2, because that deal doesn't actually mean anything. This a is husband and wife arguing about rebalancing the household budget, each pretending they aren't going to pay the electric until he's agreed to cut back on beer and she's agreed not to be such a bitch. Whether they do it or not is irrelevant, the electric's still getting paid. The electric always gets paid, it has to, we need it for the chairs...
One of these days we won't be able to even make the minimum monthly payment, and, keeping to the household budget analogy, in those circumstances what happens isn't that the family goes bankrupt, what happens is that the couple gets divorced. Pray on this.
I don't think I can stand to point out all the dipshittery in this article, but I thought this was interesting:
in fiscal year 2010, the federal workforce was 66.2 percent white, 17.7 percent black, 8 percent Hispanic, 5.6 percent Asian/Pacific Islander and 1.8 percent Native American
I know that "more diverse" is code for "less white," but according to this, America is 66% white, 15% "Hispanic," and only 13% black. So, they plan to fire some blacks and hire some browns, I guess.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
Have a relative tell me pretty much that exact thing. Pissing and moaning about how shitty Obama is, but then finishing it off with, "But it isn't like I will ever vote for a Republican."
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Have a relative tell me pretty much that exact thing. Pissing and moaning about how shitty Obama is, but then finishing it off with, "But it isn't like I will ever vote for a Republican."
It is much easier and less embarrassing to drive off a cliff then it is to turn around, thereby admitting you were wrong.
"Happy slaves are the worst enemies of freedom." - Marie Von Ebner
"It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies..." - Orwell
Obama uses scare tactics to rally support for renewal of the federal gasoline tax. There's the usual "We are going to lose so much funding" which makes it sound like peeps are going to personally lose money instead of reducing the amount the government collects, but what I liked was this:
But Obama said America's infrastructure -- everything from bridges to public transit -- needs the funding now. He said a 10-day delay would cost $1 billion in lost funding. He said 1 million people could lose their jobs over the course of next year without the renewal.
I think he is suggesting that a million highway construction workers work for $1,000 each.
And one person out of every 280 in America is a highway worker? Including kids and elderly?
And what happened to their choir of "Tax the rich and not the poor and middle class?" The poor and middle class pay a higher percentage of their wage to gas taxes than do the rich. My bullshit detector is in the red.
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GORDON wrote:I think he is suggesting that a million highway construction workers work for $1,000 each.
And one person out of every 280 in America is a highway worker? Including kids and elderly?
And what happened to their choir of "Tax the rich and not the poor and middle class?" The poor and middle class pay a higher percentage of their wage to gas taxes than do the rich. My bullshit detector is in the red.
The timeframes on the 2 numbers were different. $1 billion per 10 days, 1 million jobs over 365 days. Which equates to $36.5k per job. He's probably including some kinda of multiplier, so say it directly leads to 400k jobs lost, which leads to a domino of another 600k.
President Obama faces political catastrophe in the form of Solyndra -- a San Francisco Bay area solar company that he touted as a gleaming example of green technology. It has announced it will declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy. More than 1,100 people will lose their jobs.
During a visit to the Fremont facility in spring of 2010, the President said the factory "is just a testament to American ingenuity and dynamism and the fact that we continue to have the best universities in the world, the best technology in the world, and most importantly the best workers in the world. "
It's not his statements the administration will regret; it's the loan guarantees. The President was celebrating $535 million in federal promises from the Department of Energy to the solar startup. The administration didn't do its due diligence, says the Government Accountability Office. "There's a consequence if you don't follow a rigorous process that's transparent," Franklin Rusco of GAO told the website iWatch News.
The President touted the federally back money as a way to create jobs. The President's opponents immediately jumped on the deal as Solyndra made its first layoffs.
Republican Congressman Cliff Stearns of Florida warned, "I am concerned that the DOE is providing loans and loan guarantees to firms that aren't capable of competing in the global market, even with government subsidies."
Another critic, Fred Upton of Michigan: "The unfortunate reality is that loan guarantee highlights many of the systemic flaws associated with the stimulus in the mad dash to spend hundreds of billions of dollars."
And commentary from elsewhere:
“You will be shocked to learn that Solyndra’s majority owner, Oklahoma billionaire George Kaiser, was a major fundraiser for the 2008 Obama-Biden campaign.”
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