President Obama's Jobs Bill
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2011-09-13/president-obamas-jobs-bill
Yesterday President Obama urged Congress to pass his $447 billion jobs proposal with ‘no games, no politics, no delays”. It’s a plan that includes tax cuts for working Americans and small businesses. It also includes spending on teachers, schools, and infrastructure. President Obama says his plan will put people back to work and incorporates ideas from both the left and the right, but some Congressional Republicans raised immediate objections to plans to pay for the bill which include higher taxes on wealthier families. Join us to discuss the ongoing political struggle to find ways to spur job growth
Guests
Jared Bernstein
senior fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; former chief economist and economic policy adviser for Vice President Biden.
Jonathan Weisman
White House reporter for "The Wall Street Journal."
Rea Hederman
senior policy analyst, The Heritage Foundation.
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John Doe wrote:
The party line: Cut taxes for the rich, cut programs for everyone else (cut education, cut environmental stewardship, cut health care, cut social security), de-regulate, and lower the deficit--are the same brand of Herbert Hoover-George W Bush solutions that have led to a Great Depression and a great recession, ones that benefit a very small minority of wealthy power brokers to the detriment of everyone else. The true colors of the purveyors of this line are seen clearly when during a time when many suffer due to recession, they threaten to shut down government unless tax cuts are given to the wealthiest top 2%
Excuse Me Mr John Doe:
But Barrack total amount of spending during his term in office is greater than Washington to Bush total spending. You would think that all that spending would have done something. Heck if anything obama could of cut a check for all those unfornate people and they would be far ahead than even some of us working people.
Being that you bring up "The Depression", why don't you state that individual people, non-profits, the churches provided the basic needs for the people. People weren't starving, they went hungry but they were not dying in the street.
Monte or ecghart(SP), there is a US Census Report that I heard yesterday that breakdowns a so called family making $11,000 which is poverty level income. The report shows the number of cars, sq. ft. living space, calorie intake, TV's in a typical family living in poverty. You would be astonished of how good they live. If you have a chance, can you look up that report. I have to go to work. Thanks
the success of our family has nothing to do with America being right. My parents were denied a mortgage for their rqace, alone. My dad was denied a small business loan, same reason. He served his country, why. He could not sit in the front of the bus. He could not live where he could afford because white people would not like it. When I graduated in 1967, I could not go to most of the schools in this country because I was black. Period. The third girl was told she did not have th intellect to become an accountant and she was valedictorian of her class. She is now a CPA with and MBA. My youngest sister is HR with a degree. She is maligned and denigrated by white people with none. We have a new government, now in Cleveland and certain jobs need a degree, they are whining now. The worst is my 5 yr old granddaughter. She saw something at three that made her anti-white. I found this out while we were watching A Raisin in the Sun. she told her younger sister, see the pretty brown lady. we talk to the pretty brown people like us. they nasty people do not like the brown president. they call him names and must no like brown people. Don't talk to them ever. Why don't you google how Bachmann and others were going to sign off on this 'black children would be better off in 1860 than under President Obama. I have EVERY reason to be angry. Unlike you and most of the right, I do not color every white with the same brush.
meanconser--as a Black woman who has never experienced this type of poverty, what type of car did they have, Cadillacs, Hummers or hoopties just to get around in? What kind of TV? High end or just the basic you can get for maybe, $99.00. As for the food, caloric intake from fat, starch and cheaper cuts that are not good for you. Bad food in the black neighborhoods? It is also in a report that more and more people in upper end suburbia are getting food stamps than poor people. Look that up. From my banker daughters so many have committed fraud on mortgages, not poor black people, white people, the banks lost a lot more money but don't talk about that. The really cute scheme, make a payment iwith a bank check, one person's was $25,000.00, wait a day, spend that money on something and stop/pay the check. They have $50,000 to work with. Now banks release no money until it clears. If you are going to tel a story, tell it all. as for starving during the depression, Al Capone ran soup lines. Unless you know for sure and was there, how do you know no one starved to death?
Oh, I forgot, as usual the right spends any lie they want. He spent nothing, he implemented what George Bush got from congress as a bail out/sitmulus. Before Obama won they election, was inaugurated, etc. He implemented what was voted upon and just as I thought and George Bush to this credit told him, beware, they will blame everything on you. He never lied. if he had not done this and we were at this level, he would have been blamed for that too. So, spare me. Find another one. I watched it all unfold and need no links.
With food stamps, too, they cannot buy baby formula to the tune of over $30.00 a week.
Me, I am a firm believer if you cannot take care of them, don't have them. I also think that having 7 babies by 7 men is gross, especially when they take care of nothing and have 10 other children by other women out there.
pisces,
I'm not going to argue with you. You're going to hate and despise white people no matter what I say. You and God together are the only ones who can change your heart on that. In my mind, it does not differentiate you from those you say hate the President only because he is black.
As for the Bachmann thing, the actual quote was this:
"Slavery had a disastrous impact on African-American families, yet sadly a child born into slavery in 1860 was more likely to be raised by his mother and father in a two-parent household than was an African-American baby born after the election of the USA's first African-American President."
pisces said,
"Me, I am a firm believer if you cannot take care of them, don't have them. I also think that having 7 babies by 7 men is gross, especially when they take care of nothing and have 10 other children by other women out there."
I don't see much difference between the two. Hers was a commentary on what the President has done in 2 1/2 years to improve the plight of black people. The conclusion is, "not much". That doesn't make her a racist, it simply points out the the President has been ineffective on that score.
From your point of view, you're going to see every criticism of him as racist. I can't help you with that, either.
Condoleeza Rice called slavery "America's birth defect". I think that is the most eloquent comment on the institution I have ever heard. Many people are still dealing with it, but we have still made strides to overcome it.
I notice that you make a lot of statements as "fact" but I don't see them supported with links or any form of documentation. For example, "he implemented what George Bush got from congress as a bail out/sitmulus."
Saying "I watched it all unfold" is not supporting evidence. Implying that President Obama doesn't own ARRA is not credible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvestment_Act_of_2...
pisces, I wish you much luck.
mchaun wrote:
"Then why haven't prices and Executive compensation fallen after a Half-Century of Tax cuts?"
A half-century? Really? Look at the corporate tax rates from 1960 to 1985. Here's something to get your education started:
http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/04/us-tax-rates-1916-2010/
"A Rhetorical Question that should be answerable, if you are determined to try, in 25 words or less that you used to justify your simple-minded banality above."
The juvenile nature of your insults notwithstanding (the MO of the conceited left to try to puff themselves up), if the question is "rhetorical" it shouldn't have to be answered at all, so you should probably not use words whose meaning you don't know. (rhetorical: employed for rhetorical effect; especially : asked merely for effect with no answer expected )
Nevertheless, I can answer your question in far less than 25 words:
I didn't say anything about what happens when taxes are reduced.
(11 words).