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Originally posted by poet1b
reply to post by lrak2
The very first people Hitler took out were the Union leaders.
That is how evil operates.
That is the very reason Bush family and cohorts financially backed Hitler in the first place.
Originally posted by BO XIAN
reply to post by mastahunta
I'm beginning to wonder if we have enough of a common vocabulary to have anything close to a dialogue.
I'm shocked at the lack of historic awareness on this thread.
And the DAFFYNITIONARY seems to be the only reference for word meanings for the socialists hereon.
Originally posted by poet1b
reply to post by ThirdEyeofHorus
Oh Lord 3rd eye, how can you not know this?
www.tampabay.com...
Unless it breaks the partisan gridlock, Congress is poised to hand middle-class Americans a bigger tax bill next year. If the payroll tax holiday is not renewed by the end of the year, taxes on the average American family would go up by about $1,000, endangering the nation's fragile economic growth. But even as the clock ticks down, congressional Republicans refuse to entertain the Democrats' reasonable proposal that the tax cut be paid for through a small income surtax on millionaires.
Cynical perfection from The One, who’s been waiting for weeks to deliver this Orwellian bit of election messaging. His topic is the standoff in Congress over last year’s payroll tax cut; the GOP wants to extend the cut and offset it with new spending cuts, Democrats want to actually increase the cut (there’s an election coming up, y’know) and offset it with — ta da — a new surtax on millionaires. Obama and Reid know Republicans won’t accept that, which they want you to believe means the GOP prefers to see the payroll tax revert to its previous higher rate, which in turn means Republicans hate middle-class families just like Paul Ryan hates your grandma and wants her to die. Here’s O’s presser today making sure the media understands the basics of the narrative.
So transparent is the Democratic strategy of setting Obama up with yet another “do-nothing Republicans/party of the rich” campaign talking point, in fact, that Reid didn’t even bother to round out his newest proposal with provisions on unemployment benefits and “doctor fix,” both of which are expected to be part of any final compromise package. They know the millionaire surtax is a likely nonstarter and that Republicans will block this newest offer too; forcing them to block it is the whole point, in hopes of impressing upon white working-class voters who increasingly are voting GOP to take a second look at Dems as the blue-collar party. All of which would be fine as a simple matter of political hardball if not for the surreal hypocrisy of O lecturing the right on taxes when in fact Obamanomics makes middle-class tax hikes a fait accompli sooner or later — although certainly no sooner than election day, natch. His party opposes spending cuts of every sort except, of course, to defense, and gutting the Pentagon won’t get us remotely close to even budget-wise. Neither will new taxes on the rich, even at dramatically higher rates. If you want a robust entitlement state, you’ve got two choices: Squeeze the middle class or keep borrowing and wait for the Greece scenario to unfold. Or you could, I guess, do both. It’ll be much easier to sell those middle-class taxes in the midst of a fiscal meltdown.
Originally posted by poet1b
Still waiting for your example of a "Free Market economy".
Originally posted by BO XIAN
reply to post by poet1b
It is demonstrable that
1. voter fraud is double on the Dem side what it is on the GOP side.
They will rule a bastardized form of Marxism wedded to a monopolistic bastardized form of capitalism. There's not a blessed thing you can do about it.
Originally posted by poet1b
What are you saying, workers are not people?
Read my quotes in from the constitution, it clearly states the purpose of the government to protect the rights of the people, and workers and consumers are people.
Originally posted by poet1b
reply to post by navy_vet_stg3
Definitely applies to the people, and that includes workers as well as business owners.
Originally posted by SheopleNation
. I can't even fathom how in this day and age, with the freedom of the internet, that you're still falling for the left vs right game that is only meant to herd folks like yourself together for the slaughter.