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According to participants, White House aides said the president intends to hold campaign-style events across the country after Thanksgiving to drum up support for his proposed solution to the fiscal cliff. It would build upon more than 100 rallies organized by labor unions last week urging members of Congress to avoid cuts to entitlement programs.
WASHINGTON — Labor leaders said Tuesday that President Barack Obama remains committed to preserving tax cuts for middle class families and ensuring the wealthy pay more in taxes, outlining plans for a public campaign to pressure Republican lawmakers.
During Tuesday’s meeting, participants said the president reiterated his contention that the wealthy should pay more in taxes and that his views were vindicated by the election. They said the president showed no willingness to extend the Bush era tax cuts for the wealthy. “He’s standing firm on taxes, on the issue of raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans,” said Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress.
Obama meets Wednesday with a dozen CEOs from companies such as General Electric, Walmart, Ford and Chevron. Some of the participants are involved with The Campaign to Fix the Debt, which has pushed for a long-term plan to fix the nation’s debt and deficits.
Originally posted by kaylaluv
IMHO, Obama is being very smart here. He is sending a message to the GOP - "I'm going to get the people on my side, so if you don't play ball, and you let the tax cuts for the middle class expire, you are going to have some people angry with you - and they will remember this come mid-term elections."
Originally posted by neo96
it is not the job of the GOP in the house to get on their knees to asinine ideology.
Two of three Democrats think it is a good idea, and most independents (55 percent) agree. Most Republicans (57 percent) think it is a bad idea.
Originally posted by Deetermined
As Obama wraps up his meeting with Labor leaders today (for all of an hour), it looks like he's going to do exactly what I expected.
Originally posted by Indigo5
Originally posted by neo96
it is not the job of the GOP in the house to get on their knees to asinine ideology.
No...they have made it clear that position is reserved for the Koch brothers and thier friends.
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.
Originally posted by neo96
Two of three Democrats think it is a good idea, and most independents (55 percent) agree. Most Republicans (57 percent) think it is a bad idea.
Originally posted by neo96
reply to post by Nite_wing
Don't be it is obvious
When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.
Benjamin Franklin
Thanks Neo...I had said that 40% of Republicans wanted the tax breaks for the wealthy to expire, when in fact as you point out it is 43% of Republicans who agree with the President. If 2 in 3 Democrats want it to expire and 55% of independants want it to expire and virtually half of the Republicans want it to expire, if the Pesident talked about it at every one of his 100's of campaign stops leading up to the election and Mitt Romney opposed letting it expire...and Mitt Romney loses...and even half the people who voted for Romney STILL want the tax breaks for the wealthy to expire...what is the confusion?
No...it was some no - name author in the 60's that said it. Then it was spam emailed in 2000 during the elections and attributed to a french philosopher and most recently recycled and tagged on B Franklin. Just a heads-up...the truth always matters...if you can't look it up yourselves, let me know and I can do the fact finding for you...used to it by now.
“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” ― Benjamin Franklin