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Sen. Marco Rubio: The Only Job American Jobs Act Protects Is Obama’s

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Speaking On The Record with Greta Van Susteren last night, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio sounded none-too-pleased with the prospect of President Obama‘s American Jobs Act. “Really, the only job it’s designed to protect is his, and that’s why he’s put it out,” he surmised. According to the freshman senator, the plan is more a political move than a serious effort to create jobs. ”What the president is saying he wants to do to help create jobs in America is not going to work,” he said.

As Rubio sees it, Obama’s plan goes about things mostly wrong: it’s all been tried before, costs too much money, or fails to create necessary economic opportunity. “What we really need is some basic things,” he suggests instead, citing tax reform, regulatory reform and certainty about our debt. ”It’s not exciting, the media hates when I say it. They say it’s not new, nothing novel. That’s like telling a farmer to stop focusing on fertilizer and water.”

Accordingly, he tells Van Susteren:

I think he sincerely believes that presidents and senators can create jobs. There are things we can do to create an environment for job creation, but ultimately jobs are created by everyday people from all walks of life….our job is to make it easier for them to do that.

There’s still hope. ”If we tackle these issues, if we do a few simple things,” he says, “I think the 21st century will be better than the 20th.” We might just have to be patient.

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  • Anonymous

    Obama will keeppushing “green” jobs and high speed rail and the union agenda till he’s finally laughed out of office .

  • Anonymous

    Ah yes.  Our junior senator.  He makes Florida proud.

  • Anonymous

    Ah yes.  Our junior senator.  He makes Florida proud.

  • I May Be Retarded

    Greta O ‘ van Hanitastern !

  • TruDat

    Won’t be much longer now.

  • AsianBookie

    Is there an over under on how long it takes for the right clip to be posted ?  24 minutes and counting .

  • Anonymous

    Junior Hoffa and his associates Fat Tony , Joey Bats and Really Fat Tony have been dispatched to get Casey’s mind right .  Then Manchin , Webb , Landrieu ,etc.

    Mrs. Obama is protecting us from french fries .

    Who will protect french fries from her ?

    “Senator Casey Breaks With President Over Jobs Bill”

    http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2011/09/15/senator-casey-breaks-with-president-over-jobs-bill/
     

  • Valkyrie101

    Yes, if we are lucky, we will be teaching our children creationism, doing away with innoculations for our children, prosecuting mothers who negligently miscarry for manslaughter, ending taxation, doing away with Environmental Protection Agency, and ending social security and medicare, pretty soon now. 

  • Valkyrie101

    If Mitt manages to win the nomination, he will likely choose Rubio as VP. They will be the cutest couple.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    Obama is doing more damage to Social Security as we speak than are any Republican plans for Social Security…  He is expediting it’s collapse having reduced it’s funding by 33% causing the necessity to begin the conversion of the Funds treasuries 10 years prematurely..

    It is amazing who you dems willfully lie, or even worse you believe the things you say indicating that you have no ability to think independently at all.  

  • insideguy

    Im unclear if it protects only his job, how does it do that? If it is a bad idea and wont create jobs how can it protect his job? Typical political double talk and Greta the fair and balanced news reporter doesn’t call him out on it.

  • Carjacd

     I think if there is the same crap in Washington that they ALL should lose their jobs.. Vote them all out.. Any seated congressman should be voted out.. All Americans that are registered voters should vote.. And not let anyone be safe from being fired.. THEY ALL NEED TO BE RELEASED OF THEIR DUTY TO SERVE US SINCE THEY ARE YET TO DO THIS TASK!!!a few seconds 

  • Valkyrie101

    That’s nonsense. And social security would be quite secure if they just raised the the cap on payroll taxes to whatever a person earns.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    It would be even more secure if Obama would stop using it for his middle and lower wage earner tax cuts.  You get no argument from me about raising the cap…  buy you somehow want to deny that Obama is stripping it’s funding significantly…

  • Anonymous

    What is wrong with creationism? I thought you liberals were tolerant with diversity! No conservative has said they will do away with inoculation. Some religions, like the muslims and jehova”s witnesses’ are EXEMPT from inoculations, yet they aren’t dead and piling up in the public screwel gyms now, are they? Prosecuting mothers who miscarry for manslaughter? You are way out there… You are not taxed enough? Ok Warren Buffet! The EPA,the FDA, the Education Department would be a good first step in shrinking bloated government. Where was the FDA here:
    http://www.lcsun-news.com/ci_18899784?source=most_viewed
    I wonder if the dead kids had obamacare…  Social Security will end itself a there will be too many takers and not enough to take from! Wh needs medicare when we have o’barrycare?

    Maybe you evolved from an ape, as all liberals insist that they have, not EVERYONE agrees with you… Take the foil hat off.
    http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2011-08-31.html

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    Zara..  you have the wrong video linked to this article…  please take a moment and fix.

  • TruDat

    Cool, you’ve got all the nonsensical left-wing taling points down?  Creationism?  I could have sworn I’ve seen Obama pray and call for prayer.

  • TruDat

    And who says the Republicans won’t propose that as an option?  It’s you left wing simpletons who want to end Social Security by leaving it as is.  As long as you get yours, who cares about future generations, right libby?

  • Anonymous

    He knows it isn’t going to pass, and he’ll put the blame for the unemployment rate on Congress because of it. That’s his reelection strategy.

    Desperate, ain’t it?

  • Valkyrie101

    Nice try. I thought Obama was a communist? No, its Perry and Bachmann who want to teach creationism, and who wish to criminalize abortion.

  • Anonymous

    Gotta love Rubio.

  • Anonymous

    Little timmy geithner(Cheated $34,000), warren buffett(Not paying taxes and disputing past tax rates), GE(Tax free GE, that is), jeff immelt, Tom “Puff” Daschole(Cheated $100,000) and was obama’s appointee for health and human services secretary (another department that needs to go), Fortney Pete Stark(Cheated $3,700) by using Maryland as his primary residence. He is  in the 13th district in San Francisco! But he liked the lower Maryland tax rate. He hates republicans more than you do! And who can forget the Former House and Ways Chair… The honorable Charlie Wrangle? Rangel shortchanged the IRS for 17 years by failing to pay taxes on income
    from his rental unit in a Dominican Republic resort. He filed
    misleading financial disclosure reports for a decade, leaving out
    hundreds of thousands of dollars in assets he owned!

  • Valkyrie101

    If you say, like the conservatives, that life begins at conception and that a fetus is a “person”, then, by law, if a mother negligently caused a miscarriage she would be guilty of manslaughter. That’s not way out there, that is the natural extension of adjudging a fetus as a person.

  • Valkyrie101

    Trudat,
    The republicans have already rejected numerous times raising the cap on payroll taxes to save social security.

  • Michelle

    You tell them, future President Rubio!

  • Anonymous

    President Barack Obama took the next step on his road to a 1948-style run for re-election by declaring he is being stymied by a do-nothing Congress. “This Congress, they are accustomed to doing nothing, and they’re comfortable with doing nothing, and they keep on doing nothing,” he told roughly 30 supporters at the first of two D.C. fundraisers held on Thursday evening…. Here are some “do nothing republicans… I mean DEMOCRATS!!!

    Democratic Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia called the president’s ideas for paying for the billy “terrible.”
    “We shouldn’t increase taxes on ordinary income. … There are other ways to get there,” he added. Even Sen. John Kerry, the liberal lion from Massachusetts, doubts the bill will pass in full: “I don’t think anybody expects it to pass en bloc. So, the issue is going to be what, if any, parts of it might be cherry-picked.” Other Democrats are upset over the bill’s offsets. The Alaska delegation opposes singling out the oil industry’s tax loopholes. In short, Obama’s plan to solve the nation’s jobs crisis is proving to be a difficult sell even to his own party. “Senator Reid has a problem in his own caucus,” Brian Phillips, Communications Director for Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, told The Daily Caller. “Nearly a dozen Democrats have said the president’s plan is ‘terrible’, ‘unfair’, that it ‘won’t fly’, or that it couldn’t pass as is.” “If the president’s own party can’t agree, I would be surprised to see any action before the end of the month,” Phillips added.
    On Tuesday, Reid told reporters that when it comes to specific pieces of legislation, he has OTHER PRIORITIES before he gets to the JOBS BILL. They include the FEMA bill, several trade bills, and a bill on the Chinese currency.

    Take that liberals. There’s your gods working for the little people.

  • Anonymous

    Well, for starters, have you noticed that he’s been campaigning off of the phony proposal in swing states?
    And that most of the money from the bill would go to sure up his voting base? Or that most of the jobs “created or saved” would be temporary, but last just long enough to make the unemployment rate artificially drop until right after the 2012 elections?

  • Anonymous

    What Valk cannot and will not see…
    President Obama’s push to extend a payroll tax cut has united a rare combination of conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats in opposition. (Obama is republican pushing for payroll tax cuts?)
     
    When Obama first pushed to include the proposal in a tax package in December, House liberals said the tax holiday would threaten the Social Security trust fund, which is maintained through the payroll levy. Now that he wants to extend and deepen the tax cut, a number of House Republicans are making the same argument.

    Then at the joint session…
    President Barack Obama is challenging congressional Republicans to back an aggressive plan to cut payroll taxes in an effort to revive the economy and entice employers to hire more workers. Obama wants to extend and expand a payroll tax cut that is scheduled to expire at the end of the year. He reminded lawmakers that if they fail to act, they will be allowing taxes to increase on nearly every worker who earns a wage, starting in January. That is a prospect the president wants to avoid as he embarks on a tough re-election fight, with unemployment stuck at 9.1 percent.”I know some of you have sworn oaths to never raise any taxes on anyone for as long as you live,” Obama told a joint session of Congress on Thursday night. “Now is not the time to carve out an exception and raise middle-class taxes.”

    In December, Congress passed a one-year cut in Social Security taxes, reducing the rate for workers from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent for 2011. Employers still pay the 6.2 percent rate, which is applied to wages up to $106,800.

    Valk is proof that liberals evolved from apes. They still have small brains.

  • TruDat

    What’s wrong with teaching creationism?  Even if you believe in evolution, where did your lil’ atoms come from to create your big bang?

  • TruDat

    Criminalize the murder of innocent fetuses?  Oh no!

  • TruDat

    Why was Scott Peterson CONVICTED of 2 murders, in libby CA no less?

  • Moosenuts99

    It’ll work if the CONS do nothing to help

  • Anonymous

    I ADORE Marco Rubio! He and Allen West are really superior people to represent their state/district.

  • Todd Dickinson

    As that great philosopher Whimpy said,  ”I would glady give you a job on Tuesday for your money today”.

    Isn’t this really the jobs plan? Give me your money and MAYBE I’ll create a union job.

  • Anonymous

    If the question of life could not be answered by your me-ssiah because it was “above his pay grade”, who the hell are you to arbitrate when life begins? Using your same stupid argument, If a drunk driver hits and kills a pregnant woman, and the woman and baby die, should the drunk driver be charged with 2 counts of vehicular homicide? If a woman wants to keep the baby, yet drinks and causes the baby to die, is that homicide?

    Again, you liberal robot, show me an example of ANY republican or conservative that has made such statements. Life DOES begin at conception, you did… no wait, you were primordial goo that just appeared as you are today. Brain dead.

    When a baby’s head clears the birth canal, and an abortion “doctor” plunges scissors into the back of the skull to suck out the brain, is that murder?

  • Anonymous

    The 2009 stimulus was supposed to go partly to fix roads and bridges .  But they weren’t “shovel ready ” like Obama said , so he spent untold millions on road signs telling us how great the “Recovery Act ” was .

    But , Obama promises that they really will have union crews fix them this time .

    Really .

  • Anonymous

    Obama cannot remember if he is Christian or Muslim! Why are you so afraid of Creationism? Intelligent design scientists look at the evidence and develop their theories; Darwinists start with a theory and then rearrange the evidence. The scant fossil record in Darwin’s time had simply been arranged to show a Darwinian progression, but as more fossils were discovered, the true sequence turned out not to be Darwinian at all. We also ought to find a colossal number of transitional organisms in the fossil record — for example, a squirrel on its way to becoming a bat, or a bear becoming a whale. (Those are actual Darwinian claims.)

    But that’s not what the fossil record shows. We don’t have fossils for any intermediate creatures in the process of evolving into something better. This is why the late Stephen Jay Gould of Harvard referred to the absence of transitional fossils as the “trade secret” of paleontology. (Lots of real scientific theories have “secrets.”)

    These aren’t scientists. They are religious fanatics for whom evolution must be true so that they can explain to themselves why they are here, without God. (It’s an accident!)
    Thanks Ms. Coulter!

  • Darladoon

    even if obama proposed cutting all taxes to 0%, banning gay marriage forever, and gutting 
    every single government program, the republicans would STILL say “sorry”

  • Darladoon

    you mean, the same government/union jobs plan that allowed governor perry to balance his budget
    and create the “texas miracle”?

  • Anonymous

    The democrats are jumping ship… And getting as far away from the hull before it brings them all down!

  • Darladoon

    rubio, if it’s only the role of the private sector to create jobs, then where are the jobs?

    they have historically low tax rates and regulations, but there are no jobs.

    so, knowing this, government HAS to create jobs.  it has to!  

    governor perry created/saved hundreds of thousands of government jobs,
    and he’s going around bragging about his “miracle”

  • DCBorn

    To V101 and all the others:  Raising the cap on payroll taxes will NOT generate enough money to support the Baby Boomers’ social security entitlements.  Taking all the money from those who make over 200K will not fully fund upcoming social security entitlements (including all those people collecting disability funding from Social Security).  Do the research, do the math! 

  • Valkyrie101

    Calcat (below),
    We have been giving woman the right to choose up to the second tri-mester for like 30 years. Republicans want to end that, and put woman who get abortions in jail. Sorry, its stupid, but that is what the republicans are going for. Don’t blame me that your candidates are right wing extremists.

  • Jmpwawoo

    Marco is very prettty and very dumb. He somehow went from less than 40,000 to more than 400,000 after he was elected to the Florida leg but was still unable to make house payments. His immigrant family survived and prospered in large measure because of government assistence which is still helping his parents and grandmother.

  • insideguy

    So it creates jobs but only temporary ones? Ok isn’t a temporary job better than no jobs? Im unclear so if  you give 500 billion dollars to build an aircraft carrier isn’t that creating a temporary job? Why are defense jobs funded by the govt ok but not infrastructure jobs? 

  • Anonymous

    Actually I was being a smartass.  I am not a fan. 

  • Michelle

    Ditto that.  Love them both!

  • Jmpwawoo

    I knew that, just providing supporting info.

  • insideguy

    And funny thing george bush created more government jobs than private sector  jobs.

  • insideguy

    lol go ahead cut the EPA ,FDA, and the dept of education wont make a dent. And whats wrong with creationism?  God and we wonder why the rest of the world is killing us in math and science.

  • Valkyrie101

    Why do they call it, “breath of life”, I wonder. Traditionally, and forever before, your child was “born” as she breathed her first gasp of air.

  • insideguy

    How can it be a miracle if the unemployment rate is 8.3%? The unemployment rate in my state is lower than that and no one is calling it a miracle lol

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    You should have been singing his praises, then.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    I know it’s hard for your to conceive of jobs that aren’t formed out of thin air by legislation from politicians and paid for by taking the money from the hides of other people against their will, but that’s becuase you live in a very uninformed, narrow-minded bubble where productivity is an enemy and largesse is a goal.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Strange coming from an Obot who cheers Obama on and defends him after Obama extends Bush’s tax rates (with Democrat Congresses, no less) and who is opposed to gay marriage.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    President Downgrade would take 8.3% unemployment any day of the week after the first term he’s having.

    LOL

    And so would you. But your policies aren’t leading us in that direction.

  • insideguy

    no because we lost millions of jobs under bush why would i sing his praises. What cracks me up about you guys is you seriously think there is gonna be a huge change if a republican gets into power lol. The democrats thought the same thing. No one has any sense of history or perspective. The republicans will get in screw things up then 2 years down the line the dems will take back congress and cock block everything the republican president wants to do and it starts all over again. The republicans have never shown any ability to cut government spending EVER. Why do you think its gonna be different?

  • Valkyrie101

    Any combination of taxes that placed a greater tax burden on the superwealthy, ala Warren Buffet, would be a must. Why? Because the lions share of the wealth is being accumulated there. How can you ask the poor to become even more down trodden by eliminating programs intended to help them, and not ask for at least Ronald Reagan first term tax rates on the those making most of the money? If that doesn’t work, lets try Nixon, or even Ike rates. I mean we have been fighting an important war for eight years, and during all previous wars, tax rates were much higher.

    The notion that states can take care of themselves without federal help (not one state could stand on its own, and maintain first world standards),.is a myth.

  • Darladoon

    republicans want to pass a 1 trillion dollar tax cut.  that’s their “jobs plan”.

    who do you think is going to pay for that?  

    the working class.  

  • Darladoon

    republicans want to pass a 1 trillion dollar tax cut.  that’s their “jobs plan”.

    who do you think is going to pay for that?  

    the working class.  

  • Darladoon

    i cheered on obama’s extension of the bush tax cuts?! 

    think again.  

  • Darladoon

    that’s why i put it in “quotes”

  • insideguy

    Wow so in other words we should nominate the governor of any state that has a lower unemployment rate than the federal average? Ok so wow nominate the governor of my state Susan martinez our unemployment rate is 7 .2 % whohooooo. If thats what you go by why not nominate huntsman? Utah is doing a lot better than texas in almost every area.

  • insideguy

    lol i know:)

  • TruDat

    Well, you’re half right, you are an ass.

  • TruDat

    Yep, from the taxes taken from the salary they get from their new JOBS.

  • Anonymous

    Brisket!
    Half-Baked Alaskan!
    Teapublicans!

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    For Obama to lecture at or tell anybody how to create jobs is laughable.

    You just made my point.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    So you’ll be voting against him in 2012, won’t you?

  • Jason

    You’re a paranoid moron.

  • insideguy

    Good Lt. what? you just made no sense. The private sector has had job growth for the last 18 months look it up. The govt sector is laying off jobs all over the country this you should be happy about.

  • Valkyrie101

    Tax rates are at a 60 year low. Even during Reagan’s first term the top rate was 50%. But then the conservatives immplemented their theory that lower taxes will increase jobs. And then for ten years of low taxes we have seen our deficits grow with ten percent of the population sitting on their ass because there are literally not enough jobs. You have to finally face the reality, as I did, that the conservative model, based on a closed economy, does not work in a world economy. Instead of re-investing the money saved by low taxes in our economy, the big corporations either invested in other countries, or are sitting on the money. We have to get that money moving, and taxation is how that is done.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    you seriously think there is gonna be a huge change if a republican gets into power lol. The democrats thought the same thing.

    Thanks for agreeing with me that the Democrats and Obama have been complete failures.

    The republicans will get in screw things up then 2 years down the line
    the dems will take back congress and cock block everything the
    republican president wants to do and it starts all over again.

    The Democrats will be obstructionist to a Republican president? WHY DO THE TRAITOROUS TEABAGGING DEMOCRATS HATE AMERICA?

    QED.

    The republicans have never shown any ability to cut government spending EVER. Why do you think its gonna be different?

    Because they’ll be moving in a direction away from Barack Obama.

    And that’s an automatic improvement.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Tax relief doesn’t need to be “paid for.”

    Government needs to spend less.

    All together now: GOVERNMENT SPENDS TOO MUCH.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    Wow…  All this arguing in Black and White when most of the answers lie in the Gray areas…  If you don’t think that the presidents latest ploy is not political then I would suggest that you have not been following our president, but as I know that you are a very thoughtful person I know that you can see his ploy as clearly as I do.

    The republicans have suggested a willingness to work on infrastructure as well as they have suggested there are other parts of the president’s plan that they can get behind.  There are going to be other parts of the plan that they will not be able to come to agreement with.  

    Another big issue is that I would hope that the Republicans will look to figure out the methods that they will use to pay for this plan before coming to agreement with the president, as the president has demonstrated time and time again his willingness to punt the hard issues.  As he has already done so with this plan by suggesting that the select committee be responsible with finding the funding for the plan on top of the 1.5 trillion that they have already been charged to find, as if that theirs is not a hard enough task already, at least that is if we listen to our politicians, it is seemingly an impossible task.  The president thinks that it is entirely reasonable to cut in the out years where he knows that anything agreed to at this time will not be binding on future congresses, so again like children our politicians ask for money today for something that they just feel that they cannot do without while promising to pay it back somehow in the future when they have never demonstrated themselves to be fiscally responsible…  It is funny I have to kids and one has been remarkably responsible with money the other is horrible with money..  guess which this president reminds me of?  

    Rubio here talks about an entirely different effort to stimulate and build the economy that the president won’t hardly consider…  I think that the president is playing politics quite abit here, but I also think that he believes in what he is asking for even if he has wrapped it up into a political football, just as I believe Marco Rubio believes the things that he is saying. 

    Temporary jobs are only beneficial if we get something of value out of them, such as infrastructure, permanent jobs are what the American people need, and only by addressing the conditions or factors that are inhibiting private investment can we solve the long term problems..  The more the government spends and taxes in our economy the smaller the private sector becomes, it is simple math..  30%/70% vs 40%/60%.  Until recent years I have never heard of people wanting to see the Public Sector grow, It was my understanding that most expected to find their livelihoods in the private sector, that is changing somewhat in this country, and only adds to this debate.  It will be interesting to see how the next 14 or so months play out.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    Wow…  All this arguing in Black and White when most of the answers lie in the Gray areas…  If you don’t think that the presidents latest ploy is not political then I would suggest that you have not been following our president, but as I know that you are a very thoughtful person I know that you can see his ploy as clearly as I do.

    The republicans have suggested a willingness to work on infrastructure as well as they have suggested there are other parts of the president’s plan that they can get behind.  There are going to be other parts of the plan that they will not be able to come to agreement with.  

    Another big issue is that I would hope that the Republicans will look to figure out the methods that they will use to pay for this plan before coming to agreement with the president, as the president has demonstrated time and time again his willingness to punt the hard issues.  As he has already done so with this plan by suggesting that the select committee be responsible with finding the funding for the plan on top of the 1.5 trillion that they have already been charged to find, as if that theirs is not a hard enough task already, at least that is if we listen to our politicians, it is seemingly an impossible task.  The president thinks that it is entirely reasonable to cut in the out years where he knows that anything agreed to at this time will not be binding on future congresses, so again like children our politicians ask for money today for something that they just feel that they cannot do without while promising to pay it back somehow in the future when they have never demonstrated themselves to be fiscally responsible…  It is funny I have to kids and one has been remarkably responsible with money the other is horrible with money..  guess which this president reminds me of?  

    Rubio here talks about an entirely different effort to stimulate and build the economy that the president won’t hardly consider…  I think that the president is playing politics quite abit here, but I also think that he believes in what he is asking for even if he has wrapped it up into a political football, just as I believe Marco Rubio believes the things that he is saying. 

    Temporary jobs are only beneficial if we get something of value out of them, such as infrastructure, permanent jobs are what the American people need, and only by addressing the conditions or factors that are inhibiting private investment can we solve the long term problems..  The more the government spends and taxes in our economy the smaller the private sector becomes, it is simple math..  30%/70% vs 40%/60%.  Until recent years I have never heard of people wanting to see the Public Sector grow, It was my understanding that most expected to find their livelihoods in the private sector, that is changing somewhat in this country, and only adds to this debate.  It will be interesting to see how the next 14 or so months play out.

  • Jason

    as an agnostic, full throated believer in evolution, I can tell you exactly why the rest of the world is beating us in math and science… here’s a hint, stupid, it has zero to do with jesus freaks or creationism, and everything to do with corrupt teachers unions protecting the shittiest teachers and illiterate latch key kids who dominate the classrooms, making it impossible for the good teachers, who are the majority, to teach the kids who actually wish to learn.

    Get the poop out of your hand, take a deep breath and turn off MSDNC. Everything will be ok if you don’t spend every waking minute of your life being pumped full of hardcore liberal talking points.

  • insideguy

    lol so you have no answers. You are so blinded by your partisan baloney you cant even figure out the last two times we had close or close to balanced budgets were under clinton and carter. I live in the real world Good Lt. Of course the democrats are going to obstruct. Thats how it works and they are going to obstruct 10 times worse than the republicans because they will never forget this ever. What has happened in the last 3 years is damaging for our country across the whole spectrum of government because the partisan divide is only going to grow. You live in a fantasy land thinking the republicans are going to walk into office and pass al kinds of legislation like TAX reform lol. Bush had 8 years to work on that nothing got done. All he did was spend more money. Obama spends even more and the next president whoever he might be is going to spend even more.  All the republicans are going to do is try and cut some taxes which wont happen then they are going to move into social issues which always kill them and bam deems take control of congress in 2014 it the same shit different day.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Tax rates are at a 60 year low. Even during Reagan’s first term the top rate was 50%

    Reagan then lowered the top marginal rates The economy took off. Thanks for confirming.

    And then for ten years of low taxes we have seen our deficits grow with ten percent of the population sitting on their ass because there are
    literally not enough jobs.

    False. Deficits aren’t cause by an unemployment rate that hovered around 5-6% (4.5-5% is considered normal, and was just fine for Democrats when Clinton was presiding).

    Deficits are caused by government SPENDING more than it takes in. Revenues have hovered around 18-20% in those decades. The only thing that changed was government spending, which increased to its current ridiculous levels.

    Blame the government, not the taxpayer or the producer class, for the deficits.

    We have to get that money moving, and taxation is how that is done.

    As we’ve just seen with Solyndra, government is not an efficient, knowledgeable or effective agent for spending that money, and it needs to stop trying to be an investment firm.

    My lord. Trying to teach you basic economics is like teaching algebra to a box turtle.

  • Jason

    With your insane level of paranoia, and complete disregard for the knowledge of seperation of power, you make it impossible for anyone outside the fringe kook left to take you seriously.

    And what the hell is wth you and abortion? Got some baby skeletons in your closet, Jr?

  • Anonymous

    But you should pass it if you love him

  • Jason

    So you voted for the retarded black guy, Meek?

    You moonbats sure have a habbit of voting for unqualified shitheads just because your white guilt compels you to. LOL.

    I live in FL, and most of us are quite proud of our Cuban-American senator. Perhaps if you weren’t a racist, you would be too.

  • Jason

    LOL@Royal’s new friend.

  • Jason

    They don’t pay much attention to that. They just need to get the red-meat of a minority who doesn’t support Obama out there to the racist liberal hords to they can commence throwing their poop at the rest of us.

    This site is quickly becoming hardcore porn for angry liberal shut-in’s.

  • Anonymous

    “If you love me”, like my comment

  • Anonymous

    According to the Department of Transportation, there are currently tens of thousands of structurally deficient bridges across this country that risk American lives every single day.  Please explain to me what could possibly be more shovel ready than that.

  • Jason

    Sorry, should Republicans dumb down their looks to match your democrat friends?

    I don’t think they have anyone who looks like Urkel, but Biden they might be able to pull off. They have plenty of old white guys with hair plugs, as that’s 90% of the retards in DC to begin with.

  • Anonymous

    Have a feeling the president thinks he was elected because he was loved. That might have been part of it but he was elected to govern. He wasn’t able to demonstrate his ability to govern, perhaps he shouldn’t be pulling on the love string at this stage as his failure is causing alot of hurt to alot of people, mostly his constituents

  • Jason

    I have a feeling you would support anything Obama does. If he came to your house and pooped on the floor, I bet you’d cheer him on and then box it up so you could worship his turd until the sun burns out. Am I correct?

  • insideguy

    Jason  Lol first of all calling me names is not to cool. Second of all Jesus freaks and creationism doesn’t help with kids learning math and science. These people want to put intelligent design back into our schools. Third of all why don’t you become a teacher then Jason? You could make a difference instead of complaining about it. Go ahead go work in the schools and work to make math and science a priority. My kid goes to public school and he’s doing great. He knows two languages and is tops in his class. Blame the unions of course thats always the best way out. Funny because these countries that are kicking our ass in math in science (Europe, Japan, Canada) have even stronger teacher unions. How can that be possible?

  • Jason

    Temporary jobs funded by the government at the cost of a Mill per?

    No retard, it’s time to kill the band-aid approach to get your plastic messiah re-elected, and deal in the real world. Stop with the socialist jargain you use to get your braindead base riled up, Barry. Stop wasting taxpayer money on “green energy” companies that go belly up, Barry. Time to be an adult, Barry.

  • Anonymous

    What you conservatives fail to realize is that you are straight up being lied to.  Republican Congressmen and women KNOW that infrastructure spending creates jobs, which is why they routinely write to various federal agencies, including the DOT, requesting money for infrastructure projects and even cite the number of jobs that will be created.  Michele Bachmann, Tea Party hero, has done this no fewer than 16 times since President Obama took office.  

    Again, in her letters, she actually cites the number of jobs she knows will be created.  And then goes on TV and tells her mindless fellow conservatives that government spending can’t create jobs. And you buy her BS hook, line, and sinker. How utterly sad for this country.

    “In one of them, in support of $300 million in spending for the $700 milliion replacement-bridge project crossing the St. Croix River, Bachmann cited a MnDOT estimate that the project would create nearly 3,000 jobs. In others, she noted that the projects would have economic benefits beyond just the projects in question, spurring development and private sector hiring in the communities surrounding the proposed stimulus projects.”

    http://www.minnpost.com/derekwallbank/2010/10/18/22432/despite_opposing_stimulus_bachmann_paulsen_sought_money_for_their_home_di

  • insideguy

    The debt was under 1 trillion dollars under carter. I don’t care if the republican congress helped balance the budget under Clinton, they showed their true colors under bush. Any one can be a loyal opposition but its what happens when you actually govern that counts. The republican presidents have shown no interest in cutting the debt none. Reagan tripled it, Bush the first increased it, Bush the second doubled it. But you guys sit here on your high horse and act like they are the ones who are finically responsible lol. Im not afraid cutting taxes wont work we are already at the lowest rates in 60 years and it aint working! So lets cut more! The wealth gap continues to increase the largest of any western country and the rich bitch and moan lol. Im actually looking forward to a republican administration because I cant wait to see you guys back peddling on everything it will be fun to watch:)

  • insideguy

    Of course its political! All politicians do political things all the time. Do you not think that pushing to build jet engines in your district when there is already a jet engine for that plane is not political? Boehner did this. This is just silly. Your cool Fedup but you have blinders on about the republicans and their interests. When and if a republican gets into office I will enjoy debating you on the hypocrisy that will be flowing from his veins on every issue across the board:)

  • Valkyrie101

    Yes. In the world of economics there are trees, and there are forests. So, you would disagree that corporations have been investing less and less in this country, and more and more in foreign countries? It seems like no one is disputing that jobs were exported to other countries. Are you disputing that? And if corporations are investing in foreign manufacturing operations, that represents an investment in those countries and not ours. Am I wrong on that? So if the corporations are not investing here, what tangible benefit does our country get from those corporations by lower taxation, other than lower priced consumer items? And to be sure, for those people that have chairs when the music stops, that’s so cool.

    In fact there is nothing wrong with investing in China and other places, but not at the expense of the American worker. That’s not fair. I would say fix your machine, man, before you tell us how great it is. And corporations and economic systems do not have heart, or compassion unless their human handlers provide that. In the mean time, who else is going to help those displaced workers that your machine spit out, but the US government? And where should they get the money for that? From the corporations that made, and are sitting on, trillions of dollars at the expense of the American worker, of course?

  • Anonymous

    how are they going to “pay for it” Darla?

  • Valkyrie101

    No, I am a god that sweeps down on the battle field and claims those worthy souls to Valhalla. Do you have a troop of Aregonuts? 

  • Anonymous

    wow you nominate nobody – you’re a democrat.  

  • insideguy

    What is with you dude. Stop calling me names. i didn’t call you names and if you are gonna do that at least be a man and do it face to face. Where were the jobs under Bush your messiah? Is Perry your messiah? He created more govt jobs than private sector jobs as well. How about stop wasting tax payer jobs for no bid contracts for Hailburton and private security companies in Iraq and Afghanistan? Are these not govt subsidized jobs?  What you guys don’t understand is the republicans aren’t any different than the democrats. They both spend crap loads of money but on different things. You keep living in your little fantasy land and hope and pray that if a republican gets into office they will pass a balanced budget amendment lol. Hey you wanna make a bet on that?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    Jason, here is a gotcha question: Why is Rubio a Cuban-American, in your words, and not just an American?

    You look at President Obama after electing President Bush and you think we are the ones who elected someone unqualified?

    Let me ask you another gotcha questions: Which major and historical Republican legislative issue did President Bush accomplish within his first term? Here is a hint, I am talking about Health Care Reform.

  • Anonymous

    Children and the elderly will starve!!
    *drink*

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    Said the blind and deaf man.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    You’re an idiot. The more I read your responses the more I realize it.

    Please, please, please don’t use power tools.  Get a life and go to church.

  • Darladoon

    tax cuts don’t need to be paid for??!?!?!  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

  • Darladoon

    if the wealthy get a tax cut, then the workers pay for the hole it creates in the debt
    through cuts in social spending, infrastructure, environmental protections, healthcare,
    etc, etc….

  • Darladoon

    yeah, you’re an expert in economics and yet argued that tax cuts
    don’t have to be paid for

    even alan greenspan (the godfather of tax cuts) said that tax cuts
    don’t pay for themselves

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    But you guys sit here on your high horse and act like they are the ones who are finically responsible lol.

    I don’t think you understand.

    Obama, with his Democrat “permanent majority” Pelosi/Reid Congress, was the most fiscally irresponsible Congress in the history of the country. By several orders of magnitude. No other Congress/Presidency comes close to spending so much, wasting so much and producing so little. Hell – the country was even downgraded for the first time in its history under this President. Because of this President and the economic havoc that his party wreaked in just three short years.

    If you thought Bush was bad, then logic and honesty would dictate that you would regard Obama as at three times worse based on any traditional metric.

    But you don’t.

    Because you can’t bring yourself to admit that he’s actually WORSE than George Bush, that evil bane of the world’s existence.

  • Broadhorizons

    What is welfare Rubio talking about? The plan protects the jobs and creates jobs for every public worker imaginable — including HIS!

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Letting people keep their money isn’t a “cost.” Not getting all the money you want to spend to isn’t a “cost.”

  • Anonymous

    And we who know Rubio best, know that he speaks only for…millions of feasting local Cubans.  Having their cake, and cookies, and ice cream, et al, and eating it too!

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    What “hole in the debt?”

    What are you babbling about?

    The wealthy A) already paid taxes on their accumulated wealth, and what you’re taking about are taxes on income (which affects more people), and B) the wealthy and high-earners already pay the lion’s share of the tax burden.

    Too many people in the cart, and not enough pulling. You’re one of the people who is right at home in the cart.

  • insideguy

    Interesting Good Lt. What do you think the cost of government should be?

  • Yukon Jack

    Only someone who thinks 0bama was more qualified to be President than G.W. Bush can ask stupid questions like that. 

    Historical achievement during first term? Patriot Act, still in force, while it is a given that 0bama’s health care will be revoked, repudiated,  thrown into the ash heap of history where it belongs a few days after November 6th, 2012.

  • Valkyrie101

    That’s an excellent mantra to government workers every where to be frugal. Thank you so much. The New York Yankees still fields nine men, yet they now employ over twenty times more personnel than they did in the 1950s. That’s odd. Obviously as our country grows we need to increase, not decrease spending. 

  • insideguy

    Whats interesting is you live in a world of only black and white. Obama walked into office during the biggest economic collapse in 80 years. Two unfunded wars that have cost us trillions and a housing bubble that did the same. Then he has to deal with the fact that tax rates are at an all time low and mandated Bush tax cuts that don’t expire for two years after he gets into office. He had to deal with a president who got us into two massive wars and created a homeland security dept that wasn’t payed for. Because of course its smart to cut taxes while fighting wars, considering thats never been done before. And Obamas the one who irresponsible? Then when he wants to raise the taxes to pay for  the two unfunded wars and the dept of homeland security the republicans threaten to not sign off on extension of unemployment benefits so he caves.  You keep living in your bubble that Obama has caused all of these problems buddy.

  • Anonymous

    How’s this for economics 101:

    “Mark Zandi of Moody’s (MCO - news - people ) Economy.com, an advisor to John McCain last year, recently testified before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress that the Republicans’ favorite tax proposals–making all the Bush tax cuts permanent and cutting the corporate tax rate–would raise GDP by at most 37 cents for each $1 of revenue loss. 

    By contrast, increased outlays for infrastructure, aid to state and local governments and extended unemployment benefits increase GDP by between $1.41 and $1.57 for every $1 spent.”

    http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/03/tax-cuts-stimulus-jobs-opinions-columnists-bruce-bartlett.html

    So let’s see. You could keep cutting taxes for the rich, and LOSE $.63 for every $1.00 spent, or you could spend on infrastructure and GAIN an additional .$41 to $.57 for every $1.00 spent. 

    According, of course, to both the CBO and Moody’s.  And John McCain’s former economic adviser.  This article, btw?  Written by one Ronald Reagan’s chief financial advisers.

  • Anonymous

    Good Lt., who on earth would you have pay the lion’s share of income taxes, other than the people taking home the lion’s share of the wealth?  Are you honestly complaining about the pain inflicted on the very wealthiest at a time of the greatest wealth disparity since the Great Depression???

    We have ONE tax structure that is progressive – income tax. Almost every other single tax structure we have is regressive – from sales tax to payroll tax – meaning that the poor and middle class pay a LARGER portion of their income than the wealthy do.

  • Anonymous

    If you raise the cap on payments and want to keep pretending this is a pension where money you put in is paid back, then you have to also raise the cap on returns. It doesn’t wash.

  • Anonymous

    in other words they pay nothing.  They haven’t put anything in the kitty but you’re claiming they won’t have as much of “not their money” to draw from. lol

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

    Haha it won’t be so hard because I pretty much agree with what you are saying, I am just hoping that finally these guys have gotten us to a point that they will stop the BS and begin putting country first as in my mind that is the point that we have arrived at…  

    I know that is only wishful thinking, as the two sides are only going to become stronger in their opposition to each other.  Just look at these pages here, both sides really believe they are right…  I know that there is a lot of overstatement and too much emphasis put on alot of little things in these posts here, but honestly each side thinks the other will take this country down a path to ruins. Given the condition of our economy they are becoming increasingly convinced that if the other assumes control or the party in power remains in control that it will be devastating for this country..  It is a very scary moment in our history, I can’t remember a time such as this one, not even the Carter years…  things were as bad or worse during those years, but our people were different, not nearly as divided as they are now.. There is a lot more that I would like to say especially about the conservative vs progressive push.. but my thoughts are not well enough formed to present them well, I will only say that conservatives never understood the progressive movement until after the 2008 elections..  the strong reactions of conservatives over the last few years have nothing to do with race as I am sure that you are wise enough to know…  they come for policy implementations that the conservatives never thought that they would see…  it is in reaction to our government having a wholely different view of America which conservatives had given little thought to, and one that conservatives really don’t subscribe to…. It is the difference between rhetoric of Rubio who you saw in this clip today, and of a Debbie Wasserman Schultz..  Conservatives never envisioned so much change so fast  and they are not convinced that it is change that will make this country prosperous…  I do agree with your side on one thing…  something has to be done about Wall Street and the Bankers.. and something has to be done to stop the loss of jobs out of this economy, I am not sure that we would agree on the solutions, but I think that we clearly agree on the problem..

  • Jmpwawoo

    Take away my like. “Retarded Black Guy” . Air Force Academy graduate. Actually served in the Air Force. Rubio, like Governor Lord Voldermort , got less than 50% of the vote. Marco, still pretty and dumb.

  • Anonymous

    they don’t.  You are still on your little red pony, trying to get everyone else’s money when you’ve put diddle in.  Now, what exactly is fair about that?  

    I’m beginning to think there are so many fools like yourself that perhaps O’Reilly is correct and flat tax on consumers might be the ticket.  Then at least you will have to pay like everyone else.  

  • TruDat

    Poor baby.

  • Anonymous

    seek456, why is it that you’re so offended by the rich paying a larger portion of their incomes on income taxes, when EVERYONE ELSE pays the larger portion of their income under almost every other tax structure we have?

    Let me repeat that for you:  for almost every tax in existence – from sales tax to payroll tax – the wealthy pay a SMALLER PORTION of their incomes than everyone else.  Must they really be coddled by our income tax structure, as well?

  • TruDat

    He was elected because alot of unknowledgeable teenagers voted, mindless left-wing nutcases wanted a “feel-good” moment by electing someone based on color, another hunk of fools fell for a bumper-sticker slogan, minorities voted for him because he’s a minority, the lazy and clueless voted for him hoping for more handouts, and then there’s the usual morons who vote for anyone with a ‘D’ behind their name.

  • Anonymous

    No, I’m quite fortunate.  I was educated well enough to understand that conservative politicians are knowingly lying through their teeth.  It’s you people who are unfortunate.

    How’s the Ph.D. working out for you, btw?

  • insideguy

     One day I would love someone to do some research on how much the average conservative gets in govt benefits. It would be very interesting to know this:)

  • Valkyrie101

    Reagan first term, 1983, unemployment 9.5%.  What say you about that Lt?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    Great, what do you mean by that?

    Give me some hope, is there anything about him and his past that will keep him out of the white house

  • insideguy

     They know it will create jobs thats why they oppose it.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XEFRKNJR6WJ5WQ6KNPH2OEY2LU Antonio

    You’re right the Patriot Act is something the Right really wanted.

    You’re right, George W. Bush the laughing stock of the ENTIRE WORLD is much more qualified that President Obama.

  • Anonymous

    Well, we already know that most red states survive off the tax dollars of blue states by taking in far more in federal funding than they contribute in taxes – whereas most blue states take in less than they contribute – so I would assume quite a bit!

    Ah, red states – the original welfare queens.

  • Anonymous

    seek456, if you’re so worried about surviving off of other people’s money, surely you live in a blue state?

    Because it is merely a matter of fact that most red states take in more in federal funding than they contribute in federal taxes, whereas the reverse is true of blue states – making red states the original welfare queens.

    If conservatives are so disturbed by the notion of living off the largesse of others, why do they continue to live off the largesse of blue states?  Riddle me this.

  • Anonymous

    The “all the news that’s fit to fake” NYT says that OBOZO is depressed. (in addition to being a shallow, profane, lying, arrogant, platitude-spouting, pompous, inexperienced, smug, Marxist, drug-addicted, elitist, narcissistic, racist, anti-Semitic, flip-flopping gas-bag.)

    Here’s how to DEPRESS the remaining lunatic-left d-cRAT socialists….Tell them to just think of the very, very real likelihood that if Rubio runs as the VP candidate in 2012, Republicans will likely hold the presidency for 16 (SIXTEEN) YEARS STRAIT (4 terms) – all the way through 2028 !!!!!! 

  • insideguy

    God you live on a different planet.

  • Anonymous

    I know.  How sad.

  • Anonymous

    Killing babies since January 22, 1973 does not make it right. But here is the big secret you liberal, retarded, devolved ape… LIBERALS abort LIBERALS!  You are killing your own potential voter base! I am pro-liberal abortion! Too bad you didn’t make the “cut”!

  • Anonymous

    Future Vice President Rubio!  He’s the next Ronald Reagan.

    Out with the No Growth, Flat Earth Marxist!  Fuck You, Barry.

  • Anonymous

    Hmmm.  What a revealing thing to say, Mr. Rubio.  The only way this piece of legislation could do anything to help the President keep his job is if it worked.  Which, evidently, you think it would.

    What a cynical hypocrite.  He knows it would work, but can stomach the idea of letting the President succeed in doing anything for the American people.

  • Anonymous

    http://www.thebostonchannel.com/r/8846994/detail.html
    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2011/07/15/MNL61KAHVQ.DTL
    http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=17490
    http://www.texastribune.org/texas-education/public-education/condoms-safe-sex-appear-more-texas-sex-education/
    http://www.akdart.com/edu11.html

    Liberals are most concerned with social issues in their indoctrination screwels than they are about the 3 r’s of old. Most public school kids cannot make change at cash register, but they can field dress a cucumber and get a condom on it in split seconds.

    I wonder why parochial schools, charter schools, home schoolers, and private schools produce superior students at half the cost…

  • Anonymous

    It was Carter’s fault, silly! Just like Bush and obarry!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Rubio sounds like every other Republicon who wants this country to fail!!

  • Anonymous

    No, I think the answer would be, “I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president,” Obama told ABC anchor Diane Sawyer, Goodbye mediocre one-term nutjob.

  • Anonymous

    Hahahaha.  The current GOP is the most anti-science political party in this country’s history, but Obama is the flat earth-er?   

  • Anonymous

    Not the Country. Obama needs to fail so the Country can survive.

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Survive like it did under George W. Bush??  lol!!

  • Silgary

    I don’t think the inner cities are Republican whether you’re red or blue. Since unemployment is extremely high for blacks and hispanics and we know how they vote that throws  a monkey wrentch in your theory.

  • Valkyrie101

    The democrats at the time of Reagan did not all get together and say we are going to vote as a group against everything the gipper tries. That is the difference. Because the republicans of today are so lame, they would rather put the country down just so they can elect a creationist as president.

  • Valkyrie101

    Right. Unless the governor from New Jersey jumps in.

  • Anonymous

    Um, what?  There is no theory here – red states take more in from the federal government than they contribute in taxes.  For blue states, it is the exact opposite – they contribute more than they take in.

    Again, this is a fact, not a theory.  

  • Valkyrie101

    To calcat below,
    If you say it is “killing babies” to have an abortion, then it is also killing babies to negligently miscarry. Let’s say that a mother goes bowling in the fourth week and miscarries. Then you would require her to be prosecuted for manslaughter. In fact, since you are calling immature unborn fetuses “babies”, then every miscarriage would have to be investigated to make sure no charges should be filed against the mother for negligent manslaughter.

  • Anonymous

    The only thing it would do would be to create temporary jobs, in time for the election, that won’t last. Meanwhile, our debt skyrockets up even more with nothing to show for it.

    How dense can you be?

  • Anonymous

    Crony science is not science at all. And that’s what we get from the dimucrats.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, for a scant $200,000 to $3,000,000 per job. That is the Obama record.

    Yippppeeeeeee!

  • Anonymous

    You don’t pay for tax cuts, silly. It’s the Taxpayers’ money to begin with.

  • Djbynum02

    Republicans are obstructionist and can’t see the forest for the trees.

  • Anonymous

    By the way Barack is on his knees begging one minute, then crying racist the next in a last ditch effort at what the hell…..is anyone’s guess, proves once and for all ” real ” America although ready for our first black president, sure as hell aren’t going to accept that guy being a full blown racist who would attempt to tear this country apart along race/class lines for his own personal gain as well as political expediency. 

    The ends, especially the ones you seek, do not justify the means B. Now hit the road quietly and We the People might not throw your corrupt ass ( I didn’t know isn’t a viable defense when you reside in our White House..you lying putz ) in prison for F-ing our country up like you have over the past three years……NOW GIT!

  • Anonymous

    Are you kidding?  Obama has already outlined the pay-for, and that is just a back up pay-for in case the super-committee can’t find enough savings.  Not ONE CENT would be added to the deficit.

    And guess what – temporary jobs mean people have more money, even if temporarily.  They then spend that money, which means that demand increases.  As a result of increased demand, hiring goes up.  Because hiring goes up, people have more money.  And so on and so forth. 

    I mean, really.  Have you no clue how an economy works?

  • Anonymous

    Thank you for proving my point.

  • Anonymous

    Um, what do you think tax cuts do?  They COST MONEY.  And stimulate the economy far less than direct spending:

    “Mark Zandi of Moody’s (MCO - news - people ) Economy.com, an advisor to John McCain last year, recently testified before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress that the Republicans’ favorite tax proposals–making all the Bush tax cuts permanent and cutting the corporate tax rate–would raise GDP by at most 37 cents for each $1 of revenue loss. 

    By contrast, increased outlays for infrastructure, aid to state and local governments and extended unemployment benefits increase GDP by between $1.41 and $1.57 for every $1 spent.”

    http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/03/tax-cuts-stimulus-jobs-opinions-columnists-bruce-bartlett.html

    So according to Moody’s, the CBO, a former John McCain economic adviser, and one of Ronald Reagan’s chief financial advisers (Bruce Bartlett, who wrote the Forbes article), your route is far more expensive and does far less for the economy.

  • Valkyrie101

    Believe me, I am totally looking for people on the fringe, Jason. The narrow gate is always better.

  • Valkyrie101

    To obp,

    So by raising more money through an increase in payroll taxes, we actually lose money? Look, it does not of course relate to any real pension. We maintain an account of it, however in our national budget. Its just general tax revenue. And besides that tax, we should also raise the rate on the upper income tax brackets to a level that will more realistically cover our annual budget.

  • Anonymous

    Notice that no one comments when you talk about Raygun!

  • Anonymous

    I could live with Huntsman.  He has NO chance because he is sane. 

  • Anonymous

    If the unemployed don’t want to work the jobs that are available, what’s the point of all this? We’ve just returned from vacation at Cannon Beach & Seaside Oregon. Seaside had quite a few help wanted signs throughout our stay & not one sign had been removed the day we left.

    I’m assuming the reason the signs were still out is the jobs were low wage, but they’re still jobs.  Jobs that could help a person get their foot in the door of a better paying job in the future.

  • Anonymous

    Those $2 million dollar a job, jobs Obama has created are just great, don’t you think?

  • Anonymous

    That you’re a dolt?

    Why, thank you.

  • Anonymous

    Tax cuts don’t cost anything, doofus. It’s not the government’s money.

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    I heard if it wasn’t for government help for Rubio’s parents he would still be living in a cardboard box somewhere in Miami’s eastside.

  • Anonymous

    No joke.

    If he keeps it up, Mr Freshman Senator will be POTUS at some point.  He’s got the raw stuff, does he have it for the long haul?

    Love this guy.

  • Anonymous

    When Rubio runs on the national stage, I will vote for him in a heartbeat.

  • Anonymous

    Well, apparently not, because not so long ago, Obama laughed and said “those shovel ready jobs weren’t exactly shovel ready.” He thought that was very funny.

  • Anonymous

    Well, you can call for higher taxes on corporations all you want, but we live in a global economy now. What smart company wouldn’t look outside our borders if costs are significantly less? I mean, we’re told it takes a village to raise a child. And now it takes a global strategy to be a profitable business. No one goes into business NOT to be profitable.

  • Anonymous

    Well, to be honest, a lot of Obama’s vote came from “Bush fatigue”. And after 3 years, those same people are now suffering from Obama remorse. I’ve heard so many people say they wish they could take that vote back.

  • Anonymous

    So you’re crying about infrastructure spending. Where were you 2 years ago when only about $30 billion of the nearly $800 billion stimulus bill was dedicated to infrastructure? Maybe we’d be in a better place today if infrastructure had been front and center, instead of Obamacare.

  • Anonymous

    The worst thing about the Obama Presidency is that, since he is the first Black President, he will make people think twice before they elect another Black because Obama has been such a Failed President, coming up with Idiotic, more Marxist than American, Ideas to screw We, the People even worse.  He has brought Corrupt Chicago Politics to Washington, which was corrupt enough before Obama, but now it is like the Mafia, with Obama as the Head of the Penis!  We need this Idiot another four yeas like we need another 9/11, We Don’t!

  • Anonymous

    I wonder what percentage of the population believes in some form of creationism, or intelligent design? It doesn’t seem politically wise to ridicule what might be a significant percentage of the population. Does Obama really want to do that? I have relatives that are very religious (Catholic) and very Democrat. The left putting them down for believing in creationism isn’t going to make them happy.

  • Anonymous

    But isn’t that the very point? I’m not against the government helping someone in a time of need to get on their feet (like when you flee a communist country with nothing but the clothes on your back), but then you stand up and make your way in the world. Rubio is an example of the American Dream. It’s no wonder the libs hate him.

  • Anonymous

    The problem is, if Obama loses re-election in 2012, the left will cry racisim and I’m afraid of what might happen in the streets. They will never accept that Obama was voted out simply because he is a bad President.

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    He’s going after the very system that helped him.  Republicans are all for government hand out as long as its just for them.  

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    I think you forget how bad Bush turned out to be.  I think he spent too much time on vacation.  

  • Valkyrie101

    To dayoh,
    If a US corporation can manufacture more cheaply in a country without pollution and worker safety regulations, and they wish to go to another country to manufacture, that’s fine. Like you said, it is a world economy. But when the manufactured goods are brought back to sell in the world’s biggest market, the US, they will need to pay a tax for the privledge. Otherwise, the US companies will always be undercut. That’s unfair competition.

  • Lyndaliles

    Duh…That would be Congress controlling
    increases and decreases not our President.

  • Lyndaliles

    can I borrow his RNC AMEXPRESS for a little
    shopping?

  • Lyndaliles

    Thank you!

    Both sides, extreme, middle and maybe one side
    then the other. They ARE ALL crooked as
    snakes.

  • Anonymous

    Marco Rubio has been indoctrinated by Mitch McConnell. I
    bet he can say; make Obama a one term President. That is not much to brag about
    all the other Republicans in Congress can say that also but in reality it’s just
    a game, it means nothing, and in fact it is getting in the way of doing the people
    business.

    Jobs mean more than going to and coming home from work, a
    living wage is to a worker what profit is to a business man. Businesses say; if
    we can’t make a profit, we will not do business. Businesses join a Cartel to
    protect them from competition and refuse to accept unions for fair treatment of
    workers. Yes; that is double standards. Does this make sense? They demand workers
    in America compete with China’s work force while Chinese go to the bathroom at
    a hole in the ground without toilet paper and nothing to set upon. Only Big
    Businesses and Government Worker in China have a toilet to set upon when
    relieving themselves and toilet paper to clean them.
    Republican business men have cut the 40 hour work week savagely from, 40 hours
    a week to 30 hours and less in many industries since 1960 to avoid the
    requirements to pay benefits for workers. Many, many out spoke today’s Republican
    voters do not know this. They also probably don’t know; “In 1960, when you
    bought a house, it was mandatory, your payment could not be more than your
    weekly income”, and you could not count your wife’s wages as part of that
    money. Why? At that time they claimed she could get pregnant and be out of a
    job for a period of time. Now, compare that to how the profiteers rearranged
    regulations to sell more homes. Today’s house payment is usually 3 times what
    the average person makes per week. IS THIS BECAUSE PEOPLE MAKE LESS OR BECAUSE
    PRICE INFLATION MOVED AHEAD OF EVERYTHING ELSE? The answer is BOTH. Profits
    through price inflation have out distanced wage earners and destructing of many
    union jobs account for the distance between the working class and the Billionaires.
    Then on the scene come Chicken hutch style living conditions of workers in
    China and Republicans expect their children and our children to compete with
    China’s slave type work force. In China a Communist Country, if a Business
    fails as Solyndra the Solar Panel Company did, you would find the CEO hung from
    a beam in the business building and China’s Government would claim he hung
    himself, also if any workers suggest wage increases or union representation,
    they usually find those worker in the river, face down.
    America’s business are many time dealing with International Gangsters
    presenting themselves a business men. John Boehner, Mitch McConnell and Eric
    Cantor know this. They know if America is to remain the Leaders of the World,
    we cannot cater to these shenanigan opportunities arising in Foreign Countries.
    The Religious Right in being kept in the dark about this information by Big
    Businesses. Politicians need to examine their conscience and get back to
    reality and forget getting any richer than they already are. Put people back to
    work and quit pretending for the sake of more profits.
    America must rise above these new illegal greedy trends brought about by
    International Trade.
    I am a devout Christian but I know Communism came about because too many
    religions were getting
    involved in government to the point of becoming radical; this is why China does
    not accept any religions unless it is a Government Religion. Yea; just watch
    their values then follow them in their business dealings.

  • http://www.davidjkramer.co.cc// DavidKramer

    It is time to give the good little commies what they want, tax everyone at 100% and let the government provide. Of course, I will be living in the black market. Remember you good little pinkos, the only thing that kept the USSR afloat for decades was the black market. For those of you not fluent in economics lingo, black market is truly a free market.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Diversity-Working/100002767068492 Diversity Working

     I think we positive about jobs after Obama’s announcement.

    By:- http://www.diversityworking.com/

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