[econjack]

If you follow what's been going on in France in terms of its fiscal policies and compare it to what Obozo wants to do in this country, the parallels are obvious. Yet, for reasons I cannot fathom, voters in this country behave like lock-step lemming bound and determined to fall over the Socialist cliff. Raising taxes on the group who drive the economic engine is simply stupid. Obozo has the same plan...tax the rich, give to the poor. I don't know about you, but I've yet to have one job provided by a poor person. Can't Obozo see that a rising tide lifts all boats? Guess not...

[MasterGunner01]

“Can't Obozo see that a rising tide lifts all boats?”

No, neither Hollande or Obama can see this because socialists/Marxists are all about equality of outcome. Their world is a zero sum game where if one prospers, it is at the expense of another. Their idea of fairness is to spread misery equally among the masses while the elites like them live high at everyone’s expense. They are the Pig in Orwell's “Animal Farm”.

[TexasRepublic]

“Can’t Obozo see that a rising tide lifts all boats?”

It isn’t ignorance, it is malevolence. Obama does not want to raise the poor up, he wants to tear the rich down. Some people have a hatred of success, perhaps because they know they are incapable of attaining it themselves. It is envy and resentment due to their own ineptitude.