Posted on 12/08/2010 7:31:47 AM PST by PJ-Comix
The DUmmies have given up all hope...and change as you can see by the very title of their THREAD, "We are f*cked." All because of the tax cut compromise proposed by Obama yesterday. What is really interesting about Obama's willingness to extend the Bush tax cuts is that is an admission by his administration that those tax cuts were effective in the first place and are important for the economy. When those tax cuts were first proposed nearly 10 years ago, the Democrats scoffed at them as being insignificant in helping the middle class. However, Obama is now admitting that they are so important for the middle class that he is now willing to extend them for the RIIIIIIIICCCCHHHHHHH. All this has sent the Democrats and the DUmmies into a state of deep funk. So let us now watch the DUmmies agonize over the Obama tax cuts cave in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, noting that this will now become a BIG issue for the 2012 election, is in the [barackets]:
We are f*cked.
[If you say so.]
We are all supply siders now. We have set a precedent that cannot be undone.
[Good news. ObamaCare CAN be undone simply by withholding funding in Congress.]
We support taxcuts to get our economy going over whatever other processes available.
[Processes like forced collectivization.]
We support unlimited war and indefensible defense budgets.
[Like the unlimited war on poverty going on for over 40 years?]
We support massive deficits if it helps the wealthy.
[So that was the reason for ObamaCare.]
We support cuts in social programs if it helps the wealthy.
[Cut midnight basketball programs to help maintain the trust fund of William Rivers Pitt.]
Do not deceive yourself. There is no one looking out for you.
[John Kerry has your back.]
We are screwed.
[Ben Burch will do the honors and now on to the other DUmmies...]
it's depressing, so much for hope
[...And change. That's down the tubes too.]
Or change.
[I swear I didn't read that when I wrote my previous comment but, yeah, change is gone too. Thrown under the bus with hope.]
This is what happens when the Wall Street money people own both Parties.
[Timothy Geithner has your back.]
I am so incredibly sad.
[Boo hoo! You want a hankie?]
We are chaining ourselves to anvils and jumping overboard because we have decided everyone is entitled to their own version of reality and we can't agree that a temperature graph going up means the temperature is going up.
[In the DUmmie reality up is not the opposite of down but is three miles east of Philadelphia.]
NO no no no...I do have hope! and you won't take it away from me. how bad it was during the depression...then we got the New Deal! I will not give in to hopelessness....
[Don't give up hope. In 2013 President Christie will have a new deal.]
we can reverse it if we refuse to lie down and take it.
[No need to lie down. Just bend over and take it.]
Totally deflated. and angry
[You want Mr. Rogers to sing you a happy song?]
this is nonsense the whole thing
[t's a beautiful day in this neighborhood,
A beautiful day for a neighbor,
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?]
I think what happened on December 12, 2000 was the death sentence for America. What happened the following year on September 11 was just the funeral pyre to commemorate it. How the hell do you recover from eight fascist years of the Bush/Cheney Imperial pResidency?!
[It's a neighborly day in this beautywood,
A neighborly day for a beauty,
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?]
My gut told me in 1980 and again in 2000 that we were missing major jump points. There may not be another in time.
[I have always wanted to have a neighbor just like you,
I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.]
F*ck it. Guess I'll get high and listen to Pink Floyd while I still have food and electricity.
[So let's make the most of this beautiful day,
Since we're together, we might as well say,
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?
Won't you be my neighbor?]
Exactly, this is a country run by and for millionaires and billionaires. We, the rest of the country get constantly thrown under the curb. Shit, I'm suprised these assholes haven't tried to bring back 1790's era politics where their class was the only one allowed to vote. It's pretty clear we don't matter.
[Won't you please,
Won't you please,
Please won't you be my neighbor?]
ditto. gotta have “skin in the game”.
The reality is that would leave 50% of the country as non-voters initially. I suspect those of us with net tax payments would remedy that fairly quickly.
Most people don’t vote anyways... lol
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Depends who they are and how they may react to being “ruled” by “rich” people.
Can you imagine the riots if the people in the inner cities had their “right to vote” revoked because they receive money from the government? I can. They wouldn’t be pretty.
Or, of course, it could just be a tax bill. Could go either way.
"Yellow makes me sad."
"You wanna know what makes me sad? YOU DO! Why don't we just chug on over to namby-pamby land, where maybe we can find you some self-confidence, ya jackwagon?"
top 50
“We support massive deficits if it helps the wealthy.”
Hey DUmmies,
By my own estimation of crude numbers, the tax increase you so desperately desire for the “rich” would generate about $40-50B in revenue. That also assumes constant economic activity, so that is even at risk. Now that amount is about 2% of the current budget, or to put it in other language, it is about HALF OF THE AMOUNT SPENT VIA EARMARKS. You know, that “miniscule amount that wasn’t worth eliminating.”
What is it, miniscule or budget busting?
“In the economic wasteland of the past three years, the biggest success story has been a website that gets us to buy stuff we never knew we wanted: helicopter-flying lessons, hot stone massages, professional photo portraiture, obscure ethnic food, hot air balloon rides. More precisely, what we buy at Groupon—the two-year-old startup that, with projected revenue of more than $500 million this year, was called the “fastest growing company ever” in a recent Forbes cover story—is the right to buy all that stuff at a huge discount, so long as we all act fast. In other words, what Groupon sells (as its clever name indicates) is coupons, but with a social twist. It’s been such a huge moneymaker that scores of copycats have emerged, including other startups like LivingSocial and 8coupons. Established online presences like Yelp and have also jumped in; the biggest and most recent entrant is AOL, which in October announced its own Groupon clone, Wow.com.”
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Not so coincidentally, I am headed out the door right now to do some major league couponing.
Sorry for triple post. I have reported myself to the mods for a wet noodle beating!
LOL!
hmmmm...where have I heard that before! :)
Frickin' communist.
I had a great day yesterday Walgreening. I bought about $400 worth of stuff for almost nothing while earning $45 in register rewards. I hope to get about $700 worth of stuff for almost nothing by this time next week while earning a total of at least $250 in Register Rewards.
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