Posted on 07/13/2011 9:00:48 AM PDT by EricTheRed_VocalMinority
In the far left corner, in Commie-pinko shorts with a yellow hammer and sickle in the upper left corner and that stupid circular Obama logo in the middle: The Today show's Matt Lauer.
And in the far right corner, wearing a Wonder Woman-like outfit of red, white, and blue: conservative pundit Laura Ingraham.
Matt: Left hook:
President Obama talks about shared sacrifice. Where is the shared sacrifice going to come from on the Republican side?
Laura: Ducks. Right jab to the gut:
Is his shared sacrifice the fact that he canceled his Montana vacation last weekend? ... Even the Associated Press yesterday said the President was dancing around using the words 'tax increases.' The numbers don't add up. Taxing the upper 1% or 2% income earners in this country does not get us to the math. We have to shrink government. Putting more burdens on the people who actually create jobs. Hey, like NBC. We don't need to do that.
Matt: Shaken up. Left jab:
I think everybody agrees that there's got to be some changes on [the Republican] side.
Laura: Weaves. Right upper cut to the chin:
Matt, when Washington starts sacrificing instead of actually increasing the salaries of individuals within the executive offices of the presidency, when they start sacrificing, we can talk about the real meaning of sacrificing the American people.
Matt: Shaken up. Bleeding. Left punch:
A recent Gallup poll said only 20% of Americans think that spending cuts are the only thing that should be on the table when it talks about this. So they're talking about increasing revenues ... they're talking about raising taxes on the 1%, on corporations, even the corporate jets, which is only a few hundred million dollars.
Laura: Counterpunch:
Matt – right, that was a scam and that was a lie. The fact that the media allowed him to get away with that for five seconds was absurd.
Matt: Down for the count.
And this was all before they started discussing Laura's new book!
And the winner is ... Well, see for yourself:
(Kyle Drennen at NewsBusters has a full transcript of the above interview.)
Matt Lauer is a Democrat tool with a capital freaking T. A Democrat useful idiot of the umpteenth degree. You can see the disdain dripping from his jowls with those "I'm such a smart liberal" glasses looking down at Laura thinking he's going to take her out with the Democrat talking points on his cheat sheet.
Laura doesn't miss a beat. The author of the brand new book "Of Thee I Zing" countered every liberal/Democrat talking point with conservative/Republican truth, facts, and reality. Works every time.
G0d bless you, Laura Ingraham. And Matt, why don't you just crawl back to your liberals-only martini party in the Hamptons and lament how those eeeeevil Republicans aren't paying their fair share.
And someone send Obama a tweet that he better get another butt buddy over there at the Today show. Matt Lauer just ain't cutting it.
Precisely! Political elite (dems, Pubbies, whoever) don’t like flat tax because it comes with a built in ceiling. Flat tax times so many tax payers equals Fed. revenue. Flat tax also also makes it easier to track the money and facilitates having to make decisions on what programs need to be scrapped or other spending put on hold or eliminated.
Of course, an iron clad balanced budget requirement needs to put in place as well.
Governments, like individuals, will occasionally find themselves short of money. This shortfall can be paid for by a one time tax on all tax payers and/or making what ever adjustments are necessary in the next budget.
Bottom line: 1. Unlimited and unaccountable gov’t spending must be stopped. 2. Every wage earner must be taxed—even if it is only $1. 3. Policies and programs that have failed in achieving their stated purpose must be killed. 4. Monies collected for specific purposes must be spent for that purpose. If an occasion arises where one pot must be raided to temporarily fix another pot it must be openly debated and voted upon. 5. Any Congress and president that carries an unbalanced budget for more than two years must resign. The resignation would be effective upon the assumption of office of the newly elected officials.
My point: We either get serious about out of control spending or were doomed to keep going down the road to oblivion.
OK, so Obambi wants “shared sacrifice”. Well, when are the freeloading welfare-sucking deadbeats that make up the base of the democrat party going to start sacrificing?
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