Posted on 10/23/2008 8:28:37 AM PDT by TSchmereL
AND NOW . . . amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic first- and second-hand premium cigar smoke. . . it is time for . . . that harmless, lovable little fuzz ball, the highly-trained broadcast specialist, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, from behind the golden EIB microphone, firmly ensconced in the prestigious Attila-the-Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, the Mandarin of Talk Radio, with talent on loan from G-d, at the cutting-edge of societal evolution, with half his brain tied behind his back — just to make it fair, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, Maha-Rushie! America's anchorman, truth detector, and doctor of democracy. A Real Man, a living legend, a way of life. Commander in Chief of U.S. Operation Chaos. Chief Waga-Waga El Rushbo of the El Conservo Tribe. Chief of the Patriotism Police. A Weapon of Mass Instruction. El Rushbo (a little Spanish lingo, there). He is the man who is running America (you know it and I know it). He knows the Democrats like every square inch of his glorious naked body. He is ready to do what he was born to do--that's host. Get ready to what you were born to do--that's listen (and post your comments on the Rush Limbaugh LIVE Radio Thread).
Never saw it.
No, but I need a pool pass for The Lounge.
I won’t go into the details...
The I-4 corridor is the swing area of Florida.
David Mumbles Gergen makes my skin crawl
he didn’t bother to help his own mother get insurance, but he will help you? LOL, right.
Very calculated move by Rush to bring Citizenship-gate out in the open and specifically mention Phlip Berg. I think he wants to let the story over very cautiously and carefully so as people don’t think he’s a conspiracy theorist. He brought it up in the perfect way...and I expect it to gain steam especially if the Supreme Court gets involved.
Obama Was a New Party Member as Recently as 1996 [PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2113182/posts
OMG just toooo gooood!
it is critical Tampa wins tonite...We NEED a game 6
I know my friend got 150 acres up in the Adrondacks on Cranberry Lake. Upstate New York is beautiful.
Rush just referenced the sort of information that is in the WSJ regarding Obama, Social Security, Medicare and taxes.
Here is what I sent out to my email lists this morning. The WSJ article (copied and pasted below) was included:
Voters aged 18-24 - McCain’s best age demographic.
They are apparently smart enough to realize that they are viewed as the “golden goose” to a certain demographic.
No “informed” young person with any intelligence is going to sit still and allow greedy baby boomers to mortgage his future by forcing him to pay higher and higher taxes to bail them out of their bad choices in life and finance their preferred life-style. (See the WSJ article below regarding the tax tipping point)
“...It’s up to voters to force Obama to answer - to explain how his tax plan is (somehow) neither socialism nor a deadly blow to Social Security and Medicare. The deficit now runs hundreds of billions of dollars per year. Yet Obama proposes almost $1 trillion of new spending - and promises to also give “rebates” to the 38 percent of us who pay no income tax. Where is that money coming from?”
See: NY Post BAM’S THREAT TO SOCIAL SECURITY http://www.nypost.com/seven/10232008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/a_new_welfare_state_134859.htm
PowerLine
http://www.powerlineblog.com/
We’ve heard a lot about young people, especially college students, who are devoted to Barack Obama. A lot of ink has been spilled speculating on how many young people will actually turn out to vote. But if this IBD/TIPP poll is correct, Republicans had better hope the kids turn out in droves.
Click to see chart: http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/assets_c/2008/10/McCainObamaPoll228-thumb-320x319.jpg
That’s right: voters aged 18-24 are John McCain’s best age demographic. That was true of Ronald Reagan, too; young people were his biggest fans.
Obama’s best cohort is the baby boomers—one more black mark, I guess, against our generation!
Cultural stereotypes aside, though, it does seem odd that people in their peak earning years are most likely to support a tax-raiser.
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WSJ - OCTOBER 22, 2008
Obama and the Tax Tipping Point
How long before taxpayers are pushed too far?
By Adam Lerrick
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122463231048556587.html?mod=todays_us_opinion *
What happens when the voter in the exact middle of the earnings spectrum receives more in benefits from Washington than he pays in taxes? Economists Allan Meltzer and Scott Richard posed this question 27 years ago. We may soon enough know the answer.
Barack Obama is offering voters strong incentives to support higher taxes and bigger government. This could be the magic income-redistribution formula Democrats have long sought.
Sen. Obama is promising $500 and $1,000 gift-wrapped packets of money in the form of refundable tax credits. These will shift the tax demographics to the tipping point where half of all voters will receive a cash windfall from Washington and an overwhelming majority will gain from tax hikes and more government spending.
In 2006, the latest year for which we have Census data, 220 million Americans were eligible to vote and 89 million — 40% — paid no income taxes. According to the Tax Policy Center (a joint venture of the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute), this will jump to 49% when Mr. Obama’s cash credits remove 18 million more voters from the tax rolls. What’s more, there are an additional 24 million taxpayers (11% of the electorate) who will pay a minimal amount of income taxes — less than 5% of their income and less than $1,000 annually.
In all, three out of every five voters will pay little or nothing in income taxes under Mr. Obama’s plans and gain when taxes rise on the 40% that already pays 95% of income tax revenues.
The plunder that the Democrats plan to extract from the “very rich” — the 5% that earn more than $250,000 and who already pay 60% of the federal income tax bill — will never stretch to cover the expansive programs Mr. Obama promises.
What next? A core group of Obama enthusiasts — those educated professionals who applaud the “fairness” of their candidate’s tax plans — will soon see their $100,000-$150,000 incomes targeted. As entitlements expand and a self-interested majority votes, the higher tax brackets will kick in at lower levels down the ladder, all the way to households with a $75,000 income.
Calculating how far society’s top earners can be pushed before they stop (or cut back on) producing is difficult. But the incentives are easy to see. Voters who benefit from government programs will push for higher tax rates on higher earners — at least until those who power the economy and create jobs and wealth stop working, stop investing, or move out of the country.
Other nations have tried the ideology of fairness in the place of incentives and found that reward without work is a recipe for decline. In the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, Margaret Thatcher took on the unions and slashed taxes to restore growth and jobs in Great Britain. In Germany a few years ago, Social Democrat Gerhard Schroeder defied his party’s dogma and loosened labor’s grip on the economy to end stagnation. And more recently in France, Nicolas Sarkozy was swept to power on a platform of restoring flexibility to the economy.
The sequence is always the same. High-tax, big-spending policies force the economy to lose momentum. Then growth in government spending outstrips revenues. Fiscal and trade deficits soar. Public debt, excessive taxation and unemployment follow. The central bank tries to solve the problem by printing money. International competitiveness is lost and the currency depreciates.
The system stagnates. And then a frightened electorate returns conservatives to power.
The economic tides will not stand still while Washington experiments with European-type social democracy, even though the dollar’s role as the global reserve currency will buy some time. Our trademark competitive advantage will be lost, and once lost, it will be hard to regain. There are too many emerging economies focused on prosperity and not redistribution for the U.S. to easily recapture its role of global economic leader.
Tomorrow’s children may come to question why their parents sold their birthright for a mess of “fairness” — whatever that will signify when jobs are scarce and American opportunity is no longer the envy of the world.
Mr. Lerrick is a professor of economics at Carnegie Mellon University and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
I heard that too,....he was funny.
It's also a must see pop culture movie requirement too. You know like Caddy Shack, The Exorcist, The Godfather, Raiders of the Lost Arc, etc...
Sarah stopped the Bridge!!
Or are you selling the BROOKLYN??
McCain hasn’t been a mainstream Republican for deacdes, so it isn’t all that odd that he could get elected in a year where the death of the economy is blamed on the porkbarrel Republicans and Marxist driven Democrats.
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