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Obama's Assault on the Middle Class
The American Spectator ^ | May 2009 | Peter Ferrara

Posted on 05/16/2009 2:15:41 PM PDT by pleikumud

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To: peeps36

I prefer the term Cheatem and Steal.


41 posted on 05/17/2009 12:01:50 AM PDT by Always Independent
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To: pleikumud

” Obama promised in his campaign that there would be no tax increase for the bottom 95 percent of income earners.”

NOT ONE DIME..the Messiah said...


42 posted on 05/17/2009 12:33:16 AM PDT by tina07 (In loving memory of my father,WWII Vet. CBI 10/16/42-12/17/45, d. 11/1/85 -Happy B'day Daddy 2/20/23)
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To: Kudsman
Make ready the pitchforks!

What? Transition from "shovel-ready" to "pitchfork ready"?

43 posted on 05/17/2009 4:07:15 AM PDT by FDNYRHEROES (In just 3 days, the War on Terror became the War on Free Speech.)
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To: FDNYRHEROES

lol. So let it be written. So let it be done.


44 posted on 05/17/2009 6:43:30 AM PDT by Kudsman (Thou Shalt Not Steal - Government hates the competition.)
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To: pleikumud

This is the idea that we are going to go into a post industrial socialist phase. Liberals believe in industrial disarmament the same way they believe in all of us giving up our guns. The elites however, will continue to live high on the hog. Air conditioning is for them, just not us peasants.


45 posted on 05/17/2009 5:00:20 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: peace with honor
who’s going to start it? answer, WE ARE

I should greatly like to see that, but who's going to risk their family's lives and well being, walk away from careers, jobs and businesses built over decades to do that?

Remember that the founding fathers were the ELITE in society. Sure, they had the most to lose, but they also weren't "just getting by". At a 6 digit salary with a family to support, it feels like "just getting by" these days.

That doesn't leave a great amount of the populace that can pick up and march on DC in protest at the drop of the dime, and most of us will probably get distracted and go after the dime.

Sorry, but I've been thinking about what this would take. It would require something so life-altering that each an every American would find themselves looking at the precipice before they'd step up any further than verbal complaint.

46 posted on 05/18/2009 2:51:33 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Cacique

Do you suppose the White House A/C is set on 72 or 80?


47 posted on 05/18/2009 4:56:53 AM PDT by pleikumud
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To: Caipirabob

well said


48 posted on 05/18/2009 8:13:17 AM PDT by peace with honor ( they)
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To: Cacique

Liberals and RINOS. Here’s what Senator Mel Martinez (RINO-FL) wrote in response to my letter:

“I believe that the threat of climate change is real, and I am working with my colleagues in the Senate to regulate and reduce greenhouse emissions. As we consider climate change legislation, we need to ensure that the laws we pass will in fact reduce carbon emissions and lessen the threat of catastrophic climate change.”

This so-called Republican senator is kissing Obama’s butt.


49 posted on 05/18/2009 10:21:03 AM PDT by pleikumud
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To: expatpat

“He can impoverish it, but he can’t destroy it in less than one generation. An impoverished middle class is likely to be very angry....”

...which is why he wants us all disarmed...


50 posted on 05/23/2009 8:41:26 PM PDT by Constitutional Patriot (Socialism is the cancer of humanity.)
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