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Posted on 07/15/2011 10:23:00 AM PDT by quesney
President Obama on Friday kept up the pressure on Republicans to agree to revenue increases in a deal to raise the debt ceiling, claiming 80 percent of the public supports Democrats' demand for tax increases.
"The American people are sold," Obama said. "The problem is members of Congress are dug in ideologically."
Throughout the press conference, Obama blasted Republicans for ignoring what he said is the will of the American people by rejecting tax increases that would balance out spending cuts in a debt package.
"This is not an issue of salesmanship to the American people," Obama said. "I hope [Republicans are] not just listening to lobbyists and special interests ... I hope they're listening to the American people as well," Obama said, citing "poll after poll" showing Republican voters, as well as Democrats, believe in taking "a balanced approach" — including both increased revenues and spending cuts in a plan to cut the deficit.
Obama repeated his warning that the country is "running out of time" to avert a financial “Armageddon.”
"We should not even be this close on a deadline," Obama said. "This is something we should have accomplished earlier."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Wow. If that is what he read from the last election he really does have a problem.
This whole kabuki has been thoroughly focus grouped by the K Street crowd. There is no way the RINOs in the House would allow brinksmanship to go this far unless the impending default and the subsequent had been guaranteed to stick to Bobo.
It’s probable that at some point in history, if you polled carefully, you’d find that 80% of Americans wanted slavery. That wouldn’t make it right, and it illustrates the reason a constitutional republic is morally superior to a simple democracy, aka mob rule.
Another point: Even today, you retain far less of each dollar you earn than the sharecroppers of the nineteenth century did. You’d think fact that would strike a chord with the Sheila Jackson-Lees of the world, but it never does.
Feel bad for his kids who seem normal and well-behaved. Bobo taking that rage upstairs every night.
Yeah...it’s old and wish we could zot the fake president every time HE says the. same. thing!! :)
Nice fiery trip for that one!
“you lie!”
....every time he opens his mouth!
And not a single reporter in the presser asked him the source poll he was referring to.
Instead, they asked him things like: “How do you FEEL about what the republicans are saying/doing?”
My guess is he just doesn't say much to them. . Leaves that to Grandma and Michelle.
0 blew through it so fast, no one knew what hit us.
Let him and his party see what Americans really want by posting your comments on his Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/barackobama?sk=wall
Imho one of the Federal Gov’s responsibilities to the US economy is to insure the circulation of money, guarding against money being dammed up stagnating in pool.
Money is liquid, so when it pools that means it is drying up some place else. As you can see by the numbers, individual taxpayers are not the cause of any pooling; collectively we pay nearly $2 trillion in income and payroll taxes. Corporations only pay $200B and as we read time and time again, they are sitting on trillions.
In effect Corporations are damming money. Its not their money they are damming up, it is yours. Since as you see by the numbers you are the ones putting the most money in the pool.
So you can see by those numbers why money in the middle and upper middle class is drying up.
You can rightfully say lower the income/payroll taxes, I agree. But those taxes would have to lower to the level of the corporate tax to break that Dam. Is that a real life possibility even if every office holder was Conservative? No. Because we have to pay a minimum of $3 trillion debt interest.. We also have overseas military deployed to pay for. Plus a nuclear arsenal to pay for. We can’t event cover those 3 bills with the current tax rate. Reason why we keep raising the debt ceiling.
Corporate loopholes need to be closed, to increase corporate tax to about even with everything else. Income and Payroll tax needs to be lowered to around $750B each.
So across the board you would have all three at:
$750B Income Tax. $750B Payroll Tax. $750B Corporate Tax.
Then the kicker, don’t raise the debt ceiling. The US is too big to fail so no worries that we wont be around. We will just have to take a timeout like Russia and live within our means for a few years. I rather do that now with the current generation (you and I) that can handle that. Then (frankly) leaving it to the softer google/facebook/twitter generation coming behind us.
(Actually a line Jon Lovitz conjured up for his character, "The Pathological Liar", on SNL) But, it fits Bowbama and this moment in time!
He seems to always get a bump during the week, when Republicans are out working and can’t be part of the poll.
Great minds think alike. Check post #172 of this thread. :)
Something is VERY wrong with Barack Hussein Obama. It’s pathological for sure.
Q. Do you support the federal government collecting an additional $2 tax from billionaires and trillionaires?
Love that picture. “We are, your overlords...”
The problem here is that he can make any statement he wants, and the MSM will dutifully and uncritically report it, and will allow no contradiction to be published or broadcast.
From the dweeb who visited 57 states.
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