Posted on 02/10/2010 7:04:39 PM PST by kristinn
President Obama says he is now "agnostic" about raising taxes on households making under $250,000 a year to help cut budget deficits, signaling a possible retreat from a campaign pledge.
In an interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek on newsstands Friday, Obama said a presidential budget commission needs to look at all options for deficit reduction - including tax increases and cuts in spending on such programs as Social Security and Medicare.
"The whole point of it is to make sure that all ideas are on the table," Obama said. "So what I want to do is to be completely agnostic, in terms of solutions."
Obama repeatedly vowed during the 2008 campaign to spare households earning less than $250,000 a year from tax increases.
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My exact thoughts. Taking away from the elderly and giving it to fraudulent enterprises such as ACORN. It makes my head explode!
God help me, but, I loathe this man and his minions.
0bozo, you kenyan negro commie sonovabitch!!! You are a commie pig right down to your cloven hoofs!!! You will roast in Hell & the Lake of Fire, along with your phatass ugly wife and all those who follow you or vote for socialist demoRATs. Along with your muzzie terrorist buddies.
He really used the word “agnostic”? LOL! What a doofus!
What frickin' pi** poor leaders these left wing idiots are and always have been, "We won't ever cut spending because the taxpayers have unlimited funds at their disposal and we will just keep increasing taxes until we get all of it!".
I don't know why they just don't go to 100% and leave it at that, then they could give everyone in America an income from the 100% tax rate. Sounds good, no?/SAR
‘Course, that may be just me and this evening’s warm milk and cookies talking....
CA....
“Agnostic” makes no sense in terms of his answer.
Unless he’s wondering if he is a God, of course.
“Agnostic” actually makes no sense in this answer. “Ambivalent”? Perhaps. “Open to the idea”? Maybe. “Agnostic”. Huh?
CHANGE SUCKS!
What a leader. I agree with Mark Steyn: the only thing he’s ever run is his mouth.
“So what I want to do is to be completely agnostic, in terms of solutions.”
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Since leaders are who we look to to provide solutions, he has just admitted that he is not a leader. I guess he thought it didn’t matter anymore to maintain the illusion since we all knew that anyway. Let’s see, Sarah=Common Sense Solutions, Obama=No solutions, and no direction toward arriving at solutions.
We are already at the Waterloo for Obama.
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This guy is THE WORST! He is starting to make Carter look like George Washington.
I am coming to believe that the Republicans could run Mickey Mouse in 2012 and win in a landslide.
I feel bad for black people that the first black president is this LOSER!
Oh wow...watch that fish flip flopping ....on stage no less....are we really surprised?
WOW BH Obummer lied in the run-up to the election? Who would’ve thunk it!
.....”God help me, but, I loathe this man and his minions”...
Thank you for saying this...I’ve been working at this loathey hatey thingy for months and finally can live with myself that it’s normal to feel hate toward a person who is this bad....without guilt!!! and do all I can to stop him and his clan.
...”I feel bad for black people that the first black president is this LOSER!”....
Yeah, I was thinking about that the other day. Some are still trying hard to support him and shore him up but you can tell it’s getting harder for them to do that....they see the light before he ever will.
Bush did it....
Oh how lucky we are to have such a clever President. Something tells me he must have gone to a very good college.
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