Posted on 07/28/2011 7:26:24 AM PDT by blam
Ken Langone Flips Out On Obama, Accusing Him Of Long Lasting "Destruction"
Katya Wachtel
Jul. 28, 2011, 9:45 AM
Ken Langone, the former director of the NYSE and a veteran of Wall Street banking, had some harsh words for President Obama.
Langone lambasted Obama's leadership during the debt ceiling crisis to CNBC, saying it has been "unpresidential."
Langone opined:
He is dividing us as a nation. He's not bringing us together. He's willfully dividing us. He's petulant.
He is not acting presidential. He is behaving in a way designed in my opinion to divide us, to make us look at each other with skepticism, with suspicion. That is the end of America as we know it. The destruction he is inflicting by his behavior will carry on long after we settle the debt limit.
As Dan Loeb similarly commented in a recent letter to investors, Langone said that Obama has been fostering class warfare.
While Langone said that people as wealthy as him should pay more taxes, he argued that framing this issue as a rich versus poor dichotomy is divisive and unnecessary.
""The debt ceiling is a done deal," says Langone told CNBC.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
Welcome to reality, Chief; what took you so long?
Whatta patriot!
What's stopping him? Let's find out and remove that obstacle for him.
The swat teams and martial troops are waiting in the wings.
“...who currently pay NO taxes should be paying something.”
That really needs to be clarified or go away.
People pay federal taxes when they:
-Buy gasoline
-Use a phone
-Watch cable
-Purchase internet service
-Buy cigaretts
-Purchase alcohol
-Visit federal parks
-Patronize a business
-Purchase from a corporation which pays corporate tax.
-etc. etc.
They just don’t pay federal income tax.
So we’re forsaking a significant political argument by saying they have no skin in the debt game, because they do.
Some points conservatives can make:
-Budget deficits mean more taxes.
-More debt means higher taxes will be passed on to comsumers on fuel, tobacco, alcohol and consumer goods.
-Increasing the debt ceiling increases inflation (more T-bills printed/sold to fund debt = monetary inflation since the Treasury purchases more and more of them)
-etc., etc.
There are many ways the govt taxes people who pay no income tax. We can and should bring these people into the T-E-A tent.
Debt or no debt, rich or poor are good to discuss but......people are finally talking about how others in our government are trying to destroy our country. Especially this Administration. Fix this problem and you fix the rest of it.
“Uhmmmmm.......In simplest terms, he’s behaving like the HMMIC. (Head Marxist Muslem In Charge”
Nailed it. This is a man who embraced Marxism early and hard, and never, NEVER let go. Its in his blood and marrow; he’ll be a marxist till the day he dies.
Oh, I’ve heard it said Obama is nothing more or worse than a boring, garden-variety European Socialist.
Really?
Do European socialists spend every waking minute trying to incite class warfare? Do Euro socialists demonize the ‘rich’ in every speech, presser, public pronouncement and idle off-camera remark? If you took class warfare away from the average Euro socialist, would it be the equivalent of cutting two legs off a three-legged stool?
Obama lives and breathes class warfare. He survives on it; it’s the only outlet he’s found for the seething hatred and anger at his core. Redistributing wealth is not and will never be enough for him; he’s got to nail devil horns and a pointed tail on the head and butt of every ‘wealthy’ white person in America. He even nails his rich white supporters, who, dim bulbs that they are, support him anyway. He’s a marxist madman to the core, lock, stock and barrel, NOT a calm, earnest Euro socialist.
I always wondered what happened to Uncle Fester. Made it big in home improvement I see.
Sound familiar?
At least 90%. I am single with around 43,000 pre-tax income and still receive $1,000 in refunds (state + national).
Although to be fair the bottom 50 percent of wage earners DO pay taxes. They still pay payroll and sales taxes, and in many cases, state and local taxes as well.
Well, then I guess obama will have achieved the goal of his presidency, to wreak havoc and destruction on this nation.
I would peg Obama as one hundred percent more loyal to and invested in Islam than in Christianity. I believe at his core, however, he is an atheist. At their core, 99.9 percent of Malignant Narcissists are. They have to be their own ‘god’, in the sense that they require the last word on anything and everything. If Allah was chill with this, and agreed to accept Obama while at the same time allowing O to write his own rules when it comes to booze, pork, etc., I think O would happily be a Muslim. The moment Allah [who, I realize, is a false ‘god’ that doesn’t exist, save in demonic form] looked Barry in the eye and said, “I’m greater than you, therefore I’m in charge”, Barry would say, ‘And the horse you rode in on. Adios, loser; as long as I’m around, you’ll always be Number Two.”
48% of the population do not have this as a motive when the pull the lever on election day. This is a huge problem for the rest of us. That is the point.
Pretty good resume if you want to go abroad and run a Soros project or get an appointment over at the UN.
I am convinced that Obama himself would laugh his azz off if he were to discover he was within 10 points of his opponent in September 2012. His job is and was deconstructing our society, economy, institutions, military, and religious leanings.
And let's face it, BHO is not about hard work and accomplishment. He's about shortcuts and manipulation of others to shape the message.
I know I have relatives and in-laws who are deep-rooted liberals.
I can't stomach being near them.
I'm sure in some families there will be harsh words, maybe even fists flying.
I know I'm close.
Class warfare is part of the marxist plan. It divides us as a nation. A divided nation is easier to take over from within.
Allen West said it:
“I am sick and tired of this class warfare, this Marxist, demagogic rhetoric that is coming from the President of the United States of America. It is not helpful for this country and it’s not going to move the ball forward as far as rectifying the economic situation in our country. And I’m not going to back away from telling what the truth is.
[...]
There’s a great depth to my conviction, and part of my conviction is telling the truth. I don‘t think it’s very presidential when Barack Hussein Obama refers to my colleague, Paul Ryan, as a simple little accountant, either. So I think that when you look at what a community organizer is turning out to be, it does seem to be like a low-level socialist agitator.”
Oh, I totally agree with you there. Barry is ALL about whatever promotes and profits Barry. When it was Jeremiah Wright and his Black Liberation con game—a so-called ‘church’ in which many Muslims ‘worshiped’, and in which no Muslim was ever asked to convert—Barry sat in the pews. When it was expedient, he threw Wright under the bus. Same with Islam. He’s tried a million ways to convince the Muslims he’s on their side/is one of them. Unfortunately for him, Muslims are more astute and US liberals. Obama is very unpopular with his Middle Easter brethren.
Let’s watch him closely during this Ramadan. Wasn’t it just last year his wedding band disappeared till Ramadan ended? I wonder if Barry will give the booze-fueled parties a rest, and redouble his efforts to trick the true believers.
It’s easy. Here’s how: http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/reports/pd/gift/gift.htm
Interesting to scan these:
http://www.bing.com/search?q=pay+extra+taxes+voluntarily&go=&qs=n&sk=&form=QBRE
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