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swansoncide commented on the blog post Better Off Than Four Years Ago
Corporations and rich people are certainly better off.
And torturers can breathe a lot easier.
Can we please elect Romney? He agrees with Obama on everything, so it will be exactly the same, but at least I won’t have to argue with my liberal friends anymore. Please?
OK, it won’t be EXACTLY the same. We’ll have a more progressive congress, more progressive state legislatures, etc, etc…
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swansoncide commented on the blog post Obama’s Budget Speech: Nice Rhetoric, Misplaced Focus
I’m very, very worried about this passage: “That’s why I’m calling on Congress to reform our individual tax code so that it is fair and simple – so that the amount of taxes you pay isn’t determined by what kind of accountant you can afford. I believe reform should protect the middle class, promote economic growth, and build on the Fiscal Commission’s model of reducing tax expenditures so that there is enough savings to both lower rates and lower the deficit. And as I called for in the State of the Union, we should reform our corporate tax code as well, to make our businesses and our economy more competitive.”
Why? Well, the deficit commission recommended cutting individual tax rates for the wealthy EVEN MORE than they already are, plus getting rid of the mortgage deduction and EITC. This will basically result in tax cuts for the rich and tax increases for everyone else, ESPECIALLY the working poor. So let’s not get our hopes up…
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swansoncide commented on the diary post Progressives Must Stand up to the President by Cenk Uygur.
Um, he’s not the “world’s worst negotiator.” He WANTS this outcome. The Republicans are just giving him political cover for HIS OWN AGENDA. Duh. Progressives need to tell Obama to fuck the fuck off forever.
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swansoncide commented on the blog post Democrats Ask for Broader Budget Conversation to Expose GOP Deficit Frauds
True, but at least baby boomers will get full benefits. Our generation is screwed. Also, our generation didn’t have very good health care growing up, so we will probably all die sooner. Which should help gen Y with their deficit problems. By then income taxes will probably be gone, altogether replaced with 50% payroll taxes that are capped at $1m a year. I hope we aren’t still pretending we’re a democracy by then. Aristocracy has its problems, but at least entailed rights included some responsibility to the less fortunate.
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swansoncide commented on the blog post Democrats Ask for Broader Budget Conversation to Expose GOP Deficit Frauds
Um, they do need to, but they aren’t going to. Obama and Senate Dems have their own agenda, and it is pretty much the same agenda the republicans have, except for homos.
Read Obama’s debt commission report (once again, OBAMA put together that panel, OBAMA supported their conclusions, as did many Senate Dems). That is the blueprint. There is NO reason to believe they won’t follow it. THEY JUST NEED THE POLITICAL COVER TO DO IT.
It will be exactly like last fall. “Gasp! We have no choice! As much as we HATE enriching the wealthy with the payroll taxes of workers…choke…sputter…”
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swansoncide commented on the blog post Democrats Ask for Broader Budget Conversation to Expose GOP Deficit Frauds
Um, guise, are you sure this is good news? To me this just opens the door to Social Security cuts for generation X (you’re welcome, baby boomers! We were happy to pay extra payroll taxes our whole lives!).
Senate Dems desperately want to do entitlement “reform.” They will act like its the only choice to save the precious programs, and this will make thge tax cuts permanent.
Don’t you see the shell game here? It’s not just that they’re going to cut Social Security. DEMOCRATS are going to cut it, and REPUBLICANS will say that they “tried” to cut benefits for the lazy instead.
So gross.
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swansoncide commented on the diary post How Would a President McCain Have Responded to Egypt’s Uprising? by Jim White.
Of course this is just hypothetical because he could NEVER BE PRESIDENT BECAUSE HE WASN’T BORN IN AMERICA.
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swansoncide commented on the blog post Late Night: Teenaged Barbarian Socialists Are Taking Over America, So How Can We Ask Glenn Beck to Not Talk Crap?
Think about this: 50 years ago it was 1961. World War 2 ended 65 years ago. EVERYONE IS DEAD
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swansoncide commented on the blog post Late Night: Teenaged Barbarian Socialists Are Taking Over America, So How Can We Ask Glenn Beck to Not Talk Crap?
“A generation ago” it was 1990 and we were just as mean. A generation before that it was 1970, the sixties had just ended in a spasm of meanness. A generation before THAT was perhaps this time of genteel civility and Medgar Eversness. Seriously, guys IT IS 2011!!!! The only people who even REMEMBER the 50s are 65+. And they barely do.
Honestly.
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swansoncide commented on the blog post Moody’s Swings
It was not a “mistake” to do this after the elections. Obama could have NEVER extended the Bush tax cuts before the elections. In fact, had the Dems had this debate in, say, October, it MIGHT have changed enough minds that they would have held on to the house.
And that would have screwed up the whole plan. No, the plan was massive electoral losses, Uncomfortable Shift To The Center (AKA right), extend tax cuts for oligarchs, Oh Goodness we have to DO SOMETHING about the deficit for the grandchildren, massive cuts, and then, as a denouement, TAX REFORM deficit commission style, meaning MORE PERMANENT tax cuts for oligarchs while we wait longer to retire, have meager benefits cut further, and huge tax increases for the middle class, which will be rectified by President Palin in 2013. CANT WAIT
