1: I make assumptions on anything I like. It seems one of my assumptions was correct though. You pay a-lot of taxes. This explains your obvious distaste for the current pres. administration. One who is intent on forcing the very wealthy to pay an equal amount to those who make less. A horrible concept I know!
You are right, but contradict yourself in your statement 3. I will address there.
2:Yes I pay my taxes.
More points, but are you satisfied with the ROI of this money YOU worked for? How much deeper into your pocket are you willing to go considering the state of things? Maybe I am just short on faith. Of course, I can't use liberalism as a religion subsitute. At what point is YOUR share, unfair? As an entrepreneur (paying both sides of payroll) and I assume wishing to expand...you must be island, because most small business people I meet with are in a constant state of groan.
3: I never called myself a liberal. I said this place is full of liberal potheads who will be more behind my liberal leaning posts than your obviously far right disinformation. The only ones whose butt hurts around here are the middle class. This is from watching damn near half of our income go towards taxes, as the very wealthy parade around in their 100k dollar cars and multi-million dollar mansions. Taking advantage of legal loopholes allowing them to get away with a lesser tax rate.Meanwhile people like us get our homes foreclosed on and have to go on foodstamps just to feed our children.
The rich will stay rich and people like me ...let's say upper middle class.. because I am not rich, are on a fucking hamster wheel trying to stay above the Fray. Growth is anemic. Getting ahead is impossible. Money talks and bullshit walks...that is never going to change. But my beef is the idolaters. These clowns keep talking about "balanced cuts". They can't even cut the growth rate of spending without a meltdown, hence the entire reason of this post in the first place. Maxine had a real handle on the subject, didn't she?
The poor are not being benifited and more of my money, which I spent many years slamming my dick in the door for goes into the abyss. I promise I have a more productive economic use for it. Nonetheless, demagoguing the wealthy is a waste of time. They are never as thick in numbers as the left portrays and as rich as they may be...as a tax base, they can't fix our current dilemnas, particularly without spending controls. You think the left is going to close loopholes? HA! I guess cronyism is only for the right?
4:I would love to see some facts on how republican legislation will help the middle class. Past statistics are not as good. For every stat you find on wasteful liberal spending( and I agree there is too much). I can find an equally damning stat of wanton conservative handouts for military contracts, tax breaks for Big business and for the wealthy. None of which I get to enjoy. Meanwhile middle class america is left footing the bill.
I will settle for a bit of discussion on any of the points I brought up in post #'s 67,68 or 72. Specifically on how the right(whom obviously you are defending) represent middle class interests.
I never claimed to be a cheerleader of the right, however, it this goverment can prove itself I don't support giving it anymore revenue. No doubt the military industrial complex has it's share of kickbacks beyond what is neccesary for a strong national defense, which I do support if not wasteful. But damn Obama luvs them drones! Nonetheless, this can not be singled out as the only source of political corruption. In fact, my whole point with the left...and it is the left, because they have had the football for some time now is that two wrongs don't make a right and running one way in the wrong direction cheerleading is detrimental no matter which way you run. It ain't Bushs fault anymore...time to own it.
5:I am not cheerleading anyone. Or blaming the right. I will blame Good ol' W. For the piss poor state in which he left our country. Who else should I blame?
The Gov in general. You want to see a clip of Gore's comments about Iraq before it was convenient to be against it? For all of Bush's misteps, he did have the go go years. Whether you want to attribute those to him or the wake after is up to you, but frankly the crash can not rest squarely on his shoulders. It stems back to Clinton, the GSE's, rating agencies and lastly the investment banks. Point a finger, they are all to blame. The bottom line is doesn't make the left's prescription correct. Keynes is dead IMO and tax cuts didn't cause this "mess".
It took 8 long years to put our country where it is today. It may take more than 4 to pull us out.
