POLITICS-NOBS

2012-10-21T21:32:00.002-05:00

You need to listen carefully to what Willard said. In the last debate, he said

1. "Trickle Down" economics never worked - wonder how that is sitting with his base?

2. He clearly stated that after his tax cuts and deduction work is done, the top income bracket will continue to pay 60% of the taxes. Sounds good ha...watch this:

· He wants to make the Bush tax cuts permanent

· Lower the rates 20% across the board

· Pay for the rate reduction through the elimination of tax breaks and deductions primarily for the top tax bracket.

To make it simple let's assume the total tax bite for the nation is currently $100 annually

$100 - total current annual taxes

.60 - the top earners currently pay 60% of the total taxes collected

$ 60 - currently paid by the top earners

With Willard's plan

$100 - total current annual taxes

-$ 20 - 20% reduction in tax rates across the board

$ 80 - new post Willard tax cut total annual taxes collected by the Government

* .60 - the top earners will continue to pay 60% of the total annual taxes collected

$ 48- total taxes paid by the top earners under Willard's new tax plan

$60 - total taxes currently paid by top earners under the Bush tax cuts

$48 - total taxes paid under Willard's new scheme

$12 - less taxes paid by the top earners under Willard's scheme

Again, where is Willard going to get the money to pay for his tax scheme? If he were to actually increase the taxes on the job creators (his term) then what's up?

Willard and taxes

2012-10-14T11:52:00.000-05:00

Am I the only one who can see this? Here is how Romney and Ryan have described their tax plan.

1.) 20% across the board tax cut

2.) The cuts will be revenue neutral

3.) The decrease in revenue related to the 20% reduction in marginal rates will be paid for by eliminating certain deductions and loopholes.

4.) This plan will result in broadening the base thereby bringing in more revenue to the government

5.) The net effect is that the wealthy will not pay lower taxes, it is expected that their taxes stay the same.

Now, what does this plan say to you?

1.) Broadening the tax base - translation - Romney will get after the 47% that currently do not pay taxes.

2.) So, the middle and lower income families, again, will need to make up the revenue loss of giving the top 1% more tax advantages or at a minimum - protecting them.

Romney has proven to be a fast talking used car salesman and so in the debate, if he is confronted with his own words, he will deny that the top 1% will see a net decrease or no increase in their taxes. He will undoubtedly try to lie his way through the debate by saying the 1% will see their taxes go up significantly. Ok Willard the lying rat, how will raising taxes on the job creators, as you have pointed out, help the economy grow?

Santorum and the Taliban

2012-03-17T10:23:00.000-05:00

What's the difference? The Taliban rule under strict religious law and hate women. Anal juice wants to rule under religious law and he obviously hates women. I saw his wife on TV yesterday, she wasn't wearing make up...she looked like one of those burnt out egg laying hens. Now anal juice wants to end porn. That will cause some problems among our perverted law makers. I'll say it again, how can anyone vote for these morons.

IS THAT YOU DADDY?

2012-03-11T11:56:00.000-05:00

Found out why Christie does not want to run for President....apparently he has an illegitimate child

Willard and war

2012-03-07T15:15:00.002-06:00

I watched a Senate hearing this morning on Syria and Iran. Right wing rat bastard McCain and others were proposing to begin bombing the region immediately followed by an occupation, or as McCain likes to say it... a surge. Just imagine how many wars we would have been in had McCain beat Obama in 2008. Which led me to think what would happen if pussy pee the pants Willard actually wins the presidency. Willard has proven that he has no back bone, is willing to change his position on issues based on who exerts the most pressure and has no compunction in doing so. He has relied simply on lying his way out of anything. What will this yellow stain Willard do if he is president and McCain and other right wing war hawk whack jobs want to go to war. Pussy Willard will commit this country to war just so that McCain and others won't speak badly of him. Willard will be an unqualified disaster as president....period.

Flush

2012-03-03T22:02:00.000-06:00

This is the undisputed king of the rat bastards. I put him at more rotten than butt juice, McConnell and Kantor on the heartless rotten scale. This idiot tries to make the point that the young lady in question must be having a lot of sex since she uses so many birth control pills. My understanding is that a woman may have sex only once a month but must take the pill every day since that is how the regiment works. This rat bastard (Flush) has been married 4 times since 1977 and has no children. So, either he is impotent or, all of his wives have been unable to bear children or they have been total whores if they took birth control pills and were reimbursed by insurance. I only hope this fat rat bastard finally has gone too far.

Education

2012-03-03T11:00:00.000-06:00

So the right wing whack job approach to education is to get the Fed and State out and leave it up to local communities. I guess this includes funding i.e. the elimination of Fed and State funding will leave the responsibility to pay the bills to the collection of local property taxes. How many low income communities are there? How many of these low income communities have minimal property tax income? How can these low income communities afford education? The answer is they can't. That is why the Fed and State have been involved. Ok, so vote these right wing whack jobs into power and you can count on spending more tax dollars on prisons and, by the way....what will you do with all of the children that the poor parents cannot afford to feed? There will be more of these children since another of your right wing whack job plans is to eliminate funding for female contraceptives and abortions. Come on, even you whack jobs have to be able to see the hole in your game plan.

Willard's economic plan

2012-03-01T15:06:00.000-06:00

Willard says he will fix the economy by cutting taxes 20% as well as implementing a bunch of other tired old right wing crap ideas. I watched a discussion with Michael Steele who defended the plan by pointing out that the 20% did not apply only to the wealthy and that in fact it will be a tax cut for all income levels and therefore is a good idea. As usual, BS!!!!. The advantage to the low end of the income scale is that they will save $76 per year where as the top .02% (which Willard is among) income earners will save $240,000.00 per year. So what's wrong with this picture? I mean it is fare since all income groups get the same cut... The problem is the impact on the debt. We do not need the $76 to balance the budget. I would rather the low income group keep the money because they will spend it in ways that will help the economy. We do however need the $240,000.00 because the rich will not spend it like the poor. They will simply invest in oversees opportunities or fatten their off shore bank accounts.

Your 2012 Republican presidential candidates

2012-02-26T15:07:00.002-06:00

More oil BS

2012-02-24T20:22:00.000-06:00

Gas prices rise and the GOP blames the Democratic president. Here is why this is BS:

1. Oil prices are rising primarily due to speculation in the oil futures market that currently reflects increased risk represented by Iran's threat to shut down the Strait of Hormuz.

2. Oil prices are set by the world market, not by a president.

3. Newt and brain donor Palin blame Obama saying he needs to drill baby drill. The US has 3% of the world's known oil reserves which is approximately 21 billion barrels of oil. The US consumes approximately 20 million barrels per day. If we drained all of our known reserves and used only our oil then we would be out of oil completely in less than 3 years....then where would we be with the middle east? Think they may try to bend us over....hmm?

4. If we did drill baby drill and flood the market with our oil in order to lower the world price it would only last a few days or weeks before OPEC simply cut their production thereby causing the price to go back up again and we will have spent our own reserves.

5. Did you ever think it may be our strategy to use the oil from the rest of the world before we use our own? I'm just saying.

FIX IT BRAINSTORM

2012-02-24T13:16:00.001-06:00

This post is to be used to put forth out of the box ideas that can/will fix the economy. It has been my experience that when teams are stuck with no clear correct way forward they engage in a team activity called brainstorming to fire up the creative juices. Though I am a progressive I don't see the President's economic plans as adequate to address the entitlement mess we have in front of us. However, the President's plan is light years better than ANY republican plan. I guess the word ANY does not apply since all republican plans are the same i.e. cut taxes on the rich and eliminate all regulations. Obama's plan racks another 10 trillion in debt in 10 years and the Ryan budget adds about 8 trillion in 10 years even with extreme cuts in medical benefits for the elderly and poor.

I welcome you to post your thoughts and ideas in the comments section of this post. To post a comment you need to click on the posting heading FIX IT BRAINSTORM (blue font) then type your thoughts and ideas in the comments box.

I'll get things started with my out of the box brainstorm idea to fix the economy.

IDEA - - - Capitalize the United States of America.

** Come up with a value for everything owned by the USA....for example - all military assets (guns, missiles, tanks, bases, embassies, ships, aircraft carriers, aircraft), the interstate hi-way system, Hoover Dam, National Parks, Electrical grid backbone, Internet backbone, Government Buildings etc. etc. etc. My WAG (wild ass guess) is the total value would be say.... 125 trillion dollars.

** Issue common shares (IPO) for say $10 per share

** Only US citizens and US companies can buy the shares

** Elect a board of directors that will pick officers - Chairman, Treasurer etc.

** Open bank accounts and deposit 18 trillion to pay off the existing debt

** Pay dividends

** Eliminate all taxes....yes all taxes

** Act as angel capitalists on new ventures creating earnings

** Subsidize industries that compete on the world market...the hell with China and the rest of the cheap labor markets.

That' it for now, more to come.

Ewwwww....something is burning down below

2012-02-22T14:44:00.002-06:00

Newt getting ready for tonight's debate

2012-02-22T10:37:00.000-06:00

DADDY........ IS THAT YOU DADDY???

2012-02-22T10:13:00.001-06:00

Funding our Veteran's Health Care

2012-02-19T14:44:00.000-06:00

Why is it that the GOP consistently tries to cut Veterans Administration budgets? After all, it is usually the GOP chicken hawks that get us into unneeded wars in the first place. Look at Iraq. Cheney, Wolfowitz, and Richard Perl bullied dubya into war in Iraq by reminding him that they all felt his daddy was a pussy for not invading Iraq in the first Gulf war. Cheney never served in the military....got himself 5 deferments. Cheney and the other clowns were just interested in advancing their Neo Con ambitions to control the middle east with Cheney having the added incentive to make a boat load of money via Halliburton on no bid contracts. Even a dummy like me could see there was no reason to go into Iraq. I mean the nuclear inspectors were allowed back into the country and said there were no nukes and the claim of Saddam's affiliation with al-Qaida was absurd. When I saw those planes flying into the Trade Centers I knew there was a powerful motivation behind such action. The motivation was a deep religious belief that they were doing the right thing and would be rewarded with 72 virgins for ever for their trouble. Look, Saddam had erected statues of himself and placed them on every street corner in Baghdad. He saw himself as lord. The last thing he wanted to do was to promote competition (Ala, Bin Laden) for the worship he believed he was getting from his subjects. So, for these very weak and greedy reasons, the country lost thousands of heroes to death and life changing injury. Now the most pathetic thing to observe is how the GOP chicken hawks want to squeeze pennies when it comes to supporting the needs of our wounded veterans and the voting GOP masses continue to say they honor the troops and continue voting for representatives that constantly vote against supporting the needs of the wounded troops.

Ricky

2012-02-17T11:45:00.000-06:00

So, here's the deal Santorum is proposing:

Get the government off the back of the citizens. Let freedom ring and liberty flourish unless...

· You are a woman who wishes to use contraceptives - Ricky says that contraceptives are bad and make it possible for women to engage in behaviors that are sinful. Ricky's financial backer (don't care what the rat bastard's name is) suggested that women put an aspirin between her legs as a means of contraception. Really Ricky? Is it just possible that god fearing faithful loyal married good mother woman have been advised by their doctor that having additional children would put her life in danger. Let's further suppose that she and her husband prefer not to use condoms. I guess in your mind (Ricky) the woman (who could be very young in this example) should just quit having sex with her husband. By the way Ricky, what is you and your rat bastard supporter's position on the little blue boner pill?

· You are a grown responsible working tax paying adult family member who enjoys playing online poker. Again, in this instance Ricky and the rest of the Pilgrims feel it is their duty to use the Government to outlaw such enjoyment for the masses.

· You are gay and want to marry your life partner. This is more than you should be allowed to do as it offends the sensibilities of Ricky and his Pilgrim brethren so they want to enact a constitutional amendment to outlaw your ability to marry.

· You are a woman that has found herself in an unplanned pregnancy and wish to terminate the pregnancy early. Ricky and the Pilgrims cannot allow this either. Ricky says you must give birth and then go straight to hell if you are an unwed mother in need of assistance to support the child. Ricky and the rest of his Pilgrim flock will continue to tell you and your child to go straight to hell if you ask for help in providing school meals so that your child has an equal chance to learn as those with full bellies. Ricky and the Pilgrims value their greedy possessions more than showing kindness and generosity to your child.

· You are poor and cannot afford health care. Ricky says this is a good thing. It is our perfect system of survival of the fittest so if you are unable to earn enough money to afford adequate health care then you and your baby can go straight to hell and I (Ricky and the Pilgrims) can continue to build our stairway to heaven on your immoral back and keep all of our greedy possessions.

I could go on but I'll stop here. Again. If you are not a very rich and powerful person, I do not understand why you would vote republican.

Please stop

2012-02-15T13:20:00.000-06:00

The republicans continue to protect the current low tax rates on millionaires claiming that they are job creators and raising their taxes will hurt the economy. I am literally sickened when I hear them make this claim because there are plenty of lazy thinkers that will believe this load of crap and support their bogus positions. Here is why raising taxes on job creators will not hurt the economy.

1. Most millionaires are not small business owners, in fact they are Corporate Officers e.g. Chairman, Presidents, Vice Presidents, General Counsel etc. or Lawyers, Hedge Fund Managers etc. The only jobs these people create are for low paying maid, lawn care, pool care, chauffeur type jobs.

2. The money these millionaires do retain is not spent widely in the USA. They may buy a new pre-owned mansion or yacht or private island but none of these purchases help the US economy. The money is too concentrated and simply cannot be disbursed as it would be if it were in the hands of millions of people spending every dime on food and products.

3. They typically invest their money in gold or off-shore investments because developing nations are experiencing a faster growth rate and pay higher interest on bonds than the US. Again, this does nothing to help the US economy.

4. Let's assume that we do raise taxes on some businesses....so what. Remember, we are only talking about the PROFITS earned after all expenses (including employee) are deducted from revenue. When businesses want or need to expand they typically borrow the money which today is the smartest move a business can make since interest rates are so low. The investments they make are either expensed or depreciated as tax reductions and the interest paid on the loans is also expensed against revenue lowering the tax liability. Raising taxes on business PROFITS has nothing to do with future investing or hiring. I have never heard of a situation where a business decided to not hire and turn away business and revenues because they did not want to pay the tax.

5. Where have the jobs been, we have been and still are on the bush tax cuts.

If you are a blue collar republican, you need to rethink what is in your best interest.

Here we go again

2012-02-14T11:00:00.001-06:00

The President's budget calls for extending the Bush tax cuts for those earning less than $250,000 per year and letting the cuts expire for those earning above the $250,000 level. The Republicans have attacked this plan, again, saying that it will hurt the precious job creators. Let's take a look at the specifics. According to the IRS, only 3% of small businesses will be effected by this plan and, a large percentage among the 3% are actually not typical small businesses at all in the sense that they hire a large number of employees. Instead they are Lawyers and Hedge Fund managers that organize themselves as small businesses for tax write off purposes and make an extreme amount of income. Don't forget, employee costs, if applicable, are deductions and don't apply to taxes and so once again the Grover Norquist crowd is leading the charge of protecting their obscene unmitigated greed.

Santorum

2012-02-12T12:20:00.001-06:00

This guy is dangerous. Newt is a rotten prick but in the end will arrive at rationality. Willard is a pandering punk and in the end will be easily bent to rationality. Santorum though, this guy is driven by religious zeal. He is the epitome of what our founding fathers were trying to protect against when they wrote the constitution and insisted on a separation between church and state. The reason is that NO, yes NO religion is wrong to those that believe and EACH religion is uncompromising as only THEY know the TRUTH. Why would anyone believe in a religion that is truthful only part of the time. So, Santorum's radical ideas are easily explained by his uncompromising religious beliefs. His religion will not allow him to engage in birth control for example even though it is proven to prevent unwanted pregnancies and certain health problems such a cancer in women. I could site more examples but all you need to do is listen to this guy and you should be rightfully scared to death to give him any authority over political decisions. People like him will get us into a serious war very quickly based on his uncompromising beliefs.

Rat Bastard rally

2012-02-09T20:05:00.001-06:00

I think they call it CPAC. I couldn't watch it, I tried but I started getting stomach cramps. I get that way when I listen to people lying to my face, I figure they must think I'm stupid and therefore they can tell me anything they want. This leads me to make the following observations about the rat bastard presidential candidates:

Paul - probably the least offensive of the litter. At least he rarely panders and tends to say what he believes. The only problem with him is that he is completely irrational to believe that the actions he proposes would get enacted or work.

Santorum - look it up on Google

Newt - fat rotten prick

Willard - I cannot stand listening to this guy, after 2 minutes I end up with explosive diarrhea. He lies and changes his position on any issue, it just does not matter to him, he will do and or say anything to get elected. Even the right wing whack jobs should steer clear of this pile of junk.

WOW!!!! Willard what a lie

2012-02-08T12:11:00.001-06:00

Does anyone, I mean anyone actually believe the pandering story told by Willard the rat last night about how his dad would put a handful of nails in his mouth then spit them out one at a time in such a way that they would stick in wood. I have only seen this done in a Three Stooges short. Come on people, you cannot believe this guy.

Willard Romney and rats

2012-02-06T13:17:00.000-06:00

First, Romney is a pathological liar. This is confirmed by his rat bastard competitor Newt. Just watch this bastard (Willard the rat) answer a question, especially about his offshore accounts. His voice pitch goes up a few notches, his speech becomes very rapid and his eyes blink uncontrollably. I have not seen eyes blink like that since Sperman Cain was in the race.

The rats cannot deal with the fact that the economy is improving and are digging desperately to find all possible ways to discredit and diminish the good news.

UNMITIGATED GREED

2012-02-03T15:18:00.001-06:00

Persistent crap

2012-02-03T12:35:00.000-06:00

I watched a House committee hearing this morning on the new unemployment numbers. The following is the game plan of these right wing sphincter muscles. Remember the context here. The right wing has been bitching... they just can't stand it that needy low income people are getting unemployment relief..it is their focus of every discussion that the extended UI needs to end today. Why? I just don't know.

Now, with this background (they want to end UI) they spent all morning grilling the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics painfully parsing apart the new positive employment numbers trying to find/point out negatives such as: (by the way, these rat bastards never asked these questions of the dismal record when bushy was in office)

- Do these new numbers account for people who have simply fallen off the UI roles without finding work, they did.

- Are the new jobs minimum wage or higher paying

- If we were following the Reagan plan could these numbers have been better

- I even heard one of these idiots bitching about the new minimum wage rate of $7+ per hour saying that since employment is improving we ought to move the minimum wage back to the $5 an hour range.

etc...

Basically they did everything they could to make the good news look bad just so the president would not get credit for an improving economy in an election year. But, what these inbred mouth breathing nose picking right wing sphincter muscles did not seem to understand is that the more they negated the good employment news the less strength they retained for their argument to end UI. If the numbers, in reality, are worse than they appear, then why would you consider ending UI and putting millions of families (yes including children) into the streets.

Don't forget, they (the rat bastards) are in favor of putting families into the street instead of making millionaires like Romney pay a little more in taxes.

Again, why would anyone that is not extremely rich and powerful vote for these guys?

Hmmmm

2012-02-01T20:35:00.000-06:00