How can we believe anything the President is telling us? He not the first Chief Executive to go back on his word, but he seems to have broken every single promise or commitment he made to the American people except the one about radically changing America (and no one fully appreciated what he was saying - it sounded like nice campaign rhetoric at the time).
How many hundreds of times did he tell us that people making under $250,000 or $200,000 or some amount - it keeps changing - would receive a tax cut? I believe the number he kept using was "95% of Americans."
Now that's out the window. It doesn't have to be, but it is.
Rather than cut spending, rather than axing his budget, rather than scaling back his progressive agenda, rather than recognizing that we can't afford even a portion of what he wants to implement, he goes to the American people and asks us to ante up - again.
The hallmark of his campaign - no tax increases for the middle class and even a tax decrease for many - is now gone. He says he's willing to accept any tax increase. Well, we are not!
Read our lips, Mr. President. No new taxes and no new spending and no more earmarks. Should we say that again?
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I guess the best rule is don't believe anything. Come on November 2010.
Steve, it just shows that it doesn't matter which party affiliation, they all want to get into office and tell us what they think we want to here. Some more than others.
Celia,
There's just a little over 37 weeks to go. :)
Steve
Ted,
Is there something in the food in the White House? :)
Steve
Steve,
If he increases taxes on the middle class, it will insure his one term presidency.
Rich
I say give him as much rope as he wants. He will surely hang with it. :-)
It can not come too early * November, 2010 * is our FIRST try!!!
Rich,
He's already done enough to insure that. :)
Steve
Marrill,
But what do we do while he ruins us all? :)
Steve
Wallace,
Just 262 days and counting. :)
Steve
The secret Steve is to take away tax breaks we already have. This way he hasn't broken his word at this time. We have also surrendered our space program and made it into a climate change experiment. Next time you wave at the moon, the Chinese will wave back...
I hope you were ready for another weekend,
Paul
Paul,
Taking away tax breaks is raising taxes. I don't call that keeping his word. :)
Steve
Steve - yet I am not sure that his breaking promises will have the same impact that GHWB going back on his did. There are more voters out there today that are of the "you owe me a living" mindset than what will be 20 years ago at the time of the next presidential election. And he will have added more in the two years remaining of his term. However, if we lapse into deeper recession, or the more and more predicted depression, he will be gone. However, I am not willing to trade the economy for his presidency, even if he is willing to trade it for his ideology.
It seems to me that the mess is getting messier as things progress or digress.
He is going to tax the middle class. Just wait and see. It might be slipped in under another guise but he will do it. He will also modify the tax deductions and eliminate or reduce the mortgage deduction. That sure looks like a tax increase to me. Everything he has promised has been a lie.
One would think that "the Professor" would have studied enough history to know that cuts might be more effective than increases at fixing economic slowdowns.
But those don't fit his agenda...
Mike,
I think his ideology is his hole card and everything else he makes up as he goes along. :)
Steve
Steve,
November 2 is the turning point. If we blow that, things will get expotentially worse. :)
Steve
Bonnie,
I never believed for a second that he would do as he said in the campaign. He can't help himself. He will raise taxes. I just wanted to call him on it - not that it matters. :)
Steve
Lane,
Progressive trumps everything. :)
Steve
Steve your comment #18 sums it all up. November will tell all. It it up to us.
Steve: In the interests of lowering the deficit... I think the first thing YOU should do... as far as "earmarks" are concerned... is call both your Florida Senators... and your Representative in the House... get a list of their own personal earmarks they insisted be put in bills benefiting the State of Florida over the last year... and demand that whatever that amount of money is... be returned to Washington, and be applied directly against the budget deficit. Can you do that ? It, of course, would be the honorable thing to do.
It is typical Washington politics. Too busy with house parties to notice he is supposed to be running a country and that there are issues to address. Too easy to raise taxes. More challenging to make the economy improve.
Kevin,
This is precisely right. :)
Steve
Karen,
Already done - many times. :)
Steve
Michael,
This was always about control and building a bigger government - both need our consent, and I refuse. :)
Steve
Actually,mSteve, I think he is doing everything he promised. He let us know he is an unabashed socialist and is redistributing the wealth as fast as he can. He is standing behind the unions and every two bit lobbyist that helps promote his progressive policy. He is just another page in the Wilson, Roosevelt progressive, big government anti capitalist playbook. I got a real kick watching Swarzenneger on TV saying Ca is broke and can't pay it's bills. Can the US be far behind?
Keep spreading the word.
Guy: Come on now. Is Obama a Socialist, or a Capitalist ? And, what's wrong with unions... if they are properly run ? Anything can be done well, or done poorly. Roosevelt was a great president.