Barry is not perfect...he's done stuff that i don't like or agree with, but people who don't look at romney's records honestly are in denial. This guy created the same healthcare law in Mass....and you know what? it's working pretty well. I think its sad that he's been running away from it this whole time when in fact it's actually good policy...say anything to get elected i guess. You don't have to like Barry, but for people to support mitt doesn't seem like a wise decision; but it's not mine to make.
Lesson #1
Why the U.S. credit rating was downgraded:
* U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000
* Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000
* New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000
* National debt: $14,271,000,000,000
* Recent budget cuts: $ 38,500,000,000
Let's now remove 8 zeros and pretend it's a household budget:
* Annual family income: $21,700
* Money the family spent: $38,200
* New debt on the credit card: $16,500
* Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710
* Total budget cuts: $385
Got It ?????
OK now Lesson # 2:
Here's another way to look at the Debt Ceiling:
Let's say, You come home from work and find there has been a sewer
backup in your neighborhood....and your home has sewage all the
way up
to your ceilings.
What do you think you should do ......
Raise the ceilings, or pump out the shit?
Your choice is coming Nov. 2012
...also today McCain Said to Plan Romney Endorsement in New Hampshire
Barry is not perfect...he's done stuff that i don't like or agree with, but people who don't look at romney's records honestly are in denial. This guy created the same healthcare law in Mass....and you know what? it's working pretty well. I think its sad that he's been running away from it this whole time when in fact it's actually good policy...say anything to get elected i guess. You don't have to like Barry, but for people to support mitt doesn't seem like a wise decision; but it's not mine to make.
There was a lady that came out a few weeks ago thanking Romney for passing his health care bill. She said if it wouldn't have been for that legislation she wouldn't have gone to the Dr and been diagnosed with cancer.
It's really sad that he has to run away from it because the GOP freaks tell him too
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I like what Mitt just said (while getting endorsement from McCain) about welfare assistance. It should be coupled with a work requirement. Even if you have a two year old kid! Yes, the state would spend more to send the kid to daycare BUT it would give the individuals the DIGNITY OF WORK.
I like what Mitt just said (while getting endorsement from McCain) about welfare assistance. It should be coupled with a work requirement. Even if you have a two year old kid! Yes, the state would spend more to send the kid to daycare BUT it would give the individuals the DIGNITY OF WORK.
I think their is room for compromise in that. Nice post . Thanks for sharing. :thumbup:
I like what Mitt just said (while getting endorsement from McCain) about welfare assistance. It should be coupled with a work requirement. Even if you have a two year old kid! Yes, the state would spend more to send the kid to daycare BUT it would give the individuals the DIGNITY OF WORK.
What if you can't get work for, say, 2-5 years?
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Fired Factory Worker Calls Mitt Romney a Job Killer
The potent line of attack that helped cost Mitt Romney a U.S. Senate seat 18 years ago is being resurrected as the former Massachusetts governor competes to become the Republican nominee for president, and the same man who embodied that attack told ABC News he is prepared to play that role all over again.
Labor organizer Randy Johnson was among the hundreds of blue-collar workers who lost their jobs at an American Pad and Paper (Ampad) factory in Marion, Indiana after Romney's private equity firm acquired the company in 1992.
"It was really one of the worst things I think I've had to deal with, because people … were at my desk crying, 'What do I do? I don't have a good college education… I just wanted to get to retirement,'" Johnson recalled in an interview with ABC News. "Families were devastated. In some cases, the husband and the wife both worked there. They lost all their income. It doesn't get much worse than that."
Bain Capital purchased Ampad in 1992, and Ampad purchased the factory where Johnson worked two years later. The new owners began cutting staff and wages at the plant, and raising the cost of health benefits. The unionized workers went on strike. Ultimately, the plant was shuttered and all the employees lost their jobs.
Johnson's powerful story from the dark days at Ampad became a political weapon that Democrats wielded against Romney in potent television ads. They aired during the closing days of Romney's bitter 1994 challenge to the then-incumbent Sen. Edward Kennedy. Johnson also traveled at his own expense to Massachusetts to participate in rallies against Romney's candidacy, in part with the hope that his efforts would pressure Bain Capital to preserve jobs at the struggling paper plant.
The one-time factory worker has long since moved out of Indiana and is now employed by the United Steelworkers in Pittsburgh. He believes that with unemployment as the focus of the 2012 presidential race, Romney's tenure at the helm of Bain Capital will again become grist for his political adversaries. And Johnson says he is preparing to assist again. (Johnson was approached directly by ABC News, and did not speak at the urging of any of Romney's political rivals, Democratic or Republican.)
Romney has defended his record as the CEO of Bain Capital while out on the stump, during debates, and in countless interviews. He told reporters last week he is prepared for attacks on his record in the private sector. "I know that the Democrats will try and make this a campaign about Bain Capital," he told TIME Magazine. "Twenty-five million people are out of work because of Barack Obama. And so I'll compare my experience in the private sector where, net-net, we created over 100,000 jobs."
"If you invest, as we did, in over 100 different businesses, there's no one in America that will have had a record where all of them were successful, where none of them shrank or where none went out of business," Romney told Time.
In his interview with ABC News, Johnson said he fully expects Romney to tout his business experience during the 2012 campaign. Johnson said he believes he has a responsibility to remind voters that there is another perspective on that experience -- the perspective of workers who lost their jobs when Bain purchased companies, reorganized them, collected millions in dividends, and then re-sold them for a profit.
"I was stunned by the amount of wealth he created in a short amount of time," Johnson said. "He definitely got the money, but was it the right thing to do? Was it the moral thing to do with workers and people?"
Romney Is Wealthiest Candidate in 2012 Field
Romney is the wealthiest candidate seeking the White House this term, with a family fortune estimated at $250 million. His publicly filed disclosure reports show his family still holds Bain assets worth up to $60 million, which provide his family millions of dollars in annual income. Romney has been aggressive in his defense of his tenure at the company, noting Bain's successful investments in companies like Staples, the office supply giant.
''Government doesn't create jobs, but the private sector does,'' Romney said during one recent debate. ''I spent my life, my career, in the private sector. I understand, by the way, from my successes and my failures what it's going to take to put Americans back to work with high-paying jobs.''
Johnson shared with ABC News a copy of a letter Romney wrote to him after he lost the 1994 Senate race, in which Romney suggested that the Ampad workers had been exploited by operatives for Kennedy's campaign. And Romney conceded that he felt badly that the Marion, Indiana plant had been forced to close.
Johnson said he didn't buy it.
"I bet he did feel badly," Johnson said. "He lost the election."
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The Tax Policy Center has released its formal analysis of Mitt Romney’s tax plan. The result? Regressive, but not as regressive as the tax plans of his rivals. Compared to current rates, Romney’s plan would cost a family in the bottom 20 percent $157 and save a family in the top 1 percent $82,000. That looks pretty tilted toward the rich. But here it is against the other GOP tax plans the Tax Policy Center has assessed — and against President Obama’s September proposal to the supercommittee:
The Tax Policy Center hasn’t modeled Rick Santorum’s tax plan yet, but Howard Gleckman did take a first look. “Like other Republican tax planks, Santorum’s would benefit corporations and high-income individuals. No surprise there. But unlike his rivals, he’d also cut taxes for many families with children. Santorum is no bleeding heart, however. Even as he’d cut their taxes, he’d shred direct government spending for programs aimed at assisting these same households.”
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Romney Tax Plan Adds $600 Billion to Deficit, Analysis Says
(Updates with numbers on Gingrich, Romney proposal starting in fourth paragraph. For more news, go to ELECT.)
Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s tax proposal would add $600 billion to the U.S. budget deficit in 2015, according to a study released today by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center in Washington.
The analysis compares the revenue that Romney’s tax-code changes would generate compared with expected U.S. revenue under current law, which assumes that several income tax cuts will expire as scheduled at the end of 2012.
The numbers were released five days before Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, seeks to solidify his front-runner status with a win in the New Hampshire primary.
The analysis said Romney’s plan would “reduce federal tax revenues substantially” though not as deeply as some of his opponents. In a separate study released Dec. 12, the Tax Policy Center said former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s proposed tax regime would add $1.3 trillion to the budget deficit in 2015.
Romney’s economic plan calls on Congress to immediately lower the top corporate tax rate to 25 percent from 35 percent. He has said he would be open to additional rate cuts if they are accompanied by measures that would broaden the income base.
He would move the U.S. to a so-called territorial system of taxation, in which the government taxes only domestically generated corporate income. Republican leaders in Congress have shown interest in this concept. House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp, a Michigan Republican, introduced a proposal in October that would shield 95 percent of profits earned offshore from taxation in the U.S.
Individual Taxes
For individuals, Romney would lower the maximum tax rate to 25 percent from 35 percent, eliminate the estate tax and make permanent the current 15 percent rate on dividends and capital gains. Taxpayers with an adjusted gross income of less than $200,000 wouldn’t pay any taxes on capital gains or dividends.
Romney’s tax plan, unlike those of some of his Republican opponents, isn’t an attempt to escape the confines of the complex U.S. tax code. It doesn’t give taxpayers the choice of sticking with the tax code or paying a flat tax instead, as Gingrich and Texas Governor Rick Perry proposed. There isn’t a national sales tax like the one Herman Cain outlined before his campaign collapsed.
“My administration will make America the best place in the world for entrepreneurs, inventors and job creators,” Romney said at a campaign event in Davenport, Iowa, on Dec. 27. “I’ll lower and simplify taxes, especially for middle-income Americans.”
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Lesson #1
Why the U.S. credit rating was downgraded:
* U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000
* Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000
* New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000
* National debt: $14,271,000,000,000
* Recent budget cuts: $ 38,500,000,000
Let's now remove 8 zeros and pretend it's a household budget:
* Annual family income: $21,700
* Money the family spent: $38,200
* New debt on the credit card: $16,500
* Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710
* Total budget cuts: $385
Got It ?????
OK now Lesson # 2:
Here's another way to look at the Debt Ceiling:
Let's say, You come home from work and find there has been a sewer
backup in your neighborhood....and your home has sewage all the
way up
to your ceilings.
What do you think you should do ......
Raise the ceilings, or pump out the shit?
Your choice is coming Nov. 2012
...also today McCain Said to Plan Romney Endorsement in New Hampshire
Although I have no hope that Romney or any other Republican besides Ron Paul will even make a dent, I thoroughly enjoyed this post. :thumbup:
To keep the analogy in household term, the $385 in budget cuts was closer to $10 when you sort the bear shit from the barley. The GOP made a "Pledge to America" to cut $1,000 in the last election and failed miserably .... or they knew they were lying when they made the pledge.
All of the GOP candidates are talking about massive tax cuts....yet they are still railing on Obama for deficits. There is no way any honest person could ask for tax cuts and still plan on doing any better with deficits than Obama. At least with the wars ending and the defense cuts he will make some significant dents.
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All of the GOP candidates are talking about massive tax cuts....yet they are still railing on Obama for deficits. There is no way any honest person could ask for tax cuts and still plan on doing any better with deficits than Obama. At least with the wars ending and the defense cuts he will make some significant dents.
The jobs report today also seemed to be some positive news. Thanks for posting.
And Romney on his postion of the governments bailout of GM:
Romney responded his suggestion for a managed bankruptcy plan for the struggling auto manufacturer would have resulted in "a strong and vibrant General Motors" without making concessions to unions. He charged President Obama had bowed to unions in the deal, calling it "crony capitalism."
"Under my plan, General Motors would have shed its excess costs. The workers would have had their jobs," Romney said. "I believe the market works better than a president stepping in to take care of his friends."
Romeny-Believe in America
Just heard his last speech. Couple things he said...
"I care very deeply about those who work in America"
also,
"Please vote, I can show you a way to vote more than once....take someone with you". HA
I pledge Allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands,
one nation under God, indivisible,
with Liberty and Justice for all.
the dons hair just fascinates me. keep posting pictures and will just scroll down and stare. i am hypnotized.
questions swirl about my head.
how? how does it do that?
what? what is that?
why? why? WHY would he choose to wear this 'hairstyle' upon his head?
what is that again?
i go back and stare now.
This is one joint (ticket) Obama can't smoke! Christie is one HEAVY hitter!
Proceed to make jokes about his weight, but the fat of the matter is, this ticket ain't no joke. Put that in your pipe and smoke it Obama! Bub bye, thanks for playing.
...
Based upon your past track record... you have just guaranteed that Romney will lose, therefore, you have just ensured President Obama's second term.
...
You might want to try a different tac... try throwing your support behind President Obama... if you really want him to lose.
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Hail, Hail!!!
This is one joint (ticket) Obama can't smoke! Christie is one HEAVY hitter!
Proceed to make jokes about his weight, but the fat of the matter is, this ticket ain't no joke. Put that in your pipe and smoke it Obama! Bub bye, thanks for playing.
...
Based upon your past track record... you have just guaranteed that Romney will lose, therefore, you have just ensured President Obama's second term.
...
You might want to try a different tac... try throwing your support behind President Obama... if you really want him to lose.
it sounds so horrible wanting someone to lose....OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT !
sorry Cosmo I couldn't resist
The President’s mistakes, some of them are calculated based on a philosophy that’s hard to understand, and some you just scratch your head and say how could you be so misguided and so naïve? Today his Secretary of Defense unleashed such a policy. His Secretary of Defense said that on a date certain, the middle of 2013, we’re going to pull out our combat troops from Afghanistan. He announced that. He announced that so the Taliban hears it, the Pakistanis hear it, the Afghan leaders hear it; why in the world do you go to the people that you’re fighting with and tell them the day that you’re pulling out your troops? It makes absolutely no sense; his naïveté is putting in jeopardy the mission of the United States of America and our commitments to freedom. He is wrong, we need new leadership in Washington.
The President’s mistakes, some of them are calculated based on a philosophy that’s hard to understand, and some you just scratch your head and say how could you be so misguided and so naïve? Today his Secretary of Defense unleashed such a policy. His Secretary of Defense said that on a date certain, the middle of 2013, we’re going to pull out our combat troops from Afghanistan. He announced that. He announced that so the Taliban hears it, the Pakistanis hear it, the Afghan leaders hear it; why in the world do you go to the people that you’re fighting with and tell them the day that you’re pulling out your troops? It makes absolutely no sense; his naïveté is putting in jeopardy the mission of the United States of America and our commitments to freedom. He is wrong, we need new leadership in Washington.
It was Obama himself who once said that the war was essential to our own security. Eliminating the safe havens of groups that would give sanctuary to al Qaeda was what we went to Afghanistan to do in the first place.
exactly
"We are fighting for the America we love...and the America that has a military so powerful no one would think of challenging it"
It was Obama himself who once said that the war was essential to our own security. Eliminating the safe havens of groups that would give sanctuary to al Qaeda was what we went to Afghanistan to do in the first place.
exactly
WOOT
...
So, is that what you believe, too... you belive the same things that Obama believed?
Does that mean you supported President Obama on this?
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Hail, Hail!!!
Republicans including Romney and Christie, believe market forces, not the government, should dictate the ebb and flow of the U.S. economy. And they are also for defeating Obama before he brings us down a path like Greece with his out of control spending. A vast majority see our national debt as the biggest obstacle to our recovery. Obama, like a honey badger, just don't give a fuck.
When Romney gets elected and the Republicans maintain the house and win the senate, Romney will repeal Obamacare and shrink the government.
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Lesson #1
Why the U.S. credit rating was downgraded:
* U.S. Tax revenue: $2,170,000,000,000
* Fed budget: $3,820,000,000,000
* New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000
* National debt: $14,271,000,000,000
* Recent budget cuts: $ 38,500,000,000
Let's now remove 8 zeros and pretend it's a household budget:
* Annual family income: $21,700
* Money the family spent: $38,200
* New debt on the credit card: $16,500
* Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710
* Total budget cuts: $385
Got It ?????
OK now Lesson # 2:
Here's another way to look at the Debt Ceiling:
Let's say, You come home from work and find there has been a sewer
backup in your neighborhood....and your home has sewage all the
way up
to your ceilings.
What do you think you should do ......
Raise the ceilings, or pump out the shit?
Your choice is coming Nov. 2012
...also today McCain Said to Plan Romney Endorsement in New Hampshire
There was a lady that came out a few weeks ago thanking Romney for passing his health care bill. She said if it wouldn't have been for that legislation she wouldn't have gone to the Dr and been diagnosed with cancer.
It's really sad that he has to run away from it because the GOP freaks tell him too
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It's not going to happen. Sorry to burst your bubble, but it makes zero political sense. Zero.
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I think their is room for compromise in that. Nice post . Thanks for sharing. :thumbup:
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Fired Factory Worker Calls Mitt Romney a Job Killer
The potent line of attack that helped cost Mitt Romney a U.S. Senate seat 18 years ago is being resurrected as the former Massachusetts governor competes to become the Republican nominee for president, and the same man who embodied that attack told ABC News he is prepared to play that role all over again.
Labor organizer Randy Johnson was among the hundreds of blue-collar workers who lost their jobs at an American Pad and Paper (Ampad) factory in Marion, Indiana after Romney's private equity firm acquired the company in 1992.
"It was really one of the worst things I think I've had to deal with, because people … were at my desk crying, 'What do I do? I don't have a good college education… I just wanted to get to retirement,'" Johnson recalled in an interview with ABC News. "Families were devastated. In some cases, the husband and the wife both worked there. They lost all their income. It doesn't get much worse than that."
Bain Capital purchased Ampad in 1992, and Ampad purchased the factory where Johnson worked two years later. The new owners began cutting staff and wages at the plant, and raising the cost of health benefits. The unionized workers went on strike. Ultimately, the plant was shuttered and all the employees lost their jobs.
Johnson's powerful story from the dark days at Ampad became a political weapon that Democrats wielded against Romney in potent television ads. They aired during the closing days of Romney's bitter 1994 challenge to the then-incumbent Sen. Edward Kennedy. Johnson also traveled at his own expense to Massachusetts to participate in rallies against Romney's candidacy, in part with the hope that his efforts would pressure Bain Capital to preserve jobs at the struggling paper plant.
The one-time factory worker has long since moved out of Indiana and is now employed by the United Steelworkers in Pittsburgh. He believes that with unemployment as the focus of the 2012 presidential race, Romney's tenure at the helm of Bain Capital will again become grist for his political adversaries. And Johnson says he is preparing to assist again. (Johnson was approached directly by ABC News, and did not speak at the urging of any of Romney's political rivals, Democratic or Republican.)
Romney has defended his record as the CEO of Bain Capital while out on the stump, during debates, and in countless interviews. He told reporters last week he is prepared for attacks on his record in the private sector. "I know that the Democrats will try and make this a campaign about Bain Capital," he told TIME Magazine. "Twenty-five million people are out of work because of Barack Obama. And so I'll compare my experience in the private sector where, net-net, we created over 100,000 jobs."
"If you invest, as we did, in over 100 different businesses, there's no one in America that will have had a record where all of them were successful, where none of them shrank or where none went out of business," Romney told Time.
In his interview with ABC News, Johnson said he fully expects Romney to tout his business experience during the 2012 campaign. Johnson said he believes he has a responsibility to remind voters that there is another perspective on that experience -- the perspective of workers who lost their jobs when Bain purchased companies, reorganized them, collected millions in dividends, and then re-sold them for a profit.
"I was stunned by the amount of wealth he created in a short amount of time," Johnson said. "He definitely got the money, but was it the right thing to do? Was it the moral thing to do with workers and people?"
Romney Is Wealthiest Candidate in 2012 Field
Romney is the wealthiest candidate seeking the White House this term, with a family fortune estimated at $250 million. His publicly filed disclosure reports show his family still holds Bain assets worth up to $60 million, which provide his family millions of dollars in annual income. Romney has been aggressive in his defense of his tenure at the company, noting Bain's successful investments in companies like Staples, the office supply giant.
''Government doesn't create jobs, but the private sector does,'' Romney said during one recent debate. ''I spent my life, my career, in the private sector. I understand, by the way, from my successes and my failures what it's going to take to put Americans back to work with high-paying jobs.''
Johnson shared with ABC News a copy of a letter Romney wrote to him after he lost the 1994 Senate race, in which Romney suggested that the Ampad workers had been exploited by operatives for Kennedy's campaign. And Romney conceded that he felt badly that the Marion, Indiana plant had been forced to close.
Johnson said he didn't buy it.
"I bet he did feel badly," Johnson said. "He lost the election."
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Romney’s tax plan saves top 1 percent $82,000
The Tax Policy Center has released its formal analysis of Mitt Romney’s tax plan. The result? Regressive, but not as regressive as the tax plans of his rivals. Compared to current rates, Romney’s plan would cost a family in the bottom 20 percent $157 and save a family in the top 1 percent $82,000. That looks pretty tilted toward the rich. But here it is against the other GOP tax plans the Tax Policy Center has assessed — and against President Obama’s September proposal to the supercommittee:
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The Tax Policy Center hasn’t modeled Rick Santorum’s tax plan yet, but Howard Gleckman did take a first look. “Like other Republican tax planks, Santorum’s would benefit corporations and high-income individuals. No surprise there. But unlike his rivals, he’d also cut taxes for many families with children. Santorum is no bleeding heart, however. Even as he’d cut their taxes, he’d shred direct government spending for programs aimed at assisting these same households.”
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Romney Tax Plan Adds $600 Billion to Deficit, Analysis Says
(Updates with numbers on Gingrich, Romney proposal starting in fourth paragraph. For more news, go to ELECT.)
Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s tax proposal would add $600 billion to the U.S. budget deficit in 2015, according to a study released today by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center in Washington.
The analysis compares the revenue that Romney’s tax-code changes would generate compared with expected U.S. revenue under current law, which assumes that several income tax cuts will expire as scheduled at the end of 2012.
The numbers were released five days before Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, seeks to solidify his front-runner status with a win in the New Hampshire primary.
The analysis said Romney’s plan would “reduce federal tax revenues substantially” though not as deeply as some of his opponents. In a separate study released Dec. 12, the Tax Policy Center said former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s proposed tax regime would add $1.3 trillion to the budget deficit in 2015.
Romney’s economic plan calls on Congress to immediately lower the top corporate tax rate to 25 percent from 35 percent. He has said he would be open to additional rate cuts if they are accompanied by measures that would broaden the income base.
He would move the U.S. to a so-called territorial system of taxation, in which the government taxes only domestically generated corporate income. Republican leaders in Congress have shown interest in this concept. House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp, a Michigan Republican, introduced a proposal in October that would shield 95 percent of profits earned offshore from taxation in the U.S.
Individual Taxes
For individuals, Romney would lower the maximum tax rate to 25 percent from 35 percent, eliminate the estate tax and make permanent the current 15 percent rate on dividends and capital gains. Taxpayers with an adjusted gross income of less than $200,000 wouldn’t pay any taxes on capital gains or dividends.
Romney’s tax plan, unlike those of some of his Republican opponents, isn’t an attempt to escape the confines of the complex U.S. tax code. It doesn’t give taxpayers the choice of sticking with the tax code or paying a flat tax instead, as Gingrich and Texas Governor Rick Perry proposed. There isn’t a national sales tax like the one Herman Cain outlined before his campaign collapsed.
“My administration will make America the best place in the world for entrepreneurs, inventors and job creators,” Romney said at a campaign event in Davenport, Iowa, on Dec. 27. “I’ll lower and simplify taxes, especially for middle-income Americans.”
"Becoming a Bruce fan is like hitting puberty as a musical fan. It's inevitable." - dcfaithful
To keep the analogy in household term, the $385 in budget cuts was closer to $10 when you sort the bear shit from the barley. The GOP made a "Pledge to America" to cut $1,000 in the last election and failed miserably .... or they knew they were lying when they made the pledge.
The Golden Age is 2 months away. And guess what….. you’re gonna love it! (teskeinc 11.19.24)
1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
2013: London ON, Wrigley; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
2020: Oakland, Oakland: 2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
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The jobs report today also seemed to be some positive news. Thanks for posting.
Love this guy, Chris Christie!
video in the attached article
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/20 ... ney-rally/
And Romney on his postion of the governments bailout of GM:
Romney responded his suggestion for a managed bankruptcy plan for the struggling auto manufacturer would have resulted in "a strong and vibrant General Motors" without making concessions to unions. He charged President Obama had bowed to unions in the deal, calling it "crony capitalism."
"Under my plan, General Motors would have shed its excess costs. The workers would have had their jobs," Romney said. "I believe the market works better than a president stepping in to take care of his friends."
Romeny-Believe in America
Just heard his last speech. Couple things he said...
"I care very deeply about those who work in America"
also,
"Please vote, I can show you a way to vote more than once....take someone with you". HA
FREE DINNER!
http://news.yahoo.com/video/politics-15 ... 25171.html
Go get 'em MITT!
I pledge Allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands,
one nation under God, indivisible,
with Liberty and Justice for all.
:shock:
Godfather.
you think this helps romney!
WOOT
questions swirl about my head.
how? how does it do that?
what? what is that?
why? why? WHY would he choose to wear this 'hairstyle' upon his head?
what is that again?
i go back and stare now.
Based upon your past track record... you have just guaranteed that Romney will lose, therefore, you have just ensured President Obama's second term.
...
You might want to try a different tac... try throwing your support behind President Obama... if you really want him to lose.
Hail, Hail!!!
it sounds so horrible wanting someone to lose....OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT !
sorry Cosmo I couldn't resist
Godfather.
MITT
WOOT
And what exactly is our mission in Afghanistan?
exactly
"We are fighting for the America we love...and the America that has a military so powerful no one would think of challenging it"
MITT
WOOT
So, is that what you believe, too... you belive the same things that Obama believed?
Does that mean you supported President Obama on this?
Hail, Hail!!!
MITT
WOOT
One white collar mobster and the other who went "legit'?
sounds like it.
but that's ok, I am here to help.
Republicans including Romney and Christie, believe market forces, not the government, should dictate the ebb and flow of the U.S. economy. And they are also for defeating Obama before he brings us down a path like Greece with his out of control spending. A vast majority see our national debt as the biggest obstacle to our recovery. Obama, like a honey badger, just don't give a fuck.
When Romney gets elected and the Republicans maintain the house and win the senate, Romney will repeal Obamacare and shrink the government.
WOOT