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To: michael97123 who wrote (461030)	3/4/2009 12:08:41 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576320

I think they should run Limbaugh too. Then maybe they'd discover that America isn't where Limbaugh is. I suspect they have this delusion that the "silent majority" of Americans believe just like Rush.

To: michael97123 who wrote (461030)	3/4/2009 1:43:29 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1576320

DISILLUSIONED "You wouldn´t know it some days, but there are moderates in this country - moderate conservatives, moderate liberals, just plain moderates," New York Times columnist David Brooks writes. "We sympathize with a lot of the things that President Obama is trying to do. We like his investments in education and energy innovation. We support health care reform that expands coverage while reducing costs," Mr. Brooks said. "But the Obama budget is more than just the sum of its parts. There is, entailed in it, a promiscuous unwillingness to set priorities and accept trade-offs. There is evidence of a party swept up in its own revolutionary fervor - caught up in the self-flattering belief that history has called upon it to solve all problems at once. So programs are piled on top of each other, and we wind up with a gargantuan $3.6 trillion budget. We end up with deficits that, when considered realistically, are $1 trillion a year and stretch as far as the eye can see. We end up with an agenda that is unexceptional in its parts but that, when taken as a whole, represents a social-engineering experiment that is entirely new. ... "Those of us who consider ourselves moderates - moderate-conservative, in my case - are forced to confront the reality that Barack Obama is not who we thought he was."

To: michael97123 who wrote (461030)	3/4/2009 1:44:09 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576320

WAR ON INVESTORS "President Lyndon Johnson's administration was known for his War on Poverty. President Obama's will become notable for his War on Prosperity," Dick Morris and Eileen McGann write in the New York Post. "We're speaking, of course, of Obama's plans to hike income taxes on the most wealthy 2 or 3 percent of the nation. He's not just raising the top rate to 39.6 percent; he's also disallowing about one-third of top earners' deductions, whether for state and local taxes, charitable contributions or mortgage interest. This is an effective hike in their taxes by an average of about 20 percent," the writers said. "And soon the next shoe will drop - he'll announce that he's keeping yet another of his campaign promises: to apply the full payroll tax to all income over $250,000 a year. (Right now, the 15.3 percent Social Security tax only applies to the first $106,800 of income - you neither pay the tax on income above that, nor accumulate added benefit.) For many taxpayers in this bracket, this hike will raise their total taxes by about half. "Finally, he's declaring war on investors by raising the capital-gains-tax rate to 20 percent."