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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (130202)	2/5/2010 11:22:16 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543052

Thanks for speaking your mind, Steve.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (130202)	2/5/2010 12:37:10 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543052

why doesn't Krugman instead just once to suggest where some of the money might come from? Exactly, Steve. I also thought this Krugman piece was pretty much drivel. Better we stop spending money in Iraq and Afghanistan, bring our kids home from this hopelessness, stop the subsidies to corporate America whether they are farm subsidies or Blackwater subsidies and put taxes on bankers million dollar salaries and use this money to put Americans to work making AMERICA better. You made a good start on a laundry list of ways to start whittling down the budget. It needs to be across the board with shared pain for all. In keeping with your sentiments, I'm weary of the Obama administration harping on salary/bonuses in the financial services area. I don't like the targeted and punitive proposals to stick it to these guys in various little ways. What are they doing? Trying to shame these guys into giving back their bonuses? These are a kind of unseemingly populist rhetoric and petty punitive actions that I think backfire politically. It raises fear and wailing, and lots of FOX soundbites on who will be next. Relative to wage growth for the last 25 years, ALL executive compensation has reached obscene levels. And it doesn't matter if the compensation package is a mix of salary, stock, bonuses, etc. So I want Obama to end the silly sniping and just raise taxes period. The more obscene the payment package, the more taxes that person will naturally pay. This is equitable. It ends all the waiting to see who's next, and allows people to see exactly what their hit will be and start planning their budget accordingly. It also prevents the ugly reality of watching different State Senators try to protect industries unique to their state. State representatives are supposed to try and protect the interests of the state they represent anyway. Across the board income tax increases gets them off the hook.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (130202)	2/5/2010 2:55:34 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543052

John, I am all in favor of a great jobs program and have said many times we need to sink huge sums into infrastructure that makes America stronger. But to charge this on our kids is just stupid and wrong. Better we stop spending money in Iraq and Afghanistan, bring our kids home from this hopelessness, stop the subsidies to corporate America whether they are farm subsidies or Blackwater subsidies and put taxes on bankers million dollar salaries and use this money to put Americans to work making AMERICA better. I agree with all of this, Steve. Just don't see getting out of Afghanistan as politically viable right now; nor much else you list. You need to talk to the congressional republicans about all this.