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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (95438)	11/16/2010 11:48:22 AM
From: JakeStraw	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224769

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (95438)	11/16/2010 11:54:10 AM
From: JakeStraw	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224769

I wonder how much it cost the taxpayers to support Obama's teleprompter addiction? I guess George Soros has to be certain that Obama says what he wants him to...

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (95438)	11/16/2010 12:00:22 PM
From: longnshort	5 Recommendations Respond to of 224769

Rangel found guilty on all charges

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (95438)	11/17/2010 11:37:49 AM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224769

The Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation computes that the average taxpayer is forced to work from Jan. 1 to mid-April to pay federal, state and local taxes. If he were taxed enough to pay the $1.5 trillion federal deficit, he'd be forced to work until mid-May. Tax revenue is not the problem. The federal government has collected just about 20% of the nation's GDP almost every year since 1960. Federal spending has exceeded revenue for most of that period and has taken an unprecedented leap since 2008 to produce today's massive deficit. Since federal spending is the problem, that's where our focus should be. investors.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (95438)	11/17/2010 11:39:26 AM
From: JakeStraw	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224769

It is not the amount of money that these commissions cost that is the issue. It is the escape hatch that they provide for big-spending politicians. Do you go ahead and spend the rent money and the food money — and then ask somebody else to tell you how to escape the consequences? If President Obama or the Congress were serious about keeping the deficit down, they could have had this commission's recommendations before they spent hundreds of billions of dollars, handing out goodies hither and yon to their pet constituencies. investors.com