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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (95521)	6/27/2011 2:58:22 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

"[If participants in the debt-reduction talks] do work out a deal — and this is the crucial part — it doesn’t have to include nearly as much in the way of revenue increases as a liberal president would normally prefer, because taxes are already scheduled to go up. Republicans are being intransigent on taxes in these negotiations for ideological reasons, but also because they know that if Obama is re-elected (which is more likely than not), they won’t be able to block tax increases: With a non-stroke of the pen, he can just let the Bush tax cuts expire — for the rich, or even for the middle class as well. This is the trump card that liberals carry into all these negotiations. If we just do nothing on taxes except let the “current law baseline” run its course, their preferred vision wins." douthat.blogs.nytimes.com

To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (95521)	6/27/2011 3:05:41 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 149317

Same goes for Saudi Arabia. Not only is literacy high, a big majority of Saudi women have university degrees, yet then can hardly work because of driving and other restrictions on where a woman can be and who she can be around, blahblah. When they are unleashed? both those countries will be power houses intellectually. far more Saudi women have higher degrees than do the men. Go figure. In terms of empowerment of women, both countries stink: en.wikipedia.org SA ranks 129 out of 134 and Iran ain't much better. You repress 50% of your population and you might as well forget about making progress.