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

To: Paul V. who wrote (118822)	11/30/2011 10:33:28 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224748

For Democrats Class Warfare Trumps Job Creation Posted 06:36 PM ET Taxes: With unemployment chronically high, how does taxing more than a third of small-business income make sense? Politically, that's how. The Democrats' dead-on-arrival surtax is a campaign ploy, not a jobs strategy. At a time when leadership is sorely needed to get America back to work, President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi just can't move beyond class war. It's a potent political strategy because it unfailingly attracts voters ignorant of economics. A real leader learns from failures. It may have taken President Bush too long to order the surge in Iraq, but he ultimately recognized the defects of a strategy that risked another Vietnam-style surrender for America. Admitting that their big-spending stimulus failed is the first step to getting to work with Republicans on a jobs policy that actually produces jobs. But Obama, Reid and Pelosi, with their unconscionable record of incompetence and corruption in handling the economy over the past five years, refuse. The latest example is their 3.25% small business surtax (5% in the Obama "jobs bill" version), a purely punitive device that all parties know has no chance of becoming law. As Roll Call describes it, "Senate Democrats and the White House are setting up a certain-to-fail vote to extend and expand the payroll tax cut as soon as this week as their signature political showcase heading into the election year." Far from being just a tiny, harmless tax on millionaires, the small business surtax slaps 41% of all business income according to the figures of Obama's own Treasury Department. Joint Committee on Taxation data show that about 34% of all small business income would be affected by the surtax in 2013. That means 34% of all small firms with a reduced incentive to hire and expand output. As the National Federation of Independent Business points out, small businesses produce roughly half of America's private GDP and historically generate about 65% of net new jobs. It would be hard to design a better program for killing future job growth than one that taxes the job creators. Yet, the Democrats' narrative is that Republicans will do anything to protect the "rich." "If they vote 'no' again, the typical family's taxes will go up $1,000 next year," President Obama said at a campaign stop in Manchester, N.H., last week. "If they vote 'yes,' the typical working family will get a $1,500 tax cut." But Republicans have made it clear for months that they want to work with Obama on extending the payroll tax cut. Their Will Rogers "I've never met a tax cut I didn't like" approach is fine. Unfortunately, as an economic policy cutting payroll taxes simply isn't a jobs generator because that cash goes to employees, not employers. Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., got it right when he pointed out this week that the payroll tax cut may not have "created a single job." Moreover, as House Republican leaders pointed out in a September memo, "There may be significant unforeseen downsides to large temporary tax cuts immediately followed by large tax increases" — namely the expiration of the Bush tax cuts at the end of next year. The moves together may ultimately add "significant new uncertainty in an already uncertain economy." There are more than 20 bipartisan jobs measures that have passed the House, but which the Democratic Senate is ignoring. President Obama once said, "there is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America." Well, tell your party's senators that, Mr. President. Get them to pass some bipartisan job creation bills. Stop demonizing Republicans and thinking about Election Day 2012. Focus instead on getting the 9% unemployment rate down.

To: Paul V. who wrote (118822)	12/1/2011 3:51:46 AM
From: joseffy	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224748

Pitiful: Only 225 People Show Up for Free Tickets to Obama Event in PA .................................................................................................................. Nov 29, 2011 jammiewf.com The failed president will be appearing in Joe Biden’s hometown tomorrow for another campaign appearance on the public dime, and in a sign how hugely unpopular he is only a couple hundred Obamatons lined up to get their free tickets. I guess they’ll have to bus in some unions goons to make it look as if he’s still got support. When Hillary Clinton was on the campaign trail in 2008 and spoke at Scranton High School, the line to get tickets a few days before her appearance stretched about 1,000 people long. Monday’s line to grab the available free tickets to President Barack Obama’s speech Wednesday was noticeably shorter — about 225 people were waiting when the doors opened for the distribution. “It’s a little disappointing to see that,” said Cathy Kneeland, 64, of Scranton, who showed up more than three hours early to stand in line and found herself second. “You would think more people would want to see the president speak.” That’s the problem, Cathy. We’ve heard him speak way too much and he’s got nothing to say, other than blaming anyone and everyone for his myriad failures. Barbara Yavuchak of Scranton said while she’s “very worried” about the country, she was, like many Obama supporters standing in line Monday, blaming Republicans for blocking much of what Obama has tried to get done. Typical Obama supporter: Completely clueless that he had two years with huge Democrat majorities and got nothing done, other than shoving a hugely unpopular ObamaCare plan down our throats. But I guess when Republicans took the House in 2010 they were sent there to be a rubber stamp for Obama? Seriously, can these people be any more obtuse? As to Obama, it's looking more and more like the thrill is gone among Democrat voters. This guy is in worse trouble than Carter was in 79.