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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 (133087)	5/19/2012 9:11:47 AM
From: TideGlider	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224706

Bush's tax cuts resulted in more revenue idiot. Have you repeated that enough times that you now believe it?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (133087)	5/19/2012 9:18:22 AM
From: TideGlider	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224706

Report: Zimmerman Yelled for Help 14 Times By GOPUSA Staff May 18, 2012 6:10 am Police reports indicate that during the struggle with Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman called out for help 14 times. Two witness reports were also released by police officers which support Zimmerman's assertion that Martin was on top of him and throwing punches during the encounter. "Zimmerman was also bleeding from the nose and the back of his head," Officer Ricardo Ayala wrote. Another officer wrote, "I saw that Zimmerman's face was bloodied and it appeared to me that his nose was broken." Witnesses, whose names were redacted from the report, also lent support to Zimmerman's version of what happened. "He witnesses a black male, wearing a dark colored 'hoodie' on top of a white or Hispanic male and throwing punches 'MMA (mixed martial arts) style,'" the police report of the witness said. "He then heard a pop. He stated that after hearing the pop, he observed the person he had previously observed on top of the other person (the male wearing the hoodie) laid out on the grass." A second witness described a person on the ground with another straddling him and throwing punches. The man on the bottom was yelling for help, the witness told police. Read the full story at ABC News Noted attorney Alan Dershowitz says it's time to drop the charges. A medical report by George Zimmerman’s doctor has disclosed that Zimmerman had a fractured nose, two black eyes, two lacerations on the back of his head and a back injury on the day after the fatal shooting. If this evidence turns out to be valid, the prosecutor will have no choice but to drop the second-degree murder charge against Zimmerman — if she wants to act ethically, lawfully and professionally. There is, of course, no assurance that the special prosecutor handling the case, State Attorney Angela Corey, will do the right thing. Because until now, her actions have been anything but ethical, lawful and professional. Read more:

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (133087)	5/19/2012 9:24:45 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie	5 Recommendations Respond to of 224706

The Bush tax cuts are still the largest factor in the deficit. No, in fact the progressive entitlement programs and absurd government employee retirement programs that are ruining our economy. It's time that americans grew up and weened themselves from the government tit. And it's time to shut down SEIU and other government worker unions. Without all of the ridiculous spending, we wouldn't need to tax our people so much.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (133087)	5/19/2012 9:28:57 AM
From: Ann Corrigan	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224706

False again..at this point, your final grade is looking very dismal, which appropriately will reflect Obama's economic failures.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (133087)	5/19/2012 10:13:23 AM
From: longnshort	6 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224706

Obama Drove Drunk, Too Obama's Agent Required, And Still Requires, Authors To Submit Their Own Bios From the book, Dreams From Bill Ayers' Father: The scene is Chicago, in front of Obama's apartment. A group of unruly young black men pulls up outside after midnight, music blasting. He has a guest in his apartment, and his neighbors have just brought home their newborn. He gets upset and goes outside to tell them off. Then he starts to think: They could be me from just a few years ago. And they might intend him harm. Then, finally, he considers how he -- a grown up with a job and a life -- is increasingly unlike these kids, and how they may never have the chance to mature the way he did: Their unruly maleness will not be contained, as mine finally was, by a sense of sadness at an older man's injured pride. Their anger won't be checked by the intimation of danger that would come upon me whenever I split another boy's lip or raced down a highway with gin clouding my head. He also chuckled at making Mexican maids cry. Barack Hussein Obama All liquored up & trashing the place. Like Led Zeppelin, except you don't want to go to his shows. Update: Obama's Literary Agent Requested Authors Submit Their Own Bios. Breitbart.com is killing it. Submission guidelines at the Dystel & Goderich website (original emphasis): "[Y]ou should describe in two or three sentences—no more—what the book will be about. This is followed by another brief paragraph on why it is being written and then another on why you are qualified to write it....Finally, there should be a more formal narrative Bio of the author." How does Breitbart know this? The source of the article is an author who was also with Obama's agency -- he's quoting from the materials the agency sent him. All material she used in our proposals came directly from me and my writing partner. She edited our rough-draft proposals and gave us feedback, but the final versions were all ours. Our final versions, bio included, were then simply photo-copied, by us, and distributed to potential publishers. This was back in the pre-Google days, recall. I was asked to write the bio in the third person. We seem to be going from "Rara Avis who actually writes his own stuff" to "Guy who completely checked out and let other people handle it for him." And Still More: The bio was updated, corrected, and republished multiple times. For example, it was updated to include the new title of Obama's book. And yet "Born in Kenya" remained.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (133087)	5/19/2012 11:12:00 AM
From: Ann Corrigan	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224706

Better get your spin ready for this one: drudgereport.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (133087)	5/19/2012 11:16:01 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie	9 Recommendations Respond to of 224706

Kenneth, does it bother you that liberal mouthpiece Elizabeth Warren plagiarized other people's work? Or that she falsely claimed that she was native american and a woman of color? or is this something that liberals turn a blind eye to? Does it bother you that Obama claimed to be born in Kenya when it benefitted him and then the left accused the "birthers" of being crazy when we took his word when he said he was born in Kenya? Does it bother you at all that your president made a fool out of you?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (133087)	5/19/2012 11:58:15 AM
From: jlallen	9 Recommendations Respond to of 224706

Nonsense. Spending creates deficits, not tax cuts, moron.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (133087)	5/19/2012 6:20:03 PM
From: longnshort	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224706

Since the publisher said the author writes their own bio then that would make Obama a birther

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (133087)	5/20/2012 11:02:11 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224706

Obama pursues higher tax rates, growth be damned In the run-up to this weekend's G-8 summit at Camp David, journalists have unfavorably compared European "austerity" with Barack Obama's economic policies. European spending cuts, the argument goes, have hurt people and are arousing political opposition, while Obama's proposals to indefinitely keep federal spending at 24 percent of gross domestic product are likely to succeed. Evil Republican spending cuts, in contrast, would deny the economy needed stimulus and would wreak havoc on ordinary people. But the facts undermine the story line. Veronique de Rugy of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University took a look at what "austerity" in Europe actually means. What she found is that government spending has increased or not appreciably declined in Britain, France, Italy, Spain and Germany. The only significant spending reductions are in Greece, where the bond market cut off funding. In the other countries, the big adjustment has been an increase in tax rates. European "austerity" is an attempt to reduce government budget deficits largely by increasing taxes and only to a small extent by reining in spending. Which, when you come to think about it, is the policy not of House Republicans -- who actually passed a budget -- but of Barack Obama. Over the past three years, Obama has pursued the goal of higher tax rates as relentlessly as Captain Ahab pursued the great white whale. Never mind that by some measures the United States, even with the "Bush tax cuts," already has the most progressive tax system among advanced economies. About 40 percent of federal income tax revenues come from the top 1 percent. And we know from experience that when top rates are increased above Bill Clinton's 39.6 percent, the intake is always less than projected. Since World War II, federal revenues have never risen much over 20 percent of GDP, whether the top rate was 28 percent or 91 percent. The reason is that when rates get high enough, investors' animal spirits (John Maynard Keynes' term) are directed less at increasing productivity and creating wealth and more at avoiding taxes. And without increased productivity, you don't get robust economic growth -- which hurts everyone. There's another problem. High tax rates mean a volatile revenue stream, as California Gov. Jerry Brown is finding out. When times are bad, revenues dry up just when government needs money. California's budget deficit has zoomed from $9 billion to $16 billion in a few months. Barack Obama doesn't seem to care about these things. In the 2008 campaign, ABC News' Charlie Gibson asked him whether he would increase the capital gains tax rate even if it meant reducing government revenue, as has happened in the past. Yes, Obama said, "for purposes of fairness." He wants to take away money from people who have earned it even if government gets less to spend. Obama argues that government spending can generate growth. But money spent propping up state and local public employee unions and funding supposedly shovel-ready projects -- major features of his 2009 stimulus package -- didn't do much for the economy. In contrast, Obama's former chief economist Christina Romer and her husband, David, in a 2010 academic paper, wrote that "exogenous" tax increases, like letting the "Bush tax cuts" expire after the recession is over, are "highly contractionary." "Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by 3 percent," the Romers wrote. "The effect is highly significant." Higher taxes are the prime ingredient of European austerity. The danger is that with sluggish growth, revenues will languish and the bond market will shut down, as in Greece. Then spending gets cut with a meat cleaver, not a scalpel. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan understands this. House Democrats' "balanced approach" -- with tax rate increases -- "just means let's start European austerity right now," he told The Washington Examiner last week. Ryan's budget, which passed the House, would cut tax rates but would also eliminate tax preferences. Many high earners would end up paying more. But because they wouldn't face higher rates on the next dollar they earn, there would be no incentive to seek tax shelters. You can find Democrats who agree with this approach, though they'd differ with Ryan on details. But they won't speak up as long as their leader keeps pursuing that great white whale.