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Obama XXII: Occupy the White House

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LynahFan said:
Those capitalist pigs....
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Washington (CNN) -- The Democratic-controlled Senate is expected to take up President Barack Obama's controversial jobs bill this week, with a key procedural vote on the $447 billion measure currently scheduled for Tuesday evening.

Among other things, the package includes an extension and expansion of the current payroll tax cut, an extension of jobless benefits to help the unemployed, new tax credits for businesses that hire the long-term unemployed and additional money to help save and create jobs for teachers and first responders such as firemen.

Republicans are vehemently opposed to a provision recently added by Senate Democrats that would pay for the measure through a 5.6% surtax on annual incomes over $1 million. GOP leaders have accused the president of engaging in so-called "class warfare" for political reasons, and are expected to prevent the bill from reaching the critical 60-vote threshold needed to clear the Senate.

Top Republicans have also said they will prevent a vote from being held on the original version of the measure in the GOP-controlled House of Representatives.

Asked last week if he is laying the groundwork to run against a "do-nothing Congress" -- a reprise of President Harry Truman's 1948 campaign -- Obama told reporters: "If Congress does something, then I can't run against a do-nothing Congress."

But "if Congress does nothing," he added, "I think the American people will run them out of town."
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The largest measure in the package is the expanded payroll tax cut, which comes at a projected cost of $265 billion. Employees normally pay 6.2% on their first $106,800 of wages into Social Security, but they are now paying only 4.2%. That break is set to expire at the end of December, and Obama wants to cut the tax in half to 3.1%
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Cutting taxes on working people and raising them on <del>the wealthy</del> job creators? Socialism!
 
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You cannot raise taxes on anyone making over 200,000 per year. They create jobs.
 
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Foxton said:
Newsbusters, a subsidy of totallynotbiased.com and known to be a shill for Newscorp.lulz

I think the greatest thing to be concerned about is this "My favorite band is Sleater Kinney..." because clearly that is just un-****ing-acceptable.
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Hey! You can't question a trustworthy site like Newsbusters! Next you'll say something crazy, like there's no Santa Claus.
 
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Foxton said:
Newsbusters, a subsidy of totallynotbiased.com and known to be a shill for Newscorp.lulz

I think the greatest thing to be concerned about is this "My favorite band is Sleater Kinney..." because clearly that is just un-****ing-acceptable.
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Wow
They quoted your hero Dan Rather, what more do you want? Are you saying the quotes are made up? I love how Priceless chimes in once you do, who's the pivot man anyway?
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
You cannot raise taxes on anyone making over 200,000 per year. They create jobs.
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(Reuters) – Hedge funds took in $6.1 billion in August as the industry outperformed slumping markets, according to data released on Monday.

August marked the seventh month this year when inflows into the $2 trillion hedge fund industry exceeded redemptions, according to figures compiled by BarclayHedge and TrimTabs Investment Research. Hedge funds took in $51 billion in the first eight months of the year.
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Job creators!
 
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walrus said:
Wow
They quoted your hero Dan Rather, what more do you want? Are you saying the quotes are made up? I love how Priceless chimes in once you do, who's the pivot man anyway?
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Who has Dan Rather for a hero? But no, I would never believe a newsite with as much journalistic integrity as newsbusters has making up a quote.
 
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walrus said:
Wow
They quoted your hero Dan Rather, what more do you want? Are you saying the quotes are made up? I love how Priceless chimes in once you do, who's the pivot man anyway?
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My.. hero? Oh I see you're using the whole Herman Cain thing. #Idonthavefactstobackthisup

Herman Cain who said this about the source of the protests.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20116087-503544.html
"What do they want?" Cain asked when asked about the protests in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. "I don't have facts to back this up, but I happen to believe that these demonstrations are planned and orchestrated to distract from the failed policies of the Obama administration."
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Who are we supposed to believe? Oh right it doesn't truly matter because trying to attack the source to discredit anything that follows is equal with creatards claiming Darwin recanted on his deathbed so that means everything to do with the theory of evolution is false. In summary, it's an ad hominem.
 
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Before the lockout, Bill posted a piece by some analyst on OWS. Some of it was silly, but the list of proposals isn't bad:

• Break up too-big-to-fail banks so they aren't threatening our financial system .
• Investigate failed banks for fraud, and indict and incarcerate guilty parties.
• Scale banker bonuses progressively with long-vesting stock options.
• Legislate pay claw-back provisions and criminal statutes for bad banker behavior.
• Eliminate volatility-inducing high-frequency-trading and ETF program arbitrage.
• Make all derivatives exchange traded, highly margined, and transparent.
• Limit credit default swaps to two times the value of at-risk underlying credits.
• Mandate exhaustive studies of the potential market impact of newly created financial products.
• Create simple, effective, light-touch regulations with heavy criminal penalties .
• Cap Wall Street's political contributions and make them transparent.
• Audit the Federal Reserve and limit its lending to domestic banking institutions.
• Give the Consumer Protection Finance Bureau (CPFB) criminal indictment powers, including over the Federal Reserve.
• Make Wall Street answer to the needs of Main Street, not the other way around.
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OWS is lots of people, not a single entity, so I wouldn't expect a coordinated manifesto. After a while people started to issue demands on behalf of the TP (that was probably the moment it stopped being real and started being a tool of established interests) and that will do doubt happen with OWS, too.

As with everything else, by the time we know about it, it will have lost authenticity, but gained influence.
 
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Foxton said:
My.. hero? Oh I see you're using the whole Herman Cain thing. #Idonthavefactstobackthisup

Herman Cain who said this about the source of the protests.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20116087-503544.html


Who are we supposed to believe? Oh right it doesn't truly matter because trying to attack the source to discredit anything that follows is equal with creatards claiming Darwin recanted on his deathbed so that means everything to do with the theory of evolution is false. In summary, it's an ad hominem.
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Who said anything about the source of the protests? There were quotes from tingle legs show and apparently Mother Jones, are the quotes false? Maybe they are, I thought they were interesting in that the lady who was helping organize part of Occupy implies Moveon.org took it over. Its not really shocking, is it?
 
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Snipping CNN
But "if Congress does nothing," he added, "I think the American people will run them out of town."
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Should we pray for Congress to do nothing?

As to hedge funds raking in dollars...
Do hedge funds create jobs for the folks buying Chevy's and Wal-Mart stuff? IMO, no. They're for the BMW and Boutique crowd.

We need to make things in this country that Chevy/Wal-Mart crowd can buy and keep money in this country so it can be reinvested in this country. However, we've transitioned from a Manufacturing Society to a Service Society. And, for many, the service stinks.

Now I'm going to rant for a bit, but why should I pay $50.00 for an "extended warranty" on my new TV set? Why can't the manufacturer make a TV set that will last and not break down for 10+ years? Why do I have to buy a coffee pot after 2 years when my Mom's ancient percolator, built in the 1960's is still working?

*** happened to quality and pride in your work?

RANT OFF
 
Re: Obama XXII: Occupy the White House

walrus said:
Fight to hold wall street accountable and get paid while doing it

http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/gov/2618821815.html
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Uh, yeah...those are jobs as *gasp* community organizers *cringe* The evil people who advocate neighbors working together to affect change in their communities. See, when one guy shows up at a city council meeting to complain about a vacant lot or graffiti or slow police response times, it's pretty easy for him to be ignored. When 25 people show up at a council meeting, it's a little harder to ignore them. But you'd probably prefer people remain meek little individuals, scurrying from work (assuming they still have a job) to home and not caring about anything that happens outside their doors.

See the GOP does it too! But they probably aren't as evil when they do it.
 
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