The GOP were pretty clueless on how they went about addressing the budget problem with superficial cuts. What we need is an amputation to save the patients life and the GOP cuts wouldn't amount to hardly a scratch.
That said this ignoramus in the video is even more clueless. We can't pay for our current level of expenditures with taxing the rich and corporations. It's just not possible. We have to make drastic cuts. And Welfare and entitlements will have to be drastically reduced and/or eliminated. The same is true for the military. We can afford to be fighting the 3 wars that we are involved in now. We need to immediately get out of those and bring out troops home. We need to close most foreign bases and greatly reduce to bare minimum maintainability and that we do keep.
But the most important move that we need is to start taxing the poor. Right now most people who are poor don't pay taxes and instead receive more from the government that they pay in. This has to stop. We need to implement a flat tax where everyone, rich or poor is taxed the same %. The rich pay more because they make more and the poor pay less because they make less. But everyone pays. This is key, so when politicians promise entitlement to buy votes, the people know that they will have to pay for those entitlements not just some rich guys. This instill accountability, which is severely lacking.
3 minutes and 10 seconds that is sure to enrage Republicans
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try watching the video, it makes a lot of "Common Sense".
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lrb 2011/04/18 16:34:11
I just know that I gave up trying to explain things to people. It is all out there if you know how to research and you are looking for truth and not an ideology.
Leave the agendas behind, the truth has no agenda.
The fiscal problems come down to eradicating social security and medicare. If we cannot to that, we will collapse.
And the idea of ending two wars is bizarre. On the campaign trail, Obama talked about ending the Iraq war in a year and getting out of Afghanistan. So in 2010, more Americans died in those wars than in Bush's last year, and Americans are still dying in Iraq 9 months after his end of all combat operations (6 so far this month). And Obama adds a third war. The guy is amazing. How does he sleep?
It makes you wonder how they expected to keep the public option portion of Obamacare above board when this government has already run two taxpayer funded insurance plans into the ground. Especially when you consider that over 30% of money collected by the government is supposed to be for funding of these two insurance programs.
As for Obama sleeping, I think he is a compulsive liar. He probably sleeps just fine. If he had kept his word on some of his promises I might actually respect the man, even if I didn't agree with him. But I don't have that problem. His administration now wants to detain people at Gitmo indefinitely without trial, he has extended the Patriot Act, and that transparency he promised is no where to be seen. But I'm sure he sleeps like a baby.
How do his followers sleep, is my question?
Hopefully the adults in both parties will come up with something, as they did in the Debt Commission.
So, you think that Obama, who paid for Affordable Health Care by cutting $450 billion from Medicare and who just added another $480 billion in cuts to Medicare is the good guy here?
No need to answer since I know the answer from you is "yes"
Not until they bring down the whole economy.
They're as bad as undertaxed billionaires.
And there are a lot more of them.
And the worse part is that they don't even understand how good they have it. They seem to be too dumb. A pension that gives you $50,000/yr for life, with cost of living raises, starting at age 60 would cost about $1 million.
Whoever thinks these are lies is an economic illiterate.
Did you know that Alzheimers causes long term memory loss?
http://www.dflorig.com/partyc...
Thay are all crooked and you know it.
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