Get out your check books
Actually, no need to even do that thanks to the scam known as withholding.
Check it out America: Obama is looking at raising your taxes to pay for the “explosion” in the budget deficit. Let’s be honest. To pay for all the bailouts, “Cash for Clunkers” money and health care reform your taxes will have to go up. There is simply no other source of revenue for the government that is as easy to tap and as easy to increase as the income tax. And Obama’s administration is not just taxing the rich. No sir. He’s going to hit middle class America with tax increases. That’s you and that’s me.
The bottom line is that Obama has taken full advantage of a Democratic Congress and spineless Republican leadership to move America even closer to socialism. He’s done it by spending money like a drunken sailor on shore leave in Thailand. The good news is that now middle-class America will finally take its head out of its ass and realize that when Democrats will take only the rich, they are talking about middle-class America. The bad news is that it may be too late to stop what is already in motion. Let this be a lesson to you America. Pay attention to what your government is doing.
(Side note: I think my favorite line in the article is this one “If we want an economy that’s going to grow in the future, people have to understand we have to bring those deficits down. And it’s going to be difficult, hard for us to do. And the path to that is through health care reform,” Geithner said. How does SPENDING BILLIONS on health care reform bring down a deficit? It doesn’t!!!! This is probably the worst attempt at working the party line into an answer in the history of politics. It’s hard to believe that Geithner is the best person to head up the Treasury if he doesn’t understand simple economic concepts. Spending creates deficits; it doesn’t bring them down. I totally agree that deficits need to be eliminated for the economy to achieve robust growth. But I disagree with the idea that spending outrageous amounts of money to make health care worse is the way to do it.)
Caught Looking…
Richardson, Daschle and Killefer. Well, that’s call strike three for Prez O. Does he even vet these people before he puts them up for cabinet level positions? Ok, Killefer was only to be “Chief Performance Officer”, but she still can’t seem to pay her taxes… A better question for the prez is this: Why are all the people that you are choosing turning out to be sleezebags and tax cheats? I have to admit that I am licking my chops for interesting morsels on the rest of his… well, can we call it a cabinet? It’s missing three major components due to ‘rotten wood’. I guess it’s his “shelf” at this point. Obama’s been in there for less than a month and already he has signed an executive order that defies a logical supreme court opinion, appointed three tax cheats, allowed three former lobbyists in his administation (which he said wouldn’t happen), and made a former first lady who has been investigated for having FBI files hidden in the private quarters of the White House his Secretary of State. This is like the front end of an ethics seminar… you know, the part where they show a video of a “broken” system to the audience. Off the blocks with a mighty stumble! (It would have been a false start if he hadn’t kept his mouth shut on foreign affairs prior to his inauguration.) Let’s see how he fares down the stretch. Frankly, it looks like a typical Clinton-style administration without the brain at the top. Obama will NEVER be able to ‘feel anyone’s pain’ or ask what the definition of ‘is’ is. He can keep this up if he wants to, but it will result in another crippled democrat administration that barely limps up to the next election. Here’s to hoping.