This is a discussion on Barack Obama to admit mistakes in first State of the Union address within the The Political and Social Snake Pit forums, part of the Current Happenings category; Originally Posted by spaceboy761 That's your answer. I'm dealing with the same thing right now where I'm right on the ...
I started this job early last year. Went from being technically below the poverty line in income to making well over the average family's income in one year. But, that income didn't change from Dec 31st to Jan 1. If taxes weren't raised, then why is more federal taxes bing taken from me? I didn't change my status, I'm not claiming anything less.... should still technically be the same.Originally Posted by spaceboy761
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Maybe it was a planned change from years ago. Either way, Obama hasn't done a damn thing with taxes (or much else) since the Congress has been in absolute gridlock. Only Congress had change taxes btw, NOT the President. The President can argue and lobby and persuade, but it is Congress's decision. The Democrats in the Senate are not lining up like puppy dogs as the Republicans did for Bush. Say what you want about Republicans, but they know how to stick together. Democrats have become a more moderate party which buys you votes but also leads to in-fighting like we've been seeing. Unless Obama plans on going Bush-style and writing a ton of semi-legal executive orders and effectively shitting on the Constitution, it's going to be the primary hurdle of his administration. Both parties are completely off the rails. Also, a big thanks to the Supreme Court for making the effective corporate sponsorship of political candidates legal. That should ease the problem...
Last edited by spaceboy761; 02-03-2010 at 08:54 AM.
I like black pugs and I cannot lie...
Consult an accountant....because if you can prove to me that Obama is a lying sack of shit concerning your taxes....I will forever shut up....AND become a turn coat too!
When I gave proof he lied about Gitmo and broke promises he made re: aid to Africa. You didn't say he was a lying sack of shit!Consult an accountant....because if you can prove to me that Obama is a lying sack of shit concerning your taxes....I will forever shut up....AND become a turn coat too!
A pledge to spend £4.3 billion on bilateral Aids programmes under the Mr Obama's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (Pepfar) has been shaved back to £3.3 billion by the lying sack of shit
Another broken promise that will affect lives!Mr Obama had also promised to contribute about £1.8 billion on the Global Fund to fight Aids, tuberculosis and malaria, but his budget request fell short by £1.2 billion, the GAA said.
It calculated that this meant that one million people will not receive treatment for HIV, and 2.9 million women will miss out on services to help prevent passing the virus to their unborn children.
Hmmm, how were there obstructionist? when you have 60 votes in the senate you can't even be filibustered. you vote it's 60 to 40 and what was voted on is passed in the senate. people were seeing the back room deals being made and got pissed...dem's knew if they passed it that way they would be out on thier asses come mid term elections. and just the fact that they are trying to pass a very unpopular health bill anyway, could be the main reason they lost mass., even though it is clearly a liberal state. and the economy was heading down fast when bush took office, 9/11 didn't help...he cut taxes and it turned around, sounds like we need more of that now along with fiscal responsibility from congress.
The point is that 'we'll just fillibuster everything' is not a long-term plan for the country, but that's all Republicans are giving us. They're basically forcing Democrats to bat 1.000 with every bill they pass on, which is nearly impossible. Of course now, the Mass. vote took even that option away. The optimist in me hopes that this will force the Congress to actually develop bi-partisan solutions instead of a party war. If real ideas start coming out of the GOP side, there might be some hope here. Until then, we're still waiting.
Also, so much for the job market recovery:
Sovereign debt fears, economy sink stocks - Yahoo! Finance
I guess Obama is nothing more than a worthless twatflap after all. On the plus side, every currency in the world sucks except ours! USA! USA!
I like black pugs and I cannot lie...
What i was trying to say SB is that if the proposals were valid and wouldn't break the country he would have had the support of the dems and independants in the senate and the house. and i know it's not obama, it's palosi that scares the shit out of me. she dosn't give a rats ass what the people think, she's going to do it her way.
Well... so much for my twatflap theory:
Unemployment rate falls to 9.7 percent, 20,000 jobs cut - Yahoo! Finance
Unemployment somehow dropped back down to 9.7% despite every indication that it was going up this month. There's probably a revision on the way, but the job market is getting there. Let's hope the trend continues at least until the midterm elections so Americans can be voting on policy and not misdirected abject rage.
I like black pugs and I cannot lie...
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