A Reality Check on Obama's Wish List
by Michael Barone
What will an Obama administration and a Congress with increased Democratic majorities do? That's a relevant question, given the Democrats' leads in the polls. And it's a little hard to answer, given the financial crisis that has been raging and the recession that seems to be ahead.
One thing they will certainly do is raise taxes on high earners. The Bush tax cuts are scheduled to expire in 2010, and congressional Democrats will gleefully allow the top rates to rise. Left-leaning Democr ...
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Posted by: James A, Sweeney
Comment: #1
Sat Oct 25, 2008 6:07 PM
Sir;... What a surprise to learn Hoover drove us into the great depression when I just read that the worst of the economy had been reached, and the rebound was begun before FDR took office... It was just a very deep hole the country had to pull itself out of, and without world trade, and the dust bowl for example, such improvement could not be quick... But; If the rich are interested in saving their economy it is not going to be on the backs of workers because the workers are all played out... It is all like that story of the man who parked his big flea bag outside a bar, and had a drink... Another guy went in, and said: who owned the big dog outside... And the first guy said: I do; and why... The second man said: my dog just killed him.... And number one said: just how did that happen, and number two said: Well; I think he got lodged in his throat... There is plenty more free wealth in America.... But what the rich tried to swallow got lodged in their throats... You remember this... The U.S. can control its economy if it has to draft every stock broker and working girl on Wall Street... Make them responsible, so they will act responsible or march them back and forth till they figure it out... All that is missing is the will power, and anything will be possible..The alternative is to have our economy control us... What fun is that???. Thanks...Sweeney
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Posted by: Masako
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Sun Oct 26, 2008 9:07 AM
All I can say, Barone, is that your guy just got an endorsement from Al Qaeda and Bin Laden. That speaks volumes, doesn't it? McCain's clearly the best man on their team. Who else could keep up the fine tradition of flushing it all down the toilet in Iraq so the vacationing crowd we should have been after can continue getting rich on the opium trade? But they have a much bigger prize in mind, thanks to our idiotic notions of protecting oil in Iraq: Pakistan.
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Posted by: Dayna Celise
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Tue Oct 28, 2008 11:03 AM
Oh darn. Please don't take money away from the wealthy, they need it so they can be good little consumers! Instead, let's just make the poor people poorer. Yes, we will re-train all the unemployed to be proper and efficient indentured servants! And who cares if the returning veterans from the wars don't have adequate care at the VA. They will just go to the streets and maintain making up 1 in 4 of the homeless population nationwide. You know, the poor people! I thought everybody knew that Robin Hood was a bad guy!
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