Town Hallers Embarrass Rep. Over Bush Tax Cuts

Agreed, glad you enjoyed PIANORAMA... =)

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Cool video CreditFigaro, thanks for sharing... =)

I Totally agree and we can do it for free... It does not need any commercial time but can go Viral, just by making the video you speak of... Great Idea, now I am really thinking, Thanks... =)

Very Well said, and I am able to do what you are saying... I will get back to this when I have time... Thanks again... =)

I agree kayopunk, but we do have the right to vote them out.... =)

Excellent Idea Simone_Castillo, feel free to copy the video Link and send it to all your friends and loved ones... =)

Right on EmperorThan, glad you got a Kick out of it, I did Too... =)

Just saw an even better one on DailyKos with Michelle Bachmann saying that doing things that help people is popular and had to stop! If you can follow her twisted logic she`s saying that to insure Republican rule all programs,ie,healthcare,Soc.Sec. Medicare,etc,must be done away with! What a piece of work. Can anyone really be that "Spooky Stupid"!

(Sara Palin is almost equally scary, is mentally ill, shows signs of schizophrenia) (eg. her word salads - a typical sign), but Bachmann's more dangerous, she's one crazy critter, with a screwy ideas for sure - she's saying that she doesn't WANT to represent real people with the statements you outline.

Sarah Palin is especially Spooky and Kooky(Addams family?) as is Rick Perry "The Wack-A-Doodle from Waco" and Bachmann. watch out for Bob McDonnell in Virginia too,he`s a disciple of the LATE but not rerisen Jerry Falwell. This bunch is has more screws loose than an Albanian automobile!

Ummm, Blow what???

They would never have a Clue unless the did just what you are saying...

Most of the politicians in my state went right into it as soon as they got out of college. Some are good but the majority of them (the rethugs) have no clue and no heart.
Term limits is the only answer for them.

"Term Limits!!!" Correct!!! =)

Don't forget their latest little trick of charging ten dollars or more to enter their "Town Hall Meeting" and using that as an excuse that they are paying for "lunch" consisting of a bologna sandwich and a bottle of water to keep the average person out of the discussion!

Maybe cos they don't want us to film how out of touch they are???

maybe because there are few less suckers these days, or the suckers are tapped out, and realize what suckers they are

Throw them a Lumping for me... =)

"Nobody with an ounce of common sense..."

You do realize you've just described EVERY individual that's EVER voted for a Republican?

oh yea.... it's like throwing gasoline on flame

The Masses ARE asses aren't they.

I have made follies I am not proud of. Voting for Clinton twice, Gore and Kerry once apiece, and not voting for Obama I do not consider mistakes.

To each their own....I always say.

Universal Health Care! Are you kidding me? Obama didn't even put up one ounce of effort for a Puplic Option. He Never would have allowed Single -Payer.
You're trying to re-write history.
Sanders/Grayson 2012!

I think if he thought it would improve his chances of reelection he would do it.

do they have a pac dinm?

"Mr. Obama ain't heavy...he's my DEMOCRATIC President!"

Cute, and I thought I was simplistic...just curious, would you feel that same way if he approved keystone xi

How about when Super committee compromise includes cuts to medicare and social security, but does little to tax the rich or really just doesn't tax the rich?

Just curious were do you draw the line...

well played...I agree
not that curious
but only because you do have me at a disadvantage, there is no viable alternative...I can argue for...yet...but if there is, I'd like to get a more direct answer to my questions ;-)

Make sure they are "Cowardly Tomatoes" the kind that HIT AND RUN!!!

you're reaching and hoping... but voted up!

Perhaps now, they'll vote.

I too was impressed and Happy to see that folks have not forgotten and they are paying attention...

You need to pay more attention. You don't have a clue what you are talking about. For one thing we didn't ever get universal health care. We got a giveaway to the health insurance companies. You can keep calling liberals statists, but in doing so you reveal yourself to be a libertarian propagandist. Deregulation is what got us into this economic mess in the first place, so the idea that deregulation is the answer to get out of it is astoundingly asinine.

Also your idea of who is taking wealth from who is exactly backwards. Through disproportionate wages, shipping jobs overseas, not paying taxes, the rich corporate profiteers are stealing the people's wealth. Those who get rich off of the backs of others that conservatives are so proud of are the real welfare queens of our nation. It is not the poor who live by leaching off of everybody else -- it is the rich corporate profiteers who live off the blood, sweat, and tears of the poor and middle class.

The state serves the corporations. There is nothing liberal about what is going on. It is conservative from soup to nuts. Obama is a conservative. There is no actual substance or truth to what you stated. It is the scripted reality that conservatives are trying to sell to the ignorant masses. Nobody here is buying it though.

0.3% drop in 5 years? You want to call that evidence of success? Bwahahahahaha!

I know, isn't it cute to see him scramble?

Sigh, so $2.5 trillion only bought 500,000 jobs?

That's a multiplier effect of 0.1 and the stimulus had a multiplier effect of 2. yes... a very effective use of taxpayer dollars.

Seriously, when do you pull your head out of your ass?

"Statists (liberals) love the idea of confiscation of wealth/income from those who have it and the concept of universal health care. "

What universal health care? We have NOTHING of the sort. We have a bunch of PRIVATIZED providers who are more concerned with profits than providing the health care they receive premiums for.

Second taxes are not confiscation of wealth any more than paying your rent or a mortgage. If your going to live somewhere, you're going to have to pay for the privilege, it's no more complicated than that. Thinking otherwise is selfish and ignorant. If you don't like paying taxes then move to Somalia or Yemen.

Third , if you're country is in financial trouble, those with more can pay more. This can be argued on basic moral principals of fairness and common sense. The wealthy stepped up to the plate after WW II and helped pay off our war debt because they understood the connection between their welfare and that of the countries. Today, the wealthy feel NO responsibility to contribute to the economic health to the country. They've become GOP supported welfare queens that Reagan accused the poor of being. It's disgusting. And don't complain about how much they pay in taxes. The fact is they often pay next to nothing or nothing at all due to tax shelters, loopholes, outright fraud, subsidies, tax breaks and tweaks to the law.

Fourth we lost 600,000 jobs in a single month in 2008 when the housing bubble popped Retirement funds also lost 40% to 50% of their value and people began losing their homes. We continued to lose jobs, homes and money right through 2009 so I'm not sure what you mean by stating it "really got rolling" in 2009. It really got rolling in September 2008 and rolled right into 2009, so don't even think about inferring that Obama is to blame for the condition we're in. Fact is Bush, Hank Paulson and Wall Street are the reason why we're in an economic mess. Fact is we're still here because a bunch of white men don't want to give a black liberal any credit for fixing a problem THEY were responsible for creating. Just like they didn't want to give him any credit for eliminating bin Laden. The GOP wants to keep the economy a mess so they can ride in on their white horse in 2012 and claim they can save the economy. BULLSHIT!

Fifth I agree we have to start cutting and stop printing money but that alone won't do it. Most of the cuts are aimed at the middle class who are already broke. In a consumer driven economy like ours the middle class is the driver for real growth, not the wealthy. When the middle class have jobs and benefits they spend money and the economy does better. If you eliminate jobs and benefits they have no money to help the economy grow. How do you not get that? Spending cuts alone without tax increases to buffer the middle class will just sink us further into the abyss.

Gee, I wonder what HAPPENED in August of 2008?

Oh, that's right! All those "secret meetings" BushCo was holding in the bowels of the White House coming up with THE plan to figure out a way to empty the country's coffers and hand it over, with a ribbon nicely tied around it, to banksters and financial institutions as a "gift" from our government!

Hank Paulson knew how to pull the wool over all our politicians' eyes and believe every word as if it was gospel! Those banksters were collapsing into a heap on the floor of Wall Street...UNTIL January of 2009 when the bonuses got bigger than EVER before!

Amazing how things turned around for them in less than 4 months!

And here we are...the working class, STILL struggling......THREE DAMNED YEARS LATER!

Well, we could have eliminated electric bills for many generations to come with clean electricity, given research grants to US companies, educated children, invested in infrastructure, high speed rail through the entire US (between and within cities) electric car infrastructure, natioinalized healthcare, better organic foods, space exploring megastructures...

You know, Utopia.

You didn't watch the video, did you?

Oh well...I wish you would! It speaks of the many things that could be done with 2.4 TRILLION dollars...like your ideas!

Deja vu?

The stimulus went mostly to two places, tax cuts and keeping government workers in their jobs. I would like to have seen it go to infrastructure. The President has got to get more aggressive. The rethuglicans say one thing in public, but other things in private. The President received a number of requests from people like Michelle Bachmann to send money to her district because it would create JOBS. He needs to pull these requests and tell the constituents of these people that it is THEIR representative that is blocking jobs.

UNTIL January of 2009 when the bonuses got bigger than EVER before!
See there, we peons take goooood care of our overlords!
Pwr 2 the righteous peons! Dismember the Wall St overlords!

You are so right -- he's making his money posting this crap for the reptard overlords.

Pwr 2 the LIBERAL peons! Dismember the reptard overlords!

Perfect response to this winger's brain washing.

Exactly! Stupidity should be painful. Maybe then it would wake these drones up.

INDEED! When a society spends more money on making war than it does on its people, it is doomed to crumble. Our country has its priorities inverted.

I served aboard the Cruiser that certified the Tomahawk missile system for the US Navy. Each missile cost $1.2 million dollars; and that was over a decade ago.

Back then, shooting these missiles was akin to a NASA shuttle countdown, often occupying half the battle group for days with dozens of civilians experts aboard overseeing the launch and F14 chase jets following them to the targets located in China lake Nevada. Now the navy fires these missiles like they're bottle rockets throughout our various 'theaters of war'.

Don't get me wrong; I'm all for a strong sophisticated military. But the fraud, waste, and abuse perpetrated by industrial military complex on a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis... totally dwarfs our actual needs almost everywhere else.

Crooks, liars, and idiots are driving our country into the ground like a lawn dart.

I disagree with the message that we shouldn't have spent it. We could have done a great many wonderful things for a great many people. Instead we committed genocide.

Sigh. The government isn't an individual.

Look, your heart is in the right place, but using debt to improve your situation can leave everyone much better off. It's OK to borrow demand from the future under specific circumstances.

Examples include:

Buying a house in a healthy economy - the amount saved on rent can put you net positive in the long run.

Buying solar panels for your roof - assuming they are insured, you save a net 50% on your electric bill for the next 20 years.

Buying a car - if it means that you can get to work every day and earn more for your household.

Yes, credit is a valuable thing, unless it is abused. Investing in infrastructure that leaves us better off is fine, and even encouraged. Educating children, infrastructure investment and nationalizing healthcare are all things that have a net positive benefit for society.. in fact most of the things in your video are.

Think about it for a bit, Buckeye. The hamburger doesn't cost you much extra if you pay your card off.

Besides, US Debt is extremely cheap right now. Now is the time to spend spend spend.

I guess we agree then...

I beg to differ.

In more ways than not!

Please...stop and think for one moment...please.

What has changed with MediCare OR Medicaid?

NOTHING.

So, as far as the HUGE crack that you have fallen into has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with either POSSIBILITES that WE ALL are discussing RIGHT NOW. Correct? All of these things that are being bantered about today is about something way down the road.

And I'll wager dollars to doughnuts that NOTHING will change! There are waaaay too many people that will be able to build fires under their individual representatives to never let anything happen!

All those Fixed Noise commentators are doing is spreading fear just like they did about the death panels that was supposed to be set up to kill Grandma! Fear is what the Rethuglicans THRIVE on!

But, like I stated earlier...your unfortunate situation has to do with what ALREADY exists with MediCare and Medicaid.

I wished that there were enough politicians....Republican AND Democrat....that could understand the need for Universal Health Care!

Our..your and my task is to impress upon those who run for office in the near future that we MUST have Universal Care AND they MUST find a way to achieve that goal!

Right?