Americans must view EVERYTHING republicans do by keeping in mind what their true ultimate goals are. Which are to eliminate all of the social safety nets, Most noticeably Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. They keep destroying the economy while blaming President Obama and the Democrats to win the White House and congress in 2012.
The history of their behavior proves they cannot be trusted to work to benefit ordinary Americans. It also proves they place political power over the well being of Americans and the country. Their behavior proves they have more allegiance to Grover Norquist and their party over our constitution and country.
Any party that does that cannot be rewarded for doing so.Therefore, they are undeserving of votes and support from ordinary/struggling Americans.
If you don't believe this is a takeover by corporate America our system of government, please, this is an 92 minute film with documented evidence to the contrary. http://911docs.net/new_american_century.php
If the Dems are slamming the Republicans, then the Republicans are slamming America. What a joke of a story title. This is serious business, many people in this country are suffering and the media thinks it is a big joke since most of them have lots of money and cushy jobs. I just don't understand why anyone pays attention to the media anymore. They are pathetic.
President Obama toured the Solyndra manufacturing facility in California in 2010. The bankrupt firm, which received a $535 million federal loan guarantee under the Obama economic stimulus program, is now being investigated by Congress, the FBI and the Treasury Department's Inspector-General.
Oklahoma billionaire George Kaiser has been in the headlines in recent months thanks to his role as a major investor in Solyndra LLC, the now-bankrupt California solar panel maker hailed by President Obama as a model for America's "clean energy future."
Congress is investigating why the Obama administration gave Solyndra a $535 million loan guarantee despite multiple warnings from career bureaucrats and private sector investment experts that the company was a poor risk, lacked a realistic business model and was likely to go bankrupt as a result.
Other investigations are being conducted by the FBI and the Treasury Department's Inspector-General, and the issue is likely to remain on the public mind throughout the 2012 presidential campaign as Republicans claim Solyndra's failure demonstrates that government "cannot pick winners and losers in the marketplace."
Because Kaiser was a campaign "bundler" - an individual who collects contributions to a candidate from others that are then simultaneously given to the candidate - who raised about $250,000 for Obama during the 2008 campaign, congressional Republicans and media analysts have speculated that the Solyndra loan guarantee was nothing more than using tax dollars to reward a political supporter.
But the Solyndra scandal is far from Kaiser's first brush with political controversy. As the Sunlight Foundation's Bill Allison reports today, Kaiser has become extraordinarily wealthy by taking advantage of the federal tax code in ways that some tax experts - including the IRS - believe to be illegal.
As Allison describes it in his Sunlight post today, "in one six year period, during which he increased his net worth enough to land him on the Forbes list of the 400 wealthiest Americans, Kaiser reported taxable income to the Internal Revenue Service just once, totaling $11,699--equivalent to a full-time hourly wage of $5.62."
Stage TWO...slam the GOP on the jobs bill? The insinuation being that somehow this is a new tactic, or, strategy?! When did they STOP blaming the side for everything wrong? I must have missed it! That's what you get when you don't read the news for a day, huh?
I would like to see a comparison of this "jobs plan" and the initial stimulus. In other words, an analysis of how much funds are to be allocated to various things such as road construction, etc.
This type of analysis would be extremely beneficial to the American People.
It was my expectation from the first that the $447 billion "jobs plan" was more of a political move than really anything else. If the first stimulus plan of spending nearly $1 trillion didn't improve jobs how does anybody expect continued spending to.
Obama has brought about what I am sure he considers a very good scenario. If the "jobs plan" (stimulus II) passes, he gets to give more money to big labor. If it does not, he can blame it on the republicans for blocking the bill.
The only problem is that there is insufficient support for another round of taking money from taxpayers for his own gains so this road is going to backfire on Obama.
If this were to pass, somehow it has to be paid for. That is the bottom line. Regardless of what else is in the debate and it can't be paid for by political capital.
Any tax increase comes to bear on everyone in the nation. Tax increases on corporations increase prices of consumer goods. Tax increases on "the rich" reduce what they can pay to their employees.
The government is simply inefficient with how it uses money. The government needs to stay out of anything and everything that can be done privately.
Mostly conservative propaganda. Tax increases on businesses are not passed on to consumers in increased prices. Prices are driven by the market and competition, not taxes, and every business will price as high as possible to maximize revenue. Te jobs plan was both a good idea and a political move. We need the stimulus spending. It would be paid for with a tax on the wealthy, bring their rates back the 1990's levels. Ut since Republicans will block everything that will help the economy to try and unseat Obama, Obama didn't try to cater to their whims this time, just put out what he thinks is right. So both a necessary bill and a political move, because he knew Republicans would be caught between passing it and making him look better, or killing it and making themselves look bad.
And the vast majority of the jobs bill didn't go to "big labor" it was going to keep necessary service workers employed and help the unemployed.
What is stage 2 going to be?
Call it Jobs Bill Stage 2?
Yes that or any other name will get it it through the Senate and on to his desk for him to sign.
Give it up Barry.
You might be able to con ignorant people if republicans weren't so brazen in their schadenfreude and resentment of struggling Americans. Republicans have made it crystal clear they use government to help corporations, big oil and the wealthy while giving the middle finger to struggling Americans.
Chevyhotrod, I wonder where Romney's 18 million, Perry's 14 million and so on and so forth came from. Each of them, are out fundraising as well. The difference, if you were smart enough to actually think about this, is the fact that you have several Republicans all fundraising for themselves to win the Republican nomination. On the other hand, Democrats are not looking to nominate another Dem, so all their monies are able to be donated to one person up front. Once a Republican candidate is chosen, you will see massive amounts of money tossed into that candidates war chest. Completely shows that both sides are bought and paid for, but that is another story altogether.
by chevyhotrod October 13, 2011 7:40 AM EDT "con ignorant people"
Your projection is obvious for all to see.
I heard on the radio this morning on my way into work at 6am that President Obama has raised $70 Million in the 2Q for his re-election campaign, I wonder where that money came from? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
chevyhotrod you're blowing smoke and in dire need of a overhaul new rings and valve are in order. Republicans have turned their backs to the people that put them in office by continually sabotaging legislation that would help them. Do you deny these facts?
Hammer them. They are guilty. They are opposed to everything and they want to say Obama is a failure. Well... in our system of government, it takes all branches of government to pass something. And they have opposed absolutely everything. I think it is way past time they get the stick.
Chevyhotrod - false. The stimulus didn't fail. That's is conservative propaganda. It succeeded. Not as well as it might, and there was a large amount of pork barrel money in (about 140B of the 787B was spent on programs that could not have increased jobs or helped the economy) but it DID succeed.
The GOP plan to balance the budget Includes radical sending cuts tha will plunge the country into depression and the destruction of Medicare and Medicaid. Of course that is a radical solution.
And the Democrats have never had full control because Republicans are on auto filibuster I. The Senate and the Democarts never had 60 votes.
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The history of their behavior proves they cannot be trusted to work to benefit ordinary Americans. It also proves they place political power over the well being of Americans and the country. Their behavior proves they have more allegiance to Grover Norquist and their party over our constitution and country.
Any party that does that cannot be rewarded for doing so.Therefore, they are undeserving of votes and support from ordinary/struggling Americans.
Hey it worked when the liberals pushed that f*cked up health bill. Why shouldn't it work now?
President Obama toured the Solyndra manufacturing facility in California in 2010. The bankrupt firm, which received a $535 million federal loan guarantee under the Obama economic stimulus program, is now being investigated by Congress, the FBI and the Treasury Department's Inspector-General.
Oklahoma billionaire George Kaiser has been in the headlines in recent months thanks to his role as a major investor in Solyndra LLC, the now-bankrupt California solar panel maker hailed by President Obama as a model for America's "clean energy future."
Congress is investigating why the Obama administration gave Solyndra a $535 million loan guarantee despite multiple warnings from career bureaucrats and private sector investment experts that the company was a poor risk, lacked a realistic business model and was likely to go bankrupt as a result.
Other investigations are being conducted by the FBI and the Treasury Department's Inspector-General, and the issue is likely to remain on the public mind throughout the 2012 presidential campaign as Republicans claim Solyndra's failure demonstrates that government "cannot pick winners and losers in the marketplace."
Because Kaiser was a campaign "bundler" - an individual who collects contributions to a candidate from others that are then simultaneously given to the candidate - who raised about $250,000 for Obama during the 2008 campaign, congressional Republicans and media analysts have speculated that the Solyndra loan guarantee was nothing more than using tax dollars to reward a political supporter.
But the Solyndra scandal is far from Kaiser's first brush with political controversy. As the Sunlight Foundation's Bill Allison reports today, Kaiser has become extraordinarily wealthy by taking advantage of the federal tax code in ways that some tax experts - including the IRS - believe to be illegal.
As Allison describes it in his Sunlight post today, "in one six year period, during which he increased his net worth enough to land him on the Forbes list of the 400 wealthiest Americans, Kaiser reported taxable income to the Internal Revenue Service just once, totaling $11,699--equivalent to a full-time hourly wage of $5.62."
that somehow this is a new tactic, or, strategy?!
When did they STOP blaming the side for everything wrong?
I must have missed it!
That's what you get when you don't read the news for a day, huh?
I would like to see a comparison of this "jobs plan" and the initial stimulus. In other words, an analysis of how much funds are to be allocated to various things such as road construction, etc.
This type of analysis would be extremely beneficial to the American People.
Obama has brought about what I am sure he considers a very good scenario. If the "jobs plan" (stimulus II) passes, he gets to give more money to big labor. If it does not, he can blame it on the republicans for blocking the bill.
The only problem is that there is insufficient support for another round of taking money from taxpayers for his own gains so this road is going to backfire on Obama.
If this were to pass, somehow it has to be paid for. That is the bottom line. Regardless of what else is in the debate and it can't be paid for by political capital.
Any tax increase comes to bear on everyone in the nation. Tax increases on corporations increase prices of consumer goods. Tax increases on "the rich" reduce what they can pay to their employees.
The government is simply inefficient with how it uses money. The government needs to stay out of anything and everything that can be done privately.
And the vast majority of the jobs bill didn't go to "big labor" it was going to keep necessary service workers employed and help the unemployed.
Call it Jobs Bill Stage 2?
Yes that or any other name will get it it through the Senate and on to his desk for him to sign.
Give it up Barry.
Wreak it into pieces and try to pass them separately to get as much through as possible, which is exactly what we need.
Completely shows that both sides are bought and paid for, but that is another story altogether.
"con ignorant people"
Your projection is obvious for all to see.
I heard on the radio this morning on my way into work at 6am that President Obama has raised $70 Million in the 2Q for his re-election campaign, I wonder where that money came from?
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chevyhotrod you're blowing smoke and in dire need of a overhaul new rings and valve are in order. Republicans have turned their backs to the people that put them in office by continually sabotaging legislation that would help them. Do you deny these facts?
The GOP plan to balance the budget Includes radical sending cuts tha will plunge the country into depression and the destruction of Medicare and Medicaid. Of course that is a radical solution.
And the Democrats have never had full control because Republicans are on auto filibuster I. The Senate and the Democarts never had 60 votes.