Some believe healthcare is a right. Obama, we only have unalienable Rights. When these Rights are viewed through the prism of science (see my channel video), one will find they apply to all Life, from bacteria to humans, and Social systems, including Charles Darwin’s research; as in some Grand Unification principle for all Living-systems. Most understand the Laws of Nature trumps mortals in power; a new understanding of these Rights may help make this world a better place to live.
You are correct about rights, and the nature of rights, but wrong about some things. We do in fact have a right to life, and since the government was instituted to protect and maintain our individual and equal rights, the government has a legitimate constitutional interest in protecting and enhancing our right to life. Since we have equal rights to government assistance, and we have a right to life, we DO have a right to healthcare.
@Chunkylover712 There are no “equal rights” only Unalienable Rights. We do not have the right to infringe on anyone’s Rights. Government only protects our Unalienable Rights. Government does not do healthcare only healthcare professionals. Healthcare professionals have Unalienable Rights too and we do not have the right to make them part of our rights; otherwise, healthcare professionals have the freedom to do something else, aka, not healthcare.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
@Mike10four Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add “within the limits of the law,” because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.
-Thomas Jefferson
We have a right to *rightful* liberty, not "liberty". It is implied.
No. All rights are equal. There are *however* unequal people. Some have considerably more power and ability. So when determining the constitutionality of a law, we must remember that "nothing is more unequal than equal treatment of unequal people". Rights were given to us by our creator, and they are equal. We are all the same type of animal with the same biological imperatives.
@Chunkylover712 Yes we are the “same type of animal” but not equal! We live in a relativistic universe, where equality is an abstract concept not yet found in any metrology. From the Heisenberg principle to galaxies, no two items are equal. Our unalienable Rights are part of the Laws of Nature; they are not manmade, and they are relative to our ability.
Obama is a real dope, he thinks he can fool us. he thinks we will not notice that he forced us to pay for 30 million others that don't want to buy healthcare, and it won't cost us anything. We are not as much of a dope as Obama.
This Halloween, we sent Nancy Pelosi on her radical-left-wing broom, back to the underground, to the web of worms where she belongs. In 2012 let's send
this Pinoccio trick-or-treating to Hawaii where he can meet his puppet-master Mr. G. Soros, pray & dance hula-hula at the Blame-America-First Church of Rev. Wright, and smoke some pot with his pal Bill Ayers, far away from DC, without tainting our White House. (cont,)
@talktoyourmamma1 Of course you're a bleeding-heart progessive, yes? Figured! Nothing more than an irreligious zealot, like your alter ego, "changinmyself", yeah? Just notin' ;)
he's a nigger coon who eats watermelons while drinking grape soda after eating fried chicken that he paid for by picking cotton while smoking crack after raping someone while eating a banana. Big lip, flat nose, nappy headed, dead beat, don't pay child support, living off welfare, coon Muslim from Kenya, NIGGER!!!!!!!
Another lying scheme. How can he "explain" the HC reform if they didn't read it themselves? The HC reform was Hillary's idea. He stole it from her. Actually McCain also had a HC plan. This Liar In Chief also said: "But there is no doubt that we’ve been living beyond our means and we’re going to have to make some adjustments" LOL! Compulsive liar? Few months later Congress passed Obama’s $3.5 trillion budget for 2010. A huge budget producing $1.2 trillion deficit, and HC Reform is even worse!
Never in America's history have we had, until now, such an anti capitalism President and an Administration filled with so many misfits, liars, incompetents, tax cheats, marxists, radicals & big government despots.
Obama can not create pvt. sector jobs. To do so he would have to embrace & support capitalism, not reject & seek to destroy it.
gov-run health care is NOT racism! Poor black pepol want good free health care. We want free home attendents and free food. We wand good free public housing and government paid cars and gasoline. We demand equal pay for all pepols!
Why some live in 20,000 sq ft homes and we live in small 3 bedroom apartmwents?
All must be equal!
We also want to drive ferraris and drink good champagne!
I don't have anything insulting to say about Mr. Obama. I like people who achieve their goals, which he did. He was the first black president of our government. He just didn't know that that actually involved DOING something other than just BEING black.
@buzzclick500 He didn't run as a "black" candidate. He ran on specific policies, some of which he has successfully implemented, some he still has to do.
@megarational : Amazing how Americans have been trained to act like we don't see the obvious, isn't it? How long have we been telling ourselves how much money we can save by BUYING something? As a nation of people, we're not mentally well at the moment.
Actually, this whole thing about health care has done me a lot of good. I take really good care of myself, because I don't want to fall under the "tender mercies" of the government's brand of "caring". God takes care of my health--my insurance policy is 1,243 pages long, and VERY comprehensive--covers everything.
LOOK AT THE SHAPE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE -ITS TIME TO GET RID OF THE AMA AND THE GOVERNMENT- STOP THE -GENOCIDE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE - PROSICUTE THE AMA FOR GENOCIDE AND GET ALL OUR MONEY BACK- THE ONE TRILLION DOLLAR HEALTH CARE SCAM. MURDER AND HUMAN MUTILATION
@ramvan55 : I worked in a medical center for several years, government-run,of course, and there was never any pretense about caring for the people unfortunate enough to fall into the trap. They did have a fortune because of grants and foundations from wealthy people who didn't have to care about where their money was going, and the hospital was constantly drilling it into us that we were ALL fund-raisers, and that we should sell the hospital's "services and benefits".
I would have expected more maturity from a 19 year old... and at DylaNxSurF, Obama doesn't support terrorists. Use common sense. Obama is talking about the health care site, not Muslims and terrorists. People need to calm down and go back to watching funny cat videos on youtube if you can't handle this.
My wife has spent half her life in Canada, and is also a disabled American veteran. She likes the Canadian health care system but HATES the VA. I am also a disabled veteran but find that my status apparently no longer entitles her to health care because she is not quite able to qualify for Medicare. There is no reciprocity between Canada and US in this. All American veterans used to be entitled to full health coverage. Not anymore. Why can't we BOTH get good health care in the US???
obama president is carrying E.E.U.U. with it the misery of war and with the next U.S. war with Iran ended in misery, I used to think that Obama be a better president, but it is not, the shit is another bush
@pr5021 And many more war veterans to clog the existing VA health care system. Even now, veterans don't get to see real doctors, don't have a choice in who they see, and are not allowed anymore to set up appointments more than 2 months in advance. I wonder what next???
@bodryn Iran continues war and possibly World War III and then the U.S. in a total catastrophe in misery, the U.S. should remove its troops from Afghanistan and Iraq and Iran's border, the U.S. is bad economically, it really should not start another war with Iran because it ended in total misery, I think before that Obama be an excellent president, but it is not, is another Bush is a disappointment
@pr5021 I still haven't accepted the fact that the US Supreme Ct stopped the 2000 Florida vote recount, which if counted, would have have put Al Gore into the White House in 2001. The US would not have gone into Iraq, and Afghanistan might have been a small effort to just capture Osama bin Laden, who almost was captured early on.
@megarational money where the U.S.? all the money you spend on stupid wars, look how much money you spend in Washington in Iraq and Afghanistan, billions lost in the wars, and the U.S. in a financial crisis and thousands of people without jobs and thousands of soldiers have lost lives only for the pride of the U.S. as an empire, the world is not repaired with shock, the world repaired with help! no war
Yo please refrain from directing internal angst upon the screen of life. Get a life, yo dodge, where yo hedaed home. Now. I will see you one war and raise you one atomic fucking party. Get it? Now shut it bitch. Before the man slap yo face.
@pr5021 There are two fundamental differences between Obama & Bush.
1) Bush/GOP want supply side "trickle down" policy, which is "give more and more to those with the most and we'll all be better off" Obama wants to ensure a healthy & growing middle class. Ie" Bush/GOP are for the rich & the corporations. Obama works for ordinary citizens. eg: Obama saved taxpayers $63 billion per yr. by eliminating banks as unnecessary middlemen in student loans
@pluto4847 : G.O.P.("Grand Old Party")hasn't had a coherent stream of thoughts since Calvin Coolidge was president. In fact, the PARTY didn't have the thoughts, just President Coolidge himself.
Obama & Pelosi's 'couple thousand' page health bill had roughly 5000 earmarks. He has outspent Bush's 8 years in less than one! And, he has for sure not lowered taxes. Actually, your taxes are going up. Biden's got to be a real retard to believe the HC Reform is a "fu(&ing big deal" I think he meant "we're fu(&ing big deal" GET REAL OBAMA!
@yummyman4u Is it really prudent to resort to name calling? You may have good points (ones with which I respectfully disagree); but, you dillute your own message by spouting rhetoric, hate and name-calling.
I can say from personal experience as a middle-income citizen that my taxes *have* gone down since Obama took office. I am also willing to pitch in a couple of bucks from my reasonable checks to help those less fortunate get health care.
@cmatrix4761 are you serious? why is social health care a bad thing? you just do not get it! do you? you just dont see the big picture do you? lord have mercy!
@jayzook Your statement makes you sound like a caricature of the stereotype of modern conservatives -- rather than engaging in logical or rational debate, or defending your position with facts or reasoning, you simply spout rhetoric and behave in an ellitist manner. But, in the end, it has no content, only passion. It's silly, to tell the truth.
The Liar In Chief also said: "But there is no doubt that we’ve been living beyond our means and we’re going to have to make some adjustments.Now, what I’ve done throughout this campaign is to propose a net spending cut"
Few months after that, both chambers of Congress passed Obama’s $3.5 trillion budget for 2010. A huge budget, which contemplates a $1.2 TRILLION deficit
@yummyman4u I've noticed that this is the same rhetoric you've spouted on like 10 different channels. Are you being deliberately inciteful, or just don't feel your point is being made?
He's lied about almost everything b/c the only important thing for him was to get to the presidency by whatever means in order to advance left-radical agenda.
Remember he said: “I want to go line by line through every item in the Federal budget and eliminate programs that don’t work” Another broken promise. Obama's "Stimulus" Package had thousands of earmarks, & Health Care bill many more, but he signed both of them. How important is a speech given by a compulsive liar?
The Health sCare bill is a theft. It hasn't had any benefits--so saying that is doing anything good is ridiculous--b/c it will start in 2014, not now, and it hasn't been paid for either as some misinformed people posted. We do have to start paying for it now, and pay for 4 years until 2014. It's going to be super-expensive, so if you voted for Pres. Omama, get your vaseline ready & don't complain!
Health Care reform was NOT passed BIPARTISAN. It was Hillary's idea. He stole it from her. Actually McCain also had a HC plan. This Liar In Chief also said: "But there is no doubt that we’ve been living beyond our means and we’re going to have to make some adjustments.Now, what I’ve done throughout this campaign is to propose a net spending cut"Few months after that, both chambers of Congress passed Obama’s $3.5 trillion budget for 2010. A huge budget, which contemplates a $1.2 trillion deficit
@yummyman4u Health care wasn't bipartisan because the minority flipped its views. This bill is almost word-for-word the same proposition offered by Republicans as an alternative to Clinton's health care reform propositions.
Wow, what a load! He says it will get even better as we implement more of the law . . . as written by thousands of new bureaucrats who haven't even been hired yet, whose new rules we will have no choice but to obey. As my employers plan and local options drop out because the gov't is forcing them to lose money... It doesn't sound like freedom to me. This is supposed to work?
@jonahsdive In countries where they have single payer, companies benefit in the world economy because they don't have to pay for health care as a benefit. I don't know if the US ever figured that out. I hope they do someday, if their business is to thrive in the world market.
It's amazing. Some disgusting "Americans" fight tooth and nail to make sure health care is rationed by the size of your wallet.
They don't want to spend money to extend health care, but they have no problem with increasing the deficit by borrowing money from China to give tax cuts to the rich.
@megarational Heh - the irony is that health care through insurance is, by definition, socialized medicine. It just happens to be market-oriented socialized medicine. The money of customers who rarely get sick is redistributed to those who are much more ill, as well as investors in the company.
@megarational Actually, I was trying to make a "Dark Knight Joker"-esque satire on the irony of anti-socialism. Unfortunately, deep and dark satires seem to be lost on the modern generations :D
Republicans had 8 years. They had entered office w/ a surplus, all they had to do was improve but NO, Bush got us in one of the worst deficit situation since the depression and you all expect obama have fixed 8 years of a mess in 18months!?! Geez, I didnt know he was the messiah?! WAKE UP, even when he campaign he said it would get worse before it gets better, and its slowly started to get better. But EVERYONE is impatient. They want a miracle. Reality Check folks, not happening!
@NaijaTion what is so hard to understand about a president who governs against the will of the people? if this country is going to go to crap, it should go to crap by the people, not one person. this lame duck of a president says,'' i know what is good for you, so you shut up and take it! '' that is not america! this admin. refuses to do the one thing that is proven to work to help an economy! CUT TAXES! why would they do that? and how long can he keep blaming bush? this is now bho mess!
@jayzook Show me the math -- where have big business and wealthy class tax cuts led to significant [or even marginally obvious] improvements in either GDP or employment?
@cmatrix4761 the largest income tax revenue for our govt. was a result of the bush tax cuts, i am not for sure of which year, but it did happen in sep. of that year!! i do not hate, like you think, i just have a hard time understanding how common sense is completely out of some peoples reach!! bho has all but drawn you people a pix, and yet you still refuse do believe that he is a very poor choice for our president!! besides, how much more proof do you need? even cnn cannot deny it anymore!
@jayzook One of the founding principles in fiscal management isn't how much wealth you have, but how prudently you apply it; Bush inherited a budget surplus - a really easy state to manage. At that point, relaxing taxes wasn't a bad idea -- his administration (and the Republican controlled Congress of the time) applied the tax cuts unwisely, which resulted in a huge budget deficit. The proper thing to have done would have been to relax taxes gradually over several years.
@cmatrix4761 : "Bush inherited a budget surplus". Now I know what Puck meant when he said, "What fools these mortals be!" I've often visualized a scenario in which everyone who managed their money unwisely just up and vanished. We wouldn't have a government, and the population of America would be about a million people.
@buzzclick500 That's a fair statement; heck, even I manage my finances poorly. However, I didn't run for public office on a platform of fiscal responsibility or constantly attack opponents for poor fiscal management. That's, of course, not to say his opponents aren't guilty of the same thing -- it's all a silly game designed to obscure truth, and both parties play it. But we, the People, must learn to see this game for what it is rather than being pulled into it like suckers.
@cmatrix4761 He thinks tax cuts actually work - truth is, the rich just salt their extra money away in a safe place. If money were invested in the poor, they would spend it right away for basic needs and get the economy moving very quickly.
@bodryn if you were rich, wouldn't you put your money in a safe place too? Oh i forgot, if you ever become rich, it won't be because you actually worked hard and saved, it will be because you cheated someone out of their fair share to get it. As you well know, all rich people never worked a day in their lives... moron..
@2008HLB Don't you get it? To get the economy moving, people have to start spending money again. Giving the rich more money won't do anything because they already can afford their needs - yes they'll salt it away. To prime the pump (as Harry Truman called it), you have to invest money in the people most likely to spend it, just for daily needs like food, gas, clothing, etc. Elementary economics even a moron like you should understand.
For the delusional people who have been clouded by hallucination of what obama has yet to do. Need mental rehabilitation. Youre so stuck on the things he hasnt done that you IGNORE what he has. He has Closed offshore tax safe havens, Lower drug costs for seniors, Improved housing for military personnel, Expanding vaccination programs, Wall Street reform, hire act, etc etc. list goes on. But NO, you dont see that. Its really troubling. Learn the facts! RESEARCH!
@megarational Ignore LiberalsAreWeak; I've been following his other discussion lines and he never actually engages in debate; he's nothing more than an inciter and responding to him will only make him spout more hateful rhetoric.
Get off YouTube and do your job instead of trying to brain wash the country with your constant misleading BS. You have put the nail in the coffin on the economy and we want you out of office.
@loopba By the time the Bush/GOP left office the nation was losing 3/4 of a million jobs/mo. the housing bubble was in collapse, the financial institutions, credit markets, and domestic auto industry were all near collapse. The economy was on the brink of meltdown. .
They left a massive deficit like a freight train speeding down the tracks toward whoever took office in the white house.
Thank GOD the GOP are no longer in power with their big solution of "still more tax cuts for the rich".
Republicans, who still operate on the same policies as the disastrous BUSH admin., still have as their big "solution" increasing the deficit by borrowing more money from China for more tax cuts for the rich.
Republicans have lied through their teeth continually about health care reform, and obstructed everything the admin. tried to do. The GOP care nothing about what is good for America, they care only about getting back in power.
@loopba GWBush put the nail in the coffin on the economy. And now the GOP is filibustering every attempt the MAJORITY makes to dig us out of the mess. If the GOP succeeds in destroying the US, they'll flee to their Swiss bank accounts and leave the rest of us to die or whatever.
Perfect song 4 Obama,Biden,Emmanuel,Houlder & Gibbs after the several terrorist attacks that have happened since their admin began 1yr. ago: Pants on the ground,pants on the ground.Looking lika fOOOOLLL with ur pants on the ground!Obama & Co.cancelled missile defense,failed 2 stop Iran going nuke,failed 2 secure our borders,violence & drug trafficking,wants 2 give terrorists legal rights like US citizens.We'e going to get F0CK1NG RAPED in our own country b/c Obama's policies can't keep US safe!
We need a Obama in Europe...ASAP!:) Great Site, for a more just healthcare in USA. You must understand our entusiasm (europeans) , politicians that furfill their promesses....are very rare:) Great job!
America rejects living on a government plantation. America rejects the the idea the collective trumps the individual. America rejects socialism.
America rejected Hillarycare that had fines for anyone who went outside the government plan for any reason...even in emergencies. The fines were $15k/offense for both doctor and patient.
The Dim libs want to get us to that point where they control everything and we live on a plantation.
BHO will fail and go down as the most racial POTUS history.
@bkdmd What America are u talking about? I am American and served my country. I would like Single Payer health care, much like Canada. That would be FAR SUPERIOR to VA health care, let me tell you. It's not about control of health care by rich corporations, it's about equality of freedom for all, and the opportunity for all to get health care without going bankrupt..
How is that stimulus working for you? The U6 unemployment number is over 18%.
This POTUS is a ridiculous spectacle.
His goal in life is to be Imam Obama or Ayatollah Obama. If he wanted to be POTUS, why doesn't he concentrate on the real issues instead of his agenda ot divisive politics, race politics, and more socialism?
Please tell me how you think stimulus is working? It will go down in history as Obama's depression. He bought Bush's recession with stimulus.
hey megahomoliberal when your done doing your laundry in your mommys basement get a job you progressive I want everything payed for me buy REAL MEN LOSER!
one more thing! why should we worry about bin laden now? obama is the most powerful terrorist in the world right now!! he is completely disassembling our constitution from top to bottom!! and he has already got about half of that done!! i believe that if he has his way, then we will never have another presidential election again!! because he thinks of himself as a king!! and he wants to keep it like that!! sorry america, your time of world leader is over!! freedom? not with obama!!
@megarational sorry but if u say much more here, u may become as unpopular as your king!! read some of the comments that are posted!! NOBODY LIKES OBAMA!! but you are a typical kook, you are smarter than everybody else. i understand. what has obama done in a year and a half? look what he has really done, not just what he says he has done. so why would anyone want anymore if him? i am not mad at people like you, i just wish you could see the truth before your king makes you look even more silly!
@jayzook have you been living under a rock for the past 18months?! So i guess hes been chilling for the past 18 months. So the The HIRE Act: A jobs bill that provided $18 billion in tax breaks for small businesses, Wall Street Reform, Health Care Reform, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Credit card reform, SCHIP expansion, Stem cell research etc, those are all imaginary accomplishments right? IGNORANCE is ugly on you kid.
@NaijaTion i must be living under the rock right next to the one you are under!! tell me why the majority of the country does not want any of what you just mentioned? and why this admin. is sitting on over half of all this money they said they was going to put into our economy? maybe a SLUSH FUND!! you cant tell me one good thing that has come from this admin. yet , anything that isnt covered in crap anyway!
@jayzook See again, you offer hate and opinion and cloud it as insight. From what reputable source to you base your assertion that "the majority of the country doesn't want any of what you just mentioned"?
@jayzook You are so completely wrong you must be on the GOP payroll. The GOP is doing nothing positive - everything is meant to take Obama down by hook or by crook. That is VERY UNAMERICAN! Maybe treason! You must be an enemy of the state to carry on like you do.
@jayzook It's not that nobody likes Obama -- it's that ridiculous nuts like you come in droves like this to bash other people [in this case, Democrats] without offering even a tiny bit of rational debate. All you do is spout hate and rhetoric and try to push down any rational comments with which you don't agree.
Essentially, you're nothing more than a racist, ignorant bully.
@jayzook This is complete nonsense, and may I say probably racist. Every time we get a really smart man in the White House, right wingnuts want to tear him down. We need intelligent leadership and it ought to be given a chance to thrive, for the good of ALL. I know this is a hard concept for SELFISH people to understand....
this really confuses me! all you obama supporters are right here on youtube! why dont you watch all the other videos of obama that are posted!! the ones where he lies, and lies, and then lies again!! or maybe the ones where he dont know what to say because his teleprompters quits!! if he had any idea what he was talking about he could at least improvise a little!! everything that he has touched so far turned to crap!! yet you people are too proud to admit you have been scamed!
megarational you are a class envy dumbass. the bottom line to everything you say is I am a lazy worthless piece of crap and someone with more money than I have should take care of me. ( more money because they worked for it and your a bum)? Are you from generation welfare? I bet so....
ewww the evil rich I want what you worked for because I am a lazy piece of crap with no drive and what you have worked for I should get because its MY RIGHT. You want health care GET FUCKING JOB you FUCKING MOOCHES.
@blumackfm And if you lose your job through no fault of your own, for eg. from the shipping of jobs overseas, the gutting of the manufacturing sector, or something like the Gulf oil spill, it['s nice to know idiots like you are still fighting for peoples right to lose their health care.
@blumackfm And of course even if someone has a job, but is so unfortunate as to get older or incur health issues, it's nice to know people like fight for their right to see their h. premiums skyrocket and even become unaffordable.
free for everyone..... car, house, food health care, daycare,a vacation,money for the movies..all the things that people with dignity and character used to work for, just get in line and some govt bureaucrat will take your number and get back to you.
@blumackfm Some in the U.S. say Canadian h.c. is "free".
In fact it's not free at all. It's paid for by the progressive tax system, the fairest & administratively simplest method. And the amount Canadians pay in taxes for h.c. is far less than you fools pay in private insur. premiums. And we get the h.c. without the bureaucratic interference of your super aggressive "managed care" private insur. system in the U.S.
That's why Canadians overwhelmingly prefier their h.c;. syst. to that of the U.S.
@bkdmd The last census, like the one before it, confirms that the portion of the nations wealth in the hands of the families at the top end increased and the portion of the nations wealth in the hands of the middle and lower class continues to decrease.
In other words, system based redistribution of the wealth has been occurring on a seemingly unstoppable course for many years.
Right now in America the top 1% controls more wealth than the bottom 95% percent combined.
@bkdmd Bush domestic policies widened the gap between rich & poor:
- massive unfunded tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefited the very highest incomes.
- eliminatedinheritance tax on large financial dynasties, solidifying economic class structure.
- eliminated tax on dividend's so that a construction worker sweats every workday to make $80K & pays tax through the nose, while a wealthy person can rake in 10 times that income in dividends and not pay one dime of tax on that income.
@bkdmd Bush attempted to get dividends tax free. The policy he fought for was elimination of the tax on dividends. He succeeded in getting them reduced so that a wealthy person pays a lower tax on that income than a working person pays on income that may be only a fraction as much. The point stands - Bush/'GOP policies were for the rich.
OK 1- dividends and capital gains are not income. They shouldn't be taxed.
2- did you know on SNAP you can buy anything including junk food, energy drinks, chips, cakes, cookies.
Did you know there is a much larger percentage of SNAP recipients who are obese and diabetics. Teddy Kennedy said he would always fight to make sure you can buy your twinkies with SNAP money.
Dims have brought us to the edge of the brink. We can't take any more Dims programs rewarding bad behavior.
@bkdmd A wealth person can make a shit load of money every month from dividends. The rich will be so happy that Republicans still don't want to tax them.
@bkdmd re: SNAP, "The Student in Need Attendance Program (SNAP) has been developed jointly with the Safe Schools partners committee, which includes representatives from police, education and child welfare. This program provides an alternative to home suspension for those students who are suspended under Board Policy and/or the Safe Schools Protocol, and where the school principal has recommended a student after gaining parent/guardian consent."
@bkdmd People like you are so absurd. You complain about some junk food access in the SNAP program (probably from the vending machines), yet if any group tried to ban junk food in schools you would be the first to cry out "government interference" and "trying to make our decisions for us".
@bkdmd It's also nice to know that the rich can buy property right & left (while ordinary working people struggle just to buy a home), and increase their wealth almost without limit by the capital gains, knowing that the GOP are there to make sure they pay little or no tax even as their wealth increases.
@bkdmd "If you reward bad behavior you get more of it" Yep, and that's why neocons must be stopped! They keep getting away with highway robbery. Now they're a minority in both houses of congress, yet they keep acting like they run the country. Insanity run amok.
@bkdmd As Obama pointed out, individuals who make over $200 K, should pay more in capital gains taxes. Due to a slanted tax system, people making more than 200K a year are paying less in taxes based on a percentage of their income than people who make less than that.
So before you predictably bounce to another topic, lets get you on record here.
Do you favor little or no taxes on capital gains & dividends?
We need to incentivize positive behavior. People need to live within their means to expand their means.
Investments needs to be incentivized and home ownership doesn't.
So yes dividends are not income and shouldn't be taxed.
I think we need to start taxing debt. If you are rich enough to afford debt for a car and a home and consumption, you are rich enough to pay a tax on that debt.
@bkdmd So you propose that the rich, who can pay cash for anything they want, get nothing but tax breaks, while the ordinary working stiff who works for a down payment on a house & takes out a mortgage of the balance, should pay more taxes?????:?
You are so divorced from common sense & reality I am going to delete any further sewage from you from my in-box.
There's more than enough of your comments & my replies for anyone with an open mind to form their own opinion.
@megarational man they have really got the wool pulled over your eyes!! beware of the wolf in sheeps clothing!! u accuse me of repeating what i hear on fox!! i dont have to, i hear what obama says!! i dont know where to start! everything he says is a proven lie!! not just ''hear say''!! whats the matter with u people? for example, he promised that anyone making under 250k would not see their taxes go up one iota!! LIE!! jan. 1st 2011income tax across the board goes up the most in history!!
@jayzook The first 95% of your comment is just the usual mindless blathering one comes to expect from people as dumb as you.
So let's just address the line that "2011 see the largest tax increase in history".
I followed that search string & naturally it's the latest "sound bite" for all the right wing sources like Fox, the Libertarian Party publications, & "Right Side News", for eg.s
Idiots like you get all kazoonie over this right wing "hype" without any inclination to look any deeper.
Bush tax cuts were about the largest "cuts" in history, & their repeal would therefore be about the largest "hike", The claims about the coming of the largest tax increases all start with the calculation based on the repeal of ALL Bush tax cuts, which is highly unlikely since both em's & GOP are on board with repealing the tax cuts ONLY for those making more than $250K.
@jayzook Now, not only did the Bush income tax cuts overwhelmingly benefit the rich, he also made other types of tax cut's that overwhelmingly benefited the rich, Including
- eliminated the inheritance tax, which only affected the top 5% of the wealthy, so that financial dynasties could be passed on intact & an economic class structure solidified.
@megarational u complain about the bush tax cuts benefiting rich!! whats really wrong with that?? use your head!! its the rich that keep this countries economy going! the less taxes they pay the more they grow their companies, the more they hire people, and the more people that work, the more income taxes are being paid to the govt. u liberals have no idea at all!! whats with this entitlement crap anyway? u feel mad because someone else is rich and your not! boo whoo! thats just not fair is it?
@jayzook That's the Republican mantra - the old "trickle down" theory, which is "give more and more to those with the most and we'll all be better off because it will "trickle down".
Too bad it ignores the fact that it's demand that spurs economic activity and expansion. In times of flagging demand and economic uncertainty corporations (even the rich ones) typically close plants, reduce output, and lay off workers.
There is a lot of excess production capacity in the U.S. A great many plants are operating at less than full capacity because the demand has not been there.
To put it simply so even an idiot like you might begin to understand it (if you wanted to) a rich person will not build a widget factory if there is no demand for widgets. ON the other hand, if there is a demand for widgets some entrepreneur or company will build the plant even if they have to borrow the money to do so.
@jayzook so the question becomes, what stimulates demand more, tax cuts for the rich or something like extending unemployment benefits?
The fact is that an extra dollar in the hands of someone at lower income stimulates demand more than an extra dollar in the hand of a higher income person for the simple reason that those at lower incomes spend more of each dollar.
@jayzook It's the rich who keep moving jobs overseas, and probably salting their money away in Swiss bank accounts, etc. That AINT gonna fix the American economy! In fact, now it's only the RICH that can save us. Maybe we'll get an example now of what their loyalty is, or isn't. Oh, come to think of it, they are doing everything to bring Obama down, aren't they? There's your answer! The GOP are traitors!
- reduced capital gains tax to a rate far below the incremental rate on higher incomes. (so the rich can speculate in real estate, for eg, vastly increase their wealth by capital gains, while paying a much lower rate of tax.)
- reduced tax on dividends to 15%.
The last 2 Bush tax cuts created a gross inequity where the rich w / high incomes from dividends & capital gains could pay far less tax than a working stiff making only a small fraction of that in salary.
@megarational he knew he had just one term to do this in because as soon as the american people realized what he was doing, he would never see another term. why is this so hard to admit?? the next time u do some research, on your king, make sure u look for the truth and not just what u want to find. the prove is all over the place, youtube, our deficit, his policies, and right in front of your face!! most of this countries people agree with me, and thats what really matters in the end!!
@megarational Do you realize that these right wing sociopaths are just a lost cause? They are ineducable and a total waste of time. Just remember, half the electorate has an IQ of less than 100, and we are seeing who these are in discussions like this. Well, either they are rich, or stupid. Or both.
They are also exceedingly gullible. They actually believe the bullshit they hear on Fox Fiction & from the mouths of glib jackasses like Limbaugh & Beck, who continue to get ever richer by feeding the fools exactly what they want to hear.
The other media don't help much. They are more concerned with mining controversy for the sake of ratings than in depth analysis of any issue.
@jayzook So, increasing the capital gains tax, on adjusted gross incomes, & restoring the higher tax on dividends is long overdue because it reduces that tax inequity.
I like that Barack himself did the presentation. He means *business*.
Chunkylover712 5 months ago
Hello everybody!
DiscoDude82 9 months ago
F You!
you don't care about the rising costs for seniors!!
baysideful 11 months ago
Some believe healthcare is a right. Obama, we only have unalienable Rights. When these Rights are viewed through the prism of science (see my channel video), one will find they apply to all Life, from bacteria to humans, and Social systems, including Charles Darwin’s research; as in some Grand Unification principle for all Living-systems. Most understand the Laws of Nature trumps mortals in power; a new understanding of these Rights may help make this world a better place to live.
Mike10four 1 year ago
@Mike10four
You are correct about rights, and the nature of rights, but wrong about some things. We do in fact have a right to life, and since the government was instituted to protect and maintain our individual and equal rights, the government has a legitimate constitutional interest in protecting and enhancing our right to life. Since we have equal rights to government assistance, and we have a right to life, we DO have a right to healthcare.
Chunkylover712 5 months ago
@Chunkylover712 There are no “equal rights” only Unalienable Rights. We do not have the right to infringe on anyone’s Rights. Government only protects our Unalienable Rights. Government does not do healthcare only healthcare professionals. Healthcare professionals have Unalienable Rights too and we do not have the right to make them part of our rights; otherwise, healthcare professionals have the freedom to do something else, aka, not healthcare.
Mike10four 5 months ago
@Mike10four
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Chunkylover712 5 months ago
@Mike10four Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add “within the limits of the law,” because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.
-Thomas Jefferson
We have a right to *rightful* liberty, not "liberty". It is implied.
Chunkylover712 5 months ago
@Mike10four
No. All rights are equal. There are *however* unequal people. Some have considerably more power and ability. So when determining the constitutionality of a law, we must remember that "nothing is more unequal than equal treatment of unequal people". Rights were given to us by our creator, and they are equal. We are all the same type of animal with the same biological imperatives.
Chunkylover712 5 months ago
@Chunkylover712 Yes we are the “same type of animal” but not equal! We live in a relativistic universe, where equality is an abstract concept not yet found in any metrology. From the Heisenberg principle to galaxies, no two items are equal. Our unalienable Rights are part of the Laws of Nature; they are not manmade, and they are relative to our ability.
Mike10four 5 months ago
@cometmcfest oh no!!!!! We cant waste our own tax money on our needs. We need to only waste it on war and other stuff that wont benefit most people.
TheKRKN 1 year ago
OBAMA = LUIZ INÁCIO LULA DA SILVA = HUGO CHAVEZ = LENIN
capotegabriel 1 year ago
@capotegabriel this is so stupid, I can't believe an idiot like you can handle a computer.
You don't know who Lula da Silva is, you don't know who Hugo Chavez is and you sure don't know who Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin is.
And i really doubt you know who Barrak Obama is, if you compare him to these men.
cheers!
etetepete 11 months ago
Obama is a real dope, he thinks he can fool us. he thinks we will not notice that he forced us to pay for 30 million others that don't want to buy healthcare, and it won't cost us anything. We are not as much of a dope as Obama.
redbaroniii 1 year ago
Now where could that money come from??? No! - it couldn't be our money!!
hmmm
CometMcfest 1 year ago
This Halloween, we sent Nancy Pelosi on her radical-left-wing broom, back to the underground, to the web of worms where she belongs. In 2012 let's send
this Pinoccio trick-or-treating to Hawaii where he can meet his puppet-master Mr. G. Soros, pray & dance hula-hula at the Blame-America-First Church of Rev. Wright, and smoke some pot with his pal Bill Ayers, far away from DC, without tainting our White House. (cont,)
yummyman4u 1 year ago
@yummyman4u Healthcare options given for your fellow Americans -- 50 million of them without it. Oh yeah .... that's the wrong, evil thing to do. LOL
talktoyourmamma1 1 year ago
@talktoyourmamma1 Of course you're a bleeding-heart progessive, yes? Figured! Nothing more than an irreligious zealot, like your alter ego, "changinmyself", yeah? Just notin' ;)
Innuendoh 6 months ago
In 2012,dear fellow Americans,let's reflect about the importance of our nation,& vote for someone capable,really worthy of leading US.
yummyman4u 1 year ago
Anyone else hear that at 0:59, Obama's stomach growls. Haha!
Vorticose 1 year ago
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he's a nigger coon who eats watermelons while drinking grape soda after eating fried chicken that he paid for by picking cotton while smoking crack after raping someone while eating a banana. Big lip, flat nose, nappy headed, dead beat, don't pay child support, living off welfare, coon Muslim from Kenya, NIGGER!!!!!!!
mgenty2k5 1 year ago
Another lying scheme. How can he "explain" the HC reform if they didn't read it themselves? The HC reform was Hillary's idea. He stole it from her. Actually McCain also had a HC plan. This Liar In Chief also said: "But there is no doubt that we’ve been living beyond our means and we’re going to have to make some adjustments" LOL! Compulsive liar? Few months later Congress passed Obama’s $3.5 trillion budget for 2010. A huge budget producing $1.2 trillion deficit, and HC Reform is even worse!
yummyman4u 1 year ago
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Never in America's history have we had, until now, such an anti capitalism President and an Administration filled with so many misfits, liars, incompetents, tax cheats, marxists, radicals & big government despots.
Obama can not create pvt. sector jobs. To do so he would have to embrace & support capitalism, not reject & seek to destroy it.
notbestfriends 1 year ago
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gov-run health care is NOT racism! Poor black pepol want good free health care. We want free home attendents and free food. We wand good free public housing and government paid cars and gasoline. We demand equal pay for all pepols!
Why some live in 20,000 sq ft homes and we live in small 3 bedroom apartmwents?
All must be equal!
We also want to drive ferraris and drink good champagne!
Kick out rich pepols!
God bless Obama and our democratic leaders!
platipot 1 year ago
"Now I have pretty good health care these days"....what he failed to mention is that he has good health care and is EXEMPT from his healthcare law!
jtech404 1 year ago
I don't have anything insulting to say about Mr. Obama. I like people who achieve their goals, which he did. He was the first black president of our government. He just didn't know that that actually involved DOING something other than just BEING black.
buzzclick500 1 year ago
@buzzclick500 He didn't run as a "black" candidate. He ran on specific policies, some of which he has successfully implemented, some he still has to do.
He's only been in office 2 years.
megarational 1 year ago
@megarational : Amazing how Americans have been trained to act like we don't see the obvious, isn't it? How long have we been telling ourselves how much money we can save by BUYING something? As a nation of people, we're not mentally well at the moment.
buzzclick500 1 year ago
Actually, this whole thing about health care has done me a lot of good. I take really good care of myself, because I don't want to fall under the "tender mercies" of the government's brand of "caring". God takes care of my health--my insurance policy is 1,243 pages long, and VERY comprehensive--covers everything.
buzzclick500 1 year ago
LOOK AT THE SHAPE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE -ITS TIME TO GET RID OF THE AMA AND THE GOVERNMENT- STOP THE -GENOCIDE OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE - PROSICUTE THE AMA FOR GENOCIDE AND GET ALL OUR MONEY BACK- THE ONE TRILLION DOLLAR HEALTH CARE SCAM. MURDER AND HUMAN MUTILATION
ramvan55 1 year ago
@ramvan55 : I worked in a medical center for several years, government-run,of course, and there was never any pretense about caring for the people unfortunate enough to fall into the trap. They did have a fortune because of grants and foundations from wealthy people who didn't have to care about where their money was going, and the hospital was constantly drilling it into us that we were ALL fund-raisers, and that we should sell the hospital's "services and benefits".
buzzclick500 1 year ago
black president? ha.
bluesrocker1991 1 year ago
@bluesrocker1991
I would have expected more maturity from a 19 year old... and at DylaNxSurF, Obama doesn't support terrorists. Use common sense. Obama is talking about the health care site, not Muslims and terrorists. People need to calm down and go back to watching funny cat videos on youtube if you can't handle this.
WhitePageBlackLines 1 year ago
Fuck you Obama you support Muslims and terrorist over Americans just for Muslims vote bank! YOU ACT LIKE INTELLIGENT SHIT GO TO HELL>>!
DylaNxSurF 1 year ago
Progressives you must vote this November!!
spiritbeckonyou 1 year ago
My wife has spent half her life in Canada, and is also a disabled American veteran. She likes the Canadian health care system but HATES the VA. I am also a disabled veteran but find that my status apparently no longer entitles her to health care because she is not quite able to qualify for Medicare. There is no reciprocity between Canada and US in this. All American veterans used to be entitled to full health coverage. Not anymore. Why can't we BOTH get good health care in the US???
bodryn 1 year ago
Mr. President, can you spare some "change"?
ThisNameAvailable 1 year ago
obama president is carrying E.E.U.U. with it the misery of war and with the next U.S. war with Iran ended in misery, I used to think that Obama be a better president, but it is not, the shit is another bush
pr5021 1 year ago
@pr5021 And many more war veterans to clog the existing VA health care system. Even now, veterans don't get to see real doctors, don't have a choice in who they see, and are not allowed anymore to set up appointments more than 2 months in advance. I wonder what next???
bodryn 1 year ago
@bodryn Iran continues war and possibly World War III and then the U.S. in a total catastrophe in misery, the U.S. should remove its troops from Afghanistan and Iraq and Iran's border, the U.S. is bad economically, it really should not start another war with Iran because it ended in total misery, I think before that Obama be an excellent president, but it is not, is another Bush is a disappointment
pr5021 1 year ago
@pr5021 I still haven't accepted the fact that the US Supreme Ct stopped the 2000 Florida vote recount, which if counted, would have have put Al Gore into the White House in 2001. The US would not have gone into Iraq, and Afghanistan might have been a small effort to just capture Osama bin Laden, who almost was captured early on.
bodryn 1 year ago
@pr5021 Obama is very different than Bush, and far better.
A quick two examples for examples:
1) Bush borrowed money for tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefited the rich.
Obama is ending those tax cuts for the rich.
2) Obama signed into law SCHIP expansion extending health care coverage to millions of children of low income families.
Bush fought the SCHIP expansion his whole time in office, even going so far as to veto it.
megarational 1 year ago
@megarational money where the U.S.? all the money you spend on stupid wars, look how much money you spend in Washington in Iraq and Afghanistan, billions lost in the wars, and the U.S. in a financial crisis and thousands of people without jobs and thousands of soldiers have lost lives only for the pride of the U.S. as an empire, the world is not repaired with shock, the world repaired with help! no war
pr5021 1 year ago
Yo please refrain from directing internal angst upon the screen of life. Get a life, yo dodge, where yo hedaed home. Now. I will see you one war and raise you one atomic fucking party. Get it? Now shut it bitch. Before the man slap yo face.
bigbruthaman 1 year ago
@bigbruthaman Nice to see you so submersed in a sub-cultures vernacular.
Is it supposed to be a substitute for intelligence?
megarational 1 year ago
Nah, a substitute for not kicking your ass! Boo Ya!
bigbruthaman 1 year ago
@pr5021 There are two fundamental differences between Obama & Bush.
1) Bush/GOP want supply side "trickle down" policy, which is "give more and more to those with the most and we'll all be better off" Obama wants to ensure a healthy & growing middle class. Ie" Bush/GOP are for the rich & the corporations. Obama works for ordinary citizens. eg: Obama saved taxpayers $63 billion per yr. by eliminating banks as unnecessary middlemen in student loans
2) Obama is intelligent. Bush was an idiot.
megarational 1 year ago
@megarational
I agree with you 100%. Obama wants to help the home front, not abroad.
It annoys me that GOP think its ok to help other countries with their domestic problems, but when needy Americans ask for help they shut the door.
Obama wants to help America--the American people, and I think he is doing a wonderful job. Bush left him a huge mess, yet people blame Obama. Why?>
pluto4847 1 year ago
@pluto4847 : G.O.P.("Grand Old Party")hasn't had a coherent stream of thoughts since Calvin Coolidge was president. In fact, the PARTY didn't have the thoughts, just President Coolidge himself.
buzzclick500 1 year ago
Awesome Obama has a Macbook pro!
Oh, Oh Right Great video
This is what the president should be doing making videos that help that actually help the public. Thumbs UP!
Corvobell 1 year ago
Obama & Pelosi's 'couple thousand' page health bill had roughly 5000 earmarks. He has outspent Bush's 8 years in less than one! And, he has for sure not lowered taxes. Actually, your taxes are going up. Biden's got to be a real retard to believe the HC Reform is a "fu(&ing big deal" I think he meant "we're fu(&ing big deal" GET REAL OBAMA!
yummyman4u 1 year ago
@yummyman4u Is it really prudent to resort to name calling? You may have good points (ones with which I respectfully disagree); but, you dillute your own message by spouting rhetoric, hate and name-calling.
I can say from personal experience as a middle-income citizen that my taxes *have* gone down since Obama took office. I am also willing to pitch in a couple of bucks from my reasonable checks to help those less fortunate get health care.
Why is social care such a bad thing?
cmatrix4761 1 year ago
@cmatrix4761 are you serious? why is social health care a bad thing? you just do not get it! do you? you just dont see the big picture do you? lord have mercy!
jayzook 1 year ago
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megarational 1 year ago
@jayzook I hope the Lord has mercy because you certainly do NOT!
bodryn 1 year ago
@jayzook Your statement makes you sound like a caricature of the stereotype of modern conservatives -- rather than engaging in logical or rational debate, or defending your position with facts or reasoning, you simply spout rhetoric and behave in an ellitist manner. But, in the end, it has no content, only passion. It's silly, to tell the truth.
cmatrix4761 1 year ago
The Liar In Chief also said: "But there is no doubt that we’ve been living beyond our means and we’re going to have to make some adjustments.Now, what I’ve done throughout this campaign is to propose a net spending cut"
Few months after that, both chambers of Congress passed Obama’s $3.5 trillion budget for 2010. A huge budget, which contemplates a $1.2 TRILLION deficit
yummyman4u 1 year ago
@yummyman4u I've noticed that this is the same rhetoric you've spouted on like 10 different channels. Are you being deliberately inciteful, or just don't feel your point is being made?
cmatrix4761 1 year ago
@cmatrix4761 I think that's what some people would call SPAM. Maybe it should be tagged as such.
bodryn 1 year ago
He's lied about almost everything b/c the only important thing for him was to get to the presidency by whatever means in order to advance left-radical agenda.
Remember he said: “I want to go line by line through every item in the Federal budget and eliminate programs that don’t work” Another broken promise. Obama's "Stimulus" Package had thousands of earmarks, & Health Care bill many more, but he signed both of them. How important is a speech given by a compulsive liar?
yummyman4u 1 year ago
@yummyman4u As a rule, what's wrong with earmarks? Businesses earmark their busgets all the time.
cmatrix4761 1 year ago
The Health sCare bill is a theft. It hasn't had any benefits--so saying that is doing anything good is ridiculous--b/c it will start in 2014, not now, and it hasn't been paid for either as some misinformed people posted. We do have to start paying for it now, and pay for 4 years until 2014. It's going to be super-expensive, so if you voted for Pres. Omama, get your vaseline ready & don't complain!
yummyman4u 1 year ago
@yummyman4u Super expensive? Show me the math and I'll debate that with you.
cmatrix4761 1 year ago
Health Care reform was NOT passed BIPARTISAN. It was Hillary's idea. He stole it from her. Actually McCain also had a HC plan. This Liar In Chief also said: "But there is no doubt that we’ve been living beyond our means and we’re going to have to make some adjustments.Now, what I’ve done throughout this campaign is to propose a net spending cut"Few months after that, both chambers of Congress passed Obama’s $3.5 trillion budget for 2010. A huge budget, which contemplates a $1.2 trillion deficit
yummyman4u 1 year ago
@yummyman4u Health care wasn't bipartisan because the minority flipped its views. This bill is almost word-for-word the same proposition offered by Republicans as an alternative to Clinton's health care reform propositions.
cmatrix4761 1 year ago
@cmatrix4761 Yummyman is full of prunes in everything he says. And you know what happens when people eat a lot of prunes.
bodryn 1 year ago
@bodryn lol
cmatrix4761 1 year ago
November is going to be sooooooooo exciting!!
Libdump 1 year ago
@Libdump Are you hoping the GOP get back in power so they can borrow more money from China for more tax cuts for the rich?
Have you forgotten that they are the ones that drove the car into the ditch, and Obama is stuck with paying for the tow truck.
megarational 1 year ago
Wow, what a load! He says it will get even better as we implement more of the law . . . as written by thousands of new bureaucrats who haven't even been hired yet, whose new rules we will have no choice but to obey. As my employers plan and local options drop out because the gov't is forcing them to lose money... It doesn't sound like freedom to me. This is supposed to work?
jonahsdive 1 year ago
@jonahsdive Where are you getting all this bullshit?
Have you been watching Fox Fiction again?
megarational 1 year ago
@jonahsdive In countries where they have single payer, companies benefit in the world economy because they don't have to pay for health care as a benefit. I don't know if the US ever figured that out. I hope they do someday, if their business is to thrive in the world market.
bodryn 1 year ago
It's amazing. Some disgusting "Americans" fight tooth and nail to make sure health care is rationed by the size of your wallet.
They don't want to spend money to extend health care, but they have no problem with increasing the deficit by borrowing money from China to give tax cuts to the rich.
They are called "Republicans".
megarational 1 year ago
@megarational Some call them Repuglicans, others call them Rethuglicans. They've been winning elections for decades using the defamation strategy.
bodryn 1 year ago
@megarational Heh - the irony is that health care through insurance is, by definition, socialized medicine. It just happens to be market-oriented socialized medicine. The money of customers who rarely get sick is redistributed to those who are much more ill, as well as investors in the company.
cmatrix4761 1 year ago
@cmatrix4761 Please don't use logic on YouTube. You'll give the Republican fans a stroke. .
megarational 1 year ago
@megarational Actually, I was trying to make a "Dark Knight Joker"-esque satire on the irony of anti-socialism. Unfortunately, deep and dark satires seem to be lost on the modern generations :D
cmatrix4761 1 year ago
i'm black fuck u obama
rcdrigerv3 1 year ago
@rcdrigerv3 Black, white, yellow, or puke green - you are still an idiot.
megarational 1 year ago
Republicans had 8 years. They had entered office w/ a surplus, all they had to do was improve but NO, Bush got us in one of the worst deficit situation since the depression and you all expect obama have fixed 8 years of a mess in 18months!?! Geez, I didnt know he was the messiah?! WAKE UP, even when he campaign he said it would get worse before it gets better, and its slowly started to get better. But EVERYONE is impatient. They want a miracle. Reality Check folks, not happening!
NaijaTion 1 year ago
@NaijaTion what is so hard to understand about a president who governs against the will of the people? if this country is going to go to crap, it should go to crap by the people, not one person. this lame duck of a president says,'' i know what is good for you, so you shut up and take it! '' that is not america! this admin. refuses to do the one thing that is proven to work to help an economy! CUT TAXES! why would they do that? and how long can he keep blaming bush? this is now bho mess!
jayzook 1 year ago
@jayzook Show me the math -- where have big business and wealthy class tax cuts led to significant [or even marginally obvious] improvements in either GDP or employment?
I'll debate that with you.
cmatrix4761 1 year ago
@cmatrix4761 the largest income tax revenue for our govt. was a result of the bush tax cuts, i am not for sure of which year, but it did happen in sep. of that year!! i do not hate, like you think, i just have a hard time understanding how common sense is completely out of some peoples reach!! bho has all but drawn you people a pix, and yet you still refuse do believe that he is a very poor choice for our president!! besides, how much more proof do you need? even cnn cannot deny it anymore!
jayzook 1 year ago
@jayzook One of the founding principles in fiscal management isn't how much wealth you have, but how prudently you apply it; Bush inherited a budget surplus - a really easy state to manage. At that point, relaxing taxes wasn't a bad idea -- his administration (and the Republican controlled Congress of the time) applied the tax cuts unwisely, which resulted in a huge budget deficit. The proper thing to have done would have been to relax taxes gradually over several years.
cmatrix4761 1 year ago
@cmatrix4761 : "Bush inherited a budget surplus". Now I know what Puck meant when he said, "What fools these mortals be!" I've often visualized a scenario in which everyone who managed their money unwisely just up and vanished. We wouldn't have a government, and the population of America would be about a million people.
buzzclick500 1 year ago
@buzzclick500 That's a fair statement; heck, even I manage my finances poorly. However, I didn't run for public office on a platform of fiscal responsibility or constantly attack opponents for poor fiscal management. That's, of course, not to say his opponents aren't guilty of the same thing -- it's all a silly game designed to obscure truth, and both parties play it. But we, the People, must learn to see this game for what it is rather than being pulled into it like suckers.
cmatrix4761 1 year ago
@cmatrix4761 : Good comment. To elaborate would take more than 500 characters, so I'll just repeat, good comment. ;])
buzzclick500 1 year ago
@cmatrix4761 He thinks tax cuts actually work - truth is, the rich just salt their extra money away in a safe place. If money were invested in the poor, they would spend it right away for basic needs and get the economy moving very quickly.
bodryn 1 year ago
@bodryn if you were rich, wouldn't you put your money in a safe place too? Oh i forgot, if you ever become rich, it won't be because you actually worked hard and saved, it will be because you cheated someone out of their fair share to get it. As you well know, all rich people never worked a day in their lives... moron..
2008HLB 1 year ago
@2008HLB Don't you get it? To get the economy moving, people have to start spending money again. Giving the rich more money won't do anything because they already can afford their needs - yes they'll salt it away. To prime the pump (as Harry Truman called it), you have to invest money in the people most likely to spend it, just for daily needs like food, gas, clothing, etc. Elementary economics even a moron like you should understand.
bodryn 1 year ago
For the delusional people who have been clouded by hallucination of what obama has yet to do. Need mental rehabilitation. Youre so stuck on the things he hasnt done that you IGNORE what he has. He has Closed offshore tax safe havens, Lower drug costs for seniors, Improved housing for military personnel, Expanding vaccination programs, Wall Street reform, hire act, etc etc. list goes on. But NO, you dont see that. Its really troubling. Learn the facts! RESEARCH!
NaijaTion 1 year ago
Obama simply put you're the biggest piece of SHIT ever elected to anything..
LiberalsAreWeak 1 year ago
@LiberalsAreWeak Obama is actually a very good President.
The sad thing is that the county has so many pieces of shit like you in it.
Makes you wonder why ANY politician gives a damm about the people.
Oh, right, most of them don't.
Well, no wonder.
megarational 1 year ago
@megarational ur da only dumb shit dat still likes obama
rcdrigerv3 1 year ago
@rcdrigerv3 Stick to painting graffiti on dumpsters.
You sound too stupid even for YouTube. .
megarational 1 year ago
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cmatrix4761 1 year ago
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@megarational Ignore LiberalsAreWeak; I've been following his other discussion lines and he never actually engages in debate; he's nothing more than an inciter and responding to him will only make him spout more hateful rhetoric.
cmatrix4761 1 year ago
@cmatrix4761 I see your remarks here have been labeled SPAM. I guess somebody doesn't want your debate points read by anybody!
bodryn 1 year ago
Get off YouTube and do your job instead of trying to brain wash the country with your constant misleading BS. You have put the nail in the coffin on the economy and we want you out of office.
loopba 1 year ago
@loopba By the time the Bush/GOP left office the nation was losing 3/4 of a million jobs/mo. the housing bubble was in collapse, the financial institutions, credit markets, and domestic auto industry were all near collapse. The economy was on the brink of meltdown. .
They left a massive deficit like a freight train speeding down the tracks toward whoever took office in the white house.
Thank GOD the GOP are no longer in power with their big solution of "still more tax cuts for the rich".
megarational 1 year ago
@megarational you're a typical liberal NUT....plus you're INSANE!
LiberalsAreWeak 1 year ago
@LiberalsAreWeak Excuse me, but are you denying that Republicans want to borrow money to fund more tax cuts for the rich?
megarational 1 year ago
@loopba No, we don't.
Republicans, who still operate on the same policies as the disastrous BUSH admin., still have as their big "solution" increasing the deficit by borrowing more money from China for more tax cuts for the rich.
Republicans have lied through their teeth continually about health care reform, and obstructed everything the admin. tried to do. The GOP care nothing about what is good for America, they care only about getting back in power.
megarational 1 year ago
@loopba GWBush put the nail in the coffin on the economy. And now the GOP is filibustering every attempt the MAJORITY makes to dig us out of the mess. If the GOP succeeds in destroying the US, they'll flee to their Swiss bank accounts and leave the rest of us to die or whatever.
bodryn 1 year ago
"I have pretty good health care. Let's roll the clock forward when I'm forced to purchase ObamaCare and the country is bankrupt"
BestPoliticalVideos 1 year ago
Perfect song 4 Obama,Biden,Emmanuel,Houlder & Gibbs after the several terrorist attacks that have happened since their admin began 1yr. ago: Pants on the ground,pants on the ground.Looking lika fOOOOLLL with ur pants on the ground!Obama & Co.cancelled missile defense,failed 2 stop Iran going nuke,failed 2 secure our borders,violence & drug trafficking,wants 2 give terrorists legal rights like US citizens.We'e going to get F0CK1NG RAPED in our own country b/c Obama's policies can't keep US safe!
yummyman4u 1 year ago
We need a Obama in Europe...ASAP!:) Great Site, for a more just healthcare in USA. You must understand our entusiasm (europeans) , politicians that furfill their promesses....are very rare:) Great job!
dedalus22 1 year ago
America rejects living on a government plantation. America rejects the the idea the collective trumps the individual. America rejects socialism.
America rejected Hillarycare that had fines for anyone who went outside the government plan for any reason...even in emergencies. The fines were $15k/offense for both doctor and patient.
The Dim libs want to get us to that point where they control everything and we live on a plantation.
BHO will fail and go down as the most racial POTUS history.
bkdmd 1 year ago
@bkdmd What America are u talking about? I am American and served my country. I would like Single Payer health care, much like Canada. That would be FAR SUPERIOR to VA health care, let me tell you. It's not about control of health care by rich corporations, it's about equality of freedom for all, and the opportunity for all to get health care without going bankrupt..
bodryn 1 year ago
@bodryn
How is that stimulus working for you? The U6 unemployment number is over 18%.
This POTUS is a ridiculous spectacle.
His goal in life is to be Imam Obama or Ayatollah Obama. If he wanted to be POTUS, why doesn't he concentrate on the real issues instead of his agenda ot divisive politics, race politics, and more socialism?
Please tell me how you think stimulus is working? It will go down in history as Obama's depression. He bought Bush's recession with stimulus.
Regards!
bkdmd 1 year ago
hey megahomoliberal when your done doing your laundry in your mommys basement get a job you progressive I want everything payed for me buy REAL MEN LOSER!
blumackfm 1 year ago
@blumackfm Umm, your mama wears army boots?
Is some lame personal insults the limits of your intellect?
megarational 1 year ago
one more thing! why should we worry about bin laden now? obama is the most powerful terrorist in the world right now!! he is completely disassembling our constitution from top to bottom!! and he has already got about half of that done!! i believe that if he has his way, then we will never have another presidential election again!! because he thinks of himself as a king!! and he wants to keep it like that!! sorry america, your time of world leader is over!! freedom? not with obama!!
jayzook 1 year ago
@jayzook Thanks for the insane rant.
Come back again when you can't stay so long.
megarational 1 year ago
@megarational sorry but if u say much more here, u may become as unpopular as your king!! read some of the comments that are posted!! NOBODY LIKES OBAMA!! but you are a typical kook, you are smarter than everybody else. i understand. what has obama done in a year and a half? look what he has really done, not just what he says he has done. so why would anyone want anymore if him? i am not mad at people like you, i just wish you could see the truth before your king makes you look even more silly!
jayzook 1 year ago
@jayzook have you been living under a rock for the past 18months?! So i guess hes been chilling for the past 18 months. So the The HIRE Act: A jobs bill that provided $18 billion in tax breaks for small businesses, Wall Street Reform, Health Care Reform, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Credit card reform, SCHIP expansion, Stem cell research etc, those are all imaginary accomplishments right? IGNORANCE is ugly on you kid.
NaijaTion 1 year ago
@NaijaTion i must be living under the rock right next to the one you are under!! tell me why the majority of the country does not want any of what you just mentioned? and why this admin. is sitting on over half of all this money they said they was going to put into our economy? maybe a SLUSH FUND!! you cant tell me one good thing that has come from this admin. yet , anything that isnt covered in crap anyway!
jayzook 1 year ago
@jayzook See again, you offer hate and opinion and cloud it as insight. From what reputable source to you base your assertion that "the majority of the country doesn't want any of what you just mentioned"?
cmatrix4761 1 year ago
@jayzook You are so completely wrong you must be on the GOP payroll. The GOP is doing nothing positive - everything is meant to take Obama down by hook or by crook. That is VERY UNAMERICAN! Maybe treason! You must be an enemy of the state to carry on like you do.
bodryn 1 year ago
@jayzook It's not that nobody likes Obama -- it's that ridiculous nuts like you come in droves like this to bash other people [in this case, Democrats] without offering even a tiny bit of rational debate. All you do is spout hate and rhetoric and try to push down any rational comments with which you don't agree.
Essentially, you're nothing more than a racist, ignorant bully.
cmatrix4761 1 year ago
@jayzook This is complete nonsense, and may I say probably racist. Every time we get a really smart man in the White House, right wingnuts want to tear him down. We need intelligent leadership and it ought to be given a chance to thrive, for the good of ALL. I know this is a hard concept for SELFISH people to understand....
bodryn 1 year ago
this really confuses me! all you obama supporters are right here on youtube! why dont you watch all the other videos of obama that are posted!! the ones where he lies, and lies, and then lies again!! or maybe the ones where he dont know what to say because his teleprompters quits!! if he had any idea what he was talking about he could at least improvise a little!! everything that he has touched so far turned to crap!! yet you people are too proud to admit you have been scamed!
jayzook 1 year ago
@jayzook Thanks, but if I want lies I can always tune into Fox Fiction.
Or read idiots like you repeating what they hear from Fox.
megarational 1 year ago
@megarational I like to call it FOX NOOSE: Lynching blacks and democrats one at a time.
bodryn 1 year ago
megarational you are a class envy dumbass. the bottom line to everything you say is I am a lazy worthless piece of crap and someone with more money than I have should take care of me. ( more money because they worked for it and your a bum)? Are you from generation welfare? I bet so....
blumackfm 1 year ago
@blumackfm I didn't say you were a lazy bum. I said you were a complete idiot. Can't you read anything correctly?
megarational 1 year ago
ewww the evil rich I want what you worked for because I am a lazy piece of crap with no drive and what you have worked for I should get because its MY RIGHT. You want health care GET FUCKING JOB you FUCKING MOOCHES.
blumackfm 1 year ago
@blumackfm And if you lose your job through no fault of your own, for eg. from the shipping of jobs overseas, the gutting of the manufacturing sector, or something like the Gulf oil spill, it['s nice to know idiots like you are still fighting for peoples right to lose their health care.
megarational 1 year ago
@blumackfm And of course even if someone has a job, but is so unfortunate as to get older or incur health issues, it's nice to know people like fight for their right to see their h. premiums skyrocket and even become unaffordable.
megarational 1 year ago
free for everyone..... car, house, food health care, daycare,a vacation,money for the movies..all the things that people with dignity and character used to work for, just get in line and some govt bureaucrat will take your number and get back to you.
Defeat the ASSHOLE in 2012
blumackfm 1 year ago
@blumackfm Some in the U.S. say Canadian h.c. is "free".
In fact it's not free at all. It's paid for by the progressive tax system, the fairest & administratively simplest method. And the amount Canadians pay in taxes for h.c. is far less than you fools pay in private insur. premiums. And we get the h.c. without the bureaucratic interference of your super aggressive "managed care" private insur. system in the U.S.
That's why Canadians overwhelmingly prefier their h.c;. syst. to that of the U.S.
megarational 1 year ago
@megarational
America rejects progressive tax.
47% of US household pay virtually NO INCOME TAX.
The producers have said enough. It is time for the lower income earners to pay their fair share.
bkdmd 1 year ago
@bkdmd So the rich are so hard done by?
Read next comment.
megarational 1 year ago
@bkdmd The last census, like the one before it, confirms that the portion of the nations wealth in the hands of the families at the top end increased and the portion of the nations wealth in the hands of the middle and lower class continues to decrease.
In other words, system based redistribution of the wealth has been occurring on a seemingly unstoppable course for many years.
Right now in America the top 1% controls more wealth than the bottom 95% percent combined.
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megarational 1 year ago
@bkdmd Bush domestic policies widened the gap between rich & poor:
- massive unfunded tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefited the very highest incomes.
- eliminatedinheritance tax on large financial dynasties, solidifying economic class structure.
- eliminated tax on dividend's so that a construction worker sweats every workday to make $80K & pays tax through the nose, while a wealthy person can rake in 10 times that income in dividends and not pay one dime of tax on that income.
see next ...
megarational 1 year ago
@megarational
That isn't true.
You are totally clueless if you don't know long-term capital gains are taxed at 15% soon going to 20%.
Dividends are taxed at 15% on the top 4 brackets and is going to be taxed as income on all brackets in 2011.
OMG!! You are clueless.
bkdmd 1 year ago
@bkdmd Bush attempted to get dividends tax free. The policy he fought for was elimination of the tax on dividends. He succeeded in getting them reduced so that a wealthy person pays a lower tax on that income than a working person pays on income that may be only a fraction as much. The point stands - Bush/'GOP policies were for the rich.
megarational 1 year ago
@megarational
OK 1- dividends and capital gains are not income. They shouldn't be taxed.
2- did you know on SNAP you can buy anything including junk food, energy drinks, chips, cakes, cookies.
Did you know there is a much larger percentage of SNAP recipients who are obese and diabetics. Teddy Kennedy said he would always fight to make sure you can buy your twinkies with SNAP money.
Dims have brought us to the edge of the brink. We can't take any more Dims programs rewarding bad behavior.
bkdmd 1 year ago
@bkdmd A wealth person can make a shit load of money every month from dividends. The rich will be so happy that Republicans still don't want to tax them.
megarational 1 year ago
@bkdmd re: SNAP, "The Student in Need Attendance Program (SNAP) has been developed jointly with the Safe Schools partners committee, which includes representatives from police, education and child welfare. This program provides an alternative to home suspension for those students who are suspended under Board Policy and/or the Safe Schools Protocol, and where the school principal has recommended a student after gaining parent/guardian consent."
Now you're complaining that they can get cookies?
megarational 1 year ago
@bkdmd People like you are so absurd. You complain about some junk food access in the SNAP program (probably from the vending machines), yet if any group tried to ban junk food in schools you would be the first to cry out "government interference" and "trying to make our decisions for us".
megarational 1 year ago
@bkdmd It's also nice to know that the rich can buy property right & left (while ordinary working people struggle just to buy a home), and increase their wealth almost without limit by the capital gains, knowing that the GOP are there to make sure they pay little or no tax even as their wealth increases.
megarational 1 year ago
@megarational
If you reward bad behavior you get more of it. A home isn't an investment. It is expensive. It is only a place to live.
Today total mortgages our country owes more than $13 TRILLION on home loans. I bet most pay more for homes than they pay on helath care.
A home is just a place to live while health care is what you should be paying for.
Regards and have a great day....BTW what is the color of the sky today in your world?
bkdmd 1 year ago
@bkdmd "If you reward bad behavior you get more of it" Yep, and that's why neocons must be stopped! They keep getting away with highway robbery. Now they're a minority in both houses of congress, yet they keep acting like they run the country. Insanity run amok.
bodryn 1 year ago
@megarational
And like I said. I didn't figure you would have any clue how much you would owe for your percentage for covering the deficits for 2009 and 2010.
As a percent of the population it would be $5K+/year
As a percent of the work force it would be over $10K/year.
If you can't afford to pay for that and you are not already kicking that to the government, then your feelings are worthless if you can't cover more.
Regards
bkdmd 1 year ago
@bkdmd As Obama pointed out, individuals who make over $200 K, should pay more in capital gains taxes. Due to a slanted tax system, people making more than 200K a year are paying less in taxes based on a percentage of their income than people who make less than that.
So before you predictably bounce to another topic, lets get you on record here.
Do you favor little or no taxes on capital gains & dividends?
Answer the question yes or no.
No bullshit equivocation or switching topics.
megarational 1 year ago
@megarational
40% of USA workers pay no income taxes.
It is time the lower income earners start paying their fair share.
bkdmd 1 year ago
@bkdmd Again you tap dance, duck & weave, but predictably don't give a straight answer to a straightforward question.
So once again, do you favor little or no taxes on capital gains & dividends.
megarational 1 year ago
@megarational
We need to incentivize positive behavior. People need to live within their means to expand their means.
Investments needs to be incentivized and home ownership doesn't.
So yes dividends are not income and shouldn't be taxed.
I think we need to start taxing debt. If you are rich enough to afford debt for a car and a home and consumption, you are rich enough to pay a tax on that debt.
bkdmd 1 year ago
@bkdmd So you propose that the rich, who can pay cash for anything they want, get nothing but tax breaks, while the ordinary working stiff who works for a down payment on a house & takes out a mortgage of the balance, should pay more taxes?????:?
You are so divorced from common sense & reality I am going to delete any further sewage from you from my in-box.
There's more than enough of your comments & my replies for anyone with an open mind to form their own opinion.
megarational 1 year ago
@megarational
Actions speak louder than words.
BHO is adding the national debt at record pace.
He play race politics.
He is a ridiculous spectacle and so is anyone who supports him.
I hope to the high heaven he just keeps smoking. Blacks are notorious for getting lung cancer and dying quickly.
How do you like me now?
bkdmd 1 year ago
@megarational
Just stay in Canada.
We don't want you so just stay up there.
Do you pay income taxes here? If you don't just go the fuck away. Don't go away mad. Just go away.
Regards!
bkdmd 1 year ago
@megarational man they have really got the wool pulled over your eyes!! beware of the wolf in sheeps clothing!! u accuse me of repeating what i hear on fox!! i dont have to, i hear what obama says!! i dont know where to start! everything he says is a proven lie!! not just ''hear say''!! whats the matter with u people? for example, he promised that anyone making under 250k would not see their taxes go up one iota!! LIE!! jan. 1st 2011income tax across the board goes up the most in history!!
jayzook 1 year ago
@jayzook The first 95% of your comment is just the usual mindless blathering one comes to expect from people as dumb as you.
So let's just address the line that "2011 see the largest tax increase in history".
I followed that search string & naturally it's the latest "sound bite" for all the right wing sources like Fox, the Libertarian Party publications, & "Right Side News", for eg.s
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megarational 1 year ago
@jayzook
Idiots like you get all kazoonie over this right wing "hype" without any inclination to look any deeper.
Bush tax cuts were about the largest "cuts" in history, & their repeal would therefore be about the largest "hike", The claims about the coming of the largest tax increases all start with the calculation based on the repeal of ALL Bush tax cuts, which is highly unlikely since both em's & GOP are on board with repealing the tax cuts ONLY for those making more than $250K.
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megarational 1 year ago
@jayzook Now, not only did the Bush income tax cuts overwhelmingly benefit the rich, he also made other types of tax cut's that overwhelmingly benefited the rich, Including
- eliminated the inheritance tax, which only affected the top 5% of the wealthy, so that financial dynasties could be passed on intact & an economic class structure solidified.
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megarational 1 year ago
@megarational u complain about the bush tax cuts benefiting rich!! whats really wrong with that?? use your head!! its the rich that keep this countries economy going! the less taxes they pay the more they grow their companies, the more they hire people, and the more people that work, the more income taxes are being paid to the govt. u liberals have no idea at all!! whats with this entitlement crap anyway? u feel mad because someone else is rich and your not! boo whoo! thats just not fair is it?
jayzook 1 year ago
@jayzook That's the Republican mantra - the old "trickle down" theory, which is "give more and more to those with the most and we'll all be better off because it will "trickle down".
Too bad it ignores the fact that it's demand that spurs economic activity and expansion. In times of flagging demand and economic uncertainty corporations (even the rich ones) typically close plants, reduce output, and lay off workers.
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megarational 1 year ago
@jayzook
There is a lot of excess production capacity in the U.S. A great many plants are operating at less than full capacity because the demand has not been there.
To put it simply so even an idiot like you might begin to understand it (if you wanted to) a rich person will not build a widget factory if there is no demand for widgets. ON the other hand, if there is a demand for widgets some entrepreneur or company will build the plant even if they have to borrow the money to do so.
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megarational 1 year ago
@jayzook so the question becomes, what stimulates demand more, tax cuts for the rich or something like extending unemployment benefits?
The fact is that an extra dollar in the hands of someone at lower income stimulates demand more than an extra dollar in the hand of a higher income person for the simple reason that those at lower incomes spend more of each dollar.
see next....
megarational 1 year ago
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megarational 1 year ago
@jayzook
The reasons for the deficit during the Bush admin was a combination of factors including:
- two wars
- housing bubble collapse and the need for a stimulus package
- AND unfunded tax cuts, ie" borrowing money from China in order to provide tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefited those at the very highest incomes.
megarational 1 year ago
@jayzook It's the rich who keep moving jobs overseas, and probably salting their money away in Swiss bank accounts, etc. That AINT gonna fix the American economy! In fact, now it's only the RICH that can save us. Maybe we'll get an example now of what their loyalty is, or isn't. Oh, come to think of it, they are doing everything to bring Obama down, aren't they? There's your answer! The GOP are traitors!
bodryn 1 year ago
@jayzook
- reduced capital gains tax to a rate far below the incremental rate on higher incomes. (so the rich can speculate in real estate, for eg, vastly increase their wealth by capital gains, while paying a much lower rate of tax.)
- reduced tax on dividends to 15%.
The last 2 Bush tax cuts created a gross inequity where the rich w / high incomes from dividends & capital gains could pay far less tax than a working stiff making only a small fraction of that in salary.
see next...
megarational 1 year ago
@megarational he knew he had just one term to do this in because as soon as the american people realized what he was doing, he would never see another term. why is this so hard to admit?? the next time u do some research, on your king, make sure u look for the truth and not just what u want to find. the prove is all over the place, youtube, our deficit, his policies, and right in front of your face!! most of this countries people agree with me, and thats what really matters in the end!!
jayzook 1 year ago
@jayzook Your comment is the farthest thing from rational debate, or any evidence of actually understanding any issue.
megarational 1 year ago
@megarational Do you realize that these right wing sociopaths are just a lost cause? They are ineducable and a total waste of time. Just remember, half the electorate has an IQ of less than 100, and we are seeing who these are in discussions like this. Well, either they are rich, or stupid. Or both.
bodryn 1 year ago
@bodryn Sad but true.
They are also exceedingly gullible. They actually believe the bullshit they hear on Fox Fiction & from the mouths of glib jackasses like Limbaugh & Beck, who continue to get ever richer by feeding the fools exactly what they want to hear.
The other media don't help much. They are more concerned with mining controversy for the sake of ratings than in depth analysis of any issue.
megarational 1 year ago
@jayzook So, increasing the capital gains tax, on adjusted gross incomes, & restoring the higher tax on dividends is long overdue because it reduces that tax inequity.
megarational 1 year ago