Grover Norquist….another Wolf in Sheeps clothing

Grover Norquist is not an elected official. Yet, he is somehow able to wield enough influence over GOP representatives in Congress to control taxes. He all but forces them to sign a “no-tax pledge”, claiming that it they don’t, he’ll make sure they are run out of Office. The problem with Grover is that he’s not living in the real world. Grover is the President of the Americans for Tax Reform, an organization he started at the urging of Ronald Reagan back in 1985. You remember Ronnie….the champion of “trickle down economics” and deregulation, or as we like to call it today, the catalyst for our current economic situation.

Grover Norquist would have you believe, like Ronald Reagan, that Government is the problem. Without government, we’d all have money, great jobs, and no taxes. Thats a nice thought, but this is the Real world, not Disney world.

We are now headed for what people are calling, “The Fiscal Cliff.” It’s a combination of spending cuts and expiration of Bush tax cuts that supposedly will send us into oblivion. Somehow, people like Norquist, Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, etc, etc, believe that all we need to do is continue to cut taxes, and things will just “get better”. I wonder how they figured that out? According to the Tax Policy Center, the Bush tax cuts have cost us approximately $2.3 Trillion dollars in lost revenue. They created almost no jobs, led to less GDP growth than continuing stimulus programs would. In fact, most economists believe that letting the tax cuts expire would do nothing negatively to job growth. The CBO (Congressional Budget Office) have concluded the same thing, saying that continuing these cuts would add another $1 trillion to our deficit over the next decade. They have benefited the Super Rich….people that have so much money that they probably don’t even know, or care, about their tax rate.

Now, Grover here would have you believe that letting the tax cuts expire for everyone making over $250,000 is going to hurt the economy, especially small business, by saying that it will create $442 Billion tax increases. Well, thats a nice try Grover, but if thats the case, then that would mean that those tax revenues are coming from 4% of small businesses, considering that almost 96% of small businesses are not making more than $250,000. Furthermore, someone like Donald Trump, Mitt Romney…..they are considered “Small businesses”. So, I doubt they’re going to feel it, and I’m sure it won’t push The Donald into Bankruptcy #5.

NBA……season on the brink?

With the breakdown in Labor talks today, it appears the NBA season is in jeopardy. Does anyone care? Who are the bad guys in this negotiation? How many of you are tired of millionaire players arguing with billionaire owners? I think rathe than argue that they (players) should get 65% of total league revenues in exchange for a “Hard cap”, they should be more concerned about educating their own so that we’re not reading about another NBA player going bankrupt because he blew through his first $50 million. That’s more of a tragedy than anything.

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Tea Party: A group of Slogans, and nothing more.

 

The Tea Party movement are about as organized as the GOP Debates. In other words, they’re all over the place, yet they have nothing to say other than “Founding fathers” slogans that don’t play in the 21st Century.

Last night, this happened in the GOP/Teabagger, err, Party, debate:

<<Texas Rep. Ron Paul, a doctor, was asked a hypothetical question by CNN host Wolf Blitzer about how society should respond if a healthy 30-year-old man who decided against buying health insurance suddenly goes into a coma and requires intensive care for six months. Paul–a fierce limited-government advocate– said it shouldn’t be the government’s responsibility. “That’s what freedom is all about, taking your own risks,” Paul said and was drowned out by audience applause as he added, “this whole idea that you have to prepare to take care of everybody …”

“Are you saying that society should just let him die?” Blitzer pressed Paul. And that’s when the audience got involved.

Several loud cheers of “yeah!” followed by laughter could be heard in the Expo Hall at the Florida State Fairgrounds in response to Blitzer’s question.>> – By Rachel Rose Hartman | The Ticket

Paul tried to backpeddle, but its obvious he’s just as crazy as the Teabaggers.

As an American, this is just about the most Un-American thing I think I have heard in quite sometime, save for just about everytime that idiot Sarah Palin utters a word.

Gee….and I thought the Right was the ‘Party of Life. “ Apparently not.

The Ground Zero debate

Question:

Do you believe that the Muslims should or should not build their Community Center near Ground Zero?

Before you answer…..consider that there are several Japanese restaurants in and around Pearl Harbor, and McDonalds, an American Corporation, has a McDonalds right smack in the middle of Hiroshima.

Now, if you are going to cite “it’s to close to Ground Zero”, “They are gloating”, etc, etc, then how do you justify that, and then allow a McDonalds at the cite of the First “Ground Zero”, where the U.S. dropped an A-Bomb and killed thousands of innocent people.

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