Repeated? Obama doesn't want to repeat tax cuts

for the rich -- and "rich," by the way, is anyone earning more than a quarter of a million dollars a year.

Obama wants to give tax CREDITS to businesses that keep jobs in the USA, instead of exporting them out of the country.

These huge greedy corporations may be creating jobs, but they're not creating American jobs.  Obama wants to try to slow that down and wants to reward companies who don't turn their backs on Americans.

• Here it is! The tax cut calculator!!! Obama vs. McCain sm - Mrs. M
  • try this one. Look at the table at the bottom - cj
  • Misleading and incorrect....this is not a tax cut....sm - ms
  • Huge, HUGE difference. - Marmann
    • But...how much are your taxes going up if the bush tax cuts are repeated.... - sam
      • No, it says "versus" McCain which is the bush plan so obama is wayyy better duh! - Mrs. M
      • Goose egg...but I'd be willing to pay just to see - that vestige of Bushnomics disappear and....
        • No, I guess not, if you think the fruit of someone... - sam
          • Still trying to conjure up that sympathy - for the wealthiest 1%?....sm
      • Repeated? Obama doesn't want to repeat tax cuts - Marmann
        • Correct Marmann, and as MTs this will help our pay rate and jobs sm - Mrs. M
          • EXACTLY! - Marmann
        • Sorry, wrong word....he DOES want to let the Bush tax cuts EXPIRE. - sam
  • Not an appreciable difference in the two... - sam
    • So, what will you be talking about - after the socialists take over?
      • I will be saying "Don't blame me. I didn't vote for him." - sam
        • Have you always been this hostile toward - majority mandates of American democracy?
      • Barack is not a socialist NOT NOT PERIOD sm - Mrs. M
        • OBAMA is a socialist! Go read the definition - We will end up like Russia,do you care?nm
        • What pat of redistribution of wealth do you not understand? - sam
          • Government - Marmann
          • Your time out didn't make you - any less clueless...sm
          • There is no need to be snotty, we are all adults sm - Mrs. M
            • I'm snotty, you're rude...we're even.... - sam
    • Sorry Sam, but the Bush cuts were only for those over $250K nm - Mrs. M
      • Once again Mrs M, you have it SO wrong and dont - realize it. That's the problem. READ more.nm
      • Wrong. Please go here and look. - sam
      • that is not true - see article - Kendra
        • Another Good Article... - sm
  • cool! - IMT

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So - you think it's impressive that Obama plans to ask his department heads to cut $100,000,000 from their budgets?  Let's put aside for a moment the question of why he's asking them for cuts at all when he's the one who says that MORE government spending is the solution to our economic crisis.

Obama is crowing about this because he knows that Americans don't know how to translate "huge" numbers into percentages, and also that Americans have grown used to hearing numbers in the $trillions.  I mean - millions, billions, trillions all sound pretty much alike!   Let's prove him wrong, shall we?

If Obama were asking for $100 million to be cut from a $3.5 billion budget, it would represent 1/35th of that budget.  1/35 is about 2.86%.  So even on a $3.5 billion budget this wouldn't be much.

But wait.  Obama's budget is $3.5 TRILLION, which is 1000 times larger. (A trillion is 1000 times larger than a billion.)  Conversely, that makes $100 million a thousand times smaller of a percentage of the budget.  In other words, we're not even talking about 2.86%, but one-thousandths of 2.86%.  Here's what that looks like:   0.00286%.

In other words, if Obama made NEW cuts of $100,000,000 from his budget every day for over 300 days, he still wouldn't have even cut 1% from his budget.  So you may now be forgiven if you're underwhelmed by Obama's $100 million budget cut. 

 It's kinda like someone crowing about how they've reduced their carbon footprint by disconnecting their doorbell.  And this little object lesson showing how little $100,000,000 is compared to Mr. Obama's budget also gives you a little bit better idea just how disgustingly gargantuan his budget really is.

Some need to pay close attention to this.........  it's called welfare handouts.  "Entitled mentality".  The working class will get NO tax cuts.  You all will be working to put money in the hands of those that do not.  It makes perfectly good sense.  I've been saying there is no way he can do anything he is leading people to believe he can because 1/3 of people in this country pay NO TAXES.   He has led so many to believe he will cut middle class when he can't.  He is blatantly trying to disguise "government handouts" as "tax credits".   You want your hard earned money going to everyone who doesn't bother to work? 

One of Barack Obama’s most potent campaign claims is that he’ll cut taxes for no less than 95% of “working families.” He’s even promising to cut taxes enough that the government’s tax share of GDP will be no more than 18.2% — which is lower than it is today.

It’s a clever pitch, because it lets him pose as a middle-class tax cutter while disguising that he’s also proposing one of the largest tax increases ever on the other 5%. But how does he conjure this miracle, especially since more than a third of all Americans already pay no income taxes at all? There are several sleights of hand, but the most creative is to redefine the meaning of “tax cut.”

For the Obama Democrats, a tax cut is no longer letting you keep more of what you earn. In their lexicon, a tax cut includes tens of billions of dollars in government handouts that are disguised by the phrase “tax credit.” Mr. Obama is proposing to create or expand no fewer than seven such credits for individuals[.]

put to rest.  Regarding the "liberal" media and its slant in favor of liberal thinking.  Tonight on 20/20 (ABC - one of the big 3) had a story by that highly regarded, unbiased John Stossel.  The subject was "scientists who disagree with the global warming theory and the threats on their lives!!"  It was mentioned it twice -- they actually been threatened with DEATH for disagreeing.  I watched.  It was 6 assorted scientists who claimed that global warming might not be caused by mankind, and even if it were, it might not be all bad.  The horrific death threats -- are you ready?  An e-mail stating "you might not even be alive when the planet warms up."  Sends a shiver up your spine, doesn't it?  Bill O'Reilly himself couldn't have made a bigger mountain out of that molehill. 

He said he has visited 57 states in this country, had 2 more to go.  Now, if this had been Hillary or a reb candidate, the media would still be dragging this through the mud.   Maybe it was just a freudian slip?  Organization of the Islamic Conference?

A little curious.

for the job.  It just means he's good with deception.  Talk about smoke and mirrors! 

I don't know who or what Obama is and I don't know what role he will play in the years to come.  What I do know is our days are number and he will set the stage for certain prophesy to be fulfilled.  Watch and see.

Is Obama The Antichrist?  I don't know.  But the spirit of the antichrist is already in this world.

in order to win over a "moderate muslim" because they are by definition open to Western ideas regarding politics and general ideas.  They embrace a sort of liberal Islam in sharp contrast to the extremist or fundamentalist muslims who have zero tolerance and believe in and embrace the concept of Jihad against the infidels. 

I'm not just talking about muslims who live in the U.S., but muslims around the world.  For example, President Karzai of Afghanistan has been deemed a moderate muslim because of his political ideas which is why he fears violence against him from the extremists in his country.

Get it?  Obama saying that he wants to "win over" moderate muslims is akin to a MTSO saying they want to "win over" Indian MTs to work with them.  It won't be hard and will take very little convincing.  Not to mention King Obama is the "world's president."  Like I said, he's just posturing of the media.  The liberal media loves him and his pretty speeches.  Journalists have become babbling idiots since O burst on the scene. 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090510/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_correspondents

At the bottom of this article, there's a link to watch the video - it's a hoot!!!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090510/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_correspondents

At the bottom of this article, there's a link to watch the video - it's a hoot!!!!

fair and balanced . . . fair and balanced . . . fair and balanced . . . obama is a muslim .  . . economy is fundamentally strong . . . fair and balanced . .  .

In a story that appeared in the Times on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, Ayers told a reporter while promoting his memoir "Fugitive Days": "I don't regret setting bombs...I feel we didn't do enough."

I thought I was the only one who knew this.  If tax cuts expire, we get honked!  Duh!  That's more $ out of our pockets! 

Can someone explain why they want to have a lower salary?  All I ever hear around here is how our paychecks continue to dwindle.  If Obama gets elected, plan on an even smaller check!

How can this be so hard to figure out?