Twas The Month Before Fiscal Doomsday?!!

[signalmankenneth]

‘Twas the month before fiscal doomsday, and all through the House
Boehner and the Republicans were running their mouths
About tax breaks for the wealthy, but austerity for the rest
In hopes their rich overlords would keep filling their chests

The children don’t matter when profits are at stake
Who cares how very little their parents all make?
“The middle class are all takers!” Says the out of touch Right-wing
Never mind that Red States get the most Federal bling

Over the cliff, they seemed bound and determined to take us
“Even an electoral college trouncing will never, ever shake us!
We’ll end your mortgage deduction, and make you pay more
While our rich campaign donors move all their cash offshore!”

Out on the White House lawn, Obama did stride
A pen in his hand, and nothing to hide
He said he’d sign the deal that only raised rates on two percent
But Republicans told that Kenyan-Socialist-Commie to just get bent

Now Boehner, now Norquist, now Paul Ryan and Rand Paul
Are insisting on reverse income redistribution rather than call
Their buddies on Wall Street and ask for a little more
Four extra cents on a dollar might really hurt them, after all

Though the election was run on the proposition of higher rates
The Republicans ignore the results, and harp on Benghazi-gate
The country has moved on, and accepted that things in the Middle East aren’t nice
But why fix the economy when you can trash and bash Ms. Rice?

Math and facts are biased and scientists hate God
What this country needed was a VP with a hot bod
But the parasites all spoke, and they elected their Socialist King
So it’s back to obstruction and not fixing a damn thing

So they’ll hem and they’ll haw, and propose the same stuff
Gut and cut the social safety net and tell the rich they do enough
Screw the old and sick, they’re just dragging us down
Who needs a life preserver when the middle class can just drown?

By James Schlarmann

 

[patriot66]

‘Twas the month before fiscal doomsday, and all through the House
Boehner and the Republicans were running their mouths
About tax breaks for the wealthy, but austerity for the rest
In hopes their rich overlords would keep filling their chests

The children don’t matter when profits are at stake
Who cares how very little their parents all make?
“The middle class are all takers!” Says the out of touch Right-wing
Never mind that Red States get the most Federal bling

Over the cliff, they seemed bound and determined to take us
“Even an electoral college trouncing will never, ever shake us!
We’ll end your mortgage deduction, and make you pay more
While our rich campaign donors move all their cash offshore!”

Out on the White House lawn, Obama did stride
A pen in his hand, and nothing to hide
He said he’d sign the deal that only raised rates on two percent
But Republicans told that Kenyan-Socialist-Commie to just get bent

Now Boehner, now Norquist, now Paul Ryan and Rand Paul
Are insisting on reverse income redistribution rather than call
Their buddies on Wall Street and ask for a little more
Four extra cents on a dollar might really hurt them, after all

Though the election was run on the proposition of higher rates
The Republicans ignore the results, and harp on Benghazi-gate
The country has moved on, and accepted that things in the Middle East aren’t nice
But why fix the economy when you can trash and bash Ms. Rice?

Math and facts are biased and scientists hate God
What this country needed was a VP with a hot bod
But the parasites all spoke, and they elected their Socialist King
So it’s back to obstruction and not fixing a damn thing

So they’ll hem and they’ll haw, and propose the same stuff
Gut and cut the social safety net and tell the rich they do enough
Screw the old and sick, they’re just dragging us down
Who needs a life preserver when the middle class can just drown?

By James Schlarmann

I have a question for you, since Republicans have put revenue on the table and Dems refuse to put anything regarding spending cuts, other than the military on the table, what in the world are you talking about. Now maybe you aren't aware that the tax raises the dems are talking about, will do very very little to help the deficit. I believe the revenue could only run this Bloated bureaucracy for like 4 days, how do the dems get away with this B.S. The hope is we go over the fiscal cliff so they can blame republicans, and gain more power, which is really all they care about.

How about we cut aid to oh I don't know Egypt completely, Libya, in fact until we have our own house in order, how about we cut foreign aid completely, refuse medical service to non U.S. citizens in our Country, or charge their country of origin for care.
How about Congress freeze pay raises to themselves, and pay for their own healthcare, after all they are so benevolent with my money, how about they pony up some cash. The we have the Hollywood elitists, who love to put on benefit concerts, and telethons, for God's sake reach in and give some of your own cash instead of asking those of us who already pay way to much to go see their movies and make far less than they do. Then how about the Obama's set a good example, and cancel their 4 million tax dollar funded vacation to Hawaii and just have a staycation. Now this probably won't make sense to you but i have a feeling many on here will agree.

 

[Haiku]

It will go a long way to leveling the field...like the healthcare initiative, it's a beginning. The tax code needs to be addressed as well. The more the repubs dig in their heels, throw themselves on the floor and have fits whilst refusing to govern the fewer of them we'll have next time around. The repub govs will do their part and we'll have fewer of them as well. If we're lucky they will rejoin the USA and decide to address our real problems instead of the ones they have in their own heads and only making life good and safe for their 1% owners.

 

[patriot66]

It will go a long way to leveling the field...like the healthcare initiative, it's a beginning. The tax code needs to be addressed as well. The more the repubs dig in their heels, throw themselves on the floor and have fits whilst refusing to govern the fewer of them we'll have next time around. The repub govs will do their part and we'll have fewer of them as well. If we're lucky they will rejoin the USA and decide to address our real problems instead of the ones they have in their own heads and only making life good and safe for their 1% owners.

1%, you mean job creators right, what happens when they take their jobs and go home will you then be satisfied. The tax's of the 2% being raised will do nothing to help us right now, the effect will be simply a political victory, and no help for the economy, we do not have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem.

 

[Haiku]

Where are the jobs after over 10 years of huge profits? How did that work for you? Who got bailed out when the Bushies collapsed the economy? The financial sector...who took the hit?....the rest of us....get real and try, just try to think out side of the paper bag.

 

[patriot66]

Where are the jobs after over 10 years of huge profits? How did that work for you? Who got bailed out when the Bushies collapsed the economy? The financial sector...who took the hit?....the rest of us....get real and try, just try to think out side of the paper bag.

Well outside of your inane insult, and so facts are used, the housing crisis collapsed the economy, the housing crisis Bush warned about, and franks and dodd said did not exist, so now we may now proceed with this discussion. Please try to respond to the remarks I made about revenue and tax increases

 

[Howey]

1%, you mean job creators right, what happens when they take their jobs and go home will you then be satisfied. The tax's of the 2% being raised will do nothing to help us right now, the effect will be simply a political victory, and no help for the economy, we do not have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem.

You don't think raising taxes on the rich won't work?

Look what California's done - after raising taxes on the rich.

After nearly five years of brutal economic decline, government retrenchment and a widespread loss of confidence in its future, California is showing the first signs of a rebound. There is evidence of job growth, economic stability, a resurgent housing market and rising spirits in a state that was among the worst hit by the recession.

California reported a 10.1 percent unemployment rate last month, down from 11.5 percent in October 2011 and the lowest since February 2009. In September, California had its biggest month-to-month drop in unemployment in the 36 years the state has collected statistics, from 10.6 percent to 10.2 percent, though the state still has the third-highest jobless rate in the nation.

The housing market, whose collapse in a storm of foreclosures helped worsen the economic decline, has snapped back in many, though not all, parts of the state. Houses are sitting on the market for a shorter time and selling at higher prices, and new home construction is rising. Home sales rose 25 percent in Southern California in October compared with a year earlier.

After years of spending cuts and annual state budget deficits larger than the entire budgets of some states, this month the independent California Legislative Analyst’s Office projected a deficit for next year of $1.9 billion — down from $25 billion at one point — and said California might post a $1 billion surplus in 2014, even accounting for the tendency of these projections to vary markedly from year to year.

A reason for the change, in addition to a series of deep budget cuts in recent years, was voter approval of Proposition 30, promoted by Gov. Jerry Brown to raise taxes temporarily to avoid up to $6 billion in education cuts.

“The state’s economic recovery, prior budget cuts and the additional, temporary taxes provided by Proposition 30 have combined to bring California to a promising moment: the possible end of a decade of acute state budget challenges,” the report said. “Our economic and budgetary forecast indicates that California’s leaders face a dramatically smaller budget problem in 2013-14.”

And 38 percent of Californians say the state is heading in the right direction, according to a survey this month by U.S.C. Dornsife/Los Angeles Times. For most places, that figure would seem dismal. But it is double what it was 13 months ago.

 

[Haiku]

Well outside of your inane insult, and so facts are used, the housing crisis collapsed the economy, the housing crisis Bush warned about, and franks and dodd said did not exist, so now we may now proceed with this discussion. Please try to respond to the remarks I made about revenue and tax increases

Fool...the banks created the housing crisis....damn....

 

[Cancel 2016.2]

Fool...the banks created the housing crisis....damn....

What exactly did the banks do that created the housing crisis?

 

[Mott the Hoople]

1%, you mean job creators right, what happens when they take their jobs and go home will you then be satisfied. The tax's of the 2% being raised will do nothing to help us right now, the effect will be simply a political victory, and no help for the economy, we do not have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem.

That's a false premise. Just becuase someone says something often enough doesn't make it true. The top 1% are not the job creators in our nation. In fact, because they hold onto a disproportionate amount of currency and by doing so keep it out of circulation and by artificually redistributing incomes upward (reverse socialism) they take even more currency out of circulation which has the undesired affect of preventing job creation. As crony capitalist they are indeed the ultimate takers.

The real engine of job creation are the small business, etreprenuerial, professional and skilled trade classes. These are the real makers in our society and not some group of over compensated Wall Street middle men. It is this class of people that the Crony Capitalist are committing class warfare against.

 

[patriot66]

Fool...the banks created the housing crisis....damn....

well that is not factual, the loans were the problem, but banks were basically blackmailed into lowering their standards for loans, because of social injustice, where people who couldn't afford houses suddenly could but when the payments went up they went into foreclosure. This was all because of bleeding heart liberals like barney there is no problem at fannie and freddie

 

[patriot66]

That's a false premise. Just becuase someone says something often enough doesn't make it true. The top 1% are not the job creators in our nation. In fact, because they hold onto a disproportionate amount of currency and by doing so keep it out of circulation and by artificually redistributing incomes upward (reverse socialism) they take even more currency out of circulation which has the undesired affect of preventing job creation. As crony capitalist they are indeed the ultimate takers.


The real engine of job creation are the small business, etreprenuerial, professional and skilled trade classes. These are the real makers in our society and not some group of over compensated Wall Street middle men. It is this class of people that the Crony Capitalist are committing class warfare against.

where do these people get their money? they earned it

 

[patriot66]

I have a question for you, since Republicans have put revenue on the table and Dems refuse to put anything regarding spending cuts, other than the military on the table, what in the world are you talking about. Now maybe you aren't aware that the tax raises the dems are talking about, will do very very little to help the deficit. I believe the revenue could only run this Bloated bureaucracy for like 4 days, how do the dems get away with this B.S. The hope is we go over the fiscal cliff so they can blame republicans, and gain more power, which is really all they care about.

How about we cut aid to oh I don't know Egypt completely, Libya, in fact until we have our own house in order, how about we cut foreign aid completely, refuse medical service to non U.S. citizens in our Country, or charge their country of origin for care.
How about Congress freeze pay raises to themselves, and pay for their own healthcare, after all they are so benevolent with my money, how about they pony up some cash. The we have the Hollywood elitists, who love to put on benefit concerts, and telethons, for God's sake reach in and give some of your own cash instead of asking those of us who already pay way to much to go see their movies and make far less than they do. Then how about the Obama's set a good example, and cancel their 4 million tax dollar funded vacation to Hawaii and just have a staycation. Now this probably won't make sense to you but i have a feeling many on here will agree.

How about we get back to this discussion

 

[patriot66]

Listen to the crickets!