Obama's Income Inequality Speech ("trickle down - It doesn’t work. It’s never worked.")

The Atlantic Wire ^ | 12/06/11 | Adam Clark Estes

[YankeeReb]

The way I do the math the other tax payers pay $100,000, not $$82,000. Other tax payers paid both the net pay and the benefits and the taxes. The government worker paid N O T H I N G.

Correct, but remember if the gubment worker is paid $100K once you factor in his benefit package the administrative costs associated with his job (he needs to be supervised) and all the other incidentals the costs to the taxpayer is much higher.

Trying to solve a recession by expanding the government workforce always struck me as a starving man cutting off his foot and eating it, thinking he was filling his stomach.

[Fledermaus]

I hate Dems. Proven policies are said “not to work” while every single Dem policy that NEVER works is expanded.

I wish the “average” voter would wake the f%#$ up.

[Darkwolf377]

Remember that in those years, in 2001 and 2003, Congress passed two of the most expensive tax cuts for the wealthy in history, and what did they get us? The slowest job growth in half a century. Massive deficits

It had to happen--Obama's level of lying BS has left me speechless.

[hal ogen]

nobama no longer leaves me speechless...I’m beyond that. He makes me vomit bile for hours.

[gidget7]

Good explanation. I often site a much shorter version, something like, without profit, there is no business, without business there is no middle class, or any jobs for that matter.

[gidget7]

Sadly, I don't think it is zero who is the putz, he knows exactly what he is doing, and doesn't believe a word of what he is saying. If he did, why would he have been involved in shady deals? His motives are much more nefarious. Something to ponder. No the true dolts, or idiots, are those who soak up his drivel and actually do believe it!

[Darkwolf377]

I just look at the words and think, “Is anybody really buying this total crap?” I can’t even come up with an argument—it’s beyond foolishness, it’s just...stupidity on parade, proudly trotted out.

[Libloather]

...thought I'd heard that on the radio while driving but I told myself I was mistaken.

From the LA Times -
Well, it is great to be back in the state of Tex -- (laughter) -- state of Kansas. I was giving Bill Self a hard time, he was here a while back. As many of you know, I have roots here.

[Tenacious 1]

Trying to solve a recession by expanding the government workforce always struck me as a starving man cutting off his foot and eating it, thinking he was filling his stomach.

Good analogy. If you can dress the wounds and limit the blood loss, eating your toes and feet first would certainly provide life sustaining nourishment. Ironically, left alone, the starving body will consume itself much more efficiently starting with nonessential fat, then muscle, etc.

Point is the same.

[flat]

[Theodore Roosevelt], declared in his 1910 ‘square deal’ address that the ‘right to regulate the use of wealth in the public interest is universally admitted.’

‘MOOCHERS ‘universally admit’ this right to regulate aka the right to extort from producers at gunpoint, money and goods in order to buy votes from non/under producers. Commie Claptrap like this really brings out the ‘HOOD’ in robin hood.

....too bad TEDDY never got a chance to read Milton Friedman’s ‘FREE TO CHOOSE’ (Your loss small grasshopper.)