Posted on 11/08/2012 4:36:37 PM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
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Wonder what the “deal” is? Boehner give away the house?
we are sooooo screwed
Let it all go to crap.
Let it go off the cliff. Everyone gets what they want - spending cuts, tax increase and an end to war. Nirvana!
Seriously, I’ll take the tax increase to have the pleasure of watching the govt dependent ox gore flowing in the streets. I drive my car another 100,000 and watch the multitude of grasshoppers freeze.
What’s that German word again? Schaden-something...
Presactly. At least with sequestration we get some social spending cuts with our tax hikes and defense cuts. I am sure that, otherwise, any “cuts” will be quietly put back in later. Furthermore, under sequestration, at least the tax hikes will be across the board and right into Obama’s precious forty seven percent.
I suggest that Atlas Shrug, go pick up his Obamaphone and head to Colorado to smoke a bowl...
Of course he will. Surrender is the only negotiation tactic he knows.
Maybe Colorado is on to something. Before committing economic suicide, smoke a bowl legally.
I don’t care what they all do anymore. I have lost all my fight. Raise taxes til it hurts and it still won’t be enough. They will always be back for more. I want the whole country to feel major pain. That is the only thing that may bring the voters to their senses.
I don’t care what they all do anymore. I have lost all my fight. Raise taxes til it hurts and it still won’t be enough. They will always be back for more. I want the whole country to feel major pain. That is the only thing that may bring the voters to their senses.
The lib’s and nonvoters deserve what they get. Fail.
Its already crap.
Ok I voted Romney . Saying first.
Part of me thinking of those suffering now who voted Obama in ‘08.
4 years is not long enough punishment . 8 would be better to help them understand consequences more .
Imagine graduating and not getting a decent job until your 30. Living with your parents till your 35.
It gives me some ease that the punishment fits the crime.
House GOP= rubber stamp
I’d be interested to see what sort of deal they could come up with that they think would delay the day of reckoning. It’s coming, and probably would be no matter what happened Tuesday.
And then on to Washington state and have that homosexual marriage done.
Let it all go to crap.
I agree, let them hang. I’m prepping for the worst. Let it come.
The DC Hacks used this sequester deal to up the Debt Ceiling after the 2010 elections.
Remember the GOP Kabuki Dance?
Get ready, they are about to hoodwink us again.
And I don’t mean the democrats. I mean Bonehead and Cantor and the
GOP. Greece is coming to America, sooner than later.
Exactly.
Speaker Boo Hoo should do absolutely nothing.
Over on Twitter there is a trending hashtag... #LetTheTaxCutsExpire
The dingbat libs who started appear to be unaware that Bush cut taxes for everyone.
They really do think he only cut them for billionaires and zillionairs. LOL!
They can’t be told....they need to live it.
I’m stocking up as well. It’s the only thing I can control.
A part of me would like to see Boehner hold a press conference announcing that the House will support the Presidents agenda but make it clear that the republicans disagree with his policies, but will let the American people witness first hand what Socialism will do to our economy in short order. I would like to see him finish by pointing to a phone number for all Americans write down and call when they have had enough of the Socialist utopia and return to what our founders so eloquently spelled out fo0r this great Nation
why work when you are getting punished for it....
whatever happened to being rewarded for working hard?
I want to a look into his eyes and ask "how could you do this to your kids?"
I guess they need to save face....but I'd rather see the cuts happen right across the board...
That is how I feel right now. Crash the entire system and maybe someday it can be fixed.
Ask a liberal to fill in the blank to this:
When the rich get poorer, the poor get ________ .
‘Sequestration & Obama’, repeat endlessly. OWN IT.
America may have to lose a decade to gain a century.
When you were a toddler you did stupid things that caused painful physical injuries like most people did. That’s how we learn .
Sometimes bad things happen are good for us to understand their bad.
Lack I’d a decent income and doing remedial jobs beneath your level of intelligence give you time to think about what’s really important .
Sometimes people don’t learn lessons. That happens to.
What will happen it that we will get defense cuts, but the social spending cuts will never materialize.
I don’t think I would feel any schadenfreude from letting it all burn, but I also think that it is impossible to make people understand the looming disaster unless they feel the pain.
Dems use Republicans to kick the can down the road over and over, therefore just keeping us above the collapse enough to keep it going.
People are indoctrinated. They won’t see the folly until they have to live with it’s consequences.
Called “learnin’ the hard way”.
When the rich get poorer, the poor get ________ .
........FREE Obamaphones?
The House needs to pass a bill making all the tax cuts permanent. If Reid and Obama kill it, then make them wear it when taxes are increased on everyone.
Just buy all the ammo and food you can get.
Any deal should include permanently and immediately rescinding all Obamacare waivers. Everybody pays.
We have 3 grown children. One Big Lefty, One Conservative and One who has finally seen the light in the past four years - only as a result of the efforts of her wonderful, conservative husband. After our day of mourning on Wed, last night Hubby and I were discussing our options and plans for moving forward. The kids know our position, and so do our grandchildren. We had specifically talked about the election and what it meant for their futures - in fact one 5-yr old grandchild asked the Lefty why Barack Obama wanted to take more of their money?
We are going to do our homework re where we spend our dollars. No purchases of anything made in China - no matter how "inexpensive". I'm going to scour the Internet re any public statements or Corporate policies that I find objectionable - no money to them either. That goes for our favorite restaurants too. If the owners are Lefties, our disposable income (what will be left of it) can go elsewhere. No movies - family time is better spent in conversation and reading, we might even bring out the Monopoly Board. Making our charitable dollars go to those in our community in need - through our church. Working on trying to be a good Christian by volunteering more time in our community - If we can each show one person what the love is Christ is all about, that is a good thing.
Two additional, specific things.
1) We were looking for a small condo in the city where our three children's families live. I sent the realtor a note last night. "Based on the results of the presidential election, we are not going to pursue a condo purchase. We strongly believe that the policies of the current administration are diametrically opposed to meaningful job creation and thus, any significant economic recovery is now unlikely. Being retired, that means being squeezed by prospects for less investment income, higher taxes and rising prices for EVERYTHING. A condo is no longer part of the plan."
2) The wills are being changed. What little will be left of the Lefty's share will skip him and go into a trust for his beautiful children. Perhaps we gave him too good of a life growing up. He never knew hardship. It is so easy to go gaga over Lefty drivel when you aren't worried about your future.
FReepers, please let me know if you have any suggestions for what else we can do. BTW, perhaps we can have a specific forum here on FR where we can specifically share ideas. Any "research" can be posted. Lastly, perhaps there is some way that can "unite" to push for Voter ID laws and get involved to make sure that voter lists can be cross-referenced for multiple registrations and what about the integrity of vote COUNTING?!?!?!
just my thoughts...
Fine with me if we cut defense. What good's a military when the CiC plans to sell us out to Putin and Beijing anyway? If anything, he'd use the military on us.
I'd skip his kids too. They're going to be little lefties if your son raises them as such.
LOL, you have a point there.
Ha, good one. We are pretty relentless with the conservative doctrine. We try to teach them history and economics and instill good Christian values.
He wants us to help out watching the little ones, he gets what he doesn’t pay for :-)
You may have heard the saying that no good deed goes unpunished. Through successive rounds of tax reductions, the GOP has lowered the tax bite to the point that wealthy liberals (or libertarians) have forgotten what it was like to pay higher taxes. Ultimately, we may have to raise taxes in order to give ourselves the opportunity to reduce them at a later date thereby splitting the liberal coalition between the hard-working libertines who are weary of paying extortionate taxes and the wastrels who sit around and do nothing all day and expect to be paid for it.
Schadenfreude! ( pleasure at another’s misery).
I agree. Let the taxes ROLL! Because the middle class will get a real whammy and then they can’t blame the Republicans.They got what they wanted...deal with it.
I agree...no one makes a change till they feel pain...soft pedaling the disaster won’t change anything.
EXACTLY, let the cuts expire!
They were 5 percentage points across the board. If you were in a 39.5% bracket they went to 34.5% a 12.7% reduction. If you were in a 10% bracket they went to 5%, a 50% reduction. You see, the Bush tax cuts helped the lower income more than the upper income by a factor of at least 4. That’s right, the tax cuts were FOUR times larger for the lower income persons than the upper income persons.
LET THE TAX CUTS EXPIRE. Let them ALL expire! DO NOTHING and they will end.
What would be great is where to find American made essentials (or primarily American)
Don’t forget about the crying. Crying is a very effective negotiating tool used by women.
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