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Obama's Playing a Game of Chicken With the Economy
Townhall.com ^ | November 30, 2012 | Donald Lambro

Posted on 11/30/2012 12:42:17 PM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 11/30/2012 12:42:20 PM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
President Cloward-Piven is not "playing chicken with the economy."

He wants it to collapse. It's his goal.

He and his fellow travelers think that they will get to rebuild it in their own totalitarian image.

It's our job to make sure that they become victims of their own chaos.

2 posted on 11/30/2012 12:47:04 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Labor unions are the Communist Party of the USA.)
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To: Kaslin

Obama is not “obsessed” with raising taxes on people making over $250,000 a year. He’s putting on a show for Democrat voters.

“Look at me! I want to raise taxes on the rich and give that money to you!”

Take away his stage. Let the tax hikes go through. “To be or not to be” sounds pretty stupid when you perform it in the bathroom.


3 posted on 11/30/2012 12:51:15 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Kaslin

It’s silly.
The two top tax rates rising are gonna happen. The Pub leadership should know that they’ll get little blowback over this. No use to whine over them anymore and give the Dems a club to use until the next election.

Just announce agreement and then say “Do you actually have any substantive cuts you’ll put in writing?”

Obama has no intention of coming to any kind of a deal - the Pubs should get out ahead of him on this.


4 posted on 11/30/2012 12:54:23 PM PST by glorgau
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To: Kaslin
Economy to Collapse in New Year; Republicans Laugh

(picture of a smiling John Boehner superimposed over photo of a closed women's clinic)

5 posted on 11/30/2012 1:01:45 PM PST by pabianice (washington, dc ..)
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To: glorgau

Screw waiting for Obama... he’s never had a legislative thought in his life.... voted present rather than take a stand in Illinois... let Pelosi’s staff write the crappy health care laws we plebes are stuck with.. didn’t even have a clue what it contained when he signed it... and now won’t present any substantive way out of the fiscal mess he’s helped create!
Raising tax on the upper two brackets is window dressing for his politics of envy crowd not something that will really address the issue. Increased taxes on anyone will be squandered by his out of control spending! Geitner proposed MORE spending yesterday !!!
No, the House needs to forget compromise. Go to work, pass substantive cutting legislation...bill after bill...send them to the senate knowing there is no way in Washington Harry the pip-squeak Reid will let it get a hearing or a vote. Sit back, target with real conservative opposition the 10 dems up for re-erection (after all they are all real pricks!) in 2014 so the senate can eventually get done what adult, mature, civic minded Constitution-loving Senators should be doing! We are going to have to go through real tough times to turn this ship of state around thanks to an ill-educated, gimmie-cultured electorate...no different than treating an alcoholic or drug addict... they have to hit bottom before they seek and accept help..some eventually succumb first...some find the solutions...the nation is no different...let’s pray we come out the other side at least by 2016!


6 posted on 11/30/2012 1:02:49 PM PST by Froggie
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To: glorgau
Just announce agreement and then say “Do you actually have any substantive cuts you’ll put in writing?”

Obama has no intention of coming to any kind of a deal - the Pubs should get out ahead of him on this.

I think you are right on this.

7 posted on 11/30/2012 1:04:51 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (Actually, they lie when it suits them! The crooked MS media must be defeated any way it can be done!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Thank you for your post.

I was going to post nearly the same thing.

8 posted on 11/30/2012 1:05:25 PM PST by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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To: Kaslin
The "Republicans" will do 2 things:

Let taxes be increased with no spending cuts

Raise the Debt Ceiling

This is a ONE PARTY Communist Country now, and this posturing and bullshit spit-in-the-ocean "Fiscal Cliff" can in NO WAY stem the Spending into Oblivion.

9 posted on 11/30/2012 1:14:55 PM PST by traditional1 (Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

” President Cloward-Piven is not “playing chicken with the economy.”

He wants it to collapse. It’s his goal. “

And no public figure or politician will state the obvious.


10 posted on 11/30/2012 1:15:30 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker
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To: Kaslin
Why did it take 16 months - since creating the sequestration in Auguest 2011 because the debt ceiling loomed large - and Christmas of 2012? Obama knew this all along and has done NOTHING until yesterday? And this is the type of leadership the American Idol worshiping Americans love so much???

I FOR ONE CAN ONLY BELIEVE THE ELECTION WAS STOLEN, UNLESS WE ARE LIVING AS ALICE IN WONDERLAND. FOR GOODNESS SAKE RIDE OFF THE CLIFF REPUBLICANS - YOU WILL BE BLAMED NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO. PERFORM THE THELMA AND LOISE AND GET IT OVER WITH.

Maybe then we can officially start the Tea Party and run some conservatives who have gonads and backbones. That is the only way feasible to take on the RAT party and their propaganda machine.
11 posted on 11/30/2012 1:18:48 PM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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12 posted on 11/30/2012 1:19:04 PM PST by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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Let’s give Jim an early CHRISTmas and finish this thing! Eh?

13 posted on 11/30/2012 1:19:35 PM PST by moose07 (The truth will out, one day.)
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To: Kaslin

It’s not chicken, it’s treason.


14 posted on 11/30/2012 1:21:40 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny (Thought Puzzle: Describe Islam without using the phrase "mental disorder" more than four times.)
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To: glorgau
Obama has no intention of coming to any kind of a deal

The House is scheduled to adjourn on 12/14 and Obama has scheduled a three week vacation in Hawaii starting on 12/16. There is no way they will get this done in the next two weeks. Obama thinks he will be in a stronger position after 1/1/2013 when he can blame the Republicans for taking us over the cliff. This may be true for a few weeks, but the longer the stalemate goes on, the more the "cliff" will begin to actually have a negative affect on people and the worse his legacy begins to look.

15 posted on 11/30/2012 1:25:10 PM PST by tentmaker (Galt's Gulch is a state of mind...)
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To: tentmaker

Keep the tax cuts in place one more year now that everyone knows it isn’t only “Bush’s tax cuts for the rich” anymore.

And raise the debt ceiling to 20 tillion.

Everyone wins except Americans.


16 posted on 11/30/2012 1:32:22 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (George W. Bush is the Emmanuel Goldstein of the modern era.)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Boehner should get a bill through the House that increases the top bracket tax rate by a small percentage and limit it to those making over 1 million in taxable income. It could further add some revenue by limiting some tax breaks to the same group. The bill should also make all the rest of the Bush tax cuts permanent. Pass this bill and send it to the Senate and see what Harry Reid does with it.

Then Republicans from both houses should make it clear that there will be NO spending limit increase without a budget that can be agreed upon by both sides.


17 posted on 11/30/2012 1:39:18 PM PST by tentmaker (Galt's Gulch is a state of mind...)
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To: Kaslin

Why do we have one conservative after another acting like Obama is mistaken, or that he is stupid, or that he is a failure if the economy remains bad, or he just does not understand economics, and other such banalities?

Obama understands lower rates bring more revenue. He and the libs do not want revenue. What they want is to stake their claim on our lives. The tax rate makes a claim that says “If we wish we will take X% from you but perhaps, if you modify your behavior in ways proscribed by us and you support keeping us in power, we may allow you to keep more.

They do not care about the poor either. More revenue would help the poor but it is not about care for the poor again is about control. So they keep the poor jobless and stupid and morally decrepit and give them just enough that they get the votes to keep them in power.


18 posted on 11/30/2012 1:47:06 PM PST by FreedomNotSafety
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“He wants it to collapse. It’s his goal.”
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That is so patently obvious its hard to understand why everyone doesn’t see it. Obama has never shown any interest in solving the country’s problems; all he ever does is criticize it. From day one, he has worked to undermine our economic strength, culture and military readiness.

People should be judged by their actions, not their words. Everything the Kenyan has done has been bad for this country.


19 posted on 11/30/2012 2:10:30 PM PST by Starboard
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To: Cheerio

Maybe then we can officially start the Tea Party and run some conservatives who have gonads and backbones. That is the only way feasible to take on the RAT party and their propaganda machine.
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Correct. This may come as a shock to Republicans, but to win in any endeavor, you must be stronger than your opponent. A simple truism, and you nailed it.


20 posted on 11/30/2012 2:17:45 PM PST by Starboard
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