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Obama to Shift Focus to Budget Deficit
WSJ ^ | FEBRUARY 14, 2009 | JONATHAN WEISMAN

Posted on 02/13/2009 8:24:49 PM PST by willgetsome

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To: plain talk
the Republican Party as a brand is more dead than "AIDS" diet pills or "New Coke"

The voting Franchise has been expanded over the last 90 years to all of the groups the Founders warned against, the groups that DID NOT vote for the first 150 years of its existence, the groups that DO NOT pay taxes and rely on the socialist government to redistribute wealth to them.

It is over, the majority will not vote against its own interests.

The socialists will maintain power by any means necessary, ridiculing rich old white inept doddering "Republicans" and successfully continuing to blame them for all of societys ills is little but child's play to them, especially since they control the press, which has abandoned all pretense of journalistic ethics and have in effect become the propaganda arm of the socialist party.

It is the model used by Chavez, Castro, Mugabe,Mandela, Hitler, Mussolini, Arafat, Kim Jong Il, and every other despot in modern history.

It does not get solved at the ballot box any more than the King George III problem was solved at the ballot box.

101 posted on 02/13/2009 9:15:12 PM PST by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: LucyT

Maybe we should ALL just sit down for a month or so,,,

All should have food/water/ammo/etc. put up for storms/etc.

Mite be cheaper to just stay home,,,

One big Hurricane Party!!!

Starve the Beast...


102 posted on 02/13/2009 9:19:17 PM PST by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: 1COUNTER-MORTER-68

My last credit card bill was just over $400. Were it not for the quarterly gym membership renewal, it would have been in the high $200’s. My goal for this month is $250 or lower (including gas and food). I think I can hit that target easily.

Screw the leeches. My new mission is to lower my spending as much as possible.


103 posted on 02/13/2009 9:23:46 PM PST by Windcatcher (Obama is a COMMUNIST and the MSM is his armband-wearing propaganda arm.)
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To: Rome2000

I’m with you. I have been SCREAMING on FR for months . I want to find, join or start a VERY aggressive army of patriots who are willing to get off their asses to legally take this country back and bring down liberal politicians one by one before it’s too late. To date I have ZERO response. Seems like we’re willing to watch the USA go down in flames.


104 posted on 02/13/2009 9:24:06 PM PST by sonic109
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To: usmcobra

I’m sorry: In the context of that table, what is the difference between “Income Tax Rate” and “Income/Payroll”?


105 posted on 02/13/2009 9:24:36 PM PST by Lexinom
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To: willgetsome

Lol, wut?


106 posted on 02/13/2009 9:24:46 PM PST by Historix
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To: Rome2000

You obviously haven’t thought this through. I’ll stick with the ballot box. Thanks.


107 posted on 02/13/2009 9:25:20 PM PST by plain talk
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To: willgetsome

LOL


108 posted on 02/13/2009 9:28:26 PM PST by Mr. Peabody
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To: Lexinom

Income payroll is what your company pays, FICA I believe, or rather what is commonly called unemployment insurance.


109 posted on 02/13/2009 9:38:38 PM PST by usmcobra (Your chances of dying in bed are reduced by getting out of it, but most people still die in bed)
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To: willgetsome
What can you say to this? It's a surrealistic Orwellian nightmare, where up is down and lies are truth. It's beyond farcical, beyond ludicrous, beyond insane. I've run out of adjectives.

We live in a world where the man in the White House tells blatant lies and hypocrisies and the press lap it up and cheer him on.

A world where the US Chamber of Commerce embraces a statist Democratic lobbyist driven pork package.

A world gone nuts.

110 posted on 02/13/2009 9:40:48 PM PST by TheWasteLand
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To: usmcobra

Ah, that makes sense. The 52% looks familiar for some reason. Wonder if that was the rate pre-W’s tax cuts, which will be sunsetting...


111 posted on 02/13/2009 9:40:50 PM PST by Lexinom
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To: JohnD9207

These people strike me as very reckless and very dangerous. I’m waiting for Obamo to start giving fourteen hour long speeches from the balcony like Comrade Fidel or Dear Leader Kim.


112 posted on 02/13/2009 9:44:25 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (The committed will surely dominate the complacent.)
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To: jveritas
8 dollars a week and that is if you only make $ 75,000 or less.

That won't buy a lunch in California.

113 posted on 02/13/2009 9:46:24 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (The committed will surely dominate the complacent.)
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To: willgetsome

This is completely INSANE!!
We are on the RMS Titanic, we have felt a slight shudder as snow from the berg tumbles down to the deck. But it’s OK Zero is at the helm. Hummm I wonder how this story will turn out?


114 posted on 02/13/2009 9:46:39 PM PST by Empireoftheatom48 (Zero will never be my President, never!!!!!)
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To: usmcobra
Those are scary numbers, I mean had McCain been able to nail him with these sort of numbers he might have won in 57 states....

We...have...been...had...big...time.

115 posted on 02/13/2009 9:48:35 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (The committed will surely dominate the complacent.)
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To: Lexinom
Ah, that makes sense. The 52% looks familiar for some reason. Wonder if that was the rate pre-W’s tax cuts, which will be sunsetting...

That's the beginning. The gang of experts will make that their first order recommendation.

116 posted on 02/13/2009 9:50:52 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (The committed will surely dominate the complacent.)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham

His so called tax cut went from people making $ 250,000 or less to people making $ 75,000 or less and he gave them this insulting one time tax credit of $ 400 i.e $ 8 a week more on their pay check. People will not even know that they are getting an extra 8 dollar on their paycheck because it is so small to be noticed.


117 posted on 02/13/2009 9:51:39 PM PST by jveritas (God Bless our brave troops)
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To: RckyRaCoCo

People have to learn liberal speak...always replace the words “raising taxes” with “investments in the future”...sounds so much better, doesn’t it?...(and fools’em every time)

***Yup, like when your boss says “We have to cut expenses” and all the dolts around you think he means you can’t order anymore paper clips.


118 posted on 02/13/2009 9:55:14 PM PST by azishot (I just joined the NRA.)
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To: willgetsome

I am in shock. I don’t know why I am; since we knew the zero’s (Piss be unto him) vision for the country is Communism, but I am. He is moving so quickly that I am afraid he may very well pull it off.


119 posted on 02/13/2009 9:57:31 PM PST by publana (Belated New Year's Resolution: No taxes.)
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To: Windcatcher

My last credit card bill was just over $400. Were it not for the quarterly gym membership renewal, it would have been in the high $200’s. My goal for this month is $250 or lower (including gas and food). I think I can hit that target easily.

Screw the leeches. My new mission is to lower my spending as much as possible.

~~~

Good on you,,,

I started this over a year ago,,,(chopped gas usage/etc.)

I won’t buy anything unless it is a “must have to live.”

Once you get started it ain’t hard to find other ways

to save,not spend,$$$$$$$$$$$...


120 posted on 02/13/2009 9:57:48 PM PST by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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