It is time for drastic measures. Enough with kowtowing to the Repuks.

[olegramps]

It is past time to enact FDR legislation to actually deal with this drastic situation. These half-hearted measures won't solve the problem.

People who actually make things and actually provide services should finally get pissed off enough to demand that the administration take effective measures against those who ripped them off. I am sorry but the measures that Obama has taken just won’t cut it.

Well, instead of being pissed off, it is time to get even. There are three sure fire ways to get even with these crooks. The first is raise the income tax on the wealthy to the levels that it was during WWII. The tax on the wealthy was 94% during WWII. It would be totally justified on two levels. The first is that the money that these crooks hauled in was stolen through crooked Company Boards that awarded outrageous bonuses for gross incompetence. We are in a serious situation that threatens the very continued existence of the nation just a dire as we faced in WWII and require the same dramatic measures.

The second action would be to not only NOT allow the Republicans to destroy Social Security, which is the determination of the wealthy in order to further pad their bank accounts, but to totally erase the present cap of $100,000. Every dime paid out to those making more than $100,000 should be subject to the payroll tax. I would definitely agree with the rescinding of the double payment for professionals such as doctors etc. Further more it should be immediately taken out of the general revenues and as Gore said it should be put in a locked box so these congressional miscreants can't rob it to pay for their bloody wars in which they enrich their arms manufacturing buddies.

Thirdly the rich who have robbed the people blind want to rescind the inheritance taxes in order to pass on their fortunes to spoiled worthless brats like George Bush. The tax should not only NOT be rescinded but should be increased to confiscatory levels. Adequate measures can be taken to protect small businesses and farms that the wealthy have used as an excuse to hide behind.

I said three, but I would like to add another one in the name of economic justice. Usury rates charged by banks should be outlawed as they once were before the Reagan administration rescinded all state usury laws to enrich their banking buddies. A Federal usury law should be enacted to stop this blatant rip off of working class people that has allowed the bankers to become nothing more than loan sh

[liberalsince1968]

1. ITA, ICAM, MSE, A-fucking-men, etc. etc.!

[olegramps]

2. Help an old guy out. ITA, IACAM, MSE

[Numba6]

3. yes, such "half hearted" measures -- increasing Fed spending part of US economy by 50% is SO

"half-hearted"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8215623

Get a grip, take a breath, read some facts for a change

[olegramps]

4. No one is criticizing Obama or his stimulus package.

We have serious debt obligations that will have to be solved with an influx of cash receipts in the treasury. Not IOUs. We can not solve them with borrowing on our children and grandchildren future. The wealthy have, through their control of congress, engineered one of the greatest redistribution of wealth in the history of the nation. I just want justice and the proper redistribution of the wealth that Wall Street and the Bankers have stolen from the people. I suppose that you don't agree and think that what has been done so far will solve the problems. They won't and that's a fact. We are not going to be able to borrow our way out of it. It is too massive a problem. Especially without an industrial base.

[Numba6]

5. Defecit spending (IOUs) HAS to be done at times like these, it was the GOP

that mortgaged the future for short term gains

The Obama stimulus plan is not "half-hearted", you are believing the critics w/o recognizing what the plan actually does

All the plans enacted in JUST ONE MONTH, even w/ the changes from the original bill, are hardly "kowtowing" to the Republicans

Put on your trifocals & actually read about what's in the bill


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