Morning Joe crowd bitching about Obama's raising taxes on the rich. Maria Bartiromo says he's not

[flpoljunkie]

defining 'rich' properly. Mike Barnicle says he's playing the old 'class warfare' card.

Get a clue! These greedy people were doing very well during the Clinton years when the top tax rate was 39.6%.

[rfranklin]

1. Class warfare is waged ever day on working people...

It's just called "good business" when working people are screwed.

[flpoljunkie]

3. Exactly. Joe even whined those people hit by higher taxes would not put that addition on porch if

they have to pay that 4% more--and it's 4% more on the margin. They never point that out!

[rasputin1952]

4. It's called "great business" when we get screwed...

it's ll about squeezing every dime they can from anyone who actually works for a living.

[JohnnyBoots]

27. Like CEO's getting millions in bonuses for laying off thousands of people...

[rasputin1952]

28. I have always wondered why we reward failure...

Many CEO's have ruined companies, stripping them of the most experienced & knowledgeable people. Then they are rewarded with tens of millions in cash and stock, negating the "savings". The notion where "1 share = i vote" is pathetic, especially when those who own common stock in a company, together, only rises to some 40%, limiting the stockholders votes, while those that control the majority of the stock, generally the Board members, give away millions to clowns.

Anyone in "normal" circumstances gets canned and would never get hired in an industry if they did what these clowns do. Essentially, they are stealing profits.

[JohnnyBoots]

31. Yes, they are. We are pretty powerless to stop them, seeing as they own our

elected officials and government. We exist to them as a natural resource/means of production to be exploited for their profit. We are economic cannon fodder.

[Moostache]

45. Second Amendment remedies?

I AM NOT SERIOUS....THIS TIME.
:sarcasm:
:hide:

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

43. George "Dumbya" Bush and Carly Fiorina are prime examples of that...

When Republicans ruin businesses and an economy, a la Sarah Palin re: Wasila, they are rewarded. Wall Street fails? They are rewarded. Car industry in trouble? Oh, nooooo.... we can't "bail" the *American* owned and operated car industry out, but we'll allow Wall Street crooks their bonuses. And we'll put Dumbya Bush in office. And we'll put Sarah "Quitter" Failin' on a pedestal. And, we'll even put Carly Fiorina in the Senate after she wrecked HP and ran it into the ground.

It's *always* a double standard, particularly for Republicans who fail upward!

I saw Scooter Libby on Faux last night and threw up!! :puke:

[Cosmocat]

11. AAARGG!

of all the BS these clowns do their inverse crape on that the media carries water for, this "class warfare" crape is one of the worst ...

This is the VERY FOUNDATION of what the republican core platform is ...

And, the drone MSM just chant it proudly ...

[rasputin1952]

2. That's because every one of them would be affected...

They are all in the brackets that would pay some 5% more...and who cares but them?

Most people watching would not be affected at all...and for the record, each of them could afford a good tax attorney and Accountant, (they may already receive such services under their contracts), that could find 100-1000 loopholes. They just want everything handed to them w/o paying for anything.

Pigs at the trough...x(

[flpoljunkie]

5. Bingo! That, and they are greedy!

[Fire1]

37. Exactly!!! n/t

[chimpymustgo]

6. You know Obama's gonna cave on this, right?

[impik]

8. No, but you obviously know. You're gifted

[bowens43]

7. He's not raising taxes

he's allowing a temporary tax break to wealthy to expire as it was designed (by republicans) to do.

the media continues to perpetrate the 'tax increase' lie............

[rasputin1952]

9. Precisely...but, it is still obvious that those that will be affected...

are so damn cheap, they want everyone else to pay their way. The arrogance of these people is incredible. Why don't they just say, "Look people, I make x million dollars, but I want you to pay while I get a break. Sure, you may not be able to feed your family a couple of days before payday, but I need to make payments on my new boat, the pool and my Mercedes. You understand, right?".

Class Warfare?...Damn Straight.

[molly77]

19. I am not taking up for the ultra rich

but in Europe, when you pay those kinds of taxes, you actually get something. WE don't. But of course, the ultra rich make sure that doesn't happen.Catch 22 for the rest of US.

[mopinko]

20. they get what they want, tho.

they get the whole damn government.

[TBF]

22. Oh sure you get something - you get an empire.

Wars everywhere. Some profit very handsomely off that ...

[flpoljunkie]

10. Now Maria's saying when you need to really change the structure of things you need to change...

'Fannie and Freddie!' Now, Joe whining about Fannie and Freddie not being reformed. Arianna, of course, is piling on, and not defending President Obama.

Suggested reading for the Morning Joe crowd: Private Sector Loans, Not Fannie, Freddie, Triggered Crisis

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/53802.html

And, this graphic from Paul Krugman:

3. During those same years, Fannie and Freddie were sidelined by Congressional pressure, and saw a sharp drop in their share of securitization:

[CTyankee]

13. I heard that rant a while back ONCE. Now NEVER AGAIN.

Cannot watch Maria any more. I switched over the GMA where I saw the lion story out of Vegas and learned something about lion behavior. Also Dr. Oz told his story about reluctantly having his first routine colonoscopy and having a pre-cancerous polyp removed. It was very informative...

[rasputin1952]

26. I just thought...

If Scarborough had a colonoscopy, a whole team of doctors and nurses could just walk right into his colon...he is such a huge asshole...;)

[JamesA1102]

15. You expect Huffington to say anything in support of the President

The woman has been going after him since the day he took the oath of office.

[boomerbust]

12. Maria Barfaromo

Raise that bitchs taxes to the moon:puke:

[butterfly77]

38. +1

[JamesA1102]

14. To quote John Kenneth Galbraith

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

[flpoljunkie]

16. I would say Galbraith really nailed it!

[disillusioned73]

21. I agree..

thanks for that quote - I've added it to my collection

[corkhead]

23. if that isn't the perfect DU sigline, I don't know what is.

If you don't use it, I might...

[Bitwit1234]

17. He's not raising taxes he is just letting a bill Bush had

congress make expire. And congress is doing it, not him. But of course Joe with the mystery intern mess is too dumb to know that or is he.

[Clio the Leo]

18. I loved when Erin Burnett said that people making over $250,000...

.... really weren't rich.

THEN THEY NEED TO GET CHEAPER HOUSES!!!!! lol

[CTyankee]

30. Compared to the people she rubs elbows with, they don't.

If that's all you see, then the $250k bunch are mere pikers...

[Jennicut]

33. I grew up in a fairly wealthy town in CT. The medium income

in Cheshire is still only $113,000! $250,000 isn't rich? By what standard?

[CTyankee]

41. Oh, Greenwich and New Canaan...I know cuz I raised money there

and we had ways of finding out people's wealth. Also, some parts of Litchfield County...I mean the REALLY, REALY rich...

Personally, I would be happy as can be with $250,000...

[LaurenG]

24. Class Warfare?!

:rofl: OMG, what is wrong with people.

[Supersedeas]

44. the Oligarchy wants the middle class to fight their wars for oil and to pay the war tax to boot

Protecting the privileges of the super rich on the blood and backs of the low to middle class.

[alcibiades_mystery]

25. The capitalist class is in full-on attack mode this morning

NPR was peddling the sob story of the rich as well.

We see where the real commitments of the media are as soon as that top tax bracket gets mentioned at all. They immediately fall back into the true reactionary mode of their calling.

[denimgirly]

29. I may get Pissed at Obama not being Progressive but there attacks is WAY too much

Many of you know i am borderline pissed with Obama not being progressive but seeing these attacks on MJ with no one defending the prez is a bit annoying.
These dumb bush tax cuts NEED to exprie and ANYONE defending them should be shot.

Here is hoping Obama/Congress doesnt buckle under the pressure and extend them. Pattern shows democrats almost always give in so this will be interesting.

[Cha]

32. That should make for some warm compassion

from his average viewer.

[jenmito]

34. Bartiromo claimed that Obama said he wanted to let ALL Bush's tax cuts expire. n/t

[CTLawGuy]

35. that can't be true

I thought Obama was in the pocket of the wealthy and wall st.?

[Empowerer]

36. Scarborough claimed that President is taxing "the most productive people"

Since when is the amount of money one earns a measure of one's productivity? Certainly a third-grade teacher is at least as and probably more productive than someone who manipulates a hedge fund. The women who clean my office deep into the night for minimum wage are considerably more productive than I could ever hope to be.

The notion that the uber rich are more productive and, therefore, more valuable in this society is rather sickening.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

39. Scarface likes to lick the boots of the very rich

[winstars]

40. Class warefare, yeah we got class and the 'pukes don't!!! nt

[Phx_Dem]

42. Fuck you, Barnicle. Aren't you the thing that grows on the bottom of old ships?