The Obama years are not quite what we expected

whosinpower

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Wed Dec-08-10 03:06 PM
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The Obama years are not quite what we expected

"Let's make a deal" is a shitty way to run a country. This is becoming more and more clear by the day.

The mantra of kicking problems down the road continues, sluffing off responsibility to whomever the next president is....increasing the debt load of those who have not even had the audacity to take their first breath of life.....

One of the things that upset me was that George W. Bush was so irresponsible to the future....and now when I hear or see President Obama, the image and sound blurs to Bush.

Call me a purist. Call me ideological. Undercutting social security revenues via a payroll tax holiday robs the elderly for a maybe, possible, if the moon and stars and sun are in perfect alignment increase in GDP by a whopping .05 percent.

How many jobs would that equate to? How will that increase production of goods and services that are created, built, manufactured in the USA? Because this is the kicker. If demand goes up to increase production of stuff made overseas - the only fricking jobs that will be found are in sales, distribution and marketing. That giant sucking sound is the amazing phenomenen of the extinction of labour's role in an economy.

Mr. Obama, with all due respect -

I am ideological. I believe corporations who operate and sell products in the US - should pay taxes to the US. I believe corporations who manufacture products overseas to sell in the US market, and are US owned should pay US taxes. I beleive that they too have a responsibility to the future.

I am a purist. I believe corporations should hire Americans to make stuff to sell to America. All stuff. Shoes, hats, bluejeans, toys, consumables. I believe that corporations who profit must pay, not only in taxes, but in jobs. I believe that corporations who seek, use America's vast military strength to ensure access to resources in foreign lands should pay for it up front. And if they can't or won't.....then the war games are off.

I am a liberal. I believe that folks who work hard all their lives, and contribute towards Social Security should not be faced with working 2, or 3 or 5 more years before recieving benefits. I believe that it is the responsibility of the younger generation to pay into the program and not undercut its stability or value.

You can call my ideas - so Yesterday if you want. You can call me names. But once upon a time, America was more than a shadow of what it is today. Once upon a time it believed that if you worked hard, played by the rules, and contributed towards your community, your society and your country, your children's future would be secure.

Let's make a deal....YOU FIGHT THE TERRORISTS IN THE REPUBLICAN VISION, and I won't think of you as Chamberlain. YOU FIGHT THE TERRORISTS SITTING IN CONGRESS AND THE SENATE, or else they will have won by default and your legacy of the Obama Years will go down as an utter failure.