Who said this today?

[Ichingcarpenter]

It’s pretty simple. I don’t think oil companies should keep getting special tax breaks when they’re making tens of billions in profits. I don’t think hedge fund managers should pay taxes at a lower rate than their secretaries. I don’t think it’s fair to ask nothing of someone like me when the average family has seen their income decline over the past decade – and when many of you are just trying to stretch every dollar as far it it’ll go.

We shouldn’t put the burden of deficit reduction on the backs of folks who’ve already borne the brunt of the recession. It’s not reasonable and it’s not right. If we’re going to ask seniors, or students, or middle-class Americans to sacrifice, then we have to ask corporations and the wealthiest Americans to share in that sacrifice.







http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/07/16/weekly-address-unique-opportunity-secure-our-fiscal-future


That's what I want to hear..

[NYC_SKP]

1. Ooh, Ooh, I know this one, I think! Folksy and comprehensible without being demeaning...

The best orator as president, really, in my 54 years.

:P

[babylonsister]

2. lol!

:fistbump:

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. LOL......... remember that I said

that's what I want to hear, I didn't say believe.

I'll wait to see the walk... I know the talk.

[pscot]

5. Don't listen to what we say

Watch what we do.

[PoliticAverse]

4. Great words, now what will he actually agree to? n/t

[tomp]

6. some asshole, apparently.

doesn't go far enough by a long shot.

no cuts. make the rich pay back. stop imperialist aggression. fucking period. that's what i want to hear. everything else is propaganda.

believe that quote and you'll believe anything.

then, of course, there's what actually gets proposed and voted on.

[bvar22]

7. Obama is really good at talking about what he ought to do.

...maybe THIS time?

[Blecht]

8. The message is clear.

"... we're going to ask seniors, or students, or middle-class Americans to sacrifice,"

The stuff about asking "the wealthiest Americans to share" is clearly an afterthought.

We can hope that this is just rhetoric to appease the right-wing media and to play the game, and that Obama will do the right thing, but this framing is infuriating to me.

[bahrbearian]

9. Berni Sanders ?

[woo me with science]

10. I am sick of being played. nt

[eridani]

11. Sounds great. Will he cave, or not? n/t

[WinkyDink]

12. These are not "great words". What's great about "share in that sacrifice"??

"If we’re going to ask seniors, or students, or middle-class Americans to sacrifice,...."

WHY THIS CLAUSE??

[scarletwoman]

15. "Why this clause?" You are so right!

[scarletwoman]

13. Warren Buffet?

[scarletwoman]

14. Senator Al Franken?