End the wars, Roll back Bu$h tax cuts, and Close corporate tax loopholes.

[jorno67]

why is this so fucking hard?

[Lifelong Protester]

1. A paraphrasing of those ideas are in every email I send

to the Senate
to Congress
to the White House

TAX THE RICH
STOP THE WARS
BLAME THE REPUBLICANS

[Solly Mack]

2. Because those things represent profits for big money political donors.

(and future jobs - revolving door - for "retired" Congress critters)

You are who owns you.

[HughBeaumont]

3. Because that would be taking relative pocket change out of the hands of the Job Cremators.

And we simply cannot have THAT Commie nonsense, can we?

[Dr Fate]

4. It's simple, aggressive, even creative- and most voters agree 100%.

In other words, ain't gonna happen.

[dissidentboomer]

5. AMEN. Don't know why this is hard, other than pure greed and the fact that the truly rich

have completely brain washed Bubba into thinking that his fate depends on Richie Rich and Paris Hilton having low tax rates and that the gubmint will take taxes and do nothing but support and hire dangerous four eyed "intellekchuals", ugly women folk, and blacks.

[sharp_stick]

6. It wouldn't be hard

if Congress wasn't owned by the same people that ending the wars, rolling back tax cuts and closing loop holes would hurt the most.

Personally I think the one thing that would help this the most is straight publicly funded elections. No fundraising of any type allowed and no second party advertising.

[dissidentboomer]

9. YES! I've been screaming this idea for some time, now. It gets few responses.

[sharp_stick]

11. Not only would it effectively neuter

any special interest group politically it would free up Senators and especially Congressmen to do their damned job instead of fundraising. Politicians of all stripes should not be fundraising, they should be Governing.

That won't ever work here though not with the Supreme Court telling us that corporations are people and have the ability to send unlimited stock holder money into the political process.

[dissidentboomer]

12. I agree 100% and you're right about this court. Reform will never happen in this climate.

[jorno67]

18. Notice how the Debt Ceiling BS has all but drowned out the Clarence Thomas scandal?

[dkf]

7. Easy as pie. At least it should be.

Just rolling back the Bush tax cuts does more than any of these plans.

[Autumn]

8. They WANT it to be hard

that's the only reason. There are programs they want to do away with and this is how they do it. One thing I have noticed is that they do not mention the poor any more. And guess who gets hurt by their cuts, the poor young and old. Not even Obama even acknowledges that they exist.

[indepat]

10. That Repugs just can't get over the ideological hump of heaping massive governmental welfare on the

uber-wealthy and large corporations and always having a bogeyman so trillions of dollars can be pumped into the MIC are the Repugs jobs #1 and #2 is as plain as the noses on our faces. :patriot:

[msongs]

13. leaders of the dems party either do NOT believe in these or REFUSE to demand them....

either way is a sign of lack of values.

[socialindependocrat]

14. The GOP is bought

I have middle class friends who support the GOP and I can't figure out why. Reputable sources have already said that trickle-down is dead. It's dead because of corporate greed. For the past 35 years I have seen my disposable income eroded away because my employer stopped merit raises and our cost of living increases did not cover the increase in the cost of living. On top of that my state of Delaware deregulated the one power company we had and they increased our rates by 67%. Then, it seems like every other business raises their rates or cost of goods by at least 20%. It doesn't take long before everybody in the middle class realizes that they need to start saving what they have left for retirement. So, with no money to spend, how do we buy goods and contribute to the growth of America. Now, the Tea Party wants to cut our medical benefits and Soc. Sec. We have no extra money to spare. Colleges and Universities get money from the government and they still charge enormous tuitions and their tenured professors choose how many classes they want to teach. What a waste. And what about all the hair brained research our government supports. I believe there is plenty of waste that can be cut but the GOP is bought and paid for. Who in their right mind would vote republican?? I say, vote out the incumbents except the ones we trust like Bernie Sanders. We need to start a list of "the good guys". I also believe the people who voted for the Tea Party realize they made a mistake. The next election is going to be I_N_T_E_R_E_S_T_I_N_G !!!!!

[FiveGoodMen]

15. Why is that hard? Because Obama won the '08 primaries.

[jorno67]

16. I can't really blame anyone for voting for Obama in the primary...

I voted for John Edwards in the New Hampshire Primary and if my guy would've won things would be even worse!

[FiveGoodMen]

17. Yeah, I can't blame them, either.

But in retrospect, it was his emergence as the Dem candidate that sunk any hope America had.