I'm tired of hearing we "ALL" must make adjustments....

[samplegirl]

I'd like to ask Mr. Obama what adjustments the Rich have had to make. Instead they were rewarded with another TAX CUT!!!

[polichick]

1. No kidding! Wall Street contracts/bonuses are sacred; worker contracts...

...are negotiable - or not.

Not only did the rich get another tax cut, but Wall Street hacks got jobs in the WH.

"Shared sacrifice" my ass!

[roguevalley]

26. When they passed the tax cuts for zillionaires they lost the moral

authority to say or ask anything, including Obama.

[annabanana]

2. Oh, sorry.. THEY'RE not on the "share the pain list". . . n/t

[The Magistrate]

3. Indeed, Ma'am: Without Increased Taxes On The Rich, There Is No 'Shared Sacrifice'

[KansDem]

4. Also, capitalists in the banking industry and Wall Street have had to make "adjustments"

They've had to rethink "capitalism" as:

If you succeed, you get rich; but
If you fail, you get rich.

Yeah, I know, but that seems to be the direction of "capitalism" these days...

[annabanana]

6. What?. .Like loosening their belts?. . . n/t

[defendandprotect]

5. People who need to begin to "make adjustments" are our elected officials --

a long, long list of them!!

[Obamanaut]

12. The people need to "make adjustments" in voting behavior, and stop

voting for "the name you know." That simply keeps the same weasels in the same jobs for entire careers.

For example, people have said that John McCain is too old to do his job, yet there are many Senators who are several years older than McCain.

[Johonny]

15. they kind of did that

they just washed out a lot of people last election cycle. The problem is people need to check that the fresh face they stuck in office actually isn't a tea bagging pro. Republicans won big last election cycle with this idea. There are a lot of good professional long term people in congress. New faces do not always equal good new person if they have the same old ideas. People need to stop voting for the same failed ideas, new and good ideas can be in the career professional, the new face, the young, the old... it's the ideas and the view of how government should participate in your life people need to start paying attention too. The whole "we need new faces" thing has pretty much proven itself to not help very much.

[Obamanaut]

20. They did not wash out 'a lot' of people. An opportunity presented itself

to turn over the entire house - the same opportunity that presents itself every two years - and one third of the senate.

As soon as elected officials become aware that an initial election success is not the door to a career, the whole system will improve (IMO). But it won't happen in my lifetime.

Eddie Murphy's movie "The Distinguished Gentleman" showed it nicely.

[emilyg]

14. Starting with the White House.

[Kennah]

7. Somehow 21st century Hoovervilles don't strike me as "adjustments"

[myrna minx]

8. No kidding.

So lunch ladies and custodians are to tighten their belts but super villains - the brothers Koch and their ilk run roughshod over our nation hoovering up everything that's not nailed down. I'm so sick of these decadent entitled pigs.

[jberryhill]

9. Oh come now...

The rich have to put up with seeing and hearing about the unemployed, those who lack health insurance, and so on.

It's depressing, and is a major buzzkill.

How dare you not recognize the sacrifice they make by tolerating everyone else.

[HereSince1628]

10. Yes, we'd all like that. But we don't OWN this administration...

We just didn't have enough QUID to get our PRO.

In a functionally economic facist state (sensu Chomsky) that clearly makes it OUR FAULT.

[calimary]

13. Um - if we voted it into office, I'd say we DO OWN this administration.

All these people are Public SERVANTS. THEY serve US. Not the other way around.

[Dragonfli]

28. Only in theory, the reality is we vote them in and they use us.

Most of them become quite wealthy in the process

[damntexdem]

11. Yes, but then they have to make adjustments to their tax returns . . .

reflecting that they're getting yet more.

[Love Bug]

16. I was 'adjusted' out of a job two years ago

I think I've 'adjusted' enough, thankewverymuch.

[PA Democrat]

17. Which is the bigger adjustment?

Going without health care, and/ or heat, food...

OR

socking away a few million less in your spoiled kid's trust fund?

[Desertrose]

18. Define "ALL".

That'd be my question/

[bobbolink]

19. He has made it clear that the "sacrifices" will be made by poor people.

The fact that deaths will result doesn't matter to anyone except those of us who are staring at death.

[Safetykitten]

21. Just wait till 2012 and that pesky tax cut will be gone.

[walldude]

25. LMAo.. yeah like the Patriot Act..

Gone gone gone... :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[LiberalEsto]

22. I've been "adjusting" for 2 years, 4 months

to being unemployed.

I don't have anything left to adjust with, but I sure as heck would like to see some adjusting on the rich and their media cheerleaders.

[chaska]

23. Repeat after me: TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!

[socialist_n_TN]

24. When the rich pay more in taxes, THEN we can talk about.........

shared sacrifices. Of course taxing the rich at a western European level would probably take care of MOST of the sacrificing that needs to be done.

[Dragonfli]

27. We all must adjust to our money belonging to the rich.

The budget proposals of both parties would result in the shrinking of the middle class to make more poor Americans.
They will also reduce the population of the poor by starving and freezing many of them to death (Most here are rather silent on this one, the poor are just not as sexy as the middle class I guess).

Mr. Obama had no trouble allowing the very wealthy historicaly low tax rates during this time of "shared sacrifices" even tho he was well aware he would be expected to sacrifice the lives of the poor to help finance it, and he is the "friendly" one.

The nasty ones wish to kill even more on the alter both parties have erected to the extremely wealthy.
Interesting also to note that multinationals pay less in taxes than your average teacher, that is, those that don't get six or 7 figure refunds as reward for off shoring our jobs.

You can ask away, but all you will get is more Neo-con and Neo-lib rhetoric.
We are nothing more than the prey, the predators are the ones getting assistance even as their record profits and record bonuses continue to prove that no sacrifice is to be shared by those that are destroying this country and who in fact, caused the crises they now profit from.