I'm no financial wiz but the budget does not seem like rocket science to me

[Ohio Joe]

Corporate tax - Lets leave the debate on raising them or lowering them for another day. First, lets just close the fucking loop holes and get them paying... oh say... some tax.

Oil Subsidies - Get rid of them... WTF? We should be hammering this home every day and nailing the repugs to the wall on this.

Tax the top 2% till they bleed - or at least until they squeal as much as the rest of us.

Wars - Lets just cut this shit out now, we have all had enough.

No brainers, do just these and I bet we start having a nice surplus.

[tridim]

1. How do you plan on getting that done with the Repukes in charge in the House?

We'd all like to see those thing happen.

[labor4ever]

5. Even when we had all 3, we still didn't do it, so we really need to ellect new people

However, it starts by getting these kinds of ideas out there so people can think about them, and discuss them.

Doing this on the www is the best place to start.

[tridim]

6. Remember the Republicans require 61 votes to pass anything.

Again, not our fault.

We have to win back the house and win 61 Senate seats in 2012, and then we can get done what we want to get done. It sucks, but that's just the way it is.

[labor4ever]

7. we need more than that, we need new people

The current leadership are captured by corporations which has been demonstrated over and over again. It really sucks, but that's just the way it is.

[tridim]

8. All of them? Wow, that's quite an accusation.

Are you saying Democrats are just as bad as Republicans and Teafuckers?

[labor4ever]

14. I didn't say all of them.

I am saying that our leaders are ineffective and need to be replaced with people who are more responsive to their voting constituents, and less to their corporate sponsors.

[SidDithers]

16. Then why do you have the Barack Obama 2012 website as your sig?...nt

Sid

[labor4ever]

17. as I said above

[SidDithers]

19. Uh huh...nt

Sid

[ladjf]

11. All we need is a few smart, honest and patriotic men and/or women.

Is it that difficult to find such candidates and to get them elected? Carter was smart, honest and patriotic and we didn't even try to help him. There are others.

[ladjf]

10. We're going to kick their asses out of the House. nt

[Zax2me]

2. How are we going to do that?

We just cut what comes to, relatively, about 530 bucks off a 50K per year salary - and the screaming was loud enough to think we were cutting 50%.

[ladjf]

13. The first thing we're going to do is to regain control of the House.

And then we're going to tell Obama what his is going to do or we'll impeach his ass for breach of promise.

[n2doc]

3. except the congress is bought and paid for by those groups you would tax

And people vote them back in, again and again, because the person on the TV tells them to do so.

[ladjf]

15. The numbers of Americans who aware that the root problem is the

heist that is going on is growing rapidly. Soon there will be enough to get their way regardless of who is paying for the media. We have got to stop whining that "there is just no way to stop the rich people". Hell yes there are ways to stop the bastards and pay attention because I think America is seriously thinking about truly regaining their government. (Not the silly crap that the t baggers bleat about. Those racist bastards don't know their ass from a hole in the ground.)

We have got to clue the religious people that they are also being royally screwed so they need to stop supporting the Republican scums bags just because they are thrown some cultural bones, i.e. prayer in schools, anti-abortion and the subtle racism crap. The religious need to start fighting for the middle an lower income Americans. Then, after the Republicans are out, they can practice their beliefs in a climate of personal security.(But, please quit trying to make all of us follow your religion.)

[treestar]

4. We all think what we do is "rocket science" while what others do is "easy."

It's so easy to judge what we know little about.

[ladjf]

9. Good plan Joe. Stay after it. I'm on your side and so are about

300 million Americans.

[me b zola]

12. Wish I could recommend your post 10 times

...so once will have to do. Yeah, you don't need a doctorate in finance to know how to fix the problem/s.

[zbdent]

18. side note on the "corporate taxes" in Ohio ...

did you catch the anti-Strickland advertisement where the office workers were standing around lamenting that "Strickland couldn't keep NCR from leaving"?

Oddly missing from that commercial was the fact that NCR overwhelmingly gave their campaign contributions to REPUBLICANS ... so whose fault should it really have been that the skids were greased for NCR to leave Ohio?

(And when was Ohio "overwhelmingly" run by Democrats, anyway? I just did some research, and the State House and State Senate, except for the past two years, were constantly dominated by Republicans, at least since 1967 ...)