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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-16-11 08:10 AM
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When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail...
So it is with the Republicans. The only tool they have is taxcuts for the wealthy. That one tool will create jobs, bring in more money to our Treasury, balance the deficit, create more wealth, and solve most problems now facing our nation.

They have no other tools. So they look at every problem in the same way. They want to hit it like a nail. Medicare? Fix it? Sure, hit it with a hammer. Cut off the old bastards. Give them a coupon so they can go out shopping in their wheelchairs and diabetes, heart problems, and assorted disabilities. Insurance companies are just patiently waiting to give them good coverage for their government coupon. Just think of what great shape they will be in after rolling those wheelchairs around for about 10 miles.

April is the cruelest month and the hammer is a cruel tool. Either you are secure or you have already been hammered down is the only way you will escape the wrath of the hammer.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-16-11 08:12 AM
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1. what they won't explain is why the bu$h* tax cuts haven't created one job
we should have more jobs than people to fill them if tax cuts for the rich created jobs
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OHdem10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-16-11 08:32 AM
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2. The Democrats on the Hill missed this opportunity with a strong
Edited on Sat Apr-16-11 08:51 AM by OHdem10
Message. IF TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH CREATES JOBS,
then under GWB and the Republicans we should have
had enough new jobs to have avoided the GREAT RECESSION>
The tax cuts have continued under Obama and 2years
later we are creating only the number of jobs that
would occur after any recession.

Until you make the Blue Collars understand the TAX CUT
MYTH, we go nowhere.

Honest Businessmen have said, Sure we will take
the tax cut but it is not going to change our behavior
our problem is no customers.

Tax Cuts will work if the rate is very high.
DK Johnson had charts in yesterdays paper which
show the top ONE PERCENT pay a rate of no more than
18 percent. Much lower than average Blue Collar.

Democrats must blow the mega phone on the right
regarding taxes.

Corrected spelling
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inna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-16-11 03:28 PM
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3. "Until you make the Blue Collars understand" - seriously fucked up framing, man.

Let's just blame it all on "the Blue Collars" now. :wtf:
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MedleyMisty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-16-11 03:33 PM
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4. They're not doing that because a lot of them are complicit
Not ALL of them. Some of them have a conscience. But not enough of them.

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leftstreet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-16-11 03:35 PM
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5. "blue collars?" Ouch. You didn't mean to say that did you? n/t
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