House Speaker John Boehner, proving yet again that he cares not one bit about average Americans, shot down a proposal from House Democrats that would have put $2000 into the pockets of couples earning less than $200k a year.
According to the Washington Post, the proposed tax cut would have gone a long way towards addressing income inequality:
The centerpiece of the proposal, set to be unveiled Monday by Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), is a “paycheck bonus credit” that would shave $2,000 a year off the tax bills of couples earning less than $200,000. Other provisions would nearly triple the tax credit for child care and reward people who save at least $500 a year.
The windfall — about $1.2 trillion over a decade — would come directly from the pockets of Wall Street “high rollers” through a new fee on financial transactions, and from the top 1 percent of earners, who would lose billions of dollars in lucrative tax breaks.
Boehner made it abundantly clear that he wouldn’t allow such an atrocity to come to a vote, defending his actions by calling the measure “another tax hike in an already broken tax code.”
Tax hike? It’s a fee hike on financial transactions and an end to loopholes exploited by the wealthy. Boehner likes to refer to the House of Representatives as “the People’s House,” yet anything that comes to the floor that might help the people is quickly dismissed as just another leftist giveaway.
Boehner and his cronies had no problem approving a $440 Billion tax break for corporations last month. Maybe he should reconsider the nickname and try “the corporate personhood house.”
Being out of touch with the American people and blocking anything that might cost their campaign donors a shiny nickel has become such commonplace that this kind of news isn’t all that surprising, but that doesn’t make it any less disgusting.
It hasn’t taken long for the Republican-controlled congress to show their true colors, and hopefully America is watching.
H/T: Politicus | Image: Business Insider
Boehner is not my rep. but I live in OH. I e-mail him all the time telling him I’m ashamed he’s from my state. I tell him he needs to stop representing lobbyists and start representing the people who elected him. I tell him he’s let greed overtake any sense of serving people and he should be ashamed to call himself a Catholic. I ask him how it is he learned to lie with a straight face and is that why he cries, because he knows he’s just screwing those he’s supposed to be working for. I mix it up, it’s always different but with the same message.
Funny though, I’ve never gotten a reply.
of course you didn’t get a reply you forgot to send a big check with it
Yeah, I’m a recovering Catholic because of Catholics like him.
We’re in the same boat…he’s never replied to me either. He is such an embarrassment, such an embarrassment.
OMG, HE’S supposed to be a Catholic? God, I’m glad I’m NOT anymore! Guess he doesn’t agree much with the new POPE, either!
Actually none of them agrees with the Pope
Speak for yourself jerk. As a born and raised Catholic I agree 100% with the Pope.
I think he meant the Catholics who are in the Congress.
I am pretty sure that Commentor was speaking about the Repuiblicans.
You got it right.
You might want to take your foot out of your mouth. I was referring to the Republicans. They don’t agree with the pope.
He probably deletes the emails.
I don’t think so. That would require sobriety and a willingness to work on top of knowing how to turn his computer on. Some staffer might have deleted, but not old johny boy.
Hahaha good point.
I’m sure he has staff to do that - and all the other ‘hard’ work (like thinking).
Wouldn’t take much to develop a program that searches key words in e-mails and then sends them to a ‘file’ never to be seen again. That would allow any representative from either party to only receive messages from folks that agree with them. How else can they say they are representing their constituents?
Well we have only ourselves to blame for this mess Republicans are doing now. they told us before the elections this is what they were gonna do and true to their word, they’re doing it. Maybe next time those Democrats that decided their one vote wasn’t going to mean very much will reconsider. For the time being, we are getting just what we deserve, a Republican Education in Politics 101.
I’d call it Republican Graft 101….and we’re the ones getting screwed.
I think you’ve underestimated the impacts of Voter ID restrictions, Gerrymandering and The Voter Cross Check program that have nullified and pidgeonholed millions of Democratic votes.
I agree, but consider that Democrats can easily outvote Republicans 10 to 1 even with voter suppression and gerrymandering.
Also, if actual Republican voters would finally understand that voting Republican does not grant you:
1) Wealth, if you’re not already wealthy.
2) Access to Heaven.
3) Favor with God.
4) To more guns and the rights to kill anyone you hate.
A sillier post I’ve never seen!
GOP supporters outnumber Dem supporters The 10 to 1 you cite is purely in your Wonderland scenario.
None in the GOP EVER expected that their vote would earnn them Wealth, Access to heaven, Favor with God or more guns. Again - that is PURELY your irrational imagination spouting its three day verbal diarhea.
WHAT GOP voted for was accountable govt, constitutional government, a return to constitutional and representative govt and an end to deliberate lying and stonewalling by this admin.
The final straw was allowing millions of ILLEGAL entrants to this country to gain access to the few low wage jobs Americans had to compete for.
You are a total buffoon!
The buffoon is you
You’re funny. the GOP isn’t doing any of those things. Granted the Dems arent doing them either.
Where is your accountable government? It certainly isn’t what is there now. They would rather continue to give tax breaks to the rich and take it from the middle class and poor. The stonewalling and lying is the republican party and has been ever since Reagan.
sissy, ever since Nixon!!!
What low wage jobs? You mean cutting lawns @ $4 an hour by Latinos or washing dishes for about the same? And if they’re illegal my PhD friend how could American corporations hire them with out proper id? Now you know why congress holding up immigration legislation passed by senate…corporations would be committing a crime..
And our Republican elected officials have delivered on little to none of that….
Happylada, you’ve been drinking the the Koolada if you believe the Repubs are PRACTICING representative gov’t! With all of the e-mails being sent to them by their constituents to cease and desist that they IGNORE, all they are doing is self-aggrandizement.
Both parties gerrymander. It’s why Barbara Boxer’s seat will go to a Democrat once she retires. Not because they have a better candidate (right now, they have no candidate), but because her district, like many in California, has been gerrymandered by Democrats.
I’m sorry, is Gerrymandering the ONLY thing I referenced?
I didn’t think so.
I can make you look hypocritical on other subjects other than gerrymandering if you’d like.
I can’t stop you from selectively editing comments to make a point that is contrary to what was actually stated.
But when you do that to me, I will always point that out.
If you say Dems lost because of gerrymandering, you have to prove it. What district did the Dems lose in 2014 due to gerrymandering? State and district number would be great.
What percentage of the voting population was disenfranchised by voter ID laws? I’m not talking about anecdotal sob stories, but actual studies on the impact of voter ID laws (I already know the answer here, I’m just waiting to see what you come up with).
If these indeed have impact on voter turnout that people don’t understand, surely you have some real data to back up such assertions, no? I know you’re just looking for an excuse about why your party didn’t resonate in the 2014 elections. That’s what children do - look for fault outside themselves so they don’t have to deal with the consequences of their actions. Heaven forbid the reality that the Democrats and their leadership are nigh indistinguishable from Republican leadership in race, background, and tax filings.
Here’s the full comment I made which you chose not to reference completely
“I think you’ve underestimated the impacts of Voter ID restrictions,
Gerrymandering and The Voter Cross Check program that have nullified and
pidgeonholed millions of Democratic votes.”
Grow some integrity.
And apparently I’m unreasonable for asking you to prove that statement. How hard can it be to prove that we’ve underestimated all the pigeonholed Democratic voters? I mean, you ran with it, surely you had the proof before you said that, right? You’ve got reams of data to prove what you said, right? I ask for one example of a gerrymandered district the Dems lost in 2014. You can’t provide it. I ask you to provide just the percentage of voters disenfranchised by voting laws You can’t give it.
So you haven’t actually proven anything you’ve said but we’re all supposed to take it as authoritative. And like a child, you refuse to admit you can’t and then demand someone else grow some integrity. Oooh wow, a now-discredited paranoid lecturing me on integrity. I’ll definitely take that to heart. Keep your foil hat on straight.
*Golf clap for you*
It’s impossible to prove it at “this” site because they won’t publish the many links I’ve submitted that show the research being done.
In fact, this site doesn’t seem to like publishing external links.
Which is probably why you like this site. You never get your crap thrown back in your face with genuine outside research
I, unlike you, have never posted on this site before today and you can see that very easily from my posting history by just clicking on my name. So that’s a smear sprouted from your laziness (I’m assuming with 5,000 Disqus posts, you know how the mechanisms involved work). I showed up for the clickbait article and stayed for your nonsense. Can’t promise I’ll ever be back as this place seems most masturbatory back-slapping.
But I appreciate you blaming your inability to post links on the site that will magically prove you are correct on the site and it’s therefore all their fault your proof doesn’t show up. So it’s all the Republicans’ fault, it’s all this liberal news blog’s fault, it’s all my fault (even though I don’t control this blog or have been here prior to today), it’s just never your fault.
So much for integrity. Peace out, foil hat.
I’ve tried 7 times, ask the site about their willingness to accept external links. Not me.
No peace for someone so eager to treat others with disdain. Here’s the entire article from the Brennan Center for Justice instead…
Next time, Quote other people accurately. Stop cherry picking.
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The Republican electoral sweep in yesterday’s elections has put an end to speculation over whether new laws
making it harder to vote in 21 states would help determine control of
the Senate this year. But while we can breathe a sigh of relief that the
electoral outcomes won’t be mired in litigation, a quick look at the
numbers shows that in several key races, the margin of victory came very
close to the likely margin of disenfranchisement.
North Carolina
In the North Carolina Senate race, state house speaker Thom Tillis beat Senator Kay Hagen by a margin of 1.7 percent, or about 48,000 votes.
At the same time, North Carolina’s voters were, for the first time,
voting under one of the harshest new election laws in the country — a
law that Tillis helped to craft. Among other changes, the law slashed
seven early voting days, eliminated same-day registration, and
prohibited voting outside a voter’s home precinct — all forms of voting
especially popular among African Americans. While it is too early to
assess the impact of the law this year, the Election Protection hotline and other voter protection volunteers
reported what appeared to be widespread problems both with voter
registrations and with voters being told they were in the wrong precinct
yesterday.
Some numbers from recent elections suggest that the magnitude of the
problem may not be far from the margin of victory: In the last midterms
in 2010, 200,000 voters cast ballots during the early voting days now cut, according to a recent court decision. In 2012, 700,000 voted during those days, including more than a quarter of all African-Americans who voted that year. In 2012, 100,000 North Carolinians, almost a one-third of whom were African-American, voted using same-day registration, which was not available this year. And 7,500 voters cast their ballots outside of their home precincts that year.
Kansas
In the Kansas governor’s race, Governor Sam Brownback beat back challenger Paul Davis by a margin of 2.8 percent, or less than 33,000 votes.
But Kansans faced two new voting restrictions this year — a strict
photo ID law that was put into effect right before the 2012 election,
and a new documentary proof of citizenship requirement for voter
registration.
What was the impact this year? We know from the Kansas secretary of state that more than 24,000
Kansans tried to register this year but their registrations were held
in “suspense” because they failed to present the documentary proof of
citizenship now required by state law. And while we do not yet have the
data regarding the impact of the voter ID requirement this year, a
recent study by the independent Government Accountability Office found that Kansas’s voter ID law reduced turnout by approximately 2 percent
in 2012. (GAO also found that Tennessee’s new law reduced turnout by up
to 3 percent.) If the law’s effect was similar this year, it would mean
that turnout was about 17,000 voters lower than it otherwise would have been. And keep in mind that the number of Americans that don’t have government-issued photo IDs that would be accepted under new laws is closer to 11 percent. In short, the margin of victory in Kansas looks perilously close to the margin of disenfranchisement.
Virginia
In Virginia, Senator Mark Warner eked out a victory over challenger Ed Gillespie by only 0.6 percent of the vote, or just over 12,000 votes.
Like in Kansas, voters in Virginia faced a strict new photo ID requirement this year. According to the Virginia Board of Elections, 198,000
“active Virginia voters” did not have acceptable ID this year. While
there are no studies yet on the impact on turnout in Virginia, Nate Silver estimates, based on academic studies, that in general such laws reduce turnout by about 2.4 percent. If that were applied to Virginia this year, it would amount to a reduction in turnout by more than 52,000 voters. That far exceeds the margin of victory here.
Florida
The Florida governor’s race was decided by only a 1.2 percent margin, with Governor Rick Scott narrowly beating former Governor Charlie Crist by just under 72,000 votes.
Florida has passed a host of new voting restrictions
over the past few years. Perhaps the most significant for this election
was a decision by Scott and his clemency board to make it virtually
impossible for the more than 1.3 million Floridians who
were formerly convicted of crimes but have done their time and paid
their debt to society to have their voting rights restored. Under
Florida’s law, the harshest in the country, one in three
African-American men is essentially permanently disenfranchised.
Ironically, Scott had rolled back rights that were expanded under
Governor Crist, who had established a path for people with past
convictions to more easily get their voting rights restored. Under that
process, more than 150,000 citizens had their rights restored before
Scott changed the rules. This is part of a pattern this year of candidates benefiting from voting restrictions they helped to pass.
* * *
It will likely be months before we have the data to assess the full
impact of new voting restrictions on yesterday’s elections. But we
already do know that their impact is far more than the number of hot
races they could have turned.
It is little solace to the more than 600,000 registered voters in Texas
who could not vote this year because they lack IDs the state will
accept that the governor’s race was decided by more than 600,000 votes.
For one thing, there are far more races — from state legislator to
justice of the peace — that affect voters’ day-to-day lives and that
could have been impacted by those lost votes. But more importantly,
those citizens — a number of whom were long-time voters who were turned away
from the polls this year — were denied their basic right of
citizenship, their ability to hold their politicians accountable, and
their ability to join their friends and family to have a say over what
happens in their communities. The dignitary harm comes through loud and
clear when you read their stories.
Hopefully those stories — along with the big numbers — will help stem
the recent tide of voting restrictions. The integrity of our elections
is at stake.
You’ve done nothing but treat me with disdain since my first post. A sampling of your posting here and elsewhere indicates that’s what you lead with almost without exclusion. Your back must hurt from speaking down to people all the time. So why shouldn’t I respond in kind? Who knew you’d get your panties in a twist by being on the receiving end? Get what you give, dude, get what you give. At this point, given your post count here and elsewhere (and you’re not hard to follow around the internet to the dozens of sites you have joined in the last 6-7 years to comment on), I’m fairly certain you’re a paid party shill (that, or a shut-in).
Now, to your data, this is really only one sentence that matters in what you shared: “It will likely be months before we have the data to assess the full impact of new voting restrictions on yesterday’s elections.” So everything you posted was speculation, which is about in line with what I thought you’d provide. They are running with worse case scenarios without knowing what the real numbers are (given that it’s coming from Brennan, that’s not surprising as they’ll lump any individual’s inability to vote as a strike against the voter ID law, not the individual’s actions; so in Florida, if you commit a crime, go to prison, serve your time, still can’t vote…to Brennan, that’s a strike against Florida, not the criminal who went to prison; you literally cannot disenfranchise yourself in the eyes of Brennan, even though it is possible to do, depending on the state. Even better - don’t have ID but have no intention of voting…also a strike against the state, not against the voter).
And I can then go to Brennan’s site for further proof of this data manipulation - looking at their Voting 2014 section on Kansas, of the “thousands” who found it “difficult” (their lead-in, not my words), they can account for less than 500 people that were turned away and then they use some secret math to grow that into “thousands” (also doesn’t specify which individuals returned with what they were missing and got through to vote). And that’s just anecdotal self-reporting without any real numbers behind them. Unfortunately for your premise, there were no elections in Kansas that were decided by 500 votes or less (in fact, most were decided by tens of thousands of votes), so nope, voter ID laws aren’t a smoking gun for the Democratic loss in 2014, at least in Kansas. For the other state focus topics, Texas specifies ELEVEN people that had trouble, but then wants to extrapolate that out over 1.5 million voters. Ohio has no specific instances or numbers. And as of today, now working on 3 months later, none of that data has been updated.
So I’m still waiting for proof that says what you want it to say. Oh, and the state and district number of a gerrymandered district.
Peace out, foil hat.
Holy pot meet kettle batman! You’ve called me names and insinuated my own bias in every post you’ve made.
My first comment to you was that you were selectively quoting me is all.
You sir, truly are, an unreasonable jackass.
So you admit you were disdainful to me. Good. I’m glad we’re in agreement.
I called you first “hypocritical” and I have read nothing from you to change that assessment (in fact, your whining about disdain is more proof of it). I called you a paranoid with a foil hat (this after you stated I had no integrity, implying I wasn’t honest, though if you can catch me in a lie, I’d love to see it). But then you went and blamed me, this site, and the world in general for colluding on you inability to post and kinda made that one true, as the only other logical conclusion to your own failure was that we must all be working against you. Still those are both way above “jackass” (not to mention, mine are both true about you), which you, in your advanced age and maturity, apparently couldn’t avoid, nor does that excuse your general insulting demeanor throughout. That’s certainly a good example there for those mythical grandkids you reference from time to time.
As for “selective quoting”. You made an assertion (a false one), I noted gerrymandering wasn’t exclusively the realm of Republicans even though you assigned it to them. You didn’t like that because it didn’t follow your “Republican BAD!” narrative and I had the nerve to talk back during what you presumed to be just a pronouncement of your wisdom from on high. I then asked you to further support your initial post and you’ve blown it repeatedly. I won’t even ask again as you are incapable of defending it.
Thanks for playing. Peace out, hypocritical foil hat.
Sorry to tell you, Craig….but gerrymandering only applies to members of the House of Representatives who represent districts of constituents. Senators represent the state and are elected by ALL the votes in the state. BTW: Democrats to NOT gerrymander.
“Democrats do not gerrymander”. You’re serious?
Then explain: North Carolina District 12 (it’s gone Democrat since 1943, and at one point, is no wider than a single highway lane), Florida District 20 (Democrat since 1993, when it was created), Florida District 3 (which was held by Democrats since 1909 until 2013, it was redistricted in 2012 because of the census), Illinois District 17 (which actually was a BIPARTISAN gerrymander), Arizona District 2 (gerrymandered at its inception in 1949-2003; this one was actually done on behalf of competing native tribes, but the Dems benefited for 60 some odd years from it), Maryland District 3 (gerrymandered in 2000 and 2010 to maintain Democratic majorities), or Illinois District 4 (designed to unite Chicago’s two largest Hispanic enclaves in 2011). And those are just some of the most egregious examples (look at the maps of some of them).
But yes, Virginia, Democrats do gerrymander. Any time the census will allow them to (just like Republicans).
You already blew your credibility with your ignorance about Senators not being involved in gerrymandering. You probably should stick to stuff you understand.
You are either a liar or stupid. When do you run for office?
Anthony, you really need to get off the weed. It seems like I am defending the GOP, but I am really just defending the truth, which is that both parties use the same political tricks and games. Both parties are owned by the mega wealthy, big banks, and big corps. Both parties stick it to the middle class. Bipartisan politics is great for politicians. They can divide the entire country almost in half to the point where people argue with each other instead of looking at the real problem. Politicians don’t even hide the fact that they steal anymore. They just call it stimulus or bailout or operation twist or whatever. But you people are arguing over which party is better. DUMB!!!!!
Craig, Boxer is a US Senator, as such she was elected within/by the whole state, not a gerrymandered district.
Not the point. Point is that Democrats gerrymander. Keep up with the rest of us.
Do you have an actual example of Democrats gerrymandering the way that Republicans do? I mean, I know of a few instances (often done as a compromise with Republicans, btw), but do you? And when you don’t know the difference between a Senator and a Congressman, you kinda lose any credibility.
Well, I suppose I could always point to the list of 7 specific examples I already provided on this thread, as seen above, that you probably skipped over in your desire to post and be snarky. So, for the slow kids, once more (maybe they’ll read it this time before falling all over themselves to be clever…):
North Carolina District 12 (it’s gone Democrat since 1943, and at one point, is no wider than a single highway lane), Florida District 20 (Democrat since 1993, when it was created), Florida District 3 (which was held by Democrats since 1909 until 2013, it was redistricted in 2012 because of the census), Illinois District 17 (which actually was a BIPARTISAN gerrymander), Arizona District 2 (gerrymandered at its inception in 1949-2003; this one was actually done on behalf of competing native tribes, but the Dems benefited for 60 some odd years from it), Maryland District 3 (gerrymandered in 2000 and 2010 to maintain Democratic majorities), or Illinois District 4 (designed to unite Chicago’s two largest Hispanic enclaves in 2011). And those are just some of the most egregious examples (look at the maps of some of them).
So what were you saying about credibility again? Oh, that you rushed to judgment before you actually read what I posted? Right. Got it. I don’t know which I find more endearing, the smugness or the laziness.
Never try to argue with facts to a liberal. They only live lies racism and thinking the rain is what is making their leg wet
There are intelligent liberals. They just don’t fall for click-bait articles you’re supposed to take at face value like this one. There are liberals who question and are pragmatic. I just have yet to find any of them here (this board doesn’t appear to welcome questioning, so in that respect, it’s a lot like the Catholic Church).
Most liberals qualify for membership in Mensa, and the reason they are liberals is that they are critical thinkers, unlike the knee-jerk Republicans, who sway with the political tide of the controlling Plutocrats.
Lol Do not worry. With the illegals the fraud and the dead the Democratic Wil do fine. You tards swallow propaganda like you swallow ejaculate. ..by the quart
Apathy is wrong, agreed, but in spite of dems majority in the senate for the past years, rebs. still managed to do nothing but obstruct. The only way is for majority in house and senate, and potus.
“Well we have only ourselves to blame for this mess Republicans are doing now”
LOL. You mean after one week in office?
Thanks, Boehner……we sure know where YOUR loyalties are!
Gosh I find this shocking.
Looks like we get what people voted for, or better yet what we NOT voted for because we thought our vote don’t count…………………. so get used to it! Maybe next time when someone ask you to go and vote you just do that “GET UP AND VOTE” for now you “You reap what you sow”
If the GOP take over all 3, the HofR the Senate and the Presidency, the USA will resemble Kansas, economically
It could possibly resemble a smoldering crater that has a radioactive half life due to finally pissing the world off via warmongering and profiteering.
And people are SURPRISED by this? That’s the interesting part.
And was watching and then they fell asleep and let these idiots get elected.
So why didn’t Van Hollen put this forth when the Dems controlled both houses of Congress? They controlled the House from 2007 to 2011, Senate from 2009-2011, and Van Hollen has been around since 2003 (and is hardly a nobody within the House Democrat power structure), why didn’t they pass this then?
They put it forward in 2011, 2012 and AGAIN in 2013. Blocked all three times.
Why are you trying to defend the GOP here by deflecting?
Right, so they only put it forward…when it had no hope of passing…hmmmmmm
And who is deflecting? It is a DEMOCRAT bill so I’m asking questions of the DEMOCRATS the sycophants don’t want answers to about the DEMOCRAT bill. If this was a great piece of legislation, and if Van Hollen is the #5 Dem member of the House, why wasn’t this legislation passed when Dems controlled both the House and Senate from 09-11, and a Dem President in the White House, while still in the midst of the financial crisis, when they knew they had the votes, instead of reserving this bill for a time when passage was impossible because they didn’t control the House? Makes me doubt their sincerity in wanting to legitimately pass it or if they’re just trying to rile the base by putting up stalking horse legislation that has zero chance to pass but plays great in the media if one doesn’t dig too deep and question their motivations and timing.
I say they never wanted to pass it, had no intention of passing it (why would they? Dems are just as bought and paid for to Wall Streets as Repubs are, not to mention rich and largely lily-white), and only sought to leverage the uninformed outrage once it died on the House floor to garner more praise for their efforts (even though it’s not an election year). What they’re doing is actually lot more crass and a lot less heroic. They got your hopes up…over nothing.
These scumbags have no idea how close they are to having their worthless carcasses dragged into the street by THE PEOPLE and getting a bullet in the head.
Why the a actual EFF did you Americans vote them in then??? Jesus! They have form on this.
Amazingly, the GOP members will see this as a rational move….thinking that somehow trickle down economics will benefit them….yes, them, the average family…..amazing they believe that because the tax cut for the wealthiest won’t help them one iota!!
bone head is a traitor to Americans as are all conservatives. There is not a single conservative that knows what they are doing
it’s to the point we almost need a new civil war to destroy conservatives once and for all, we somehow need to end the very idea of conservatism as a legitimate thought process and way of thinking. NO conservative has ever done anything useful ever.
Course….Par.
One might ask, why didn’t the Democrats propose this when they had a majority? They just proposed this to embarrass the Republicans.
A similar version of the same bill was blocked in 2011, 2012 and 2013. They did.
“why didn’t the Democrats propose this when they had a majority?”
They did. 3 different times.
Better question: why did the GOP keep blocking it?
“…and hopefully America is watching.” America may be watching, but they don’t care enough to remember who has screwed them over, and vote them out. Americans, as a whole, are too damned lazy to get off their asses and turn off Fox News and do a bit of research on their own. The “stupidifying” of America started back in the 60s. It was pointed out to me then by by Dad, and I’ve watched it continue with horror. And we welcomed it with open arms! That’s the real horror of it. We gave America to the politicians and Corporations and now it’s too late to bitch about it because not enough voters care enough to exercise their right to throw them all out on their asses.
thank god we got that $1200 coming back (on average) from obama care!!!!
Working class Republicans who vote for these Wall Street coddlers just keep screwing themselves over, seemingly blind to cause and effect.
And working class Democrats who don’t bother to vote are just as guilty.
I don’t blame anyone for being disillusioned by politics, but decoupling from the democratic process, wherein we vote for our own best interests, does not do away with government… it only allows the more ruthless greedheads and their loyal lackeys to prevail.
Note to Charles Topher. Your side LOST. We tried it your way and it did not work. In fact it was a spectacular failure. Step aside and let the process work and judge the results in two years.
This is an entirely stupid man suckling at the Obama Johnson
That thievery was done by Barney Fag and the rest of the Demo running Fanny and Freddie. You are truly stupid. You tards just make this stuff us as you go along
You are a very small person !
Racist as well.
Let me correct your handle here sonny, betterthannoone
You really do not have facts
We won’t see a Republican POTUS for at least 20 more years….their party is done.
Really Sesso??? No lies from this government? Seems to me that there was bald faced lying about spying on people, about getting companies like AT&T and Verizon and Google and Facebook etc etc to mine data of everyones calls and emails. Then there was Iraq. There have been plenty.
Problem is, government counts on all of us to argue with each other as we align ourselves with one of the two parties. Honestly, nothing ever changes for the benefit of the majority of people no matter who is in power. You have to see that! It’s smoke and mirrors. Keeping us arguing with each other takes the focus off the politicians stealing us all blind. They have even stopped stealing secretly. Now, they all steal right out in the open. Both parties are owned by big Bank and big Corp. Both parties have teamed up to give away trillions of dollars to big banks and big corps, which will be paid by by our kids and our kids kids.
GOP started the ball with $700 billion bailout, then Dem’s added trillions more. Not a single bank exec jailed for the biggest fraud in history.
Clinton started the eventual housing collapse by allowing derivatives to go unchecked. Bush added to that “mistake” by saying he wanted ‘every American to have a house’ so the gov guaranteed hundreds of billions that created a bubble. Banks knew it. Then when the bubble burst, GOP gave the 1st trillion. Dem’s the rest. Now, guess what, derivatives are back again. Isn’t that sweet???
Also, Obama made a similar promise to college educate the entire population. Look what that has gained; a few people with billions in private schools, and over a trillion in bad student loans debt. This is the next bubble to burst, and I’m sure the banks derivatives are already paying for credit default swaps on “AAA” student loan bonds. I could go on and on and on and on, but I won’t. Both parties are the same. We need a person (don’t care what party) who can unite a very large majority of people. No more 55%-45% or 52%-48%. If there is a person who could garner 70% of the population, the USA would get back on track. It is just so divided right now that people no longer talk about all the characteristics of themselves as a human being. They reduce themselves with whatever party they vote for. Silly. I am much more than a political party and will not reduce myself to a single label, particularly one as corrupt and greedy as a political party.
That politician could be Bernie Sanders.
DeJa moo ! (he who cannot spell Reverend) !
Wow, selective memory loss? Which administration initiated the so-called Patriot Act? Because in there you will find the authorization for the NSA to spy on Americans. If you can bring yourself to honestly answer that question, then ponder the feverish effort to grant this sweeping surveillance authority back to the NSA after Rand Paul allowed the Patriot Act to expire.
And who has blocked most of what President Obama has tried to accomplish, which includes college education? the right not only blocked the efforts to reduce the interest on student loans, they reduced the availability of student loans AND grants!
You want people to wake up, so do I. It all starts with you!
I don’t get where it is THIS admistration that established Homeland Security or started the bogus-based war in Iraq. That was the Bush/Cheney debacle!
That’s just insane!! Racist and insane!!
Did you honestly use a Washington Post reporter opinion article as a “source” for this being worst Congress ever? 😀 bahahaha. That’s funny. Both parties pull whatever tricks they can to seize power/ maintain power. When they get in, they use the Fed tete to feed all their friends in big corp and big banking, who ensure they repay their political friends with insider stock tips (insider trading for Congress made legal by Dem’s) and cushy consultant jobs post political career. They are all the same. It’s not just GOP that are politically manipulative. Dem’s play by the same rules. I think you watch too much of “The Newsroom.”
😀 bahahaha. That was pretty funny. Don’t give politicians ideas. If either party could gerrymander one state out of another to win an election, they would 😀
Why then, folks directly below this, do Ohioans keep voting for him?
I live in NE Louisiana, and I never thought of “maintaining white privilege” but you hit the nail, spot on.
Oh, and you have to deal with Bobby Jindal’ s nonsense on top of everything else- my sympathy.
Everyone loves Robin Hood until they’re the ones he steals from.
It doesn’t seem to matter how offensive these turds are, in the Republicans eyes they can do no wrong. Even at the expense of a better future. Good luck.
Why him and McConnel are still in office baffles the turds out of me.
Probably because turds tend to vote for turds..
Doesn’t matter if america is watching because the right has been brainwashed to believe in trickle down and that if they work hard enough, they too will be a 1%er. They consistently vote for Republicans and against their own economic interest.
Yes, taking money from anyone- even the wealthy is a tax hike. Maybe by leaving money in the private sector, some jobs might be created and those “working folk” (less than 70% worker participation rate) can actually get a full time job instead of those 3 10 hr. part- time Obamajobs.
Only problem with your assertion is that the private sector is freaking flooded with money. The majority of financial transactions impacted by this are nothing more than empty paper trading which does not translate to real world goods or services. The money made on them might lead to job growth if it was invested into actual production in the US, but most often it will simply be reinvested in other financial transactions or in a slave factory in Indonesia.
These people wouldn’t feel the slightest pain from these taxes but I’m sure they would use it as another reason to inflict pain on the rest of us.
440 billion sounds better for what that amount actually represents and that is close to a half trillion dollars more for the trillionaires.. But they would be oh so so so hurt in their little whittle pockets by a few measly dollars going to the people on whose backs they made their trillions…money that would ultimately go back to them in profit by the people’s purchasing power.. Perhaps it’s was the clause about a credit for saving .. They want to pay us less, send our jobs overseas, take away social security and welfare, destroy affordable healthcare, increase the retirement age, lay us off when we are 15 -20 years shy of being able to collect any benefits so saving and a few tax credits may be pretty much all we have left to stave off abject miserable poverty in our old age… that is if we make it that far. All of this makes it nearly impossible for someone these days to save any money to become the ‘self reliant’ people they think we should all be. How could there be any doubt in anyone’s mind as to who these ‘leaders’ truly represent? They aren’t leaders but are more like grim reapers..
The problem with a fee on financial transactions is that it could simply move those same transactions overseas. The stuff doesn’t have to trade here. In fact, it doesn’t have to trade at all. Millionaires can simply buy and hold until the fee goes away, the same way they did when there was a tax on yachts and the boat building industry nearly died.
It is humorous to me that people think tax cuts for one “class” and tax hikes for another class will fix anything. If you would like to see what that end result looks like look into Germany’s history leading up to and including communism. Read a little history and consult economist that base their theory’s on real life not on a dream world and you would see these “tax cuts” would only make problems worse.
Garbage story.