Off-Message Alert! New Democratic Congressman Slams Democratic Budget for Raising Taxes

I know that the Democratic leaders in Congress have taken the pay as you go vow, meaning they will not fund programs that will increase the defecit. When will the learn that raising taxes on hard working Americans is not the Answer. How about a windfall profit tax on Oil companies? How about eliminating the tax incentives to source jobs overseas? It is admirable to want to be responsible and not contribute to the defecit which is pervasive in the Republican culture. Raising taxes on the middle class is never the solution, ever. Duh.

Nobody like to have their taxes raised.
True Blue is right on doing those things to big profit companies, but we have to be careful here. Raising taxes on big oil companies will work to a point, but if we go to far then we will push them out of business. Businesses have in general been given to many breaks in the area of taxes and it is time to really examine them and stop giving them away like tic tacs. Taxes loop holes should be closed on the rich/weathy and increase their taxes, again to a point. I mean how much profit is enough, 10 million, 1 billion, what? Employess are the reason they make those big profits but they usually do not share them unless they get a tax break for doing so. Raise taxes, but watch where you do so…

Whoopi claims on The View that we don’t know what either candidate stands for. Joy Behar won’t let Hasselbeck finish a sentence. Fox has the fair news and Elizabeth is the centrist???
Doesn’t anyone think it a bit late for us to be asking ourselves what the candidates must believe in much less point to their wives as justification for their candidacy?
The Democrats are off the rails and the Republicans are still gathering wood for the boilers. Not exactly the changes we had in mind. Is the trend to for the Obama campaign to stay aloof until after the election? The term for that is hidden agenda. Do the Republicans expect us to vote against instead of for a candidate? That is no agenda.
A great start to the Big Show? NOT!

The Democratic Majority in the senate and house, have ran this country in the past years, with the people suffering. In hope to blame it on bush and increase chances of getting a democrat into the Presidency.
To have super power in the government, and controlling interest over the people and government.
Yes, sure they will make more domestic programs, to make the people Dependant on the government.
It is going to blow up in their faces.
Obama already has obligations to the Black community. He has to come through with. Pelosi and dean a reid might think they can stop him, But He only needs the position to do what he wants.
His Apology from the government for slavery, will open the government up for lawsuits and definite reparations.
Congratulations Pelosi and dean and reid for destroying our country.

We need to share the wealth. If America can spend billions to wage war in Iraq, then America can spend billions to improve the lives of those who live in our inner cities. Obama will start by making sure that Affirmative Action is protected and expanded to fill goverment jobs with people of color, especially with those who live in our inner-cities. More government jobs will mean more government service to Americans. It will also mean less unemployed in our inner cities, since Obama will create many new government job programs like FDR during the depression. People of color need good paying jobs, and government jobs are good paying jobs. This will help out everyone because it will stimulate the national economy. It will also bring hope to the unemployed people of color, and it will bring a real change on how our government is ran.

Spugee, African-Americans have suffered under Bush, and it is only right for Obama to remedy this by expanding government set-asides for minority contractors and Affirmative Action for government employment. Unemployment is running rampant in our inner-cities because African-Americans are refused jobs because of the color of our skin. This is why Obama will protect and expand Affirmative Action, and why he will use Affirmative Action to fill as many government jobs as he can with people of color. Obama is going to bring real change to people of color, who deserve to be rewarded for their overwhelming political support and who need good paying government jobs to prosper during these tough economic times.

Just be careful who you vote for. Some of these comments are the truth and if you want your country destroyed with only the AA population getting benefits while your taxes go up to pay for this – then vote obama. Be the sucker he knows you are.

Have you ever seen the race card played so prominently before? Ever? This election is a sham and all we are getting from this now is that the blacks are more than entitled to being so hurt by the Republicans. Total and unforgiving lies. The black populations sees an opportunity to get and take more from the US government than ever before and they will all play the race card for it. Obama has created a monster he will never be able to control. If they don’t get their way from him, they will riot. Watch.

Shawn:
If affirmative action has granted the opportunity of a chance at the presidency then it’s job has been well done.
But since it has accomplished what it intended, it should no longer be available only to blacks and other minorities!
It should be expanded to include ALL COLORS!!!!!
Otherwise, it might be viewed as racist!
And you wouldn’t want THAT, would you?
COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY!!!!

Reverand Wright is just telling the truth, but he has been demonized by the Media for doing so. African-Americans are being discriminated against because of the color of our skin. There is no excuse for people of color to be struggling in our inner-cities, when Western European countries take care of their poor and needy. Obama is going to bring real change to America, and Americans are embracing it. It is going to require expanding goverment job programs, like FDR did during the depression, but hiring our inner-city unemployed will bring real hope and change that is sorely needed in America.
Obama 08: Real Change That We Can Believe In

True Blue Dem, implementing a windfall profit tax on the oil companies will actually lower the production of oil. That is what happened from 1980-1988 when Congress previously implemented a windfall profit tax on the oil companies. The Congressional Research Service found that domestic oil production dropped between 1/2% and 4.8% during that period. Less supply will mean even higher prices.

Spugee, like it or not, Obama is going to bring real change and hope for all Americans– especially people of color, who are the most loyal to him. This is how politics works; that is, politicians reward those who support them– and who supports Obama more than his own people?
Obama 08: Real Change That We Can Believe In

DaShawn, you wrote: “Unemployment is running rampant in our inner-cities because African-Americans are refused jobs because of the color of our skin.” And who are the local politicians running the inner-cities? They are mostly Democrats. Why aren’t the local politicians taking care of their jurisdictions? It isn’t the responsibility of the federal government to manage the local communities. Although, it is the federal government’s responsibility to enforce federal anti-discrimination laws.

DeShawn, right now the top 50% of the nation’s wage earners account for 97% of the total federal income tax revenue. In 2006, the median household income was $48,000. That means that half of America’s households earn less than $48,000; and they are burdened with paying only THREE PERCENT of the total federal income tax revenue. (NOTE: The top 25% of the nation’s wage earners account for 86% of the total federal income tax revenue.) To make these groups pay even more would be UNFAIR!

DaShawn writes:
“This is how politics works; that is, politicians reward those who support them– and who supports Obama more than his own people?”
Rich white folks from Massachusetts (Kennedys, Kerry) and the midwest (Axelrod, Daschle, Ayers).

I would like to see the US gov. lower taxes on life essentials such as car gas, phone bills, TV outlets, and thousands of hidden taxes. In my state local and state taxes are so high that I pay about 15% on every dollar spent plus the federal tax on top of that. It would not bother me so much if our gov. people would spend on the essentials but they spend too much on give-away programs, programs that Obama wants to increase. Peoople should be be responsible and accountable and not expect Uncle Sam to bail them out of bad decisions or personal irresponsibility.

One way or the other, Americans are going to pay for its struggling inner city youth. It can either pay for their incarceration or by giving them government work program jobs. This is a problem that needs to be fixed. It is no more communist than FDR expanding government work programs in the Great Depression.

Obama started talking about economy now. THe more he talks the less impressed I am . Anyone see these short clips from his recent town hall meeting? He is such an ignorant fraud — we end up having a such lousy candidate.

America is embracing Obama’s message of real change. Like it or not, real change is coming, and there is nothing you can do to stop Obama from making history. So what if America becomes like Sweden. How many Swedish soldiers were killed during the last eight years?
Obama: Real Change That We Can Believe In

DaShawn, you wrote: “Western European countries take care of their needy, and America can too.”
Sweden is one of the most generous welfare states. According to the BNET Business Network: “Swedes enjoy free public schooling and university training; health care at nominal fees; free medicines after the first C$150 annual expenditure; generous pensions, unemployment benefits and pay for sick leave; highly subsidized child care, elder care, theatre and other leisure activities; and so on.”
BUT the BNET Business Network also states: “Even for someone earning a low wage, the sum of income tax plus payroll tax plus value-added taxes amounts to 60 per cent of earnings.”
Right now the lowest two federal income tax brackets for Americans are 10% and 15%. If President Bush’s 2001 tax cuts are allowed to expire, those two tax brackets will revert back to 15% and 28%.

James Danley, what did Jesus preach? Obama wants to help America’s poor, by shifting the hundreds of billions of dollars being spent on nuclear weapons and new weapons systems to helping fix our inner cities. That money is going to be spent any way. Why not spend it to save countless lives, instead of destroying them?

DeShawn, you do have a valid point regarding the unemployment rate of minority youths in inner-cities. But a huge part of the problem is that in many of the inner-cities the high school dropout rate is 50% or higher. The schools are failing to education our youth! Without at least a high school diploma, finding a job is going to be almost impossible — even most government jobs require a high school diploma. There are only so many openings in professional sports, the entertainment industry and the like.
You praise Sen. Obama! Yet, he was in a position for over a decade to improve the schools in Chicago. Apparently he was all rhetoric back then. What makes you believe he isn’t all rhetoric now?

Obama doesn’t even know what real change means. Axelrod thought it sounded good.

Belle Starr, goggle it for yourself. Obama has pledged to cut tens of billions of dollars from the U.S. Military Budget, to make cuts in the U.S. nuclear arsenal, and to stop the development of new weapons systems. Obama has also pledged to spend more federal dollars creating federal job programs and building 20 promise neighborhoods based on the successful Harlem Project.

What’s wrong with you Republicans. Why do you think helping America’s poor is so outrageous?

I believe that both Houses of Democratic controlled congress are as much as fault as Bush for the economy…
And raising taxes just before an election is a “boneheaded” mistake. Will Obama be voting on this one or will he vote “present” or maybe he’s still running for president and he won’t vote at all…..He has the worst voting rate in the US Senate. Both McCain and Clinton didn’t quit their day jobs to run for President….Obama has not contributed to the US Senate at all since he was elected to represent the people of IL>

Obama was too busy making history to worry about his job with the Senate. He deserves special treatment.

DeShawn, one of the most important responsibilities of the federal government is national defense. Failing to keep up with the latest technology in warfare will only embolden our enemies to attempt an attack. Look what happened on 9/11 when just four planes were hijacked and “only” 3,000 lives were lost. Imagine the devastation if the terrorists used WMDs. But getting back to your point…
If we shifted the military budget to the inner-cities — first of all, corrupt politicians would see to it that they get a huge chunk before any of the money is disbursed — there is no guarantee that anything will change. The Democrats have held nearly veto-proof majorities in both Houses of Congress for much of the last 60 years. Why weren’t these problems solved then? The Democrats have no intention of solving problems. They know that they will be re-elected by just TALKING about “change,” just TALKING about “fixing problems.”

DaShawn
If the people you refer to are so truthful and patriotic, why did your little puppet denounce half of them publicly?

James Danley, America can already destroy the world several times over. Why should we spend hundreds of billions of dollar building more nuclear weapons? Meanwhile, America’s inner cities are decaying. They need to be fixed, and Obama intends to fix them. Where is he getting the money to do so? From our bloated U.S. Military, which is just causing more people in the world to hate us anyway.

DaShawn
Why do you equate the military in terms of nuclear weapons. Military technology improvements have saved thousands of lives and things like the drones give us better intelligence and a safer working environment in the military. It’s MUCH more than nuclear.
You understate the importance of a strong military by not understanding the complexities of the world.

Republicans, America tried it your way and where did it get us? Now America is embracing the real change that Obama is going to bring us. For the first time, in a long time, people of color have real hope. America is going to turn from war to expanding social programs for its poor and needy. America is turning from discrimination against people of color to their inclusion at the top levels of our government. America is turning from its failed neo-conservative policies to new policies that promote the social welfare of its most disadvantaged people. America will benefit from bringing more diversity into our federal government.
Sweeping social change is coming to America. Don’t get angry, become part of the change!
Obama 08: Real Change That We Can Believe In

He left because we caught on to him!

DaShawn, sorry I misspelled your name last time. School vouchers would allow inner-city parents the option of pulling their children out of failing schools and placing them in schools that are more dedicated to their students’ needs than that of the unions. Education is the long term answer to the high inner-city minority unemployment rates.
Now as for a short term fix, if it were my responsibility to solve the problem from a federal government perspective, I would implement the fair tax and eliminate the income tax. This would immediately give every worker his entire paycheck. This will open up the flood gates of consumption. This will mean millions of jobs and more money to the local and federal coffers. But most importantly it will give families more money to give to charities. I believe the short term answer to the inner-city youth crisis lies in the hands of charities not the federal government. Local charities can provide one-on-one tutoring; mentoring; help the youth get their GEDs (where needed); and ultimately locate jobs. That is the way to go!

ONE VOICE IN THAT VAST CESSPOOL CALLED DC!
The more things CHANGE, the more they stay the SAME!!
Good for you Foster, the Dems are so screwed up!