Billionaire Dolphins Owner Wants to Sell Team Before Obama Takes Office and His Taxes Go Up

Way to go, Mr. Huizenga! If I had any wealth I’d donate all my money and live off Obama’s government too.

Don’t worry That One won’t win!!

Hold him to it.

“I’d rather give it to charity than to him,” Huizenga said.
LOL
Tax money is invested in America, you dolpin. Ever had a good look at the condition our ifrastructure is in? They have better roads and more reliable bridges in Russia these days.

Man, I feel sorry for that poor billionare having to actually pay taxes.
I hope he can elighten us as to the percentage of his billions he actually pays right now.
I’ll bet by salary against his that I pay a higher percentage of my income to the government.
But no doubt, he really needs his money. It’s not as necessary for me because I’m not employing the Miami Dolphins.

Its typical of those who think the party for the rich should continue!
Very out of touch with the many folks are suffering!!

Matthew, What an idiot. Obama has made it clear that one “conservative” issue he agrees with is cutting capitol gains.
Considering his decision to hire Saban and Cameron, I guess this should come as no surprise.
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You seem to be a might confused, O says he is going to raise capital gains taxes to between 20% to 28%

It’s the reason some say the market is crashing too.
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Hahahahaa
Like the financial wizards Hannity, Limbaugh, and O’Riely?
Nah, doesn’t have anything to do with the collapse of the entire financial system.
It’s really all because of Obama.
You’re an idiot.

“You seem to be a might confused, O says he is going to raise capital gains taxes to between 20% to 28%”
Obama’s plan is to raise capital gains on the highest income bracket back to 20% from 15%.
He also wants to eliminate capital gains on small businesses.
The lesson as always? Right wingers lie.

Sell or donate either way it serves the poor and good for the country.

Sell or donate at least a part of it will go back to where it came from.

Socialism for Sports Teams and their owners. How many stadiums are built buy the public? How many teams get tax breaks? How many get no compete contracts on the stadiums and Arena’s we build?

“Capital gains taxes aren’t progressive. There’s only short term and long term.
That’s it. There is no “highest bracket”.”
Short term gains are taxed at your income tax rate which is progressive.
Long term gains are what would be changed and other than being exempt from paying any long term gains tax below a certain income level, they are fairly flat tax.
From what I gather, Obama plans to raise that rate on only the top income bracket.

Come now Jake, Why do you think Obama supporter and advisor; Mr. Buffet let go of 35 bil to a charity of his choice rather than wait for death to come and the Government getting their hands on it?

JOHN MCCAIN FOR MILLIONAIRE FOOTBALL TEAM OWNERS!
BARACK OBAMA FOR MIDDLE CLASS AMERICANS!
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John McCain: “Only little people pay taxes”

STILL WAITING FOR A MCCAIN SUPPORTER to have the balls to answer the following question:
Is John McCain today willing to come out against all forms of ‘redistributing the wealth’, including:
A) the progressive tax code
B) Social Security
C) Medicare
D) unemployment insurance
E) all local property taxes
F) all local sales taxes
FOLLOW UP QUESTION:
Are you, John McCain, a socialist or just a hypocrite?

John McCain will take millions of dollars from Americans only to redistribute to Iraq.
And what do we get back from that? Young Americans returning to our country in coffins.

What do 95% of American families care about the luxury problems of one of the richest men in our country?
They need a tax break. And therefore, they need Barack Obama in the White House.

NO WONDER THIS COUNTRY IS GOING DOWN ..WHILE,THE RICH AND PRIVILEDGE REPUBLICANS ARE SCARED THEIR PRIVILEDGED LIFESTYLE IS GOING .. GOING … GONE ..
… WE IN THE MIDDLE CLASS HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO BREAK THE GLASS CEILING OF $100,000, BECAUSE 100,000 IS REALLY HALF THAT AFTER ALL THE TAXES AND MORE TAXES AND EXTRA TAXES.
YOUR WORRIED ABOUT TAXES ON BILLIONS???
WE ARE WORRIED ABOUT MAKING IT TO OUR NEXT PAYCHECK …WORRIED ABOUT ILLNESS STRIKING AND BREAKING OUR BACKS AND LOSING OUR HOUSES BECAUSE WE BOUGHT INOT THE AMERICAN DREAM … ..WORRIED ABOUT WHETHER TO BUY FOOD OR MEDICINE … WORRIED ABOUT IF WE CAN AFFORD THE OIL AND GAS FOR OUR CAR ( OR THE REPAIRS WE MAY HAVE TO MAKE ON THEM)
WORRIED THAT WE WILL ‘COWBOY UP’ TO MORE WARS BECAUSE MCCAIN IS A FIGHTER.
MORE OF FAILED TRICKLE DOWN REAGANOMICS ..
VOTE OBAMA FOR CHANGE!!!!
AND GOD HAVE MERCY ON US AND PROTECT US FROM ALL THE KOOKS “PALINMCCAIN” HAVE STIRED UP !
IM AFRAID FOR ALL THE CANDIDATES ..
[THANKS SARAH FOR DIVIDING AMERICA FURTHER]
I CANNOT WAIT UNTIL NOVEMBER 5TH ..I WONT HAVE TO WORRY SOME NUT JOB COMES OUT OF HIS BASEMENT TO DESTROY OUR AMERICA!!!

Wayne Huizenga’s life a prefect testament to the prevailing law of American aristocracy: Make enough money and people simply quit asking how.
According to the Miami New Times, Wayne Huizenga is a thug.
A LONG article on this quite horrible billionaire here:
corporations org /wmi/huizenga.html

“about 9/10 of the posters on this thread are obvious obama supporters. And the meme we’ve been getting the past few weeks is that the “far right” is the party of hate. Hmm…maybe someone needs to read this thread. Something tells me that even after “redistribution”, ya’ll will still be as unhappy and ***bitter*** as you are now. Because life will never be “fair” enough and the “rich” will alway be “too”
Michelle,
First of all, your post confirms the perception that McCain supporters are elitists (“one who looks down on another group”)
Second, no one I know expects life to be fair or even for people to have the same wealth. Every individual has different talents and they often have different opportunities.
We just want to stop the Republicans from continuing their project of benefiting the wealthiest Americans to the detriment of the middle class.

HH,
Cap gains don’t go up under Obama. The same exemptions continue to apply. Period.

HH,
Cap gains don’t go up for home sales under Obama. The same exemptions continue to apply. Period.

So it is only the threat of taxes that forces the rich to be generous. Yes, yes, yes. I knew it all along! Trickle down my arse!
Obama/Biden 08!

ONE THING HAS BEEN IRREFUTABLE since the last debate:
John McCain is mostly concerned with those making $250,000, $1,000,000 or more.
Barack Obama is mostly concerned with the middle class.
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In John McCain (2001) on the Bush tax cuts:
“I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us at the expense of middle-class Americans who need tax relief.”
But he could reverse himself, doing a double twisted dive with pike, selling out his principles to win the Republican primary.

remnant888 regarding your comment, no sorry to tell you, the rich will not suddenly become poor and have to give up their lifestyles. their money will be redirected, and safely invested elsewhere while obama passes like gas.
while we are here fighting for morsels the rich will be living it up in their beach houses, and investing and spending their money out of the U.S you betcha! that is the problem, just look at the stock market…the rich are disinvesting pronto due to obamas capital gains tax.

I don’t blame him.
I will do the same with my money I have invested. I don’t need to pay all that extra taxes to the One on my investments.
Why should I take a hit and have my hard earned money spread to others? I shouldn’t. This is America not some socialist version of Obama’s Utopia.

What so you mean the Dolphins may be decent again some day. Get rid of your share Huizinga you egomaniacal pig, sell it to a man that actually understands the game.

Obama tax cut will not benefit the middle, it will benefit welfare people. & he will create lots of fed and state jobs which will hire incompetent & lazy people whom will never get fired. Do you know what the rich and corporations will do to offset the high tax, move their monies and jobs outside the US or lay off workers or increase their product price, which we are the consumers will pay for the high price. No one will benefit the high tax except the gov’t, which will have more monies to waste, & the welfare people. Heck, I’ll just work less and collect obama monies. Why work harder???

Get real . … Bush and the Republicans have bankrupted the country!
You don’t have any personal wealth left unless you are filthy rich and one of the favored under the Republican regime of the past 8 years.
Have you not being paying attention to the Economic news? The wealth is gone, people have already lost their homes, lost their jobs.
The Republicans have already taken and destroyed the wealth. It’s now in the hands of the oil, banking and military/industrial pals of Bush, Cheney, etc.
They have looted and largely destroyed the country.

John: Contrary to your assumption–I am no where near “elite”…my family lives very soundly in the middle class. Until we married a few years ago, my husband and I were each single custodial parents–with absentee non-paying non-custodial parents…and while my husband was still “middle class” at that time–I most-assuredly was not.
And yet, I still did not want anyone else’s wealth “redistributed” to me. I had the “opportunity” to apply for some of the “aid” that was available–and quickly saw how punitive it truly is. You can live here–as long as your income stays under this threshhold. You can receive child care assistance–again if your income stays below a certain threshhold. Achievement is deincentivized. No thanks.

HOPEY
What do you call it when McCain proposes spending $300 BILLION IN TAX DOLLARS to buy up the bad motgage debt from the banks. Thus, the government owns the means of financial distribution?
McCAIN IS A SOCIALST

Billionaire H. Wayne Huizenga , one of the richest men in America is worried he may get stuck investing in America!
Why do Republicans hate America and the people so much?

the democrats will take your 401 k and retirement funds to pay for obama programs…this is no joke.

bah answer to your comment, wow that is exactly what they did in cuba they TOOK their money by force. do you hear yourself?

Michelle,
I am so glad that Obama’s mother (who once had to receive food stamps) did not ascribe to your philosophy. Those food stamps she used kept her baby healthy and now just look at him.
The first problem, as I see it, is that you lump everybody that needs a hand-up in with everybody looking for a hand-out. That shows a lack of compassion for others.
The most ironic thing about your view is that it is the one most often cited by the right-wing Christian movement. Christ Jesus was NEVER against helping others. He was, in fact, against greed and pumping one self up with pride by bashing others less fortunate.
(No. I don’t think Obama is the “messiah” either! I’ve been offended by ALL rhetoric suggesting that I don’t know the difference between Jesus Christ and a man running for a political office.)
Obama/Biden 08!

bah
You will see more of this as time goes on thanks to Obama. Then to GIVE to you he will have to tax you. Enjoy

Truth Matters,
Glad somebody else sees what’s up, too. In a way, Biden was correct when he said paying taxes is patriotic. Those that don’t pay taxes tend to be the loudest mouths about attacking some other country — they scream for protection as long as the wars are funded with other people’s tax money no doubt!
Obama/Biden 08!

A comment or two back, a person mentioned today’s National Review Online story recounting how the Los Angeles Times is, at present, suppressing a videotape of Barack Obama at a 2003 party for Rashid Khalidi also attended by some guy Obama claims to not know: some William Ayers fellow. Aside from any merit or lack thereof to the actual NRO reportage, the Media is utterly MIA on this. Simply go to Google news and enter in this query (without quotes): “Khalidi Obama videotape”. So far, ONE source. Nice job, Media! Nice job ABC!

WEST COAST YOU RULE!
My mother was a Hillary delegate in WA state. She is also voting for Obama. But she would understand where you’re coming from for sure. She still loves Hillary. I’m not sure Hillary will run again, but she’s the obvious choice. Hopefully, she’ll take up power in the Senate. Personally I’d love to boot Pelosi and replace her with Hillary.
Dad is actually an Obama delegate in WA. But he would have gladly gone with Hillary over McCain any day.
Both were hard core Reagan Republicans in the 80′s. Now, they are completely disguted with the current Republican Party.
I was up in the air until after February when I knew the numbers wouldn’t work. After that, I was afraid the party would split and we’d hand the election back to the worst imaginable choice – Republicans. Shame we had two great candidates. (Great for different reasons)
The GOP no longer represents the middle class. It has abandoned it’s priciples. Frivilous spending, record borrowing, and policy to benefit only the wealthy is their creed now. McCain’s plan will actually cost more than Obama’s according to the Tax Center.
McCain and Plain represent the past. Neither can offer hope for this nation. Both seem consumed with division.
I’ve seen your posts. I’m sure it was hard for you to vote for Obama. But even if you have to look at from the lesser of two evils point of view, you did the 100% right thing. Thanks!

Common Sense most college students that do not live at home qualify for food stamps. i do since i am in school and i’am a single parent but i chose a part-time job instead. it will take me 1 year longer to finish school, but in the end i will know that i did it on my own without handouts.
obamas mom had the same choice she chose foodstamps which obama wears like a badge of honor.

Common Sense: My comments were not intended to disparage anyone in need of a “hand up”…but rather to point out that “the system” can be demotivating and demoralizing–which is most certainly not a “hand up”–but rather a “kick down”.
Telling someone that in order to keep the assistance they recieve (housing, food stamps, childcare, etc.) they must keep their income below a certain level is absolutely demotivating. Very few politicians talk about “that” group–and yet, I’d venture to guess that there are a large group of folks that fall into that crowd that really do not want the assistance from the government…nor is a $42 a month tax cut going to really help them much.
Do either of these candidates have the answers for these issues? As someone who was recently there…I do not think so. Nor does the vitriolic language spewing from BOTH campaigns and their supporters.

Veteran,
Do you even know who’s policies will cost more for this nation are you just spewing your biased BS again?
The tax plan suggested by Obama is what we had in the 90′s. That’s not “socialism”, it’s going back to an older tax structure. That’s it! As I recall, our nation was a hell of lot better off than it is now.
John McCain will spend this country into the ground. He cannot cut anyone’s taxes because he wants to keep the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy.
Changes proposed by Obama’s campaign would mean the national debt would grow by $5.7 trillion over 10 years, while proposals spelled out by McCain’s campaign would add $7.4 trillion, according to the Tax Policy Center.
If you add up proposals made in stump speeches, the total 10-year debt increase go down to to $5.4 trillion for Obama and up to $10.9 trillion for McCain.
McCAIN IS OUTSPENDING OBAMA AND HAS NO WAY TO GENERATE REVENUE BUT RAISE YOUR TAXES!

Michelle
We need to stop enabling people to use the system as a way of life. Put time limits on welfare. I will change my mind the day I see no job listings in the paper.

Here is a good example of why Obama’s plan won’t work. “The Rich” won’t pay.
Huizenga is just like everyone else who has a lot of money, and they will either find ways to not pay taxes, or they will make less money. That is what happened when Jimmy Carter raised taxes on “the rich.”
When the Government gets half of everything you make, you have half as much incentive to earn it.
Call taking money from a rich guy “investing” if you want to, but if there is no return, they won’t “invest.”

Bush, Cheney, McCain and the Republicans built up billions and billions of dollars in deficits with their ‘great war for america’.
Where the heck did they think they were going to get the money? From the moon? From 7/11 employees?
Time to pay up Bush, Cheney and McCain.

So, is it somehow NOT greedy to vote for someone that promises to take money from a rich person and give you $1000?
If you did that yourself, you’d go to jail – because you have no right to the money someone else earned.
Why should 90% of us get a grand for doing NOTHING?
And if you really think that’s a good idea, why not $10,000? Why not $100,000?

costamesabob–puhleese! a slimy piece of fiction with no verification whatsoever, written by a republican mouthpiece:
“McCarthy promptly wrote on the recent allegations of physical assault on a McCain supporter in Pennsylvania speculating that the perpetrator was an Obama supporter. Later, when the law enforcement officials declared, as a result of their investigations, that the allegations were completely false, he refused to apologize for his haste in making such assumptions.”
this guy is desperate to make americans believe that there is something sinister and un-american about sen. obama. he writes these stories that make wild allegations and then when they can’t be disproved because, well let’s face it; there’s no truth to them at all. he’s claiming that the tape is suppressed. if there is no such tape, because no such thing ever happened, he gets to continue claiming that it’s being suppressed. fun logic isn’t it?
the real bogeymen are in your own party guys; you just don’t want to face up to it.

JPNess,
“When the Government gets half of everything you make, you have half as much incentive to earn it.”
Wrong. Only lazy people think that way. As you can see, raising taxes on the rich to pay their fair share makes them more “charitable”. Give up the trickle down garbage because there’s been 8 years to make it work — and it hasn’t. Tax is not punitive unless you’re stingy, greedy, selfish or have no regard for pooling public services.
Most of the middle class is already generous. We’re just tired of being suckers to trickle down. Give US the break and WE make the economy work, not you rich folks.
Obama/Biden 08!

JP we’re trying to pay off the deficits the Republicans built up, not hand out thousand dollar bills.
Bush, Cheney, McCain and the Republicans built up billions and billions of dollars in deficits with their ‘great war for america’.
Where the heck did they think they were going to get the money? From the moon? From 7/11 employees?
Time to pay up Bush, Cheney and McCain.

EndofAmerica
You see it too. AMen. I am ready. I own my home. I have no debts. Alll on less than 50,000 a year. Bring it on.

JPNess,
“Why should 90% of us get a grand for doing NOTHING?”
NOTHING??? Americans have to work 2-3 jobs now to earn what our parents made 20 years ago (adjusted for inflation). This is about wealth CORRECTION, sir.
As has already been pointed out, these baseball teams come to town and claim their will create jobs. Instead, they balk at paying people minimum wage as they charge the citizens who help fund their projects 300%-500% more than their value.
Same for the healthcare industry. We sponsor their research with tax breaks as they hire foreign labor. Once it is all done, they sell us their meds for astronimical profit — way more than most people can afford (especially older Americans).
Obama/Biden 08!

a veteran–are you seriously worried about the national debt increasing because of an obama presidency? apparently you didn’t vote for bush, because if you had, you would be ashamed to even bring up the issue.
remind me again, how much has it increased under this administration? i’ll help you out–from cbs news:
“On the day President Bush took office, the national debt stood at $5.727 trillion. The latest number from the Treasury Department shows the national debt now stands at more than $9.849 trillion. That’s a 71.9 percent increase on Mr. Bush’s watch.
The bailout plan now pending in Congress could add hundreds of billions of dollars to the national debt – though President Bush said this morning he expects that over time, “much if not all” of the bailout money “will be paid back.”
But the government is taking no chances. Buried deep in the hundred pages of bailout legislation is a provision that would raise the statutory ceiling on the national debt to $11.315 trillion. It’ll be the 7th time the debt limit has been raised during this administration.”
the largest increase in history…and it came while republicans ran the show.

antijake: The LATimes reported that they have a tape of Obama speaking at the 2003 Khalidi farewell reception in Los Angeles. There has been no curiousity exhibited by any media organization until now–even though Khalidi was Yassar Arafat’s spokesperson. They (the LAT) have not disputed the existance of the tape itself.
Imagine, if John McCain had given a speech for David Duke at a KKK rally 5 years ago and Fox News were holding the tape without releasing it….would this blog’s author be silent? Would the rest of the media?

Dave in VA,
Actually it was relatively easy to vote for Obama. My twenty year old daughter looked me in the eye and said there is no way in hell she would pass up the opportunity to help write history. That said it all to me.

Get real . … Bush and the Republicans have already bankrupted the country!
You don’t have any personal wealth left unless you are filthy rich and one of the favored under the Republican regime of the past 8 years.
Have you not being paying attention to the Economic news? The wealth is gone, people have already lost their homes, lost their jobs.
The Republicans have already taken and destroyed the wealth. It’s now in the hands of the oil, banking and military/industrial pals of Bush, Cheney, etc.
They have looted and largely destroyed the country.
The electorate is about to rightfully boot the Republicans out of office. Landslide Democratic victory.

GOPHyp: No, I don’t believe in giving my money to the upper 5%. I just like this whole “being employed” thing. You forget that those 5% fill a large portion of our tax coffers already. Increase their taxes, just like they did in Cuba, Nicaragua and plenty of Eastern block countries and they’ll default and have to be taken over by Big Brother. Others will just plainly close shop and leave. Then you’ll demand more government involvement and it will be all over.
Well, it was a nice empire while it lasted!!! Man, just when I was getting used to the whole two cars, whole-house A/C and digital cable!

My twenty year old daughter looked me in the eye and said there is no way in hell she would pass up the opportunity to help write history. That said it all to me.
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I could certainly understand that.
My 21 year old nephew just said almost the identical thing. He sees this as a potential turning point in American history.
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My daughter who turns 18 just 3 weeks after Nov. 4th also sees this as a historic election–and one that will set the course for her adult life. And yet, she has begged us to vote against Obama. (note: I did not say “for McCain–but rather–against Obama)

To me, John McCain does not look well physically, mentally or emotionally.
He looked dreadful during some of the debates – off balance and almost unhinged at times.
I will not be putting any of my fate into his hands.
And Sarah Palin has revealed herself as basically a soap opera character with little depth of intellect and a very one-dimensional, almost cartoon view of the world stage.
Again, I would not put any of my fate in her hands.
It’s a pathetic Republican ticket.
8 years of Republicans was enough. The electorate will be rightfully booting the Republicans out of office.
Landslide Democratic win despite all the attempt to use smear tactics during the next few days.

EndofAmerica
I prefer to look at Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Netherlands, Finland, etc….
Iceland collapsed because our wonderful free market banking system screwed them.
As goes the rest of the international financial markets.
Germany has different issues snce the unification of the nation. Not even close to the US.
We could go on, but it’s unnecessary. I will have fun in the “new America”. Certainly can’t be worse than the one created by 8 years of Republican economic policy. The same policy that is causing a world wide recession. (Did you not get the memo?)
Foreign policy will be superior, domestic policy will be superior,and the US will finally regain the respect and honor we LOST in the world because of Republicans.
And thanks for the vote of confidence. I’m sure Obama will win as well!

Wow. Senior Republican Senator Chuck Hegel on Palin and McCain . .. .
“I don’t believe she’s qualified to be President of the United States,” Hagel told me.
“The first judgment a potential President makes is who their running mate is–and I don’t think John made a very good selection.”
He scoffed at McCain’s attempts to portray her as an experienced politician.
“To try to make the excuse that she looks out her window and sees Russia–and that she’s commander of the Alaska National Guard.”
He added, “There is no question that this candidate is arguably the thinnest-résumé candidate for Vice-President in the history of America.”
Wow. This is what a Republican official has to say about his candidates.

His higher taxes means that he will be helping Americans get better health care.

What’s the news here?
We already know that the republican base is crybaby billionaires.
So what’s the point?

“Wow. Senior Republican Senator Chuck Hegel on Palin and McCain . .. .
“I don’t believe she’s qualified to be President of the United States,” Hagel told me.”
Strange . . . Joe Biden said the same thing about Barrack Obama. So did Hilary Clinton . . .

And yet, she has begged us to vote against Obama. (note: I did not say “for McCain–but rather–against Obama)
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Wow! What a shattering endorsement for the GOP candidate. How moving.
But, that’s about what everyone has said so far. (Even the McCain campaign)There’s no reason at all to support McCain and Parrot, except to vote against Obama.
Glad that Obama supporters actually believe in their choice! That they have hope in our nation’s future. And that our candidate doesn’t need to rely on fear, personal attacks, and inuendo to get support. Yet that’s all McCain has offered, so I see why no one has a good reason to vote FOR him.
You just reenforced my decision. Thanks!
Going to hear Obama tomorrow night in Harrisonburg, VA. Probably won’t be the record breaking 100,000 he had in Denver, but no doubt will be packed!
When VA goes blue and Obama just holds PA….PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA. Don’t have to have FL or OH this time, but we would love the landslide.

Westcoastmessenger:
*slow * clap*
Nicely done. Let’s drive the right wing freakshow into the wilderness! I’m truly glad you came around, man. You really know how to string an argument together, which is how I knew that you wouldn’t end up siding with the haters.

GOP Hyp: Did you research Holland’s and Finland’s unemployment rates? 8.8 and 7.7 respectively. Most anywhere you look, Socialism makes everyone equally poorer. Equally willing to be average, equally unwilling to excel, lest they fall into a higher tax bracket. We had a similar effect here during the Carter years… Remember Stagflation and 21% interest rates for homes?

couple of things michelle–first; i actually read the complete article by peter wallsten about the dinner. try that, instead just reading the sly insinuations made by the nro. you might find it enlightening. mccain brags about being able to “reach across the aisle” to find solutions. it seems to me that obama can reach further than just across party lines.
second; your daughter begged you to vote AGAINST someone? as opposed to voting FOR someone? and you are somehow proud of that? i hope that i am raising my children to be more positive as they face the future.

Mara: Clinton will be the first to tell you his economy was based on ghostware. It was a balloon based on the dot.com explosion, which when it imploded, it had the same effect on the market as this last balloon. Yes, millions of Americans lost their jobs when the dot-b0mb imploded. The stock market? In the 7Ks, Unemployment? Add about half a percentage point to our current rate.

If McCain wants to argue about wealth distribution I want to see him defend all of these CEOs, who make 300 times what their workers make once you include their bonuses and their golden parachutes. Now tell me if they have done 300 times the work, especially since most of them are largely responsible for putting the economy in the mess that it is in. God forbid that companies give out decent pay to their workers instead, you know the ones that actually are buying stuff to drive the economy. Right now the wealthiest Americans make far more then the middle class than almost any time in American history. And don’t tell me they worked their way up. That may be true to some, but most are people with connections that obviously did not work their way up. If they had, maybe just maybe we wouldn’t be in this mess because they did their jobs.

Apparently the difference between socialism and America is a 39% tax rate under Obama and a 35% tax rate under McCain. Who knew? The sales tax in my state has gone up 2% in the last decade, guess I should have been whining too.

We’ve always had a progressive tax system introduced by Republicans Ronald Reagan called Earned Income credit. Most people so concern about taxes aren’t in the tax bracket they are arguing for. Wake up people if the Democrtats fail then we can vote them out in 2 years.

veteran, listen up.
thats exactly why we are going socialist.
the rich wont pay their fair share , so we will just take it. simple?
and just let the elitist rich try to stop or impede the economy THIS time. we liberals will have the control soon to pass the necessary laws that will SEVERELY PUNISH businesses that dont want to play by the new business rules. punish meaning jail time and a host of other preemptive and retroactive measures that will ensure a competitive but fair marketplace with a high level of corporate responsibility .
so let them TRY those 1920s era footdragging spiteful tactics again…THEY WILL BE MIGHTY MIGHTY SORRY THIS TIME AROUND!!!!

How to treat illegal immigrants
Last October, Obama, along with 37 Democrats, 12 Republicans and independents Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, voted to move to a final vote on the “Dream” Act (the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors Act), which would allow illegal immigrants under age 30 to remain in the United States and gain legal status if they attend college or join the military.
The motion fell eight votes short of the 60 it needed for passage.
The bill would also have allowed illegal immigrants, if they passed background checks and became permanent legal residents, to qualify for lower in-state tuition rates at state colleges and universities.
“We should not punish undocumented children who were brought to this country illegally through no choice of their own by keeping them in the shadows,” Obama said, criticizing what he called “the politics of division and fear.”
By voting ‘yes,’ Obama put himself at odds with Democrats from states such as Montana, Missouri, Arkansas, and West Virginia, all of which could be pivotal states in the 2008 election.
Sen. Max Baucus of Montana — who is up for re-election this year and voted against the bill — said people in Montana were “very upset” by the bill. “They’re outraged; it’s like amnesty, it’s virtually
He also voted “no” in 2006 on repeal of the tax on inherited wealth, the estate tax, which is scheduled to rise to 55 percent in 2011. The other side of the fiscal coin is spending. Outlays on rapidly growing entitlement programs, such as Medicare, now account for 44 percent of all federal outlays.
Obama voted against a measure by Sen. John Ensign R-Nev., to require Medicare beneficiaries with annual incomes over $160,000 to pay higher premiums for their prescription drugs in Medicare Part D.

“Apparently the difference between socialism and America is a 39% tax rate under Obama and a 35% tax rate under McCain. Who knew? The sales tax in my state has gone up 2% in the last decade, guess I should have been whining too.”
odermonger . .. excellent. well put.

dont believe everything we hear and see… the great thing that keeps this country intrsting is the great entertaining shots the edia provides…who ever is elected has a huge job ahead of them and i hope that greedy spoiled ass holes like this one know what it feels like to try to survive on a daily basis instead of crying over interest money and still playing golf and taking vacations in maui….while over 15 million people are unemplyed and living from check to check ….stop being greedy it’s destroying this country

55Mariposa
What needs to be done is enfore the immigration laws. Some states have passed laws shutting down businesses that use illegal immigrants. It should benationwide. They need to come into this country legally, contollled and watched. They have X amount of time to become a citizen and learn English. You don’t then be deported. We cannnot continue to be the benefactor for the whole world.

Hopefully my last post tonight,
When you threaten the rich they fight back ir higher taxes. The loser is the little man like us. We have lived in the privileged society for so long you have no idea of a depression. I know becxause I listened to my grandparents and parents. It was extreme. It will be more extreme this time. When the last depression came did the rockefellers, carnegies, etc fall by the wayside. ie the rich. No instead they increased their empires and became bigger. The onbly ones who suffered was the little guy. The poor of today willl survive for they are used to struggling. The middle class with all their frills and excesse4s will suffer greatly. When is the last time they needed to scrounge for food or fuel for heat. Look at the last depression and multiply its effects by a factor of at least 2 if not more. Are you ready for that??????? But hey you don’t want to listen or research it. You think you know. Choices and consequences

Yeah, right…go ahead, cry on my shoulder – you, you poooooooooooor billionaire!!!!…what a sick person…what, he is going to pay a bit more… WITH all of Bush’s cronies making millions over his 8 year term….NOW WE want some of it back…and we are to have PITTY for that sick (explicative)!?!?!?!
Obama/Biden 2008

nothing like hearing the really wealthy bitch…
talk about being detached from the rest of society

Of course most companies that did not want to leave America because of pride will now leave thanks to OBAMA
OBAMA OBAMA OBAMA

The good people will stay, the rats will desert the ship. Good riddance.

For the last 25 plus years, the wealthy in this country have benefited from tax-breaks given to them in the failed economic experiment known as “trickle down” economics or Reaganomics the theory of that was that the addional revenue generated by the wealthy would make up for the lowering of their taxes, so the government started borrowing money to take care of operations short-term. At the time that began, the national debt was seven billion dollars (1/2 of 1% of the U.S. GDP). At the time Reagan left office we were hovering close to one trillion dollars national debt (that’s 1,000 billion). Now two Bush’s and one Clinton (he was in the GOP pocket because he couldn’t keep it in his pants)later. We are 10 trillion in debt (70% of the annual U.S. GDP).
You see the Rich have not “grown” the economy the way they were intended to do. Instead of becoming innovative and investing in America and her workforce, they’ve gutted our industries and moved our jobs overseas. They don’t care as long as the money keeps flowing in. They’ve popped the bubble, time to go back to paying their “Fair” share. Don’t weep for them, after all they’ll still be making over $250,000 a year.
How many years does it take you to make that. It takes me ten years now thanks to the pitiful job I was able to get thanks to this economy (that’s about half of what I should be making, I was in management for 15 years and my house “was” paid off before the economy tanked).

I am certain that if the team leaves the area it will have no effect on the surrounding business community.
Given that “trickle down” econmics is just a myth.

Hmmmm….I guess there is always a first time…but I haven’t seen a nation ever tax themselves into prosperity.
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs…Karl Marx..or was that Nobama…NFL & NBA will be hardest HIT. Like I said Enjoy your sports programming.

Wayne Wayne Wayne….Everything you touch turns to garbage…the Marlins, the Dolphins and Blockbuster…You should have stuck to trash collecting because you are greedy trash…So I am glad you are supporting McCain…One old, nasty greedy jerk deserves another…

Obama Cult followers will soon find out that socialism/marxism will kill the economy and the middle class. The US and World markets are voting early just like Huizenga. Get ready for The Great Depression II. Thanks Obama!

I lived in South Florida for 15 years and at no time did the money MR WAYNE made trickle down to me or anyone I knew of.

If Tax Cut is given to the rich, what is it called – reversed socialism?
Under what category can we also put social security and welfare payments – Capitalism?
When Companies are being Nationalized and Wall Street is being bailed out, what system of Government is that, Communism?
If you wish to answer these questions, you’d need to rise above party affiliation so that you can have a clearer head to decipher the truth.
Taxes all over the world is a distribution of Wealth. Even if the Tax rate is proportional, higher income earners pay more proportionately and the taxes are used to provide Social Services to all and sundry.
I have never heard of a road being plied by the rich only because they pay more tax.
So all these talks about income re-distribution is a cacophonous sound of deceit with the aim of cashing on the ignorance of the few.

I would venture to say that the majority of you who suffer from a horrible case of jealousy in the form of class envy have debt you cannot pay because you have overextended yourselves. Instead of taking personal responsibility for your own situation, you hate the rich for being rich and look to our government as a “Robin Hood,” so you can get a little part of what they have even though you didn’t earn it and don’t deserve it. I’m not rich, but I have no debt other than student loans and my home. I have a real helpful suggestion for all of you who want to rob from the rich – go out there and get rich yourselves by your own merit. But first, go to Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University and sit through a 13-week course that will teach you how to do it!

Alot of people don’t realize the long-term effects of an Obama vicotry. All they see is the short-term “I get more money” promise.
These financial giants need the cuts for the good of us all. I myself am greatful for Wayne Huizenga’s Blockbuster Video which for a few years allowed for me to work while I was in disability from a car accident.
Hell, we can all be like Huizenga, the opportunities exist. It’s up to us to make the intelligent, most educated decisions when it comes to our business. It’s the American dream after all. If Obama wins, and starts taxing the money away from the wealthier, there will be less services, less jobs, and may even result in less money in the economy. What would you do if you saw your government wanting to take your hard earned money?. Obama wins, our American dream becomes a a true American nightmare. And for what, couple G’s in tax refunds for the lower class.
If Obama wins and his proposed plans are executed, I’m rafting my ### back to Cuba. To live in socialism, I might as well go back to my old neighborhood.

Huizenga must have sold his private jet. What’s the matter Harold Wayne – can’t brib politicians with w/private jetting to football games anymore like ya did when you courted Jeb for your own greedy gains? Jeb & George Bush sold every citizen out & illegally discriminated against them when Huizenga was allowed to buy Florida statue 324.021(9)for the company he then owned Auto Nation. Now thanks to greedy, gluttenous Huizenga auto rental companies are at a higher esteen level then your our police & fire profession als and since 2006 don’t have to pay one cent if the 90 years they rent to cause accidents which permanetly disable or kill our citizens. Oh and Harold Wayne “don’t take it. personally”.