Comments on: “Stop It, All Of You”: President Obama Jokingly Chastises German Press for ‘Tensions Mit Merkel’ Stories

By: dave

dave — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:34:29 +0000

Minority women constitute only about 13% of the female population (age 15-44) in the United States, but they underwent approximately 36% of the abortions.
According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, black women are more than 5 times as likely as white women to have an abortion
On average, 1,876 black babies are aborted every day in the United States.
This incidence of abortion has resulted in a tremendous loss of life. It has been estimated that since 1973 Black women have had about 16 million abortions. Michael Novak had calculated “Since the number of current living Blacks (in the U.S.) is 36 million, the missing 16 million represents an enormous loss, for without abortion, America’s Black community would now number 52 million persons. It would be 36 percent larger than it is. Abortion has swept through the Black community like a scythe, cutting down every fourth member.”
A highly significant 1993 Howard University study showed that African American women over age 50 were 4.7 times more likely to get breast cancer if they had had any abortions compared to women who had not had any abortions.

By: Gary Smith

Gary Smith — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 03:42:37 +0000

Puh…leaze, “(Obama) bullies Americans but sweet talks foreigners. Neither has accomplished anything positive.”
Who writes these talking points?

By: Gary Smith

Gary Smith — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 03:39:11 +0000

Puh…leaze

By: Dugan

Dugan — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 04:02:28 +0000

The real story is that Barry didn’t get Merkel to budge on the Gitmo detainees.
He bullies Americans but sweet talks foreigners. Neither has accomplished anything positive.

By: Lydia

Lydia — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 23:37:46 +0000

so in Germany, like here in the U.S. some reporters want to creat a controversy where there isn’t one. Just goes to show you, people are the same the world over. Is it because it is a lot easier to fabricate a story than to do the research and investigation that go with real journalism?

By: James Danley

James Danley — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:28:49 +0000

alanmarv528, the Senate Republicans had to enact a procedural move that prohibited a filibuster just to get the tax cuts passed. The Republicans made multiple attempts at getting both the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts made permanent but they just didn’t have the votes in the Senate.
You are right, the powers that be did declared that the recession began in December 2007. Which is interesting because the traditional definition of a recession is two consecutive quarters of GDP retraction. Yet GDP actually grew in both the first and second quarters of 2008. Job losses began in January 2008, ending 52 consecutive months of job growth.

By: DontGet818OnMeNow

DontGet818OnMeNow — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 21:10:33 +0000

I like the factual stuff (mar.. 528)..
All true.. once the corporate entities robbed the public (401K’s, Banking, Oil/Gas..etc.) .. and the money was upwardly redistributed.. the gov’t. now jumps in and says.. hey we need that money back.. and we will redistribute it (minus our cut and minus our supporters’ cut of it)…
Everyone in the middle and poorer classes gets robbed.. before and after…

By: alanmarv528

alanmarv528 — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:10:16 +0000

I don’t know who you guys are, but I read this stuff and wanted to jump in.
First, the tax code has always “redistributed wealth”. When the Government builds a road, it redistributes wealth to the contractors who build it. When they put NASA in Houston they redistribute wealth to people who live in Houston. Even with a flat rate for everyone, wealth is distributed by government spending, even spending the Republicans would agree with like military spending. Not everyone gets the equal benefit of taxes collected and government spending. Some states pay more in taxes than they get back. That’s redistributes wealth. The only question is wheterh the spending is good or bad. Republicans think Social Security is bad and is socialism. I don’t. Republicans think health care for all Americans is bad. I don’t.
Nothing Obama said caused the economic downturn. The recession started in Dec. 2007. No one thought Obama would win at that time. And he was not increasing taxes, he was just proposing not renewing the Bush tax cuts that were made during war and created 5 Trillion Dollars in debt. What moron cuts taxes in times of war? Oh yeah, I am going to spend a Trillion Dollars in Iraq but I am not going to have anyone pay for it. Those tax cuts are to expire in 2010. Not even the Republicans thought they should be permanent at the time they were enacted. Obama’s statements or policies didn’t make the auto industry fail, didn’t cause the Banks to beg for a bail out. The car execs and bankers came to Bush first and they wanted GOVERNMENT to save them. The private capital markets couldn’t. And the bankers and auto execs were REPUBLICANS, the titans of industry.
Have a nice day.

By: DontGet818OnMeNow

DontGet818OnMeNow — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:27:33 +0000

even if it no longer ‘pays’ to be wealthy.. it has never ‘paid’ to be poor….

By: Gary Smith

Gary Smith — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:24:34 +0000

Since money is merely a repository of value and that value is only what we agree it to be at any given moment,the issue of taxation is only meaningful in terms of what one gets individually for the taxes paid. And that is intricately entwined with what we all get communally.
Shouldn’t those who benefit most for the social organization which we all finance pay the most for it both in absolute and relative terms?
Nitpicking over marginal rates is likewise not particularly useful in a discussion of any individual or common good derived from taxation. Afterall, what good does it do for one to have more money of less value? Perhaps we could ask a Zimbabwean.
Maybe all Angela Merkel, Ryan C. and James Danley need is a shoulder massage.