I'm sure if it wasn't Bush's fault it must be Boehner's fault. Wait until small business owners meet with their tax advisors this month. It gets worse.Quote from nutmeg:
I've been checking around. I asked this one guy (he makes about 60k) how much his paycheck dropped, he said 70 bucks. Another person makes I think 30 + paycheck dropped 50 bucks.
That's a car payment people.
People who live paycheck to paycheck might have to stop breathing one day a week. Ain't no overtime out there to make up the difference.
Another guy I was talking to shut off cable to save $100 a month, his health insurance went up $60 a month. In the grand scheme of things he now has no cable and a whopping extra $40. Stay tuned that 40 bucks will be gone soon enough with nothing to show for it.
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My daughter is up for performance review soon. I gave her the score. You need 2% increase for taxes, 2% for increase in health care, 2% for inflation. Better be looking for 6% at least to break even. she said they don't give out 6% raises.
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Yes, and much of our problems ARE because of Bush and the obstructionist GOP congress.
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Ain't no overtime out there to make up the difference.
And since there aint no overtime out there nowheres to be had, countless folk are being forced to bide their time pissing and moaning on ET about how their Tyrant King, Obama is trying to force good white folk into driving smaller SUV's.
Another guy I was talking to shut off cable to save $100 a month
Oh the tragedy!!!!
He really had to do away with his $100/mo. cable package??
I imagine he probably had to give up 4 or 5 DVR's and his HD NFL package too, huh?
Gosh, I really hope the poor sob can still at least afford to provide Netflix and/or the internet for his family.
It pains me to think about it, but this one guy I heard of had to cut back on his golf game to only once a week.
He's also planning on down-sizing his Monster Beverages intake to only one or two cans per day in order to help pay for his family's cruise to Cancun this spring.
These are some very tough times indeed for the workin man![]()
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Stimulus - passed
Obamacare- passed
tax raises - passed, more properly let expired EVEN THOUGH they could have been raised in 2009 by democrats... and why not?? because Obama said it would hurt the economy, which is the very idea conservatives get attacked for from people like you ...and the 'successful' TARP was Bush's
You are fucking incredible, it's 4 years down the road, 2 of them with a full democrat congress, $5T in debt spending later and yet EVERYTHING is Bush's fault. There is no delusion large enough to disrupt your brain stem, and no democrat failure too big because no matter what it will always be republicans fault. Never mind that this dismal welfare-state led recovery idea is huge failure, never mind that defense has stood at or below cold war levels for about 30 years now, never mind that everyone including Obama knows we need spending cuts yet when republicans demand it they get labeled as obstructionists....
and all the lies from Gitmo, unemployment topping out at 8%, Obamacare being tax neutral, to 'we'll cut something down the road', they don't matter to the Che Geubama pioneers, all you care about is feeling that life is fair according to you and your goons have power.
why even discuss anything really? we know you, no response needed
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pspr
the unhappy right-wing bigot, hypocrite who is never ever content with his lot in life and thus he has to blame the President for a problem(s) that began many years ago when republican arse-holes were entrusted with the countries economic and financial health!
What's it like to be so unhappy. Do you ever have an optimistic viewpoint or do you like so many other blowhards in the past, have it all figured out.
I recall hearing people back in the 80s and 90s spew your kind of b.s. about the economy of the USA.
Why don't you just move out of the States!?
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pspr
the unhappy right-wing bigot, hypocrite
Clinton won the election after Gingrich shut down the governmentQuote from pspr:
If you can remember your history, the election after Speaker Gingrich shut down the government saw the election of President George Bush
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Liberals everywhere are acclimating themselves to the fact that Obama is toast and Romney is going to be the next President.
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Hopefully, President Romney and Republicans in the House and Senate will have replaced the law with something realistic by then or soon after.
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We should start a poll on how IQ-47 is going to end it when Romney wins.
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I think AK may be right.
When Obama doesn't even get 200 electoral votes it's going to look like unskewedpolls.com was wrong saying he will get 217.
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My personal feeling is that they will NOT uphold the insurance mandate in ObamaCare
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Regardless, it will be interesting to see if the judge decides to keep Obama off the ballot. I don't see how he can rule any other way.
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I'm still waiting for Obama's October surprise but the pollsters may be doing the democrat oversampling on purpose so his supporters don't see how bad he's really doing and don't pressure him to make something happen.
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The race hasn't even started yet. As mentioned in the analysis, "these polls will change". Other polls show just the opposite so it's better for people, at this stage, to be concerned you are behind than to get too confident in April.
Besides, we have all these and other shockers to come:
The Holder Contempt Trial
The Occupy Riots
The Black Riots
The Obama Historical Movie
More BC Revelations
The Summer Economic Slump
Possible Stubbornly High Gas Prices
Possible Stumbles in The Debates (Obama doesn't do good without a teleprompter)
Possible Inflation taking hold
October Surprises
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This is just sad.
I'm hoping "Fast And Furious" will turn out to be Obama's "Watergate". If we can get him out of the White House Biden will be inept and won't do more damage. Obama has more damage planned for the economy if he stays for another 18 months.
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I think they (Arabs, Palestinians and Obama) are trying to box Israel into a corner. Of course the Arabs would just love for Israel to defend itself and have the U.S. on the other side. This could be Obama's Watergate (or Waterloo).
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At least until we get to the October Marshall Law event. I've noticed even the Weather Service and the Social Security Administration are ordering tens of thousands of hollow point pistol rounds and the military has written a manual on dealing with civil disobedience.
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Then there is the October surprise. Israel attack on Iran, Obama military action somewhere, Obama push at civil disobedience, polling intimidation, etc. I don't know what, but if Obama is behind Romney in Ocotober he is going to do something shocking.
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I'm still waiting to see what the Obama manufactured event/crisis is going to be that supposedly will unite the country behind him in October. A failed (staged) assassination attempt would probably do it.
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Could this be how Obama tries to rally the country behind him before election day?
Possibility 1)
Picture the next and final debate on foreign policy. Midway through the debate a uniformed Army Officer walks out on the stage and whispers something in the President's ear. Moments later Obama announces to the nation that he is going to suspend the rest of the debate and make an announcement to the American people. Romney is ushered out of the room by the Secret Service.
The podium is transformed in seconds with the Shield of The President and teleprompter screens positioned on each side.
Obama proceeds to make a 60 minute pre-planned announcement that the attackers of the Libyan Consulate have been brought to justice and taken out by U.S. armed drones. He then precedes to outline in detail how his conflicting statements on Libya were designed to keep the terrorists off balance while they were being identified and located so they could be eliminated.
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Possibility 2)
During the debate a shot rings out and the President clutches his shoulder and falls to the ground. The perp (put up to the deed by the Obama Campaign) has fired a blank round but a device under the president's jacket has imparted a shallow wound to his shoulder.
The perp is hauled off to an undisclosed location and after treatment Obama says he will continue the debate with his right arm now in a sling and bandages apparent under his jacket.
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Either of these possibilities could throw a big monkey wrench into this election.