Quote of the day

Ruh roh.

Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 12, 2008 at 10:04 PM

lorien1973 on October 12, 2008 at 10:17 PM

Yeah. I know. I threw it out there for sh!ts and giggles.

Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 12, 2008 at 10:19 PM

Barry’s plan…

Barack Obama tells (NY) Daily News how he’d lead us through the economic meltdown

Well, I can handle three more weeks of attacks. But Americans can’t afford four more years that look exactly like the last eight.

No, Senator, we can’t afford four more years. The years I reference are 1977-1980.

For months, I’ve been fighting for a rescue plan for the middle class. My proposal would mean $3.2 billion in economic stimulus for New York – a shot in the arm that would provide every family immediate relief to cope with rising food and gas prices, help state and local governments maintain essential services in the face of budget shortfalls, and save 64,000 jobs in New York alone by rebuilding our crumbling roads, bridges and schools.

WPA 2.0, baby. This time it’s forevah!

To grow our economy from the bottom up, we need a tax code that doesn’t just work for the folks at the top.

Ahhhhh…..There’s the evil rich people rhetoric. I don’t know about you, but I never obtained a job from a poor person.

I want to give a middle class tax cut to 95% of all workers and their families, including 9.7 million in New York. American families making less than $250,000 a year won’t see their taxes increase one single dime – because in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

30-40% already don’t pay taxes. How can you give 95% a break? Math doesn’t jive (turkey). No tax increase, but he’ll let Bush cuts expire and then give his tax “cut”. I guess it’s a wash, right? He’ll increase taxes and then cut them again?

Don’t raise taxes on middle class. What constitutes as “middle class” in Barryland? Also, note another subtle evil rich people jab.

I’ll stop giving tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas, and instead eliminate capital gains taxes for small businesses and startups that create jobs in New York’s communities.

Yeah….’cause protectionism always works. Great. How about doing what McCain says and lowering corporate rates so that business will want to move here?!

It’s time for a new era of responsibility and accountability on Wall Street and in Washington. As President, I’ll go through the entire federal budget and eliminate programs that don’t work and aren’t needed so that we end runaway spending and record deficits.

Like in the movie “Dave”?

Eliminating programs that don’t work = Defense spending cuts (massive)

And we’ll enact common-sense regulations that prevent a crisis like this from ever happening again.

Are you ready for more gubmint (aka more jobs for his cronies)?

I won’t pretend this will be easy or come without cost. We You will all need to sacrifice and we you will all need to pull our weight (in a sense of fairness).

FIFY

This can’t be going anywhere good.

Because if we’ve learned anything from this economic crisis, it’s that we are all in this together, and we will rise or fall as one nation.

Blatant pandering for socialism, folks.

Together, we can overcome the broken policies and divided politics of the last eight years and renew an economy that rewards work, rebuilds the middle class, and creates millions of new jobs. Together, we cannot fail.

YES.WE.CAN elect someone other than you.

Overcome the broken policies? Like the Community Reinvestment Act passed by a Democrat President and expanded by a Democrat President to which there where calls by Republican Senators and a Republican President to reform?

Renew an economy that rewards work? Isn’t he proposing expansion of welfare, S-CHIP, universal health care, college tuition, unemployment benefits, etc.? Why would I want to work? All that stuff will be provided for me!!!

Next plan please….

Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 12, 2008 at 10:37 PM

lorien1973 on October 12, 2008 at 10:40 PM

That’s what Reagan said……..back in ’64!

We have so many people who can’t see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one. So they’re going to solve all the problems of human misery through government and government planning. Well, now, if government planning and welfare had the answer — and they’ve had almost 30 years of it — shouldn’t we expect government to read the score to us once in a while? Shouldn’t they be telling us about the decline each year in the number of people needing help? The reduction in the need for public housing?

But the reverse is true. Each year the need grows greater; the program grows greater. We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry each night. Well that was probably true. They were all on a diet. But now we’re told that 9.3 million families in this country are poverty-stricken on the basis of earning less than 3,000 dollars a year. Welfare spending [is] 10 times greater than in the dark depths of the Depression. We’re spending 45 billion dollars on welfare. Now do a little arithmetic, and you’ll find that if we divided the 45 billion dollars up equally among those 9 million poor families, we’d be able to give each family 4,600 dollars a year. And this added to their present income should eliminate poverty. Direct aid to the poor, however, is only running only about 600 dollars per family. It would seem that someplace there must be some overhead.

Now — so now we declare “war on poverty,” or “You, too, can be a Bobby Baker.” Now do they honestly expect us to believe that if we add 1 billion dollars to the 45 billion we’re spending, one more program to the 30-odd we have — and remember, this new program doesn’t replace any, it just duplicates existing programs — do they believe that poverty is suddenly going to disappear by magic? Well, in all fairness I should explain there is one part of the new program that isn’t duplicated. This is the youth feature. We’re now going to solve the dropout problem, juvenile delinquency, by reinstituting something like the old CCC camps [Civilian Conservation Corps], and we’re going to put our young people in these camps. But again we do some arithmetic, and we find that we’re going to spend each year just on room and board for each young person we help 4,700 dollars a year. We can send them to Harvard for 2,700! Course, don’t get me wrong. I’m not suggesting Harvard is the answer to juvenile delinquency.

Reagan Zombie/Palin ’08!

Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 12, 2008 at 10:44 PM