Daley is a DINO, just like is his loser dad.

Surprise, surprise. Another Obama-Wall Streeter. Obama, just like Bush, is another Wall Street-Oil-Banker President. Just look at his appointments and his top donors: Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, BP, etc. I am quite saddened that so many (including myself for a brief time) expected him to finally be a difference maker.

We wouldn’t need to raise taxes if they simply cut a hundred billion for infrastructure out of the obscenely bloated military budget.

In my cynical bliss, I’m not the least surprised by this.

I smell more ‘privatization’ coming…

Roads, water, sewer, gas, bridges, dams… nearly all municipal and federal bond funded. Obama is nothing but a puppet for gas bag big business so they screw Americans just ans Halliburton does.

Hey! How about the billionaires who got the tax break chip in and fill the pot holes and such else?!

Hell the Koch brothers themselves could throw up a coupla bridges.

Maybe you could sell our ports to dubai???????????

The man sounds exactly like Herbert Hoover after the crash.

I so gladent dat one of own kind appointed by President. If we not take care of own class what is next? Peasants storming estates? Want what we work hard for? As my boy friend alvays says “If you give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day, but if you hire him and put him to work on your fishing boat at survival wages and work him like the neighbors mule and give him limited shore leave he’ll be so emotionally, financially, spiritually broke dicked he’ll never have time to think for himself, and he’ll do as he’s told!” and my boy friend shouldt know, he billionaire congressman.

No public health option and record unemployment goes well with a crumbling third world infrastructure.

When did the Republicans take over the White House?

What a f&ck faced a$$hole.

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“investment for US infrastructure could instead come from private sources both foreign and domestic.”
Which is doublespeak for, we will just sell off the American People’s infrastructure to the highest foreign bidder, pay off the debt to the Banking Cabal, take our cut from the embezzlement, move to Paraguay, and let the Plebs deal with their new Chinese owners.

Will we have to pay users fees to use this infrastructure that is payed for with private investments?

The only way out of this recession is to create new jobs and grow the economy. You can not do either by cutting spending or taxes. You grow the economy the same way you grow a business, you invest in it for the short-term to create long-term growth usually via loans. Yes, that means temporarily increasing the national debt but it would be a drop in the bucket at this point and would, if successfully implemented, reduce the deficit much quicker over the next decade than trying to keep the economy from tanking while simultaneously trying to balance the budget.

You will be soon paying a number of tolls to a number of private crony companies to commute on your way to work…

The rich and their corporations need to be paying taxes – cut the pentagon budget by 99% would be a start. The rest is just detail – make it so.

Socialism for the owners of production where they make there money from tax payers is Corporatism,

Corporatism is Fascism.

The people in the U.S will take a lot of abuses before they riot in the streets like the people in the Middle East are doing now.

When the people do riot in the streets watch the privatized goon squads payed for by tax payers protect the Fascist Pigs.

We are doomed. Is everyone in govt complete idiots? This is like the last days of the Roman Empire but their downfall was in part linked to “lead poisoning” in the untensils they drank from. What is our excuse?

F**k these mother F**ckers U don’t even no how bad they are playing u.
Everything is fixed all of it.
One of my clients invented the bar code he won’t even live in our country or have his company in our country
He says it’s such a Fascist state maybe 10 corporations own our country
Why do you think Budwieser is owned by Bulgeria
I love thes guys
GO CORPORATIONS

Raise the top marginal tax rate to 92% like it was under that old communist Dwight D. Eisenhower when we were paying off our debt from WW II. Here we are paying for two wars simultaneously that have lasted twice as long and still using Bush’s irresponsible tax cuts. After you’ve made $2 million in one year, if you lust for more you need counseling not another damn tax break.

First the Roman Republic turned into an Empire ruled by leaders who often were assassinated. The Republic was ruled by laws, the Empire was ruled by fiat. The people who ran Ancient Rome got so fed up with corruption and lies they walked away, just left and moved out the country. There was not enough manpower left to keep the massively wasteful system, heavily based on a military economy, running. The Germans, who they’d been pissing off for a long time, conquered them. I think that is how it went.

He accurately represents the views of Mr O

Great economic inequality produces great political inequality, subverts democracy, and results in oligarchy. Adam Smith lamented such governments because they exist only to protect wealth and property from the people. In order to preserve democracy, the people must be protected from the tyranny of the wealthy, the powerful, those who hold great property, for they will inevitably seek to influence government in proportion to their wealth and for its protection. No middle class has ever arisen spontaneously in any society in the history of the world. They must be created and protected by government laws and policies.

Obama has almost unlimited access to advice and who does he pick? William Daly, a not so distinguished banker.

” Robert Connelly, one of his teachers, remembers him in his English class as “above average, a B student, a hard worker.” Spalding, who taught math, says Bill “certainly didn’t set the world on fire as a math student.”

Twenty-six years later, a magazine reporter deconstructing Daley for The Nation wrote that to navigate the “undistinguished halls” of John Marshall, Bill required a tutor and that Mayor Daley was so grateful that he gave the man a judgeship.

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/February-2005/Brother-Bill-A-Look-at-William-Daley/index.php?cparticle=2&siarticle=1

The Bill Daley Problem
Simon Johnson

He states that Obama does not understand the economic problem, and he appointed a banker.

This is not a critique from the left or from the right. The Bill Daley Problem is completely bipartisan — it shows us the White House fails to understand that, at the heart of our economy, we have a huge time bomb.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/simon-johnson/bill-daley-obama-chief-of-staff_b_806341.html

Jeez,we can always bail out the banks when the construction companies default on their loans by underbidding. it’s a win/win for the banks.

Take the funds from the bloated $1 trillion annually in “defense related expenditures” (Source: Wikipedia). There’s PLENTY of pork in the Penta-Con.

Obama is a conservative Manchurian president. Someone has to primary him. It may be too late, the damage may be irreversible. Most of America’s original infrastructure was built by dirt poor immigrants. Their working conditions, were close to involuntary servitude. There were no work rules, or safety regulations. Conservative capitalism views capital, as a right of ownership, to be allocated and, moved as desired. The insidious aspect of this, is that they view workers as capital. In their world, labor has no rights. They crashed the system, to destroy labor rights, and government oversite of safety. Now the theft and abuse, will ramp up to catastrophic levels, as those who have no job, are forced into what will effectively, be involuntary servitude to survive. You think its been bad up to now. It’s going to get a lot, lot worse, as the oligarchy, expands its predatory control,over a weak and helpless populace.

OMG. Just how the hay-ull does he think our infrastructure got built in the first place? It wasn’t just through private companies, that’s for sure. This guy may be affable and well liked and perhaps has good political instincts, but he’s got absolutely no sense when it comes to discussing things like the infrastructure.

If you had doubts before where Jr. wanted to take the administration they should be put to rest now. He is NEOCON in Democratic clothing!

Take the tax structure back to the pre Reagan years and regulate banks and trading houses. That would be a good start. Stop imprisoning people for victimless crimes, cut military adventurism and spending, cut out no-bid contracts. Invest in the infrastructure and lock down health costs with a single pay system. The worth of a dollar is proportional to the total any one person has, taxing in a way that reflects that relative value should give you a progressive tax that is fair in its impact.

Come on, we have been hearing that cutting the tax burden of the wealthy and powerful will result in more jobs and a better nation, the exact opposite has been the results. Emulating what others have done successfully, is a sign of intelligence. The socialist systems appear to be healthier, happier, and more economically stable and productive than the the US. Time to learn from history, learn from other’s experience and change our approach, before we “die of a theory” (apology to Jeff Davis).

Take the tax structure back to the pre Reagan years and regulate banks and trading houses. That would be a good start. Stop imprisoning people for victimless crimes, cut military adventurism and spending, cut out no-bid contracts. Invest in the infrastructure and lock down health costs with a single pay system. The worth of a dollar is proportional to the total any one person has, taxing in a way that reflects that relative value should give you a progressive tax that is fair in its impact.

Come on, we have been hearing that cutting the tax burden of the wealthy and powerful will result in more jobs and a better nation, the exact opposite has been the results. Emulating what others have done successfully, is a sign of intelligence. The socialist systems appear to be healthier, happier, and more economically stable and productive than the the US. Time to learn from history, learn from other’s experience and change our approach, before we “die of a theory” (apology to Jeff Davis).

Except then they would OWN them and charge us tolls. A grate deal you get to have a PRIVATE gate for PUBLIC roads…..F’n fascists

Except then they would OWN them and charge us tolls. A grate deal you get to have a PRIVATE gate for PUBLIC roads…..F’n fascists

The use of the term ‘socialism’ is incorrect in this context and is not interchangeable with Corporatism.

The US is a ‘Corporatist’ State whereby the State is the dominant entity and all the activities and interests are subordinate to the State. The interests may not (and are not from evidence) be those of the American people, but they are strongly aligned with the elites – Fiance Capital, US Transnational Corporations and the political body. Definitively not socialism.

The use of the term ‘socialism’ is incorrect in this context and is not interchangeable with Corporatism.

The US is a ‘Corporatist’ State whereby the State is the dominant entity and all the activities and interests are subordinate to the State. The interests may not (and are not from evidence) be those of the American people, but they are strongly aligned with the elites – Fiance Capital, US Transnational Corporations and the political body. Definitively not socialism.

Unfortunately Obama is a great speaker and very bad in economics.
He thinks the Corporations are his friends.
HE IS A CORPORATIST
Teddy R, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, knew and constantly spoke how evil these where to democracy.
I guess Obama missed that class

Unfortunately Obama is a great speaker and very bad in economics.
He thinks the Corporations are his friends.
HE IS A CORPORATIST
Teddy R, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, knew and constantly spoke how evil these where to democracy.
I guess Obama missed that class

This type of nutty thinking will most definitely collapse the US economy. To ‘reinvest’ in the manner he suggests will probably result in the privatization (cheaply) of vast blocks of publically owned and operated infrastructure that the US tax payer has already paid for as a ‘sweetner’ for overseas investors. You could envisage water management assets sold off and operated privately for instance. These people are intent destroying anything ‘public’, ‘social’ and ‘communal’ that we all need on a daily basis. The things that are taken for granted on a day-to-day basis – the freeway system, integrated power grid, water and sewage management, etc, were all built as public infrastructure to benefit the many and avoid duplication.

This type of nutty thinking will most definitely collapse the US economy. To ‘reinvest’ in the manner he suggests will probably result in the privatization (cheaply) of vast blocks of publically owned and operated infrastructure that the US tax payer has already paid for as a ‘sweetner’ for overseas investors. You could envisage water management assets sold off and operated privately for instance. These people are intent destroying anything ‘public’, ‘social’ and ‘communal’ that we all need on a daily basis. The things that are taken for granted on a day-to-day basis – the freeway system, integrated power grid, water and sewage management, etc, were all built as public infrastructure to benefit the many and avoid duplication.

All those chemicals they put in our food?

All those chemicals they put in our food?

It’s sad it’s the same old poop different day.
Nothing has really changed, nothing.
Health care, the wars, WALL STREET, banks, etc.
They make it look like it’s changed, but it hasn’t

It’s sad it’s the same old poop different day.
Nothing has really changed, nothing.
Health care, the wars, WALL STREET, banks, etc.
They make it look like it’s changed, but it hasn’t

Nope…my rules. They gotta GIVE for a change! (-:)

Nope…my rules. They gotta GIVE for a change! (-:)

Lovely…instead of our infrastructure being part of the commons we the people share, he wants to privatize it..

This guy is an corporate ghoul.

Lovely…instead of our infrastructure being part of the commons we the people share, he wants to privatize it..

This guy is an corporate ghoul.

Raise taxes but not on all of us. Just the upper 1% that are, as everyone says, doing really well right now and for the past 20+ years.
And that same 1% have had their taxes actually reduced considerably over the past 30 years (from over 60% to less than 35%) – put it back.

Raise taxes but not on all of us. Just the upper 1% that are, as everyone says, doing really well right now and for the past 20+ years.
And that same 1% have had their taxes actually reduced considerably over the past 30 years (from over 60% to less than 35%) – put it back.

Wrong. “Raise” taxes by not extending the Bush tax cuts for the top 1%. Oh. Wait. TOO late. I wonder what % this idiot is in?

Obama … George W. Bush’s 3rd term.

Wrong. “Raise” taxes by not extending the Bush tax cuts for the top 1%. Oh. Wait. TOO late. I wonder what % this idiot is in?

Obama … George W. Bush’s 3rd term.

Good point. Just make the filthy bastard tories that have addresses in the Cayman Islands pay the taxes. Plus, the oil companies that didn’t pay a fucking dime of taxes, while posting the highest profit margins, ever. Asswipe.

Good point. Just make the filthy bastard tories that have addresses in the Cayman Islands pay the taxes. Plus, the oil companies that didn’t pay a fucking dime of taxes, while posting the highest profit margins, ever. Asswipe.

Prepare for 1937 redux.

Prepare for 1937 redux.

Obama is a snake in the grass. Primary him! Throw the bums out.

Obama is a snake in the grass. Primary him! Throw the bums out.

No see Obama has a master plan and is going to just rope them all in and then soon, very soon, very very soon, any day, umm year now, he’s going to show you. He’s going to show all you haters, just have to give him more time more time more time more time more time more time….

No see Obama has a master plan and is going to just rope them all in and then soon, very soon, very very soon, any day, umm year now, he’s going to show you. He’s going to show all you haters, just have to give him more time more time more time more time more time more time….

Yep, I think you’ve nailed it. It’s all MORE of the sell out that the right ESPECIALLY has done on us for the last 30 years. Time for THIS nonsense to END.

Yep, I think you’ve nailed it. It’s all MORE of the sell out that the right ESPECIALLY has done on us for the last 30 years. Time for THIS nonsense to END.

GOP will make the middle class pay here:http://thinkprogress.org/2011/01/21/ryan-rates/

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Why don’t we end the THREE stupid, unconstitutional wars we’re in, hmm?

I’m really hopin’ he does something dramatic before his first term ends, but you all gotta realize that his wife and kids are probably being hung before him like a carrot on a stick to keep him obedient to his masters.

The whole US government now is one gigantic Ponzi scheme, and sooner or later it’s gonna burst.

The dot com crash was orchestrated by our own government. The housing collapse was orchestrated by our own government. Both situations (and more) resulted in dramatic loss of value to the vast majority of the shareholders, while very, very few people got immensely richer. Big banks acquired small banks for a fraction of their worth.

Foresight is a rarity among the flashing lights of millions and billions; tomorrow will never come. Instead of reinvesting extra profits back into tangible assets, into R&D, and the like, they chose to play the game of derivatives and high-risk-business practices — hoping to double/triple/quadruple their already enormous fortunes the quick way — then wallowed and begged for a handout when a storm finally came… and we hastily complied. Wonderful world my friend.

Daley’s right: We could raise taxes on the disgusting beef industry.

I love how they frame privatisation of our infrastructure as though they are doing us a favour. Sure, lets turn over our water systems and bridge maintenance to a conglomerate of Eastern Europeans, Russian mobsters and Chinese interests. That saves us from having to pay for it. Right! At least until they run it to the ground and turn it back to the tax payers to bail it out. Or perhaps until they decide to raise prices to make a little added profit at the expense of clean drinking water or bridge safety. Don’t do us any favours Daley. I expect a little more effort when you’re trying to con me. At least respect us enough to make it look like you think we’re not stupid enough to fall for the obvious con. Such a transparent distain for the regular citizens’ intelligence will not reflect well politically on your boss (or employee its hard to tell who is who really).

You know, I get that these guys don’t think that political systems are responsive enough to navigate the crisis and that democracy needs to be replaced by a corporate decisiveness that can make the hard calls as to who makes and who doesn’t. But it really bothers me that the same class of guys that have refused to listen to the reasoned arguments, over the last thirty years, and, by listening, could have avoided the disaster we are now careening into, are the very guys who get to make the decisions, while claiming now that they can’t listen to us because we’re in the crisis that they brought upon the world by not listening. There is just something very wrong in that paradox. If we’re going to be sinking, the guys who steered us into this ice berg shouldn’t be in charge of deciding who gets to be in the life boats.

These rich people are insane, literally.
OK you want it all and your just about there
So what, you want to be a rich person in a poor country, like Mexico?
Go to Mexico City and live there for awhile and see how much you like it.
You live in a guilded cage
Everyone hates you and your kids
And you have to have 24/7 security, and they still kidnap you
Boy great game plan !!!!!!!!!

To all those Rich people out there I would be supporting social programs, supporting the unions for a strong middle class.
Pay a living wage, so then you don’t have to worry about going to the super market or going anywhere

WHO WANTS TO BE A RICH MAN IN A POOR COUNTRY? I ask you, only the sick.

Nicely put.

Love your work :)

So he wants to privatize the infrastructure of the nation.

BAD IDEA!

Obama’s appointees continue to disappoint.

Hey, Mrs. Douglass, are you going to cook us some pancakes?

For once I agree with one of these shills. The average schmuck who lost his job, his house, his life savings, doesn’t have health insurance and can’t send his kids to college should not have to pay for repairing/rebuilding the infrastructure, particularly, after the average Joe also bailed out the ones that screwed him. Let Mr. Chief of Staff and the rest of his politician, CEOs and rich buddies along with his former corporation and Wall Street do it. They made the mess, let them fix it!

What a surprise, huh? Particularly, when Obama is only drawing from the same pool of leeches that caused the mess to begin with.

I’m sure they’re all scared now. And like Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, they’ll be jumping thru ropes to meet your demands.

I heard of another scam today. Traders are betting against their own clients in order to maximize profits and, yes, inflate their already bloated bonuses. It doesn’t stop, they come up with a different scam by the hour. This country is so done.

Unfortunately, you and many others listened to his rhetoric with your heart and not your head. Had you listened to his speeches critically and researched his campaign staff you’d have known that he was a corporate stooge before you voted.

Now that you know you were played, I hope you’ve gained the wisdom not to fall for that crap again. Perhaps, then, you’ll vote outside the mainstream ticket.

Actually, they do need to raise taxes…on the rich and the corporations.

Would it help you place him if I told you that good ole Obama recruited him from Wall Street where he was the overpaid, corrupt CEO of one of the companies that brought the country’s economy to its knees?

That’s a common theme about the corrupt, clueless ruling elites. Look at Egypt. Their puppet dictator still doesn’t know what his people want and thinks that by firing one cabinet made of his buddies and replacing it with another set, the people will be satisfied and go home as if nothing has happened while he continues in power till he passes the baton to his son. He’s representative of the ruling class all over the world today. Outsting them will not do the job. We have to start building gallows around the world.

He’s not as clueless as all that. The corporations put him in power, he’s doing the bidding for them and he knows better than to bite the hand that feeds him

Hey Daley, you wealth-sucking pig fornicating bastard, you see what’s happening in Egypt, you mother fucker?

If you don’t get off your money-addled flat ass and start levying taxes on the wealthy in this country so they pay pack what they’ve borrowed in enjoying artificially low taxes on our backs, you’re going to have a fucking revolution on your hands, pig fucker.

Take that message back to the House Negro in Chief. Taxes WILL go up on the wealthy, pig fucker, or there’ll be hell to pay. We’re tired of “sharing the sacrifice” with mother fuckers like you who make no sacrifices whatsoever. Go the fuck back to Chicago, you worthless piece of shit.

Fucking criminals will one fine day be treated as such, you sonofabitch, so enjoy your freedom while it lasts.

Tax the rich.

Oh right! Let’s sell everything!!!! Just like they do in Indiana. Privatize all services (FSSA is a howling success!), sell the tollways and water systems. Yes, that is a WONDERFUL idea! The taxpayers pay to put these assets in place, then privatize the profit, then the businesses just walk away when it gets expensive. Anybody driven on the privatized tollway recently? Hope you didn’t lose your car in a pothole.

Daley is a evil scumbag who wants to privatize EVERYTHING inthis country to better enrich his corporate masters. Somebody needs to ask the lying fuck when an instance of privitization has resulted in better costs for the citizens.

“The average schmuck who lost his job”

Is paying NO taxes.

How can he pay for anything when he is not paying any taxes?

They want to privatize all the things our government should do. The fact is that privatization costs a lot more.

“successful companies do not put themselves in hock during the good times. ”

Yes they do, it is precisely how they expand. Businesses get loans ALL THE TIME based on future income.

It is PRECISELY “during the good times” that smart business makes investment, which means going into debt.

You just heard about it? It’s the oldest scam in the book. Where have you been?

ASK HIM WHAT THE PEOPLE IN CHICAGO THINK OF HIS BROTHER’S (WHO CHEATED ON THE
ILL. LAW TEST) PRIVATE GIVE AWAY OF CHICAGO PARKING AND SKYWAY……

GIVE SOME AWAY TO THE GOV. IN TAXES ….OR ALL AWAY TO THESE PRIVATE SCAMMERS..
USUALLY THE BRIDGE FROM THEM TO US IS THE __________…U GUESSED IT!!!!!

WHEN EVER I HEAR……OH IM IN IT FOR PUBLIC SERVICE….. I RUN FOR THE HILLS…….

ASK HIM WHAT THE PEOPLE IN CHICAGO THINK OF HIS BROTHER’S (WHO CHEATED ON THE
ILL. LAW TEST) PRIVATE GIVE AWAY OF CHICAGO PARKING AND SKYWAY……

GIVE SOME AWAY TO THE GOV. IN TAXES ….OR ALL AWAY TO THESE PRIVATE SCAMMERS..
USUALLY THE BRIDGE FROM THEM TO US IS THE __________…U GUESSED IT!!!!!

WHEN EVER I HEAR……OH IM IN IT FOR PUBLIC SERVICE….. I RUN FOR THE HILLS…….

There’s an argument afoot to eliminate corporate taxes.

Yes it sounds dumb but think again: when they pay no taxes they have no motivation to pay less taxes. So they don’t get involved in tax and budget legislation, because they don’t care. They have no incentive to bribe politicians to lower their taxes. Think of it as taking the stick away from them.

Yes this will raise the tax on individuals but think again: what is a corporation but a group of people? So people are paying taxes either way.

There’s an argument afoot to eliminate corporate taxes.

Yes it sounds dumb but think again: when they pay no taxes they have no motivation to pay less taxes. So they don’t get involved in tax and budget legislation, because they don’t care. They have no incentive to bribe politicians to lower their taxes. Think of it as taking the stick away from them.

Yes this will raise the tax on individuals but think again: what is a corporation but a group of people? So people are paying taxes either way.

Sorry, my mistake. I meant to say bad times. I tried to fix my mistake and stuffed it completely. Now I feel like a complete goose.
I shall proof read more diligently in future.

Sorry, my mistake. I meant to say bad times. I tried to fix my mistake and stuffed it completely. Now I feel like a complete goose.
I shall proof read more diligently in future.

“Daley, a former Wall Street executive who opposed two of President Obama’s major initiatives, said that investment for US infrastructure could instead come from private sources both foreign and domestic.”

If they pay for it then they own it. Then they charge rates for use of their infrastructure which includes money for their profit pool and bureaucracy, not to mention the bonuses they’ll pay themselves. I’d bet Mr. Daley probably sees himself somewhere in this profit/bonus picture.

My opinion of Daley is quickly going from “neutral” to “colossal asshole”.

“Daley, a former Wall Street executive who opposed two of President Obama’s major initiatives, said that investment for US infrastructure could instead come from private sources both foreign and domestic.”

If they pay for it then they own it. Then they charge rates for use of their infrastructure which includes money for their profit pool and bureaucracy, not to mention the bonuses they’ll pay themselves. I’d bet Mr. Daley probably sees himself somewhere in this profit/bonus picture.

My opinion of Daley is quickly going from “neutral” to “colossal asshole”.

U FORGOT ONE BIG THING …….REGULATION………..U LIKE TO AVOID CANCER…….

THE PEOPLE IN THE GULF CAN’T……..U WANT TO OWN STOCK?……..A HOUSE?
HAVE AN OPEN INTERNET? ………………………………………………………………..

U FORGOT ONE BIG THING …….REGULATION………..U LIKE TO AVOID CANCER…….

THE PEOPLE IN THE GULF CAN’T……..U WANT TO OWN STOCK?……..A HOUSE?
HAVE AN OPEN INTERNET? ………………………………………………………………..

No , don’t ” let them fix it ‘ make them fix it . It’s way past time to bring rates on the wealthy back over 70% , they need their bank accounts lightened a bit . If they don’t like it and leave then don’t let the door hit them in the ass . But make damn sure that when they they try to send their cheap crap back over here , we are still the main market , tax the hell out of it then . These bastards know good and well they can’t sell their stuff in countries where they make it because they’re paying slave wages . European and major Asian countries won’t let them get away without paying taxes , so let the SOB’s leave and I say good riddence .

No , don’t ” let them fix it ‘ make them fix it . It’s way past time to bring rates on the wealthy back over 70% , they need their bank accounts lightened a bit . If they don’t like it and leave then don’t let the door hit them in the ass . But make damn sure that when they they try to send their cheap crap back over here , we are still the main market , tax the hell out of it then . These bastards know good and well they can’t sell their stuff in countries where they make it because they’re paying slave wages . European and major Asian countries won’t let them get away without paying taxes , so let the SOB’s leave and I say good riddence .

Is that so? Are you telling me that people who lost their jobs don’t have to pay taxes on their unemployment check or RE taxes on their homes if they’ve got one left or sales taxes when they buy shoes or other necessary staples?

Is that so? Are you telling me that people who lost their jobs don’t have to pay taxes on their unemployment check or RE taxes on their homes if they’ve got one left or sales taxes when they buy shoes or other necessary staples?

Hear, hear!

Hear, hear!

Every asshole and his brother talks about this like there’s a shining silver bullet that is the one thing that will do the trick…

Horseshit…raising taxes would be only one part of a giant series of things that would not only help…but would be collectively necessary and right. No one likes it…but decades of slashing taxes on everyone except the working folks has left us with a broke government and a broke populace…maybe its time to shift gears and go back to that era of mystical wisdom that worked so well until we broke it…raise taxes on the wealthy and on corporations, spend less, stop occupying half the globe, and less corporate welfare to global outsourcers. That recipe led to the wealthiest, most influential, most powerful country in the world…and abandoning that recipe left us the faded, washed up, impoverished country cousin that the rest of the world clucks their tongue at with pity.

Every asshole and his brother talks about this like there’s a shining silver bullet that is the one thing that will do the trick…

Horseshit…raising taxes would be only one part of a giant series of things that would not only help…but would be collectively necessary and right. No one likes it…but decades of slashing taxes on everyone except the working folks has left us with a broke government and a broke populace…maybe its time to shift gears and go back to that era of mystical wisdom that worked so well until we broke it…raise taxes on the wealthy and on corporations, spend less, stop occupying half the globe, and less corporate welfare to global outsourcers. That recipe led to the wealthiest, most influential, most powerful country in the world…and abandoning that recipe left us the faded, washed up, impoverished country cousin that the rest of the world clucks their tongue at with pity.

Pain for thee, not for me. Welcome to the Corporate States of Amerika.

Christ! I’m sick of these FKN idiots. Raise taxes on imports to 20% and you fix EVERYTHING! Obama, please let me introduce you to the history of Hoover! Oh, It seems you already know him, hmmm… Seems you like him too you corporate FKN wh0re!

I concur. However, at the present time, a large segment of our population is busy ensuring that the wealthy become even wealthier. Another segment of the population is busy supporting those who are making it possible for the rich to become richer. While another large chunk is trying to figure out where their next meal is going to come from. Those who are left (yourself and myself included) are busy bullshitting on Internet forums.

The confusion comes from the conservative take over of the media . While there does seem to be some hope when you see there are quite a few that understand the situation when we’re busy bullshitting on internet forums . It then occurs to me that for every 1 poster on the liberal or neutral web sites there are probably 100 sopping up conservative propaganda and misinformation on talk radio and conservative sites . Yep , it’s definitely an uphill climb . If you have any suggestions I’m all ears , but at present the choice seems to be between voting for the lesser of two evils or bullshitting on internet forums .

The confusion comes from the conservative take over of the media . While there does seem to be some hope when you see there are quite a few that understand the situation when we’re busy bullshitting on internet forums . It then occurs to me that for every 1 poster on the liberal or neutral web sites there are probably 100 sopping up conservative propaganda and misinformation on talk radio and conservative sites . Yep , it’s definitely an uphill climb . If you have any suggestions I’m all ears , but at present the choice seems to be between voting for the lesser of two evils or bullshitting on internet forums .

I knows dat is you Oli’var, you not disguise self by say pancake, every ones knows is hotcake. No pancake, is hotcake! I know what you do in barn with Eb, I tell every body if don’t leave me lone. Now go to Sam’s and get me flour eggs Oli’var, andt leave Eb’s behindt!

I knows dat is you Oli’var, you not disguise self by say pancake, every ones knows is hotcake. No pancake, is hotcake! I know what you do in barn with Eb, I tell every body if don’t leave me lone. Now go to Sam’s and get me flour eggs Oli’var, andt leave Eb’s behindt!

If wishes were horses . . .

If wishes were horses . . .

I beg to differ now. It’s not just the conservative media, it’s all the media. The lefties are just as bad minus the hatred and incitement of violence. They both cater to the same masters: the corporations that own them.

Nope. I’ve got no suggestions. How can I possible pretend to be able to undo or fight what the corporations, government and elite of this country has carefully done for the past 40 or 50 years? Besides, I firmly believe that there is no hope for mankind. We’re wired wrong. Bullshitting on Internet forums to vent off steam is all there is…till the FBI comes knocking at our doors for doing just that and they put us away one by one.

I beg to differ now. It’s not just the conservative media, it’s all the media. The lefties are just as bad minus the hatred and incitement of violence. They both cater to the same masters: the corporations that own them.

Nope. I’ve got no suggestions. How can I possible pretend to be able to undo or fight what the corporations, government and elite of this country has carefully done for the past 40 or 50 years? Besides, I firmly believe that there is no hope for mankind. We’re wired wrong. Bullshitting on Internet forums to vent off steam is all there is…till the FBI comes knocking at our doors for doing just that and they put us away one by one.

American taxpayers should not foot the bill for infrastructure improvements around the country, the new White House chief of staff said recently. Why is it that Obama keeps on appointing all of these ultra conservative advisers? Can it be that Obama is not a secret Muslim, he’s really a secret Republican!

American taxpayers should not foot the bill for infrastructure improvements around the country, the new White House chief of staff said recently. Why is it that Obama keeps on appointing all of these ultra conservative advisers? Can it be that Obama is not a secret Muslim, he’s really a secret Republican!

Shawker. Bernie Sanders for President, whether he runs or not.

Shawker. Bernie Sanders for President, whether he runs or not.

You can say “fucking idiots” and “fucking whore” here. That’s one of the things that makes this site great.

You can say “fucking idiots” and “fucking whore” here. That’s one of the things that makes this site great.

The right way to fix infrastructure is to put Granpa and Gramma in the toll shed and feed them scraps from the table…give out lottery tickets (vouchers, raffle) for the most serious medical situations and tell the military to just go ahead and practice medicine on the battlefield…if you die…well that’s God’s will…kids don’t need education…there aren’t any jobs in the United States any way…. the Multi-National Corporations need their money to hire workers over-seas, not for paying U.S. taxes

The right way to fix infrastructure is to put Granpa and Gramma in the toll shed and feed them scraps from the table…give out lottery tickets (vouchers, raffle) for the most serious medical situations and tell the military to just go ahead and practice medicine on the battlefield…if you die…well that’s God’s will…kids don’t need education…there aren’t any jobs in the United States any way…. the Multi-National Corporations need their money to hire workers over-seas, not for paying U.S. taxes

Spoken like a true Reagan Republican who call himself a Democrat now who speaks only for the top two percent.

Spoken like a true Reagan Republican who call himself a Democrat now who speaks only for the top two percent.

Privatizing infrastructure? Oh yes, taxpayers won’t foot the bill for improving roads and bridges, they will just have to pay more later in user fees. Anything to funnel more money to your buddies in corporate America. Brilliant idea Daley, your father is rolling over in his grave.

Privatizing infrastructure? Oh yes, taxpayers won’t foot the bill for improving roads and bridges, they will just have to pay more later in user fees. Anything to funnel more money to your buddies in corporate America. Brilliant idea Daley, your father is rolling over in his grave.

“”"that investment for US infrastructure could instead come from private sources both foreign and domestic.”"”

Translation: We need more toll roads.

This jerk is pretending that tolls aren’t taxes.

“”"that investment for US infrastructure could instead come from private sources both foreign and domestic.”"”

Translation: We need more toll roads.

This jerk is pretending that tolls aren’t taxes.

If Obama put a shovel in everybody’s hand and start repairing the infrastructure, there would be no need to raise taxes! When will these clowns get it?! Put EVERYBODY to work! They will all buy Spam and bread for their lunch buckets, cars to go to work, and cell phones to talk Debbie Sue outta some of that “under plunder” on Friday night at the No Tell Motel. Everybody would be happy!

I need a new roof on my house and was wondering how I would pay for it. Bill Daley tells me I shouldn’t have to pay for it. That’s terrific! I can just get someone else to do it for me. Perhaps Mexico will fix my leaky roof. Great idea.

I’ve been censored b4 and I sometimes crosspost so I just keep it relatively clean no matter where I am. That way I don’t have to think about it.

I used to think that, you know that they had the Zapruder film on a loop in the oval office. But I have done more digging around on this Obama guy and he is CIA coneection seem uncontestable, it seems he started when he was in college. NOW DON’T JUST DISMISS THIS. Right after college he went to work for Business International Corp which is CIA boilerplate op. His mom was USAID a notorious front for the CIA. His maternal grandfather was most likely ONI. This is just the begining. It seems to make sense though. A researcher, oh hell I read this stuff a while ago, Wayne Masden (Madsen?), has written about this. Now some of the stuff out there is just WACK bullshit but that guy seems to have covered the tracks studiously.

I do hope that Bill Daley, directs his limousine driver to only traverse privately funded roads, in keeping with his “free market” principles. No interstate highways for him, or any publicly funded infrastructure.

But hasn’t Obama become quite the conservative Republican!

With the new Republican majority in Congress, he is certainly now more in his element.

Many more behind closed doors “summits” coming down the pike, with Republicans, right wing Democrats in the same league as Obama, and CEOs.

He is the Consummate Con Man.

Some idiot will come along and call me a Republican, or a Tea Partier now.

And also, I’m well aware, that we effectively have just one party in this country now, and it is of the super wealthy, by the super wealthy, and for the super wealthy. Otherwise known as fascism Mussolini style, or an oligarchy, or, or, or……whatever you wish to call it.

We need a progressive party so fucking bad. Focus on the issues, fight the corporate spin, and maybe make the world a better place for my daughter when she’s old enough to know what’s going on.

Now that’s what I call some old time 1960s style righteous rage, baby! Right On!

I promise to defend the constitution from private sources, both foreign and domestic.

Is this man out of his mind???? Ooohhhh, he means don’t raise taxes on the upper-class. So those making $250,000 shouldn’t pay their fair share for the road and services THEY use just like everyone else. Gotcha’ you tool, and a fine fuck you too.
Exactly who should pay for the rebuilding of America? CHINA????? Would that make you happy to become their new colony, they become our new overlords. Are you fucking insane Daley????
So you’re totally down with bridges crashing down around our ears and killing God knows how many people? Your okay with that? I’m not you asshole.

No taxes? Can we please for the love of COD get some real progressives in the White House?

Um….no. RED HERRING ALERT!!! RED HERRING ALERT!!!! This is code speak for privatising our infrastructure!!! Sorry, but I don’t wish to pay a toll to use roads my taxes paid for, just for instance. Quit giving money to corporations and banks without any strings, and put the money toward the common interest!!!!!

Um, do you mean that same 1% to which Obama just caved and extended their tax breaks?

It actually reminds me much more of the last days of the Empire as portrayed in Isaac Asimov’s brilliant and timeless Foundation books. I recently reread them (again) and was awestruck by the comparisons between our current society and Asimov’s vision of a future decaying galactic empire. And to think he wrote it around 1950!

They’ll still fight just as hard for cutting the effective tax load on the rich… That’s the whole strategy whether it is taxed at the corporation level or on their personal income. They wan’t to make sure that not one dollar of THEIR money goes to help anyone that they don’t deem deserving.

We already do that here in Illinois, home of… The Daleys! (no surprise there). I was quite astonished yesterday when I realized that if I purchased a CD on eBay from someone who lives here in my own town of Chicago, it would cost me less to have it mailed to me than to hop on the train and pick it up in person.

I’ve been saying for quite some time – Pay attention to what he DOES, not what he says! Actions speak way louder than speechifyin’.

Yeah, but there’s more profit and less regulation strings attached to get at it. That means if you have the capital to own the privatized entity, you can rape profits faster harder and with less trouble than by getting a govt contract. Most importantly it won’t be taxes, so the brainwashed right wing enabling voters won’t notice it. They are all convinced by the RWNM that ONLY taxes are what is dragging them down. It can’t be pay cuts, it can’t be higher gas or food prices… DEFINITELY can’t be insurance rates or tuition costs.

Republicans will vote for no taxes that are not earmarked for one of their own pockets.

Hey rich folks, you see this rage… this shit is REAL, and its growing. Although I try to type it out less blatantly, I feel this exact sentiment everytime I read one of these types of articles. You wan’t to be annoyingly rich in a poor country that hates you, continue to support the Norquist and Koch ideas and hire the security and transportation to live your sequestered life within your corners of a third world shithole. You want to be less(but still exorbitantly) rich, but not have to waste your money on high security and be able to go around and enjoy your country without fear or special transportation, then go back to payin your fucking taxes like you did when this shit worked circa 1935-1981

Progressives need to break away from the Democratic Party for a long term strategy, for my daughter, who is now seven. The Dem Party is fiscal conservative, social moderate. The Repubs are fiscal conservative, social conservative. We need a progressive party.

You won’t be censored for language here. What they look for is inter-user abuse and crazy shit like casual mentions of assassination.

Bravo.

FIND YOUR CAPS LOCK

Posts like this test everybody’s patience and obscure your points.

Your rage is understandable.

Your expression thereof is disgusting.

At this point, eight more dim-witted twits have liked this post.

All eight of you need to dial it down.

Unfocused rage leads to the Dark Side.

Thank you for taking a beat to express yourself in a more composed manner.

Last thing we need is a nation of Joe Stacks.

If a revolution’s going to happen, it cannot be awash with blood.

Scary to think that a moderate Muslim nation can go through a more even-tempered expression of their frustrations than the average American.

VoxMagi, I agree in spirit but differ on one issue here. We’re broke because of the illicit money system – money based exclusively on debt loses value over time – that is why we’re broke. We have accumulated enormous debt issued by the criminal federal reserve and lent to us via China and other investors. The interest alone on this debt eats up the taxes we pay.

Why not Mr. Daley? Are you expecting the Chinese to pay to fix the infrastructure that your bankster pals and their Teapublican enablers allowed to go to hell?

Why encourage that? Why encourage that reptile-brain reactionary crap? Does he have a point? Yes, but it’s battered in absolute hate, and he reveals himself with the “Negro in Chief” slight.

Yes, it is time to be angry, but that anger has to be channeled, not just unleashed in a fury of blood, hate, and small-minded objectives.

Like the luxury taxes on the liquor I drink to ease my anxiety?

I love these corporations!!!!
So does Obama
Our Manchurian canidate

“We have to start building gallows around the world. “

Johnny, I love you, but come on.

Or you could try the other can of relaxant which carries no tax obligations and only a prison sentence if caught in the act of relaxing with it.

No, he means privatize roads, infrastructure so that we, the little people have to pay a toll for the roads, services and other public structures that our tax dollars financed in the first place.

Welcome to FEUDAL AMERICA. GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN.

It’s not a “secret” anymore…

There you go, cowering before the awesome universe-destroying power of a word. At least this guy is engaged in feeling something, not just sending meaningless text messages and tweets to their fellow facebook zombies and spending most of their time puzzling over who to vote off of the latest “clique of the week” show like so many people I see around me. As someone who lived through the 1960s, who was right there beside the black students integrated into my formerly all-white school in the early 1970s, supporting them and protecting them from the redneck racists, I say that his use of the phrase “house negro in chief” does NOT invalidate either his rage or his expression thereof. Now perhaps you’d better go home before some “dim-witted twit” actually says the real word you’re so afraid of.

“Daley, a former Wall Street executive who opposed two of President Obama’s major initiatives, said that investment for US infrastructure could instead come from private sources both foreign and domestic.”

so lets sell the public roads and what have you to the corporations

then they will be able to charge me to use what I build with my tax dollars in the first place

great plan

you must have got your ideas from ben bernanke and timothy geithner

another wall street tool

be free and be well

JB

They’ve had control over it for the better part of 30 years, mate.

I think it is actually six. Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Columbia and the Philippines.

Efxaristo’ Dat ist Dank you in my home tongue, da Greek. da Alter ego ist 55 yr old, retired, guitar playing, socialist, atheist, no count, lazy bum, whoz lays round whilst poor vife vork, is mooch. Go by name Awwalk56. Likes my boy friend alvays says “Give a baby a hammer and wonder why there’s knots all over it’s head, give a socialist who can type a keyboard and he’ll try to rouse the masses to steal our gold” and he shouldt know these things he billionaire congressman.

What? Not enough carpenters or not enough wood? :)

This Daley, of course, is just like Daley the drenched in corruption mayor of Chicago (and with Rahm on the way, they ain’t seen nothing yet)

Read this selection from Taibbi’s book Griftopia on the Great Chicago Parking Meter Heist.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/exclusive-excerpt-america-on-sale-from-matt-taibbis-griftopia-20101018

This is a sickeningly stupid suggestion. What the hell is wrong with Daley? He is too steeped in corporate America to see reality. I can see it now: take the Home Depot expressway to the Coca-Cola turnoff and proceed west on the McDonald’s turnpike. Of course we should use tax dollars to fix our infrastructure. This is our country! We have to raise taxes, no doubt about it. The wealthy should pay 80% of the bill. When Eisenhower built the Interstate Hwy System, nobody complained. It was a great, taxpayer investment and a source of national pride. What the hell does Bill Daley know about national pride? Nothing. He knows Wall Street greed.

This is a sickeningly stupid suggestion. What the hell is wrong with Daley? He is too steeped in corporate America to see reality. I can see it now: take the Home Depot expressway to the Coca-Cola turnoff and proceed west on the McDonald’s turnpike. Of course we should use tax dollars to fix our infrastructure. This is our country! We have to raise taxes, no doubt about it. The wealthy should pay 80% of the bill. When Eisenhower built the Interstate Hwy System, nobody complained. It was a great, taxpayer investment and a source of national pride. What the hell does Bill Daley know about national pride? Nothing. He knows Wall Street greed.

Tolls on private roads are not taxes they are a gravy train of profit in perpetuity. They are little more than banditry dressed up as a service.

“”they are a gravy train of profit in perpetuity. They are little more than
banditry dressed up as a service.”"

That’s what I said. Tolls are taxes

amen

I am Ready Mega Watt