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Posted By pc25 5 months ago in NewsDuring President Obama's "townhall" event on healthcare reform today, the pesky subject of taxing employer-based benefits again reared its head. It's a policy proposal for which Obama savaged John McCain during the campaign. As Jim Geraghty reminds us in "Barack Obama is a Big Fat Liar," Team Obama spent $44 million on more than a dozen ads specifically denouncing McCain's supposedly reckless idea in the fall. But now the White House — desperate for revenue — seems to be changing its tune:
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pc255 months ago
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Video: Press corps now openly laughing at Obama’s backtracking on taxes
It’s a laugh riot, isn’t it? Actually, they might be laughing more at Gibbs’s feeble way of ducking the question than The One’s looming broken promise, but in Gibbs’s defense, what’s he supposed to say? Obama pounded McCain for wanting to pay for health care by taxing benefits, rode into D.C. promising Change, and now he’s going to eat a crap sandwich by reversing himself because it turns out personal charisma doesn’t work on hard economic numbers.-
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hyperbola5 months ago
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Ah my, the israel-firsters in a dither again. Actually the "contortions" the Obama administration is encountering in health care have to do with too many compromises with "hard-liners" who make abusive profits from the present system. They should just forget the discredited hard-liners and introduce a single-payer scheme. It can be paid for easily by simply abandoning the futile attemtps to control the world militarily.
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pc255 months ago
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Surprise: Axelrod refuses to rule out tax hike to pay for ObamaCare
I don’t blame him. The “pile of sh*t” that passed the House on Friday, which even Obama pal Warren Buffett describes as a “huge tax,” already shattered The One’s pledge not to raise taxes on people who make less than $250,000. Now that they’re in for a penny, they might as well be in for a pound:
I pressed Axelrod on whether Obama will draw a line in the sand and veto any bill that funds health care reform with tax hikes for people making under $250,000 a year — a pledge Barack Obama made during the 2008 presidential campaign.
“One of the problems we’ve had in this town is that people draw lines in the sand and they stop talking to each other. And you don’t get anything done. That’s not the way the president approaches us. He is very cognizant of protecting people — middle class people, hard-working people who are trying to get along in a very difficult economy. And he will continue to represent them in these talks,” Axelrod said.
“But they’re also dealing with punishing health care costs, and that’s something that we have to deal with.” -
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nostalgia5 months ago
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You can't listen to ANYTHING this administration says. You need to watch what they actually do
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It was laughable this week to hear members of the administration lauding their stimulus bill and talk about how it is "working" even in light of the unemployment figures!-
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hyperbola5 months ago
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Well, that is certainly true in foreign policy where so far Obama is continuing the futile "military imperialism" of the Bush administration all over the globe. Our elite (of both parties) will bankrupt us for their pleasure and profit in foreign countries if we do not end our imperialism.
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The Significance Of Obama's Coup Attempt In Honduras
http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/07/02/the-sign...
There should be no doubts about the U.S.’ decisive role behind the now-crumbling military coup in Honduras. As commander and chief of the U.S. armed forces, the blame for this intervention lies solely on President Obama.
The White House, however, would like you to believe that they “attempted to convince the Honduran military not to intervene.”
Rubbish.
When it comes to the Honduran military, the U.S. government needn’t ask permission for anything. The decades long relationship between the two institutions is one of dependence — Honduras’ military has long been financed and trained by the U.S....
... The reason for the coup lies in President Zelaya’s recent foreign policy shift — away from the United States towards Venezuela and the rest of Latin America. This turn was the result of the United States largely ignoring Honduras, after a long lasting, villainous relationship had ended: the U.S. had, for years, funneled large amounts of cash and arms to the Honduran government to kill the regions political leftists, the high point being the regions turbulent 1980’s.
After Zelaya was elected in 2006 (he still has one year left in his term), he promised to shift Honduras’ politics toward helping the poorer layers. He realized that he could not achieve any of his promises with the scant amount of aide from the U.S. and looked instead to the Latin American trade association, ALBA. Zelaya explained:
"I have been looking for projects from the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, Europe and I have received very moderate offers ... that forces us to find other forms of financing like ALBA." ( Rueters, April 26,2008 )
The U.S. government did not like this move, since it prefers U.S. banks to dominate the economies of Latin American countries.
...Obama himself does nothing to condemn the coup. Yes, he is “deeply concerned” about the events in Honduras, but his vague comments about “dialogue” and respecting “legal procedures” is full of loopholes — big enough for a coup to squeeze through.-
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hyperbola5 months ago
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If Obama immediately refused to recognize the newly installed coup government in Honduras, while threatening to withdraw U.S. military and financial aide — along with the U.S. ambassador — the coup would dissolve in seconds. Strong actions like these, however, were completely absent.
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...the broader motive for the coup. The U.S. banks and other corporations that once dominated Latin America are being quickly pushed aside, so that governments may use their country’s wealth for social services and real economic development — not foreign for-profit plunder.
The U.S. coup attempt in Honduras is thus a sign of desperation. It was also a huge gamble. Obama had hoped that the U.N. and OAS would let this one slide. It was also hoped that the Honduran people would be intimidated by martial law and a communications blackout. Neither was the case.
Huge protests have defied the military-ordered curfew. Latin American countries have united in defiance of a tyrannical U.S. policy. It is reported that these happenings are causing splits in the Honduran military, while also a general strike was being prepared by the nation’s trade unions.
In consequence, the coup is likely to crumble, and Obama’s first attempt to re-tame Latin America will have failed. The actions of the U.N. and OAS are striking examples of the shrinking international influence of the U.S., meaning that future interventions — both military and economic — are likely to be more direct to restore U.S. hegemony. Obama’s more-subtle attempts to uphold U.S. “influence” in the world will ultimately require blunter, Bush-like tactics.
If the Honduran coup fails, Obama will eloquently discuss how pleased he is that “democracy was restored” — while refusing to admit that he tried to kill it.-
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Wolfie20075 months ago
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That is one very radical left wing ideology. Sort of puts the brakes on that crap that the left wing only uses violence when it assured no one will get hurt and/or die. I hear "The Coming Insurrection" is the latest thing with the radical lefties in the US. -
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pc255 months ago
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apparently all of his appointees.......seems like the requirement to work in the Obama administration is you have to have tax problems.............and in case you for crusader cross boy this is what he was slamming McCain over during the campaign or do you have a problem with comprehension
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lloydm655 months ago
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I do not have a problem with taxing health care dollars.That has been one of the reasons we have all these uninsured.I was griping about it in the fifties,I made less money than my cousin.and paid for my health care with dollars that had been taxed.I have my insurance,and don.t need any help.Helping the uninsured get private coverage is a laudable goal
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