"Lifelong Republican" EPA Chiefs Back Obama

Amazing! Thanks for this information.

Ok, now that all of the critical thinking Republicans have intelligently "abandoned ship", let the others go down in flames with McCain still at the helm yelling, "WE'VE GOT EM RIGHT WHERE WE WANT EM!"

Right, my fellow prisoners??? Errrr, anybody there???

(crickets chirping)

POTUS OBAMA - IT'S A LOCK
(Rest in Peace Grandma Toot)

Let's win this for Toot!

Great news, now maybe we can finally be more united in electing Barack Obama as our 44th president. And Toot will truly be able to rest in peace knowing her vote counted and her grandson made it to the whitehouse.

*inhales deeply*

Ah, I love the smell of an untainted oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere in the morning! It's a good day to be an American!

Obama should have been with his grandmother when she died.

He didn't need to reiterate for the umpteenth time his ideas for the future. No one would have changed their vote because of it.

FYI - The rich are paying your way right now, unless you're paying your fair share of the federal budget (3 trillion / 300 million people = $10,000 for every man-woman-child).

My household with wife and 3 children would owe $50,000 just for federal taxes and we make about $100,000 a year.

If you kill the golden goose (the rich), who's going to pay your bills?

The rich, without greed, could retire tomorrow and you'd have to start paying the income taxes that were being collected on them.

Or would you go for that last ditch effort to taking the money out of their accounts directly?

Socialism only guarantees us the same poor conditions as everyone else. We've seen this before in low productivity countries with no incentives. If you're going to punish people for success, why would anyone try to do better?

With high taxation, the real cost of consumer debt creation is more than you'd think. Debt is paid off with after-tax money. A dollar borrowed will cost you about $1.30 in earnings to payoff even without interest considerations.

We find in recessions that governments go into the red because tax collections lean so heavily on the rich. When the rich aren't making much money or capital gains, public debt soars.

If you're making 100k a year, you get a tax cut. If you're clearing more than a cool quarter million a year, you'll be back to where you were before Bush instituted his "welfare for the wealthy" tax breaks... a few percentage points higher than where you are now. You're whining about chump change.

Everybody out there whose grand ambitions to be a millionaire are now off the tracks because the top two tax brackets are going up 2-3%, raise your hands. Be honest. I just want to see those hands for whom 3% is a deal breaker, offsetting all the benefits to the point that you no longer want to be filthy rich.

That's what I thought.

The people who get the most out of the social contract pay the most back. That's the way it is. Deal with it.

Socialism is when the state owns the means of production. It does not describe modest changes to the current progessive tax system.

Do you people really believe that repeating lies and distortions over and over again makes them any more true?

Better Dead than Red

Just wait and see. You think those election promises show reality? Those empty promises, vision will collide with reality. Have you not read the Associated Press' article that was printed 19 minutes shortly after Obama was elected?

Promises fail because often the means of implementing them become unavailable, giving way to reality. Lies are what we tell ourselves and others to alter reality to suit our selfish needs. Which one represents the greater evil?