Obama Didn’t Stop the Middle-Class Free-Fall

Inflation-adjusted median income fell by 2.3 percent in 2010 (the last year for which official statistics are available) and dipped below $50,000 per year for the first time since 1996, the Census Bureau reports. Real median weekly wages last quarter were lower than at the same time in 2002—and down 1.5 percent from the second quarter of 2010.

he didn't have time... he was busy saving banks and wall st and corporations and throwing money to cronys in green dreams and shoving another entitlement down our throats. sooo... four more years?

PkrBum wrote:he didn't have time... he was busy saving banks and wall st and corporations and throwing money to cronys in green dreams and shoving another entitlement down our throats. sooo... four more years?

I gave you a thanks

thank you... but i don't see an option to give thanks... how do you do that?

PkrBum wrote:thank you... but i don't see an option to give thanks... how do you do that?

Well, since you asked ... get on your knees, bitch.

salinsky wrote:

PkrBum wrote:thank you... but i don't see an option to give thanks... how do you do that?

Well, since you asked ... get on your knees, bitch.

I dont think he goes that way.

FT can probaly help ya out.

I would simply ask do you think that folks paying as much as 2000 more per family in increased taxes while the wealthiest Americans get huge tax breaks.......do you think that is really the path to helping our middle class?

I think you can have every right to hate President Obama. I cannot change your fears and prejudice, but if you think the policies to give tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans is the path to restoring our middle class..........that is a total delusion. The middle class in America needs both parties to follow a simple path. Increase revenues, decrease spending, and give simple tax credits for American job creation.....it really is that simple, and if you are unwilling to increase revenues, if you are unwilling to decrease expenses, if you are unwilling to put America first with American job creation......then please get out of the way and let patriots take this country back.

2seaoat wrote:I would simply ask do you think that folks paying as much as 2000 more per family in increased taxes while the wealthiest Americans get huge tax breaks.......do you think that is really the path to helping our middle class?

I think you can have every right to hate President Obama. I cannot change your fears and prejudice, but if you think the policies to give tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans is the path to restoring our middle class..........that is a total delusion. The middle class in America needs both parties to follow a simple path. Increase revenues, decrease spending, and give simple tax credits for American job creation.....it really is that simple, and if you are unwilling to increase revenues, if you are unwilling to decrease expenses, if you are unwilling to put America first with American job creation......then please get out of the way and let patriots take this country back.

I dont have any prejudice. I simply am not a liberal. and after your comments the other day I dont think your in the position to call otherwise.

Its just this simple. You hire someone to do a job. They make promises that they can do it. They fail and your company is on the verge of colasp. You fire them and hire someone you hope can get the job done.

Thats it

If that is your extent of knowledge on our economy and how it works, I will not waste my time discussing the same. However, I am curious about the word Liberal. It seems that you say that word as if it is a dirty word. I have lived my life as a Republican. I am a fiscal conservative, but I do have many progressive or liberal ideas on some issues. I do not believe that we should be fighting the war on drugs. I think we failed, and I think prohibition seldom works. Is it a dirty word to say that you want to stop big government from growing more and hiring more police and having more pensions to pay? Is is bad to let Americans have freedoms to smoke some weed in a field and decriminalize it and simply assess a fine.

Is is bad to think that all people should have equal rights. I grew up with four bathrooms in public places. Is liberal a bad word when I think it is a waste of money to keep some people down and build extra bathrooms? I think my daughter should have every opportunity to earn what my son earns......is that liberal, and is it a dirty word. I am confident in my political opinions and independence to not be frightened of some of my liberal positions, as I make no apologies for my conservative opinions.....yep, some folks regularly make fun of my conservative positions on these forums, like conservatives are stupid, or some make fun of my liberal positions, like I am an Ivory tower socialist......nope, people are complex and politics are complex, and when someone is simple.......well they usually are really simple.

PkrBum wrote:he didn't have time... he was busy saving banks and wall st and corporations and throwing money to cronys in green dreams and shoving another entitlement down our throats. sooo... four more years?

Don't you think Romney will spend a substantial amount of time saving banks, Wall Street and corporations, too? I do. That's his background. That's what he does, who he is.

Neither of the choices are great, but I think Romney would take the middle class from its knees to prostrate. Flat. Smushed.

Right now I'm considering Gary Johnson. Even though I disagree with his health care platform, I agree with him on all the other issues.

PBulldog2 wrote:

PkrBum wrote:he didn't have time... he was busy saving banks and wall st and corporations and throwing money to cronys in green dreams and shoving another entitlement down our throats. sooo... four more years?

Don't you think Romney will spend a substantial amount of time saving banks, Wall Street and corporations, too? I do. That's his background. That's what he does, who he is.

Neither of the choices are great, but I think Romney would take the middle class from its knees to prostrate. Flat. Smushed.

Right now I'm considering Gary Johnson. Even though I disagree with his health care platform, I agree with him on all the other issues.

yes... they are both govt solution/intervention progressives. i might vote for johnson too.

PkrBum wrote:

PBulldog2 wrote:

PkrBum wrote:he didn't have time... he was busy saving banks and wall st and corporations and throwing money to cronys in green dreams and shoving another entitlement down our throats. sooo... four more years?

Don't you think Romney will spend a substantial amount of time saving banks, Wall Street and corporations, too? I do. That's his background. That's what he does, who he is.

Neither of the choices are great, but I think Romney would take the middle class from its knees to prostrate. Flat. Smushed.

Right now I'm considering Gary Johnson. Even though I disagree with his health care platform, I agree with him on all the other issues.

yes... they are both govt solution/intervention progressives. i might vote for johnson too.

It's difficult for me, since I'm a proponent of taking the big profits out of health care. Like in the last election, I have to look at what I think is best for our country as a whole rather than what I personally want.

Perhaps allowing us to cross state lines to purchase health insurance, combined with state-run insurance initiatives funded by federal block grants, would be helpful. I would like to know what his position is on insuring those with pre-existing conditions. He doesn't touch on that. Perhaps that would be an issue for individual states to consider.

Other than that, I've learned I'm on board with everything Johnson supports.

Rogue wrote:

salinsky wrote:

PkrBum wrote:thank you... but i don't see an option to give thanks... how do you do that?

Well, since you asked ... get on your knees, bitch.

I dont think he goes that way.

FT can probaly help ya out.

Stuff it, hag.