Both Democrats and Republicans operate under the assumption that the rich are job creators; if that logic held, we’d have evidence of it by now.
You can label yourself a ‘job creator’ and insist you deserve huge pay because you ‘work harder’ than lowly ‘moochers’ who make up the 47%.
Defending tax cuts for the rich because raising rates on the top 2% would, supposedly, be bad for the economy isn’t just ethically squishy, it’s also just plain bad economics.
American politics is at a crossroad in how we look at campaigns and how we are manipulated to choose our elected leaders.
This confirms what we’ve always known: giving more money to the rich does nothing good for the economy.
The Ryan Budget will not spur economic growth (except for Banking Industry) while Paul Ryan continues to lie (about everything) and distorts the Obama economic record on business bankruptcies.
Gingrich’s entire philosophy is based on falsehoods, the first being that rich people are job creators. They simply aren’t.
Obviously you can continue to support Romney, that is your prerogative, but if your rationale for voting for Romney is ‘he’s not Obama,’ you open yourself up to questioning.
Rush Limbaugh, always looking for the next opportunity to stroke his favorite erogenous zone, his ego, claimed in Tuesday’s show that he and his syndicator, EIB Network, have created more jobs than Mitt Romney and Barack Obama combined.
Having wealthy people is useful; but we need enough money in the hands of average consumers to support that wealth. Concentrate too much of the available wealth into too few hands and you get less ability to consume which means less effective demand.
It seems Sharon Bialek, a former National Restaurant Association employee, also alleges she went to Cain in 1997 for help getting a new job and instead of offering her sound advice or assisting her in her job search, he decided to play naughty OBGYN.
You hear a lot of talk in Republican circles about ‘Personal Responsibility.’ It sounds great, doesn’t it? Americans are a rugged bunch. We like to do things ourselves.
The President quite rightly predicted in his speech that the Republicans will mindlessly fall back on their old worn out rhetoric of chanting ‘Class Warfare’. How predictable the foolish are… as the President said of Speaker Boehner, when given an ultimatum of ‘my way or the highway’ …that is not smart…and that’s not right.
Almost every Republican in Congress made a pledge to a powerful Washington lobbyist that they would never raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans. This was not a pledge to represent the American people or to protect America’s interests as a whole. It was a pledge to protect Wall Street instead of Main Street.
The Religious Right or the ‘Christian Right’ is a political group which advocates for socially conservative policies, believed to be aligned with Christian values and/or doctrine depending on the particular denomination. However, in a nation with a two party political system, the integration of Christian values in political discourse is somewhat of a double edged sword.
Where should the Government put the focus? As Americans we pay taxes to the federal, state, and local governments. This revenue is meant to support the Government so it can continue to meet its obligations; which include national defense, parks, airports, shipping ports, transportation, education, etc.
