Food for thought

[sasvermont]

[pomtzu]

He would get a standing ovation from me on that one!

[Karen]

Succinct. Of course, getting any taxes on the wealthy will be a tough sell with this Congress, who don't seem to like anything, or anyone, and could disagree on the color of the sky on a clear blue day!

[Grace]

Bravo, Senator Sanders. Another standing O from me.

[Puckstop31]

Ahhh, good old Bernie Sanders... Always about robbing Peter to pay Paul, rather than teaching Paul how to earn his own living. Socialists (I can say that, because he openly admits it) never have any idea how to create anything, only how to steal it from someone else. Why work hard? Big Brother has your back.

He is correct on some of the quoted points, but missed a key component of the current mess. The part where Fedzilla forced banks to give loans to people who could never possibly pay them back. But that was OK I guess, because Fannie and Freddie bought those loans... So its all good, right?


The ONLY way out of this is for everyone to have a little pain. We have been living on maxed out credit cards for way too long. Sure, soak the rich. Streal every dime they make. It will barely make a dent. Why? Because when does government ever stop growing and spending?

My daughter is so screwed. But, don't worry, YOUR SS check will still not bounce, for now....

[Lady's Human]

Puck, soak the rich? Steal every dime they make?

Let's start with the all too real fact that only the chumps in this country pay any taxes at all.

Corporate income tax rate of 35%? Yeah, sounds high, but who actually pays that? GE? Lockmart? You're kidding me, right?

Income tax on the rich too high? The truly rich aren't paying it, they don't have income. (evidenced by Steve Job's salary structure......great PR and a tax dodge all in one!)


Yeah, we're screwed, but as shown by the deficit supercommittee,

(Pardon me whilst I LMAO, nice move, guys, full of thunder and bluster but ZERO actual effect or impact, all Congress has to do is pass a law changing the "automatic" federal spending cuts and then both sides get to whine to their base about how bad the other side is)

We're not so screwed that the children in Congress don't see this as anything other than a chance to score political points while delaying a solution to the problem.

It ain't the Democrat's fault, it ain't the Republican's fault.

It's OUR fault.

We keep reelecting the same hacks. As a country we are well and truly insane. We keep electing the same people and expecting different results.

[Bonny]

Ahhh, good old Bernie Sanders... Always about robbing Peter to pay Paul, rather than teaching Paul how to earn his own living. Socialists (I can say that, because he openly admits it) never have any idea how to create anything, only how to steal it from someone else. Why work hard? Big Brother has your back.

He is correct on some of the quoted points, but missed a key component of the current mess. The part where Fedzilla forced banks to give loans to people who could never possibly pay them back. But that was OK I guess, because Fannie and Freddie bought those loans... So its all good, right?


The ONLY way out of this is for everyone to have a little pain. We have been living on maxed out credit cards for way too long. Sure, soak the rich. Streal every dime they make. It will barely make a dent. Why? Because when does government ever stop growing and spending?

My daughter is so screwed. But, don't worry, YOUR SS check will still not bounce, for now....

Just got my very first SS check on Wednesday.

Hannah has dual citizenship so in the future she can make a decision to leave the US & move to Canada. There is a way out for her if she decides to take it.

[phesina]

Ahhh, good old Bernie Sanders... Always about robbing Peter to pay Paul, rather than teaching Paul how to earn his own living.

So how do you teach Paul this?