John Boehner Calls on Obama to Fire Entire Economic Team

How come Boehner didn't say the same thing of Bush when we were losing over 700,000 jobs a month with the 2 Bush tax cuts still in place? Those same tax cuts are still only creating mounting deficits.

Has nobody noticed that the tax cuts didn't work? The only thing the last 10 years have produced is more millionaires, and more poor people. The only time those with the big bucks reinvest meaningfully in the economy is when they need to reduce their tax burden. If you just give tax breaks to them, they buy luxury items built in other countries like Scandinavian yachts or Italian sports cars that catch fire. The only way to make tax cuts work is to link them to a specific activity like building a manufacturing plant on American soil. Our economy has been solely dependent on consumer spending for decades and we are under attack from the oligopoly. The first domino fell when the oil companies abused the commodities exchanges to drive up the value of their oil supply contracts and stripped away the disposable income from a majority of the American public and giving a large number of people a view of how fragile their economic survival actually is. People continue to blame low income borrowers for the housing market collapse, but it takes a lot of $150,000 houses to equal the losses incurred by the speculators who walked away from $5 to $10 million properties. If anyone has actually been paying attention, the speculators are attacking our food system, having exhausted all the other means to screw the American consumer. Egg prices have already spiked due to lower supply (ignoring the fact that nobody will buy eggs until the salmonella situation has been soundly resolved). Ranchers are raising fewer cattle, supposedly electing to retire debt than increasse herd size (when the truth of the matter is that they can make the same or more money from higher prices for fewer cattle). Analysts are predicting higher prices for bread, pasta and other staples of our diet. If those in business and governmant don't wake up to the fact that there is no more in our pockets to be picked, it won't be a recession or even depression. It will be a total collapse, and their millions of dollars will be as worthless as old newspaper, and if you think globalization will keep them afloat, remember we very nearly avoided a global collapse in the financial markets because the US housing market faltered and all the major financial markets were invested with us. It's already happening, but none of the "expert authorities" seem to see it.

It is sad that Obama is being held accountable for the mess Bush and his croonies made. Obama did not create this mess it was created during the Bush Administration and people want this man to fix it. Hogwash any sensible, smart and intelligent person knows that what took Bush eight years to destroy can not be undone in two years particularly when people are unminding, plotting and scheming to make the president look bad...shame on you America bad...bad...bad

They can call it rhetoric if they want, but the strategy has worked time and time again. In recent history, it worked under Reagan and worked under W. Bush. Tax cuts for the wealthy generates tax revenue for Uncle Sam. How? It stimulates business growth. Business growth creates jobs. The democrats policy of not focusing on jobs and instead trying to stimulate the economy by spending borrowed money is a recipe for disaster. If the Bush tax cuts expire, you can kiss any hope of job recovery goodbye, along with the democrats who are seeking re-election.

An intellectual lightweight gearing up for elections.

John is a man who golfs in the triple digits a year goes to the tanning salons alot and is himself the main block of this country ever recovering. He should submit his resignation as he has done nothing to help the average American or this country

Tom Daschle tried in vain to warn us what tax breaks for the filthy rich would mean. The gw bush administration and the republican congress promised it would be good for everyone. But what it did was take money from the middle class and gave it to the very wealthiest class in the country. After that Wall street threw all that money into a black hole called the stock market. The rich are still rich but the money they lost was from the backbone of America. The middle class is dying a slow miserable death. But the rich are still buying yachts while they accumulate everything the middle class can't afford. What happened to the Democrats that tried to warn us? They got drummed out of office as nay sayers!

Well, I think John Boehner can understand now how important is The HealthCare Reform in America to help all the American companies hiring people in Mexico, Indonesia, Viet Nam, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Russia, China and South Korea, etc. reaffirm their patriotism working in our nation. After all, they will not be responsible for paid Health Insurance, because for each person working with them if they paid Health insurance, also they will get money back in tax brake. So, that is great. Whithout Healthcare Reform, we do not have real change in America and Europe Union will be in the funeral of the dollar soon if you continue delaying that change in America, generation after generation, yoking each president with the hope of the American citizens. The problem is that the economy advisers today, they know, that the system is gonna died soon in the fight Euro vs. Dollar. The other thing what kind of change do you have in USA when the Rent of an studio appartment is $600 in Downtown Pennsylvania? So, what to say about the Morgate payments in each state? What kind of change are you talking about when the president fire their entire economic adviser or if any president does it. So, do you think we are stupid?

Boehner ought to stick to giving his advice in the barroom (where he is known to spend considerable time). As for tax cuts, he opposes reinstatement of the cuts made by the Bush administration - the cuts for the very wealthy and were not in anyway helpful to the average taxpayer. The re-instatement of those taxes would mean the economy wouldn't have the added burden of $3.6 trillion dollars. As for giving the very rich the tax cut with claims of it somehow trickling down to the rest of us - no way - they pocket the cash and continue to send jobs overseas. The wealth distribution in America has grown so bad that we might start considering a large number of American citizens have become nothing less than 21st century serfs tied to jobs they cannot afford to lose for fear there is nothing beyond crappy minimum wage in a service job atmosphere. The Republican Party and their cohorts have killed the American dream. If the Republican Party had anything to offer - it would have, instead of spending the last 18 months voting against virtually every piece of legislation brought before the Senate. They stifled the government to the point that it brought government to a near stand still. And how American was that - they wave the flag and talk about what patriots they are as they protect big industry and line their pockets with money while American workers are moved into the streets and the welfare lines.

Given their performance as well as questionable personal financal/tax dealings, suggesting that they be let go and start over certainly seems a modest and reasonable suggestion...whoever it is coming from. After the November elections, it is likely that they would have to be either scapegoated or fall on their swords anyway.