Democrats and Obama: No Wonder He's Torn

It is very easy to take and harder to give. You are happy to penalize those who work hard and make more then you think is fair. Yet, those are the people that pay the majority of the taxes. I understand the basic theory of greed, but it seems the democrats have a market on greed now. Pigs get fat and hogs get slottered. I am sure most of you are savvy about our financial history. Excessive taxation has never worked, why try to recreate the wheel. Interestingly, the majority are not the "Haves", but yet there are an increasing number who say they are willing to work for what the want and don't feel they are entitled. Clearly, we live in the Entitlement generation, but that is not the sector that will put America back on top. Take pride in what you contribute!

Cut every departmental budget, salary and pension in the federal government 10%. Eliminate the cabinet level posts of Energy, Education, Transportation, HUD, Homeland Security, Agriculture and Labor. This is just for starters. If the debt is still too high, do it again next year. The founders felt we could get by with 4 departments--State, Defense, Justice and Treasury. Let's get back to basics.

There is no one to stop you people who want higher taxes from voluntarily paying more. If you are so worried about debts and the future of our economy, then by all means, pay 50% or more to the federal government. They wont mind. The problem with this particular bill is, while it keeps taxes at a close-to-sane level, it also adds to spending, which is foolish. Cut spending across the board, and start acting like money is a finite resource. It certainly is in my home. Lastly, lets not make this a GOP/DNC thing too much. Clinton deregulated before Bush, and Bush stimulated before Obama. Neither party (until perhaps recently) could stomach the idea of real fiscal reform, because reform will necessarily touch one of the Big Three Untouchables in the national budget : Defense, Social Security, and Medicare/Medicaid. Plan for your own future, America. Government cannot provide it.

A compormise that includes a extended tax cut for the rich is just purely insane, and the cuts that Obama is dangling to us are allready in place. He cannot act as if these are new cuts to help the rest of us. America voted for the right and their great idea is to add to the deficit, holding the rest of us at bay. Way to go America, gee who paid for alot of the campains that you voted for, the same people who want their money back now in the form of extended cuts for them, AND YOU VOTED FOR IT. It was sad to watch the middle class taking to the streets yelling nonsense like Obama is a socialist, geniues, now watch your social security and medicare get attacked because the top 2$ doesn't them and the republicans have to reduce their expanded debt from somewhere, WAY TO GO INFORMED VOTERS.

The trouble with this so-called "compromise" is there is no compromise from the Republicans. Giving people unemployment bennies is no compromise. I know this: If the Republicans mostly like this bill, it is bad for Americans workers. Period.

Obama is center-right to the GOP's extreme right. Obama has said from the get-go he prefers a compromise. So any compromise between those two sides will be a net gain for the right. So the left and the progressives rightfully feel they have no voice in Washington. "party of no"/"Democrats can't govern"/whatever - that's just sand in our eyes. The tug-of-war is between center-right to extreme-right anyway. The Permanent Republican Majority is a reality. Some Republicans just have a 'D' next to their name - is all.

Gee, who is the, "party of no", now?...

"I'm not a member of any organized political party. I'm a Democrat". - Will Rogers

It took the Republicans years to destroy our economy and they are trying to make Obama rebuild it in a Day. Oh I get it, they thought he was GOD. Boy are they in some type of denial? Maybe the "Haves" should take some of their money and develop a "half way transition to the real world counseling program". They should also be the participants in the counseling sessions and spend a life time trying to find out it they are ready to give input on how to fix the world. One key to the success of a program like this would be to make sure the staff that worked in this program were not anything like them.

I am not a political supporter of President Obama, but I do support his endeavor to reach a compromise, albeit a temporary solution. Have the Democrats such short memories? Weren't their policies voted to be less desirable amongst the electorate? This standoff goes to show that the wealthy democrats are willing to sacrifice the middle class in some kind of absurd point that they are trying to help us. It reminds me of union officials telling their members that they need to hold out for more money and benefits (because THEY deserve these things) and end up losing their jobs because the company can no longer support the workforce. What's the point? Make the sacrifice, help many people, and sincerely strive to work diligently together on a ;ong term solution that we all can live with.