We must be looking at different evidence then... And don't forget about this little event happening next week... Town Hall for Hope Its time to take the country back from fedzilla.
Odds on, you are apparently against the tax break most people have been getting from Obama's plan. Will be giving the tax break back to the govt.?
Obama's current budget DWARFS any budget Bush ever put out there, no matter how wasteful. No one is really getting a tax decrease because with all the current spending we're going to be FORCED to increased taxes IN THE FUTURE to pay for it. either explicitly by taxes or implicitly by inflation. the effect is still the same. That is what the people who can see more than 1 month in advance are protesting.
...which, of course, is because Bush liked to hide his most massive expenditures off-budget and request them separately (two wars). Transparency - that's what I call change. LOL, no it's not, most of those tea bagging ass-wombats could not tell aggregate demand from the hole in their arse where their head currently resides. I would love to actually have a discussion on the long-term effects of budget deficits & demand stimuluses with them, along with the inadequacy of monetary policy to affect the curren unpleasantnes - but the simple fact is that most of those people (and many on this BBS) either do not have or choose not to exercise the basic background in macroeconomics which it takes to have such a discussion. That is why back a few months ago we had such gems of lines as "This isn't stimulus, it's just SPENDING!" or "the MARKET has SPOKEN!!111!!!" - these lines would get the speaker a grade of FAIL in any introductory economics class, as they are evidence of the speaker only knowing slogans rather than having any actual knowledge.
well all the photos my republican friends are sending me of the folks attending these events seem to have a MUCH bigger issue with obama than anything else. weird.
alright, I'll concede that most of the people have no idea what they are protesting. but, doesn't mean they are wrong.
lol. Joe the Plumber apparently spoke at one of these "rallies" in Michigan. I award these protests a giant cup of FAIL.
There is a very significant chance that, after factoring in the off budget suplimentals and other accounting slight of hand tricks, Bush's real and actual 2009 budget will be larger than Obama's real and actual 2010 budget.
I don't know, most of them are waving teabags around in the rain, arguing that Obama's plans are an implementation of some variant of Marxist-Leninsm, or that the expiration of Bush 2003 tax cuts, per the language written into the bill" is "taxation without representation". By any logical definition, these people are just plain wrong.
The other major "news" outlet got owned by trying to cover the event "objectively". <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/6G3fvNhdoc0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/6G3fvNhdoc0&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> Guess it was hard for her to deal with the situation since she already had her and her networks agenda in place.
