To President Obama: Spare us hollow sermons on taxing the very rich

[MCWAY]

I couldn't have said it better myself:

President Obama, we have endured your unfledged theories on how to be more popular around the world.

We have survived your whimsical approaches to economic recovery. Save. No, spend! Borrow more!

And your earnest dabbles as physician, public-health expert and hospital administrator have left us bewildered and broke for decades to come.

All this we suffer because, after all, we did elect you president. You beat the other guy.

But on behalf of America and her highest ideals, we make one request as you embark on your latest crusade to raise taxes.

Please, please, please, we beg you, just spare us your hollow sermonizing about how the rich such as yourself need to pay higher taxes.

Rarely do you miss an opportunity to remind us that you are among the “fortunate” wealthy who have a responsibility to give up more of what they have earned so that they can pay for all of the theft and recklessness going on in Washington, including your own cockeyed new schemes.

It is not that you don’t have a right to brag about your wealth. God bless you, it is the American way. We are truly thrilled that you are now wealthy.

The problem is how you wield this information......

In your attempt to guilt the wealthy and divide the rich from the less rich, you assault our highest principles.

In the first place, wealthy people already pay the lion’s share of taxes. Telling them they are not paying their fair share desecrates the enormous sacrifices they make.

What is most insulting about this shakedown is that you talk about your wealth as if you earned it the way most wealthy people in America do. And we’re not talking about Hollywood miscreants or the obscene tycoons who pillaged our treasury - with your permission - as soon as the economy tanked.

We’re talking about the inventors, the small-business owners, the great savers all across America.

These are people who worked their hearts out their entire lives. They’re dreamers who dumped their fortunes into something they believed in. They took risks - with their own money - and refused to fail......

You, of course, earned your wealth a different way. You earned it by talking. That is what you have done your entire life.

You’re talking about your anger and your dad. Talking about race. You’re talking all through law school. You’re talking about how everybody on the street needs to get organized.

You talk your way into the Illinois Senate, the U.S. Senate and then you talk your way into the White House.


You have never created a single job except with other people’s money. And in most cases, that money has been in the form of tax dollars - collected under the threat of a gun and jail time.

There is no shame in this.

Many fine Americans have earned their fortunes talking. Jerry Springer and Oprah Winfrey come to mind. They inspire many, as do you.

But like you and the government you represent, they are not the true creators who make America so free and so fair. That responsibility falls to the patriots whose ranks you claim to have joined.

They are the greatest of America, and they should be celebrated and rewarded. Not insulted and punished.



http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/apr/12/hurt-spare-us-hollow-sermons-on-taxing-the-very-ri/?page=3

[Soul Crusher]

Republicans React to Obama’s Speech: ‘And I Missed Lunch for This?”
CNSNews ^

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Republicans React to Obama’s Speech: ‘And I Missed Lunch for This?” Thursday, April 14, 2011 By Susan Jones

(CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama gave three Republicans -- Reps. Paul Ryan (Wis.) Dave Camp (Mich.), and Jeb Hesarling (Texas) -- a front-row seat at his "deficit" speech on Wednesday, then proceeded to blast the Republicans' detailed plan to fix the nation's economic woes, without offering details of his own.

According to Obama, Republicans have concluded that "even though we can't afford to care for seniors and poor children, we can somehow afford more than $1 trillion in new tax breaks for the wealthy." He also accused Republicans of wanting to end Medicare “as we know it.”

Rep. Jeb Hensarling said he was honored to receive an invitation to the speech, but as it turns out, it was something he could have watched back at his office: "I don’t know about my colleagues, but I thought to myself, ‘And I missed lunch for this?’" Hensarling said afterwards.

“This was not a speech designed for America to win the future. This was a speech designed for the president to attempt to win reelection. This was a speech that prioritizes the next election over the next generation. It was a speech that was heavy on aspirational goals and exceedingly light on specific proposals," Hensarling said.


(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...

[MCWAY]

Republicans React to Obama’s Speech: ‘And I Missed Lunch for This?”
CNSNews ^

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Republicans React to Obama’s Speech: ‘And I Missed Lunch for This?” Thursday, April 14, 2011 By Susan Jones

(CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama gave three Republicans -- Reps. Paul Ryan (Wis.) Dave Camp (Mich.), and Jeb Hesarling (Texas) -- a front-row seat at his "deficit" speech on Wednesday, then proceeded to blast the Republicans' detailed plan to fix the nation's economic woes, without offering details of his own.

According to Obama, Republicans have concluded that "even though we can't afford to care for seniors and poor children, we can somehow afford more than $1 trillion in new tax breaks for the wealthy." He also accused Republicans of wanting to end Medicare “as we know it.”

Rep. Jeb Hensarling said he was honored to receive an invitation to the speech, but as it turns out, it was something he could have watched back at his office: "I don’t know about my colleagues, but I thought to myself, ‘And I missed lunch for this?’" Hensarling said afterwards.

“This was not a speech designed for America to win the future. This was a speech designed for the president to attempt to win reelection. This was a speech that prioritizes the next election over the next generation. It was a speech that was heavy on aspirational goals and exceedingly light on specific proposals," Hensarling said.


(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...

It's a good thing they missed lunch. Otherwise, they would have up-chucked it after hearing this bile from Obama.

[Soul Crusher]

Like i said - it was disgusting.   He is a ghetto hood rat, a communist, a marxist, an sleeper cell traitor, a liar, a grifter and thief, an ignorant mini-madoff, and the ultimate con man.

Actually at this point I have a lower opinion of those who still support him in light of this than even he himself.