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Tag: "budget"

WaPo on Obama budget: nearly all will pay higher taxes

The Washington Post reported the a nonpartisan analysis found that “ earners at nearly every income level would face a somewhat higher tax burden.” The Tax Policy Center study found that Anericans earning less than $200,000 will pay higher taxes despite the President’s 2008 pledge to the middle class unequivocally stating that they would see absolutely no increase [...]

Obama’s Budget Plan: Raise Taxes on Middle Class, Gut Charities

$800 billion in tax increases form the center of President Obama’s new budget plan with some $1.2 Billion in cuts to future spending growth. Neither side seems to willing to support the plan. Democrats say that the tax increases don’t go far enough and point to the liberal plan from the Senate that raises taxes [...]

Shorter Jay Carney: Obama’s Not King, You Know

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney spoke about the much delayed budget President Obama will finally unveil next week. “What I will say is that this is not the president’s idealized budget,” said Carney,  “It is not what he would do if he were king, or if only people who supported his proposals were in [...]

Obama pivots to spanish language television after failures on budget, guns, healthcare

The President is scheduled for sit-down interviews with Spanish language television networks Telemundo and Univision in an attempt to refocus American’s attention from his failures on the budget and gun control and the growing negative view Americans have on Obamacare. President Obama is likely to focus on immigration reform – something that is much more [...]

This Week On The Left

Second Amendment: The Battle Rages On It’s hard to believe that in 2013 there would still be an attack on Constitutional rights…but there is. The most recent(and surprisingly well sustained) is against our right to bear arms. This past week President Obama re-upped his gun control push calling on Vice President Biden and NYC Mayor [...]

How Joe Biden Spent $585,000 for One Night in Paris

Have you really thought about that? Here’s how he did it. There are more stories about this than I have toothpicks and we owned a restaurant. (Trust me, you end up with a lot of toothpicks after closing a restaurant.) I have a much different take on things but first “the facts:” When you think [...]

Is House Passed GOP Budget Hopeless?

via Pennua.org   On Thursday, the House passed the GOP Budget Plan, authored by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis). It passed almost entirely down partisan lines with a 221-207 vote. Ryan’s plan is geared toward balancing the budget within 10 years through a series of huge spending cuts equaling $4.6 trillion that primarily affect funding of [...]

Dem Senators On Budget Committee Unanimously Oppose Balancing The Federal Budget

During the mark-up of what would be the first Senate budget in four years, Senate Republicans offered two separate amendments to balance the budget in 10 years. Democrat members on Committee voted against both of these amendments. Sessions’ amendment would reduce revenues in the Chairman’s Mark to the level of revenues in CBO’s February baseline [...]

Obama: I was FOR Sequestration Before I was AGAINST it.

Remember this? In 2011 President Obama threatened to veto any attempt by Republicans to change the Sequestration cuts. But last week? President Obama talks of Armageddon, chaos will erupt and life as we know it will end. Oops…maybe the pendulum swung too far…and the president again rethinks his position telling the Business Council that this [...]

Obama and Defense Spending

Here is a quote from Matthew Spalding, Ph.D., in a great article at The Foundry: “Military strategy should drive the budget, not the other way around. The mission of the United States military is determined by America’s vital interests and an assessment of the threats to those interests. We must spend what is necessary to [...]

A Citizen Challenge

Chances are you haven’t heard (and won’t hear) about this Federal report from the Liberal media. Two days ago the non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) released its Annual Audit of the United States Government for fiscal years 2011 – 2012. The government’s own conclusion is this: “… Absent policy changes – the Federal Government continues [...]

The Debt Ceiling, Revenue & The Progressive Overreach

Soon, President Obama will stand before the American people, at his inaugural, and take the Oath of Office. He will place his hand on the Holy Bible (we assume) and swear an oath before God and country to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. He did this once before [...]

Singer Makes The Bad Economy Sexy

. American R&B Singer Allen Stone has seemingly made the current bad economy sexy with his song “Unaware”. The Chewelah, Washington native starts out the song with lyrics that speak to the ineffectiveness of the Government: “Every day, the deficit grows You spend more than you own Papa always said to me Keep a close [...]

The TJ Thompson Show – Jan. 2nd, 2013

. The first installment of “The TJ Thompson Show” for 2013!! TJ rants, ponders, and even wonders if he is the only person who is flat out angry at those in Washington. . ___ Follow TJ on Twitter and Facebook! ___

President Obama To Deliver Statement About Fiscal Cliff [VIDEO]

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