Obama Giving Away $5 Billion TAX PAYER DOLLARS

[OrByte]

well if he keeps this up he will almost catch up to the billions lost in Iraq.

 

[Jhhnn]

Oh, yeh. 5 Beelyon Dollars? GWB arranged for the govt to give away a helluva lot more than that in the form of tax rebates to some of America's wealthiest corporations-

http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org/corporate_welfare/real_tax_rates_plummet.php

I know- it's not something that can be contained in a soundbite, so it's right over the heads of many posters here... Maybe If I could make it into a slogan it'd mean more, huh?

 

[CycloWizard]

And you're the guy who fell right in line supporting the strawman, that the nebulous "Left" doesn't support personal property rights, when that claim has no greater credibility than Iraqi WMD's.

Through the distortional lens of Faux News, the World Nut Daily, Rush, Hannity and the rest, I'm sure that our resident righties view me as "Leftist", although I've never called for the dictatorship of the proletariat, confiscation of private property, or collectivization.

I don't think you guys have the vaguest idea what you're talking about when you toss around terms like "Leftist", as if slapping a convenient label and some false attribution on people or ideas you disagree with actually defines them. Left of whom or what? The Koch Bros and the John Birch Society?

I'm not sure if you're aware, but not everything is an absolute: there's a political spectrum, and you're well to the left of center. I'll also point out the irony of you calling a nebulous collection of people "righties" in the same sentence as you declare that you might not fit the strictest definition of a "Leftist."

 

[Phokus]

Wall Street was bailed out for trillions of dollars (absolute worst case scenario last i read was 23 trillion is at risk of disappearing, although unlikely that much disappears, gives you the SCOPE of the risk), and the OP is bitching about not-5-billion in subsidies for alternative energy projects when oil is exploding.

Republicans are stupid as fuck.

 

[Phokus]

well if he keeps this up he will almost catch up to the billions lost in Iraq.

Ahahahaha, you think 'billions' is the appropriate word for your boy Bush's adventure into iraq

Try almost 1 trillion in direct costs and much more if you count the economy as a whole.

The financial cost of the war has been more than £4.55 billion ($9 billion) to the UK,[308] and over $845 billion to the U.S., with the total cost to the U.S. economy estimated at $3 trillion.[309]

edit: the CBO's estimate:

Financial costs with approximately $612 billion spent as of 4/09 the CBO has estimated the total cost of the war in Iraq to U.S. taxpayers will be around $1.9 trillion

 

[Siddhartha]

While I think Obama is a turd, you are complaining about taxes (Federal since you are talking about Obama) that are the lowest in over 50+ years. If you would have stated he is a big reason "lately" why the deficits are so high...sure thing. He's a cut tax and spend like a bastard politician....i.e. a republican act alike during the last 20 years. Meet the new boss...same as the old one.

Okay, one more time. Unless you want a 1930's type economic Great Depression you do not try to balance the budget during a severe recession. Mr Hoover and the country learned that the hard way 80 years ago.

 

[RU482]

I'm going to guess that the OP is one of those folks that constantly spams facebook with links to Fox News articles