NObama at it again.

[O'Dell]

I see. So, it is just fine with you the muti million dollar companies and individuals pay less in taxes per dollar earned than you. It is just fine with you that Corporate America gut unions and pays the working man as little and with the least amout of benefits as they can. It is just fine with you to take away your social security and medicare that your have paid into all your working life like a bank account, away. It is just fine with you that deregulation has made it possible for companies like BP to put dollars over people and cut corners endangering all of us. It is just fine with you that the CEO of Verizon makes more in 1 day than that companies average employee makes his/her whole life. It is just fine with you that companies are pulling their retired and soon to be retired employees pensions while at the same time handing out 6 and 7 figure bonuses to the executives. It is just fine with you.

Yep!

[whitemule]

The president put forth a 4 trillion budget deal with Boehner that was making the democratic party furious because of cuts to entitlement programs. But Boehner had to walk away because the republicans wouldn't give an inch. Not even an single inch to accomplish so much.

Personally, they just don't want the president to accomplish anything or get credit for anything. From day one, they were planning the next election cycle. Heck, the healthcare plan they demonize so much was a republican proposed plan.

+1+ !!!!

[Markis82]

What private companies pay their people is their business and none of yours and here in oregon it's not business that are the biggest political donators, it's unions. It is fine with me to get the government out of peoples business and people take responsibility for themselves. The economics of jealousy isn't going to make you or anyone else wealthier. If shareholders choose to allow executives to have golden parachutes it's their business, not the governments and definitely not yours. Once people like you get their way to take from the "rich" the only thing left is the definition of WHO is rich, eventually it will get to you too, and I'm sure you'll scream bloody murder when it's YOUR money their taking for the "common" good. And I'll take corporate America over bolshevik unions any day of the week. If you, or anyone doesn't like what you're making, quit, get a new job, or god forbid, start your own company and actually see how hard it is to make a buck, even without a money grubbing union stealing it all.

You're Mr. Selfless and not bitter at all! That attitude sickens me!! If you and others really believe that then yes as the statement was made earlier, "I really do fear that [for a time] the best days of our nation are behind us. I hope our fall is more like that of say Great Britain then that of Rome." For your information I started working full time while still in high school and have owned 3 successful businesses, which I started from the ground up. I know exactly what it is like to pay into the system, payroll taxes, matching my employees social security payments, sales tax, etc... This is the price we all must pay to live in a society. It is our responsibility. "Any society, any nation, is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members ; the last, the least, the littlest." ~ Churchill, Pope John Paul II, Ghandi, Dostoyevsky, Truman, etc.

Matthew 25:41-46
41"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.' 44"They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'
45"He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'
46"Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."

I never quote the bible. However, I thought putting it in terms that you're familiar with, might "Help you see the light."

[Chief Joseph]

You're Mr. Selfless and not bitter at all! That attitude sickens me!! If you and others really believe that then yes as the statement was made earlier, "I really do fear that [for a time] the best days of our nation are behind us. I hope our fall is more like that of say Great Britain then that of Rome." For your information I started working full time while still in high school and have owned 3 successful businesses, which I started from the ground up. I know exactly what it is like to pay into the system, payroll taxes, matching my employees social security payments, sales tax, etc... This is the price we all must pay to live in a society. It is our responsibility. "Any society, any nation, is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members ; the last, the least, the littlest." ~ Churchill, Pope John Paul II, Ghandi, Dostoyevsky, Truman, etc.

Matthew 25:41-46
41"Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.' 44"They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?'
45"He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'
46"Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."

I never quote the bible. However, I thought putting it in terms that you're familiar with, might "Help you see the light."

I believe in CHARITY, not handouts with nothing required in return. Perpetual welfare with NOTHING required in return is NOT charity, it's the end of our country. cloward-piven, the destruction of capitalism through the UNSUSTAINABLE growth of social handouts, it's what's collapsing europe right now and what will destroy us. Fine, you want to give the government all your money and call it your "responsibility" go ahead, no one is stopping you. I supposedly live in a FREE country where my money I earned I can keep or give to charity as I see fit, not public employee unions or auto unions or illegal aliens or drug addicts or women who have 15 kids and demand the government pay for her kids. Quote the bible all you want, even religions will not perpetually pay for people without expecting labor and/or responsible actions in return. My family survived 70 years ago by picking fruit, now Americans won't even touch it, it's not good enough for them. All because the government pays them to sit at home and have kids like pez dispensers. It's your socialist attitude that sickens me and it's THAT that caused this countries best day to be behind us.

[Bawanna]

Sorry fellas but this ones blowing up my ugly meter. Gonna shut it down.
Start fresh, don't do me ugly.