Halting the Bush tax breaks for 2% of the Richest Americans could have balanced the budget.
Extending these breaks will add $3.3 Trillion Dollars more to the U.S. deficit.
The Republican Hypocrite Party of Righteousness.
These people need to literally brush up on their so-called Christianity. The religion they proclaim to worship. Jesus looked out for the poor. But nobody here is asking for a handout. These people lost their jobs. They worked.
Let the Rich continue to get Richer at all costs or slaughter these people’s benefits, literally holding all these people hostage.
And it is sickening.
Pathetic
And their slogan is COUNTRY FIRST!
These tax cuts have been in place for the last ten years and it’s what has brought us to this horrid economy we have now. Why in the world would extending them make things better? Where is the common sense?
Idiot Repub Offspring Party of Tea bonkers want to take this Country Back. They sure as hell do. Further back into the ground what Bush started until they accomplish completely what he almost brought us to, another Depression. But of course if they succeed it will have been Obama’s fault. Not the most disastrous President this country ever had the mental sickness of having, or the lack of having their own minds. Bush and Cheney together went beyond Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini.
They created two wars that have taken 5,818 American Troops lives. AND FOR WHAT? When there are terrorists cells everywhere in every country. How can we expect success when like Nam, our troops now say they no longer know who the enemy is. Because they are everywhere including our own back yards.
These wars have cost us to date:
http://www.costofwar.com/
Frankly I am more than disappointed in President Obama right now. He had a chance to show what kind of President he could in fact be. Again my worst fear and everyone else who did not choose him in the Democrat Primary. Lack of experience. Does anybody honesty believe that Clinton would have caved in like this?
And go onto any news site right now, Yahoo Buzz, Google Groups and see the idiotic responses. What is the Celebration? Tell me. To all who are responding a Victory against this President one question? Are you in that top richest 2% financial bracket? Then WTF are you celebrating about? So you think the first $700 Billion bailout by Bush for the Wall Street Bailout was good for America, but the second handed out by Obama was the disaster? Your stupid and there’s no help for you.
Bush created such chaos within our financial structure in this country that the only thing that could be done would be a secondary bailout and he knew as with the two wars he created it would be the next guys problem. If McCain had won all of our Troops would still be in Iraq costing even more in American Blood and Dollars. With this deal now of extending tax cuts continuing for the richest Americans the only thing now cast in stone is another Wall Street Disaster pending. But no matter which way it will be Obama’s fault. Billionaire Bankers can continue doling out $2,5, 10 Million bonuses to their CEOs. How in the world does this achievement by the GOP benefit most Americans? I don’t know, I know a lot of people in various employment fields from Accountants to Lawyers and they do not make over $250,000 a year and certainly don’t make Billions.
Most of my close friends are Democrats but even those that are Republicans do not agree that the richest 2% of Americans should be getting a tax break.
This whole thing reminds me of the movie, ” It’s A Wonderful Life “. A Banker who takes advantage of a Bank Run paying people half of what they actually have knowing it’s better than nothing. But is it?
Of course for those that have lost jobs from companies that went bust and whose benefits had run out their President bowed on their behalf. But in doing so if he’ll cave to these self-righteous hypocrites who scream COUNTRY FIRST!
What else will he cave to?
Personally I hope the House Buries these GOP M’F’s and strikes down the extension of Tax Cuts for the Rich, even if it means unemployment benefits cease as well. You must understand something these people are heartless and ruthless. They preach Jesus and Right to Life out of one side of their mouth while attempting to slaughter you completely until dead. Let everyone see them for what they are. The Republican Party does not put Country First, they put the Rich first. Always have, Always will.
God Calls Us To Show Mercy and Compassion to Our Fellow Man
Warnings on Taking Advantage of Others In Need
Exodus 22:22
Do not take advantage of a widow or an orphan.
Deuteronomy 14:28-29
At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year’s produce and store it in your towns, so that the Levites (who have no allotment or inheritance of their own) and the aliens, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.
Deuteronomy 15:7, 11
If there is a poor man among your brothers in any of the towns of the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward your poor brother. There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your brothers and toward the poor and needy in your land.
Deuteronomy 24:14
Do not take advantage of a hired man who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother Israelite or an alien living in one of your towns
Leviticus 23:22
When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the LORD your God.
Psalm 12:5
Because of the oppression of the weak and the groaning of the needy, I will now arise, says the LORD, I will protect them from those who malign them
Psalm 37:25-26
I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread. They are always generous and lend freely; their children will be blessed.
Psalm 41:1-2
Blessed is he who has regard for the weak; the LORD delivers him in times of trouble. The LORD will protect him and preserve his life; he will bless him in the land and not surrender him to the desire of his foes.
Psalm 68:5
A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling
Psalm 112:9
He has scattered abroad his gifts to the poor, his righteousness endures forever; his horn [a] will be lifted high in honor.
Proverbs 11:24-25
One man gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty. A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed.
Proverbs 14:21
He who despises his neighbor sins,but blessed is he who is kind to the needy.
Proverbs 14:31
He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors God.
He who is kind to the poor lends to the LORD, and he will reward him for what he has done.
Proverbs 21:13
If a man shuts his ears to the cry of the poor, he too will cry out and not be answered.
Proverbs 22:9
A generous man will himself be blessed, for he shares his food with the poor.
Proverbs 28:27
He who gives to the poor will lack nothing, but he who closes his eyes to them receives many curses.
Proverbs 31:8-9
Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.
Isaiah 1:17
Learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.
Isaiah 58:6-7;10
Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter– when you see the naked, to clothe him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? …and if you spend yourselves in behalf of the hungry and satisfy the needs of the oppressed, then your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday.
Ezekiel 16:49
Now this was the sin of your sister Sodom: She and her daughters were arrogant, overfed and unconcerned; they did not help the poor and needy.
Zechariah 7:8-10
And the word of the LORD came again to Zechariah: “This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the alien or the poor. In your hearts do not think evil of each other.’
Micah 6:8
He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.
Matthew 6:1-4
Be careful not to do your ‘acts of righteousness’ before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven “So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
“No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.”
Matthew 25:41-45
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. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I 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.’ 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?’ He will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least among you, you did not do for me.’
Mark 10:21
Jesus looked at him and loved him. “One thing you lack,” he said. “Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
Luke 6:38
Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
Luke 10:29-37
But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, took him to an inn and took care of him. The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return, I will reimburse you for any extra expense you may have.'”Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?” The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.” Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.”
Luke 12:33
Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be exhausted, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.
Luke 14:13-14
But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.
2 Corinthians 9:7
Each man should give what he has decided in his heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
Ephesians 4:32
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
Hebrews 13:2
Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.
Colossians 3:12
Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
1 Timothy 6:17-19
Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. Command them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be generous and willing to share. In this way they will lay up treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the coming age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life.
James 1:27
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
1 John 3:17-18
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him? Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.
To Me this says it all:
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“”” Proverbs 22:16
“He who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth and he who gives gifts to the rich–both come to poverty.”
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And this is where America is headed. This extension for tax breaks for the rich will add to this country’s deficit and eventually sink us even further into debt.
This is what The Right To Life GOP is more concerned with. Either extend our Wall Street’s tax breaks or piss on the extension of unemployment benefits.
This is why the rich can always control the poor, and face it there is no middle class anymore in this country. You’re either Rich or you’re Poor. Don’t have any misunderstandings about that. But President Obama is so wrong on this it’s frightening. If you can’t stand up to the lying hypocrites of your own country how in the hell will you stand up to those trying to obviate us off the face of the earth. Seems to me we have more of a war going on here against the Fat Cats than Al Qaeda or the Taliban put together.
You stood and said you will STOP THE BUSH TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH. And that is what should be done at any cost. You Stand up to your enemies, both here and abroad. Sometimes here is even more pertinent. Our attacks came from with-in our own boarders on 9-11. And they are coming at us from here again. The GOP have a lot in common with the Terrorists.
What else would you call holding the jobless unemployment benefits here Hostage unless you get your way?
“Grand Old Party” for whom? They are not Victors, they are Cowards. My God wrote the above scriptures and I’m Democrat.
I don’t know what kind of Bible the Republicans use. Reality is it was those who lost their jobs that the Republicans offered up for sacrifice to atone for their own sins. How much more disturbing can it get? I don’t even want to know.
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I have so many faults, on judgment day I will stand before my Lord a gazillion years trying to explain myself. Unlike those who parade around like saints, at lease I’m honest.
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No more tax breaks for the wealthiest 2% Tell Democrats to fight
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