“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on
this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether
that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We
are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion
of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives
that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should
do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not
consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead,
who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or
detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it
can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be
dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far
so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task
remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion
to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we
here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this
nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of
the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. “
Lincoln packed so much into 285 words. How America cries out for such visionary leadership and wisdom now. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/08/02/romneys-defense-of-his-tax-plan-doesnt-add-up/
The cat's sort of out of the bag. Alas, Mitt's "Tax Plan for My Wealthy Friends In America" has been shown to be the fraud so many of us knew it was.
Willard Mitt Romney, Lost, August 2012
“All that other stuff -- and that government of the rich, by
the rich, for the rich, shall not perish from the earth. “
A couple things here…1) Anyone that buys the line of bull that
Romney is dispensing which suggests that the main flaw in the Tax Policy Center
analysis is that it fails to take into the account the economic boost the tax cuts
would generate ought to go look at the job growth created by the Bush tax cuts.
How stupid does he think people are? As I say that I am reminded that 45% to
48% of us appear poised and ready to vote for Romney regardless of whatever he says or does.
Nonethless, even before the Bush authored great recesssion, Bush engineeered taxes cut for his rich friends brought the lowest rate of job growth of any post World War II President.2) Every American needs to know and remember that the entire tax battle is over
whether taxes will be raised on those earning MORE THAN $250,000 per year. Joe
, the friggin’ plumber were he, let’s say, to be an earner in the $280,000
range would only see his tax bill increase on the $30,000 over $250,000
according to the Obama plan. The first $250,000 would be taxed at current
levels. When Republicans talk about the impact of the Obama tax increases on
small businesses, they neglect often to note that 98% of the small business would
not see any increase in their tax bill.
Going further, this from FactCheck.org: “House Speaker John Boehner claimed
that ‘small-business people’ make up more than half of those who would be hit
by a tax increase on “millionaires.” Not really. Only 13 percent of those
making over $1 million get even as much as one-fourth of that income from small
business, according to government tax experts.”
While we are at it, Here is small excerpt of what
FactCheck,org says about Republicans claims on Obama’s Healthcare Bill:
“The exaggerated Republican claim that the new health care
law “kills jobs” was high on our list of the “Whoppers of 2011”…
“All of this is health-care hooey, aimed at exploiting
public concern over continuing high unemployment, with little basis in fact. As
we’ve said before (a few times), experts project that the law will cause a
small loss of low-wage jobs — and also some gains in better-paid jobs in the
health care and insurance industries.
“It’s also expected that more workers will decide to retire
earlier, or work fewer hours, when they no longer need employer-sponsored
insurance and can obtain it on their own with help from federal subsidies. But
that just means fewer people willing to work — and it will free up jobs for
those who want them. If anything, that could reduce the jobless rate.
“Claims about the alleged devastation of small business are
also off base. The fact is, businesses with fewer than 50 workers are exempt
from the requirement to provide coverage, or pay a penalty to the government.
Furthermore, some small businesses with fewer than 25 employees are already
getting tax credits under the new law to help defray the cost of providing
worker coverage.”
Republicans are creating a billionaire-funded smoke machine of
massive and epic proportion to cover up this basic point: Their entire campaign
is a full frontal attack on working men and women, the poor and those less able
to take care of themselves, all in the name of protecting and/ or creating ever
greater wealth for a few tens of thousands Americans with more wealth and privilege
than most Americans have or will ever see.
When the Republicans tell you that they are not the Party of
the Rich, they are the party of those who aspire to be so, know this: The America
of 2012 ranks at the bottom of industrialized nations in terms of upward mobility.
In plain terms the poor in America tend to stay that way, even when compared to
the highly stratified and class-conscious Europeans. Republicans who talk about
an opportunity society while they defund public schools, pre-natal healthcare,
and Pre-K to High School education, all the while proposing to allow healthcare
and college costs to create their own discipline through the fairy dust of
magical market forces are selling a lie.
When Americans hear Tea Party, or Americans for Prosperity, Cross
Roads, or Restore Our Future, They ought always remember that each of these
groups garners at least 50% and in some cases as much as 90% of all
contributions from a couple dozen or so of the wealthiest men in America. If only
the perpetually whiney Ayn Rand had lived to see this; she would be so happy.
As it is she missed this orgy of cynicism, and selfishness
by a couple of decades. She died in 1982.
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