Switching gears...I couldn't believe my eyes when I read that Barack Obama is actually considering $300 billion in tax cuts. I had the same visceral response to this article as I did when I read that John McCain had selected Sarah Palin as his runningmate: "You've got to be fuckin' kidding me." I am no economic expert, but I do have a memory and seem to recall tax cuts were the first thing George Bush did exactly eight years ago after he took office. Obama's tax cuts are going toward lower and middle-income families, unlike Bush's that went to the genteel, but I'm just stunned. It reminds me of that crackpot "stimulus package" idea Congress had last year to throw $300 at each American to avert a recession. Yeah, great idea. That worked like gangbusters and took $152 billion out of the already gutted Treasury. Let's do it again!According to the same article, the U.S. economy shed a further 445,000 jobs in December, which was a great way to cap off a year that saw two million other jobs vanish into the ether of Bush's historically shitastic legacy. And that's excellent news for me, who's been looking for gainful employment for months now. Goddammit, George! I swear to Allah, if I have to get a job stocking Barbies and rifles in my local Wal-Mart because you shipped my potential good job to Bangladesh...well, I'm gonna be one pissed off liberal atheist hillbilly. And no one wants that. *shakes fist at screen*
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The tax cuts aren't going to mean a damn thing. It is the cost of living and stratospheric healthcare costs that are killing us. If Obama wants to make a difference, he has to go to one of those two places. Otherwise, we've got more Chimpy-style voodoo economics.
I would like to see the burden on the middle class go back to where it was in the Clinton era (yes, wingtards, the middle class pays noticeably MORE now in overall taxes than they did then.)
TV over here in the UK is the same at the moment plus loads of happy go lucky stories such as Ann Frank related shows and other holocaust related TV programming. Watch the news Gaza is being bombed to hell, jobs are going here there and everywhere and were all reminded of what a shity place we live in at times. But hell yeah im fine.........
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