Neil Cavuto & Liberal Congresswoman Have Must-Watch Smack Down Deficit Debate
- Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:23pm by
Emily Esfahani Smith
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On his Fox News show this afternoon, Neil Cavuto spoke–spiritedly–with Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas) about the deficit.
For a sense of how animated their debate was, consider this exchange:
Cavuto: “We’re going to hell in a hand basket”
Johnson: “I think you’re already there!”
In their must-watch seven-minute debate, you really get a sense of the conservative position (we’re broke!) versus the liberal position (raise taxes to keep spending!).
As Cavuto repeated his mantra throughout the interview–we’re broke, broke, broke, broke, broke–Johnson managed to get her two cents in, saying:
You know what? Your problem is, you just don’t listen. You just scream and you’re screaming the same thing these fools are screaming here. We’ve got to have innovation.
She went on, “We’ve got to still have vision, we’ve got to still have research…we still got to educate our young people.” If the cuts to spending are too deep, we’ll have “no education, no innovation, no health care–seniors will be out of nursing home,” she concluded.
We need to INVEST! she said.
“We don’t have money to invest,” Cavuto responded wryly.
Well it’s easy enough to get it, says the congresswoman: Raise taxes!
Hat Tip Media Bistro.
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Comments (596)
AKMIIKEUS
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:41pmBlack and stupid????
You sound jealous.
Well one black man is leader of the free world.
Your worst nightmare, an educated black and latino. Get used to it.
jeffyfreezone
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:16pmI want a REAL black man (Allen West) running MY country AK!
Report Post »childfull
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:36pmAllen West works for me!!!!!!
Report Post »SHOWMESTATEGUY
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 12:03amI want someone who will turn this country around. Black, Yellow, Brown ???? I don’t care. Give me someone who is not liberalized. (other than an islamist).
Report Post »questioningcommonsense
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 3:16pmExactly, forget whatever the color of the skin. Just give me someone with some common sense!
Report Post »paulamadden
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 2:14amAmen brother….or how about Herman Cain?
Report Post »cosette
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 6:48amHow about a real AMERICAN,color and gender aside?
Report Post »AllAmericanGirl22
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 4:29pmRight on!!! Allen West and Michelle Bachmann 2012!!
Report Post »patriotjax
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:24pmObama is not the leader of the free world. He’s the leader to oblivion.
And race has absolutely nothing to do with it. There are at least two black men that I’d vote for without hesitation, Allen West and Herman Cain. Both of them could run circles around Obama, or any other liberal, without any problem at all.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 11:27amI concur!
Report Post »spirited
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:25pm“Free”?
Holy retribution through re-distribution! –Oh, Ya!!
>Ignorant. –No?
Report Post »thebarbarian
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 12:15amthat’s it. i’ve had it, you leftist trolls are the one who bring up race, tired of it.i‘m of a racial minority and don’t do it. i’m a teapartier and thusly get accused of racism. you idiot marxist listen up. don’t start violence. we know you are the ones always to start it then when toy get you collectivst a@@’s handed to you start crying, no sympathy ar tissues here
you have no clue of what you say, communism is no picknick to live under! we can, in America move about freely, make a living and care for loved ones without the looming threat of possible forced relocation over our heads. this will change if they get thir way look int UN Agenda 21 under the guise of sustainable society. in your f*(&%%$^&*(^% marxist utopia there is the threat daily of your hard earned property being siezed for the collective. this means in truth for the hegemonic oligarchy in charge. it also means your life means NOTHING TO THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so get a clue YOU IDIOT!
Report Post »White Devil
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 1:00amYou know blacks are the race that holds this country back..they commit most of the crime etc..look at the moron we have for president “pookie”
Report Post »don’t kid yourself ..you shouldn’t be afraid to express yourself honestly..Allen West is a good man..few and far between ..call a spade a spade and quit being a fing coward.
GadsdenPatriot
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 4:47amYou’re correct. Based on 2010 census numbers and recent crime statistics a black person is about 5.5 TIMES yes TIMES more likely to murder than a white person. And these numbers were based on only the CAUGHT criminals.
Report Post »Houndfan
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 10:58amIf you could only stand back and hear how stupid you sound.
Report Post »Brad Wesselmann
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 2:04pmDamn…you HAVE had it! :-) Hang on with us other “barbarians” and all will be just fine, keep the faith.
Report Post »hcartexas
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 12:16amamekius….. youre a low grade moron…. i read your dumb posts and your typical lib regurgitation, and it makes me want to bust a beer bottle over your thick skull….
Report Post »davidgoodbar
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 9:17pmsave the bottle (15 cent deposit) a 22LR at 2.5 cent is cheaper
Report Post »fastfwd
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 12:34ameducated ?? LOL TRAITOR !!
Report Post »Patrick in AZ
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 1:13amLeader??? You mean Reader
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 1:25amThe “education” shows for sure.
Report Post »The “released” records prove it. Right ?
eddw2112
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 1:53amHey moron, Obammy is part white… or did you forget that?
Report Post »sedition
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 7:09amObama forgot it!
Report Post »Down2TheC
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 1:59amNightmare? That’s a dream right there! If the black community could walk away from the Welfare culture and solve their education issues by getting non-corrupt, qualified people into the school systems (i.e. ditch unions) think what a boon that would be to the USA! Educated, hardworking, non-criminals contributing to society. Tax revenues climb, crime drops, “entitlement” spending can go up for the truly needy. True libertarians say that simply stopping the war on drugs would accomplish this, but I believe it’s much more engrained into the fabric of urban black communities at this point. It will take some leadership that your blessed Obama lacks. It will require tossing out the victim criers like Sharpton and finding true examples of a successful proud black man like Charles Payne.
Report Post »GadsdenPatriot
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 5:03amFree world, are you joking? The Communism he pushes oppresses freedom, even liberals know that. In regards to education I’ll let (even) the leftist Aldous Huxley reply, “An intellectual is a person who‘s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.” Have you listened to a rap or hip hop song lately?
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 6:01amActually my worst nightmare is a Commie trying to destroy America, as President. We have that now.
Report Post »Rickfromillinois
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 7:37amYou’re the one who places the most importance on his race as though that is the reason people criticize him. Let me try to explain it to you. I will do it slowly so that pay be you will understand. Mr. Obama is doing a bad job as President, appears to be incompetent, is the worst President in modern history, and is black.
Report Post »I and most people could care less what race he is. We just want a honest man in the office who does a good job. I and most people DO NOT CARE what color the skin of the President is, they care about how he does his job. Those who are racists are the ones who think that most important thing is the color of his skin. Sound like YOU doesn’t it?
progressiveslayer
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 8:39amThe half black man was taught by communists,socialists and progressives so yes he learned well from them.Let’s see Barry started out a community agitator then a U.S senator for a few months and now president.It‘s tempting to say he’s a moron but that isn‘t the case he knows exactly what he’s doing,collapse the system.After you’ve done that you need to start it up again,question is what do you change it into.Barry said he wanted to transform America,he forgot to tell us what he wanted to transform it into.B.O. is a communist,his mentor was Frank Marshal Davis a well known communist.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 9:04amThe half black man was taught by communists,socialists and progressives so yes he learned well from them.Let’s see Barry started out a community agitator then a U.S senator for a few months and now president.It‘s tempting to say he’s a moron but that isn‘t the case he knows exactly what he’s doing,collapse the system.After you’ve done that you need to start it up again,question is what do you change it into.Barry said he wanted to transform America,he forgot to tell us what he wanted to transform it into.B.O. is a communist,his mentor was Frank Marshal Davis a well known communist.
Report Post »BubbaT
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 9:22amYeah problem is the clown in chief at the moment is a black moron. Bernice is a moron. Maybe if we could get some educated blacks and Latinos in office that have some sense and can think for themselves instead of towing the party line maybe this country could get righted.
Report Post »democratgirl
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 11:34amSee, you are another person who PERPETUATES THE MYTH that Americans are racists, when you yourself, are racist. You proved our point, moron.
Report Post »Patrick in Atlanta
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 2:04pmDo you even know what racist means?
Report Post »Cleatus
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 12:56pmEven a moron like myself can come up with a better arguement than the liberal race card. Really?
Report Post »Jim in Houston
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 1:51pmHalf Black
Report Post »Tony Cat
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 3:51pmHoney, educated blacks and latinos is the nightmare of the Democrats, why do you think they oppose School Choice? That’s their base. They want blacks and latinos to stay in failing public schools because they need them broke, uneducated and Needy, so they can Buy their votes.
Is this news to you? Dems have been harvesting the votes of minorities for decades!
You do realize the KKK was founded by Dems right? You realize the best way to hold a race down is to teach them they’re victims, and keep them in failing schools, demonize the “wealthy” and then portray yourself as being on their side, and buy their votes by giving them just enough to get by, but Not succeed. You do realize thats the Dems M.O. right? Oh, well you do now – spend 5 minutes on Google and look it up.
Report Post »martelsbrood
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 3:51pmeducated? Black man in the white house? Last time I checked opinionated isn’t the same as educated. And Barry Sotero is half-white…. but I guess that only comes in handy during fund-raisers in the North-East Americas.
Report Post »thelongversion
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 4:53pmThe nightmare has nothing to do with his color my friend. It’s his ideology and his policy. I tend to look at action with more credibility than words and the President’s actions are treasonous! There I said it.
Retired Colonial and FL State Representative Allan West is a black man I would vote into the White House in a heartbeat! He loves liberty rather than power. I can’t say the same for Mr. Obama.
Report Post »j_blaze14
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 9:56pmlooks like you brought up the race card first, again. he is educated in the ways of mao, marx and alinsky, ever heard of them? that combined with islam will be the return of slavery, for all. get educated then come back and post some more.
Report Post »nanchuan
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 10:48pmif only they were educated in something other than marxist doctrine!
Report Post »tarantula
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:41pmThanks, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson for crapping out this turd and burdening all of us with her existence. For every liberal there are 2 problems. The parents.
Report Post »AKMIIKEUS
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 12:30amNice try, Tarantula
Report Post »but I posted this exact same quote about Chuck and Sally Heath, parents of the Quitta from Wasilla.
democratgirl
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 11:35amIt’s not the parents. It is who the person serves: God or the devil.
Report Post »Hawkeyefan19
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:41pmFour words come to mind: “I am your density”.
If I‘ve ever seen anyone who’s been blinded by the light, it’s this woman.
Report Post »YouCantBeSerious
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:40pmFor a really funny picture try thinking about this quote by Winston Churchill while watching this loon. The quote goes something like this; ” Taxing ones way to prosperity is akin to a man standing in a bucket and attempting to pull himself up by the handle.”
Report Post »Liberty7
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:49pmTalk about funny pictures, I started to think I was watching a modern day remake of Abbott and Costello.
Report Post »Chicago Ray
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:42pmThat’s exactly how the quote goes! ;)
Report Post »Levinite
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:39pm“You’re screaming the same thing these fools are screaming here.”
Fools? Oh wait, you probably mean those pesky taxpayers that pay your salary!
People, if this economic illiterate can get elected, I propose that we are finished. Time to pack it up and go elsewhere.
Report Post »leahasevedo
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:41pmno! time to pack them up and ship them to libya. i wonder if she was talking about libya when she mentioned unwarrented wars? my guess is she didn’t know what she was talking about. my turds have more sense than her and all the commie liberals that are trashing my kids freedom and future. according to this heffa we should throw charlie tax cheat rangle under the jail or a bus. i prefer the bus, or bidens train.
Report Post »BigEd
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:39pmSo, all I need is vision? Here I thought I actually needed money to buy all those toys I want.
Report Post »vic138
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:11pmI’ll take some vision, but we can only afford a little right now, ok, dumb b!tch.
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:23pmWell you still need money, but you are in luck because Barack Hood is robbing the rich to give to the poor and if you get in line you can have your share to……and if your really lucky you can be one of his barry men, ehm I meant merry men……
Report Post »gdbhusker
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:39pmEnd the fed, install a flat tax Nation wide, stop all imports from china, open up all domestic energy plays, build 10 refineries, and reduce the size of government by 50%……..there you go… that took 3 minutes…now on to our muslim problem!!!!!
Report Post »FLYOVERSTATEIOWA
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:40pmlove it! WHen are you running?
Report Post »FLYOVERSTATEIOWA
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:38pmReally??? People in TEXAS elected her?
Common sense? Dig a hole, jump in, bury self. Problem solved for all of congress
Report Post »drago
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:13pmThis people in Texes didnt elect that ignorant bit…….
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 9:14amShe was elected by one small brain-dead district. Not by all the people of Texas.
Report Post »AWM
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:37pmI saw it this afternoon on Cavuto’s show.
Everybody knows we just have to raise taxes on the rich and the corporations.
That’s all there is to it.
Poor Neil looks like he is going to have a stroke!
Of course when these taxes on the rich don’t do it they will have to go down the income chain, all the way to what, $24K a year. And of course working America will already be paying for these higher taxes on the “rich”.
Report Post »Patriot Z
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:37pmour problem: we dont listen
Report Post »her problem: SHE IS COMPLETLY WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING.
Liberalismsamentaldisorder
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:36pmExamine the tax returns of all the tax and spend libs. I guarantee you’ll find they took every deduction, every exemption that they were entitled to take(as they should). Just highlights liberal hypocrisy.
Report Post »AFreeManInTexas
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:36pmIsn’t she the one from Houston that stole money but was re-elected by the smart people of Houston
Report Post »Just-sayin
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:51pmNo she is from Dallas and stole money from the Congressional College Scholarship fund to give to her relatives. I was really working hard to get her out of office and get Pastor Broden elected in her place. He is the one partly responsible for those very clever anti-abortion ads that went up in New York this spring.
Report Post »Dallasmarine
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:35pmWhat can you say after that? I guess there’s no fool like an old fool.
Report Post »hcartexas
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 12:18amand an old black fool to boot…
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:34pmHow does she smell?
Report Post »TexanRon
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:34pmGeez. Between her and Shiela Jackson-Lee, it is almost embarrassing to be from Texas. How did we deserve these two?
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:08pmTX Ron
Funny I was thinking the SAME thing
We lived in Houston in the 80′s and TEXAS was great
but how come you guys are electing these fricking Progressive/Liberal/Democratic Moonbats?
I saw Cavuto this afternoon This woman is LOONY
Report Post »But THANKS to Cavuto for staying ON the right course!!!
POIPNE
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 11:21amTX RON
Report Post »Don’t put yourself down. Every state has to have a reject or two. You COULD be from California after all. Pelosi, Boxer, Sanchez etc etc. It’s a cross we all carry for being a republic. About the only thing you can do is make every effort to vote the fools out next time around. Term limits sound better all the time!
104thTimberwolves
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:33pmI watched this segment earlier today and all I could say was “WOW”! And these are the people running this country? Insane!
Report Post »Lopez
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:03pmI don’t usually post, but this scares the hell out of me. How many like this are in Govt? She doesn’t even seem to know what she is saying only what she has been told to say.
Report Post »For those waiting for 2012, I think it may be a bridge too far and after watching the Republicans tackle the dept this week ( or weak) It may not matter which track we as a country choose
Democrats= fast track to bankruptcy
Republican= slower (slightly) track to bankruptcy
There just seems to be too many same type politicians replacing the ones we fire.
prepare
Tonio
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 2:02pmher salary is close to $180, 000 along with perks and also retirement benifits after one term.
Report Post »G.d help America
watchtheotherhand
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:33pmAfter debating this issue with “liberals” on the huff po I am convinced people have no understanding of economics or the realities of debt and savings. People think if your rich your a criminal worthy of tapping for money and yet have no problem saddling their own future generations with a debt they will never pay off. How ignorant are people? Well watching this interview answers my own question. They just simply are clueless and their arguments are about as strong as wet toilet paper.
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:06pmMama always said I was a hata not a lova….I actually own a nail factory and we just started our new jungle line last month. Go wild with the OTHERHANDS nails !!!!! That’s our new slogan. Whatcha think?
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:35pmWell, can’t say we have had many orders for wild boar since the Carter days, but we do have some bottled ode to Eddie back in the day when she was still a closet gaser if your interested?????
Report Post »marine249
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:33pmall she wants is all of you all white folks money
Report Post »NanAnn
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:33pmShe knows nothing but to say her talking points, over and over…
Report Post »PrfctlyFrank
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:29pmAnd raised taxes equal what? Loss of freedom…
Report Post »FlatFoot
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:28pmWe’ve got to TAX & SPEND! We’ve got to TAX & SPEND! We’ve got to TAX & SPEND! We’ve got to TAX & SPEND! We’ve got to TAX & SPEND! We’ve got to TAX & SPEND! We’ve got to TAX & SPEND!
Somebody please slap the crap out of the dysfunctional record player!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:31pm@FLATFOOT
2012 is coming!!!! Faster faster . can’t get here soon enough!
Report Post »thebarbarian
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:53pmroflmao
Report Post »FlatFoot
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:18pm@AKMIIKEUS
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:30pm
“How about we slap you first and get some sense into you, then we’ll go from there.”
Ya know, you’re right. The old “tax & spend” Democrat mantra walked out the door when Barack Hussein Obama and his clown car cavalcade of so-called ‘Progressives’ walked in. I stand corrected…
We’ve got to SPEND & THEN TAX! We’ve got to SPEND & THEN TAX! We’ve got to SPEND & THEN TAX! We’ve got to SPEND & THEN TAX! We’ve got to SPEND & THEN TAX! We’ve got to SPEND & THEN TAX! We’ve got to SPEND & THEN TAX! We’ve got to SPEND & THEN TAX!
Report Post »Steve Rider of San Diego GOP
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 8:39pmVISION VISION VISION means…. what? Is she implying we need to dream bigger? Seriously, what’s the vision? Might as well be unicorns and pots of gold everywhere. Congress needs some new standards for being elected, this woman has no financial sense.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:27pmLike taking candy from a baby, in a battle of wits, never send the witless.
Report Post »glashole
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:38pmAmerica was built to greatness by people with no more than an eighth grade education and has been run into the ground by college educated derilects. There is no such thing as no education these days it is just a function of where it comes from and the hard work needed to get things done.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:47pmPrecisely. Neil chews these dimwits up everyday with common sense.
Report Post »jeffyfreezone
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:49pmMy reply is to Glashole, you are EXACTLY right! I think how can this be, but truer words were never spoken.
Report Post »vic138
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:05pmYeah, but an 8th grade education “ain’t” what it once was. Check out this 8th grade test from 1895, Kansas.
http://people.moreheadstate.edu/fs/w.willis/eighthgrade.html
Report Post »booger71
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 12:15amaVic
Geography (Time, one hour)
1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend? Answer Global warming.
I doubt if many Haaavard Grads could pass this test.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:27pmAffirmative action in action….clueless
Report Post »nptden
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 12:44amNow it‘s called ’Diversity’. And if you disagree you will be mandated to ‘Sensitivity Training’. These are all tools created by the ‘socialists’ to intimidate, and silence any opposition. Kinda like the ‘People’s Court’ in communist China.
Report Post »Patriot Z
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:27pmfine we will raise her taxes first
Report Post »CatB
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:30pmShe probably hasn’t paid her taxes . isn’t that the Progressive way … other people must pay more … and they don’t pay until “caught”.
Report Post »AKMIIKEUS
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:33pmWell if she makes over 250 thousand then yes we should and that includes everyone making 250 thousand and more.
Report Post »thebarbarian
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:50pmi saw the exchange earlier. Cavuto was great. it‘s the idiot stick marist johnson who isn’t listening. every one with ever a half lick of commonsense can see the answer. 1: stop pending the peoples money on your pet projects you (#^%$*()*(%^%$&*&^&&#&^)(!!@!@!!!!!! politicians 2: cut taxs and super simplify the tax code
heard and read about both the flat tax and the fair tax plans. both have merit. there is a large concensus that 12.5 to 13% is what would be nessesary to run the fed asa ia. bging it down to 8-10% and shrink the fed. then work on limiting the state and local gow give away programs as well. There is 1 thing i really like about the fair tax. it gets the underground economy to cough up the cash that they haven’t been.the underground economy is the drug dealers etc.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:52pmI am so weary of trying to reason with people who, when the brains were passed out to those being born, they thought they said “trains” and didn’t get theirs.
MY DOG has more sense than those Progressive Democrats do! People, I’m not joking! Buckshot can figure things out a lot quicker than those numbskulls ever can! And, he’s pro-life, against raising taxes, hates Soetoro, and doesn‘t spend any money he doesn’t have. The only reason he doesn‘t pick coins up off the pavement is that he doesn’t have any pockets.
Report Post »exdem
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:17pmShowtimes’ dog for President 2012!!!
Report Post »Smart dog. (Must be a chihuahua).
vennoye
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:50pmOf course she wants to raise our taxes……..she puts them to such good use for her family!! Do not forget the scholarship scandal during her 2010 election:
“In late August, The Dallas Morning News revealed that she provided 23 scholarships over five years to two of her grandsons, two children of her nephew, and two children of her top aide in Dallas. None of those recipients were eligible, under anti-nepotism rules or residency requirements.”
She quickly repaid the foundation more than $31,000.
She needs “more investment” all right!!
Report Post »ShyLow
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 12:14amIf she was in a row-boat taking on water…and she had a bucket…she would probably dip the bucket in the lake and poor the water in the row-boat
Report Post »DemocracyisTyranny
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 12:55amBoth sides are so clueless. People want jobs. Need to increase tariffs and kick out immigrants. Free trade means slums.
Report Post »TheAmericanRifleman
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 7:45amProgressives only understand sacrifice when its somebody else on the alter.
Report Post »nanchuan
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 10:00pm@AKMIIKEUS
Report Post »what right do you or any of these other progressive/liberal/communists have to any more of ANYONE elses hard earned money. i’m so sick of these people and their sense of entitlement. i do make that much and bust my arse with >100hrs per week doing it not to mention the liability i assume. how dare you assume that people be it rich or even poor are lazy/not generous (as if your govt programs are in any way generous rather in place to buy votes)/not hard working and greedy. i too have a family to care for. you are advocating STEALING from my children. here’s an idea for you: ANY wellfare or gvt assisstance recipient (saving severely mentally handicapped or legitamately(no bs) disabled) MUST take a drug test to receive these funds and MUST work 40hrs per week. FREELOADERS! by the grace of God (not the grace of a communist) i was able to work my way up, in your system no-one could do that. there would be no freedom. if YOU want that, go to russia/china/iran!
S G Applebee
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:26pmWe need a Waste Czar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMSXwxLeCu4
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:32pmWe have one. His name is Soetoro.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:35pmRepeal all TAXES NOW!!!
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:37pmlove it, spend our way(or as democrats say “invest”) our way out of debt. we need some adults on the issue.
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:38pmBar Stool Economics and How Taxes Work
Please watch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj7nRc3_EG0&feature=youtu.be
Report Post »spirited
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:44pmWonder what Oprah would say to Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas)?
Oprah is –afterall– smart, sensitive, vErY rich AND, gEnErOuS too..
>Imagine Eddie on an OWN smack-down!
Report Post »watchtheotherhand
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:47pmQUESTION:::::::::: Who on this site fixes their financial problems by spending more money????? Even if you have a rich mommy and daddy the tap will run dry eventually and then what???? Where will all those precious poverty fighting programs (that have never done anything to curb poverty) be???? How many times can you borrow money from the rest of the world and print your money to pay them back before you are left high and dry????? Any one ever hear of inflation???? Well we are getting ready to find about it shortly if you don’t know about it. You think raising taxes on the rich and corporations are going to spur job growth, really???? People are absolutely ridiculous in their arguments and it is no coincidence that the drum beat of tax and spend is beating louder and louder, it is a coordinated effort by Soros (Mr. America can take on more debt), Unions, and the socialists in government.
glashole
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:47pmWe do not need a waste Czar, but constitutionally literate representatives with integrity. Russia needs a waste Czar DC needs their A_ _ wiped by a good ol corn cob and kerosene.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:56pmWhy does anyone believe that cutting taxes for the rich produces jobs? Someone explain that to me please. Let’s suppose you make a company that makes a thousands widgets a month. And, with the people on your payroll, you can produce a thousand widgets a month. You get a tax break. Do you hire more people? Of course not, you should be fired if you do. If you can meet demand, you don’t hire more people. You hire more people when there is more demand for your product, not when you have more money.
Look at the Bush tax cuts. Did the unemployment rate go down? Answer: No. Look it up. Were jobs created? Answer: No, job creation increased, yes, but less than the increase in population. And, of course, the economy crashed in last year of his Presidency into the worst economic calamity since the Great Depression.
Where in the world do we get the idea keeping the Bush tax cuts, which tripled the deficit, are a good idea?
Showtime
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:59pmThe government cannot create jobs because the government has no product.
MODEL82A1
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:00pmEveryone here needs to watch the movie, “Idiocracy”. It is the most chilling silly comedy ever made, and it’s beginning to look a lot like that around Washington.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:06pmUnfortunately for you JZS, we conservatives WILL, “Look it up”. Here are the unemployment rates during GWB’s 8 years in office, according to http://www.bls.gov/cps/prev_yrs.htm:
Report Post »2001 4.7
2002 5.8
2003 6.0
2004 5.5
2005 5.1
2006 4.6
2007 4.6
2008 5.8
That’s a yearly average rate of 5.2625%. What‘s Obama’s yearly average? Look it up. ;)
watchtheotherhand
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:09pm@ JZS….reason with me a minute friend. As a business owner of lets say 60 employees. Currently you are looking at higher expense for health care that has already been passed and now you are being threatened with new higher taxes. The whole time this happens the cost of most everything else from fuel to food cost to other commodities that also increase most businesses expenditures are escalating at record paces. Now as an owner are you really looking to hire more people in this type of economic environment??????????
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:11pmlol WOW you scared JZS away real quick….. he usually sticks around and posts his ignorance at least a few times before running back to mommy
GOOD JOB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »wtune
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:18pmIf we had a waste czar, he would be alone in Washington. His first act would be to fire the whole government.
Report Post »Pinchy
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:21pmIn response to JZS. I f I own a company that is making widgets and I am making a profit I’ll invest X amount of dollars to develop Widget 1.1. If I‘m making money I’d want to take those profits and apply them to making more money. It would involve hiring researchers to develop a new product, hiring construction workers to make a new building to make my new product, new workers to make to new product etc.. If the government takes more from me because i produce more where’s my incentive to do that.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:21pmJZS, let me give you some actual data that I am directly familiar with. When people have more money through tax cuts or whatever they increase their discretionary spending, maybe loosen their belt a little. Rich or poor, they all do it. But when they rich do it they spend more money. When it comes to tax breaks the richer they are the more money they get back, thius the more money they spend.
I live on the coast of Maine where luxury boats are built. When rich people are taxed heavily they don’t spend as much on luxuries. that means some of my friends lose their jobs because fewer people are buying these boats and so the shipyards close or lay off half their people. I know people who have been laid off. I have myself seen no work in light construction because rich people with summer houses are putting off new projects and improvements. You give take less money away from these rich people in taxes and I can testify that some of my friends will get hired at the boatyard and I will have work building a new porch or re-siding a summer house.
As far as businesses go. If you give a tax break to a business it will have more liquidity to invest and take risks. It is not so easy to say when the demand goes uo you will hire more people because meeting a greater demand entails creating a larger production that is prohibitively expensive if that demand suddenly evaporates. Thus all attempts to satisfy a greater demand entail risk. The greater demand you are trying to meet the greater the potential profit but also the greater the potential loss if the demand dries up. When money is tight such risks become too great for many companies. the smarter money then lies in nhunkering down with a manageable number and not to get ambitious.
High tax rates discourage risk taking and ambition in the market. Thus few new jobs are created and fewer people hired.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:24pm@jzs
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:56pm
Why does anyone believe that cutting taxes for the rich produces jobs? Someone explain that to me please. Let’s suppose you make a company that makes a thousands widgets a month. And, with the people on your payroll, you can produce a thousand widgets a month. You get a tax break. Do you hire more people? Of course not, you should be fired if you do. If you can meet demand, you don’t hire more people. You hire more people when there is more demand for your product, not when you have more money.
Look at the Bush tax cuts. Did the unemployment rate go down? Answer: No. Look it up. Were jobs created? Answer: No, job creation increased, yes, but less than the increase in population. And, of course, the economy crashed in last year of his Presidency into the worst economic calamity since the Great Depression.
Where in the world do we get the idea keeping the Bush tax cuts, which tripled the deficit, are a good idea?
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When the economy slows down because people are losing jobs, they don’t buy those widgets you spoke of. People are laid off, stores close, business chains close, malls go bankrupt. less money is being spent because people are not buying as much, are not driving as much, are watching their pennies. The government suffers because SALES TAXES are greatly diminished. Income taxes are not there. Back to the widgets __ the widget maker has to lay some of his people off. The dollar has lost some of its value because the print-happy folks in Washington turned on the money machine and would not turn it off.
The already too-high corporate taxes are passed on to the consumer, and the problem deepens. But give the corporations and even small businesses a tax break, and they can afford to put people back to work, which will bring more sales tax revenue for governemnts to operate on. The government cannot create jobs because the government has no product.
Obama/Soetoro claims to have added over 800,000 jobs since he has been in office.
Guess how many new federal employees have been added since he took office. Over 800,000 jobs. The money has to come from somewhere to pay the salaries, which are well over private industry’s levels for the same type of work. If we got along without those 800,000+ jobs BEFORE Obama/Soetoro took office, why can’t we get along without them NOW? What good are they? They do not produce a product.
Raise taxes on the “rich,” and you will see them move their businesses overseas. If they are rich without operating a business, can you tax them more?
Maryland raised their taxes significantly. What happened? The wealthy LEFT MARYLAND, and Maryland was in worse shape than they were before.
THE SECRET IS SMALL GOVERNMENT AND LOWER TAXES, if you want the economy to thrive. Otherwise, America will go bankrupt, and the government will be overthrown.
Report Post »AzCowboy
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:28pmThink about this. I remember I started in the soft drink industry in 1972. I worked my way up from stacking pallets to plant manager. There was a little coke/pepsi plant in about every small town in the USA. Now we have a mega plants in Denver, LA, Phoenix, Atlanta etc. etc.. We have cut the work force due to technology. To add on top of this we are outsourcing many jobs to other countries. We send our kids to college so they won’t have to lay under a filler like I did. Thats fine but there are only so many plant manager jobs. Somebody has to lay under that filler(we have the illegals do it now). Our kids graduate, but there’s no jobs for them( sound like France?).
Report Post »Damn. I get pissed. I’ll stop for now.
If all we train in this USA is managers we are DOOMED.
Just say’in
sorry for the rant
jH…
watchmany2k
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:35pmShe’s right, I’m gonna march right down to the bank and demand a loan so I can invest in some vision.
I figure if I get a big enough loan it will turn into prosperity.
The Shrinks call it “Magical Thinking”
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200802/magical-thinking
Magical thinking can be plotted on a spectrum, with skeptics at one end and schizophrenics at the other.
LOL you decide
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:35pm@AKMIIKEUS
Report Post »Aren’t you the one that thinks protesters are allowed at the footsteps of the White House?
Caffeinated Texan
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:35pm(The following note was found later in the day on Congresswoman Johnson’s desk.)
Today’s talking-point keywords are, “Investment”, “Vision” and “Planning.” No specifics. Go out there and talk for 5 minutes.
This message sent to you by George Soros.
Report Post »brliantedj
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:38pm@MODEL82A1
Report Post »I agree, my wife and I were just discussing how stupid some regulations and new rules and P.C. has become. A few good examples are: TSA, “spring spheres”, big sis at Wal Mart. It’s really becoming more and more like IDIOCRACY. I’ve even thought back to my comic book days and Bizzaro World.
jackrorabbit
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:46pmJZS,
Report Post »Taxes vs. Jobs.
Short lesson. I assume that you would tax the rich, well the only thing that gets taxed is their income, what they have squirreled away cannot be taxed(and lets not go after the tax what they own argument, Russia did that, France did that in their revolutions). So, assuming that you don’t do the illegal and immoral thing of double taxation, the “rich” that you tax, will simply not hire anyone else to work for them. If you look at the 1930′s the tax rate on the rich was at 70-90%, and the unemployment was 25%+, why, because the rich didn’t NEED TO MAKE MONEY, they already have plenty. So, if the cost to run a business becomes to great, then they will just close shop and live on what they have. Bye, bye Microsoft, overseas you go(already happened to some extent).
Second thing, even if they chose to stay and work, because they “felt sorry for the poor worker”(no one opens a business to hire a worker, they do it to make a living, i.e. money), all that would happen is that the tax increase that they were forced to bear would be added into the cost of making the good or service, and passed down to the end consumer. Biggest REGRESSIVE tax there is, taxing the rich business or the rich businessman.
seeker9
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:46pmThis hyperbole kills me. Any cuts at all means the affected program is utterly gone. We got a system in place that rewards poor results. The worst educators get more money thrown at them, so, in order to get more money, bad results are needed. Some times I fear we are doomed.
Report Post »jblaze
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:50pmHow on earth did this women ever get to Congress! She is dumber than a box of rocks! Anyone with a lick of sense can do the math! This boggles the mind! The gig is up Dems…the days of delusion and blatant BS are over!
Report Post »SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:57pmThis is a perfect example of how out of touch politicians are and how unqualified many are. this woman does not possess basic math or economic skills. WE HAVE NO MONEY! The country is broke! What do you think a $14.3 Trillion deficit is rainy day play money!!
Please someone explain to me and others here how a DOLT like this gets elected into political office. Her logic is equivalent to that of the underwear gnomes in South Park “Step 1 collect underpants… Step 2—- Step 3 Profit!”
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 12:13am@ Showtime
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 10:59pm
The government cannot create jobs because the government has no product.
Report Post »~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
If the government produces dependency and poverty due to their policies, does that constitute a “product”?
alienguns
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 12:19am@ AKMIIKEUS……If we got rid of all you useless wastes of skin called liberals, this could be a productive, prosperous healthy nation.
Report Post »70S_KIDS_FIGHTING_SOCIALISM
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 12:22am@JZS
Not all workers call their bosses or business owners money grubbing rats. That’s the blow up figure (a rat holding bags of money with a cigar in its mouth) the teamsters use here in the Chicago area. I have liked almost all of the owners of the companies I have worked for. In response these owners are usually very generous to their employees in benefits. Most workers don’t like to see their bosses as the enemy and call them bad names. That only increases stress not only at work but will effect home life. This also will cause increased medical bills and insurance to go up. The great non union businesses I have worked for give their employees flex hours and try to work with their employees personal life like parents working with their children schedule etc. When they get tax breaks and the economy is strong causing business to be strong the owners hire more workers and can decrease insurance copays and expenses for their employees.
This is really all about small businesses and don’t give me those distorted liberal-commie numbers on small businesses. These tax increases are all about hurting small businesses so the progressive commies can eventually put many of them out of business or have their darling big businesses and BIG corporations like BIG GE, BIG Goggle and create government controlled monopolies. It is very hard for the progressive commies to control small business and their workers but it is very easy to control their oppressive government-union owned Big corporations.
PS: Watch as the multi layered anti American radicals have taken off their coat and have shown their socialist labels while still hiding their communist leanings behind the scenes. There is no such thing as staying at redistributive socialism when they are opposed they always become commies.
Report Post »nptden
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 12:39amDon‘t ya just love how the ’marxist/socialist/communists have a way with ‘words’. Invest = give a free higher education ride to illiterates. And promise them they can go on welfare when they graduate or will be given a government job. Diversity= Affirmative action-give priority to unqualified minorities based on race. (like to see a racial breakdown of Govt jobs). Diversity Officer= call any poor job evaluations for minorities a ‘hate crime’.Why do we need Diversity Officers in our military, and govt departments ? It’s a scam, to attain empowerment by a minority. EEOC= intimidate employers to hire and retain incompetents based on ‘race’.
Report Post »It‘s obvious our ’investments’ are not paying off. Their ‘vision’ is we need more free ‘stuff’ and let others pay for it. We see the waste. Govt jobs produce ‘nothing’. No capital. They just take. WELL we are sick of giving. We are sick of threats of civil unrest. Frances Piven forgets you are a minority. So when you wanna start your violence, go right ahead. Force will be met with force. Let’s get it on.
CobiusMaximus
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 12:48am@JVS
You asked some questions, I will give you some answers (based on my Ivy League economics knowledge)
First, let us look at the Bush tax cuts. The Bush tax cuts actually increased tax revenue. Do some research into what is called the Laffer Curve. This curve related the tax revenue to the tax rate, and gives reasons as well.
Second, why does cutting taxes to the rich increase jobs? I will answer your question with another question: when was the last time a person was EVER hired by someone less rich than themselves? If you give a 10% tax break to Donald Trump, he will open a new hotel, which will employ many laborers to build the building, laborers to produce the materials, and people to actually work in the hotel. Also if you increase taxes on a company like GE, the company budget decreases which means that the money to hire labor decreases, which means that workers will either be paid less or laid off.
And third, research economics to find a truly efficient industry where the EXACT demand is matched by the EXACT supply. It just plainly cannot happen.
Report Post »BoiseBaked
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 1:04amHow does someone who doesn’t know that 1 + 1 = 2 get enough votes to get a job that pays $150,000 a year… How did we get here? I just want to curl up and mumble like a loon. I’m finished!
Report Post »DemocracyisTyranny
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 1:07amBush years were a bubble. Financial Bubble built on massive private and public debt. There are no more bubbles to increase tax revenues. We need some higher tariffs and spending cuts to create demand for jobs.
Report Post »Kafir
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 1:11amI am going to attempt to describe that socialist/marixst pig in just ONE word using democrat math: F#cking Moron…
Report Post »davecoolworld
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 1:29amWe need a Constitutional Amendment that REQUIRES an IQ test for all Government Officials ASAP.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 1:41amI watched this “conversation”, and Neil did strive to be a gentleman, as always, but this lady was making him nuts…speaking of nuts, if I ran my household the way obama runs our country, I would be divorced….DOES NOT make any sense, and I don’t know about you, but I’m sick of hearing the word “invest”…
Report Post »Down2TheC
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 1:47amPeople elect the dumbest politicians.
Report Post »Armed Patriot
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 1:50am@MODEL82A1 Thank you for taking the time to look up those numbers. You saved me the time. I hate the lies put out by the lib/progressive/ commie rat bastards as much as you. Maybe she should just go on over to the US Dept of Free and get her investments fulfilled.
Report Post »AnAppealToGod
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 1:53amHow did a D get elected in Texas??? Texas, you are slipping….
Report Post »DADA
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 2:52am@ AnAppealToGod: She represents the ghettos of Houston. Texas is not slipping a bit. She is by far a minority voice for Texans (no pun intended).
GETLIFE
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 4:04amVision! yes! Innovation! yes! Creation! yes!
Now how does money from the government (tax money, borrowed money whatever–but we’re no talking private investment here), produce the above?
It doesn’t. PEOPLE are innovative or creative–especially on their own thin dime.
Doesn‘t work that way when it’s other people’s money–and here we’re discussing tax money–other people’s money –that you don’t even have to pay back!
Come live in a socialist country to see how creative and innovative people are off the government’s money! People “innovate and create” around where the government makes the money accessible, so the “vision” part is always the government’s–and of course there are always tons of rules regulations and restrictions—to help you along with your “creativity.” End result: EXPENSIVE MEDIOCRITY, but since everyone followed all the rules, people who have never known another system think “well that just must be the reality about what we’re capable of doing.”
Now I’m sure that Johnson means well, but I’m also sure she has never experienced the grey mediocrity of modern European socialism.
Report Post »No1YaKnow
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 4:20amWhat a moonbat. And what’s up with her pointing him down? We gotta have this, we gotta have that….what, huh? Government does NOT create jobs. When is that moonbat talking point going to die and go in the compost heap it belongs in?
Report Post »Oil_Robb
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 4:42amShe is dumber than dirt….who voted her in….She got voted in by the color of her skin it wasnt by her brains
Report Post »wildjoker5
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 6:44amWhy can’t liberals get it? There isn’t enough revenue from the rich to tax even at 100% to cover the spending they want to do.
Taxing everyone at 100% with this amount of spending, it would still take 5 years to get out of $14 trillion in debt. Taxing isn’t the answer and it has been proven time and time again that throwing money at the school system shows zero results.
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 7:03amThere’s no way to reason with idiots like her. This interview was a joke, especially on the people of the 30th District of Texas.
Report Post »William
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 7:38amI couldn’t bring myself to watch it! I am tired of the waste in Washington call it what you will. Waste is waste.
Report Post »Sgt.Crust
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 7:47amWe need a new flock in DC to crap on us some more I guess! Everywhere I look all I see is communists, people who spend money they don’t have and ignorance! This year people, later this year, this country will be in flames – and there is not a damn thing ANYONE can do about it. You see there is no political will to stop the spending spree, and there are no brains in DC to realize they spend us into oblivion, blame it all on Bush right…how about that, he has some responsibility, but the Obumbler has spent more in 2 years than Bush spent in 8 years, Neil is right, we are headed for hell in a handbasket!
Report Post »joefboschsr
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 8:26amSo, if I where to follow her plan, I should max out my credit cards, take out a loan, and Invest in ethanol, and just wait for the money to come rolling in?
Report Post »demint.disciple
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 8:44amThis is a congress woman ? My god i hope she is the only on up there like that.. she is about as dumb as a bucket stones.. This is what you get out of all that education she is yelling about…moron, it didnt take 8 years to get here it took the last 60 – 70 years with your stupid liberal policies..
Report Post »The nerve of her calling HIM ignorant.. WOW !!!
Gold Coin & Economic News
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 9:00amThis woman will be out of a job soon because she has no clue, NO FRICKIN CLUE, what’s going on. She just repeats the liberal mantra and has no grasp of the real situation. We are out of money lady, B-R-O-K-E, can you spell?
It is amazing that people in our country elect complete fools like this woman. Heaven help us.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 9:06amThe liberals’ answer to every problem; throw as much money at the problem as you can.
She and her fraudulent college scholarships are an embarrassment to the state of Texas.
Johnson, here’s some common sense. Don’t spend more money than you make. It’s as true for the government as it is in any household.
Report Post »Libertarian
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 9:14amOh my gosh… that is all
Report Post »JGP
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 9:22amJZS, there has been some very good responses to your questions/comments but the true problem is that the federal government is spending too much money. Period. And most of the expenditures is none of their business.
For heavans sake, why do you think giving D.C. more money is going to change anything? We could give them everything we have and it will NEVER be enough. (look at education) Do you really trust them? Do you think this congress woman know’s better than you? Are you that gullible to buy into this “hate the rich mentallity”? We’re being played.
Report Post »gman46
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 9:47amI wish we could show the 20 somethings how the Democrats have spent their future.
Report Post »hud
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 9:50amSome folks don’t seem to understand gerrymandering. EBJ and some 40 other blacks are in protected black districts eg a district w/65% blacks or more, so that a black rep is almost a lock. Ergo, EBJ
Report Post »right-wing-waco
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 9:51amOk… This was a comedy routine… Yes??? I find it unbelievable that anyone is that stupid. No wonder we are so far in debt. I am willing to bet that with the help of just 2 other Congress-libs that she could recite the entire alphabet in under 1 hour.
I think I will write to her and tell her I have a vision and…. Naw, that might not be a good idea.
Report Post »sooner12
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 10:05amHow did she get elected? What an idiot!!!!
Report Post »Dahart
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 10:23amHa…great movie……could not agree more!
Report Post »right-wing-waco
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 10:28amAll joking aside. With Congresspeople like her and Maxine Waters, it really scares me to think that these people are in charge. Overall total IQ of Waters & Johnson = 06 on a good day.
Report Post »rgranger
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 10:40amIt is going to take more than an IQ test. it is going to take a severe beating of the stupid. we have elected people that have no clue how to run a business because we allowed for the uneducated and stupid to vote in mass. If you are not a successful, vital, contributing part of this sociality you should not be allowed to vote. Sorry, the Founders knew that this would cause exactly these problems, which is why they had the “ownership of real property” as a voting requirement. They assumed that if you had acquired property you would have a fundamental grasp of economics, at least enough not to run the country into the ground by voting for stupid people with stupid ideas pandering to the stupid. We allowed the progressives to talk us out of this, and here we are, wanting to borrow ourselves out of debt! And borrowing no less from our enemies, there needs to be another revolution.
Report Post »Mirimichi
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 10:56amjblaze
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:50pm
How on earth did this women ever get to Congress! She is dumber than a box of rocks! Anyone with a lick of sense can do the math! This boggles the mind! The gig is up Dems…the days of delusion and blatant BS are over!
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Is there something wrong with your vision? Its quite obvious why she got elected. They’re looking for their freebies. Racist? No. Just being honest about the subject.
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 11:20am“Socialism works fine until you run out of other people’s money!”
Report Post »Margaret Thatcher
davidwjohnson
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 11:22amWe need a divorce.
Socialists east of the Mississippi, capitalists to the west.
Let‘s not forget to build a fence on the capitalist’s side!
Report Post »democratgirl
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 11:24amThis woman is DELUSION, TOO. Raise taxes? HOW WILL THAT HELP SOMEONE INVEST? I saw this newscast yesterday and wow, I thought I was in the Twilight Zone watching and listening to her. She is so out of touch with WE, THE PEOPLE, it is because she has lined up with Satan. These Progressives WANT TO STEAL AND STEAL AND STEAL, first to give to themselves, and then what is left over, distribute to those who kiss their butts (votes) and soothe their souls. PUKE TIME.
Report Post »Logician
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 11:43amHey, JZS, here are the US unemployment rates: duh, guess your remarks aren’t based on historical data. Tax cuts equal lower unemployment. Why do you think both JFK and Clinton utilized them as well?
Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Annual
Report Post »2001 4.2 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.3 4.5 4.6 4.9 5.0 5.3 5.5 5.7
2002 5.7 5.7 5.7 5.9 5.8 5.8 5.8 5.7 5.7 5.7 5.9 6.0
2003 5.8 5.9 5.9 6.0 6.1 6.3 6.2 6.1 6.1 6.0 5.8 5.7
2004 5.7 5.6 5.8 5.6 5.6 5.6 5.5 5.4 5.4 5.5 5.4 5.4
2005 5.3 5.4 5.2 5.2 5.1 5.0 5.0 4.9 5.0 5.0 5.0 4.9
2006 4.7 4.8 4.7 4.7 4.6 4.6 4.7 4.7 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.4
2007 4.6 4.5 4.4 4.5 4.4 4.6 4.7 4.6 4.7 4.7 4.7 5.0
2008 5.0 4.8 5.1 4.9 5.4 5.6 5.8 6.1 6.2 6.6 6.8 7.3
2009 7.8 8.2 8.6 8.9 9.4 9.5 9.5 9.7 9.8 10.1 9.9 9.9
2010 9.7 9.7 9.7 9.8 9.6 9.5 9.5 9.6 9.6 9.7 9.8 9.4
2011 9.0 8.9 8.8
thepatriotdave
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 12:46pmThe wife and I now have a running joke. Whenever we are in a store, any store, I will start by asking… “Hey Honey, do we have enough in our checking account to buy one of these?” loud enough so people can hear. She then responds… “You know we don’t, we’re broke”. To which I end with… “Ok, I’ll just do what Congress does and buy three of em”.
The looks we get are priceless. Very few people get the joke, but some of those have started conversations over it, while others just shake their heads. However, those that shake their heads probably tell their friends or partners or whatever about these ‘two morons in the store’, and there has to be a few Democrats that hear it and suddenly have an awakening-to-reality moment that will impact their thinking. At least we pray that it does!
Be a part of “the” grassroots Tea Party event of 2011, with all 50 state’s Tea Party and 9.12 groups attending… http://www.americasteapartynews.com/freedomjamboree.php
Report Post »Kalish
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 1:13pmShe finally said it, more taxes, same old line, you can tax the so called rich, but that still would not do anything. FDR taxed the so called rich 95% and just prolonged the depression, the money is in the middle class, but democrats get their votes by the same old class warfare line. If we got rid of some of the wasteful bureaucracies, and cut spending and got rid of some of the handouts, then there would be not need for all these taxes, just a flat 12% tax and that’s it, no IRS and put the federal reserve back into the hands of the people, and not private bankers
Report Post »Vox Populi
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 1:33pmActually gang, JZS is right in basic area – tax cuts really do create deficits…if you don’t CUT programs that were once receiving those taxes!
…unfortunately for JZS, he doesn‘t yet get the REALITY of what we’re saying,
Until now, NO ONE would be brave enough to suggest cutting spending in order to reduce taxes – it cost them politically.
Here – I’ll show you how it REALLY works JZS – politicians have figured out that if they take the money from those who do NOT vote for them, and then “invest” it in poor people who WILL vote for them – they never want to take the “free stuff” (i.e. government spending) away.
See, it costs them VOTES.
Eddie knows how to get elected, she takes from people with jobs in Virginia, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina – and then GIVES it to people in her congressional district…
What WE THE PEOPLE (you know us…we‘re the one’s PAYING Eddie to continue to take money out of our pockets, food off of our table, and denying our rights) don’t care how many times she and BHO say the words “investment” and “vision”…we know they have no intention of stopping the outright THEFT of our hard-earned incomes.
Sure tax cuts create deficits – so does spending money you don’t have – the answer is not to deny tax cuts, the answer is to: A) Stop taxation B) Cut programs until their aren’t anymore deficits!!
See how that works numbskull?
Report Post »Michael61
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 1:58pmhttp://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39517
“It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now … Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus.”
– John F. Kennedy, Nov. 20, 1962, president’s news conference
“Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased – not a reduced – flow of revenues to the federal government.”
– John F. Kennedy, Jan. 17, 1963, annual budget message to the Congress, fiscal year 1964
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 2:11pmThe left keeps saying, “it is not a spending problem, it is a revenue problem”.
If that is the case then why does our revenue keep going up?
http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/article/0,,id=175888,00.html
Click on “Historical Table” near the bottom of the page for an exel spreadsheet on tax revenue from 19887 to 2007.
How can it be a “revenue” problem if our tax revenue when from 886 billion in 1987 to 2.7 trillion in 2007?
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 2:37pm“Look at the Bush tax cuts. Did the unemployment rate go down? Answer: No. Look it up. Were jobs created? Answer: No, job creation increased, yes, but less than the increase in population. And, of course, the economy crashed in last year of his Presidency into the worst economic calamity since the Great Depression.”
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Well, JZS, if I were that person that made money and then received a tax break I would start another business that created different widgets. The trouble is, I look at what my return is in the US with all the beauracracy, taxes, etc. and see that I can make even more money building my factory overseas so that is what I do. Then I compare what that company is doing to what my original company in the US is doing and find that the overseas company has a much better bottom line because it isn’t taxes as much or spending huge amounts to keep up with all the red tape created by the American government so I move that operation overseas as well.
The jobs were created; just in a different country because yahoos, like you, want to tax everything a person makes, then distribute evenly. You also want so many regulations, many of wich are unnecessary, that a company spends a large percentage of revenue on keeping up with all the government rules, regulations, etc.
And does throwing more money at a problem, like our government did with the bailouts, help to turn the economy around? No. So what is your point JZS? Obama’s spending spree has done very little to create jobs but has done a great deal to burden my children with a great deal more debt. That debt will be a weight around their neck their whole lives.
Report Post »Ken
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 2:49pmWe have a bunch of waste czars…the Republicans in Congress and the Senate!
Report Post »DirectlyUnPCman
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 2:56pmHaha old people are not the future. Man, why are black liberals so stupid? They get NOTHING.
Report Post »godlovinmom
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 3:09pmwhite librals are STUPID too, pelosi and reid are two that come to mind!
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 4:02pmWe need to INVEST in some SPENDING to make your kids future GREST while he pays off our CREDIT CARD. Does anyone understand these Keynsians?
Report Post »Neighbor2025
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 6:36pmTo JZS
April 13, last paragraph.
I hate to break it to you, but deficits are caused by spending more than you have. If you don’t have it you don’t spend it. The problem is politicians don’t know how to live within their means (which they get from us taxpayers). They don’t know how to cut spending only how to raise taxes. OK, so we raise taxes and spend some more, then we cut defense to zero and spend that money, then spend some more and raise more taxes. When does it end?
Oh that’s right, it’s other people’s money, so there’s always going to be enough. I guess I was wrong.
I have another term for you: unfunded liability
Report Post »If the national debt figure doesn’t grab you maybe adding up all the unfunded liability at the local, state and federal level will get through. Or you can choose to ignore it. I know you’ll tax that away too. Problem solved. Not.
SpeckChaser
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 7:43pm*********************ATTENTION*************
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“Why does anyone believe that cutting taxes for the rich produces jobs? Someone explain that to me please”
Although I disagree with everything you say, I think your probably a decent, honest man. Your side has the same employment info my side has yet we come to different conclusions. Ask yourself these questions.
Do I have a better chance of getting a job if my employer has A) more money to spend B) less money to spend.
Do I have a better chance of getting a raise if my employer has A) more money to spend B) less money to spend.
Do I have a better chance of KEEPING my job if my employer has A) more money to spend B) less money to spend.
Report Post »walrus808
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 9:54pmWhat in the heck is she talking about? Jobs leaving the US because we got our fiscal house in order? Or is it that we will lose all those redundant Federal jobs that need to go anyway. I got news for her, if we can get our economy back on track, there will be plenty of private sector jobs available when those in porky positions lose their part time jobs and get a real one =)
Report Post »PartTimer
Posted on April 14, 2011 at 11:02pmAs Herman Cain put it, All Liberals do is Shift the subject, Ignore the facts, and Name call. SIN
Report Post »RedPillPatriot
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 1:54amVision…Innovation…blah blah blah… Vision… Innovation…. . If we could just take all those white folks money we could pay for education.. and keep all these corrupt teachers employed so they can continue to brainwash da kids, we could keep stealin all du soshal sicurty and spend it on whateva we want to! why you folks dont understand boondogles my mines!
Report Post »buzzer7
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 8:52amThis dimwit Congresswoman trying to argue economics with Neil Cavuto is like Minnie Mouse trying to argue Quantun Machanics with Einstein!
Report Post »getalong
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 3:21pmI guess I gotta get myself some of that Obama vision.
Report Post »Eblaze44
Posted on April 15, 2011 at 4:19pmThere are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. Congressmen. ~ Author Unknown
that‘s what’s already been done, tax, tax, tax – and let the unions be in charge of our education system – now you see the results – we are way down from the top of the educated list.
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