What Could Be Scarier Than Obama’s Second Term?
Given Obama’s disastrous performance in his first term, what could we expect in Part II, given his promise of “bold, persistent experimentation” and his whispering to our Russian adversaries about having “more flexibility”? The Investor’s Business Daily makes a few predictions, including:
• A “speculation tax” on Wall Street covering all investment transactions.
• A higher capital gains tax rate.
• Amnesty for illegal immigrants.
• Unilateral cuts in the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
• A carbon tax on utilities.
• A special windfall profits tax on oil companies to subsidize renewable energy projects.
• Higher taxes, including a value-added tax, on the middle class for new transfer payments for the poor.
• Suing towns to force public-housing integration of the suburbs.
• Bolstering the Community Reinvestment Act [a primary cause of the 2008 collapse].
• Packing the Supreme Court with leftists.
• Stricter gun control.
• Minimum living wage.
Sound scary? This is nothing. If he could hold onto power despite everyone with an IQ above plant life knowing that whether from incompetence or from malice he has not been acting in the country’s best interests, there’s no reason to expect the 22nd Amendment to stand in his way.
People got tired of being American. They wanted fundamental change. They may get it.
On a tip from Stormfax.
The ‘speculation tax’or tansfer fee would discourage electronic manipulation of the market where multiple millions of trades are placed by programs to raise or lower prices at will for the insiders….let them pay but until then don’t play in a rigged game.
….the rest are total moonbattery
Hmm. Those baseless ‘fears’ with no proof are so very, very scary.
Damn, Righties are such pants-wetting cowards.
Speculation tax: .001 cents per transaction would affect you and I not at all, but it would limit the crazy lottery gambling that has caused the economic devastation of 2008. Not to mention the Great Depression. Of course, there’s no way a business-friendly, center right politician like Obama would go for that. Or be able to get it passed with any conceivable Senate.
Amnesty for illegal immigrants: God, you think Obama would do something Reagan did? Horrifying!
Unilateral cuts in the U.S. nuclear arsenal: You still live in fear of the Soviet Union, you old fossils? How many times over should the U.S. be able to destroy all life on Earth before we’re ‘safe’?
A special windfall profits tax on oil companies: You mean like discontinuing the subsidies we give them to run the single-most profitable business in all of human history?
Higher taxes… on the middle class: Bullshit. Obama has only cut taxes on the middle class. If you were worried about that, you wouldn’t vote for Rmoney.
Bolstering the Community Reinvestment Act [a primary cause of the 2008 collapse]: Primary cause? You see a guy with a firecracker, and a guy with an atom bomb, and after a city blows up, you blame it on the firecracker guy?
Stricter gun control: If Obama does more of the same, there will be LESS gun control. Name me any Obama-created gun control laws or admit you are liars.
Minimum living wage: Horrific. It’s almost like he doesn’t want people dropping dead of starvation all the time. It’s like he thinks dead bodies in the streets are unseemly, or something. Damn him for trying to make America civilized!
Of course, there’s no way a business-friendly, center right politician like Obama would go for that. Or be able to get it passed with any conceivable Senate.
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Obama a center right, business-friendly politician? Apparently you are not a business owner nor have you ever talked with a business owner.
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A special windfall profits tax on oil companies: You mean like discontinuing the subsidies we give them to run the single-most profitable business in all of human history?
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You are aware, aren’t you that far more tax revenue is generated from selling oil than profit? If you don’t like the product or the price, then don’t buy it. No one is forcing you to use oil. The head of Exxon never showed up at your house and demanded you buy 10 gallons of gas, did he?
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Minimum living wage: Horrific. It’s almost like he doesn’t want people dropping dead of starvation all the time. It’s like he thinks dead bodies in the streets are unseemly, or something. Damn him for trying to make America civilized!
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Very few people are paid a minimum wage. Those who are paid a minimum wage tend to be:
Those without job skills or experience,
Those who are just starting into the job market,
Kids.
You accept a minimum wage job. You learn to show up on time. You learn to do the things you are asked to do. You learn to work with others. You learn to do things which are productive. Suddenly you start getting more money because you actually have some job skills. Maybe you finish high school or college. Suddenly you actually have job skills that make you much more valuable. You get paid more.
Why is that so hard to understand.
BTW, if the minimum wage is such a good idea, why don’t we set the minimum wage at $100 per hour? Or maybe set it at $500 per hour? Why can’t we do that?
That can be stopped without a wealth-siphoning tax by setting a minimum lifetime for quotes.
Here is more of what can be expected in Obama’s next term – crippling our military at every turn:
“The Pentagon is buying Chevrolet Volts to help “green up” the military—while propping up sales of the bailed-out automaker’s most politicized car.
The Department of Defense began purchasing the struggling luxury electric car, which retails at $40,000, this summer as part of its goal to purchase 1,500 such green vehicles. The Marine Corps Air Station in Miramar, Calif. purchased its first two Volts in July, and 18 more vehicles will come shortly to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, where Air Force One is based, according to military magazine Stars and Stripes.
The Obama administration championed the production of the Volt. Along with the president’s pledge this year to “buy one and drive it myself … five years from now when I’m not president anymore,” the government offers a $7,500 tax break to encourage sales.
Such perks, however, have failed to drive consumers to GM car lots. The vehicle has been forced to suspend production twice this year after the Volt failed to gain a foothold in the marketplace.”
http://freebeacon.com/great-green-car-fleet/
Obama Has Signed 923 Executive Orders In 40 Months – Video
http://beforeitsnews.com/obama/2012/06/obama-has-signed-923-executive-orders-in-40-months-video-2221614.html
Reagan granted amnesty to a much smaller number of immigrants as part of a plan which would have closed the border and enacted comprehensive immigration reform. Moonbats pulled the rug out from under him.
The US nuclear arsenal is aging and we don’t know how well. We need the current warhead count because moonbats killed the funding for the RRW program.
The current warhead count is not about destroying life on Earth several times over, it is about surviving a first strike. That is why US strategic forces are diversified between silos, air bases, and ballistic missile submarines.
Completely false. Oil taxes and royalty payments are a huge net source of public revenue.
Taxes will need to rise across all brackets if the spending spree continues.
The CRA did not help homeowners. It lined the pockets of guys like me who collected additional profits from the securitization of junk loans which should not have been originated.
Let me tell you something: the CRA is an absolute disaster. Housing moonbattery has poisoned the economy.
http://www.nrapvf.org/gunbanobama/obama-timeline.aspx
We’re talking about Obama’s second term. Second terms are usually when term-limited politicians cram things down our throat.
The ammo shortage has already begun.
Fixing the wage rate too high will cause jobs to be eliminated when the productivity of low-income workers drops below the costs of employment. The minimum wage hurts low income workers by reducing job availability and reducing hours. It also impairs the ability of high school and college students to find the part time work which helps build a resume and work ethic.
BUT BUSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Moonbats are impervious to reason and common sense, AC.
“A” for effort, though.
Incitatus: “Obama Has Signed 923 Executive Orders In 40 Months – Video”
I count 134: http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/disposition.html
Your link is fascinating. My one spot check, “EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 — allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft.”
Ooh, scary! And it was signed by John F. Kennedy.
I know you guys think Obama started a recession before he was elected President. Apparently his time machine goes back to the early 60′s, too?
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Jodie says:
September 11, 2012 at 8:44 am
Here is more of what can be expected in Obama’s next term – crippling our military at every turn:
“The Pentagon is buying Chevrolet Volts to help “green up” the military—while propping up sales of the bailed-out automaker’s most politicized car.
The Department of Defense began purchasing the struggling luxury electric car, which retails at $40,000, this summer as part of its goal to purchase 1,500 such green vehicles. The Marine Corps Air Station in Miramar, Calif. purchased its first two Volts in July, and 18 more vehicles will come shortly to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, where Air Force One is based, according to military magazine Stars and Stripes.
The Obama administration championed the production of the Volt. Along with the president’s pledge this year to “buy one and drive it myself … five years from now when I’m not president anymore,” the government offers a $7,500 tax break to encourage sales.
Such perks, however, have failed to drive consumers to GM car lots. The vehicle has been forced to suspend production twice this year after the Volt failed to gain a foothold in the marketplace.”
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Soon our troops will be moving around on Segways like those gay policemen in many LIEberal-run towns.
Good God, all this Moonbattery is making me ILL!
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I propose an IP Ban for the DNC-bot aka “Nangleator”. It consistently postulates LIEberal premises, thus requiring loyal Moonbat regulars to rebuke its insane premises.
Never mind the conclusions.
Please BAN “Nangleator” now and be done with it.
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Minimum living wage: Horrific. It’s almost like he doesn’t want people dropping dead of starvation all the time. It’s like he thinks dead bodies in the streets are unseemly, or something. Damn him for trying to make America civilized!
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Beached Welfare Whales with iPhones.. LOL.. what an image the trollbot manages to conjure up!
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Jodie :time was when Air Force made the security rounds in $3500 golf-carts…nice and stealthy. Segways might not be a bad idea for boots on the ground but first thing you know they’ll want to mount a weapons system on the platform
…and can you ever really have too many nukes ?
Nuke the Beached Welfare Whales with I-Phones !
Biden’s heart isn’t strong enough to last through a 2nd Term, much less a 3rd, 4th, or 5th.
Ummah Gummah: “Please BAN “Nangleator” now and be done with it.”
Nice to know I’m getting some rounds target. Uncomfortable, is it? Watch Faux News some more and try to shut the world out. There’s comfort in your fear of the imaginary Obama you’ve constructed in your head.
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The most ridiculous leftist myth is that anyone who opposes a massive welfare state is an evil person who wants people to die in the streets by the billions.
Besides the absurdity of the claim on its face, it makes the unsupported assumptions that government programs always work as intended and are entirely affordable.
Of course, in theory it would be wonderful if we could all live in a utopia where we all have everything we could ever want and nobody ever had to work for it. If everything in the world had no cost at all and all a person had to do was go out and grab it, without worrying that they have deprived someone else because everything is in unlimited supply.
The problem is that this utopia is completely and utterly impossible, and any attempt to achieve it is certain to fail, ending only in misery, poverty, and death. The very things it claims to prevent.
The government cannot provide our health care, no matter how hard it tries. Just as it cannot provide our food, our houses, our jobs, or our retirement. Any attempt to do so will only last until the loose fiscal policy leads to collapse, and all the programs evaporate like the illusions they are.
So contort yourself with all the moral posturing you want, but that will not change the fact of the impossible. Entitlement spending must be cut if we are to have any hope of balancing the budget. The suffering this will cause to people who are addicted to government handouts absolutely pales in comparison to the suffering that will ensue if the United States enters the terminal phases of fiscal collapse.
Similarly, it would be wonderful in theory if we lived in a world where foreign nations were always reasonable, nobody ever went to war or even needed to raise an army, and Muslims didn’t fly planes into buildings.
But we don’t. We live in a world where bloodthirsty dictators and Muslim fanatics constantly seek to expand their grasp and enslave more people. We live in a world where surviving a surprise attack and being able to retaliate is a real concern. Naively holding hands and singing for peace will only get innocent people killed. There is only one way to obtain real peace.
Peace Through Strength.
M.Wilson: “Of course, in theory it would be wonderful if we could all live in a utopia…”
Straw man. Nobody believes this. Nobody wants this. We don’t want all needs taken care of all the time by the government. That’s a crazy exaggeration of a social safety net.
But is it fair to say you hold the complete opposite of that utopian view? That people who can’t find any type of work, or who can’t work, and haven’t received any private largess should starve and die? That the government has no business at all in preventing starvation?
M.Wilson: “The government cannot provide our health care…”
No one has proposed that the government should, or will. The current administration has made new regulations to help control healthcare costs and availability, for the common welfare. It’s the job of Congress to regulate commerce, as well. Those phrases seem familiar, somehow?
M.Wilson: “…that will not change the fact of the impossible. Entitlement spending must be cut…”
Other countries can do it. Do you claim that Americans can’t possibly do what other countries do? The threat to our economies does not come from the use of those economies, but the abuses of the private banking industry. They have the gambling bug, and they are now requiring you to fight for the elimination of your own safety net so you can pay for their bad bets.
If you pay for their bad bets, do you think they’ll stop gambling?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
God I love this stuff. Insanity abounds, and it just keeps headed further and further off the deep end… what on Earth has Obama done – one single thing – that makes you think he is headed for wresting control of America away? A 7th term??? Are you people that fucking scared of imaginary things?
Clearly the answer is “yes – we are afraid of quite literally everything because we are told to be by those who manipulate us”… but ferfoxsake … none of this shit is REAL!!! Don’t you get that?!?!
You don’t. And we laugh at you, but worry about the future nonetheless, because you fuckers get to vote just like less mentally deficient people.