Tax reform? Bullshit by another name, but here goes:
Step One: Once recovery is underway, sometime around or after 2020, raise taxes.
Gorilla says: “As easy as selling out your political base!”
Posts Tagged ‘Obama’
Tax Reform In One Easy Step
Friday, December 10th, 2010Asked And Answered
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010President Obama asks: And so then my question is, does it make sense for me to tack a little bit this way, or tack a little bit that way, because I’m keeping my eye on the long term, and the long fight, not my day to day news cycle, but where am I going over the long term?
Gorilla answers: No, it doesn’t make any sense at all. Since 1999, umpteen tax cuts and corporate subsidies have created zero net new jobs. In the long term, Mr. President, you and we are all dead.
The Death Of Hope And Change
Monday, December 6th, 2010President Obama’s decided he wants only one term.
How else to explain the extortion racket he’s agreed to support.
In exchange for a year’s extension of unemployment benefits and a payroll tax cut for those who are lucky enough to have jobs, the rich will get massive tax cuts, the deficits will continue increasing by trillions, and nothing serious will be done about the worst economic disaster since the Depression.
And you can bet your bottom dollar that the Know Nothing Party will be back every year asking for more largesse for their living large constituency and blaming the President when the economy continues not to recover by 2012.
Where is the serious jobs program? Where is the new stimulus? Nowhere!!!
Absent the Know Nothings nominating one of their many amoral, racist clowns, it’s all over for this President.
Democrats see this President as an ineffectual, cowardly leader who stands for nothing and negotiates only with himself. They won’t come out again in droves to vote for him.
Gorilla says: “Bye, bye, Barry, guess you can afford to settle for less!”
Flying To Another Failure
Friday, December 3rd, 2010The President has landed in Afghanistan, where he’ll decide:
1) The war continues to be a complete waste of time and treasure. We’ll start pulling out next year.
2) The war continues to be a cheap and cynical political trick for a politician who seems totally out of touch with reality. We’ll stay another 4 years, with an option for another 40.
3) The war continues to be the only serious US jobs program going. The jobs are all going to Afghans, presumably because of a shortage of corrupt, medieval warlords and/or drug mules.
4) The war continues to be an opportunity to discriminate against the LGBT community. John McCain never met an asshole he didn’t like and/or resemble.
5) The war continues to be the only fight left to lose for a rudderless, leaderless, contemptible American political class.
Gorilla says: “Ringing the changes on failure is a melancholy dirge indeed!”
One And Done
Monday, November 29th, 2010President Obama’s decided that pursuing symbolic and stupid economic policies will guarantee him ???
Yet another depressing example of negotiating with yourself, something this Administration does constantly for no good reason at all.
Republicans now will insist that federal employees be laid off, and that will be the starting point for all the phony deficit discussions to come.
Cutting employee pay at a time of national economic disaster is bullshit of the highest order.
Where is the jobs program?
Hiring 10-25 million Americans right now will do more for deficit reduction and economic growth than all the worthless commissions any cowardly President will ever appoint.
Gorilla says: “Bye, bye Barry! You’ve jumped the Jimmy Carter shark on the road to one term!”
Lost In Space
Friday, April 16th, 2010President Obama’s got a new space plan, and it’s a particularly tasty bit of fudge…
The right space program would make clear that manned spaceflight is both a waste of time and a waste of money. Putting more money into real scientific expeditions, as opposed to high school experiments in low earth orbit or yet another visit to the moon (or to Mars, where we already know what the planet’s surface looks like), would be a great change of pace.
But astronauts, and the people whose jobs depend on them, aren’t keen on a world without spacemen and spacewomen. Like the Pentagon, NASA is essentially a middle class jobs program. Study after study has concluded that money could be spent more wisely on real science, but that means a lot of folks in Cocoa Beach and Houston will lose their jobs.
So the President splits the difference, going for more manned spaceflight, but not for another 20-30 years, by which time we’ll either be anxious to visit Mars or working so that our Chinese masters can do so.
Gorilla says: “Foreclosure: the final frontier!”
No Nukes Is More Nukes
Monday, April 12th, 2010Yet another international summit, this time devoted to nuclear proliferation!
Only, not so much.
Nuclear proliferation by terrorists is the number one security problem facing the US, says our President.
Nuclear proliferation by those actually having nuclear weapons is not on the agenda.
The nuclear arms races in South Asia and the Middle East are a far greater threat to the US than what a handful of terrorists might do.
We don’t really have the capacity to put the brakes on India, Pakistan, Iran, or Israel if one or more of their leaders decide that a nuclear exchange is the only way to maintain national survival.
And yes, arming for annihilation makes no more sense today than it did in 1945.
What is the point of these meetings, which never achieve anything of substance?
Gorilla answers: “To be seen to be beating swords into plowshares, while behind the curtain the plowshares get deadlier!”
Another Idiotic Rethink
Monday, March 1st, 2010President Obama’s working on a new nuclear policy: one that eliminates thousands of nuclear weapons without declaring that the US would not be the first to use nuclear weapons in a potential conflict.
In itself, getting rid of these useless weapons is a positive step, as is curtailing investments in more nukes. These are a direct reversal from the Bush Administration’s policy and make efforts at nuclear non-proliferation slightly more credible.
It’s difficult to understand what threats the US currently faces that would require the use of nuclear weapons: terrorists are at best a fifth-rate conventional threat, while countries like Iran and North Korea have not yet demonstrated that they have either the capability to do much damage or wish to engage in national suicide to fulfill their need for recognition.
But it’s also difficult to understand why we continue the proliferation of conventional weapons to fight non-existent wars, nor make much effort to convince Israel, India, Pakistan and other nuclear nations to get serious about joining us one day in a non-nuclear world.
There’s too much atmospherics and too little substance in nuclear policy, so rethinking that doesn’t substantively change the approach to proliferation is a waste of time.
Gorilla says: “We don’t want to look soft, but we do want to look the other way!”
2015 At The Latest
Thursday, February 11th, 2010That’s when unemployment will be a less than resounding 6%, or so says our President.
He promises to add 95,000 jobs a month. So it will only take 7 1/2 years to restore the jobs already lost in this recession!
Meanwhile, the Congress proposes a “jobs bill” that will add an entire month’s worth of jobs!
Gorilla says: “It’s about being seen to say something, not actually doing something!”
Time Wasting: Obama Style
Monday, February 8th, 2010Another day, another summit on an issue that no one wants to lead on!
Over the weekend, the G-7 boys and girls tried to reassure each other that the PIIGS of Europe aren’t going to be a problem.
Today, it’s President Obama, calling on Republican leaders to join him for yet another pointless summit on health care reform.
The facts are these:
1) Republicans will not vote for any Administration proposal on health care reform, or any other major issue, in 2010.
2) Democrats have not yet decided whether they will abandon health care reform, thus guaranteeing they will lose big time in 2010.
So, the President could say to House Democrats: Vote for the Senate bill and we’ll fix it later using reconciliation.
Or he could engage in a time wasting exercise in hopes that Americans will blame a minority opposition party for the failures of this President and his party to tackle major issues.
Gorilla says: “Good luck with that!”
