"Canada will not let the Jews or Israel stand alone"

From Jihad Watch / Posted by Robert Spencer

The U.S. should be saying this. But this is, of course, the age of Obama.
"'Canada will not let the Jews or Israel stand alone,'" by Herb Keinon in the Jerusalem Post, November 30:

Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird, who delivered a supportive speech of Israel at the UN before its vote Thursday on the Palestinian statehood, said Friday "the bottom line is we will not let the Jewish people and the State of Israel stand alone when the going gets tough." 

Baird, in a phone interview from New York, said he had "absolutely no hesitation" about taking the podium and opposing the Palestinian bid, something he knew was not a popular position in the hall.

The Canadian foreign minister criticized Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas for the hostile tenor of his speech.

"Knowing that he had such overwhelming support, this would have been an occasion for him to reach out to the government and people of Israel, to embrace the Jewish people, to talk about his hopes for peace and be magnanimous," he said. "Unfortunately it was a rather aggressive speech that will really do nothing to advance the cause of peace or the peace process."...

What a surprise.

Merry Christmas: This Tax Increase is for You, America 

By: John Ransom  / Townhall Columnist

Let’s cut right to the end of the story: Ordinary people have already tumbled off the precipice.

There will be no dramatic rescue at the height of the tension, with crashing, ominous music turning to a sunshine ditty, a government handout straining to reach you, to save you from tumbling over the lip of the cliff.

Instead the government is going to intentionally bump into you, making it look like an accident, head turned away, mumbling an apology, much like a pick-pocket does in a crowd, with the object to lift your wallet. 
  
So, yes; however much they deny it, your tax bill is going to go up. Dramatically.

And Obama revealed as much when his muppet, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner,   presented one of the White House’s patented, joke-shop budgets to members of the loyal opposition.

The GOP says it’s basically the same budget they rejected last year.

And along with the promised tax increases for the rich, Obama is promising something special for you too.
$600 billion in “additional” taxes.

Merry Christmas.

I know; you’re thinking: “Gosh, the 21 tax increases he already passed that are aimed at me were generous enough.”  

And to think we didn’t get him anything.

"We have not seen any good-faith effort on the part of this administration to talk about the real problem that we're trying to fix," said GOP House Majority Leader Eric Cantor according to CNBC.

"To date, the administration has remained focused on raising taxes and attending campaign-style events, with no specific plans to protect Medicare and Social Security or reduce our national debt in a meaningful way," said Senate Republican Mitch McConnell.

“A senior Capitol Hill Democratic aide confirmed that the GOP description of the Geithner proposal is consistent with the latest Democratic position,” says CNBC. “The aide was not authorized to discuss the proposal publicly, and would do so only on condition of anonymity.”

I’d want to be anonymous too if I were a Democrat. I’m surprised that Geithner didn’t just drop the budget at the door, ring the bell and run away. 

And, really, it was never going to end any other way than taxes for EVERYONE.

It’s not class warfare they are after; it’s your money. The class warfare rhetoric was the fable they told you just to lull you to sleep, like Scheherazade trying to keep her head.   

You can’t finance everyone’s home, everyone’s retirement, everyone’s healthcare, everyone’s student loan, everyone’s bank, everyone’s brand new clunker and everyone’s green fad- and not expect to pay.

We know the math as well as the economists do. It doesn’t take higher mathematical functions to understand that outgo can’t dwarf income for forever. 

One plus one plus one plus one equals a lot of money when there is are trillions attached to the One.  

And politicians at the federal, state and local level have been so unable to resist growing government that not only does government count for the largest sector of our economy at 41 percent of GDP, but we celebrate the addiction as if it’s a real meaningful addition to our lives.

Third-quarter GDP growth revised upward to 2.7%!!! said the Los Angeles Times as the government revised GDP numbers upward to account for the government spending that the government forgot to mention the first time around.

“We spent what?!!?” said a government auditor who was promptly fired.  
 
And the revision would be great if the revision wasn’t going to come out of your pocket in the form of future tax increases.

“Now, given what’s going on in Washington with the budget debate, it’s interesting that one of the biggest drivers of the third-quarter numbers, as noted by East Shore Partners’ strategist Joan McCullough, was government spending,” reports the Wall Street Journal.

“We are totally reliant on inventories and federal spending which are dicey, unsustainable and at this rate, won’t create jobs,” says McCullough in the WSJ.

So… it has all the hallmarks of a sophisticated, well thought out, intentional Obama economic plan.

Here’s another hallmark: You can expect another crisis- everyday.

Communist Party USA: Go, Obama, Go!

Organization staging events to encourage higher taxes, spending

The Communist Party USA, which just days ago boasted of its celebration over the election victory by Barack Obama, now is organizing teleconferences and promoting rallies in support of Obama’s plans to raise taxes – and to demand full government funding for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid “and other basic human needs.”

According to a statement from the communists, it is the “will of the voters” that Obama be allowed to “end … tax breaks for the wealthiest.” And the party said no spending cuts should be allowed because they would be borne by the “working class families, starting with children and youth and the most vulnerable.”

Facing the nation right now is the fiscal cliff which was set up by earlier decisions from the White House and Congress not to address longterm budget problems then. The scenario now is that without new legislation immediately on spending cuts, sought by Republicans, or more taxes, demanded by Democrats and the Communist Party USA, automatic changes will create both spending cuts and new tax liabilities.

Many Washington observers say, in fact, that’s a goal for Obama, in order to allow him to blame the GOP for the nation’s ills, and for him to work on tax increases amidst the backlash from Americans facing huge new liabilities.

“The national legislative struggle is the first challenge to continue the deep organizing that resulted in the election victory, in order to win priorities that benefit the 99 percent,” the party said in a statement.

It has organized a teleconference on the fight at 8 p.m. Eastern on Dec. 4, at 605-475-4850 (1053538#) with Art Perlo, chair of the Economics Commission CPUSA. And it is promoting that the AFL-CIO and “hundreds of organizations” will hold a Candlelight Campaign against Cuts on Dec. 10, all in support of the “Five Weeks to Protect Our Future.”

According to preliminary reports from Washington, Obama already has picked up on one of the suggestions from the Communist Party USA National Committee, which wrote a week ago that there needs to be an “enhanced version of the American Jobs Act … as part of a green New Deal to create millions of jobs for infrastructure, renewable energy, education and support to state and local government services.”

As part of his demands to Congress regarding a compromise to avoid the “fiscal cliff” Obama has proposed $50 billion in new stimulus spending, reports said. He also wants $1.6 trillion in new taxes and the authority to borrow what he pleases.

“The will of the voters is being put to immediate test as the so-called ‘fiscal cliff’ negotiations play out in Washington. Labor and the broad alliance that re-elected President Obama clearly supported an end to tax breaks for the wealthiest and keeping hands off Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and other basic human needs,” the party statement said.

The communists noted that there already was a round of protests held two days after the election, “spearheaded by AFL-CIO and hundreds of organizations.”

The group continued, “Coming out of the election, the big fight is the crisis over the federal budget. Forces representing corporate power and the richest of the 1 percent are trying to achieve their long-held goals of looting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and cutting all government programs that help people or serve a public good.”

The national committee of the communist organization said, “The outcome of this battle will set the framework for the next four years and have impact on the lives of ordinary working people for decades to come. Only the mobilized working people can stop the corporate offensive and begin to meet our needs. The unity of the broad, inclusive and diverse alliance that won this year’s election victory should now be directed to reaching out in every community and workplace to bring the message to Congress in a strong and public way. We urge immediate participation in this critical struggle.”

The national committee said, “It is cruel and divisive to whip up hysteria around the so-called ‘fiscal cliff’ crisis. The calls to make benefit cuts to Social Security and Medicare go in the opposite direction of the mandate delivered by the majority of voters on November 6. The message of the election clearly was: tax the wealthy more and protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.”

It also said the expiration of the “Bush era tax cuts for the wealthy” should be only the starting point.

“We support calls for a financial transaction tax, for closing the capital gains loophole and increasing tax rates on millionaires to the level of the prosperous 1960s, and cutting the level of Pentagon spending in order to meet pressing domestic priorities that create jobs.”

The comment was in a report to the Communist Party USA National Committee from the party’s chairman, Sam Webb.

“We meet on the heels of an enormous people’s victory. It was a long and bitterly contested battle in which the forces of inclusive democracy came out on top. The better angels of the American people spread their wings,” he wrote in the online report.

He said blacks, Hispanics and women worked together to defeat “racist … white people” and that it now is time for the Communist Party USA to work on the foundations established by Obama on issues regarding the environment, homosexual marriage and minorities to its potential.

“If anything the vote … is an insistent call for action on the most pressing problems facing the working class and people. That is the election’s mandate,” he wrote. “This was not a vote in favor of destroying social programs like Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; or rolling back domestic spending; or resolving the budget crisis on the people’s backs.

“It was instead a vote for jobs, housing relief, health care, withdrawal of our troops from Afghanistan, an end to U.S.-led wars in the Middle East, preservation of the social safety net, health care access, reproductive rights, and equal pay for women, infrastructure renewal (an issue that took on greater importance after megastorm Sandy), marriage equality, a larger commitment to public education, a tax system in which the wealthiest families and corporations pay a much larger share, reform of our punitive and anti-democratic immigration laws, a reduction in unconscionable inequality, a legislative and electoral system that isn’t awash with corporate money,” he wrote.

Op-ed:

Over the cliff we go

By: Diane Sori

It seems that Obama's unyielding attitude about spending cuts vs. tax increases is a prelude to going over the dreaded $500 BILLION fiscal cliff...with him deliberately giving the final push.

The simple fact is Obama created this fiscal cliff as a way to garner new power to raise taxes and grow government even bigger...all at his discretion. The $1.6+ trillion in new taxes that Obama is demanding is more than double the $800 billion he asked for in talks with GOP leaders during the summer of 2011.

And since stealing the election through voter fraud, Obama keeps bloviating that voters are demanding that high-income Americans (the Obama infamous 2%) pay higher taxes as a way to reduce the deficit. And we know just who those voters are that want this...the 47% that Obama promised everything to in order to 'buy' their votes. Sorry but this alone won't do it, because putting into effect a year-end package of tax increases with NO spending cuts will most likely throw the US economy into recession, and cause our credit rating to be downgraded yet again.

Thanks Obama...you screwed 'We the People' yet again...and are happy to have done so.

Now this is what Obama wants the Republicans to happily agree to as presented by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner this past Thursday..and it makes me cringe just thinking about it...

Obama wants Republicans to immediately sign off on his $1.6+ TRILLION in new revenue (mostly from the tax increases on the wealthy) over a decade in exchange for $400 BILLION in unspecified spending cuts over that same time period (specific cuts to be determined by Congress maybe in 2013) as well as spending cuts previously proposed (like cuts to the military and defense budgets and to NASA); $50 BILLION in new stimulus spending; aid to minority homeowners so they can refinance their mortgages; $30 BILLION in extended unemployment benefits; extending the payroll tax; and a permanent ability to raise the debt ceiling, which by the way must be raised shortly or we go into default.

And with Obama NOT caring to compromise on anything as compromise isn't in his vocabulary, he has chosen instead to accuse the Republicans in Congress of holding the middle class hostage by NOT agreeing to what he's proposed. 

Thankfully, so far Republicans are refusing to comply with Obama's wish of putting this entire burden on the wealthiest 2% (you know the very ones who actually create jobs and businesses) by saying NO and refusing to pass this joke of a proposal.

“There's a stalemate, let's not kid ourselves," said Speaker of the House John Boehner. "It's not a serious proposal. Right now we're almost nowhere."

You think...

And rightly so Republicans should say NO and stick to that NO...and I'd love to see them go even one step further, that is if they had any guts they would just walk away from talks that are going nowhere. And why are they going nowhere...because Obama simply refuses to abide by his pre-election promise to outline the specific cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and other government (entitlement) programs like he promised to do. So let Obama handle the consequences of going over the cliff...let him sink or swim by his own hand even while the liberal media keeps pressuring the Republicans to cave to Obama's demands, and thus avert the fiscal cliff allowing Obama to become the country's economic hero.

Nice huh...NO way...

The bottom line to all this is that the Republicans are angry, very angry, that nothing has changed...so lets let Obama push us off the cliff. Let him have to answer for it, after all the Republicans were willing to discuss and compromise and Obama wasn't, but no matter what happens we Republicans will be blamed for it so what the hell...

Over the cliff we go...