"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
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 heasked
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...