If Obama and the senate didn’t come up with this then they were taking all the blame for it. The house only passed it because they didn’t want to take the blame. The world of politics. I didn’t see them mention that the SS tax is still increasing on everyone by 2%. All they are doing here is taking 1% away from GDP and hopefully putting it all towards the deficit.(which is still just a rounding error). And of course they getting to kick the spending cuts down the road and claim they will handle that when they have to try to raise the debt ceiling again.
the real bullshit is that the only reason they waited until the last minute to come up with a deal was because as long as it was still 2012 anything they did would have been considered a tax INCREASE over the current bush-era taxes…as long as they waited until it would be 2013 taxes (end of bush-era cuts)…anything they could pass of as a tax CUT on the new rates would “look good”…no one wanted it to be possible for someone to claim they had supported a tax increase. it’s horseshit how politicians have no regard for the greater good, just do what they can to benefit their own agenda.
Oh yea, last week they passed a raise for everyone in congress…we’re all supposed to be freaking out about the fiscal cliff, national debt, and the future of our economy…these fucks give themselves a god damned raise.
I’m down with that, I voted alternate party and will continue to do so. The kicker is of course combating the herd and their love of being spoon fed mainstream propaganda.
It blows me away most aren’t taking a stand, even those without decent jobs. Of course the socialism IV has been keeping some nourishment flowing, keeping the majority satiated.
Well the tea party is basically viewed as the American taliban, the green party is viewed as a bunch of tree hugging hippies, and the libertarian party is (unfortunately) viewed as a bunch of tin-foil hat wearing nutters (I don’t agree with this view, just my observation on how many people think).
All that having been said, it was a joke. There’s a better chance of fox news actually sticking to their motto of “fair and balanced” than there is of a new party gaining any momentum in this country. People are too stubborn and set in their ways.
Agreed, I think there’s going to be a better chance of this happening sometime down the road, but not until the baby boomer generation has run its course unfortunately. The internet is making it so that people don’t have to watch one of the three big news outlets to get their information any more, and as the younger generation gets older this is becoming more and more prevalent.
Nice, I just saw my first paycheck since the SS increase. F*ck!! It is a small car payment! I guess we don’t need that money in the economy… well now it is more that can be given to bankers directly. Where is that damn lock box Al Gore spoke of?
My CPA had a nice surprise for me just before Christmas, “You need to pay $5500 to the Feds to avoid penalty… by the end of the year.” No problem, I had $5500 cash burning a hole in my pocket!