Yeah. Me too. And I want my allowable tax deductions to go up. And I should get a mortgage deduction on my house too, even though I paid cash, so that I can get the same deal as the folks who loaded up on debt.

Typical fuzzy brained liberal thinking.

The only adjustment I want in my tax rate is downward.

A slight adjustment to your tax rate should cover it.

I’ve heard we have $2 trillion in deferred infrastructure repair/maintenance/replacement nationwide — stuff that has to be done sooner or later and will cost more to do later. Hypothetically, if we could identify half that amount that we could realistically get to work on in the short run, that would be huge in terms of good jobs. This is a SWAG, but let’s assume one direct job per $500 thousand of project cost. That’s 2 million good private sector jobs, with all the ripple effects — tax revenue and spending by the people in those jobs, a big boost in heavy construction equipment and construction materiel sales and the manufacturing and service jobs associated with that, faster GDP growth, lift in consumer and business confidence, etc. etc. I think it would be difficult to fire up that much activity in a short period of time, but I think the concept makes sense. In my non-expert opinion, the opposite (slamming the brakes on spending) could contract the economy and lead to even bigger, uncontrollable deficits.

Long-term, we need to face up to the systemic challenges: globalization, a less labor-intensive economy than in the good old manufacturing economy days, slow population growth, and a mis-match between available jobs and the skills of the available workforce. We’ve got troubles that go way beyond whether or not you like Barack, Mitt or Rick. This has been happening for at least the past 10 years, maybe 20.

No mention of where money would come from of course.

http://tinyurl.com/3dwudyn

“Rep. Andrè Carson (D-Ind.), the CBC whip, made waves earlier this week when he said at a town hall that many Tea Party-affiliated members of Congress see African-Americans as “second-class citizens” and would be happy to see blacks “hanging from a tree.”

http://tinyurl.com/3s3838u

And I suppose the Republicans, knowing the same thing about the votes, come here to check out the scenery.

Elwood can’t let go of the vacation thing, even though Bush 43 and Reagan did more.

He could perfect the system by just having dimmecrats direct-deposit to his campaign account.

That way he’d have more time for vacations.

It’s the exception that proves the rule.

Why else would Obama come to Ca? He has the votes in the bag. The only reason he has for coming here is the money. Why take offense to someone reporting the facts?