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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-18-11 07:11 AM
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remember -- this ISN'T what we're getting: THE PEOPLE'S BUDGET
http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=70

The People’s Budget eliminates the deficit in 10 years, puts Americans back to work and restores our economic competitiveness. The People’s Budget recognizes that in order to compete, our nation needs every American to be productive, and in order to be productive we need to raise our skills to meet modern needs.

Our Budget Eliminates the Deficit and Raises a $31 Billion Surplus In Ten Years
Our budget protects Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and responsibly eliminates the deficit by targeting its main drivers: the Bush Tax Cuts, the wars overseas, and the causes and effects of the recent recession.

Our Budget Puts America Back to Work & Restores America’s Competitiveness
• Trains teachers and restores schools; rebuilds roads and bridges and ensures that users help pay for them
• Invests in job creation, clean energy and broadband infrastructure, housing and R&D programs

Our Budget Creates a Fairer Tax System
• Ends the recently passed upper-income tax cuts and lets Bush-era tax cuts expire at the end of 2012
• Extends tax credits for the middle class, families, and students
• Creates new tax brackets that range from 45% starting at $1 million to 49% for $1 billion or more
• Implements a progressive estate tax
• Eliminates corporate welfare for oil, gas, and coal companies; closes loopholes for multinational corporations
• Enacts a financial crisis responsibility fee and a financial speculation tax on derivatives and foreign exchange





*** progressives? you - we -were NEVER in the room -- you were negotiated with -- you were never asked...
don't forget -- not ever.
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vi5 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-18-11 07:23 AM
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1. Just shut up and vote.
Don't ask questions. Because you know who won't let you ask questions or have a seat at the table? President Palin...I mean President Bachman....I mean President Perry....errr...I mean President Cain......I mean President Romney......eh, fuck it. I mean whoever the latest bogeyman is for getting you to stop asking questions and complaining and just vote for Democrats.



















For the record......:sarcasm:
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Scuba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-18-11 07:23 AM
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2. The so-called Democrats on the Super Committee are Republicans in disguise...
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