Republicans are afraid to propose spending cuts!

[LeftCoastVoter]

Oh, and if it's one thing that big banksters like Godman Sachs, Citigroup, Chase Manhattan, AIG, GMAC, the Fed, et al are known as it's small businesses.

Come back when your nuts drop, s0n.

riiiigghhhhtttt. Goldman Sach, a publicly owned company worth over $55.35B is a "small business", Citigroup worth over $101.38B is a small business, Chase worth $153.3M is a small business, GMAC worth over $540.76M is a small business.

definition of a small business by the Small Business Association:

SBA defines a small business concern as one that is independently owned and operated, is organized for profit, and is not dominant in its field. Depending on the industry, size standard eligibility is based on the average number of employees for the preceding twelve months or on sales volume averaged over a three-year period. Examples of SBA general size standards include the following:

Manufacturing: Maximum number of employees may range from 500 to 1500, depending on the type of product manufactured;
Wholesaling: Maximum number of employees may range from 100 to 500 depending on the particular product being provided;
Services: Annual receipts may not exceed $2.5 to $21.5 million, depending on the particular service being provided;
Retailing: Annual receipts may not exceed $5.0 to $21.0 million, depending on the particular product being provided;
General and Heavy Construction: General construction annual receipts may not exceed $13.5 to $17 million, depending on the type of construction;
Special Trade Construction: Annual receipts may not exceed $7 million; and
Agriculture: Annual receipts may not exceed $0.5 to $9.0 million, depending on the agricultural product.

What is SBA's definition of a small business concern? | SBA.gov

come back when youve achieved over a 3rd grade education.

Right....And then they can buy off insiders to let competitors, like saaaaaaay Lehman Brothers (remember them?), crash and burn, while they get the bailout loot.

You really don't pay that close attention to things, do you?

by free market concepts, lehman brother deserved to go under.

right, now i think your tin foil hat is too tight. who are these insiders that all secret closet democrats that you refer to?

 

[Oddball]

But it wasn't a free market when Lehman crashes while Goldman, AIG and the rest get bailed out, is it?

C'mon...I'm certain you can use your head for something more useful than a hat rack.

 

[ilia25]

To inoculate himself from the irrational hatred of the "1%-ers", of socialist wankers like you.

And why would he need such an inoculation (and pay for it)?

Because he can afford it.....Lost and lots of free publicity for himself and his little holding company.

And why does he need publicity?

 

[Oddball]

How 'bout you Google Henry Paulson, Tim Geithner, Larry Summers and Paul Ruben, cross reference with Goldman Sachs, and report back to us with your results?

 

[LeftCoastVoter]

But it wasn't a free market when Lehman crashes while Goldman, AIG and the rest get bailed out, is it?

C'mon...I'm certain you can use your head for something more useful than a hat rack.

and who bailed them out? your good ole buddies in the Bush administration.

those socialists!

 

[Oddball]

And why would he need such an inoculation (and pay for it)?

Because he can afford it.....Lost and lots of free publicity for himself and his little holding company.

And why does he need publicity?

Why would anyone want something they deem to be valuable for free?....Try reading for comprehension.

 

[Oddball]

But it wasn't a free market when Lehman crashes while Goldman, AIG and the rest get bailed out, is it?

C'mon...I'm certain you can use your head for something more useful than a hat rack.

and who bailed them out? your good ole buddies in the Bush administration.

They're not my buddies (I was and remain against TARP)....Now go do your homework assignment.

How 'bout you Google Henry Paulson, Tim Geithner, Larry Summers, Ben Bernanke and Paul Ruben, cross reference with Goldman Sachs, and report back to us with your results?

 

[LeftCoastVoter]

But it wasn't a free market when Lehman crashes while Goldman, AIG and the rest get bailed out, is it?

C'mon...I'm certain you can use your head for something more useful than a hat rack.

and who bailed them out? your good ole buddies in the Bush administration.

They're not my buddies (I was and remain against TARP)....Now go do your homework assignment.

How 'bout you Google Henry Paulson, Tim Geithner, Larry Summers, Ben Bernanke and Paul Ruben, cross reference with Goldman Sachs, and report back to us with your results?

they play on your side of the fence, so by association they are your buddies. the GOP chose who they wanted to bailout. if youre upset of lehman bros talk to them.

 

[Antares]

Cut Big Bird.
Make all PP funding contingent upon a billing system, no blanket dollars...all treaments must be documented and submitted for payment..AND it must be subject to audit at any moment.
Cut ALL foreign aid to nations actively working against the best interests of the United States.
Cut ALL spending for the Arts.
Make the rules for welfare qualification much tighter, start with drug testing.
No Fed dollars for Acorn or any right wing group performing the same functions.

Lets start there.

 

[Oddball]

and who bailed them out? your good ole buddies in the Bush administration.

They're not my buddies (I was and remain against TARP)....Now go do your homework assignment.

How 'bout you Google Henry Paulson, Tim Geithner, Larry Summers, Ben Bernanke and Paul Ruben, cross reference with Goldman Sachs, and report back to us with your results?

they play on your side of the fence, so by association they are your buddies. the GOP chose who they wanted to bailout. if youre upset of lehman bros talk to them.

That's not my side of the fence, Corky....I'm on the side of real free markets, not the Wall Street payola scam.

BTW, Both Ruben and Geithner were/are Treasury Secs for presidents with (D)s by their names.

You really need to get out more.

 

[ilia25]

OMG, this is getting funnier by the minute.

According to the latest accounts, Obama is pushing very hard on taxing the rich -- not only expiration of Bush tax cuts, but also rising the dividend and estate taxes. In exchange, Dems are proposing modest spending cuts, leaving it to Republicans to offer what else they see fit to axe.

Now that is where it gets comical -- Republicans refuse to detail any additional spending cuts! They say they are desperately needed, huge cuts too. But they are afraid -- and for a good reason too -- that if they themselves would put any specific proposals regarding the entitlement programs on the table, the voters would punish them.

So Republicnas are practically begging the Dems to do the honor and commit a political suicide.

Now tell me -- aren't they cute? Saying no to them is like taking a candy from a little girl -- breaks one's heart! I see John Boehner crying again.

and exactly what spending cuts has Obama and the Dems proposed?

I don't think Dems detailed anything. And I think they were vague on purpose -- if Reps think that we need cuts, it would only be fair to let them specify what they want to cut.

See, most of Americans agree that the taxes on rich should be raised. They do not agree that entitlement programs should be sized down. And for once, they are are not listening to all this conservative voodoo trickle-down job creators BULLSHIT.

Because they have been bought into it for the past 30 years and they see what the rich got from it, and what the rest did. And now they've seen enough.

Obama finally sees it, and Dems see it. That is why Dems are not going to lend a hand to the Republican leaders -- and the latter are really, genuinely SHOCKED.

How dare the Democrats to refuse proposing cuts that will help the billionaires to get richer at the expense of everyone else? After playing along for so long, how dare they?

 

[bripat9643]

they play on your side of the fence, so by association they are your buddies. the GOP chose who they wanted to bailout. if youre upset of lehman bros talk to them.

A majority of Democrats voted for TARP, nimrod. They must be your buddies.

 

[ilia25]

Because he can afford it.....Lost and lots of free publicity for himself and his little holding company.

And why does he need publicity?

Why would anyone want something they deem to be valuable for free?....Try reading for comprehension.

I'm asking why this kind of publicity would be valuable to Buffet?

 

[Oddball]

And why does he need publicity?

Why would anyone want something they deem to be valuable for free?....Try reading for comprehension.

I'm asking why this kind of publicity would be valuable to Buffet?

Why is irrelevant....The mere fact that he comes out of the ground like an insomniac Punxsutawney Phil on a cocaine bender tells me that the publicity and notoriety are important to him....If it weren't, he wouldn't be seeking it out as he does.

 

[ilia25]

Why would anyone want something they deem to be valuable for free?....Try reading for comprehension.

I'm asking why this kind of publicity would be valuable to Buffet?

Why is irrelevant....The mere fact that he comes out of the ground like an insomniac Punxsutawney Phil on a cocaine bender tells me that the publicity and notoriety are important to him....If it weren't, he wouldn't be seeking it out as he does.

He would, if he genuinely believes that the rich should pay a bigger share of taxes.

That is the most obvious explanation, but since you cannot accept that, you have to invent his coveting for publicity for the sake of publicity, or for some other mysterious reason. Which means you refuse to accept the obvious explanation for unknown reasons.

And you accusing me of being irrational?

 

[Antares]

Please kid, you "boy" Obammy has spent more in bailouts than Bush did...and whats funny is most of us on Right were against it...but you?

You swallow all the Bammy Jizz you can hold in your mouth.

and who bailed them out? your good ole buddies in the Bush administration.

They're not my buddies (I was and remain against TARP)....Now go do your homework assignment.

How 'bout you Google Henry Paulson, Tim Geithner, Larry Summers, Ben Bernanke and Paul Ruben, cross reference with Goldman Sachs, and report back to us with your results?

they play on your side of the fence, so by association they are your buddies. the GOP chose who they wanted to bailout. if youre upset of lehman bros talk to them.

 

[Antares]

The lefty defense is ALWAYS "He just didn't spend enough".

You people are idiot fuckwads.

 

[tooAlive]

The lefty defense is ALWAYS "He just didn't spend enough".

You people are idiot fuckwads.

The left always thinks they aren't spending enough.

"Oh, there are more people on welfare? We need to spend more."

 

[Oddball]

I'm asking why this kind of publicity would be valuable to Buffet?

Why is irrelevant....The mere fact that he comes out of the ground like an insomniac Punxsutawney Phil on a cocaine bender tells me that the publicity and notoriety are important to him....If it weren't, he wouldn't be seeking it out as he does.

He would, if he genuinely believes that the rich should pay a bigger share of taxes.

That is the most obvious explanation, but since you cannot accept that, you have to invent his coveting for publicity for the sake of publicity, or for some other mysterious reason. Which means you refuse to accept the obvious explanation for unknown reasons.

And you accusing me of being irrational?

Then why does he keep popping up on the usual media outlets like an insomniac Punxsutawney Phil on a cocaine bender?...Everybody who pays any attention already knows his bullshit premise, about how his secretary pays a higher tax rate on her wage income than does he on his deliberately low dividend income.

Because he craves the publicity and attention, that's why....If he didn't, he wouldn't be there.

 

[saveliberty]

Let's see, if we do nothing spending cuts automatically happen and the rich pay more taxes. Seems like we just sit back and wait.