Dear Mr. President. Middle class Americans are not hostages. We may not be doing well but we understand that to stand on our principles, we need to make sacrifices. Mr. President, we don't need your protection, we need your leadership.
Times are tough but we, middle class Americans, can still get by. Yes, the extension of the tax cut would be nice but if the price is our principles, then it is too high. Republicans have shown unwillingness to work with you from day one. While we may disagree with their ideas and their principles, at least they stood their ground.
Mr. President, this is not community organizing anymore. It is time you lead and charge with the vigor and determination that you have shown in your campaign. Support the Democratic leadership and stand up to the Republicans. There will be no better opportunity than this to stand on the moral high ground and shout why the fuck are you holding 98% hostage for the sake of the 2% richest of all American.
You take your message directly to the people. Broadcast a speech directly to the Americans... some thing like this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMqa9nw9BL8&feature=fvw
And once again, i will be there beside you.
Posted Dec 9, 2010, 7:20 PM UTC
Obama claims he's protecting the middle class when he caves in to protect their tax rates from going back to 90s rates. And while that will do a little bit of damage, he's actually doing harm, because the extension of the tax cuts for the rich will do much more damage to the middle class long term - because it will likely be funded with massive cuts in the safety net, like social security
Social Security isn't paid for with income tax.
they are supposed to be separate funds, but the government has never treated them as so. Social security fund has always been robbed to pay for the regular deficit.
And now, Obama's deficit commission is recommending big cuts to social security and the rest of the safety nets. The script is written, I don't know why people can't see it.
SSDI tax is taken directly from your income. That is a de facto income tax. Your income has many different taxes taken from it for different reasons. But all of them are, by definition, income taxes, precisely because they are taxes levied on your income.
Yeah, but it goes into a separate account. People claim it's used to balance the budget and whatnot, but that's not true.