Weekly Address: National Security Over Politics on START
President Obama urges the Senate to heed the calls from Presidents George HW Bush and Bill Clinton, every living Republican Secretary of State, our NATO allies, and the leadership of the military: ratify the New START Treaty with Russia.
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@Milesdavis2998 When the tax rate was at 90%, we had a middle class. Hell, the middle class was just becoming to be. Now, the middle class is failing, but, we have home owners who by their own fault lived over 50% above their means. To them I say be responsible, but, what about the people who are falsely being thrown out of their homes due to little to no banking regulations because the banks took out insurance policies in hopes they would fail. We need higher taxes and federal bank regulations.
@Milesdavis2998 That goes on both sides of the fence. The problem is, they are cutting the WRONG programs that if they cut, will end up making us spend more. That’s a fact. Everyone is saying they need to stop spending more, but, no one wants to give up their earmarks. We need government spending, but, sending out 1 trillion dollars a year to different countries for aid is utterly ridiculous when we ourselves aren’t taking care of our own. As far as FDR’s economy, what is so different?
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.
@astucity Do you really believe that our current economy and tax system was anything like FDR’s? You’re dealing with a completely different monster today. We don’t have to raise taxes. Our government doesn’t need to spend it’s tax revenue they way it has been. Hell, if Chris Christie can save 47,000 jobs without using taxpayer money, then maybe, just maybe Washington can make the same attempt.
They need to STOP SPENDING MONEY WE DON’T HAVE.
@groundhog2008 Vote democrat to keep more people on welfare like hoggie here. On welfare and asking for more. Wont take certain jobs because welfare is too good. Democrats are party of welfare, not party of jobs. Obama did say that unimployment is good for the economy. Hoggy thinks what good for america is everybody on welfare and getting gov’ment money for nothing. Hoggy, did you hear another border agent was killed here in AZ by another of your good hispanic friends?
@Milesdavis2998 We can clearly see who truly benefits. Most of the lower class income earners essentially don’t even pay taxes, as they get a refund at the end of the year.
FDR once said:
“Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.”
What is wrong with that theory? Taxes will eventually have to be raised. We can keep kicking the can further down the road or and risk becoming third world country or just man up and face it now.
@Milesdavis2998 Yes they need to budget, yes they need to get the hell out of Afghanistan. Yes they need to stop spending 184 billion dollars a day on two wars everyone just wishes would stop being paid for by the lives of our soldiers and our tax dollars.
But, these tax cuts benefit no one but the top 2% tax bracket. Someone making say, $50,000 a year will roughly only see about $2500 more a year on their checks in the form of reduced taxes. Do the math. Apply it to someone making a million.
@astucity You’re saying that taxes are good, agreed, however Taxing people more to spend more is not a solution. Government needs to stop the spending and use the current tax bracket to figure out it’s money. They don’t need more, they need to budget.
End the Dictator’s, put all the investment banker frauds into prison, Decriminalize marijuana felony violations, Vote Industrial Hemp, no need for World leaders in the World.
End S510 Authoritarian Food Act, End this Evil Empire of War and Fraud. You aided and abetted defrauding the American people of all the Banking Fraud.
Only “several Republican Senators” are in support? What happened to bipartisanship? You need to heed and learn why the many Republican Senators are NOT in support. The lack of their support is good reason to trust them, and you should verify why. Trust, but verify? Know those words? You repeated them in the video – and it was Republicans with whom you were in agreement when you repeated them. Now learn from them as to why…. Please. It’s a matter of national security, in your own words.
I find it strangely curious that you said “every living REPUBLICAN Secretary of State” want to ratify the START Treaty. Do you not have the support of our current Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton? or did she change parties and is now a Republican? Are all former Secretaries of State dead, or just Republican? Dead or Republican? hmmmm…
As with the “Bush era tax cuts”, it requires no effort to simply extend the same again. There was no need to negotiating a new tax deal when the existing one had been in force for years. A simple proposal to RENEW the existing treaty with Russia would have been fine, but no, you decided to scrap the old and create a new one. Not everything old needs to go just because of an Administration change. Where is your wisdom? common sense?
@Milesdavis2998 So, my point being, enough taxes weren’t being paid, so we had to “borrow” the money from private investors, in the form of bonds, or, I.O.U’s. We can never “default” since we can essentially just print the money we owe, but, recklessly printing money and throwing it into the economy will break down our economy, lower the value of our dollar, and destroy our state of affairs further. Taxes are not bad, taxes are good. We need to pay off this debt, and have money to live on.
Thank you.
@Milesdavis2998 Oh, I see that you haven’t taken one single economics or even government class with any sort of success. Here, let me educate you on the current state of our finances.
The current national debt is: $13,886,107,996,292.16
Why are taxes good? Well, taxes pay for critical life saving services, taxes pay for education, and all those earmarks that republicans bitch about but sneak into their demands anyway. Taxes pay to keep this country running, and if no one pays, it shuts down
Obama = another republican.
Corporations rule everything here in America.
acheiving a comon goal with leaders of all countries for world peace is like americans liveing acording to the constatution. But now are goverment has went against it befor look at riots in penselvania g20. Is only a matter of time befor someone goes against the agrement. .Greed is what keeps us apart. we say we care about humanity then why do we live so richly and why do peaple still starve on this planet? what is the point of haveing millions as if a person needs all the shit peaple make
@astucity What’s wrong with people being able to keep their money?
Woot!! Go Mr. President! You the man!!
i agree with alot of things obama is praposing in other countries.His speach in prague his talks of helping the envirment and getting rid of the nuclear threat. I agree that the only way to eliminate war is for all leaders of all countrys to unit against violence on humanity inasent peaple. I think it is good to want to help other poorer countries excell to end poverty as well. but none of these things are cheap and we are broke. and a presedent can only hold office for two terms what then
Blah, blah, can’t we all just get along?
Blah, blah, more tax cuts for the rich while the homeless rate skyrockets, blah blah blah.
@groundhog2008 I am sorry but the Dems need some blame for their failure. Dems have had the WH, House and Senate. They could have passed all their pet causes and projects.
The Repubs tell you up front if they will be against something.
The Dems tell you they will support and pass something but later you will find out it has stalled or just watered down. That is why half the Dem voters stayed home in 2010.
The Dems just take their base for granted. One should not vote party lines.
Obama should be tried and not Private Manning or Julian Assange
Even though I believe that Private Manning (who is a leftist democrat supporter) is guilty of leaking documents and should be punished for treason, I still feel sorry for him because he was just following the foot-steps of his idol Obama.
Watch all my videos about the dude…
Thank you sir