We must get those idiotic Republibagging terrorists out of our government before we have nothing left to save from them. We must vote them out and do it at first opportunity. If we can recall some from the state governments, then do it! The faster we rid ourselves from them, the faster we can recover. They are just making our economy and our lives and lack of jobs as bad as they can because they hate our duly elected President. They are trying to make him fail, and they don't give a crap about us. They want to kill our livelihoods by killing Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, 3 programs that have meant much to millions of programs. They hate those programs. Why? Because they help us, and they don't want us to have help. They would be perfectly happy to find all of us dead in the streets.
NEVER VOTE REPUBLICAN !!

We all deserve the politicians we support. If we're ignorant, greedy, cruel, dictatorial as well as fire-and-brimstone in temperament, it's no surprise that those in government have such characteristics . Remember that Obama has been prostrating himself before these charlatans. We’re in grave need of an effective Progressive Party that is willing to effectively fight for our freedoms social wellbeing. The time to form such a party is now.

My fear is that the vast gap between the haves and have nots will end violently. Maybe what we need is a one time asset tax, By that I mean anyone whose wealth on a balance sheet exceeds $2.5 million, must pay a one time tax of 20% on his assets, not his income. I would make it progressive, if over $10 million a tax of 30%; over 50 million a tax on 40%; and anyone over 100 million a tax of 60%. since I recently read that this country's wealthiest citizens are worth over $2.2 Trillion, this tax would bring in over $1.1 Trillion. Congress will not consider this because with a very few exception they woiuld all have to pay it.

This is so cool. A story that was 11 years in the making.

The goal is to add the USA to the list of global third world nations. This will make the already filthy rich plutocrats, who are now masters of the US government, even richer, as they complete their transition to being masters of the planet. This is the direction in which globalization is now going and will continue to go if some true adult leaders don't emerge. Such leaders will be those who are not hypnotized by the illusory appeal of acquiring more and more money, power and ego inflation, but who are motivated by altruism; who are willing to sacrifice their personal ego needs in genuine service to the collective needs of all of us. Hello! Any adult leaders left out there?

Mr. Benen: You said that when it comes to economy, the Republican "have no idea what they are doing". You are wrong. The Republican know precisely what they are doing. "Uncertainty", "job killing tax cuts" are Frank Lunzt type slogans to cover up their sabotageing of job creation.

All we have to do is look at what the repugs have done since they took over the floor and that should be enough said, everythinhg stopped then and that was the day that we started dying as a people who had nothing left to survive on b/c of the party of NO....