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not having a strong stomach, i tried to avoid the 100 day press conference…unfortunately….

…i got exposed to one memorable line about people who had refinanced their mortgages at a lower rate, that this was “effectively another tax cut”….i guess he must have been listing his famous tax cuts…or something…

….but wait…if you reduce the interest you pay on your mortgage, doesn’t that kinda lead to reducing the deduction you can take on your taxes if you itemize..which would lead to paying higher taxes…?…but surely, i digress….

…when we refinanced our mortgage in 03, GWB never tried to take credit for it, calling it a tax cut…oh, but i digress again…..

…when i use my handy dandy kroger card, which magically reduces the price i pay for many items, it also results in me paying a few cents less sales tax…is this, in Barry’s opinion, a “tax cut”…?…

……when i fill up my car at sheetz, instead of across the street at exxon, is this, in Barry’s opinion, a “tax cut”…?…

…looks to me like this…

… here we have a guy who thinks anyone who reduces household expenses, by way of refinancing or otherwise, is experiencing a “tax cut”….no wonder he said he would provide tax cuts for 95% of us….he’s forcing us to find ways to save, and by saving, we are therefore definitionally – at least according to his definition – experiencing “tax cuts”…

..only i seem to remember…i know i’m old and my memory does not always serve me correctly, but i’m pretty sure i remember somebody saying that if my household income was under 250K, that we would not see any tax increase of ANY kind…i think the money quote was ” not one dime”….

….this worries me, because i do our family’s tax returns, and apparently i am unaware of better than 200K of income…which could be a bad thing….because of one of the first things this man did was raise our taxes 60 cents a pack….little more than a dime, i think, but then, i probbly digress again….

please please pretty please don’t anyone anywhere ever say to this man, “A penny saved is a penny earned”….okay???….cause of i don’t want the IRS on my butt just cause of my handy dandy kroger card…..

COMMENTS

  • chuckie

    …apparently great minds really DO think alike…. :)

  • ColdWarrior

    Seriously, a President of the United States who has to rely on a teleprompter to address the press? And a slobbering press corps at that. Go here for some questions that could have been asked:

    http://therealrevo.com/blog/?p=7458#more-7458

    In case the link doesn’t work:

    >>>>>

    Here are some questions that won?t be asked by the media.

    1) You oppose waterboarding but voted to leave the born alive children of botched abortions to die in storage rooms in Illinois. Would you oppose leaving Khalid Sheikh Mohammad in a storage room to die?

    2) Who was on board Air Force One as it buzzed NYC this week? Specifically, were there any campaign contributors on board?

    3) Why did you pull the voucher tax credit funds from poor children in Washington DC resulting in some of your daughters? classmates being kicked out of Sidwell?

    4) This week an unmanned Predator drone launched a Hellfire missile killing several terrorist suspects in a house in Pakistan. Is it intellectually consistent to burn, maim and summarily execute suspected terrorists but refuse to pour water on the faces if the same terrorists are captured?

    5) Miss California was raked over the coals for stating that marriage should be between one man and one woman. Do you agree with her?

    6) Your cap and trade tax plan will increase the cost of power and goods used by every American by $650 billion dollars a year. How do you reconcile this with your pledge that no one making less that $250,000 a year will see their taxes increase a single dime?

    7) If, as you have said, the whole point of stimulus is to spend money, why have you chosen to cut the F-22 fighter and missile defense programs jeopardizing both tens of thousands of jobs but the security of America?

    8 ) It is evident that th government will collect virtually no tax revenues from capital gains this year. Why not suspend the tax altogether for the year promoting a huge increase in the velocity of money without any cost to the government.

    9) Under the government orchestrated plan, private bondholders in GM would receive ten cents on the dollar in common stock whereas the UAW will receive 40 cents on the dollar. Why the disparity?

    10) Why did you bow to the Saudi King and why do you allow your staff to continue to lie about it?

    That?s my top ten. Add your questions in the comments and then sit back and wait. It ain?t like the clown is going to see them.

    <<<<<

    Not to mention his cowardly comments in Missouri today about Fox News and the Tea Partiers. “I’ll have a serious discussion any time.” Right.

    Let’s face it — the American people elected a man child president. He didn’t even know where Air Force 2 was.

    Excuse me, I’ve got to get back to re-watching “Seven Days in May.”

  • TNJim

    are ones that might have been asked of a Republican president. Once again Obama just calls on reporters he knows won’t ask him the tough stuff. Once again I can’t get past the notion this “press conference” was scripted. And, geez, asking a question about what has enchanted, humbled, etc. etc. you about this job? ENCHANTED???

    Once again I get the feeling that future press conferences will have the exact same tone.

    I’m glad at times I work 2nd shift. This is one of those times. I’d much rather listen to O’Reilly’s rerun of him and Miller picking the presser apart than sit through it (the presser) live.