#Occupy Wall Street.
Of course, we might wonder what Obama is doing supporting the F#ck America Singers, the others, …..fine.
Yeah yeah,….I know he wants to avoid ‘demonizing’…
‘It’s as if he doesn’t like people,” says real-estate mogul and New York Daily News owner Mortimer Zuckerman of the president of the United States. Barack Obama doesn’t seem to care for individuals, elaborates Mr. Zuckerman, though the president enjoys addressing millions of them on television.
Mr. Zuckerman reports that among Democrats, “The sense is that the policies of this government have failed… . What they say about [Mr. Obama] when he’s not in the room, so to speak, is astonishing.”
It may seem odd that most of the targeted rich people had nothing to do with creating the financial crisis. But as Mr. Zuckerman ponders the Occupy Wall Street movement, he concludes that “the door to it was opened by the Obama administration, going after the ‘millionaires and billionaires’ as if everybody is a millionaire and a billionaire and they didn’t earn it… . To fan that flame of populist anger I think is very divisive and very dangerous for this country.”
Mr. Zuckerman supported Obama in 2008.
Mr. Zuckerman supports raising taxes on the rich but says such a proposal cannot be taken seriously unless it’s paired with other measures to grow the economy and restrain deficit spending. He also wonders why, if the president wanted to get a plan enacted, he didn’t begin with private bipartisan discussions with House and Senate leaders, instead of another address to a joint session of Congress.The only solution Mr. Zuckerman sees now to juice the economy “is to broaden the tax base and simplify and lower tax [rates]. To me that will be as close to revenue-neutral as you’re going to have so it isn’t going to be seen as a budget buster.” He views GOP candidate Herman Cain’s “9-9-9 plan” as a “little bit simple-minded,” but he says that a reform that closes loopholes and reduces compliance costs will stimulate both business and consumer spending.
Mr. Zuckerman sees a need for a cooperative effort like that of President Ronald Reagan and House Speaker Thomas “Tip” O’Neill when they reformed Social Security in 1983.
Herman Cain and ?? Who among the House leadership on the D side has not sold their ass to MoveOn types and Lewis and Soros? Pelosi, Hoyer, Clyburn? Barney Frank?
We need a mandate. If the winner of the mandate fails. Out they go.