Memo to the Obama Chicago Campaign Office:
We want the Obama product previously advertised.
Give us hope - indict some banksters
Make good on a promise - Bring them all home NOW
Make peace profitable - rebuild America with America's unemployed
Pay for it - A huge temporary tax on the rich {Ronald Reagan's rate without the loopholes}
It's simple, direct, understandable and that is the product previously advertised.
I'm not spending one single minute arguing why what I've just said is true, nor wasting one inch of space writing a long justification for these demands. Time for all that is long past, it's been done to death, and no one in the Obama Administration really cares.
Every progressive dime available should be spent on Congressional Candidates and those at the State and local level. That means not one penny on the Presidential campaign because it didn't matter one bit last time. Don't tell me that will let them freeze us out in the next term. Look at where we are now.
Give us hope - indict some banksters
The Obama Team is undercutting Democratic State Attorneys General, according to the front-paged HuffPo article. Indicting any bankster isn't even under real consideration. No hope there.
Make good on a promise - Bring them all home NOW
The Army Times says it best: On Afghanistan: a decade later there are still no answers as to why we are there. Totals: 1658 [US], 375 [UK], 546 [Other], 2579. Enough is enough.
Make peace profitable - rebuild America with America's unemployed.
If Obama wants a legacy that is lasting, this will do it. For Roosevelt it was National Parks created by the CCC. Truman didn't get one. Ike did the Interstate. Kennedy gave us both Camelot and Viet Nam. Johnson's legacy was civil rights, for Nixon it was Watergate, Ford is remembered for Nixon's pardon, Carter's was created after leaving office, Reagan's was slapping his name on every government project that he had nothing to do with, Bush I involved taxes, Clinton - well, it's a race between a blowjob and leaving the country with a balanced budget and money in the bank [the later will win 50 years from now], Bush II known for wars for no real reason and deserting New Orleans. That's how I remember them, anyway.
Pay for it - A huge temporary tax on the rich {Ronald Reagan's rate without the loopholes}
Lawrence O'Donnell thinks Obama has played rope-a-dope with Republicans. I want to believe he is right, but who knows?
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OK, OK - I'll settle for Clinton's tax rates but it would be much sweeter to make them choke down this:
In 1984, a 50 percent tax rate existed on income above $162,400 a year, although many taxpayers could find loopholes in the tax code to reduce their tax burden. Many of those loopholes were eliminated in the 1986 tax reform law signed by Reagan.
In the last year of Reagan’s presidency in 1988, there were two tax rates for individuals; a 15 percent rate for those making less than $17,850 and a 28 percent rate for those making above that level.
Today’s tax code includes six rates, with the highest tax bracket paying 35 percent on income above $379,150. By Molly K. Hooper, The Hill, July 12
As I said, it's simple, direct, understandable and he's the product previously advertised.