Post of the day: 25 reasons to re-elect Obama
Created by Dan
Note from Dan: Richard J. Beason submitted this as a comment on the “7 reasons why Herman Cain’s tax plan would never fly,” and it’s worth highlighting rather than getting buried there.
Why re-elect Obama?
1. He has lowered individual taxes and business taxes.
2. He has given you a chance at being able to have afford health insurance as promised and at great political cost- including those who have pre-existing conditions and those in school up to age 26. He has taken the doughnut hole out of Part-D. He has made provisions for all to have health insurance to eliminate the need for most medicaid coverage.
3. He has led through the greatest recession we have had since the Great Depression including saving our banking system, providing unemployment and health insurance for the unemployed, kept our school teachers, police, fire, and rescue workers employed
4. Established new regulations to prevent the Banks from sending us into another recession
5. Killed Osama
6. Killed Alwiki
7. Ended and ending Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
8. Help liberate Libya
9. Dealt with recalcitrant GOP House to keep government running
10. Increased education loans and took them away from the banks to better control
11. Successfully cleaned up the BP Gulf Oil Spill and collected the cost from BP
12. Managed the many natuaral disasters with praise form all parties
13. Kept terror from our shores
14. Dealth with the Arab Spring without taking us into another War
15. Controlled the commodities market through increasing the margin requirments thus keeping oil pricesin check as well as gold and silver prices from going into a bubble
16. Dealt with China’s currency issues to keep our Exports moving
17. Dealt with the European Debt crisis
18. Extended health care for children
19. Dealing with the Housing Crisis and holding banks in line on foreclosures
20. Established an energy policy including help for green energy industry
21. Re-set the energy department to clean up the mismanagement of oil companies and coal safety
22. Supported our Veterans through improved medical care, equipment, supplies and help for spouses and income taxation for Veterans and their spouses
23. Improved roads and public transportation and is establishing better rail transportation
24. Improved federal aviation policies
25. Improved our Nation’s infrastructure
And many more. If nothing more than Dealing with the Recession and the banks, Health Care Reform, taking care of terrorists, ending the war in Iraq and reducing the war in Afghanistan and Libya, and cleaning the Gulf would be plenty of reason to vote for him.
All have been in spite of strong opposition by the GOP and some in his own party. Obama has been most successful in spite of the GOPs efforts to stop him.
October 5, 2011 - 8:17 PM
I don’t think I have ever seen a bigger list of garbage in all of obamma’s days. If I were Richard, CPA I would take great care about showing my stupidity in such a public fashion. WHAT A JOKE!
Any client that sees this will certainly dump Richard. Any potential client will certainly look for another mind to provide services.
Yo, Al. I’ll bet if you used your last name you’d lose a few, too.
I just need one reason not to listen to Richard Beason: he is clearly delusional and living in some sort of alternate reality. Hey Richard – tell Santa and the Easter Bunny I said “hi!”
Wow so easy..
@1 Destroyed economy
@2 Increased cost and availability of healthcare
@3 Has led us into the greatest recession.no policy. no end in sight..
@4 caused Debit card increases
@5 Murdered fugitive
@6 Murdered US citizen..no trial
@7 Escalated war in Afghanistan…….none have ended
@8 Intervened in Libya causing multible deaths, higher gas prices and more world domination by US forces
@9 Impotent leadership
@10 Failed at education.had to retract SOL to accomodate low performers
@11 Got lucky with little Fed impact
@12 No effect
@13 Actually it was Bush policy……..as usual Hussein did zilch
@14 Libya is and was a War
@15 Destroyed the economy. yet again
@16
Had almost zero effect on imports
@17 Greece is in foreclosure
@18 Yea.at increased cost to all
@19 Foereclosures increase at record pace
@20 Yep. investing Fed money in total failures
@21 his policies ARE mismanagement. in West Va sign reads.Obama Work Free Zone
@23 Caused more deaths of our vets bu escalating failed war
@24 Planes falling from the sky in droves
@25 Hard to see where.but gave illegals a lot of work…250,000 for 50,000 dollar jobs
A total failure.. He will be relaced..
1. 2 .& 3. Al, kate and John Thirston – I can back up my 25, I would love to see you back up any of yours.
God job Richard. Thankfully, we aren’t all idiots and can see the truth about how the GOP has ruined this nation over the past 40 years.
3. He has led through the greatest recession we have had since the Great Depression including saving our banking system, providing unemployment and health insurance for the unemployed, kept our school teachers, police, fire, and rescue workers employed
Led us out (which is disputed) and is likely steering us into another.
6. Killed Alwiki
Who? Is AL Wiki the creator or Wiki Links? Perhaps you mean Awlaki?
7. Ended and ending Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
Seriously? Wasn’t the deadliest month of the 10 years in Afghanistan just experienced in August? I believe the second was last year. I guess the “ending” makes those families feel much better.
13. Kept terror from our shores
Due to pure luck of explosives not igniting. It wasn’t due to lack of trying.
17. Dealt with the European Debt crisis
For better or for worse? Last I checked this is still ongoing. Count the chickens in the eggs much Richard?
19. Dealing with the Housing Crisis and holding banks in line on foreclosures
Hahahaha. There is a backlog. Things are not over and until the backlog is cleared housing prices will not recover.
20. Established an energy policy including help for green energy industry
Are you speaking of the 1/2 billion dollar loans to duds against better judgment or keeping gas prices in check? Rising gas prices slowed the growth and they are now falling because a recession is likely and global demand is down for commodities.
There are other points that can be questioned for support, but I can only hope you pay a little more attention to detail when working for your clients than you exhibit in forming your posts.
John,
Your ship of fail just left the dock and hit an iceberg and promptly sank.
Do you often play with the other kids that don’t ride the short bus with you?
1. He’s trying very hard to raise taxes, but the TP won’t let him
2. Health insurance in now miuch more expensive with fewer options. Companies are reluctant to hire because of 0bamacare.
3 The recession is now worse, unemployment worse than when he took office
4. Caused banks to enact and raise fees in order to compensate for lost revenue due to regulations.
5. Bush’s team caught 0sama. 0bama cut their funding.
6 Same as 5
7 Bush ended Iraq War. Idiot Boy doubled down on Afghanistan; war raging worse than ever, has no plan for victory
#8 Libya is in civil war and the muslim extremists are poised to take over.
9. Stood in the way of reform
10. Ruined college loan program by taking it over. More expensive to taxpayers.
11 BP spill was a tempest in a teapot
12 AWOL from natural disasters. No show in Nashville. A week late in Joplin. Grandstanded at hurricane that wasn’t.
13 3 terrorist attacks since he came to office vs. 0 for Bush after 2001.
14. Didn’t deal at all with ‘Arab Spring’.
15 Oil through the roof. Gold and silver through the roof. All signal horribly mismanaged economy.
16 Increased our deficit by $5 trillion caused China to have us by the hangy-downies.
17. Greece is ready to default
18. Killing private insurance options while bloating the deficit while creating more dependence.
19 Prolonging foreclosure crisis; screwing banks
20. Preventing drilling, increasing dependency on Opec, causing gas prices to soar.
21 Killing the energy business and causing energy prices to rise.
22 Cut the military, cut spending, prevents them from voting
23 Roads the same as they were; Just funneled money to unions
24 Caused airline prices to go sky high; forced airlines to enact more baggage fees
25 Has done nothing for the infrastructure, just funneled money to union thugs.
John Thriston and I just crushed the 25 softballs served up by the alleged CPA. He’s right. It was ridiculous easy to refute 25 lies. Thank you, Richard Beason for making the excellent case through Irony why Idiot Boy will be replaced (probably by his own party).
Thanks also for the 25 quick wins. WOW. 25 in about 7 minutes of responding. Up to 7199 now.
BM must be a real bore at parties.
Oh, I get it. Richard was funning us. Looks like the fake businessman ColdNP believed it.
7. BM – and the others worried about my clients, I appreciate and I am sure they appreciate your worry, but my clients seem to be most happy with my services. But I do appreciate the kind thoughts.
As for your comments, 3. he has indeed kept us out of a most definite depression (see any economist’s ideas on that) and his policies, in spite of the TP and GOP continue to do so. A second recession is possible, but it will be caused by Europe reacting too slowly and conservatively and by the GOP fiasco this summer, not Obama.
6.Excuse me, I have a slight physical disability that causes typos. I try to catch them.
7. Surge troops coming home by end of the year and rest by end of 2014 unless things change.
13. Luck plays into everything, but the fact of the matter is that Obama has nearly destroyed Al Queda. He has been most successful in disrupting their planning and their operatins and in taking out their leaders.
17. The US is keeping Europe afloat. Obama’s and the fed’s policies are all theat have saved the Euro.
19. Without the Stimulus each additional job lost would have been an additional foreclosure. Each policeman, auto worker, teacher, fireman, unemployed person receiving benefits. He shored up the bank reserves, put new bank regs in place, and has stopped the banks fro pursuing illegal, fraudulent foreclosures.
20. I am speaking of releasing the US oil supply to show the oil industry that the US would not let speculators run up oil prices, of forcing BP to clean up the oil spill and pay for the losses, of firing the bueauocrats that were partying with the oil industry instead of enforcing the regulations, limiting deep water drilling until safety nets were correctly installed, funding alternative energy businesses and the automobile industry to seek better fuels (can you believe one new business failed, oh my, even GWB had a couple failed businessesof his own)
I can go on BM to support my claims if you would like.
Parties? You think BM goes to parties?
Letterman number one on how Rick Perry can spend 17 mil. Buy lunch for Chris Christie…
The guy posting as “Suzie” is on the RNC payroll. Simple as that.
Whoever “Suzie” is, she or he appears to be local, judging by her/his ISP.
Come on, Art. You think the RNC has an agent in Roanoke?
That seems like almost as big a stretch as your assumption that BM goes to parties.
Thanks for the laugh Dan I needed that! your blog performs well as comedy these days!
9. Suzie, I had figured you would have been the first to post, must have taken you a while to come up with somethng to say. But as usual and unlike BM, your response, and John’s are just blather, insults, and untruths which deserve no rebuttal.
I could pick a nit or two with Richard J. Beason’s list. Such as on Afghanistan. But aside from that, his list is pretty much dead on, and he seems firmly grounded in reality. And just fyi, that’s an important quality for any CPA.
There are a few loony RWers on here who I wouldn’t let within a mile of my tax returns or ledgers.
Why else would someone spend 18 hours a day spouting the talking points before they hit the mainstream? Take it for what it’s worth.
19.Dan, we should discuss Afghansitan. I find it hard to have been on the side of the surge there; but Pakistan seemed to be the nemisis that forced our hand. Afghanistan happens to be the country caught in the middle of Pakistan’s, Iran’s, China’s and India’s nuclear games and deep hatred for each other and just happened to be the country that gave us reason to have to step in. Having state funded terrorists in Pakistan and Iran with nuclear or soon to have nuclear weapons is just too much to walk away. Have we been successful or even partially successful? We have taken out al Queda leadership and reduced their effectiveness. We have been able to make attacks in areas of Pakistan that without Afghanistan bases, we never could have. We have forced Pakistan and India to a standstill in their fighting. We have had an impact on Iran by occupying countires on each side. We have been able to get closer to India for both trade and to help control China’s progress in the area. Is it worth the cost? Only if we have delayed or prevented terrorists from getting nuclear weapons or if our being there contributed to the Arab spring which may indeed slow the progression of hate in the Arab world. Former Ambassadors to this area seems to think we have had some success in spite of the set backs and corruption in which we are dealing. Time, to move on, probably.
While the 1960s me wants to believe it is all for the military industrial complex, the rational me also sees the historical problems of the area, the deep hatred of each group toward one another, and the explosive affect this area of the world can have on the rest of us, especially the US.
Yeah, Art, but that link referenced GOP-paid bloggers. It makes no mention of the party paying blog readers who anonymous post conservative drivel.
Richard,
The issue isn’t the 60s. It’s the 80s, and what happened to the Soviet Union when they spent 9 years propping up an Afghan government the people didn’t want. And what happened following prior invasions there (which date back to 330 B.C. and Alexander the Great). There’s a 2,300-year record that strongly suggests Afghanistan will never be conquered with any finality. We’re spending a lot of money and we’re gonna have nothing to show for it except for more debt.
Think what you want. My guess is It gets a blast-fax around 5AM every morning, just about the time It starts posting.
I agree with Richard. We’re not ever going to “conquer” Afghanistan. That’s not the issue. The Obama team has been successful against AlQuaeda
there and we have bought some time to keep the mideast from succumbing totally to the rabid extremists of the radical branches of Islam. We definitely have an interest in keeping things stable between Pakistan and India and Afghanistan provides a good base of operations for that purpose.
So there is some positive effect from our time there. We cannot stay there indefinitely, however. Too much cost in treasure and lives and too regressive an effect on the domestic economy.I do not believe we had a choice but to stay for a while and attempt to leave during a period of some sort of stability. To have pulled out precipitously would have been wrong and would have left a sizable chunk of Afghanistan’s people vulnerable to devastating repercussions. But now we need to be getting out sooner rqther than later.
Pakistan claims their nukes are under control. Reading the reports of small bands of Taliban holding major army bases at bay makes one wonder. No doubt we play a large role in their security, and Afghanistan provides a foothold in the region. I don’t look for any major withdrawals in the immediate future.
If we’re being treated to the professionals, I’d hate to see what the B team looks like.
“blather, insults, and untruths which deserve no rebuttal.”
yep thats all we get from some around here!! ( along with bigotry )
Why else would someone spend 18 hours a day spouting the talking points before they hit the mainstream?
Sounds like Art thinks I’m ahead of the curve and well ahead of the MSM. Thanks for that, ace. But tell me something I don’t know.
Obama’s theme song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO2eh6f5Go0
23. Dan – I don’t think we ever have felt we could control Afhanistan. As you say, it is more a goup of tribes than a country. However, we have made friends with some and perhaps established local governemnts that will resist a return of terrorism. Is it worth the cost? Only in terms of what would happen should Pakistan or Iran furnish terrorists nuclear weeapons. Yet, we left Afghanistan in the 1980′s to fall victim to terrorists and an irrational government because we could not afford to stay or at least because RR did not want to stay. I believe we need to leave but leacve in a way that hopefully does not let the country be overrun. Is it worth it now, probably not, but nuclear weapons and fanatics make it a big probably.
#18 Richard, it took suzie a while to go look up what her overlords would want her to say.
This is the most asinine thing I’ve ever read on this blog, and that’s hard to do. First off, there are really only 10-12 points here. Several are simply repeats of others, ie. 8 and 14 are the same, 20 and 21 are the same, so on, so forth. Let’s also not ignore the big contradiction with Libya. Is it or isn’t it a war?
Just to pick apart a few of your claims…
#2 – any dependent (ie. Occupy Wall Street bums) can be on parent’s health insurance, not just ‘students’ up to age 26. Facts are your friend.
#3 – “He has led..” Has led? The term ‘leading from behind’ has been perfected by this president. Even Democrats are frustrated with his failure to lead.
#4 – Regulations lead to higher cost which is passed on to the consumer. Bank of America. SunTrust. Let’s also not forget the credit card regulations early in his term that caused credit card interest rates to skyrocket.
#5 – Thanks to the Bush policies, which he vehemently opposes.
#6 – It’s ironic he’ll kill an American citizen without a due process, but wants to offer foreign enemy combatants all the civil rights afforded to Americans.
#9 – To what end? What’s the end game in Egypt? A more hostile, West-hating regime that will cause more instability in the region? It’s a disaster.
#12 – Completely ignored the floods in TN and was very late with BP, despite the repeated phrase ‘from Day 1.’
#13 – Incompetency by terrorists (Time Square, underwear bomber) does not equate to a national security success.
#14 – Interesting wording. I guess Libya and Yemen aren’t technically wars. But why later in the post is Libya called a war…”reducing the war in Afghanistan and Libya”?
#17 – How? European financial system is in chaos and getting worse. In the last week, EU legislators told US administration to mind its own business. Laughed at the tax evader Geithner(sp?).
#20 – Besides Solyndra, green companies that received stimulus funds are shedding jobs at an alarming rate. IG of Dept. of Labor said green training program is a disaster, should come to a quick end.
I count the word ‘deal’ (or variation of) six times. Is this as opposed to ‘ignored’? Just because the president has ‘dealt’ with things, doesn’t mean he has been successful in doing so.
As the president we don’t expect him to ‘deal’ with problems, we expect him to ‘solve’ problems, or at the very least ‘lead’ us through problems. How has he solved (or led us through) the housing crisis, instability in the Middle East, the European financial crisis, Chinese currency issues, inefficient and bloated government? He hasn’t. None of these things are in better shape than when he took office. Despite the promise of hope and change, you aren’t better off than you were four years ago.
I’m with Art on this. Suzie is too toxic, too blindly-loyal to RW causes, and too absolute in its opposition to Obama to be genuine. Think about it. We liberals sometimes criticize Obama, and sometimes praise Republicans. Most conservatives will occasionally stray from the far-right path and will occasionally praise a Democrat. My guess is Suzie is a local who is probably funded by the Koch brothers, even if he doesn’t know it.
Can someone help pick up the pieces of RJBCPA that just got shredddded…
#33 To pick apart just one of yours:
#4 And you think retailers weren’t charging you for the percentage they were paying on debit cards? Hidden fee. And that’s the way banks want it.
we have bought some time to keep the mideast from succumbing totally to the rabid extremists of the radical branches of Islam.
LMAO. 0bama greased the skids for the radicals to take over by endorsing the insurrections, mislabeling them as protesters simply yearning for democracy. Idiot Boy was either lying or just very dumb.
On the subject of Afghanistan, I’ve been struck numerous times by puzzling examples of apparent facts which lead me to wonder if the Afghan government is actually trying to succeed. For example, there was a report on NPR within the past year which stated that Afghan soldiers were being paid significantly less than Taliban recruits. One need not be a rocket surgeon to see the likely result of that disparity, nor the ability of the Afghan government to pay the necessary wages if it wanted to. Another example: Recent reports from U.S. military commanders on the lack of combat readiness of Afghan troops. It’s been ten years. If you have Uncle Sam on your side, throwing money at you, and you have millions of impoverished men who need gainful employment, and you still don’t have an effective army within just three years (much less a decade) then there’s a structural problem with how you’re going about it. Key ingredients are missing. Maybe it’s a lack of will on Karzai’s part, maybe it’s a series of strategic errors on the part of the U.S. (continually enabling the weak Afghan military instead of taking a sink-or-swim approach, perhaps) or maybe it’s something I’m completely missing, but I believe there’s something missing. Regardless, it’s time for the U.S. to leave.
“0bama greased the skids for the radicals to take over by endorsing the insurrections, mislabeling them as protesters simply yearning for democracy.”
What he didn’t do is hire the radicals. Bush did that in Iraq. All those guys who were blowing up our troops with IEDs — he put them on the payroll at $300/month. That’s partly why they needed to fly skids full of $100 bills over there on C-17s.
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It tickles me when leftwingers paste the 0 for 0bama’s name. Sort of an admission wouldn’t you say?
I would be interested in some elaboration on “Kept terror from our shores”, “Help liberate Libya”, and any of the points that started with “Dealt with”….the mere fact that any president was confronted with a situation that needed to be “dealt with” does not speak to whether they dealt with it successfully.
This post read more like a script for a campaign commercial…plenty of vague generalities but not enough concrete substance on which one could base an informed decision.
#41 Doesn’t take a whole lot to give you a feeling of accomplishment, does it? How sad.
“The mere fact that any president was confronted with a situation that needed to be “dealt with” does not speak to whether they dealt with it successfully.”
I disagree. “Dealt with” implies some measure of success.
Bush did not “deal with” Katrina, fyi. At least, not in any reasonable way, in any reasonable time frame. He did the opposite. He refused to “deal with” it.
Speaking of “Dealt With”… I think Michael Jackson also “Dealt With” the pain of his awful childhood. Don’t think I would call that ” some measure of success”.
I would choose ‘dealt with’ over ‘did nothing’ all day long, even if the dealing resulted in less than perfect success. I give bonus points for trying – we’re rarely in full control of our outcomes, even on things smaller in scope than full global economic meltdown.
“13 – Incompetency by terrorists (Time Square, underwear bomber) does not equate to a national security success.”
Really, Flash? So…the 9/11 terrorists were full-on geniuses who just outsmarted our vigilant intelligence folks, while under Obama they just got stupid? Nice try.
@#44
Yeah, and GWB also “dealt with” 9/11, by going into Iraq. And JFK “dealt with” Fidel Castro in the infamous Bay of Pigs invasion. Ronald Reagan “dealt with” the economy by implementing sweeping tax cuts.
“Dealt with” doesn’t give me any meaningful information, other than there was a situation, and the President was compelled to act. It says nothing more than that.
And even if you insist that it “implies” success…it would still be more useful to me to tell me exactly HOW he dealt with it, and why you would argue that his actions were successful.
Note that I never argued that any of these things that Obama “dealt with” were not a success. Not enough information was given to make that determination. I think that the choice of the words “Dealt with” was intended by the user to imply success, but without any supporting information, like how exactly he dealt with it and why that was successful, I am unable to either agree or disagree with the assertion. That’s why I said it sounded like a campaign ad.
33. Flash – I believe I listed things he accomplished. You may not like them, you may want to see Osama and other terrorist leaders alive, that is up to you. But he most certainly accomplished the items on the list as well as many others. no one said you had to like those things and frankly, I don’t care whether you like them of not.
“Kept terror from our shores” is an inaccurate statement. Again, because they failed does not mean the acts were not acts of terrorism. The two conspirators had direct links to ‘enemies of the state’, slipped past US security/intelligence, and put their plots in motion (on US soil).
Let’s also not forget the Fort Hood massacre or Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad.
42. VT Hokie – you are welcome to look up all the details you wish.
“Kept terror from our shores” is an inaccurate statement. Again, because they failed does not mean the acts were not acts of terrorism. The two conspirators had direct links to ‘enemies of the state’, slipped past US security/intelligence, and put their plots in motion (on US soil).
Let’s also not forget the Fort Hood massacre or Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad.”
Yo Flash, OK, let’s grant you Fort Hood and the underwear bomber. We shall rephrase it to “Obama has kept terror from our shores . . . much better than GWB and Dick Cheney ever did.”
Those two yoyos figured out there was a problem after how many thousands of people died?
#50 Tell you what, Flash, you want to blame Fort Hood on Obama, you’ll have to give the Shrub man at least some of the credit. Army folks started voicing concerns about the shooter’s radical ideas as early as 2005, so you’d think that sometime between 2005 and 2009 Bush would have jumped in there personally and stopped that one. Right? Right, Flash?
Equating the thousands of deaths on 9/11 to the inaccurate statement “Kept terror from our shores” has no point. However it’s rationalized or compared to the past, it is still an inaccurate statement, among many others.
So do you not stand by CPA’s original claim that the current administration has “Kept terror from our shores”?
Flash, you can define “terror” however you want to.
I define it as the way people in this nation felt after 9/11. If you to want to believe that’s the same way they felt after the underwear bomber failed, you go right ahead with that warped reasoning.
The point is you’re denying Obama has kept terror from our shores. He’s done a lot better job at it than GWB or Cheney ever did.
Where was there blame placed on Obama? It was never stated that way and you know it.
The fact remains, there were acts of terrorism undertaken on US soil during the current administration.
You’re moving the goalposts. “…better job at it than GWB or Cheney ever did.” That’s not what the original list says. Is your reasoning warped because you’re defending something that was never stated? That only was stated after you decided to alter the original comment?
“The point is you’re denying Obama has kept terror from our shores.”
Yes, that’s the point because it’s a fact.
#56 “Where was there blame placed on Obama? ”
Why of course you weren’t, Flash.
Please don’t be so disingenuous.
You lost me at “He killed Osama.”
I love the new bumper sticker that has a picture of obama and it says
“does this idiot make my car look fat?”
…lol
54. Flash – Ft Hood attack was by a US citizen in the military under military review on a military base. He is not a foreign terrorist,not even a Timothy Mcveigh. Certainly influenced as it turns out by Awlaki but not a foreign terrorist. Obama has made amends by eliminating the threat of Awlaki.
The attack on the military personnel by a military person is certainly different than an attack on civilians by a foreign terrorist.
The debit card fees from banks complaints toward Obama are a real joke. The change came about because large retailers (Walmart) were fed up paying the banks exhorbitant debit card fees. The fees added a cost to everything you purchase from a retailer for your use of a debit card. Not only that, the debit cards actually saved the banks money. It is much cheaper for the banks to process a debit card than a check, yet the banks attached a huge fee to the denit card.
Now, rather than accept the loss revenue like any other business that loses a revenue source, they have decided to charge the bank customer for using the card. Again, the debit card is a convenience for the bank, cheaper than a check to process, yet these guys have the idea you should pay them money to make their life easier.
You TPs trying to blame Obama for the change are just being bought by the bank lobby. How stupid can you get.
The post 9/11 anthrax terrorism was, well, post 9/11 and pre-Obama. (Five dead, 22 infected). The DC snipings were domestic terrorism, too. As was the shooting at the El Al counter at LAX, and the grenade at the British embassy in NYC. All during Bush’s time. The myth that there were no more domestic terror incidents under Bush after 9/11 is a myth made up to serve an idealogical position. A myth. Oh, and then there’s that little issue of, you know, 9/11. But still some posters believe the myth.
As a result, as happens in post #9, point 7 above, they can also seriously declare without qualification that “Bush ended (the) Iraq War”. That’s the degree of revisionism necessary to claim there were no more terror attacks after 9/11 under Bush. And no one made them make these claims, they do so voluntarily, leaving history a record of their truth denial that will take yet more revisionism to explain. A sort of Ponzi scheme of revisionism, if you will.
Guess its time to talk about jobs. The GOP constantly cites the 9% unemployement as Obama’s failure. Yet lets look at what he has done. Much to the GOPs dismay he saved GM and Chrysler. This saved at least a million jobs that had the GOP had their way would have been lost. Each job lost would have been a million more foreclosures and houses on the market. The GOP also did not want the Stimulus to bail out the states, in fact several GOP Congressmen wanted to change the law to allow the states to file bankruptcy. Thousands of jobs were saved by the stimulus package to the states, giving the states time to recover from the devastation caused by the recession. Had the GOP had their way, thousands of more jobs would have been lost.
@12 Richard,
Sorry to hear about your slight physical disability. But don’t worry, many share you fat finger syndrome.
I suppose if you go on supporting your claims, it will be with more claims and personal opinions.
For example you can give your opinion that Obama and the Fed have saved Europe from financial collapse or assume that because a job was lost by a fireman or teacher then the job loss would also result in a foreclosure. That is poor reasoning.
You can also claim the release of oil from the reserves was a great strategic move. Fact is gas prices had already peaked and were on the decline. The damage to the fragile recover by high fuel costs had already been done by that point.
Obama has done nothing to stop what you call “illegal fraudulent” foreclosures. The only result, mostly due to states stepping in has been to delay the inevitable and cause a backlog that could be clearing out.
The simple fact is if these people cannot afford the payments and are not making payments toward their mortgage then the holder has as much right to the property as the homeowner. Surely the government won’t hesitate to seize property if the taxes become delinquent on these properties.
Anyway, I am glad your clients are happy. I know you are a bright guy and successful accountant, I just wish you would lay off the kool-aid for a few days and then re-evaluate Obama’s accomplishments and the state of the economy.
Richard Beason is not the one who needs to lay off the kool-aid.
65. BM, its not the fat finger, althouth they certainly are fat, its palsy that gives me limited control and I hit the keys several times before I can move on. No big deal, just can’t get in a hurry.
As for my opinion, the fed has loaned the Europen banks lots of money to help stabilize their system. That’s not including the original TARP money that went oveer there. The US has also been working in concert with Germany and France to encourage the rest of Europe to go along with the bail outs of Greece. Will it work? No one knows, but we all know that a failure will be devasting.
As for a lost job resulting in a foreclosure. That is indeed good reasoning. It may not always happen, but on the abverage it certain has.
The reason the oil reseerve releease was a good move was not the increase in oil; but rather, it showed the speculators that the US was not going to let them run up the price of oil unchecked. Accordingly, when they saw that the US and the other Nations working together would limit their profits and perhaps cause a loss, they stopped running the price up. The same has happened in gold and silver when the commodities exchange increased the margin requirements. It limited leveraage and reduced the chances of profits on borrowed money stoping the bubbling of gold and silver.
As for illegal fraudulent foreclosures. I beg to differ. Bank America, Wells Fargo, Citi and others haave all been estopped from the fraudulent foreclosures. The banks had to stop until they were able to get their paperwork correct and could not foreclose unless the paperwork was legal. Fannie and Freddie have filed suit against BAC for its fraudulent loans sold to them. BAC has been sued by AIG. Remember who owns these companies now? The AG is pursuing all areas where illegality has taken place along with the SEC. The SEC has sbeen hindered by the GOP house who will not approve their budget as a means of stopping their investigation; eventhough all SEC funding comes form fees and fines, none from the taxpayers.
As for your statement concerning people not making payment and the rights of the bank, all I can say is you have no understanding of the mortgage crisis and what brought it on, how the banks caused the crash in market values, how the banks manipulated the mortgages, and how they have forced the underwater valued houses into foreclosure whether or no payments were being made.
As for the economy, it sucks and may very well get worse. As for Obama, he has done what has needed to be done in spite of the politics played by the GOP. i understand companies resenting regulations, I understand the ultra wealthy resenting taxes, I understand the GOP’s recalcitrant behavior in order to be elected. What I do not understand is middle class citizens supporting a group of ultra wealthy northern businessmen and Texan oilmen telling you how much they deserve your money and how you should have a higher tax rate than them because they are wealthy. How the working man can be content with Wall Street bankers taking their pension money and 401(k)s and houses by gambling them away on derivative so they can get billion dollar bonuses each year and how when they destroy the economy, should be bailed out with taxpayer money so they can do it again.
15.The guy posting as “Suzie” is on the RNC payroll. Simple as that.
Wrong, if anything, he/she is working for the Dems. Nobody with an ounce of sanity would make RWer’s look as bad has suzie portrays them.
Richard J. Beason scores again!
Amazing, isn’t it? Fannie Mae blaming banks for their own lax standards in buying up bad mortgages, banks that followed the liberal guidelines that the government instituted in the first place.
How’s that for abdicating responsiblity?
Fannie Mae: 1999 “Banks, here are lower standards we are going to allow you to follow. We will then buy up the mortgages you create.”
Fannie Mae 2011: “Why you bastards! Daring to sell us bad loans that fell within our guideliness. We’re going to sue you!”
It’s very funny that I educate a CPA on financial matters. It happens all the time. We have a couple of men on here who claim to have been real estate brokers. Ask them the first question about RE and they’re lost. And I’m also a better political analyst than Dan who gets paid for his political opinions.
It’s really amazing. Girl is always better than these clods in their own fields.
“Richard J. Beason scores again!”
He’s wallowing with a pig, and the pig likes it.
#65 Very nice of BM to joke about what RJB already told us is a slight disability, NOT “fat finger.” You’re just a prince of a fellow, BM.
A liberal accountant. Can you imagine? These people are supposed to help clients pay as little as possible, but how does it work when they shill for big government?
I can see it now:
“CPA” Beason to Client: “Yes, you are legally entitled to the child tax credit, but I am determined to make you pay your ‘fair share’”.
Who in their right mind would use someone who openly campaigns against their interests?
“What I do not understand is middle class citizens supporting a group of ultra wealthy northern businessmen and Texan oilmen telling you how much they deserve your money and how you should have a higher tax rate than them because they are wealthy. How the working man can be content with Wall Street bankers taking their pension money and 401(k)s and houses by gambling them away on derivative so they can get billion dollar bonuses each year and how when they destroy the economy, should be bailed out with taxpayer money so they can do it again.”
Preach on it brother!…Thanks for reasoned opinions, and, of course, you’ll notice that such reason will automatically result in a side show of personal attacks that have nothing to do with your stated opinions, for instance how you work with your clients. It’s the norm of a few of the far right wing on the blog.
Preach on it brother!…Thanks for reasoned opinions, and, of course, you’ll notice that such reason will automatically result in a side show of personal attacks that have nothing to do with your stated opinions, for instance how you work with your clients. It’s the norm of a few of the far right wing on the blog.
The alleged CPA didn’t use reason. His 25 points were shot down by three or four people. His claim that poor people pay a higher income tax rate has been disproven numerous times. Anybody who calls these “reasoned opinions” isn’t using reason or logic.
73. and 75. Suzie – while I tend to ignore your comments for their total lack of knowledge, these are particularly stupid. First of all, my CPA license is current and can be checked easily by anyone so desiring by going to the VA. Board of Accounting web site. Such a silly comment. Secondly, I did not say the poor pay a higher rate than the wealthy, I said the middle class pays a higher rate than many of the wealthy. You must try to read better. As for my work, I with have no problem with my reputation in teh State. In reading the comments on this site, you should be more worried about your own. As for my 25 comments, irrational, unsupported statemets of opinon are hardly a rebuttal, much less worthy of acknowledgement.
Richard,
I’ll ask again. Who would hire your liberal ass? You clearly despise the goals of your would-be clients, desiring to pay as little in taxes as possible.
77. Suzie, I clearly despise ignorant trolls. I have found they resort to name calling and insults when they have no basis for their positions.
Mr. Beason, you demonstrate calm, clearheaded, and well-informed thinking and a resolve to be fair that aligns perfectly with those many patriotic Americans willing to support the social compact with equitable levels of fiscal contribution. I will be recommending you to anyone who seeks services in the areas you provide.
Re: #78
All the more reason to just ignore him/her, or whatever.
He/she is a simple attention seeking troll who enjoys the reaction he/she gets. Continuing to rise to the bait only encourages him/her to troll more.
Why not join those of us who have chosen to just ignore him/her?
79 and 80. Warren Thank you, that is very kind. DaveH, of course, you are correct. I shall endeavor to follow in your footsteps.
#81 Following in his footsteps becomes very easy if, upon seeing the name or avatar you scroll on past it. While it may be tempting to read and respond, swear to yourself that you won’t and don’t. Trust me, you’ll feel much better.
If you ignore it, it’s pointy little head will assplode.
Warren,
So you would recommend an accountant that believes you should pay as much in taxes as possible? Your friends won’t be happy with you or trust your judgment after that.
I will vote him again.
@79 Nicely stated Warren! I second that Mr. Beason.
Dan, you do like to wallow don’t you? Please just admit it so we can all move on.
Right on and well done Rich Beason! I have recommended you to several people in the last year or so. Your honesty, integrity and decency shine through and any client would be lucky to have you represent their interests. That anyone prefers a lap dog only signals their intentions IMO.
I agree with your list too!
Here is the CHANGE I feel was more than welcome to me personally:
The “Lily Ledbetter Law” a law that says you get an equal day’s pay for an equal day’s work.
The rescue of the auto companies from collapse. We had Detroit’s back and I love those commercials!
Finally raising fuel-efficiency standards for the first time in 30 years.
Health care reform started after a century of trying.
We stopped sending $60 billion in taxpayer subsidies to the banks for facilitating student loans, today that money is going directly to students.
For the first time in history, it doesn’t matter who you love if you want to serve this country that we all love. We ended “don’t ask, don’t tell”!
And we are bringing the war in Iraq to a close. By the end of this year all our troops will be home for the holidays. THAT alone is worth my vote.
What some folks seem to forget because their partisan blinders are just too tight is that the past 30 years of government complicity in building the disparity between the wealthy and the poor has not been good for this nation as a whole and there is no getting around which party led that charge.
There is no getting around blame for either party but one is literally a wholly owned subsidiary of corporate America and one is only a dancing partner occasionally.
The facts are in, refusing to see them is your problem.
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