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I’ll answer that question just as soon as Cantor tells me what to say in my headphones.

What don’t you get when you have low unemployment, a strong workforce, the city of Sioux Falls having a good credit rating for borrowing and a large conservative voting block?

WASHINGTON -The Lewis & Clark Regional Water System would get only $2 million under President Obama’s record $3.6 trillion budget proposal for 2010, an amount so low that work on the massive, three-state project essentially would grind to a halt if no money were added.

I have warned the council that when you show Washington you can pay for projects on your own, they’ll let you. It seems Obama is paying attention, whether Ironic Johnny wants to admit it or not,

“The president again failed to follow the example of South Dakotans who are making prudent financial decisions by not spending beyond their means,” Republican Sen. John Thune said. “Our government cannot continue to borrow money at this pace and stick our children and grandchildren with the bill.”

Huh? Obama is making cuts, that’s why we didn’t get the money. It probably didn’t help that you keep flapping your trap on CSPAN and FOX News that Obama is a failed president (that you like to take photos of). And Johnny, we have been over this a 100 times, your grandchildren are not going to pay down the debt, we are going to increase taxes on the wealthy to pay this back in 10 years.

2 Thoughts on “Serrrrprise! Serrrrprise!

  1. Randall on May 8, 2009 at 10:15 am said:

    It’s no surprise that Thune keeps repeating GOP talking points – “…stick our children and grandchildren with the bill.”

    The surprise is how many “regular folks” repeat them.

    I have friends and close relatives that keep repeating that foolishness. And you’re right: the bill will be paid by taxing the rich.

    For whatever reason they just can’t seem to get the idea of marginal tax rates through their heads: they think that if taxes are raised on ANYbody then they’re raised on EVERYbody.

    I had to actually sit down with my good friend Bob the other day and show him:
    If you make $249,999.99 you get taxed at 35%.
    If you make $250,001.00 then your $249,999.99 STILL gets taxed at 35% and only that ONE DOLLAR gets taxed at 39%.

    AND

    Under Eisenhower the marginal tax rate was 90%
    under Nixon it was 75%
    under Reagan it was 50%
    and under Clinton it was 39%

    (and I know you can nit-pick those numbers, but, painting with a broad brush, they are accurate enough to press the point)

  2. l3wis on May 8, 2009 at 2:55 pm said:

    I think Washington needs a ‘Reagan Revolution’ when in comes to the tax code on the rich.

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