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Meanwhile, if Romney wins, Obama will actually pay less taxes! These facts are just amazingly indicative of what this election means. We elect Romney and the wealthiest people in our country halve their taxes (assuming Romney’s plan gets through Congress). We elect Obama, who is way more in touch with the American people, and the wealthy, including himself, pay more. People talk as if all politicians are hypocrites, but these facts tell an important story. Obama sees himself as wealthy and he applies his politics and beliefs to himself. He not only talks the talk, but walks the walk.
Someone please explain this to me…
Reading through my daily slew of news websites it’s hard to ignore the onslaught of articles regarding Obama’s ‘slip’ in an interview during which he said ’The private sector is doing fine’. One in particular, via MSNBC, caught my eye, not because of the issue in particular, rather for a comment on the treatment of the quotation itself. ’In context, the president was noting that the private sector is doing fine IN COMPARISON with the public sector, and the job numbers back that up. But in politics, the context often doesn’t matter.’
Perhaps in the world of sound bites ‘context often doesn’t matter’, but how is it that we have gone from ‘context is everything’ to ‘context often doesn’t matter’. Is this really the current state of media/politics/modern American thought that the greater context of a statement or idea is disregarded for the sake of manipulation in order to ‘win’. Wasn’t there once a time when knowing/researching the entirety of an issue was the standard of legitimacy? The emphasis on the world of ’politics’ is even more interesting because of its connotation that this world is one of its own, separate from some other more objective reality. I could think of no better way to describe this idea of ‘politics’ as arbitrary rule making/enforc(e)ing and power mongering that seems to define what was once Law.
Clearly this is a slippery slope into discussions of Law and the questioning of our mondern way of Being (casual subject matter nbd), but for now I’ll just leave it at this: if ‘context often doesn’t matter’, then what does?
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As usual, mainstream news media pouncing on the chance to misquote and misrepresent Obama and his “mistakes”…
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Are Republicans deliberately harming the economy to get Obama out of the office? There are some reasons to thinks so, according to this disturbing article by Michael Cohen of The Guardian. Either way, Cohen reminds us that, although our president is a Democrat, our economy is still Republican at its core, with a Conservative majority in the senate, and Bush’s tax cuts still in place.
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President Obama- Jobs and the Economy. Get the facts
- 4.3 Million private sector jobs added over the last 27 months
- 495,000 Manufacturing jobs added since January 2010
- 1+Milion Jobs saved due to the President’s auto rescue program
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Obama’s desire to tax the rich is shared by the majority of Americans. Go figure.
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Socioeconomic Relativism
No one ever claimed Obama was an “average Joe.” He even said himself: “When Americans talk about folks like me paying my fair share of taxes, it’s not because they envy the rich. It’s because they understand that when I get tax breaks I don’t need and the country can’t afford, it either adds to the deficit, or somebody else has to make up the difference.” However, he, unlike Romney, wasn’t “born with a silver spoon in his mouth.” Romney went to private schools all his life. Obama was raised by a single mother in a middle-class home. And he, unlike Romney, as is made clear in his State of the Union address, isn’t completely disconnected from the average American.
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