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Subscribe to RSSTim Pawlenty accused President Obama of being a "champion practitioner of class warfare."
“Elected with a call for unity and hope, he's spent three years dividing our nation,” the former Republican Minnesota governor, who’s running for president, said today at a speech on the economy at the University of Chicago. “And fanning the flames of class envy and resentment. To deflect attention from his own failures. And the economic hardship they have visited on America. "
Pawlenty took a dig at President Obama, asking the crowd about the "recovery summer" that the "President said we were having.” Noting unemployment and the nation’s debt, Pawlenty said the "president needs to enter economic rehab. And the American people need to stop his policies. Cold turkey."
Pawlenty proposed an overhaul of the tax code, calling the current on “anti-growth" and that "it's main goal --- seems to be to generate campaign contributions. Not jobs." He suggested the rate be reduced from 35% to 15%, adding that it’s "littered with special interest handouts --- carve-outs --- subsidies --- and loopholes." He said that a reduction would "reduce cronyism --- favoritism --- and government manipulating markets for political purposes."
Pawlenty later called for what he termed "The Google Test," and said that if the American people "can find a good or service on the Internet, then the federal government probably doesn’t need to be doing it."
He also called for the elimination of the U.S. Postal Service, the Government Printing Office, Amtrak, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
"The post office, the government printing office, Amtrak, Fannie and Freddie were all built for a different time in our country,” Pawlenty said. “When the private sector did not adequately provide those services."
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it seems the loony left cant stand anyone telling the truth or they get a tad testy here on PMSNBC
Troll.
Therman Merman - "Troll"??....I think you have him confused with your Congressman Weiner.......Weiner was actually "trolling" on the internet for college girls........big difference......
Pawlenty gets more pathetic as time goes by. He just needs to fold up his tent and go home and watch the grass grow.
Romney now outpolling obama??? BWAHAHAAHAAHAAAA!
I know, it's hysterical, since Romney pretty much IS Obama!
The American electorate is ridiculously fickle, don't take that poll to mean a darn thing.
obama's 9.4% unemployment average is pathetic
I think Elmer Fudd is outpolling Obama these days.
Two trolls.
Therman Merman - "Troll"??....I think you have me confused with your Congressman Weiner.......Weiner was actually "trolling" on the internet for college girls and with some strange looking "bait"...........big difference...... by the way....we all love your one syllable responses......
I was amused to read a comment from one of the rep/t.p. persons that the democrats started to make peace with the Chinese.It happened to be Richard Nixon, when he was president. he also froze wage increases,which pleased the industrial Oligarcs. He also made a mistake ,in their view, by attempting to go to the next logical step, by attempting to hold prices at the price that would not cause a serious recession That was why he was attacked and forced to resign. The present crisis has been caused by outsourceing,so that the c.e.o,s and their cohorts can continue and even increasing their obscene looting of the companies that they are supposed to be manageing.
you were spoon-fed this huh? i can tell because you cant even spell the words you used. who tells you what to think; George Soros?
Ironic that somone whose grammar leaves much to be desired would be critical of another's spelling. Incidentally, have the Koch brothers guided your train of thought?
george soros told you to embarrass yourself here huh?
@Sean.....Hannity, is that you?
yes go hide under the bed!
Perspective! A poll represented by Republicans polling republicans. I saw this on Sunday on Meet the Press I had to find the poll. Enjoy!
this is relevant in an alternate universe where obama hasnt failed
in other words Progressive failures who give a good speech excite you?
my mistake, it was Face the Nation and it was presented to Governor Haley Barbour who said the GOP had better unite based on this poll he is right, they better do something.
Why is it, as a lower middleclass individual, I have to pay 100% of my taxes (which amount to 35% of my paycheck) while the rich, who make MUCH more than I and are not living paycheck to paycheck get to pay less than that? For example, if you make over $250,000 a year, you are not taxed on ANYthing over that amount so the percentage of your check that goes to taxes keeps getting smaller until it's practically nothing. Given a rough estimate, if you made 1 billion dollars a year, you would pay a tax rate of 0.0000875% while the rest of us making $250,000 and below have to pay 35%.
I just think it's curious why the rich owe so much less than the rest of us when the rest of us are the ones making them rich. It seems like they would owe us more for busting our asses for them and getting paid absolute @!$%# by them.
the two are unrelated
our tax code is PROGRESSIVE
Then why does Warren Buffet pay a lower percentage than his secretary?
talking point; you are talking about one of the richest men on earth. keep trying
Warren Buffet himself said that it was stupid for people like him to get the tax break from the bush tax cuts. He said then in December that it was a bad move for America to extend the tax cuts to the rich. At least he was honest enough to say it.
I'm sorry, Rob, but are you insinuating that Buffet's situation is exceptional? The truth is our current tax policy has the illusion of being progressive. However, factoring in the myriad loopholes, exemptions, etc. and the fact that much of the income taken in by the truly wealthy is in the form of capital gains - taxed at a mere 15% - the middle class does in fact pay a higher percentage of their income in federal taxes.
and yet the rich STILL pay the vast majority of taxes; and the bottom roughly half pay NO federal income tax. go figure
Rob, that "fact" is not true. Show me proof
These statistics are easily found by doing a Google search in regards to how much time each president spent on vacation. But that's obviously too much work for a group that spends most of their time perpetuating lies in chain e-mails...can't go thinking for yourself. Just continue to think that the right is forcing those goddamn lazy asses out there to get a job or starve to death. What kind of @!$%#ing @!$%# thinks this way?
Hopefully...HOPEFULLY...most of you will soon die so that actual progress can be made.
wishing for death on people? you must be a liberal
eclipx01....there is a simple answer to that. You need to get richer so you pay less taxes. It's a free country...what's holding you back?
The question wasn't why can't I make more money... it was why, when you're rich, you pay less of a percentage than everyone else. Are you saying that getting rich is not only its own reward but you get rewarded on top of that as well?
That's right. You said it eclipx01! Yes the system needs revamping...so why not use it to your own advantage in the meantime? Even poor Americans are mega rich by worldy standards. At some point rich people took a bigger risk or made a larger effort than most of us do for the opportunity to become rich. (aside from Lotto winners) Taking more of rich people's money and putting it into the hands of politicians to spread among us average and poor folks is not going to make us that much richer...it will only dilute the proportion of Rich vs average and poor. Who does it really help in the end? The politicians...not us.
The gop is going to find out who America trusts the least during the next election, and some of them are going to be sent packing. Everytime they open their mouth, something hypocritical and stupid comes out.
stupid hypocritical post; romney is now outpolling obama
let me know when they start chanting "change!", then i'll REALLY be worried!!!
There's plenty of hypocrisy in both parties. The problem is that people like Sheila have been brainwashed into thinking that it only exists in one party but not the other. It's not class warfare that we should be worried about but the political, ideological warfare that is going on in this country. That is what is really dividing the U.S. This country has become so politically divided that it's really a political civil war now. Democrats and republicans are acting like they want to literally eliminate the other from the face of the earth. And it's not just politicians but voters too. If the voters would just wake up and stop letting the politicians in both parties brainwash them then we may see this country get back on track. But as long as there is this political, ideological warfare continues then this country will continue decay.
Republicans only cry "class warfare" when regular Americans try to fight back against the rich.
your party isnt doing a great job "fighting back agaisnt the rich" genius; Dems just recently EXTENDED the Bush tax cuts for the rich; and overty under obama is GROWING as the RICH GET RICHER. what part isnt true?
I always thought the rich paid 100% of all your salaries?
actually "the company" pays your salary. The rich get paid by "the company" as well. The company is its own entity.
pawlenty is a sad insignificant little puppet of the right. he lacks ideas of his own and "jumps" when his puppet masters pull the strings !!! I can imagine him as a clown but not as president-no balls !!!
sad, insignificant left-wing post
Great....another politician that is tele-prompter codependent like our current president...
the truth is that you voted for that sad little moron bush twice !!!
True...I voted Bush twice...but I didn't want to. When every election all we have to pick from is Dumb and Dumber, I at least chose the lesser of two nitwits each time...aka Bush v Gore and Bush v Kerry. Just like with Obama v McCain, we were all gonna lose no matter who won the election because neither one is competent, Presidential material...
more people relying on food assistence than at any other time in history; with "friends" like obama looking out for you who needs enemies?
Sad that there is such a need in our country of plenty,...
too bad more aren't partaking of the education opportunities,...
i see lib puppets still pretending obama hasnt failed
Troll.
Look......a one syllable response.....wow....I never seen one of those before....
dear rob
thank you for voting for that F*CKED UP MORON BUSH TWICE !!! it's because of people like you that American saw fit to elect it's FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT !!!
Thanks, Einstein. Needed the laugh.
James Carville warned Obama that you better do something soon or there will be rioting in the streets!
Isn't it wonderful how far America's Democracy has come. Now there is a political Party just for our society's pathological liars, megalomaniacs, the delusional paranoids, swindlers, con artists and compulsive gamblers - the Tea Party. Add in the Christian Taliban, mass marketing experts like Karl Rove, et. al., and you have the determining factor in who the next Republican nominee for President will be, a wannabe King or Dictator.
good job; you manged to fill your garbage post with every loony talking point spoon-fed to you by the Daily Kos!!
Milo9; what would you do if you ever had to think for yourself?
Milo is another fine example of the hypocrisy that exists in both parties.
Milo .....Wow man...was that an LSD flashback?.....or can I just have some of what your smokin dude?
Pawlenty is absolutely spot on with respect to Obama and class warfare. He's also correct with respect to the lack of need for the agencies he listed. They really are unnecessary and every single one of them already requires enormous government subsidies which of course aren't government subsidies at all but "taxpayer subsidies".
I'm not necessarily Pawlenty's biggest fan but he has to be given credit for identifying specific things he'd do opposed to the non-specific blathering of many politicians of any or all parties.
remember Mr. Soros wants you puppets to keep pretending obama isnt a failure by ranting about Republicans
Troll.
It's frustrating to read so many corporate bashing comments regarding outsourcing jobs overseas made by so many. ( I don't work for corporate America. I'm, in fact, a very small business man.) But look, these international businesses exist to provide products and services and to generate profits for shareholders. And, most of us who work or are retired from an occupation are indeed shareholders of one or of many of these corporations with overseas holdings. Why do these businesses outsource jobs? It's easy. The leading reason is to reduce labor and production costs. They can also gain access to better employees and are incentivized to outsource by tax breaks. Outsorcing certainly creates a problem for Americans. The fix isn't to bash the companies, bash the liberals or bash the conservatives. Don't you think maybe we should instead create a better environment here for doing business, i.e., more competent employees, better education, increased productivity, less bureaucratic red tape, improve internatiional trade agreements, competitive pricing, tariffs, etc. It's the old idea: "Build it and they will 'stay'."
What balls! The right has been pounding unions, the middle class, and the poor with everything they can. They're the ones that are encouraging class warfare. As usual, they spew lies and hatred and then blame everyone else for the mess. Want proof? Just put on Fox for a little while.
th eright cant PANDER like the left can; and unin does not equal middle class. you libs and your idiotic talking points
you mean you watch Fox too? No wonder Fox is #1!
liberal POLICIES break the back of the middle class; that's why the middle class leave blue states for red states
Three posts back to back from a troll.
3 posts crying about me and calling me a troll; nothing from you about the board topic. lol
Can you actually put people on ignore on here? I am sick of having to scroll past robs comments. Besides just being dribble that makes no sense, you are nothing but a hateful, paid poster for the GOP. Your opinions mean nothing for the vast majority of people on here. I have no problem with a difference of opinion, but you do nothing but attack ever poster that has a different opinion than you.
By the way, how much money do you make being a paid troll?
OK, so I tried it....
First I googled "Balanced Budget Ideas from GOP" .........nothing............
Then I googled "GOP Jobs bill 2011"......nothing..........
So, I tried "Pawlenty Jobs Creation".......and this is what I got...
So ... who you gonna believe? A Noble Prize winning economist or a guy who aimed Minnesota's economy toward the cliff and then jumped out of the car before it got too close to the edge?
Whenever T-Paw opens his mouth there's Pawlenty of BS to go around....
google "find the millions of jobs Dems claim to have saved or created"; i'm curious why dems want republicans to create jobs dems already claim they created
Troll.
4 whines
Obama's job creation record is MUCH better than Bush's. Job creation has been fluctuating since Obama pulled us out of the Bush hole.
You GOP guys need to quit wetting your pants every month and look at the long term trends.
http://www.wealthvest.com/blog/sean-browne/barack-obama-created-more-jobs-in-one-year-than-george-bush-created-in-eight-years/
TIMMY is full of it. His policies have left Minnesota in financial shambles. Property Taxes are up, schools are cash strapped because he delayed payments to "balance the budget" and infrastructure is crumbling.
Do you all want to know how he got elected? It was a 3-way race and he squeaked in both times....The last time the DFL LT Gov candidate had a major reporter gotcha moment over corn ethanol.
Minnesota's libs had nothing to do with any of that? then explain California
Yeah, we still know you are a paid troll rob.
California is the home base for Reganomics, and three two term Republican Governors including Ronnie, 24 years of tax cuts and Real Estate booms/busts. All the Red States are in deep financial trouble because they let the Real Estate booms go unchecked and bloated their budgets depending on increased Property Tax revenue to make up for the tax cuts. Lower Property Taxes let the Realtors and Speculators jack up the prices, flipping houses raised the prices thus the property taxes, now that was a Ponzi scheme handed to Wall Street on a silver plate. Lower Federal Income Taxes gave Real Estate Developers more money to gamble with, less Government oversight/regulation let everyone laugh their way to the bank, cashing in before the bust.
Watch over the next 4 years what happens in California, a Dem Governor, vs Florida with a Tea Party Governor and Legislature.