The gift that keeps on giving.
Here is the DNC’s chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz making a fool of herself, once again, on Bret Baier’s show last night whining that the GOP had blocked the President’s budget plan even though SHE, along with all of her fellow Democrats voted against her President’s budget plan.
Meanwhile The Heritage Foundation just released some Federal Spending in Graphs. A pictorial tour through Obama’s destruction of our economy. A taste:
Much more where that came from at the link.
Runaway spending is causing our doom, so why not spend a bit more. This time to pander to the youth in our country:
Obama told the students that since they were born, tuition and fees at colleges have doubled.
“And that forces students like you to take on a lot more loans, there are fewer grants, you rack up a lot more debt,” Obama stated.
“Can I get an Amen for that?” he asked the crowd who cheered, “AMEN!”
“Now, the average student who borrows to pay for college, now graduates with with about $25,000 in debt, that’s the average, he added,
“Some have more,” he said. “Can I get an Amen for that?”
“AMEN!” the crowd who cheered.
“Because some folks have a lot more debt like that,” Obama chuckled, as another person in the crowd shouted, “AMEN!”
Ugh, the pandering from this man is disgusting. Can I get an Amen for that?
What the students didn’t hear:
“In 2007 I missed two votes to extend the student loan bill that I now want you to believe is the most important things I’ve ever promoted. Can I get an amen?”
“More than half of all young college grads are now jobless or underemployed. Can I get an amen?”
“According to my own Vice President, government meddling in the free market actually increases college tuition. Can I get an amen?”
“Since I took office, over $5 trillion has been added to the national debt — or over $16,000 for every man, woman and child in the United States. Can I get an amen?”
“Student loan interest rates are set to double because the then Democrat-controlled Congress voted to do so. Can I get an amen?”
Anyways, he wants to freeze student loan interest rates to buy some votes. Of course this would cost close to 6 billion dollars. How will they pay for that?
Senate Democrats introduced legislation Tuesday that would prevent student loan interest rates from doubling this summer. Its $5.9 billion cost would be paid for by making it harder for owners of so-called S corporations to avoid paying Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes on some of their earnings.
The proposal would affect such companies with earnings of at least $250,000 annually and whose revenues come from the work of three or fewer owners. It would also apply to some lawyers, doctors and other professional service businesses that are owned by partnerships.
House Democrats said late Tuesday that they would introduce a similar bill, also financed by boosting payroll tax collections from many private companies’ owners.
S-Corps are used by many small companies, from mom and pop stores to individual workers like doctors and to start up businesses to file their taxes.
So he wants to raise the taxes on these small business owners to help students who have racked up a ton of debt to get an education.
And what does Obama tell those kids?
And living with that kind of debt means some pretty tough choices when you’re first starting out. It means putting off buying your first house. Or it means maybe you can’t start up that business right away that you’ve got this great idea for.
When I was over at The Sink I was talking to three business majors, and they all had these business ideas. But it’s tougher if you’ve got all this loan that you’re already thinking about the minute you get out of school. Maybe you’ve got to start a family a little bit later. It takes you a longer time to save for retirement. And when a big chunk of every paycheck goes towards loan debt, that’s not just tough on you. It’s not just tough on your families. It’s painful for the whole economy because that’s money that could be going into the economy and could be going into new businesses and could be helping businesses grow.
So on the one hand he panders to the youth telling them the taxpayers will help get them out of debt so they can start those small businesses, and on the other hand he wants to raise taxes on those same small businesses. I’m sure many of those students who have racked up a ton of debt are doctors and lawyers. Those same people who WOULD have used the S-Corps tax breaks to become more successful. Not anymore.
Just another example how Obama and the Democrats are destroying this country.
Can I get an Amen for that?
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