Yeah! Tell me another one! Whew. OK. Let’s get serious. Obama, as usual, is attacking the concept of personal responsibility. The concept that people willingly and knowingly incurred a debt is meaningless to Obama. Completely. Under his watch, the student loan program has been removed from the private sector and made federal ( that’s called socialism, folks ). Now, under a law passed within Obamacare ( yeah, that’s right, student loans are part of health care now ), he’s changing the way the loans are paid back if a student so desires.
What he will never, never, never do. Did I say never do? Is question for one second WHY college tuitions are so expensive in the first place.
Did I say he would never do it? Yeah, I did. Let’s start at the top for a few examples. Shall we?
- Ohio State University. E Gordon Gee, $1,346,225.
- University of Washington, Mark Emmert, $887,870
- University of Virginia, John T. Casteen III,$797,048
- University of Texas, Mark G. Yudof, $786,045
- University of Michigan,Mary Sue Coleman,$760,196
- University of Colorado at Denver,M. Roy Wilson, $740,415
- University of Minnesota-Twin Cities,Robert H. Bruininks, $733,421
- University of Florida,J. Bernard Machen,$731,811
- Arizona State University, Michael M. Crow, $728,750
- Georgia State University, Carl V. Patton, $727,487
Now, contact your local bank and ask them how much the President of the bank makes.
Go ahead, I dare ya.
I double-dog dare ya.
Obama’s not going to do anything about these greedy administrators getting rich on the backs of the poor downtrodden college student for one very simple reason:
- Microsoft Corp $170,323
- Comcast Corp $116,155
- Harvard University $94,225
- Google Inc $90,166
- University of California $83,679
- DLA Piper $79,375
- Chopper Trading $64,815
- Skadden, Arps et al $64,162
- Stanford University $62,928
- Ballard, Spahr et al $61,300
- Time Warner $60,050
- US Government $57,430
- National Amusements Inc $57,100
- Latham & Watkins $54,582
- Arnold & Porter $51,200
- Goldman Sachs $49,124
- Exelon Corp $48,625
- Mayer Brown LLP $46,700
- Bank of America $46,699
- Columbia University $45,097
Universities have more money to give than those greedy corporate banks.
And you know where that money comes from dontcha? That’s right. Obamacare is making sure kids who can’t afford those administrative salaries can borrow all they ever wanted from the federal government.
And if the payments get to be too much, they occupy Wall Street to protest.
Yeah. And not one single person at CNN or MSNBC questions the hypocrisy of all this. Obama attacks banks, Occupy Wall Street shows up on cue complaining about bank greed and having to pay their student loans, and not one single “student” complains about greed in higher education, where they are making more than most bankers.
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Oct
Jobs report in October 2011:
Not much time left. Which begs the question:
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Oct
Seriously. He does:
BLS doesn’t agree:
Since the president’s January 2009 inauguration, total private sector employment has dropped by 1.6 million, though 2.5 million jobs have been added to the private sector since the term low in February 2010.
He’s doing this for a reason. The last stimulus targeted almost exclusively the public sector. It obviously didn’t work. Unemployment rose sharply. When the public sector funding under TARP ran out, a strange thing happened. Unemployment stayed the same.
In other words, TARP spending under the public sector obviously had no real impact on the unemployment rate.
But, that’s exactly what Reid and Obama want to do again. So, they have to make a new argument. That argument is the private sector doesn’t need help. The public sector does.
On face value it sounds really stupid. Republicans will have a field day with this.
On paper, it looks really stupid.
Reality, it just IS really stupid.
Obama and Reid have declared war on the private sector in every capacity. It’s wrecked our economy for a decade to come. This is just more of the same. The Occupy Wall Street bunch are simply tools for Obama that have bought into his theme ( and been bought too ). Corporations are evil, unions are their savior. It’s sad, and it’s sick.
Just wonder how many people really believe all this crap?
On August 14, 2011, Warren Buffett penned an op-ed for the New York Times. It was named, subtly enough:
Stop Coddling the Super-Rich
Get the idea?
While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks. Some of us are investment managers who earn billions from our daily labors but are allowed to classify our income as “carried interest,” thereby getting a bargain 15 percent tax rate. Others own stock index futures for 10 minutes and have 60 percent of their gain taxed at 15 percent, as if they’d been long-term investors.
These and other blessings are showered upon us by legislators in Washington who feel compelled to protect us, much as if we were spotted owls or some other endangered species. It’s nice to have friends in high places.
On and on he goes. His final resolution is to tax everyone making more than one million dollars a year. That’s a bunch of people.
There are two problems with this scenario most people figured out pretty quick.
- Obama wanted to tax everyone making more than $200,000 a year. Which is a lot more people than Buffett’s plan. He’s not really doing anyone any favors with his plan.
- His primary source of income, Berkshire-Hathaway, has short-changed ( or simply hasn’t paid ) the federal government to the tune of about two BILLION dollars since 2002.
So, one can assume that even IF Obama taxed every millionaire in the country at a higher rate, it would be somewhat moot if those people simply didn’t pay the taxes they did owe.
But, the bottom line is it is simply amazing how liberals consistently say one thing and do the exact opposite in plain view for everyone to see, expecting the rules they want to apply to everyone but themselves.
Just pay the taxes you do owe, Warren. I have always paid mine on time. Once we’re on the same playing field, THEN we’ll talk, OK?
