Saying that you are going to cut taxes for 95% of Americans is a good strategy on the campaign trail. Actually doing it? Not so much (.pdf).
People are stupid.
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People are stupid.
No, merely uninformed. Unless of course you believe CBS – any “MSM” news org – would publish Nate Silver’s findings, or for that matter, read this blog.
Oh my gosh – I couldn’t even listen after the first minute.
Well, shit, man, when you put it that way. Happy f*ckin’ weekend. 🙂
Uninformed is correct. Ignorance is curable. Stupid goes right to the bone.
It is a FACT that ARRA cut taxes for most Americans. But our news media does not deal in facts, they only deal in competing allegations which they do not believe it to be their job to sort out. So, most Americans not only do not know that ARRA gave them a tax cut, they think that ARRA and TARP are the same.
This is a small part of a systematic dereliction of duty by a news media which has more freedom to investigate and report facts than any in the world.
We need some tunes:
Some MFSB:
Some Stylistics:
…just for posting this one clip! Thanks, Booman. Have a great Preznit weekend.
thanks a lot!
Here’s some bonus tunes:
Because if you do, and it’s the same amount every pay period, you would have noticed that your take-home went up. (Twice, as I recall.) It wasn’t a mix-up in payroll, dummies, it was a DEMOCRATIC TAX CUT.
There, I finally went all-caps!