What Are Rich People Thinking?

There is plenty of money for infrastructure,even with lower taxation.

The big problems are the social security,medicare/aid taxes...

Infra is a catchphrase of the socialists in their effort to justify higher taxation.

They all talk about "bridges ",like parrots...

I am lucky enough to make over $250K a year - which in LA is not as great as it sounds, but is great nonetheless - and I have voted Republican since 1992 - and I voted for Obama. I live in an America that has forgotten the value of education, especially in areas of math and science. Our infrastructure is falling apart - our rails are 30+ years behind those of Europe or Asia, and our highways can not handle the capacity. The country needs to spend a little on itself, and if that means higher taxes for a period of time, so be it. Something good WILL come out of this, and perhaps a new Republican party can emerge. A party that is not beholden to religious conservatives fighting against issues that were resolved 40 years ago - in short, a party that looks ahead, not backwards.

As a CPA I see the dishonesty in this first hand. Less than 48 hours after the election I get an e-mail from the accountant of a extremely wealthy individual talking about the year-end strategy they want to undertake to leave the door open to take income this year and pay less tax (my client is a partner in one of his ventures and therefore the reason for the e-mail to me). Problem is, this particular individual was a HUGE Obama supporter. These people are all the same behind closed doors. They're OK with someone else paying more taxes. Just not them. What a fraud.

In Illinois, our son and his wife, who go over the 250,000 category on salaries alone, told us they didn't mind paying more taxes if it meant that their daughters didn't have to contend with a huge govt deficit in their lives. They expect Obama to make things better all around - war, foreign relations, economy, racial, inner city schools. They have great hope. We'll see how it goes.

Make up your mind Gross. Pre-Obama and it was ''Why Do Corporations Like Republicans''? Now its Why They Voted For Obama.

As one can readily see by the back-in -business atttiude among lobbyists getting to work with their old Clintonista pals again,we are viewing the same lineup of old pros from the business/corporate world who will be cutting deals with Obama while Podesta and Emmanuel work the ''power behind the throne''angle working alongside with the various giants already lining up for a crack at the trough,a means of inside access. Vernon Jordan will be the administrations go-to lobbyist guy who will continue to cement the Clinton brand on the dealings between government and the business world,having cruised in both seas. Clintonista lobbyists Joe Lockhart and Tom ''Mack''McClarty have already taken up positions in Washington within a sticks throw of the White House. And this is only in one area.
Clintonistas Rubin,Gorelick and Summers are already waiting in the wings. Obama would do well to trim the Bubba fat and cut loose the two most odious of the three,Jamie Gorelick,whose outrageous ''Wall Memo'' and loot-raking while helping run FANNIE MAE to the tune of tens of millions are both enough disgraces in and of themselves to disqualify her for running Justice as AG.
Rubin is the other. Although enough revisionism regarding his role in killing GLASS-STEAGALL has gone from the sublime to the ridiculous, in order to illogically protect this person,it is the weight of actual history in its documents,interviews,and testimonies that settles upon Rubin as the chief culprit,with a greater role than even Sen. Gramm by far, in bringing forth corporate lending mergers that would become a main genesis of the great American mortgage disaster. Eric Holder,admittedly another Clintonista,would yet be superior to Gorelick,Summers to Rubin. Obama is already in uncharted waters filled with Arkansas mafia sharks. This is not a portion of the ''change'' anticipated by the disciples of this man. Indeed,it eerily looks like another Clinton presidency.

SALON Nov.10,2008:''Podesta: The Shadow President''

PBS FRONTLINE May.04,2003:''The Decline Of GLASS-STEAGALL[interview with Robert Rubin]. And:

''Testimony Of Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin To The Senate Banking Committee,'Reform of GLASS-STEAGALL Act'' Feb.24,1999.

www.senate.gov

The Center for Responsive Politics ''The Public Eye'' www.opensecrets.org

"During 32 years of 5 Republican administrations, measured in linked 2000 dollars, average annual GNP growth was 2.7%. During the 20 years of 3 Democratic administrations, average annual GNP growth was 4%, again measured in real dollars. So the Democrats were 50% more successful growing the economy during their terms, and did so without busting the budget every year."

As a Jew, I officially disown the 75% of Jewish voters who voted for Obama. I don't know them and don't ever want to know them!

No matter how you say it the people that voted for Obama supported abortion. Obama made misstatements during the debate. He support sFOCA and partial Birth abortion. Aids tragically kill 21,000 people a year. Breast cancer tragically kills 41,000 woman a year. Abortion of over one million children, tears the child aprat by pulling off armsn and legs, they crushes their skulls and suck out their brains. They feel death and pain during everystep. This is what one that voted for if they voted for Obama. The murder of tens of millions of children. Truly barbaric.. If you voted for Obama please go to Priets for Life and look at the children you killed. Don't you owe them at least this much so that you could get a $500.00 tax refund.