Bussing

To buss means to kiss. George Soros loves his adopted country so much that he is bussing us. He is funding the bus transportation (and probably much more) for the hooligans who are protesting Trump's election ... often quite violently ... in many blue American cities. Yes, I know you libs think that I am funning you with this claim ... and I am part of that basket of deplorables. However, don't doubt me ... as I have visual evidence of the degree to which this billionaire boob is willing to go to disrupt things. Here is a video of many dozen buses that were used to bring Soros goons to their Chicago riots ... see: Zero Hedge Video and Article.

Still skeptical?

Let me end with my deplorable message to George Soros ... buss my arse!

The President's Chimera

"Pass this jobs bill now!"
"We need to pass this jobs bill right now!"
"If you love me, you will help me pass this jobs bill now!"
"Now is the time to pass this jobs bill!"

What jobs bill?  The Barry really must believe that the American people are naive ... or stupid ... or worse.  He urgently wants us to pass a jobs bill that hasn't been filed yet in Congress.  And if it hasn't been filed, it can't be voted on.  And obviously it can't then be passed.  It can't be scored by the Congressional Budget Office to see if it really will create [and save?] the jobs he claims ... or that it will only cost $447 billion of taxpayer money.  And it's not clear when it will be filed.  If you don't believe me, read this surprisingly frank artcle in the L.A.Times.

What kind of rhetorical charade is Obama engaged in?  Has this bill really even been written?  Or is it still evolving in focus groups and in the friendly editorial rooms of the main stream print media and network television.  In a way, this is a scary situation.  The President is representing a reality that doesn't exist so that he can attack the Republican members of Congress.  And yet the fact that this bill hasn't been filed isn't generally known to the cheering crowds he is appealing to ... or to the overall American public for that matter.  We are being fed a feast of ephemeria ... right out of George Orwell.  I am nervous that we now have a President who is so detatched from the truth ... and that he believes that he can turn this chimera into a living, breathing beast with his teleprompter skills.
 
And it's time for us all to be nervous.

Pass This Jobs Bill Now!

President Obama (The Barry) has proposed new taxes to pay for his proposed $447 billion "jobs" program (see: The NY Times Agrees).  I suspect this tax proposal is as much to play politics as it is to pay for his dog's breakfast of "new" jobs proposals.  That is ... The Barry knows that the Republicans will not go along with any tax increases now and therefore he can call them out during next year's campaign and blame them for what surely will be high unemployment rates then.  In other words, it is a bald-faced set up to try to keep his job rather than grow new jobs for the rest of Americans.

However, surprisingly, I agree with a few of the bullet points in this new taxes proposal ... independent of whether his jobs proposals will or will not help the economy ... and so I will list these points as outlined by the NY Times editorial and indicate my feelings about each:

1) Capping the value of itemized deductions and other tax breaks at 28% (of adjusted gross income?).  I AGREE  This, in effect would be an extension of the alternative minimum tax in the current tax code ... a step that I have already proposed (see: Taxing Ideas).

2) Ending tax breaks for oil and gas companies.  I DISAGREE  If we are going to become energy indipendent then we cannot punish the very companies that would make this happen.  I have opined on this in more detail in the past (see: Oily Decision).

3) Not letting hedge-fund managers pay taxes on most earnings at the capital gains rate.  I AGREE  This has been an egregious loophole through which the wealthest on Wall Street have avoided paying their fair share of our government's cost.

4) Curbing tax breaks for corporate jets.  I DISAGREE  This is pure two-faced silliness by a man who flies, at taxpayer expense, in the most expensive flotilla of jets of any other American entity.  Is he bound and determined to kill the private-jet building business?  Even Warren Buffet has disagreed with this proposal.

5) Ending the lower tax rates installed by George W. Bush.  I DISAGREE  If The Barry's proposal to cap tax deductions (see #1 above) comes about, then there will be no need to scrap the Bush tax cuts as I strongly suspect that government receipts will grow anyway.

The Democrats, as of this hour, have not yet filed The Barry's "pass this jobs bill now." bill.  What's up?

Is this just political theater afterall?