I guess I better get my checkbook out. When Obama was talking about "paying your fair share", "shared sacrifice", "shared responsibility", maybe I just wasn't paying attention. Am I supposed to feel guilty? Maybe just a little tug on my heart?

Nope, not feeling it! What else you got?

can you cite an objective link to the public response to the address last night ? I couldn't find anything on the net about it. Or, are you full of bullshit yourself ?

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Fox News links support your "assertion"; others come up with a different acount. Phone calls to Capitol hill switchbords as you've mentioned are largely jammed by left & right "advocacy groups."
Doesn't constitute a scientific survey & proves nothing.

if the San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Daily Kos, Bernie Sanders and Chuck Schumur say so, well golly, I sure should listen.

I wouldn't cut entitlements either, and I wouldn't cut the deficit. Heck willy, the govt budget is $3.8T, and only 25% of GDP.

I'm convinced. What's the next step?

Will "all" those unhappy folks quoted in those polls have the balls to now go and vote their positions by voting against every single incumbant.  Who amongst the activists of this board plan to vote against anyone presently in office?

did you hear about George Soros. He is closing his hedge fund to outside investors. He said it had to do with the new financial regulations. Isn't that a hoot? The poster boy for Progressives in the finance world, and he terminates his hedge fund because of regulations.

Oh yes, I do agree that the 15% cap gains rate on hedge fund managers is bullshit. But then I don't care about them. I only care about me, myself and I.

It was the biggest turnover in the history of The house and there were 7 Senate seat turnovers.  There is still an anti-incumbency feeling in the air.  

What gets me is all of the Tea Baggers were swept in on a tidal wave of shrinking the size and scope of Big Government.  But now they are "Nuts" for following their mandate by trying to cut spending and not raise taxes.  How "nutty" of them.  There must be a lot of sane people in Greece.

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Why do you say this crap when you know the truth is out there?  Five different reports today reveal that Obama's call for all to contact their representatives and senators has resulted in the Washington switchboards being overloaded as well as their websites.  Far more calls than the switchboard can handle.  BUT, the folks calling are largely demanding that their representatives and senators reject Obama's attempt to raise taxes as part of the deficit plans.  All indications are that Obama's game bluff is being called on him by the citizens.

Try a google search on "washington switchboard overloaded"  you'll have several to pick from.  Cheers.

The fact that hedge-fund managers who make hundreds of millions (if not billions) per year are taxed at the 15% cap gains rate is ludicrous.  Their secretaries are taxed at a higher rate.  And please tell me what jobs they create?