The Democratic narrative, as Clinton said, is fundamentally different than the Republican narrative.  We have had four years of steady, though slow, improvement in many areas.  We might have had more rapid improvement if Obama had gotten more support for the ideas he and the Democrats proposed.  The President is only o...more

Glenn Beck, like so many conservatives, are superficial and simplistic.  Either they do not have the intellect or the initiative to dig into the guts of issues to understand the intricate relationships involved in the issues they contend can be solved merely by lowering government spending and cutting taxes and program...more

President Obama is the Commander in Chief, elected by a majority of the U. S. citizens who voted in 2008.  He has only been in office 3 yrs and I think he has done quite a bit to improve the situation in January 2009.  Until he is elected out of office, I will respect his efforts to work for positive changes.   While...more

More to the point of this recent proposal for relief for mortgages ... it will only benefit a select few.  It is a bandaid which will only make it look like something is being done, when most of us who really need a little help won't be able to get it.  ( Too little, too late.)   There are too philosophical approac...more

The President is Barack Obama, I think he has been doing a pretty good job considering the opposition he has had to fight on every issue.  The President is not God, he is not responsible for everything, good or bad and he can only do so much.  I consider myself an independent and I could find plenty to complain about -...more

Many of the comments seem to indicate a lack of understanding of a fundamental aspect of living in the United States of America.   Our Government is of the people, by the people for the people.   The citizens of this country elect representatives to make laws which we all are expected to obey.   The government iks not ...more

Capital gains taxes are not  “earned income”  ; those dollars are more easily gained and taxed less but they have the same buying power as earned income dollars.  Why should they be taxed at a lower rate?  The simple reason is because the people who made the law had a lot of capital gain income, so they passed laws fav...more

I totally agree that the Federal tax code is way to complicated. The main tax that people refer to in their arguements is the Income tax, but there are numerous other taxes that often are more burdensome, or complex or questionable in some way.  It is simplistic to argue for lower (income) taxes - Bush did that twice, ...more

President Obama's State of the Union speech laid out a plan to move the U.S. forward.  One of the big steps in the right direction will be to analyze laws and regulations which have led to the problems we have today and enact changes which will produce better results.  This is the job of all elected officials, if we wa...more