Obama's tax plan: Extra change or lighter wallets?

When I heard President Obama speak to this issue, I thought he said that taxes would return to what they were before the Bush tax cuts and that he was going to go through the budget line by line to cut out what we did not need to make monies available for such areas as education, energy and health care. I also thought he said the money for the health care would be over a period of ten years. I do not see any quotes form the President in this article that supports what the article says, so I will read it as their interpretation and as such, compared to my on listening to the President, I will dismiss this article as an opinion an nothing more.

We seem more caught up in predicting than producing. The predictions are usually negative and the producing(I mean being an active participant in the solution) seems not to be on many minds. We want it fixed but offer nothing but criticisms based on guesses of what may or MAY NOT happen. I just don't know what to make of it. It is very disappointing that we refuse to work together for the good of all. I doubt very few if any of the whiners are actually in the top 2%!

Actually, I watched this on Face the Nation. However, I listened again just because, I wanted to know what you heard that I did not. You will have to clarify what you thought I would learn. Please be specific so I will know to what you are referring.

This President walked into a fiasco. I never expected all changes to take place overnight. So as I watch and see progress, some which has been far beyond what I expected at this point, I am pleased. I do not believe that negative predictions are beneficial to any of us. If anything, we should be working together to MAKE the plans work. Instead there seems to be a group that feels it is their goal to find all areas that they think are faulty and point them out. It is as if they do not see the US as all of us but they see President Obama as trying to ruin them. The irony for me is that they said nothing for eight years and now after being replaced, they have nothing but criticisms. No solutions then, no solutions now, but by golly we are suppose to find fault with the person making an effort and show he is wrong for trying! That disgusts me quite frankly. You either help or move out of the way.

So if the reason you feel I need more proof is that you want me to see the earmarks exists, yeah I heard and I heard the response. It works for me. I don't expect them to ever go completely away because they seem to be interpreted differently based on who is asking for them. The President has implemented how many actions of his promise within about a month? I have no problems giving him breathing room to work on areas such as earmarks. I trust him. I will continue to trust him until I see for myself (verses the MSM) telling me he should not have my trust. What I will not do is create cases against him because politics is more important than our country uniting to recover.

No worries, my friend. :-)