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[Carl Spackler]

http://spectator.org...-in-rude-denial

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On Friday White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and Obama senior advisor Valerie Jarrett were calling the CEOs and Washington office heads of the companies that took the financial hits and attacked them for doing so. One Washington office head said that the White House calls were accusatory and "downright rude."

The companies are taking the charges because in 2013 they will lose a tax deduction on tax-free government subsidies they have had when they give retirees a Medicare Part D prescription-drug reimbursement. Many of these companies have more than 100,000 retirees each. AT&T may have more than three-quarters of a million retirees to cover.

"Most of these people [in the Administration] have never had a real job in their lives. They don't understand a thing about business, and that includes the President," says a senior lobbyist for one of the companies that announced the charge. "My CEO sat with the President over lunch with two other CEOs, and each of them tried to explain to the President what this bill would do to our companies and the economy in general. First the President didn't understand what they were talking about. Then he basically told my boss he was lying. Frankly my boss was embarrassed for him; he clearly had not been briefed and didn't know what was in the bill."

The children are in charge of the country...the problem is they have the nukes and the guns...

[Murphy's Law]

No no no! All wrong! This President went to Harvard and is one of the smartest we've ever had. Geez, don't you read the news?

[Nimrod]

So, if you disagree with him. He will remove all tax breaks you might have or even write laws to tax you more.
Wow! Who voted for this guy?

[FlyFish]

What is astounding is that he still has a relatively high approval rating. Could it be that people are still falling for his BS?

[Hutch]

Carl Spackler, on 29 March 2010 - 06:07 AM, said:

The children are in charge of the country...the problem is they have the nukes and the guns...

Scary !

[ShortStory]

Murphy's Law, on 29 March 2010 - 03:18 PM, said:

No no no! All wrong! This President went to Harvard and is one of the smartest we've ever had. Geez, don't you read the news?

Went to Harvard on a FREE ride, enough said!! SAD

[Prizetek]

Well that cinches it.

After all, there is certainly no more honest, accurate, and unbiased source of all things Obama than the American Spectator.

[Murphy's Law]

ShortStory, on 30 March 2010 - 07:08 AM, said:

Went to Harvard on a FREE ride, enough said!! SAD

But today he mentioned how much his student loans were after he left school

[Carl Spackler]

Prizetek, on 30 March 2010 - 11:58 AM, said:

Well that cinches it.

After all, there is certainly no more honest, accurate, and unbiased source of all things Obama than the American Spectator.

So I'm guessing you would agree that the lack of reporting/opinion pieces on this very issue in the NYT, WaPO, etc... would also be an indication of their bias?

The reality is that the RULES for the publicly traded companies REQUIRED them to account for the devaluation of their assets based on tax increases in the bill that, according to the bill's proponents, don't exist.

Edited by Carl Spackler, 30 March 2010 - 09:02 PM.

[Max Power]

Prizetek, on 30 March 2010 - 11:58 AM, said:

Well that cinches it.

After all, there is certainly no more honest, accurate, and unbiased source of all things Obama than the American Spectator.

Seems to be a cadre of people these days surfing place like The Spectator and Newsmax looking for their daily fix of outrage.

It gets a little old, especially when they feel compelled to link everything that pisses them off.

[atrich]

Max Power, on 31 March 2010 - 07:37 AM, said:

Seems to be a cadre of people these days surfing place like The Spectator and Newsmax looking for their daily fix of outrage.

It gets a little old, especially when they feel compelled to link everything that pisses them off.

And how DARE they take over your computer and force you to click on those links. What NERVE?!?!

[Carl Spackler]

Max Power, on 31 March 2010 - 07:37 AM, said:

Seems to be a cadre of people these days surfing place like The Spectator and Newsmax looking for their daily fix of outrage.

It gets a little old, especially when they feel compelled to link everything that pisses them off.

Course people wouldn't have to post this non-porn material if they could trust the effing media to actually report on it.

Let's face it, there's a couple of Big F##king deals in there...

1 - the writedowns
2 - the warning to the WH that this would be one effect of the legislation
3 - the WH ignores the warning
4 - and accuses the CEO's of lying
5 - the WH accuses the writedowns as being politically motivated
6 - the WH calls these CEO's and threatens them
7 - A congressman (or weasel, by the looks of him) decides to haul them in front of a committee for following the law
(is #7 an attempt to scare other companies into breaking the law by not writing down based on the tax change?)

so who heard about this story on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC or CBS?

[Max Power]

atrich, on 31 March 2010 - 08:46 AM, said:

And how DARE they take over your computer and force you to click on those links. What NERVE?!?!

It's just an opinion. No one forced you to read or comment on mine either.

[ShortStory]

SAD how some just suck Bammys dick because! LMAO!!!