April 10th, 2012
08:13 AM ET
The president is going to Florida President Obama heads to Florida to tout the Buffett rule, a concept that he’s been promoting since before the State of the Union. He’ll head to Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton to give a speech about the economy where he’ll continue to push a tax increase for people making over a million dollars a year. The vote in the Senate is in less than a week and while some say the bill won’t make it very far, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney says the vote will put senators on the record, "[T]hat's what votes do, they put Senators on record and we will see how senators handle that,....maybe those on the side of the fence, perhaps those who have been opposed to it in the past, will rethink their position, consider the fundamental fairness of the legislation and vote yes." He’ll also attend three different fundraisers while in Florida. Full schedule after the jump
8:00AM Pool Call Time 9:10AM THE PRESIDENT departs the White House en route Joint Base Andrews 9:25AM THE PRESIDENT departs Joint Base Andrews en route West Palm Beach, Florida 11:45AM THE PRESIDENT arrives West Palm Beach, Florida Palm Beach International Airport 1:15PM THE PRESIDENT delivers remarks at a campaign event Private Residence, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida 2:55PM THE PRESIDENT delivers remarks on the economy at Florida Atlantic University Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida 6:00PM THE PRESIDENT delivers remarks at a campaign event Westin Diplomat Hotel, Hollywood, Florida 8:05PM THE PRESIDENT delivers remarks at a campaign event Private Residence, Golden Beach, Florida 9:20PM THE PRESIDENT departs Hollywood, Florida, en route Joint Base Andrews Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport 11:30PM THE PRESIDENT arrives Joint Base Andrews Out-of-Town Travel Pool Coverage 11:45PM THE PRESIDENT arrives the White House South Lawn Briefing Schedule |
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CNN – where is the story about the thugs attacking the white guy? Where is Sharpton and Jackson on this issue? Where is the president on this?
All this tells me, is that you are a follower of Klan news sources.
All that tells me is you're a racist.
Jean – after all of this time I've been thinking you are not a racist, now it appears I was wrong. And yes, I know you are a person of color.
If you saw the video I assume you would be as disgusted as I am over this. These thugs should be brought to justice.
Onlookers laughed and did nothing to help as a man was beaten, stripped and robbed on the street in Baltimore.
The attack, which police say happened on March 18 after St. Patrick's Day celebrations, was captured by at least two cameras. Video of it went viral.
"Not only did they rob him, but they attempted to strip him of his dignity. They tore his clothes off; they mocked him. That behavior just will not be tolerated," said Detective Nicole Monroe with the Baltimore police.
Jean, he wasn't black so I understand how it meant nothing to people like you who only look at issues of race.
gosh and these real racists attack you...just for saying this.
We know why the Prez is going to Florida. He is secretly scouting out a place to retire to in January !!! Maybe he can organize those Orange Pickers. Ya think ???
So sad for you since he won't be retiring any time soon. My bet is Hawaii.
Well we will have to wait but the Tea Leaves are indicating Romney will be elected in November. One other indicator is only Republicians are elected on the 6Th of November. Now seriously who wants the job with all the problems the "Inmates" have left us. No matter who gets elected in November all the problems in the country will still exist. So be frugal and be conservative!!
My guess is Illinois – he like the politics and taxes there.
Looks like John is the first one in the idiot line
Roger, I know your parents didn't have the skills to actually bring up a child, but what the heck are you trolling about?
John, if you need an explanation for that one, YOU ARE AN IDIOT!!
Ray E. number two in idiotsville
did they kill him and not get charged?
Did you see the video?
Did anyone see a George Zimmerman's video? It is not about seeing a video the point is were they charged? The question you didn't answer because yes they unlike Zimmerman were charged.
Wrong. Even though you can clearly see their faces as they were beating the man, you can clearly see their faces as they were kicking the man, you can clearly see their faces as they stripped the man while he was out on the ground, they have not been arrested and nobody is talking about it. The incident is over a month old.
and Jean...you moron, if they could have they would have charged him...this Homie struck the wrong guy and that is on him.
Jean... hey there... as I have a daughter in the field of law, she did it on her own without my help, it is common practice not to press charges until the facts are known if self defense is the claim... Funny Mr. Zimmerman did not run and voluntarily turned himself in when charges were filed. Sounds like a real bad dude there. Funny the father or what ever his relationship is said that they would not be satisfied until Mr. Zimmerman was arrested, charged, went to trial and was convicted... Can you say kangaroo court?
Paul Ryan says we need to stop all of the tax expenditures so that we can lower rates for everybody – revenue neutral. But what he does not say is that if we go revenue neutral, then our basic social programs, as we know them, will have to go or be cut back substantially. He calls that "saving" them for the future. But what he proposes is not only "reform", it is fundamentally changing those systems in order to make those cuts. And the net result is that more money ends up in the hands of the top 2%, and less in the hands of retirees, the disabled, and most working people. There is very little deficit management involved in Ryan's budget, but there is a whole lot of "starve the beast". And many of the regulatory protections our people enjoy will disappear.
President Obama also callls for closing those tax expenditures, but he calls for higher taxes on the wealthiest Americans as well. His goal is not a revenue neutral result, he wants to begin to balance the budget and get the deficits under control. Fixing Social Security and fixing Medicare is not difficult, they need some tinkering – means testing, eligibility requirements, or a higher threshold income for taxes. The president is not about to throw the baby out with the bath water. The net result is that more mney ends up in the hands of the "99%" and less ends up in the hands of the "1%", and we still make substantial progress toward deficit reduction. In the process we preserve and protect our capitalist economic system from those among us who are driven by aggressive greed.
The choice is very clear. And I trust those finding retiremnent in their future will include the greedy ones.
Ryan has a plan. BO does not. How do you have details of a BO plan when it doesn't exist? Also, the dems will never agree with means testing or eligibility requirements.
"The president is not about to throw out the baby with the bathwater". He already did this w/Obamacare and GM.
What you neglected to say was Ryans plan calls for doing away with loop holes to offset the tax cuts. You also do not mention BO taking billions out of Medicare as part of Obamacare.
But when he is asked specifics about those loopholes he says : "We will worry about that later" Because we are not idiots, we do know what that means. If you need and explanation for that YOU ARE AN IDIOT!
I see where Bush wishes his name was not connected with the Bush era tax cuts. LOL! For the rest of us we wish his name wasn't connected with 8 years of epic failure.
Ryan's plan is just a repeat of Bush's epic failure...or a repeat of the same old chant of give everything to the rich guys so it can't trickle anywhere.
At least Ryan has a plan, unlike the person in the WH... That is the same old from libs. And, once again, Bush has been gone for 3.5 years. You libs think he was the worst president ever, but yet he is the standard you hold BO to?
Jean, it seems all the dems can do now is divide.
You dems keep saying "give everything to the rich". You do understand we are talking about THEIR MONEY, not the governmnets, that the governmnet keeps trying to get its hands on – right? It is amazing that BO and this administration has wasted BILLIONS of $$$ of our money and you libs keep talking about stealing more money from people who actually worked for it.
One more thing Jean. I have never worked for a poor person. Therefore, it stands to reason that rich people really do create jobs. So you can stop the party line of "trickle down doesn't work", unless you think poor people and governmnet actually create jobs, which they do not.
The President has a plan sorry that it doesn't agree with yours...but yes... poor people do create jobs millions of them for a fact.
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2012/04/10/Obama-Claims-the-Buffett-Tax-Will-Create-Jobs.aspx#page1
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/finally-rich-american-destroys-fiction-rich-people-create-152949393.html
http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=26457
Rich People Don't Create Jobs
If tax cuts for the rich created jobs we should currently be drowning in jobs and not have an 8.2% unemployment rate. After all the rich have been given every tax break for the last 11.5 years and all it has done is wreck the economy. Where are the jobs that should have been created by our current lowest tax rate for the last half century?
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/taxes-at-an-all-time-low-deficits-at-an-all-time-high/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/28/bush-tax-cuts-extending_n_662743.html
All you are doing John is blowing the same old GOP smoke and mirrors. Yours is a load of the same-old same-old that doesn't fly.
Jean, let us try to get on the same page. Poor people create millions of jobs? Tell us what 1 is?
I see you listed Buffet? How do you feel about him not paying taxes he owes? How do you feel about him fighting the governmnet about taxes they claim he owes? Say what you will, but rich people and big companies create jobs.
Do you dems all agree w/Jean that poor people create millions of jobs? I didn't think so.
3.5 years of this administration Jean. All the key indicators are worse than when BO took office. You have ignored my question so I will ask it again. When the next administration enters office and all key indicators are worse than when BO entered office, as they are now. Do you feel that BO is leaving the next president in better shape even though ALL the key indicators i.e. unemployment, high food prices, high gas prices, etc. are worse than when he entered office?
you nut cases still Bash Bush...just exactly what has O'butthead done in 3 1/2 years....NOTHING!
yup for the record lets see where all the senators stand. Then we know who we are voting for .
I believe that is great that it puts Senators on the record. Here is whats next that will strenghten This great Presidents real vision of the National Security of this Great Nation. They are all going to be CALLED OUT on whether or not 100 % of the supply of The keysone will STAY in The US or Keep going right from Canada to other countries. Mittens has been bought & paid for by the Big oil companies & is lobbbing hard for their profits for the supply to come down from the North & 100 % to leave The US. Again Mr Personality has been bought from the Koch Bros & Rove & Big oil. He doesnt give a damn about the struggles of The workin men & woman while he gets 12 elevators for his 12 homes for his 12 cars. He is as UN- American as China & Iran when it Comes to trying to Surpress the votes & voices of American. He knows his only chance of winning is CHEATING. Well there is a little group called Color of change that will prove that he what he is. Willard honestly is directly telling Rove & the kochs to Rig this election by making it hard for the disabled, Hispanics, the elderlly, the poor, minorities & as many middle class voices that dont have the proper ID for them to cast their choice.
More class warefare, really? I know you hate him, but he actually earns his own money. The things you list that he has he paid for (a concept libs do not understand). Maybe you should look at the billions of our money, working peoples money, that BO has thrown down the toilet.
Do you libs understand the difference between people making their own money and the governmnet giving OUR MONEY away for the types of boondoggles we have seen from this administration.
Its guys like this draft dodgin Bishop Romney that are bankrupting our Country. His lobbying groups fought hard for his 13.8 %. 13.8 %, yes 13.8 %. ARE YOU KIDDUNG ME!! He spent a decade developing & running a mormon firm called Bain Capitol that fired hundreds of thousands of workin folks while sending their jobs to CHINA. Yea thats a guy who cares for the US economy. While doing this he Raped the US TREASURY for Millions & Millions. He by far the most MARVELOUSLY earmark taker in history. I save the 02 games. No you didnt Mitt, The 750 Million from the US Government did!!! How bout those secret swiss banlk accounts? Sure Mittens isnt hidin anything. Russia is our biggest Enemy. WHat a WHACKJOB. The man is a total fake & dont give a damn about the middle class.
@D,
1. Biden didn't service either yet that was good enough for the the vice presidency. In fact, Biden recieved more deferments (5) than Romney (3). So by your theory, Biden's a draft dodger too? But gets a pass because he is a liberal?
2. Speaking of sending jobs to China, ever hear of a man by the name of Jeff Immelt? He is the CEO of GE and is packing up an entire division for a move from Wisconsin to China. You mad at him? Oh by the way, Jeff Immelt is one of Obama's Czar. Hold on to your hat.... HE IS THE JOB CZAR and is sending an entire GE division from the U.S. to China. Where the outrage? Perhaps you're just hypocritical instead?
3. As Romney was in charge of the Olympics, yes he saved the games! Otherwise it woud have been an embarassment to the country!
4. What else you got?
Did Obama even register for the draft? I think not. Nice job Steveo, I don't think it will connect w/d, but nice job.
Thanks John
D, give it up man, the book you got from the DNC does not cover their sides slip ups....
So funny–he is promoting the Buffett Rule while having a 10,000 dollar a plate dinner in Florida, hosted by Tookes II- A guy that is on the Board of Directors for BBA Aviation–a multi- million dollar company that makes it's money selling private jets to those fat cat bankers,it's the #1 refueler in the world ( with fuel from those mean old oil companies, andthat also sells jet engines to the US government for war-what part of the word HYPOCRITE don't you understand!
April, Halliburton sounds a bell for you?
He is going to Florida for a 10,000 dollar a plate fund raiser hosted by millionaire bankers and spinning the story as him promoting the Buffet rule-TOO FUNNY–How gullible are his supporters?
Damn, thats right on my path to buy drugs, there's gonna be a ton of traffic. Damn Obama!
Yo Steveo Tabby Naclke, where you at with your Lds self? Game on.
Sorry D
I'm not a Mormon! Indeed 'It's time to play the game". Looks like its your move, Junior!
CNN going to follow NBC's and MSLSD's lead and manufature more racist news?
john......your such a BORING HATER. you need to get off of the Presidents lap and get on Steveo's......What would you do all day if your did'nt have this blog to complain on? You're time must be getting short so I suggest you get you're heart right before meeting you're maker. Sour puss!
Sorry but my lap is reserved for my wife and dogs!
You are a very sad person. You need to get help man.
@Lionel Patrick,
What the heck are you talking about? Your mind in the gutter? IF you are married, your wife does not sit or your lap? IF you have small dogs, they don't sit or your lap? Again, what are you talking about?
Still waiting for that explaination Lionel!
Steveo... you will never get an answer from him... He as already moved on to other people that he can drop one liners on!
Thanks Bill,
I really didn't expect one. Just looking to see if Lionel would man up! He didn't! Another hit and run blogging!
That's right Jean..all it IS is about listening to the KKK output from whatever...whichever ou tput. When we stand up for our own, it all of a sudden becomes a no-no! It's labeled as racism...better than that, 'reverse racism'!! How assinine an attitude. Do they in their little silly, and obviously little stupid, 'crazy' minds believe that we shouldn't FINALLY be standing up to the 'powers that be' for one another, and even when we trust and believe we are right?? Granted black or white!...and especially when we believe we are right?? TALK IS CHEAP and that's all we've been getting from the Rethuglicans is a bunch of 'blabbering'!! Their biggest mission and message is to 'Make Barack H Obama a One Term President'!! Are they completely gone 'beserk'? Have they totally gone 'out to lunch'??? What in the world other than 'crazy' is wrong with these fools???!!!? Bye-Bye Santorum and Romney!! You two have wasted a whole lot of time, effort, and money!! Bye!! Newt needs to give up the 'ghost' next!!
No we have not ... but that rant raises serious questiond about you liz
The Stock Market is tanking again. Not good news for the Economy. But Obama wants to Tax the Hel* out of the jobs providers. Real smart. Hope this year is better for you. And Re-Elect Obama !!!