No (M)(B)(Tr)illionaire Left Behind
During lunch today, I had the opportunity misfortune of watching Bush give shout-outs to the hopeless, underprivileged dividend tax payers of this nation, as he toted his latest tax cut. During. A. Time. Of. WAR! (sorry, trying to hold it together here).
The Tax Policy Center, a nonprofit sect of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, estimated that 80% of the tax savings would go to the top 10% of American earners, and that almost 1/5 of the benefits will go to the top one-tenth of 1 percent (see chart, lower left).
To get a visual of how small .1% is, click the image below, and maximize the size of your browser window. The area shaded in red is one tenth of one percent of the entire blue bar (And you thought Marist College degrees were worthless!).
What is the Bush Media Tolerance you might ask? It’s an index I have devised to gauge how long you can observe President Bush speak through any medium – whether it be on the radio, television, or in print – before you absolutely have to turn off said medium because you’re near the breaking point of stress, anger or anxiety.
To figure out your own BMT grab a stop watch, and put one of W’s speeches directly in front of your face (if you don’t have one available, just go here and click the video on the right) .
Start the watch at W’s first word, and keep it running until you can no longer stand it. It’s like the David Blaine stunt in which he held his breath underwater as long as he could, right before passing out. When you’re ready to put your fist through the TV, stop the watch, look at the time, and you now have your BMT number.
Mine is at about 17 seconds, and here is the exact piece of the transcript that did it for me today:
“I'm proud to be up here with Vice President Cheney. I couldn't have picked a better person to be the Vice President of the United States. (Applause.)”
My remote somehow found its way flying across the room, end over end, and I had to continue with my workout. Luckily, I'll have almost enough money from the Bush tax cut to buy another one.
What’s your BMT?
Oh, and this just in - Denny Hastert explains why people with lower incomes don't get a tax break:
"Well, folks, if you earn $40,000 a year and have a family of two, you don't pay any taxes. So you probably, if you don't pay any taxes, you are not going to get a big tax cut."
No shit? I have some surprising news for a couple of my friends then. It's the liberals who are elitist, right?
The Tax Policy Center, a nonprofit sect of the Urban Institute and the Brookings Institution, estimated that 80% of the tax savings would go to the top 10% of American earners, and that almost 1/5 of the benefits will go to the top one-tenth of 1 percent (see chart, lower left).
To get a visual of how small .1% is, click the image below, and maximize the size of your browser window. The area shaded in red is one tenth of one percent of the entire blue bar (And you thought Marist College degrees were worthless!).
What is the Bush Media Tolerance you might ask? It’s an index I have devised to gauge how long you can observe President Bush speak through any medium – whether it be on the radio, television, or in print – before you absolutely have to turn off said medium because you’re near the breaking point of stress, anger or anxiety.To figure out your own BMT grab a stop watch, and put one of W’s speeches directly in front of your face (if you don’t have one available, just go here and click the video on the right) .
Start the watch at W’s first word, and keep it running until you can no longer stand it. It’s like the David Blaine stunt in which he held his breath underwater as long as he could, right before passing out. When you’re ready to put your fist through the TV, stop the watch, look at the time, and you now have your BMT number.
Mine is at about 17 seconds, and here is the exact piece of the transcript that did it for me today:
“I'm proud to be up here with Vice President Cheney. I couldn't have picked a better person to be the Vice President of the United States. (Applause.)”
My remote somehow found its way flying across the room, end over end, and I had to continue with my workout. Luckily, I'll have almost enough money from the Bush tax cut to buy another one.
What’s your BMT?
Oh, and this just in - Denny Hastert explains why people with lower incomes don't get a tax break:
"Well, folks, if you earn $40,000 a year and have a family of two, you don't pay any taxes. So you probably, if you don't pay any taxes, you are not going to get a big tax cut."
No shit? I have some surprising news for a couple of my friends then. It's the liberals who are elitist, right?
posted by Jeremy at 8:19 AM
11 Comments:
i never had any tolerance to speak of. i didn't watch him on the campaign trail in 1999 and i couldn't stomach him after he had "won" the election. i have never acknowledged that he was my president and i have never watched a televised speech, listened to a word that came out of his mouth(intentionally) and barely read what he says in print. i just assume that in any given situation he will: 1) lie, 2) mis-speak or 3) lie. as for the tax cuts for the wealthy- par for the course. they are only out to make the rich richer. they don't give a flying fuck about anyone else.
My BMT is ZERO. I agree exactly w/betmo. Don't watch, can't watch. Predictable. Unbelievably predictable. It's nauseating.
Brian - you get the award for "first person to ever use the word 'dang' on my site." I'll check that guitar shit out in a bit..
Betmo and Mary, well said and I totally agree. I guess I'm only able to handle him in print now...video/audio, it's way to much. I want to rip someone's head off when I hear his voice.
Glenda - I work for a telecom company based out of Boston MA...we do more telecom in the Northeast US than any other carrier other than VZ, but we do businesses only.
In fact as I write this, I'm in the middle of turning up someone's T1 in Portland...thankfully I can multi-task :-)
As I told my Rep. Bilirakis, this tax relief is immoral.
If I knew it was going to be this kind of party, I would have dipped my balls in the envelope going to Andover.
They marginalize the people in this country daily.
I'm so disgusted with the entire DC crowd except Murtha and Russ Feingold.
What a fucking shame! Pardon my `FED'-up "English"! That chart or pic I enlarged was the same size as Bush's intelect and not even the size of my "peace" of the fucking pie! I got up on the other side of my bed! :>)
Bullshit to Hastert that they don't pay any taxes. It is deducted from their checks! Is he saying that all people with a income of 40k who have two kids get a full refund? I doubt that.
BTM, about 3 seconds!!!!
Ick, that SOB was traipsing around the border, eyeballing it like he'd never seen it before, (thought he was a Texican) and I had the sound off and still couldn't stand it.
He had his shirt sleeves rolled up and for some reason it made me want to puke. Ick.
Watching him is always a bad experience. Like the devide between rich and poor isn't wide enough? He should listen to his daddy's opinion of voodoo economics.
Hope you have a great weekend. Becky's in Italy already. Very excited for her.
Haha Ben what the HELL are you talking about?
PoetryMan, that language not only gets pardoned, it's encouraged here.
For example, see potty mouth Karena :-)
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