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Promises and water it down. we have a platform we were elected on, we will do that and if you want to be on board great, if not we will fight you. is he leaving? will president obama stick around? the leadership poised to topple obama s pillars, might be why he is racing to capitol hill to huddle with democrats figuring out how to save obamacare and why the president over the weekend was taking a victory lap, his version of the last eight years. speech eight years ago our economy teetered on the brick of depression. eight years later you have told a different story. we turned recession into recovery, poverty has fallen, incomes are rising. almost every country on earth sees america as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago. keep america moving forward is a task with also all of us. as i m prepared to take on the ....
I am an upper income taxpayer and i don t notice that my taxes are particularly low. they re frighteningly high and unfortunately they have to be higher to make up for excess spending, but right now, right now, if the economy, em treem economy teetered let s not have any changes, let s keep it steady as she goes until things settle down a little bit. neil: in the meantime, adam lashinsky, i think it s important in the argument who pays what on what. the average income. 250,000 and over crowd, by the irs tax tables themselves, still paying a rate that is double, that is double what those in lower rates are paying. and leaving aside who is getting what with capital gains, the average rate is doubled. not just the intake, it s the rate itself, then what point is it to argue about fairness when you know, and this is anyone arguing this, that close to half of american households pay no income taxes at all, leaving where is the fairness in ....
sean: there you have it. 64 days to go until voters can turn the country in the right direction. i can t get here soon enough, not for the struggling economy. numbers for the second quarter economic growth have now in. and just 1.6%, that s worse than previously expected. not at all in tune with the administration recovery summer tour. president obama responded to the frustrating figures today. even got in another jab yet at president bush. it s been nearly two years since the terrible september when our economy teetered on the break of collapse. at the time, no one knew how deep the recession would go. we knew it took a decade to dig the hole we re in. i would would take longer to ....
sean: there you have it. 64 days to go until voters can turn the country in the right direction. i can t get here soon enough, not for the struggling economy. numbers for the second quarter economic growth have now in. and just 1.6%, that s worse than previously expected. not at all in tune with the administration recovery summer tour. president obama responded to the frustrating figures today. even got in another jab yet at president bush. it s been nearly two years since the terrible september when our economy teetered on the break of collapse. at the time, no one knew how deep the recession would go. we knew it took a decade to dig the hole we re in. i would would take longer to dig our way out. ....
That terrible september when our economy teetered on the brink of collapse. at the time no one knew just how deep the recession would go or the havoc that it would wreak on families, businesses across this country. what we did know was that it took nearly a decade what we [laughter] how we doing on sound, guys? is it still going to the press? okay. what we did know was that it was going to take nearly a decade in order can you guys still hear us? let me try this one more time. what we did know was that it took nearly a decade to dig the hole that we re in and that it would take longer than any of us would like to climb our way out. and while we have taken a series of measures and come a long way since then, the fact is that too ....