Tea Baggers and other "conservatives" yap like the situation we are in is somehow the result of liberal policies.  Perhaps all these people suffer some sort of brain damage?  What was the state of the economy before the Bush administration?  Answer:  Quite good.  A diminishing debt, budget surpluses and gasp....all the "liberal policies" currently in effect except for Obamacare which has not yet even been implemented!  NO ONE was claiming they had no opportunity to get rich, or that the country was going to hell or anything other than randy Bill Clinton should be impeached for his....what exactly was it all about at first....White Water...which morphed into an adultery inquisition.  Basically just dirty politics for no other reason than to get a Republican dominated administration. 

So, that pre-Bush, pre-tea bag, pre-Nordquist economic situation was OK, right?  What happened?  Answer:  Conservatives got control of the entire administration.  They killed all those "burdensome regulations" they claim was holding down the economy though there was no indication that they were doing so.  They spent money on stupid activities like the Iraq war making all the saber rattling morons happy but screwed alot of good people through extended deployments so that they lost their regular jobs, income and sometimes their family.   Then there is the unacceptable number of people who were otherwise affected by a  loss to their family so Bush could prance around in a flight suit while Cheney quietly satisfied himself with shooting hunting partners.

As the "new, free economy" was legislated by the conservatives, a select bunch of their "friends"...those that contributed mightily to their reelection coffers....utilized the "relief" from burdensome regulations to line their pockets outrageously and set the stage for the near collapse of the monetary system.  Do you "conservatives" even know what Glass Steagle was?  Debt????  We were all assured by these crooks in office that it was not important.  The debt doubled.  Not the first time that happened when across the board tax cuts were instituted....the Great Communicator and now understood to be mentally incompetent, Ronald Reagen presided over a near tripling of the national debt.  But you yapping conservative jackasses don't bother to acknowledge that....maybe Rush Limbaugh told you Reagenomics was a big success.  Did you people know that the unemployment rate EXPLODED under Reagan??? NO???  Look it up you ignorant, lazy yappers....LOOK UP THE FIGURES..

One moron here posted that Obama is responsible for much of the increased debt.  If I could suddenly put you in a car going 100MPH and straigh at a tree, what would be your options?  Crash into the tree or swerve, likely rolling the car.  That was the choices Obama faced.  The inertia of the debt AND the economic panic made a less than good outcome inevitable.  Had McCain and his idiot running mate won, the situation would be NO DIFFERENT and possibly worse because more opportunities for the high rollers to suck money out of the economy would have been created while legislation to strip the average person of his benefits and protections as a US citizen would have been passed to make up for the revenue deficits from the tax cuts.

Grover Nordquist is a wannabe power broker.  He has made money on his "position".  Anyone that has half a brain and is willing to look at the actual results of policies like the ones Nordquist, Cantor, Ryan et al have put into action, would conclude they are conduction a national scam....and they are.

With out hope of changing your feeble minds, all I can say is you better hope you don't get the policies that you ask for.  The result on the economy will be so severe that conservatives will no longer be able to "defend" what they have done and the backlaI will have consevatives hiding from lynch mobs. 

So without further ado, here are eight corporate subsidies in the fiscal cliff bill that you haven’t heard of and I am sure...they all benefit the average American citizien.  This whole fiscal cliff deal is nothing more than a joke, an embarassment and once again proves how corrupt our system is and of course Wall St. "soars" on the great news.  All I can say...is bullsh*t!!!

1) Help out NASCAR - Sec 312 extends the “seven year recovery period for motorsports entertainment complex property”, which is to say it allows anyone who builds a racetrack and associated facilities to get tax breaks on it. This one was projected to cost $43 million over two years.

2) A hundred million or so for Railroads - Sec. 306 provides tax credits to certain railroads for maintaining their tracks. It’s unclear why private businesses should be compensated for their costs of doing business. This is worth roughly $.

3) Disney’s Gotta Eat - Sec. 317 is “Extension of special expensing rules for certain film and television productions”. It’s a relatively straightforward subsidy to , and according to the Joint Tax Committee, was projected to cost $150m for 2010 and 2011.

4) Help a brother mining company out – Sec. 307 and Sec. 316 offer tax incentives for miners to safety equipment and train their employees on mine safety. Taxpayers shouldn’t have to bribe mining companies to not kill their workers.

5) Subsidies for Goldman Sachs Headquarters – Sec. 328 extends “tax exempt financing for York Liberty Zone,” which was a program to provide post-9/11 recovery . Rather than going to small businesses affected, however, this was, , “little more than a subsidy for fancy Manhattan apartments and office towers for Goldman Sachs and Bank of America Corp.” Michael Bloomberg himself actually thought the program was excessive, so that’s saying something. According to David Cay Johnston’s The Fine Print, Goldman got $1.6 billion in tax free financing for its new massive headquarters through Liberty Bonds.

6) $9B Off-shore financing loophole for banks – Sec. 322 is an “Extension of the Active Financing Exception to Subpart F.” Very few tax loopholes have a trade association, but this one does. This strangely worded provision basically allows American corporations such as banks and manufactures to engage in certain lending practices and not pay taxes on income earned from it. According to , supporters of the bill include GE, Caterpillar, and JP Morgan. Steve Elmendorf, super-lobbyist, has been paid $80,000 in 2012 alone to lobby on the

7) Tax credits for foreign subsidiaries – Sec. 323 is an extension of the “Look-through treatment of payments between related CFCs under foreign personal holding company income rules.” This gibberish sounding provision cost $1.5 billion from 2010 and 2011, and the US Chamber loves it. It’s a provision that allows US multinationals to not pay taxes on income earned by companies they own abroad.

8) Bonus Depreciation, R&D Tax Credit – These are well-known corporate boondoggles. The research tax credit was projected to cost $8B for 2010 and 2011, and the depreciation provisions were projected to cost about $110B for those two years, with some of that made up in later years.

Conveniently, the Joint Committee on Taxation in 2010 did an analysis of what many of these extenders cost. You can find that report .

These bears are missing the point.The market hates uncertainty.This rally was

overdue.Now, thursday the market will take back some of it`s gains and then it`s

off to the races.

AKI......Agreeing with you may have did....But the Markets are totally predictable ???

Tell me so, because I am greedy..