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Daniel Loeb Letter to Obama Supporters
Posted by: guruek
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Date: December 11, 2010 12:25AM
The following is a letter sent yesterday to a small group of Obama supporters by Thirdpoint's Daniel Loeb:
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Posted by: davethebooker@hotmail.com
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Date: December 11, 2010 02:06PM
Run for president Mr. Loeb and see how you do , I suspect you would see it is a rather difficult job being president. After all when your beholding to all the interest groups who supported you , there will be a tendancy to wobble a bit. So Obama is wobbleing a bit who wouldn't. Weebles wobble but they dont fall down.
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Posted by: paulwitt
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Date: December 11, 2010 03:37PM
Many politicians are idealogues, have no common sense, and are inflexible. The only hostages are the American people. You certainly don't want them managing your money, which unfortunately, they are. 250k is rich? How about 5 million instead. 55% tax rate on estates? How about 35%. How about an energy policy? I don't know if they know this but energy is a very large input cost in everything we do.
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Posted by: paulwitt
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Date: December 11, 2010 03:47PM
And we have another guy who writes tax laws, but just doesn't understand them. Or a major piece of legislation is passed and the person in charge says we will have to figure out what's in it after it passes. People in the private sector get fired for this stuff.
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Posted by: Hester1
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Date: December 11, 2010 07:06PM
Finally, someone finally sticking up for the unfortunate and persecuted richest 2%. It's about time Obama and the middle class get their boot off of the throat of millionaires and billionaires. (sarcasm)
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Posted by: paulwitt
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Date: December 11, 2010 08:31PM
Another thing that wasn't done - a war tax. How can someone think about fighting wars without paying for them?
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Posted by: lmontgom
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Date: December 12, 2010 09:20AM
I wonder what kind of Kool-Aid this fool is drinking! The criminal class most responsible for the worldwide financial meltdown -- people like this ostensible writer -- keep drawing down the treasury for their "creative" instruments made of smoke, mirror but mainly thin air while millions of folks they think are too dirty to even acknowledge live in horror of losing their tenuous grasp on a foothold. Wake up, Wall Street. We're fed up with your shenanigans. Yes, the wealthy should pay higher taxes, and all -- make that ALL -- should pay the full percentage on Social Security (both the employers' and the individuals') on all their holdings. They don't invest in American industry, so let's make sure they help take care of "ordinary" Americans whom they've sold down the river. Go Sen. Bernie Sanders; filibuster the "deal" on taxes and let's tax the top 2% to the hilt.
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Posted by: BigBlue720
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Date: December 12, 2010 12:02PM
And I thought an American president was supposed to represent ALL of us and lead. Instead we have a doctrinaire socialist who is a proponent of class warfare. Thank goodness the bulk of Americans are still middle of the road and took back one part of Congress in the election from these nut job radicals. Chris Christie for president!
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Posted by: brianbook
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Date: December 14, 2010 04:39PM
Bush said that the war he chose (many think unjustly) would cost $200 billion or less. In fact, Bush was so confident in this estimate that he fired those that disagreed. The Iraq war has now cost American taxpayers $1 trillion & the number is increasing. Despite this cost, Bush refused to raise taxes. As a matter of justice, maybe those making more than $1 million/year (especially those that elected Bush), should now pay higher taxes. It is my understanding their sons & daughters did not contribute military duty, & they can now best afford higher taxes while our economy struggles with > 10% unemployment. Our goal should be a just & peaceful society, in which all contribute & flourish.
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Posted by: Mick
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Date: December 14, 2010 10:47PM
Dear Mr DL, I recommend Robert Reich's recent 'aftershock' to your kind attention. In this Financial Crisis we are re-tracing the Great Depression in cause and in effect. Unless you've been living under a rock you know first-hand that we have arrived here after 30 or so years of systematically undoing the New Deal and concentrating more and more wealth at the upper end of the income spectrum. According to Reich, in 1970 the richest 1% of the people took home 9% of the national income. By 2007 that same 1% took in 23.5% of US national income. He goes on to say that it isn't a mere coincidence that the last time income was that concentrated was 1928. The book has a lot more detail on this than I can repeat here. It saddens me to tell you, Mr DL, that views like the one in your letter are part of the problem in this country, not part of the solution. I agree with Reich that people like you have a choice to make: You can either continue to take a disproportionate share of the nations income and de-facto remove it from the economic cycle for your private use. There is no stopping you: People like you control the wheels and the switches in D.C. well enough - until, perhaps, an unemployed, hungry and raging mob takes things in its own hands. Or you can begin to see the wisdom in sharing more of the earnings that this society makes as a whole. And thus make life live-able again for the individuals that would otherwise end up being in that angry mob. The choice is yours alone to make. I pray you chose wisely. And soon.
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