The whole list is just conflation.
In a manner of speaking yes. Obama was locked in to spending and slow growth as well as the bailouts because of the Bush administration policies, (and the resultant crash). What makes that conflation is saying "Obama Watch". Why didn't they say 2008 0r 2009 through 2011? Because whoever designed it wanted it to be provacative. Thus the conflation. I am just trying to point this stuff out to you, so you don't have to be another knee jerk, love muscle in America's body politic. Don't shoot the messenger.
Next point: Morality, and paying taxes. This point Romney made that evey one is talking about is the most effective propaganda in the world, and I can point out who is their bitches, right now. Yup, conflation rears it's ugly head again. Did you ever buy a car? Do you know how much traditionally goes in to style, and appeal, versus fuel efficiency and saftey? It is the same kind of racket.
When you talk about a family of five, making about 50K per year, you are talking about a wash with federal income tax. They would be on the list. But they pay payroll, state, local, excise, sales, ssi, medicare and every other tax. If they have kids and a mortgage, they do pretty good at the end of the year on their federal income tax owed.
Those that make less than 20K are a chunk of that group, and they have had a major reduction in what they have available to them. Before you all talk about the morality of them paying taxes, look at how hard they are working, live in their domiciles, and check their IQ's and mental, behavioral and physical health issues.
I have a vet I support that still is having a hard time sleeping inside. See his short term memory is shot, because of the piece of his jaw bone the was propelled through that part of his brain after the IED went off. He likes sleeping outside, because he finally admitted to me that he never forgets the stars. (I cried.)
Much of the rest is the elderly. Studies consistently show that 20 percent even with SSI and programs currently go hungry at some point during the week. Now I took care of my mother in the two years before she died. It would be acurate to characterize that she couldn't lift a can of soup to open it. But she never went without a meal. She died on Vetern's Day '10 just prior to her 93rd birthday; I still have family members that criticize me for moving in to take care of her. I suppose that they wanted to institutionalize her. I checked on the price for if she got worse. It was about 6.5K per month. I saved Medicare, because I wanted her to live in her own home. She made it all but the last few days when we moved her to Hospice . . .
So I think talking about the morality of these people paying taxes is conflation. If not it is socio-pathological thought at its most refined. Are there some people working the system? Undoubtedly. But saying their is widespread fraud, is like saying there is widespread voter fraud, it is more unsubstantiated inuendo; propaganda introduced to add to conflation. With conflation, justification of more robbery and mayhem.
Finally, as proof, imagine this: adjust the tax rates so that people at the bottom would pay taxes, lets say 20 %. In fact, let's make it a 20 % flat tax across the board, from the lowest to the highest, including the corporations. Who would pay the most in terms of raw dollars, and who would have the biggest increase. Figure it out. The results would absolutely shock you.
