A political action group is planning to picket Monday in Geneva as part of 162 "Fiscal Showdown" events nationwide asking legislators "to vote to raise taxes on the wealthy to fix the deficit."
MoveOn.org, one of the largest political action committees in the country, is making a local lobbying effort at 10 a.m. Monday, Dec. 10, at the Geneva office of Republican 14th District Congressman Randy Hultgren. The office is located at 1797 W. State St.
"Congress faces a fiscal choice—not a 'cliff'—about whether to end tax cuts for the rich or cut vital programs and delay tax extensions for working and middle class people," the MoveOn.org website says. "The GOP is holding us hostage again, and we could slide back into a recession if they win."
The group is asking local advocates to sign up for the gathering "to share our stories and let Congress know we won't settle for a bad deal."
"We voted to end tax cuts for the wealthy in November, not let Republicans push us back into a recession by standing in the way and demanding cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security," the website says. "We need to unite Senate Democrats against any cuts to those programs and put the heat on House Republicans for opposing extending tax breaks for 98 percent of us."
The lobbying effort also seeks:
- No cuts to Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security.
- Cut the bloated Pentagon budget.
- No cuts to our already tattered social safety net.
A local MoveOn member, identified as "Mary S.," is organizing the rally in Geneva.
"We need a massive crowd so that our elected officials and the local press get the message," the website suggests.
According to a CNN report, President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner met Sunday, but no major breakthroughs were made regarding the "fiscal cliff" decision facing Congress prior to the new year, when automatic tax hikes and spending cuts take effect.
In broad terms, Republicans say Democrats aren't willing to move on entitlement reform while Democrats say Republicans have refused to consider additional taxes on the wealthiest Americans.
"The latest news reports indicate that Republicans are still willing to raise taxes on working families by as much as $2,000, and are proposing devastating benefit cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid," the MoveOn website said.
John Walsh, educate yourself-$10 trillion deficit at end of bush Nobama increased by 60% in less than 4 years. With a dem congress. WAHHHHH, let's blame everything on Bush, spoken like a true Obama-ite.
Our fiscal problem's greatest origin came from two unfunded Bush/Republican tax cuts, two Bush/Republican unfunded wars and the single biggest expansion of the entitlements in over 40 years you dispise - the Medicare Prescription Drug program. NEVER in the history of the USA did the federal government cut taxes in time of war. But the Republicans and Bush did. Every other Congress increased taxes to fund war. Those actions are what put our nation in a Depression.
Money in our society is taxed at multiple levels. People want services and taxes and user fees are used to pay for them. Yes a cost of doing business and living in our modern society that you don't want to pay. Tough. If you invested in the S & P 500 during the Bush administraion, you would have lost money. if you had invested in the S & P 500 on the day President Obama took office, you'd have doubled that investment in less than 4 years. Yes, lets go off the "cliff." This is what the Republicans set up to happen. It's Congress, led by the Republican House that Randy Hulgtren serves, that has put you in whatever position you seem to be concerned about. You lose credibility by just posting odd stuff, like the CRA, which regulated red-lining and had nothing to do with the housing bubble. That housing bubble was caused by Republican legislation signed by Bush that degregulated the mortgage process so bankers could create mortgage backed financial derivatives I'm certain you can't comprehend. News to Jon, you lost the election. Get over it.
Better hide your kids...hide your wives.
Your "rationale" of taxation is equally absurd. Why should anyone pay more than their neighbor for the same services? Let's use the idiotic "percentage" argument. I make a million bucks, and, using all available deductions, pay 100,000 in taxes=an effective 10% rate. You, never achieving success in life, make $20,000 and pay $3000 in taxes, a higher percentage , but $97000 LESS than me. We live in the same community. We drive the same roads, get the same schools, get the same PD and FD protections. Rather than complain, you should be ecstatic that I don't call you a leach on society, failing to pay YOUR "fair share." Now, I have to eat my ribeye and enjoy an expensive bottle of wine and cigar while you open a can of ravioli. Knock yourself out with another ridiculous response, Bon apetite!
The CRA requires that each depository institution's record in helping meet the credit needs of its entire community be evaluated periodically. That record is taken into account in considering an institution's application for deposit facilities. Neither the CRA nor its implementing regulation gives specific criteria for rating the performance of depository institutions. Rather, the law indicates that the evaluation process should accommodate an institution's individual circumstances. Nor does the law require institutions to make high-risk loans that jeopardize their safety. To the contrary, the law makes it clear that an institution's CRA activities should be undertaken in a safe and sound manner. http://www.federalreserve.gov/communitydev/cra_about.htm I use logic and facts. Jon, you drink way too much RW kool-aid, Randy Hultgren must be service it up to you. He's part of the problem you have a problem with.
You know nothing about CRA, economics, history. I can take solace in the fact that your state-funded pension will soon be cut or done away w/ entirely, and you'll be greeting me at the door of Wal-Mart.
The protest was over the inaction of our Congressman, Randy Hultgtren. Hultrgen is part of the biggest "do-nothing Congress" in over 60 years. The phony "fiscal cliff" crisis has its origins as a result of incompetent Republican governance, and Hultren is the poster child for incompetence.
The protesters want to "save" all of these entitlements, while decreasing the defense budget. The blame is squarely on gay Barny Frank and his dem buddies who raided these funds. BTW, your brother must be proud to be a banker-what small businessman did he pull a loan from today?
You are full of RW talking points, aren't you? Yes, cut the defense budget. By all means. The Soviet Union is dead. Time for our democratic allies to pick up a bigger share of their security costs. Why should Japan, Korea and Germany get a free ride on US taxpayers? Bring our sons and daughters home from the war in Afghanastan. You may recall...the single biggest expansion of entitlements in the last 45 years. That would be the Medicare Prescription Drug Program - enacted in 2003 by a Republican Congress and signed into law by Geroge W. Bush, with no additional revenue (tax) to fund it. Do you recall? That was a bunch of goodies to buy votes for Republicans in 2003. Or don't you know your history. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9328-2005Feb8.html