Republicans in Retreat!

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It's a pizza night for a guy and his daughters and three days of heating oil for some one else, they are looking out for the common man.

If $40/mo is the difference between pizza night or not, you probably need to reassess your priorities.  Pizza is not inexpensive.

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This bad of a meltdown is just an unusual thing to see.  There's really no reason for anyone to be jazzed.  The "they" are only pushing their screwups a couple of months into the future.

If this gets pushed out, 2 months at a time, I wonder who will get the advantage in November.  

I just didn't want to have to donate more of my money to the waste that is government spending.  I've got more important things to do with it.

Pizza time?

[Townsend]

If $40/mo is the difference between pizza night or not, you probably need to reassess your priorities.  Pizza is not inexpensive.

Isn't it about $83 a month for every $50,000?

I bet that's a bunch more than just pizza money for many households in the states.

That's $1,000 a year for every $50k.

[Townsend]

Pizza time?

Is that what you're seeing?  "pizza" and "gimmick"?  The new buzz words?  I've only seen "gimmick" so far.

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Isn't it about $83 a month for every $50,000?
I bet that's a bunch more than just pizza money for many households in the states.
That's $1,000 a year for every $50k.

Oops, $40/every 2 weeks (approx).

Principle still stands.

[guido911]

If $40/mo is the difference between pizza night or not, you probably need to reassess your priorities.  Pizza is not inexpensive.

I thought the same thing when I read about a family having to sacrifice their pizza night if they didn't get that tax cut. How bad off as a nation have be become that losing a dinner out can be reasonably likened to not being able to afford medication/pay heat bill?

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Is that what you're seeing?  "pizza" and "gimmick"?  The new buzz words?  I've only seen "gimmick" so far.

I didn't intend it that way but maybe it is.  I missed the original reference to "gimmick".

[Townsend]

If someone makes $106,800 annually this will keep $2,136 in their pocket.  That's a new car tag for many people.  A new fridge, TV, $6 in gas every day...

For a Medfield resident earning the town's median household income of $114,250, the payroll tax cut will yield about $2,136 in savings by the end of 2011. Without a deal to extend the cut, those workers will take home that much less next year, which comes to about $41.08 a week.

In a city like Boston, with a median income of $50,684, the tax cut means $1,014 in savings for a worker earning that salary by the end of this year. In Westwood and several other nearby wealthier suburbs — 32 in all — workers at median incomes upward of $106,800 qualify for the maximum tax cut of $2,136.

Read more: Medfield residents get around $2K if House GOP OKs payroll tax cut - Medfield, MA - Medfield Press http://www.wickedlocal.com/medfield/news/x1157706593/Medfield-residents-get-around-2K-if-House-GOP-OKs-payroll-tax-cut#ixzz1hOMAn400

[guido911]

Is that what you're seeing?  "pizza" and "gimmick"?  The new buzz words?  I've only seen "gimmick" so far.

It was a story on drudge. Here's an article:

More than 30,000 people have written in so far - around 2,000 per hour, President Obama said.

Another supporter wrote that the $40 means new shoes for two of their children and one more said the loss would force them into a decision of whether to buy insulin or pay the water bill.

'Our cable internet bill is $49 per month. If we lose this payroll tax cut then we will have to give up either internet access or possibly our "Friday Family Pizza" night,' one in Frederick, Maryland, wrote.

Top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell has urged fellow Republicans in the House to drop their opposition to the Senate-passed bill that extends the payroll tax cut for two months.

'House Republicans sensibly want greater certainty about the duration of these provisions, while Senate Democrats want more time to negotiate the terms,' he said. 'We can and should do both.'

[Emphasis added].
http://m.dailymail.co.uk/mobile/news/article.html?articleID=2077677

[Townsend]

I thought the same thing when I read about a family having to sacrifice their pizza night if they didn't get that tax cut. How bad off as a nation have be become that losing a dinner out can be reasonably likened to not being able to afford medication/pay heat bill?

I've used that in sales before.  "Eat in one night a month and you can justify that cost."  People do that a lot.

[guido911]

If someone makes $106,800 annually this will keep $2,136 in their pocket.  That's a new car tag for many people.  A new fridge, TV, $6 in gas every day...

I am just worried about how we are going to keep SS and medicare going if we are not funding it. Robbing Peter to pay Paul has to end at some point.

[Townsend]

I am just worried about how we are going to keep SS and medicare going if we are not funding it. Robbing Peter to pay Paul has to end at some point.

OK, I'm not putting much faith in those systems for my future.  I'd rather invest my own pizza money.

[guido911]

I've used that in sales before.  "Eat in one night a month and you can justify that cost."  People do that a lot.

You lost me (maybe I'm losing it). People were crying out about real suffering and this family is whining about a pizza night?

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I thought the same thing when I read about a family having to sacrifice their pizza night if they didn't get that tax cut. How bad off as a nation have be become that losing a dinner out can be reasonably likened to not being able to afford medication/pay heat bill?

Astra Zenica (spelling wrong, I know) may be able to help.  There are programs to help the unfortunate pay their heating (and electric) bills.  I know of no programs to pay for pizza night.  

[Townsend]

You lost me (maybe I'm losing it). People were crying out about real suffering and this family is whining about a pizza night?

I'm not sure about the suffering thing but I think that family might really look forward to having pizza night with the family where no-one cooks and they can all just hang out as a family.

They prob need the internet access so after that, maybe the point was a loss of that fun time together on Friday night.  I'm guessing on that one.