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By: AJ
A brand new 32,000 square foot administrative office for the Department of Parks and Recreation is made possible by Americans through our tax dollars. A beautiful picture of it can be found HERE, cleverly called a “Community Center,” offering some recreational space.
Description:
New four-story building, which includes recreational space and administrative offices for the Washington, DC Department of Parks and Recreation.
Sustainable elements include a reflective roof, permanent planters on the rooftop that reduce storm-water runoff and limit the need for potable water, proximity to public transportation, secure bike racks, changing facilities, and the use of low-VOC materials and dormered skylights. The exterior of the building includes a combination of curtainwall, storefront, and masonry.
Architect: Leo A. Daly
Size: 32,000 SF
Schedule: 14 months
While Obama drives our nation further into debt, it’s great to know projects like this will comfortably house the behemoth government he’s amassing.
When Obama talks about increasing “revenue,” he means increasing taxes on Americans so that he can take more of our money to pay for the things he wants.
Is Obama really helping working families and the poor? Of course not! He’s helping himself by garnishing more power and control through an ever-increasing government. You didn’t think the massive army of government bureaucrats he’s been hiring and housing with our tax dollars would just sit around without creating and enforcing more oppressive regulations for us, did you?
Calling out “Millionaires and Billionaires” is a purposeful misnomer. Obama actually says he intends to increase taxes for a family or business making just $250,000 or more per year, right? $250,000 is not $1,000,000 now is it?
What Obama’s really doing is hurting working families, the poor and small businesses. His intent is to further destroy the middle class; no doubt about that whatsoever.
Here’s an example to show you what he’s doing… Obama wants small businesses with about $250,000 in gross sales per year to pay more in taxes. Let’s say the cost of what small businesses sell and pay to their employees total about $175,000 (including operating expenses and taxes they currently have to pay). This leaves the business owner with a paltry profit (i.e. income) of only $75,000 to live on and reinvest in the business.
$75,000 is a far cry from a million dollars and the small business owner would be classified as “middle class” yet will be subjected to a tax increase if Obama gets his way. So it’s easy to see how Obama intends to hurt small businesses, not his millionaire and billionaire friends. In this example you can clearly see that Obama will leave this owner with less than $75,000 a year for his family and business by taking more of it from him through a tax increase.
Increasing taxes to raise government “revenue” gives Obama more of our money to spend… and D.C. is booming as he spends our money growing government, not helping working families or the poor.
“Millionaires and Billionaires” is a cool phrase when you’re looking to play the Marxist class warfare card to rile your base of useful idiots and uneducated liberals.
So the next time a misguided Democrat tells you that Obama is helping the people, show them what he’s really doing.
Here are a few more government construction projects undertaken since Obama’s reign:
This program includes the construction of 4 Public Libraries for Washington, D.C. Public Libraries. The new branch libraries are intended to set a new level of excellence for District libraries and will provide library users with easy access to the desired material and technology, while also focusing on sustainability. D.C. Public Libraries hopes these new libraries will symbolically celebrate the important values of knowledge, learning, community, diversity, and sustainability.
Each of the libraries will be approximately 20,000 square feet in size, and each must be certified as LEED Silver.
While Americans suffer with high gas prices, rising food prices, high unemployment and further deterioration of the housing market, D.C. is booming as Obama grows government through massive spending – and expands his oppressive reach into every aspect of our lives.
Should Obama stop spending, or should we continue to feed the beast until our freedoms are extinguished through Obama’s fundamental transformation of America?
Photo: GETTY
“More people are on food stamps. The middle class is quickly being destroyed. America is turning into a 3rd world country. Famine will come and the jobless rate will rise to 1 million/month by mid 2009.”
“Obama wants small businesses with about $250,000 in gross sales per year to pay more in taxes. Let’s say the cost of what small businesses sell and pay to their employees total about $175,000 (including operating expenses and taxes they currently have to pay). This leaves the business owner with a paltry profit (i.e. income) of only $75,000 to live on and reinvest in the business.”
I am no fan of Obama, but I do like to make certain that the facts are correct. Is it true that Obama proposes to tax gross sales rather than net income? Currently all businesses pay income taxes based upon profit, not upon sales. To do otherwise would be insane since some businesses operate on tiny margins.
Please double-check this. If you are correct, this is an absolutely revolutionary plan worthy of a counter-revolutionary response.
You have a great blog here. Keep up the good work!
Hi Kevin, That’s the part that’s unknown for sure because Obama won’t put his plan in writing. It’s been reported that he intends to increase taxes on families and business who have a gross income of $250K or more. So if he means Schedule C, part II, line 1 (and I fear that is what he means), then what’s described in the article would be an appropriate example.
Now his administration is floating the possibility of eliminating the home mortgage interest deduction on our Schedule A. Again, his plan isn’t in writing, so we don’t know for sure.
Another example of the havoc he’s wreaked on many of us is Obamacare… my family’s healthcare premium rose 107.5% since the bill was passed. Ouch! The bill also reduces the amount of medical expenses you can claim on tax returns and, when fully implemented, premiums will no longer be tax exempt.
His track record is to squeeze as much out of taxpaying citizens as possible. We’ve seen it with things that are in writing… but until he puts the “$250K” tax plan in writing, we just don’t know for sure.
And what are those additional 16,500 IRS agents for?
This President scares the heck out of me!!
Thank you Nancy; that was a fine analysis. Obama scares the heck out of me too.
But it is nice that all of these buildings are in one ares for it will be all that much easier and less expensive to mothball them in 2013. Actually, almost all of the building in DC can be mothballed in 2013.
The more I hear of the building and expansion of DC Federal buidlings the more I come to understand Mr Obama suffers from a complex of ego and narcissism on par with the Roman Emperors Caligula and Nero.
This is just one more reason why I feel Obama is about to make the end game maneuver and push the nation over the edge into a tyranny under the style of a socialist progressive system that will make the old USSR look kind and gentle (and they were not at all.)
One lesson to learn from Rome is this — after the emperors came to be over the old republic, the senate was for the process of show and theater only; true power was held by one person, and one only…the emperor himself.
Also, I am convinced that of politics, propaganda, and manipulation Obama is indeed a genius; the other part is he is madder than almost any other world leader in his insane desire for change.
Here is a list of just a few of the libraries that have been forced to close in the United States due to lack of funds. CAMDEN, N.J, the Natomas Unified School District in California closed all eight of its elementary school libraries, The Detroit Public Library closed many of its branches, Brimfield library in Ohio, etc.
AND Washington, DC opens 4 libraries?
Hi Sandy,
Yes. Isn’t it awful that new libraries and government buildings are being built in D.C. for the massive expansion of the Federal Government while the rest of the country sees things shutting down?
There’s even construction going on at the White House – looks like they’re adding a new wing to it.