Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann on Saturday described the loss of "economic liberty" that young Americans face today as a "flash point of history" in which the younger generation will ask what their elders did to stop it.

In a speech to New Hampshire Republicans, Bachmann recounted learning about a horrific time in history as a child — the Holocaust — and wondering if her mother did anything to stop it. She said she was shocked to hear that many Americans weren't aware that millions of Jews had died until after World War II ended.

Bachmann said the next generation will ask similar questions about what their elders did to prevent them from facing a huge tax burden.

"I tell you this story because I think in our day and time, there is no analogy to that horrific action," she said, referring to the Holocaust. "But only to say, we are seeing eclipsed in front of our eyes a similar death and a similar taking away. It is this disenfranchisement that I think we have to answer to."

The generation of Americans just entering the work force now could eventually see 75 percent of their earnings sucked up by income taxes, Social Security and Medicare, Bachmann said. Those young workers are going to wonder what people were doing while "watching quite literally our economic liberty pulled out from under us."

source: AP

We're going to hang him with that -- uh, so to speak, metaphorically, with, uh, you have to be careful these days, I learned that -- with an Obama Misery Index.

And I just know I'm the only one watching the "red carpet arrivals" at the White House Correspondence" dinner and roast. On C-Span if any other nerd is interested. Donald Trump walked in a few minutes ago.


TIS

Obama is speaking now. His first sentence he said who he was and "I am an American."



TIS

Trump doesn't seem to be amused from what I see.

Oli,

Are you hearing the jokes Seth is making about Trump????? OMG!

"Donald Trump says if he runs he'll run as a Republican. I thought he was running as a joke." Then he comments about the rug on his head or something.

Trump doesn't seem to be amused from what I see.

TIS

Here's some Strudel for Apple:

I just listened to Chris Wallace interview Michele Bachmann on Fox. Wallace recited her claim that the federal government controls over 51% of American business. He counterd that his staff determined that the federal government's investment in busines amounted to only 1.3%. She rationalized her figure by stating that she was quoting an unnamed professor's figures and Investment Business Daily figures. Of course, Wallace then failed to probe the subject any further and question her abou that huge discrpancy in figures or why she did not research her sources. Of course, neither or Wallace's failures were unexpected.

Does bin laden's death seal President Obama's re-election?

I believe it does (not that the Donald led tea baggers had much of a chance anyway ).

and since this president isn't going to publicize what he did by dressing up and landing on an aircraft carrier with a Mision Accomplished banner, he is not guaranteed reelection.

I don't understand why Bush didn't send Cheney over to Pakistan to go hunting with bin Laden.

Does bin laden's death seal President Obama's re-election?

I thought the President releasing the "video" of his birth was very funny.

For those who didn't see it, he used the clip from "The Lion King" that showed Simba's birth, and it had the date and time of the President's birth superimposed on it.

Where are Biggie and Tupac?

Yeah, I didn't get that.