Sixth grader Noah Williams-Morrill has earned himself a meeting with President Obama today with a video explanation of the fiscal cliff that’s so simple even Republicans can get it.
Here is a sixth grader explaining the fiscal cliff in just 60 seconds:
Noah’s explanation was simple, “The fiscal cliff means at the beginning of the year the government won’t have enough money to pay for these things. Do you care about education? If the government doesn’t have enough money, over the cliff. Medicaid for nursing homes, healthcare for kids, Sesame Street, tax breaks for middle class taxpayers, spending for our roads and bridges, protecting clean water and clean air. This doesn’t have to happen. We can make sure we have enough money for all these things. The biggest thing we can do is raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans by only 4.6%.”
Mike Morrill of Keystone Progress announced via press release that the sixth grader is going to get to meet the president today, “Immediately following President Obama’s visit at 12:00 Noon to the Rodon Group manufacturing facility, Noah and two other young people, who are part of a nationwide community movement to urge Congress to restore tax fairness, will discuss their meeting with President Obama earlier in the day.”
House Republicans are gambling that the American people will blame President Obama if they refuse to raise taxes, and let the country go over the cliff. This is a tactic that they have tried many times before. House Republicans had to cave on the payroll tax extension at this same time last year, when it became obvious to them that the nation was not going to blame Obama. Having learned nothing from their year of failed bullying since, these same ideologues are once again resorting to their go to move of just saying no.
Congressional Republicans seem completely oblivious to the fact that Obama owns the bipartisanship message. He has successfully beaten that drum for more than four years now. This president was reelected in part, because voters saw him as the candidate most likely to cooperate with the other side. If the nation goes off the fiscal cliff, the court of public opinion will not convict President Obama.
If you know anyone who doesn’t get why the fiscal cliff is so important, share this video with them. Noah Williams-Morrill has made it so simple that even Fox News watching ideologues can get understand it. Of course, if Fox News viewers watch the the video, they are likely to come away from it calling Noah a socialist and a victim of Obama’s plot to indoctrinate our youth.
But we’ve all got to start somewhere, right?
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Maranon
Nov. 30th, 2012 at 11:20 am
Thank you Noah for doing this educational video, maybe the GOP House will understand what the fiscal cliff means.
The House and the Senate have gotten so intoxicated by the wooing of the Wall Street corporation lobby industry. Who wouldn’t…
Wall Street spends 1.5 million Dls on the average, 365 days of the year!
Has meetings with members of Congress on the average 4,000 times per year!
(not ioncluding the “educational tours” to visit whatever part of the world representatives want to go)
The top 1% grease the wheels of Congress well, so that when the House comes to vote, they have sold their souls to the corporations that feed their addictions.
It is no wonder that the representatives do not give a hoot about the republic or the welfare of the people they have promised to work for, they are too busy looking after their personal investments and the welfare of Wall Street.
The corporations have even manage to buy enough votes in the Supreme Court, so that the corporations can buy elections more easily.
Sorry Sesame Street!
you are good but you do not pay enough…
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luciboo
Nov. 30th, 2012 at 11:30 am
Wish every American citizen could watch this. What a great message Noah. See politics in your future!
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Sugapea
Nov. 30th, 2012 at 12:14 pm
Terrific Video!
Let’s all help make Noah’s Video go viral…share it with everyone/everywhere!
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Edward Shafer
Nov. 30th, 2012 at 2:08 pm
Very good explanation. Too bad that the people who should watch this probably won’t.
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clarence swinney
Dec. 2nd, 2012 at 11:22 am
$250,000 “up” get tax increase. Opponents ploy the $250,000 number but no one ploys the 4000 Million Income “down”. Do incomes of 100 million to 4000 million deserve a tax cut or tax increase in hard times??
Bush Tax Cuts, Payroll Tax Cuts, Sequestred Spending cuts.
A great debate on each. No good solutions. People get hurt
on each. Result of tax cuts was more debt debt debt.
Spending cuts mean loss of jobs in federal government.
Each party is playing talk politics not common sense positive solutions.
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Brian Loudermilch
Dec. 2nd, 2012 at 5:15 pm
OK. It’s a Step in the Right Direction.
Do the whole thing Over with a VILLAGE IDIOT and
the Repugnicants MIGHT Understand It.
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Ernie
Dec. 4th, 2012 at 6:12 pm
Simple and compelling. Out of the mouths of babes…
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John
Dec. 7th, 2012 at 9:02 pm
Great explanation if you’re a biased democrat unwilling to consider other’s views. Every argument is “all will go to hell unless greedy rich people pay a measly 4% more in taxes.” News flash, if you took an introductory economics course you’d understand that an excise tax on the rich SHIFTS THE BURDEN of the tax to the middle and lower classes, through higher unemployment and higher product prices. Read up some Thomas Sowell if you’re interested.
It’s convenient to make the straw man of “Republicans just want to line the pockets of millionaires, so corrupt”, but consider that some of them might have some legitimate reasoning. And I hate this bleeding-heart sentimental bullshit. This is an economic issue.
You know how you consider Republicans idiots for their archaic views on women’s rights, homosexuality, and wars? They think the same of you when you start blabbing on about economics.
P.S. I’m an independent.
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Shiva (Moderator)
Dec. 7th, 2012 at 10:50 pm
“P.S. I’m an independent.”
Yawn. Next?
BTW, The theory that if the rich pay a little more higher unemployment and higher product prices will be the result is quite laughable. You seem to be imagining every millionaire as a job creator. Very few of them are.
Sorry
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