LIBERTY: Is the gubamint skool a disaster of epic proportions? Yes!

Sunday, January 7, 2007

http://www.lewrockwell.com/suprynowicz/suprynowicz57.html

http://tinyurl.com/yzthjw

The Gummint Skools
by Vin Suprynowicz

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Gatto urges us to consider the possibility that “School may be a brilliantly conceived social engine that works exactly as it was designed to work and produces exactly the human products it was designed to produce” – fragmented adults who can’t imagine how to survive without the state.

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There’s no question that “public education”, which is neither public, nor education, has some social objectives. Unfortunately those objectives were hidden from the public. Like most bait ‘n’ switch operations, we are now stuck with the results — the dumbing down of the American youth, out of control costs, and dividing the American public into conflicting groups — that are truly disastrous. The tsunami was ONLY a natural disaster that killed people and destroyed property. This unnatural disaster robs us in many dimensions. Killing would be kinder. And, it may very well, kill the American republic. It’s immoral to rob people of their children, their and their children’s dreams, and literally pillage the American taxpayer’s pocketbook.

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LIBERTY: Was the AMT deliberate? Let’s watch the “repeal” kabuki!

Sunday, January 7, 2007

http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/04/pf/taxes/
amt_legislation_introduced/index.htm?
postversion=2007010418

http://tinyurl.com/yf8pdm

Baucus, Grassley introduce bill to repeal AMT

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The AMT hits more and more taxpayers every year.

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There are many things that the government does that have unintended consequences. This was a bad form of theft to start with and the government policy of inflation makes me wonder if the consequence was unintended!

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RANT: And, yesterday, I tried to get Chase to correct a mistake

Sunday, January 7, 2007

AND, I ran into a Branch Manager who was definitely incompetent. Figure I have this estate stuff down cold now having done it twice. She really just wanted to get rid of me.

I go in bright and chipper having just done some banking at Wachovia on another matter in zip time. I was going to be done and get back in time for coffee.

I go in and explain my tale. She first wants to give me cash from the estate account. I politely explained she can’t do that and I certainly can’t accept it. All I want her to do is complete my previous September transaction (i.e., convert regular individual account into an estate account). Chase supposedly did it and transferred it to an Estate Account at Wachovia. No problems. But evidently someone made a mistake cause one account wasn’t closed and money was left behind. I spent ninety minutes trying to complete this simple task. And, she basically told me that she didn’t know what was done, but she could not help me. Every time she spoke to “branch support”, she described it as if I wanted a “distribution”. So their response was to ask for a “tax waiver”! I didn’t want a “distribution”, I merely wanted it “rolled over” to an Estate Account. Arghhh! I explained it two her at least FOUR times and she just didn’t or wouldn’t get it.

If I had an account at chase, then it wouldn’t be there very long. Argh!!!

It put me on tilt the whole day!

Arghhhhhh!

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