GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Save 13k$ per day by moving? I’d be gone tomorrow.

Saturday, May 23, 2009

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/05/new_york_taxpayers_voting_with.html

May 18, 2009
New York Taxpayers voting with their feet
Ethel C. Fenig

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Proving former President Ronald Reagan’s (R) adage that taxpayers vote with their feet, Tom Precious of the Buffalo News reports that billionaire Buffalo Sabres’ owner Thomas Golisano will save a reported $13,000 a day by moving from NY to Florida – punishing high income workers in New York state with a huge tax increase

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See the gooferment in general, politicians and bureaucrats in particular, forget that the rich can modify their behavior. The poor have no such luxury.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Unfunded liabilities!

Friday, May 22, 2009

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=98487

FROM JEROME CORSI’S RED ALERT
New rules: Work ’til you die
Social Security, Medicare facing insolvency

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The U.S. Treasury, on a GAAP accounting basis, calculates the federal government had a $65.5 trillion negative net worth last year when the net present value of future Social Security and Medicare benefits are taken into consideration, a sum nearly identical to the annual gross domestic product, or GDP, of the world.

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Sure, it’ll be there. And, the sheeple believe the politicians!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Mandatory vacation like that paragon of productivity … France!

Thursday, May 21, 2009

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22794.html

Alan Grayson to introduce Paid Vacation Act
By ERIKA LOVLEY | 5/21/09 4:28 AM EDT
The legislation would be the first to make paid vacation time a requirement under federal law.

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Rep. Alan Grayson was standing in the middle of Disney World when it hit him: What Americans really need is a week of paid vacation.

So on Thursday, the Florida Democrat will introduce the Paid Vacation

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Argh!

What about the unemployed and retired?

Surely, it’s only fair that the Federal Gooferment pay them to vacate as well.

Argh!

This is a hidden tax. It’s unavoidable; hence it’s a tax.

This is an intrusion into the the employment contract. Employer offered and employee accepted. Now here comes Mommy Government to stick its nose in.

Does this mean that the Yankees have to give Alex R a week of paid vacation? He’ll just get into more trouble.

Why limit it to 100 person business? Because then we can’t see the damage!

At the margin, how many businesses will it kill. THe ones holding on by their fingernails financially.

Why don’t we give the congress critters a permanent vacation? Never reelect anyone! Ever!!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: ALL politician lie; we just have to watch them

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0509/22401.html

Pelosi: Torture protest improper in ’03

TAGS: Congress, Jane Harman, Nancy Pelosi, Interrogation, Torture

By GLENN THRUSH & JOHN BRESNAHAN | 5/11/09 8:14 PM EDT

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi learned in early 2003 that the Bush administration was waterboarding terror detainees but didn’t protest directly out of respect for “appropriate” legislative channels, a confidant of the San Francisco Democrat said Monday.

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How can you tell when a politcian is lying?

When their lips are moving!

She wants it her way all the time regardless of facts or history.

They’re all the same.

And she’s THIRD in line to be PRESIDENT?!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Jury duty is slavery!

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090509/D982S7N80.html

Texas man jailed 83 days for skipping jury duty
May 9, 1:56 PM (ET)

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McKINNEY, Texas (AP) – A man arrested for allegedly failing to appear for jury duty was released Saturday after spending 83 days in jail, a length of detention that a judge called “unacceptable.”

Douglas Maupin was released a day after The Dallas Morning News brought his plight to the attention of a Collin County judge.

Maupin, a masonry contractor, was arrested Feb. 15 after police pulled him over for speeding. Police then detained him on a 2003 warrant for failure to appear for jury duty.

He wrote a letter to the newspaper about his lengthy jail stay, then said in a jailhouse interview that he, his friends and family could not afford his $1,500 bail.

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Guess no one ever heard of the Fourteenth Amendment about slavery!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Release if he signed papers forfeiting his property

Friday, May 8, 2009

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/05/texas.police.seizures/

Texas police shake down drivers, lawsuit claims

   * Police stop drivers, take their money and jewelry, alleged victims say

   * Drivers threatened with arrest, loss of children if they don’t pay up, plaintiffs say

   * Most targeted drivers are minorities who won’t fight back, lawyer says

   * Town, county officials deny any wrongdoing, say officers follow the law

updated 9:00 a.m. EDT, Wed May 6, 2009

From Gary Tuchman and Katherine Wojtecki

CNN’s “AC360°”

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TENAHA, Texas (CNN) — Roderick Daniels was traveling through East Texas in October 2007 when, he says, he was the victim of a highway robbery.

The Tennessee man says he was ordered to pull his car over and surrender his jewelry and $8,500 in cash that he had with him to buy a new car.

But Daniels couldn’t go to the police to report the incident.

The men who stopped him were the police.

Daniels was stopped on U.S. Highway 59 outside Tenaha, near the Louisiana state line. Police said he was driving 37 mph in a 35 mph zone. They hauled him off to jail and threatened him with money-laundering charges — but offered to release him if he signed papers forfeiting his property.

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Well, my Luddite friend always fights with me telling me that “the police are our friends”. Not my friend, my friend. They are worse than the Mafia. At least, the Mafia doesn’t pretend that they aren’t robbing me.

These armed bureaucrats are nothing more than form filling out clean up squads. Unless they blunder into something.

(Hey, if he can exaggerate, so can I!)

It comes from the basic premise about the use of force. It all comes down to force.

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Making an Irish company with a U.S. subsidiary

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/05/businesses-pan-obamas-tax-crackdown-plan/

Businesses pan tax crackdown plan
Say proposal to close loopholes will drive jobs out of the country
By Jon Ward (Contact) | Tuesday, May 5, 2009

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“Obama’s proposal will shove jobs and capital out of America and into foreign countries,” said Americans for Tax Reform, pointing out that U.S. companies already pay a higher corporate tax rate of 40 percent domestically than in many other countries, and that forcing them to pay this rate on profits they make internationally will drive operations out of the country.

“It’s a relatively simple matter for a U.S. company with an Irish subsidiary to become an Irish company with a U.S. subsidiary,” the anti-tax group said.

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Politicians think that no one will adapt to their latest hair brained scheme.

I hope someone is keeping track of this little “project’s” results.

We should have a zero corporate tax rate. And, everyone would be moving here!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Company alerted on the Mexican Swine flu two weeks before

Friday, May 1, 2009

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/67283.html

Posted on Thursday, April 30, 2009
Company warned officials of flu 18 days before alert was issued
By Les Blumenthal | McClatchy Newspapers

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WASHINGTON — A Washington state biosurveillance firm raised the first warning about a possible outbreak of swine flu in Mexico more than two weeks before the World Health Organization offered its initial alert about a public health emergency of international concern.

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Anyone care to argue that gooferment is useless!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: What is Obama hiding and why hasn’t the “press” found it?

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=95460

Why I care about Obama eligibility issue
Posted: April 20, 2009 1:00 am Eastern
David Kupelian

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First: Barack Obama is hiding something. About that statement, there can be no dispute. Despite dozens of lawsuits, with plaintiffs including a former presidential candidate, a former deputy attorney general, many legislators, active-duty U.S. military and other serious people, Obama simply refuses to release his original, long-form birth certificate. That’s the one that could actually prove he was born in Hawaii. What is posted on Obama’s “Fight the Smears” website as well as FactCheck.org is the abbreviated short-form “certification of live birth” that could have been issued for a child born overseas, and thus does not prove he was born in Hawaii. What is so difficult about this to understand?

As I said, he’s hiding something. I want to know what it is. And I want the world to know what it is.

Where’s the proof Barack Obama was born in the U.S. or that he fulfills the “natural-born citizen” clause in the Constitution? If you still want to see it, join more than 355,000 others and sign up now!

Ask yourself: Why would Obama have a team of high-priced lawyers fighting to stop his Occidental College records from being released? If I were elected president, don’t you think my college records would be made public? Similarly, he has lawyers fighting all the eligibility lawsuits, many of which are simply demanding proof – which Obama could easily provide – of the specifics of his birth time and place, something the U.S. Constitution unequivocally and unapologetically demands of presidential candidates.

The lawsuits started well before Obama won the election. You’d think that after he won the November popular vote, after the Electoral College confirmed him in December, after he was inaugurated in January, the lawsuits would fade away. After all, he won – get over it. But the legal challenges attempting to compel Obama to prove his natural born citizenship are increasing, not decreasing, with each passing month. Perhaps the realization that he’s damaging the country in unimaginable ways is imparting urgency to those who hope he can be removed from office if it’s proven he obtained it by fraud.

All I know is, Obama is hiding something. After all, he has it totally within his power to make all these lawsuits and “birthers” look foolish with a simple, 30-second phone call to the Hawaii Department of Health, saying, “I authorize you to release to the public and press a certified copy of my complete, long-form birth certificate.”

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OK, I’ll adjust my tin foil hat and say it: “I’m a birther”.

There is no possible explanation for Obama’s reluctance; other than he has something to hide.

It must bear on his ability to satisfy Constitutional muster as President.

Anything less, just doesn’t make sense.

Not nice to say, but he has pulled the wool over our eyes.

Will we have to wait for History’s verdict?

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: FAA conceals bird strike data

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

http://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2009/04/20/hudson_ditching_survivor_%60shocked_by_faa_secrecy?page=full&comments=true

Monday, April 20, 2009
Hudson ditching survivor `shocked’ by FAA secrecy
By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN

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A survivor of the jetliner that ditched in the Hudson River after hitting birds and most other public commenters opposed a government proposal to make secret its data on when and where such bird strikes occur.

Public comments about the Federal Aviation Administration’s secrecy proposal ran 5-to-1 against it as the comment period closed Monday. One major group, which some had expected to support the rule, declined to take a position.

The primary trade group for U.S. airports, the Airports Council International-North America, told the FAA that its member airports were split on the issue so it “cannot take a position either supporting or opposing” the secrecy. But it urged the agency “to provide explanatory information to assist the public and media to use the data responsibly” if it decides against imposing secrecy.

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Who’s gooferment is it?

Aren’t they supposed to be protecting us?

Regulators and the regulated. Perfect together!

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