Drudge is reporting 62M votes of O and 55M votes for McC. That’s 117M votes in a country of 300M? A third in what’s widely touted as the best turn out ever.
Do we have the beginnings of a revolt?
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POLITICAL: Record turnout?
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
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POLITICAL: Nuke the FED!
Monday, November 3, 2008http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/austrian-econ-more-than-ever.html
Why Austrian Economics Matters More Than Ever
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
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Abolishing the Fed would put a huge brake on the planning state. Without the ability to expand the money supply at will, the federal government would become about as threatening as state or local government. That is to say, the federal government would still be an intolerable imposition on life, liberty, and property. But we wouldn’t be worrying about hyperinflation, large scale bubbles in specific sectors, crazy business cycles, trillion-dollar bailouts, controls that reach into every nook and cranny of our lives, a cradle to grave welfare state, or a global empire that invades any and every country at will, and makes America the enemy to whole regions of the world.
That’s only the beginning of what the end of the Fed would mean. It would dramatically change the political culture in this country. Bureaucracies would tumble. Trade would stabilize. The investment-risk calculus would accord with the free market. The left could no longer live out its pipe dreams of socialist utopia at our expense. The right would have to give up its wacky notion of a world police state. The power ambitions of whole sectors of society would be scaled back.
The state is always and everywhere a danger, even when it has no monopoly on money and no printing press that can create money tickets at will. But a state with the ability to make its own money is a grave and relentless threat to prosperity and freedom. It leaves the future entirely to the discretion of the money managers. Every day we live under the threat that the US could be the next Weimar Republic or even another Zimbabwe. All that stands between us and that day is the wisdom and prudence of the Fed.
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There was a fundamental shift in America that was done without the People even being aware of the terrible path they were being taken down.
With the financial meltdown (i.e., criminal collusion between Congress and Wall Street), it seems like an appropriate time to put the Fed out of business.
It’s un-American!
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POLITICAL: Are elections important where there is no choice?
Monday, November 3, 2008http://www.lifetrekcoaching.com/current/
PROVISION #589 (11/02/08): ELECTION ENERGY
>You’re also participating in that great movement called democracy. The opposite of democratic
>is not republican; the opposite of democratic is aristocratic. “Democratic” means rule of the
> people, the “demos” in Greek, while “aristocratic” means rule of the best, the “aristos”.
You have got to be kidding. This is a joke. Right? You can’t be serious. This is what the Founding Fathers feared most; the inflamed passions of the mob.
Sorry, given today’s education system, which is right out of the Socialist Horace Mann’s playbook, we have functionally illiterate people picking based on TV. I’ve got more respect for “Dancing with the Stars” election process than I do “the gooferment’s one”. (Have you seen the mechanics of voting?) Mann wanted an education system to create good factory workers and soldiers for the army. People who were easily lead by the elite.
See any elite in this election?
I sure do!
Sarah is the only wild card in the deck. And, at least she has some demonstrated executive ability. She is probably the most qualified of all of them. At least she hasn’t been in Washington DC at all.
No, this isn’t about an Athenian democracy. Or Plato’s “Republic”. This is about “manipulation”. Yes, you did see raw intelligent passion as folks came out for Ron Paul. There was a TRUE choice. A completely different path! Hopeless; throwing themselves against the entrenched elites of the Republican Party. Mao said “All power comes from the end of a gun”. He was dead on.
We have an American because some Dead Old White Guys stood up to the entrached power elite and said “hell, no!” and were willing to die for their liberty. We’ve seen from time to time that fighting spirit come out — the Second American Revolution aka the War of Norther Aggression aka the Civil War (there’s a misnomer).
The elite allows “elections” on the hope that the sheeple will carry on the illusion of “their government”. In fact, it is a fraud. Your friend was absolutely right there’s no difference between the two “parties”. In the election that you abhor the Supreme Court deciding, there was only two choices the Harvard guy with the blue tie and the Harvard guy with the red tie. They are so much alike I can even remember who wore what!
No, the whole thing is a farce! Except at the end of it, the gooferment kills. It kills with its diversion of our attention to REAL problems. To the real loss of liberty here at home and abroad. Eventually, the chickens do come home to roost.
At some point in time, the oppressed decide that they are tired of “the shit end of the stick”. They look at their lot in life and make a decision to say “enuf”! If we are lucky, it’s relatively peaceful like Ghandi, the Polish Soladarity, or the Russian Communism collapse. If we are not, it’s bloody like the French Revolution, Mao taking China Communicst, North Korea, Nazi Germany.
I fear we are merely traveling the road that ends in disaster. Election, or not. When you have Socialism, whether it be from a Democrat or a Republican, that takes an ever increasing percentage of wealth and earnings, while one’s accumulated wealth is inflated away, you have the focus point of revolution. At some point, even American’s will say “enuf”?
Can’t tell you at what point exactly that is. When the taxes so much, that survival is in doubt? When a life’s savings are stolen? When the insame gooferment diktats about drugs have half the people in prison? When the unemployment is 50%? When the dollar ceases to be the reserve currency and we have a Zimbabwe inflation? When Hispanics become the dominent race here in America? If Obama loses and half the people think the other half are racists? If McCain loses and half the people think the other half are Marxist Communist Socialists?
Eventually, all gooferments get around to killing their citizens. Like the JPFO says: “Frist comes disarmament; then genocide.” We will have a “vote” then. I pray it’s Ghandi-like. But, I’m not so sure of that. I do know that “cold dead hands” will decide the issue eventually. Not ballots.
Peace,
fjohn
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POLITICAL: ELITE plan
Sunday, November 2, 2008http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1f2_1225415890
We need the one for the Obama win? Where do conservatives go?
ROFL!
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POLITICAL: Election fraud is something “we the people” can fix
Saturday, November 1, 2008http://www.velvetrevolution.us/electionstrikeforce/2008/10/thirteen_election_integrity_ex.html
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Ellen Thiesen, Co-Director, VotersUnite.org
Candidates should encourage voters to vote on paper, on election day at the polls if at all possible; and to observe the subsequent handling and counting of the ballots to the extent allowed by law.
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As usual, the gooferment has a sloppy election system. It appears that anyone can, and both sides do, cheat.
I was always enamored of how Prohibition ended. The politicians repealed it because it was IMPOSSIBLE for the gooferment to get convictions. Jury nullification! No one would vote to convict. Prosecutors quickly realized that it was a waste of time. THe Repeal legislation was merely recognizing the obvious.
So, we can, pretty much, handle all these fraud issues without the gooferment’s help.
JUST VOTE ABSENTEE BALLOT ALL THE TIME!
Seems obvious to me. Probably too late to do it this year, but from now on …
AND, in thinking about this, we can take care of the absurd war on drugs the same way. Just nullify!
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POLITICAL: Make work, and infrastructure, is just inflation spending!
Saturday, October 18, 2008http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2008/10/use-public-works-to-put-public-to-work.html
Friday, October 17, 2008
Use public works to put the public to work
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Anyone who thinks we can balance the federal budget and dig ourselves out of the financial quagmire is just fooling themselves. We can’t, and Paul Krugman explains why today:
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On the other hand, there’s a lot the federal government can do for the economy. It can provide extended benefits to the unemployed, which will both help distressed families cope and put money in the hands of people likely to spend it. It can provide emergency aid to state and local governments, so that they aren’t forced into steep spending cuts that both degrade public services and destroy jobs. It can buy up mortgages (but not at face value, as John McCain has proposed) and restructure the terms to help families stay in their homes.
And this is also a good time to engage in some serious infrastructure spending, which the country badly needs in any case. The usual argument against public works as economic stimulus is that they take too long: by the time you get around to repairing that bridge and upgrading that rail line, the slump is over and the stimulus isn’t needed. Well, that argument has no force now, since the chances that this slump will be over anytime soon are virtually nil. So let’s get those projects rolling.
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Amen.
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Posted by Hank Kalet at 5:38 PM
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Can’t you see the utter absurdity of the gooferment printing more money to spend on make work projects? They are counterfeiters! See that’s why they want you confused about what is money. (And have done a superb job of dumbing down the entire population!)
Forget the “dollar”. It’s meaningless. It’s not a store of value, unit of account, or useful intermediary.
Lets pretend that a gallon of gas is a unit of money. How can the gooferment just print gallons of gass? It can certainly print more receits for gallons of gas, but someone is going to get screwed when they can’t redeem their receit for the gallon it represents.
So too, regardless of what you think a dollar represents, somebody in this “printing press” money gets screwed.
Let’s have a guessing game?
Senior citizens on fixed income as prices rise! Very good.
Anyone who holds an “old dollar” as the new ones get printed. Excellent!
Any one who has to buy something. You get the prize!
Who wins? (If there are losers, there has to be winners!)
Politicians who get to spend these counterfiet dollars first.
Unions, especially gooferment ones, who have contracts tied to the minimum wage or inflation escaators.
Those who hold commodities and land. (The gooferment can’t print more of those.)
So, now maybe, just maybe, you will see this as the fraud, the theft, the cheating of the poor, that it really is.
How fortunate we have the gooferment to save us all.
{Shaking my head in disbelief. How can smart people be soooo blind!}
Sheeple!
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POLITICAL: Time to take on gooferment pensions?
Friday, October 17, 2008Especially here in New Jersey, it appears to be time to take on the issue of “Government Pensions”. Pity the poor taxpayer, they may not have a pension, but the politicians and bureaucrat certainly have the best possible pensions at our collective expense.
First, the politicians and bureaucrats work the system to maximize the amount they steal. Pure and simple, it’s theft. We have trial going on of a NJ Political Powerbroker Legislator where he collected ‘no show’ jobs to pad his pension. Of course, the pension administrators say basically “nothing wrong with that!” What a fraud on the people.
Take note that gooferment pensions allow “retirement” after 20 or 30 years; as opposed to the 30-40 years one USED to find in private industry.
I have to laugh because: (1) Not only had NJ not made its proper contribution in many years. (Wonder why the Feds haven’t brought it before a Grand Jury? If a private business did this, the executives would be in jail. Guess the big gang in dc has a reciprocity agreement with the gang in Trenton?) (2) The Guv has decided to “raid” the pensions to “invest” in community banks. (This was humorous because whoever had the “fiduciary” duty to manage these funds was screwed. They should be worried only about protecting the pensioners; not making the Guv look good!)
There is no guaranty that these gooferment pensions won’t be “reformed” in the future.
The gooferment made the assertion that to compete for the talent in the marketplace they needed to offer pensions. Now that industry has left pensions for other programs, they don’t want to follow that trend.
We need to force the gooferment to convert pensions to 401k!
Period!!
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POLITICAL: Last night’s “debate”
Thursday, October 16, 2008We are in for a rough road!
Anyone remember Clinton’s promise to lower taxes? Who’s more likely to lower taxes? Certainly not O.
Anyone remember that corporations do NOT pay taxes? They just pass them along.
O, flat out, lied about Infantacide! Reminded me of Clinton parsing the word ‘is’!
McC will give us nuke power; just like France and the Navy. That’ll take us a long way to energy independence.
Doesn’t anyone else feel that O is an empty suit. The guy doesn’t have ANY qualifications. Zero! Of all them, only Palin has ever actually run anything!
Didn’t anyone find it humorous that O refers to Biden’s foreign policy experience? Is the ticket upside down?
Finally, it all boils dow to who do you trust. O with his Chicago corruption machine, some strange bedfellows, and the usual democratic special interests (i.e., tort lawyers, teacher’s union, assorted left wing loons). Or the cranky old guy from the last generation.
Both are socialists. Both won’t be able to do much. But, whose ‘much’ do you want.
Batten down your “financial hatches”. I think we are going to have another Carter.
Argh!
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POLITICAL: O’s birth certificate again!
Sunday, October 12, 2008POLITICAL: O’s birth certificate again!
Here’s an interesting assertion that I have heard before. So where’s O’s birth certificate? I have no idea what ax these folks have to grind. BUT, they do make a prima facie case that O is Constitutionally disqualified. And, if he is a natural born citizen, he can dispose of this gadfly with one swat. Interesting assertion, and even more interesting questions.
Suggest passing it along. It’s going viral.
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POLITICAL” O closer to his disavowed mentor
Thursday, October 9, 2008http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/who_wrote_dreams_from_my_fathe_1.html
October 09, 2008
Who Wrote Dreams From My Father?
By Jack Cashill
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Prior to 1990, when Barack Obama contracted to write Dreams From My Father, he had written very close to nothing. Then, five years later, this untested 33 year-old produced what Time Magazine has called — with a straight face — “the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politician.”
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Interesting assertion, that hook O closer to his disavowed mentor.
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POLITICAL: Sorry, I’m not laughing! (Too much playing with the turth.)
Monday, October 6, 2008LUDITE’S WIFE SENT ME THIS:
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Barack Obama says:
Simple-minded John McCain cannot use a computer.
John McCain’s question is:
Has Barack Obama ever landed a jet plane on an aircraft carrier at night?
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Many a true word is said in jest.
A quick google search on: obama+mccain+”computer use” pops:
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/obama-campaign.html
“1982. John McCain goes to Washington. Things have changed in the last 26 years, but McCain hasn’t,” says a voice-over in the ad against shots of a Rubik’s Cube, a disco ball, a massive cell phone and an old computer. “He admits he still doesn’t know how to use a computer, can’t send an e-mail, still doesn’t understand the economy, and favors $200 billion in new tax cuts for corporations, but almost nothing for the middle class. After one president who’s out of the touch, we just can’t afford more of the same.
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The main stream media may be able to dupe some folks with this drivel.
But, I personally took note of their derision of how he waves (i.e., due to his war injuries), his age exploited in the photos of Obama shoveling dirt into the sandbags (i.e., Regan’s line about taking advantage of my opponent’s youth and inexperience comes to mind), and most of all Obama’s / McCain’s respective records in the Senate (or lack there of).
Like when they called Bush an idiot, I’d suggest that go up to any fighter pilot today and call them and idiot. Then they can report to the ER for a broken nose.
No, this election has crossed over the boundaries of ‘fair play’ several times. More from the left, than the right! Unfortunately, the main stream media has it’s own opinions it is propagandizing. It would be interesting if there was a fair score being kept.
Hopefully, the Great Scorekeeper is going to even out the game in the end? If so, a lot of people are going to be roasty toasty!
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POLITICAL: You’re Going To Guarantee A Depression!!! Ron Paul
Sunday, October 5, 2008POLITICAL: You’re Going To Guarantee A Depression!!! Ron Paul
Ah the congress critters vote to enslave us with the chains of debt and inflation.
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POLITICAL: FDIC Insurance higher?
Tuesday, September 30, 2008http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080930/pl_bloomberg/ar8q_hit0nyi
Obama Proposes Increasing Federal Deposit Insurance to $250,000 Nadine Elsibai 1 hour, 58 minutes ago
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Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) — Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, today proposed increasing the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. limit to $250,000 from the current level of $100,000.
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Sorry, I disagree. The taxpayer is not supposed to be an insurance company. The limit when it was raised led to the Savings & Loan problem. There’s no reason in today’s marketplace to have FDIC Insurance at 100k. I can understand wanting to protect small savers. But let them use Treasury Bills, just like the big boys. In the “old days” those were not available to the little people. They are now!
No, no need for a larger FDIC, unless you want to insulate the bankers.
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POLITICAL: The bailout is a vague pos!
Monday, September 29, 2008http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/023141.html
September 27, 2008
Don’t you love representative government?
Posted by Michael S. Rozeff at September 27, 2008 08:37 AM
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Don’t you love representative government? We take potshots at the bailout bill and send e-mails to Congress. Meanwhile, basically in secret, they introduce various plans. We are clueless as to what these plans are or mean. We do not know the details, only vague hints. We are totally unable to follow the debate much less influence it. Half the time or more, most Congressman likewise are clueless. A great deal of haste is involved (Haste makes Waste, remember?) We mainly get promises that, yes, a deal will be reached by Sunday, as if we actually wanted a deal. A deal before Sunday makes it easier to appear on talk shows. Then, suddenly, a bill will appear and be passed. We the people will then have spoken. Don’t you love representative government?
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We know they don’t read what they pass. Why should we be expected to pay for it?
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POLITICAL: Corporations don’t pay taxes; people do. Zero the Corporate Tax Rate!
Sunday, September 28, 2008First Presidential Debate Fact Check: Obama and McCain’s Economic Claims
Written by DR | Bookmarks: Reddit this, del.icio.us
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The first 2008 Presidential Debate saw both Senators Obama and McCain defend their economic proposals and attack the other’s plan. Facts, figures and statistics were flying back in forth during the exchange so fast it was difficult to keep up. So after the debate I watched the replay and read the transcript to pick out the economic claims made by both Presidential candidates. In this article, we’ll look at their claims to determine whether they are rock solid true (earning a score of 1), true but with a lot of spin (earning a score 2) or flat out, nose-growing false (earning a score of 3).
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MY COMMENT ON THIS STORY
Excellent job on fact checking. Calm and reasoned. Apparently fair.
I have no “dog” in this fight. I’m a little L libertarian. Don’t care much for either candidate.
I would like to comment on “Corporate Income Tax”.
It’s a sham designed to deceive the folks as to what is the overall level of taxation that Americans pay.
CORPORATIONS DON’T PAY TAXES OR FEES. YOU DO!
As a “frugal” site, I read often, I think you’d hammer this home.
Corporations are very much like a zero sum game. If they have a cost, they pass it along to the person who buys their product or services. If it’s a widget with a pound of steel in it, your paying for that pound. Price of steel goes up, the corporation marks up the price of their product. Simple enough. If they didn’t they’d go broke.
When the gooferment imposes taxes on Corporations, that’s just another cost that the business pass along to you. EXCEPT now you can’t see it. You don’t know what portion of the cost of a loaf of bread is taxes and what portion is bread.
It gets worse, regulations and laws add costs. They come to you hidden in the cost of the products.
It gets even worse, when the gooferment taxes a product that corporations use to make or deliver other products (e.g., gasoline), that tax is a tax on taxes. And is passed along and even buried further. It has an exponential effect!
I’ve seen estimates that the real tax percentage in products is HUGE! 50 to 75%!! I don’t think anyone can tell. AND that’s excatly the politicians purpose.
Bottom line: Corporate taxes imho should be ZERO!
Let’s put the cost of gooferment squarely out in the open! These bozos are no fools. There’s a reason that Tax Day is a half a year away from election day. That reason is that they couldn’t get it any further away.
So, when either candidate talks about corporate taxes, regulation, and fees, I think they are, possibly unknowingly (But I don’t beleive that) DEFRAUDING us from know the true cost of how badly we are being ROBBED!
sigh, imho,
wake up sheeple,
fjohn
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POLITICS: Debate reaction. Who cares what big gooferment wants!
Saturday, September 27, 2008I too listened to the debate. Who cares! Both are big gooferment interventionists. Neither understand that the ‘crisis’ is created by the gooferment — both sides have their hands int he mess up to their elbows. The D’s created Fannie and Freddie; they tax and spend. The R’s are not much better — they promised smaller and delivered bigger; they borrow and spend. Neither of them nderstand the problem starts with gooferment and ends there. The gooferment creates the problem and then rescues us from it. A plague on both their houses.
Only freedom and liberty can prevail in the long run. Force begets force. If I can’t convince you that something is a good idea, then maybe it isn’t. I have to be humble enough to accept that.
I won’t, can’t, force you to do what you don’t wnat to do. I’d like you to do the same for me. So take your government off my neck, please!
I don’t want to buy 80% of AIG. I’d like my tax money that was stolen back. I don’t want to pay for all the things you think are “good for me”. Let me keep my money and spend it on what I think is good for me. If I make mistakes, so be it. They are MY mistakes. Please don’t inflict YOUR mistakes on me.
Take a look at the little flash movie at http://www.isil.org/resources/introduction.swf becasue it says it better than I can.
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POLITICAL: “I vote small government. Every issue. Every time. No exceptions. No excuses.”
Thursday, September 25, 2008
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POLITICAL: 2008 Boston Tea Party
Wednesday, September 24, 2008The Boston Tea Party supports a constitutional amendment a) repealing section 4 of the 14th amendment; b) prohibiting future indebtedness and deficit spending on the part of the federal government; and c) repudiating all federal government debt and debt service obligations accrued prior to the ratification of said amendment.
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POLITICS: He has to, HAS TO, be kidding?
Thursday, September 18, 2008http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080918/ap_on_el_pr/biden_taxes_3
Biden calls paying higher taxes a patriotic act
By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 41 minutes ago
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WASHINGTON – Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Thursday that paying more in taxes is the patriotic thing to do for wealthier Americans. In a new TV ad that repeats widely debunked claims about the Democratic tax plan, the Republican campaign calls Obama’s tax increases “painful.”
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JSMH (Just Shaking My Head)
The thief robs you and then tells you that “giving” them more is patriotic?
Try idiotic!
Just like them.
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POLITICS: One of the few cogent arguments for O?
Wednesday, September 17, 2008http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/davenport4.html
John McCain and Thinking the Unthinkable
by Charles Davenport
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I think it imperative, and very possibly a matter of national survival, that Barack Obama, and not John McCain, becomes president. Yes, it will mean higher taxes and boondoggle social programs and yes, he has called for more troops in Afghanistan and waffled on any number of key issues.
But Obama, or even Joe Biden, will be better able to act prudently in a time of crisis and not plunge our country into a war with Putin’s Russia. We should seek friendship with Russia, not war.
We need not fear Moslem terrorists. But we should rightly fear an intemperate man like John McCain, and the clueless Sarah Palin.
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I’m not so sure that this is the argument.
O’s tax raising and corrupt beginnings make him seem the GREATER of two evils.
I’m annoyed at a system that prevents me from voting for whom I want. I’m forever compelled to select the lesser of two evils.
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POLITICAL: The moral hazzard aka when the gooferment picks winners and losers!
Wednesday, September 17, 2008http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122156561931242905.html
* SEPTEMBER 16, 2008
U.S. to Take Over AIG in $85 Billion Bailout;
Central Banks Inject Cash as Credit Dries Up
Emergency Loan Effectively Gives Government Control of Insurer;
Historic Move Would Cap 10 Days That Reshaped U.S. Finance
By MATTHEW KARNITSCHNIG, DEBORAH SOLOMON, LIAM PLEVEN and JON E. HILSENRATH
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The U.S. government seized control of American International Group Inc. — one of the world’s biggest insurers — in an $85 billion deal that signaled the intensity of its concerns about the danger a collapse could pose to the financial system.
The step marks a dramatic turnabout for the federal government, which had been strongly resisting overtures from AIG for an emergency loan or some intervention that would prevent the insurer from falling into bankruptcy. Just last weekend, the government essentially pulled the plug on Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., allowing the big investment bank to go under instead of giving it financial support. This time, the government decided AIG truly was too big to fail.
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Sorry, but the gooferment should NOT be picking winners and losers. Sorry “Lehman Brothers” stockholders and employees, you lose. Fannie and Freddie, you win. Fannie and Freddie CEOs get big golden parachutes; so they win big.
Who’s the biggest losers? Why the American Taxpayers, of course, silly rabbit!
Get ready Ford and GM retirees, you’re screwing is just around the corner!
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POLITICAL: Obama ” … tax hikes … neighborliness.”?
Monday, September 15, 2008“If I am sitting pretty and you’ve got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it (the tax hikes) but she can’t, what’s the big deal for me to say I’m going to pay a little bit more. That is neighborliness.” Obama
No, I’d call that Socialism.
Car jockeys in Vegas make more than I do. It’s only fair that they be “neighborly” and send me some of their earnings?
And, guess who decides what is your “fair share”? The gooferment lead by the Socialist In Chief.
It’s one thing for me to decide voluntarily to support a charity like Homefront in Mercer County, that actually helps women and families on welfare to move off the gooferment dole and out on their own. It’s quite another for the gooferment in DC and Trenton to take money form me by force to put these people on welfare in the first place. From whence, they can’t escape. Modern day gooferment slavery! In the first case, I’m giving to charity; in the second, it’s armed robbery like the Mafia.
The big deal Candidate Obama is that you are supporting and expanding an immoral enterprise.
Amazing that folks don’t see these politicians for what they are. Mafia Dons!
Argh!
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POLITICS: The “cost” of the absurd drug war
Thursday, September 11, 2008http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-barr/federal-drug-war-rethough_b_125458.html
Federal Drug War Rethought
Bob Barr
Posted September 10, 2008 | 04:12 PM (EST)
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It is obvious that, like Prohibition’s effort to eradicate alcohol usage, drug prohibition has not succeeded. Despite enormous law enforcement efforts — including the dedicated service of many thousands of professional men and women — the government has not halted drug use. Indeed, the problem is worse today than in 1972, when Richard Nixon first coined the phrase “War on Drugs.”
Whether we like it or not, tens of millions of Americans have used and will continue to use drugs. Yet in 2005 we spent more than $12 billion on federal drug enforcement efforts. Another $30 billion went to incarcerate non-violent drug offenders.
These people must live forever with the scarlet letter P for prison. Only luck saved even presidents and candidates for president from bearing the same mark, which would have disqualified them from not only high political office, but also many more commonplace jobs.
The federal drug laws affect even those who have never smoked (or inhaled!) a marijuana cigarette. One of the lessons I learned while serving in Congress is how power tends to concentrate in Washington, and how that concentration of power begets more power and threatens individual liberty. The ever-expanding drug war is a perfect illustration of this principle.
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It saddens me to think of the cost of the gooferment’s quote war on drugs end quote.
I know some Manhattan College students who’s lives were ruined by it. Even back in the Sixties, I knew it was wrong. A killer. My best friend in high school, who flunked out of Manhattan Engineering, dropped out due to the Vietnam Era Draft, and fell into the druggie crowd. Because I my security clearance and the new “war on drugs”, I could not afford to be anywhere around the stuff. So, he and I parted ways. I never saw him again. He was killed on the Beltway in a traffic accident. A casualty of the gooferment’s war. Either the VietNam war or the War on Drugs.
When America get it’s head screwed on straight, we’ll as a nation realize that Prohibition doesn’t work! Period. What peopel put in their own body is their own business. MYOB. And, there ain’t a single thing you or I can do about the decisions that others make. Anything we think will prevent it, like laws, jails, and fines, merely inflict a terrible cost on the unfortunate user who happens to get caught and us. Us, as a society, where we lose our Fourth Amendment rights, where we can’t buy antihistamine wothut a hassle, and where we suffer the collateral damage in gang violence. Just like Al Cappone in the Twenties.
Want to end gang violence? Just have the gooferment walk away from regulation. Ever see a Coke versus Pepsi shoot out? How about Bud and Miller duking it out on the street? Sending vast amounts of money to drug gangs in Mexico, drug kingpins in Columbia, or the terrorists in Afghanistan! We can end that in a heartbeat.
Legalize, deregulate, and wipe out the age restrictions. End all restrictions. And, for good measure allow WalMart to run it.
Will children get drugs? Yes! Do you think that the current system prevents it? Dreamer!
It’s the Libertarian assertion that a free market in drugs will have much less collateral damage than the current insane ‘system’.
42B$ will pay for a lot of things. Drug treatment, education, and giant tax reduction.
Now, what will all the unemployed drug dealers do?
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POLITICAL: UK PM opines that O should be Prez!
Thursday, September 11, 2008Gordon Brown triggers row with John McCain by ‘backing’ Barack Obama
Gordon Brown has triggered a potential row with John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate, after apparently backing Barack Obama – breaking convention not to get involved in foreign elections.
By Robert Winnett, Deputy Political Editor and Tom Leonard
Last Updated: 9:05AM BST 10 Sep 2008
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Oh that’s going to help O with the American people.
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POLITICS: Maybe THAT misstep?
Wednesday, September 10, 2008http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/09/09/obama-attacks-gop-tickets-mantra-of-change/
September 9, 2008, 6:23 pm
Obama Puts Different Twist on Lipstick
Amy Chozick reports on the presidential race from Lebanon, Virginia.
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What’s the difference between a more hopeful kind of politics and old-fashioned attacks? Lipstick.
Barack Obama says the John McCain-Sarah Palin policies don’t represent change, they’re “just calling the same thing something different.”
“You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig,” Obama said during a town-hall style event here Tuesday night.
The comment played on Republican vice presidential candidate Palin’s joke during the Republican National Convention that the only difference between a pit bull and a hockey mom was lipstick.
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Given my opinion that this race will be “LOST”; not “WON”. It appears that the O campaign is, are, on the erge of stepping on their … … putting it politely … … their tongues. I would have deleted all references to lipsticks and pigs. When I heard this, I said to myself: “Self, He’s really calling the sitting GOvernor of Alaska a pig? Has he lost his mind?”
Yup, I bet that’s what others heard.
Hit her on the issues. Better yet, hit McC on the issues. The O campaign is acting like they are running against the VP candidate.
LOL, it is quite humorous to see these wanna be tyrants rassel for the right to tell people what to do!
Sheeple need the Massa!
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POLITICAL: “price controls”
Monday, September 8, 2008http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2008/09/real-economy.html
Sunday, September 07, 2008
The real economy
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Forget the stock market. I’m standing in the Stop&Shop and looking at the milk prices: $4.29 a gallon.
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Interesting. Perhaps now you might want to forgo the gooferment’s price supports and price controls on stuff. Remember WashingtonDC’s solution of energy forever by gasohol out of corn. (A political payoff to ADM and the Farm states.) Think that might have some relation to food prices skyrocketing? Feed prices go up with food prices. Cost of milk goes up. Gas and diesel go up so the price of things carried in trucks goes up.
I can’t wait for the gooferment’s solution to “save” us from these problems!
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