Reinke Faces Life

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/09/08/address-president-joint-session-congress

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The purpose of the American Jobs Act is simple: to put more people back to work and more money in the pockets of those who are working. It will create more jobs for construction workers, more jobs for teachers, more jobs for veterans, and more jobs for long-term unemployed. (Applause.) It will provide — it will provide a tax break for companies who hire new workers, and it will cut payroll taxes in half for every working American and every small business. (Applause.) It will provide a jolt to an economy that has stalled, and give companies confidence that if they invest and if they hire, there will be customers for their products and services. You should pass this jobs plan right away. (Applause.)

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The agreement we passed in July will cut government spending by about $1 trillion over the next 10 years. It also charges this Congress to come up with an additional $1.5 trillion in savings by Christmas. Tonight, I am asking you to increase that amount so that it covers the full cost of the American Jobs Act. And a week from Monday, I’ll be releasing a more ambitious deficit plan — a plan that will not only cover the cost of this jobs bill, but stabilize our debt in the long run.

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But know this: The next election is 14 months away. And the people who sent us here — the people who hired us to work for them — they don’t have the luxury of waiting 14 months. (Applause.) Some of them are living week to week, paycheck to paycheck, even day to day. They need help, and they need it now.

I don’t pretend that this plan will solve all our problems. It should not be, nor will it be, the last plan of action we propose. What’s guided us from the start of this crisis hasn’t been the search for a silver bullet. It’s been a commitment to stay at it — to be persistent — to keep trying every new idea that works, and listen to every good proposal, no matter which party comes up with it.

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Did you think that in the time that the nation waited this should have been a complete proposal?

The 1T$ over 10 years is a phantom cut.

I’d prefer a presentation that said:

“Let’s take 1% from these departments that equates to X dollars; from that let’s spend A dollars on this, B dollars on this, and C dollar on this.”

Imagine what a difference of attitude?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUHlIPJTMIg&feature=player_embedded

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http://bigpeace.com/hfontova/2011/08/30/michele-bachmann-rocks-florida/

Michele Bachmann Rocks Florida
Posted by Humberto Fontova Aug 30th 2011 at 6:37 pm
in Africa, Congress, Cuba, Featured Story, History, Humanitarian, Obama, Politics, Strategy, human rights, veterans

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Fifty years ago when the smoke cleared and their ammo had been expended to the very last bullet, when a hundred of them lay dead and hundreds more wounded, after three days of relentless battle, barely 1,400 of them — without air support (from the U.S. Carriers just offshore) and without a single supporting shot by naval artillery (from U.S. cruisers and destroyers poised just offshore) — had squared off against 31,000 Castro troops, his entire air force and squadrons of Soviet tanks. The Cuban freedom-fighters inflicted casualties of 20 to 1 against their Soviet-armed and led enemies. Their feat of arms still amazes professional military men.

“They fought magnificently and were not defeated,” stressed Marine Col. Jack Hawkins a multi-decorated WWII and Korea vet who helped train them. “They were abandoned on the beach without the supplies and support promised by their sponsor, the Government of the United States.”

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The story here isn’t Michelle Bachman. The story is the Bay of Pigs perfidy.

(And as a big Gooferment republican, I’m sure she’d do the same thing. Slip the knife in anyone’s back when expeditious.)

Why would any “ally” of the USA trust us?

I wouldn’t.

I saw that lesson, as pointed out by a WW2 marine turned Christian Brother in grammar school, in the ‘57 Hungarian Revolution. We listened to the VOA broadcasts in history class. It was obvious. Would you start a nuclear war to stand by revolutionaries?

“We, The Sheeple” didn’t.

And we do it over and over again.

And the lesson is not lost by those who oppose us in the field. We can be outlasted.

Sadly, too true. Ron Paul is right. Let’s MYOB!

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http://lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams95.1.html

Race and Economics
by Walter E. Williams

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The National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 and the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 broadened the number of workers covered by minimum wages, with negative consequences for black employment across a much wider range of industries. Good intentions motivate most Americans in their support for minimum wage laws, but for compassionate public policy, one should examine the laws’ effect. That’s seen by putting oneself in the place of an employer and asking, “If I must pay $7.25 an hour to no matter whom I hire, does it pay me to hire a worker who’s so unfortunate as to have skills that enable him to produce, say, only $4 worth of value an hour?” Most employers would view hiring such a worker as a losing economic proposition; therefore, a minimum wage law discriminates against low-skilled workers by reducing employment opportunity.

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I’ve ranted before about the minimum wage law before. Obviously, I don’t like it.

If I was King or President, I’d nuke it.

It’s simple. It’s immediately productive. And, it requires no increase in Gooferment.

As a matter of fact, we can reduce the number of bureaucrats to take all these new “minimum” wage jobs.

And for those wanting to protect poor families, don’t we have the earned income tax credit?

That’s the way to celebrate “LABOR” day.

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http://www.wimp.com/kakusecret/

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 9:45 AM, LUDDITE wrote:

Interesting discussion.

Click here: Dr. Michio Kaku: America has a secret weapon. [VIDEO]

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So why don’t we have a little L libertarian immigration policy? Open up the borders to folks who want to work. Show up at the border, get a free medical check, give your dna – fingerprint – picture, agree not to take welfare, and here’s your “green card” — welcome to America, land of opportunity. Commit a crime, you’re on the first thing going “home”.

And, while we are at it, let’s ween our own folks off welfare. Welfare is reduced 5% per year for the next 20 years. Minimum wage decreased 5% per year for the next 20 years.

“(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs” ended.

Bet we’ll have a boom!

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http://www.downsizedcfoundation.org/blog/how-warren-buffett-is-wrong

How Warren Buffett Is Wrong
Posted by Perry Willis — August 21, 2011

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We disagree. We think Mr. Buffett’s investments do more social good than his taxes do. Here’s why…

None of Mr. Buffett’s companies use force to compel people to do business with them, but everything The States does relies on coercion. This automatically makes Mr. Buffett’s investments better than his tax payments. In addition….

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Mr. Buffett is also scamming us in another way. He wants us to believe that wealthy Americans have been doing less to fund the Leviathan State. He wrote in The New York Times….

“Since 1992, the I.R.S. has compiled data from the returns of the 400 Americans reporting the largest income. In 1992, the top 400 had aggregate taxable income of $16.9 billion and paid federal taxes of 29.2% on that sum. In 2008, the aggregate income of the highest 400 had soared to $90.9 billion… but the rate paid had fallen to 21.5%”

We say that Mr. Buffett is using percentages in order to deceive. Here’s how those percentages work out in terms of dollars….

In 1992 the top 400 wealth generators paid $4.9 billion in taxes.

In 2008 the top 400 wealth generators paid $19.5 billion in taxes.

Can you see how Mr. Buffett’s scam works? The percentage of income paid in taxes went down, but the amount of taxes paid in dollars actually ROSE, by a multiple of 4 in 16 years!

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And, he has reinforced the image that the takers in the USA have a moral argument to take more.

“Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to.” Colonel Jessep in A Few Good Men played by Jack Nicholson

While Warren has more money than I ever will, it doesn’t give him “high priesthood” status.

The Gooferment is the referee; not the “beauty contest judge”.

We need more rowers and less free riders!

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FROM THE DRUDGE REPORT

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BLOOMBERG PULLS TRIGGER: ORDERS 370,000 TO FLEE…
Staying behind ‘is against the law’…
Might shut off power in low-lying areas…
RESIDENTS IGNORE MAYOR’S ORDER…

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This caught my eye by implying that Bloomberg was going to shut down the power. I thought: “Who’s he to insert himself between ConEd and their Customers?”

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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/con_city_warns_of_power_cutoff_as_4mYxvuBCisJTm06rBaBnLJ

City braces for Irene’s arrival: Transit shut down, some power could be cut
By CANDICE M. GIOVE, DAVID SEIFMAN and WILSON DIZARD
Last Updated: 5:15 PM, August 27, 2011
Posted: 11:36 AM, August 27, 2011

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Meanwhile, Con Edison considered zapping power to lower Manhattan starting sometime tomorrow at 2 a.m. and 10 a.m. – leaving lights out for up to three days.

Con Ed feared that flooding salt water would ruin and short out two underground networks.

“If salt water gets on these cables when they are being used the damage is substantial,” Mayor Bloomberg said.

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Pretty sad statement about the ConEd electrical infrastructure.

Has to be because it’s a “regulated” monopoly?

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http://dumpdc.wordpress.com/2011/08/23/%E2%80%9Ccome-out-of-her-my-people%E2%80%9D/

“Come Out Of Her, My People”
by Chuck Baldwin

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(Editor’s Note: I wrote the article “Who Should Be The State’s Mortal Enemy? about this very subject. Chuck, a pastor in Montana, frames the subject in more religious terms than I did. If you like a good sermon, read on.)

It is no hyperbole to say that the vast majority of today’s churches do not remotely resemble the New Testament pattern. In the first place, the Church was never intended to be a government corporation! Yet, that is exactly what every 501c3 non-profit “religious” organization is: it is a government-created corporation. In the eyes of the government, pastors, elders, and deacons are not pastors, elders, and deacons; they are corporate officers. And put to the test, virtually any and all of these so-called “pastors,” “elders,” and “deacons,” will confirm that they are corporate officers. So, right out of the gate we must understand that we are dealing with government corporations and corporate officers, not with New Testament churches, pastors, elders, and deacons.

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The Gooferment absorbs everything.

The Golden Rule tells you who’s running the show.

That tax exemption moderates what and how criticism is leveled at the “churches”

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http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/when-an-american-company-redomiciles-to-the-cayman-islands-what-lesson-should-we-learn

When an American Company Redomiciles to the Cayman Islands, What Lesson Should We Learn?
Posted by Daniel J. Mitchell

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Another American company has decided to expatriate for tax reasons. This process has been going on for decades, with companies giving up their U.S. charters (a form of business citizenship) and redomiciling in low-tax jurisdictions such as Bermuda, Ireland, Switzerland, Panama, Hong Kong, and the Cayman Islands.

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That “We, The Sheeple” are stupid?

There has to be a big red arrow drawn from “corporatocracy”, “crony capitalism”, and “too big to fail”.

Directly to absolute silly Gooferment diktats, policies, and other stupidity.

Even if you don’t accept my assertion that corporations don’t pay taxes, (they either pass them along to real people OR go out of business), then you must understand that if all the other “states” are ⅓ lower, where would you move your business?

The politicians and bureaucrats aren’t getting the message. I’m not sure that “We, The Sheeple” get it either. Do you?

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http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/92943.html

August 12, 2011
The War To End All Wars Continues
Posted by Christopher Manion on August 12, 2011 06:34 PM

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My father, a student in Washington at the time, led Catholics for Wilson — “We want Wilson, one time more! We want peace, we don’t want war!” But Cardinal Gibbons, aware of the unfortunately widespread anti-Catholic sentiment in the US, feared that Catholic opposition to the war would brand Catholics as “unpatriotic.” As though we loved our country more than our government? No, that we were more loyal to “Rome” than to Wilson.

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Maybe I’m a hopeless cynic.

BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), I think that “We, The Sheeple” have been being hoodwinked by the effete elite for a very long time.

Wilson ran as a supposed “peace candidate” and, once firmly ensconced in power, took the USA to war.

When do “We, The Sheeple” wake up?

In history class, we learned about the “Hundred Years War”. How can a war go on for 100 years?

Now look at Korea?

Now look at Germany?

Why?

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