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March 30, 2007 by mr_flood.
This is where your endlessly increasing taxes go
SEN. Dianne Feinstein has resigned from the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee. As previously and extensively reviewed in these pages, Feinstein was chairperson and ranking member of MILCON for six years, during which time she had a conflict of interest due to her husband Richard C. Blum’s ownership of two major defense contractors, who were awarded billions of dollars for military construction projects approved by Feinstein.
Remember this when next you’re confronted by someone wishing to raise your taxes in the name of ‘fairness’ or ‘equality’. All that these taxes do is take earned income from the wealthy with no political friends and transfer it to the wealthy with political friends or their bureaucratic underlings.
From The Corner
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March 29, 2007 by mr_flood.
Iran “Let’s mess with Britain”
15 hostages taken
Britain “We condemn this action, let our people go!”
Iran “No”
Britain “We strongly condemn this action, let our people go!”
Iran “No”
Britain “Hmm, maybe we there’s not enough condemnation goin’ on around here, let’s get some more folks condemning”
UN “We condemn this action, now let their people go!”
Iran “No”
UN “We strongly condemn this action, now let their people go!”
Iran “No”
Britain “…”
Britain “Well, that’s all I’ve got”
Iran “lol”
Stay tuned for our next episode where Britain threatens rising tension!
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March 29, 2007 by mr_flood.
Is there no end to the Imperial Federal Government? No end to unabated thievery? No end to indentured servitude?
The House version increases non-defense, non-emergency spending by $22.5 billion for the next fiscal year, with such spending rising 2.4 percent in each of the next three years. To pay for these increases, the resolution raises taxes close to $400 billion over five years — about $100 billion more than what the Senate passed.
The breakdown of the bill on the House floor today (resembling the Senate version) raises taxes an average of $1,795 on 115 million taxpayers in 2011. Some 26 million small-business owners would average $3,960 more in taxes. The decreased number of Americans actually subject to income taxes will all be paying higher taxes, and 5 million low-income Americans will be returned to the rolls.
They take ever increasing sums of our money and shovel it into the gaping maw of federal bureaucracy and the pockets of their political sycophants and it pisses me off. If it doesn’t piss you off you’re an idiot.
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March 29, 2007 by mr_flood.
When it comes to the flexing of dictatorial muscle, you cannot top the Dems. In the Repub dominated Congress Dems were allowed a last chance to amend or kill a bill during floor debate by offering a motion to recommit, or send the measure back to a committee with orders to make specified changes. Well Steny Hoyer will have no more of that
“We don’t think that’s appropriate,” Hoyer said. “We don’t think that serves the legislative process, and we’re going to address that.”
It’s a power grab, which if done with Repugs in charge would have been lambasted from every news outlet in the country. But Dems are in charge now so it will be ignored, and if not ignored, cheered on.
From The Corner
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March 28, 2007 by mr_flood.
There’s been much canter walling about Rupert Murdoch being a right wing ideologue running a right wing propaganda machine named Fox News. Well, now we have a journalist coming clean about the pressures brought to bear against him to write articles with a specific bias. From Junk Science
You were right. I am being told what to write.
In fact, I’ve even been threatened with the law if I don’t toe the line on global warming, which news outfits like ours now use to sell themselves to young readers.
Read the rest.
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March 27, 2007 by mr_flood.
The NY Times has an article today about a place in Arizona called ‘Heat Invades Cool Heights Over Arizona Desert’. It’s a two page lamentation over the so-called destruction of Summerhaven AZ,
a natural air-conditioned retreat for people in Tucson, one of the so-called sky islands of southern Arizona. When it is 105 degrees in the city, it is at least 20 degrees cooler up here near the 9,157-foot summit of Mount Lemmon.
The article tries desperately to link anecdotal evidence about changes observed by local residents with AGW. What I find interesting, though, that the above quote is the only time specific temperatures are mentioned. For example
The American Southwest has been warming for nearly 30 years, according to records that date to the late 19th century. And the region is in the midst of an eight-year drought. Both developments could be within the range of natural events.
The question that jumps off the page at you is, how much warming? The answer seems to be nothing above normal. They spend a lot of time talking about recent fires and forest management. But what’s the point? The only one I can garner is that they have no real proof that AGW is causing these changes but they’d really like you to think it is.
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March 27, 2007 by mr_flood.
The following article highlights the government’s proficiency at handling immigration, headline ‘
The report by the Homeland Security Department’s inspector general found that the effectiveness of teams assigned to find the fugitives was hampered by “insufficient detention capacity, limitations of an immigration database and inadequate working space.”
Even though more than $204 million was allocated for 52 fugitive operations teams since 2003, a backlog of 623,292 cases existed as of August 2006, the report said.
Of course, like a jack-in-the-box, we’ll be told the solution is even more money. The government does things so well, in so many areas, I think it will be a really great idea to put them in charge of everyone’s healthcare. That way, we can all live to be 500 and it will only cost us pennies a day!
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March 27, 2007 by mr_flood.
Interesting article from the Tax Foundation
Overall, we find that America’s lowest-earning one-fifth of households received roughly $8.21 in government spending for each dollar of taxes paid in 2004. Households with middle-incomes received $1.30 per tax dollar, and America’s highest-earning households received $0.41. Government spending targeted at the lowest-earning 60 percent of U.S. households is larger than what they paid in federal, state and local taxes. In 2004, between $1.03 trillion and $1.53 trillion was redistributed downward from the two highest income quintiles to the three lowest income quintiles through government taxes and spending policy.
I have no idea concerning the political leanings of this organization but common sense seems to lead to this type of a conclusion.
If true, it’s no wonder government spending continues to climb. The poor vastly outnumber the rich and so can continue to vote themselves ever increasing hand-outs. One of the failings of democracy.
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March 20, 2007 by mr_flood.
At a recent fund raiser Mrs. Clinton had this to say
She also pledged to promote energy independence and drew laughs from the crowd when she described replacing ordinary light bulbs with energy-efficient models and shutting off lights to conserve power.
“I turn off a light and say, ‘Take that,
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Iran,’ and “Take that, Venezuela.’ We should not be sending our money to people who are not going to support our values,” she said.
I’m wondering did Mrs. Clinton and the writer of the article get the fact that the audience was laughing at her because of the stupidity of her statement? Does she even know that electricity in this nation isn’t generated by the burning of oil? That it comes from home-grown sources like coal and hydro? Will anyone in the MSM highlight this gaffe?
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March 20, 2007 by mr_flood.
Great article from Mark Kirkorkian at The Corner
After the Swift meatpacking raids in Greeley. Colo., Americans lined up out the door of the hiring office seeking the newly freed-up positions. Then, after the Crider chicken plant in Stillmore, Ga., was cleared of its illegal aliens, “For the first time in years, local officials say, Crider aggressively sought workers from the area’s state-funded employment office.” And now, after the raid on a New Bedford, Mass., military contractor (that has caused such hyperventilation from the party apparat in the people’s republic), guess what? Yup. Americans in that high-unemployment city are actually getting hired. (see cable news video here)
So, can we finally retire “jobs Americans won’t do”?
It just takes common sense to know that companies want illegal immigration so that they can depress wages. It’s a shame that those lobbying against immigration enforcement can’t see the harm they’re causing to so many Americans.
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