| Author | Message | ||
     Ft_bstrd |
Warren Buffet advocates for higher taxes because it reduces or eliminates competition for the investments he wants to make. He already has his wealth. He just doesn't want YOU to have wealth. If you do, you will seek return on that wealth and will want to compete in the open marketplace for opportunities for that investment in the same places he does. The stock market is an auction. The greater the number of bidders, the higher the stock prices climb. When the number of investors falls below the number of sellers, the prices fall. Buffett makes his money on identifying and purchasing troubled companies and then turning them around. If you have excess capital, you can compete with him for these same troubled companies. If there is NO competition for these companies, Buffett gets to name HIS terms and the company has to either take his terms or go out of business. Ask Harley Davidson at $600m and 15%: http://247wallst.com/2009/02/03/warren-buffet-1/ | ||
| Reindog |
The class envy and hatred daily promoted by the person currently in the White House is a red herring and will ensnare the middle class. This has already happened and is still in progress. It is called the Alternative Minimum Tax. The rich can't and WON'T be taxed to solve our drug habit of unconstitutional overspending. It is the Middle Class who will slowly, imperceptibly slowly, be defined as being rich as it is doubtful Obama's definition of rich will be pegged to the accelerating inflation that is now happening. Think about it. $250K in California is not the same $250K in Ohio. I would like to earn $250K but folks, it just doesn't come even close to being considered rich. But fret not, with inflation, you who presently engage in class envy, will be making that kind of money and then the eye of hatred can be turned towards you. Think. Think. Think. So if we are to analyze the Leftist ideology promoted by way too many deluded Americans, we are left with the question of where the money to solve the Debt Crisis will come from via taxation. The Rich CAN'T and WON'T pay. The Poor CAN'T and WON'T pay. Who's left? Hmmm...Gee...I wonder who? These avaricious bastards are targeting you and your children but they will never admit it. Don't listen to Professor Canfield at your own risk. The solution to our problems is right before our eyes but many blind, deluded, and envy filled Americans fail to comprehend the obvious. Who is John Galt? (Message edited by reindog on December 11, 2011) | ||
| Cityxslicker |
Interesting times indeed. | ||
| Kenm123t |
City I fear we are getting both from this admistration | ||
| Blake |
Those MTV ads are relevant. I wish they'd do similar concerning islamist perpetrated genocide. | ||
| Moxnix |
Revoking the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 last week will give our military something to do when the the foreign expeditions wind down. | ||
| Blake |
Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both. That constitutes the entire Posse Comitatus Act. Friday, December 2, 2011 (Message edited by Blake on December 12, 2011) | ||
| Blake |
In summary, Rubio asserts the following: Section 1031... There is no language that could possibly be construed as repealing the Posse Comitatus Act and allowing the US military to supplant your local police department in carrying out typical law enforcement activities. | ||
| Moxnix |
Hey, I'm not abandoning my blinding paranoia based on any facts. | ||
| Cityxslicker |
The new USPHS troops.... not a branch of the military, not subject to the Pentagon, Joint Chiefs, Congress... and as of yet - not the Constitution either. And ARMED. to be deployed in response to national 'emergency'.... gotta gin up a 'crisis' The influenza pandemic of 2012 is perfect, especially since Rosche again has the exclusive contract for the H1N3 vaccine.... hello Chimera, meet Belerofon The WHO is already ramping up for the 'flu' season of next year - they are planning on it being 'big' tin foil hat - firmly affixed. "We are the Government, and we are here to help - for your own good" | ||
| Moxnix |
I never shoulda' left the Olympic Peninsula. At least I'd have cedar plank salmon with mushrooms, fiddle head ferns, moss tea and all the unarmed lefties in Port Townsend to take useful things away from. | ||
| Oldog |
The solution to our problems is right before our eyes but many blind, deluded, and envy filled Americans fail to comprehend the obvious. Who is John Galt? "I am John Galt"... out the socialist bastiges} | ||
| Aesquire |
Heard a partial interview with Congressman Allen West. Glenn Beck show... http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/12/12/why-does-congr essman-allen-west-support-the-national-defense-aut horization-act/ radio was on at work, but I missed most of it... Because, unlike the Occupiers, I was working. What I caught was, yes, a US citizen in the US suspected of association with terrorists, can be kidnapped and held indefinitely at Gitmo without trial or counsel. Philisophically, a truism is that any power a government takes from the people is never returned. States of emergency tend to never get canceled. Temporary powers, aren't. Can we detain Congressmen that we suspect have broken the law? Seems fair to me. Isn't "Fairness" the current buzzword? | ||
| Aesquire |
Hey, I'm not abandoning my blinding paranoia based on any facts. Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. | ||
| Blake |
I don't see it Patrick. Language seems pretty clear as does the constitution. Too funny Mox.. | ||
| Oldog |
As I listen to the crap from the potus I am left to wonder how any one of minimal intelegence can be persuaded? His hope and change = hate and envy, and his record of accomplishments is no good As for Romney's marriage stand, I agree with him. Gays will co habit, they just want the tax breaks the tax code needs to be altered.. Why can we not have a status for same sex partnerships the whole debate is silly personally oh I don't hate gays.. I do hate the mess the current democrats have made, many need to be outed.... City how is the "shadow army" for the usphs being funded? who do they answer to? In the event the socialists try to take over I hope that the military steps in and "Defends the constitution" | ||
| Cityxslicker |
That trillion dollars over 10 years ..... it is a black hole of spending access - The charter for the force is two paragraphs.... The details behind the bill are what is creepy. The gripe was against the One World Government in WTO in Seattle, is that the National Guard still had to depend on the governor to give the weapons free call to engage the civilian population.... This force is National - NOT respondant to the governor, congress, Joint Chiefs, nor the Department of Defense. They are ramping up the first boot camp in Feb - so far the camp is schedule to be at USCG academy in CT. It will be interesting to see. But reading the white papers on 'Resilence' and being in a unit that did indeed have boots on the ground and ready to engage in MACDIS against Seattle citizens - you should be very aware - this group is game changing All they need is one little 'emergency' hello 'influenza 2012 H2N3'. | ||
| Sarodude |
To everyone who KNOWS all the answers and KNOWS what we're doing wrong: * At what point were you aware of an economic collapse? Year / month? Who did you tell about it? * Did you ACT on this with your wallet? What were those acts? Did you alter your major purchases (house, car)? Did you move investment money around? Seriously. -Saro | ||
| Sifo |
* At what point were you aware of an economic collapse? Year / month? Who did you tell about it? I first remember having it dawn on me that we were heading in an unsustainable direction in about 1972. I brought it up with my 8th grade history teacher one day after school. True story. | ||
| Chauly |
1977, when my then-boss at TVA tried to strong-arm me into buying US Savings Bonds. "Why would I lend the government money? They are just encouraged to spend more..." | ||
| Cityxslicker |
The Invocation of HIPAA, 1996-7, and the repeal of Glass- Steagall 1997-8, and the Clinton dibocal in Somalia with the AC-130's ; we proved we were more PC than might - and it has slipped ever since. I divested assets domestically, and moved them oveseas, moved my 401K exclusively into international funds, and set up a prepositioned cache and contact tree with the hype to Y2K - smartest thing I ever did. | ||
| Pwnzor |
* At what point were you aware of an economic collapse? Year / month? Who did you tell about it? * Did you ACT on this with your wallet? What were those acts? Did you alter your major purchases (house, car)? Did you move investment money around? I knew we were going this way early on, or at least I knew what my grandfather was telling me. I don't keep my savings in a bank. Beyond that, I'm not really willing to divulge in a public forum. | ||
| Strokizator |
I saw this latest bubble as being unsustainable and told my business partner it was about to crash. We changed strategy and hunkered down for the long term. Before you think I'm smarter than the average guy, if I had known this crap would have gone on as long as it has, I'd have liquidated the company back then, taken the money and retired. As it stands now, we are in a good cash position to take advantage of things when the economy turns around. If it never does, we should still be better off than most. | ||
| Oldog |
Im a little slow here what is MACDIS I have to wonder what kind of person who works for a para millitary outfit based here in the u.s. will turn on their own country men ? will our own millitary stand idly by watching when the brown shirts march? when you were sworn in did you not take an oath to defend the constitution? short of a pandemic plague or a nuclear war why would voting be suspended? Bev Perdu drew heavy fire for a semi serious quip about suspending voting I dont think that the sheeple will lie down for much more 10% approval rating for congress I did not see the mess coming over the years, but I see it clearly now and am stunned how any one could not see it or the solution.. | ||
| Cityxslicker |
Military Action (against) Civil Disturbance. Riot gear, billy clubs, and group arrests at least... Tear gas, Flash-bangs, Fire Truck water cannons, sound emmitting / UV trucks at next.... Live Fire, targeted individuals, detainments, interrogations, at worse disappearances, seizures, internment camps at very worse and before you say it wont happen here - it already was on the plate. We were 1/2 hour and one call away from going hot, loud and heavy. Seattle and WTO would have been a very different look had the governer said the State Police was 'over-run' The new go word is 'Resilence' and when you hear it from the FED; FEMA, USPHS Cadre, DHS, you know that goose is cooked. (and NONE of it is about protecting the Constitution - it is all about entrenched, status quo, largess - and in this case - Obama and his Puppet Masters. | ||
| Aesquire |
Blake, trying not to be overtly paranoid, but would you believe that this country already has had internment camps for ethnic minorities? Mass sterilizations for other ethnic minorities, the unfit, and the poor? ( a subset of "unfit" by the Eugenics crowd ) All in the distant past, of course. Back in the 20th century. NOT incidentally, the actions of Progressives, nearly the same ideology as the present Occupiers of the White House. ( nearly because the Progressives are not usually the anti-colonial haters of western civilization the same way that is the legacy of "the Dreams of My Father" and the post adolescent hero worship of a father that abandoned a boy and his mother..... A really odd syndrome. You'll have to get the technobabble name for that one from one trained in Psycho jargon. ) When was I aware of an economic collapse? James Earl Carter was Prez, I lost a good paying job in Iran because of the coup aided by his admin, ( and missed being a Hostage by days ) lost another job due to a major corp being strip mined for profitable parts to sell & executive bonuses, and fell into the previous longest extension of Unemployment until the Obama Regime. Actions taken? Worked my butt off for decades, saw the writing on the wall for the next deliberate oil crisis, ( Jimmy the Arab money loving carpenter was prez for the first one I lived through ) so bought a high mpg diesel for commuting. Now job hunting while the company I have worked for for 18 years is playing Donner Party and planning to cut a quarter of a million workers, trash customer service completely, and make itself so hated that it's demise will be met with parties, instead of sorrow at the loss of a multi-century institution that has served millions more fairly than any other part of our social structure. | ||
| Kenm123t |
My ex works for the post office The unions destroyed the PO As they say i was married to the PO for 9 years. The place is a Zoo | ||
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| Buellinmke |
30 Major U.S. Corporations Paid More to Lobby Congress Than Income Taxes, 2008-2010. This is a problem. Source | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
With such a large trough of cash flowing through Washington, you'd be an idiot to not hire people to get you some of it. The problem is the size and scope of the Federal government not that corporations seek to get a piece of the pie. The way to starve out the lobbyists is to starve out Washington. |
