OK, so lot's to talk about.
First off we have
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081114/ap_on_re_us/ike_housing_shortage
No riots, no looting, no bitching, no blaming. Just playing with the hand they are dealt. Ray-Ray Nagin take note please.
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=97844
The illustrious UN launched its "largest ever aid appeal" of over 7 billion dollars to be spent willy nilly across Africa and, get this, Iraq even after the billions we've dumped into the economy and infrastructure there. The Un (and yes I mean Un not UN because they seem to undo shit that works world wide) is worried that the global economic crisis will stifle "humanitarian funding in 2009" so rather than keeping out own countries afloat we should dump money into warlords and corrupt governments. Got it. Speaking of corruption... http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,454191,00.html That there buys a whole lot of bowls of rice.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081119/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_al_qaida_obama
Al Qaida's number two honcho called Barrack Hussein a "house negro". Personally I love this story. There were celebrations, as I predicted, in the streets of the major Muslim cities around the world and mainstream Muslims love him but, also as I predicted, the hard line Muslims hate him. Leaving the Islam is punishable by death and I don't care what Hoos says, he was born a Muslim (if nothing else due to the fact his father was Muslim) and that to the Islamists is no good at all. I recall an incident a year or so ago where a guy was beheaded for leaving the faith.
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24684272-912,00.html?from=public_rss
And in a final bit of insanity we go to Egypt where 400 teens were arrested for flirting. The report goes on to say that they are cracking down on "sexual harassment" so I'm not exactly sure how flirting applies to that but anyway, there is the story.
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Friday, November 14, 2008
Thursday, February 8, 2007
You are stupid...
Offensive rating: 10/10
Chances are that you, mister John Q. or Jane Q. public, are deaf, dumb, and blind in all matters which actually count. Yes you may have a degree. You may have a genius IQ. You may even be an esteemed professor but you still are most likely a moron.
I hate to think that the populous of the world is so inept and downright retarded but the fact is that on a daily basis I see evidence of such an affliction. Nowhere in the world is this more blazing orange than in the political world.
Speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi is demanding of the US government an Air Force equivalent of a 757 with a crew of 14 to take her from Washington to California whenever she wants. Cost of the trip is $300,000 each way. Rep John Murtha (D-PA), chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense "urged administration officials to give her what she wanted. He also happened to mention that she was in charge approving budgets so it would behoove them to comply. Previously House speakers took commercial airlines to travel.
The honorable Ms. Pelosi was also involved with getting American Samoa exempted from the minimum wage hike. Oh, by the way, Star Kist Tuna, who's parent company is Del Monte, is a major employer in American Samoa. Where is Del Monte head quartered you ask? In Nancy Pelosi's district.
Intelligent people understand why the minimum wage is a bad thing to begin with. If you don't understand I'll give you a crash course. If everybody has more money, money is worth less. If companies have to pay more for their work force, they pass the increase on to the consumer and therefor prices go up and your buying power goes down. That's pretty much it down and dirty. However minimum wage hikes appeal to the lowest common denominator of people and they are a great thing to campaign on when you have a lot of poor people in your voting pool. The more you give them for free, the more they vote for you.
So Pelosi says to the populace, "I will raise the minimum wage because I care about you." But she is smart and knows where her money comes from so doesn't do it in a place that messes with her money supply and that quite honestly most people in America have never heard of, let alone know it is subject to American policy.
What an arrogant bitch. Will she get re-elected again? I'd put my house on it. $600,000 a week buys a lot of WIC food for the poor, starving children of America. It sure as hell builds one amazing levee to protect the people of New Orleans next time they ignore a hurricane. Maybe she hates blacks... $600,000 helps an Iraq vet with no legs get his life back. It pays for a lot of heart transplants for illegals. It covers a lot of welfare checks. But instead she would prefer to use it as her personal taxi service. Friend of the poor and down trodden indeed.
We have seen this before from her ilk. King Bill and Queen Hillary have a beautiful home with a guest house for the secret service to live in. Coincidentally they charge the secret service rent in the exact amount of their mortgage each month.
And YOU, people of the world, are to blame. Because it is not just American politicians that do it. Friend of the world and ex-head of the U.N., Coffee Cup Anan, the great peace maker and embezzler of billions, was chilling in Jackson Hole, Wyoming when the tsunami hit a few years ago. Then he stood by and allowed 100% taxes from the governments on all aid that went into those backwards ass countries. He also watched as UN aid workers traded food for sex with young girls all over Africa. He was against going into Iraq, even though a UN resolution said we could, but he sent troops from all over the world into Africa to fight there. Ah yes.
I had a person tell me they voted for Kerry because he understood the poor better. When you say "Pass the Ketchup" and your wife's name is on it, you don't know shit about being poor.
People please stop fooling yourself. You don't know what is going on in the world. You don't even know most of what goes on in your own back yard. Pay attention! Look down the rabbit hole, Unplug from the Matrix and see what is going down.
Chances are that you, mister John Q. or Jane Q. public, are deaf, dumb, and blind in all matters which actually count. Yes you may have a degree. You may have a genius IQ. You may even be an esteemed professor but you still are most likely a moron.
I hate to think that the populous of the world is so inept and downright retarded but the fact is that on a daily basis I see evidence of such an affliction. Nowhere in the world is this more blazing orange than in the political world.
Speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi is demanding of the US government an Air Force equivalent of a 757 with a crew of 14 to take her from Washington to California whenever she wants. Cost of the trip is $300,000 each way. Rep John Murtha (D-PA), chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense "urged administration officials to give her what she wanted. He also happened to mention that she was in charge approving budgets so it would behoove them to comply. Previously House speakers took commercial airlines to travel.
The honorable Ms. Pelosi was also involved with getting American Samoa exempted from the minimum wage hike. Oh, by the way, Star Kist Tuna, who's parent company is Del Monte, is a major employer in American Samoa. Where is Del Monte head quartered you ask? In Nancy Pelosi's district.
Intelligent people understand why the minimum wage is a bad thing to begin with. If you don't understand I'll give you a crash course. If everybody has more money, money is worth less. If companies have to pay more for their work force, they pass the increase on to the consumer and therefor prices go up and your buying power goes down. That's pretty much it down and dirty. However minimum wage hikes appeal to the lowest common denominator of people and they are a great thing to campaign on when you have a lot of poor people in your voting pool. The more you give them for free, the more they vote for you.
So Pelosi says to the populace, "I will raise the minimum wage because I care about you." But she is smart and knows where her money comes from so doesn't do it in a place that messes with her money supply and that quite honestly most people in America have never heard of, let alone know it is subject to American policy.
What an arrogant bitch. Will she get re-elected again? I'd put my house on it. $600,000 a week buys a lot of WIC food for the poor, starving children of America. It sure as hell builds one amazing levee to protect the people of New Orleans next time they ignore a hurricane. Maybe she hates blacks... $600,000 helps an Iraq vet with no legs get his life back. It pays for a lot of heart transplants for illegals. It covers a lot of welfare checks. But instead she would prefer to use it as her personal taxi service. Friend of the poor and down trodden indeed.
We have seen this before from her ilk. King Bill and Queen Hillary have a beautiful home with a guest house for the secret service to live in. Coincidentally they charge the secret service rent in the exact amount of their mortgage each month.
And YOU, people of the world, are to blame. Because it is not just American politicians that do it. Friend of the world and ex-head of the U.N., Coffee Cup Anan, the great peace maker and embezzler of billions, was chilling in Jackson Hole, Wyoming when the tsunami hit a few years ago. Then he stood by and allowed 100% taxes from the governments on all aid that went into those backwards ass countries. He also watched as UN aid workers traded food for sex with young girls all over Africa. He was against going into Iraq, even though a UN resolution said we could, but he sent troops from all over the world into Africa to fight there. Ah yes.
I had a person tell me they voted for Kerry because he understood the poor better. When you say "Pass the Ketchup" and your wife's name is on it, you don't know shit about being poor.
People please stop fooling yourself. You don't know what is going on in the world. You don't even know most of what goes on in your own back yard. Pay attention! Look down the rabbit hole, Unplug from the Matrix and see what is going down.
Friday, January 19, 2007
The Tax Man Cometh
Offensive rating: 3/10
Well it is a new year and I am already thinking about taxes. Ah yes, taxes. We pay them all day, every day. We pay gas tax and sales tax on cars in order to keep our roads pot hole free (and a marvelous job we are doing too), we pay income tax, bot state and federal, we pay tax at the grocery store on the food we eat, our phones are taxed, our gadgets and gizmos are taxed, our medicine and beer are taxed, and the final kick in the nuts, we are taxed on the money we have already been taxed on when we die.
Yes we pay taxes and then more taxes. We pay taxes when most don't even realize we are paying them. Yet we still have chasm like pot-holes, sub-standard schools, mediocre police protection, politicians with expense accounts at the Bellagio, crappy cell coverage, and an all intrusive government that would rather try to catch you not paying your taxes than catch a terrorist. I know I know, all those cameras on the streets are to catch red light runners and all the phone taps are to catch "terrorists". We would never use them against Americans just trying to make their way in the world.
So now there is a man and woman in New Hampshire who have holed themselves up in their home in New Hampshire because the Man in is their front yard waiting to arrest them for not paying taxes. "Live free or die!" the man keeps yelling. His gripe, and it's a good one, is that he pays more taxes than the president of the United States and makes less money, because he doesn't know all the write offs like the pres does. Yes, indeed that does suck. However any decent accountant can get the same write offs for you and all the info is available on the net or in books. So that I think should fall on him. LLCs, S-Corps, and other things are set up to allow people who work for their money to keep it. A friend of mine made almost 2 million last year and shelled out around $875,000 to Uncle Scam. To what end? His roads are not better, he has no kids but the kids around him aren't doing any better in school, the cops still take forever to get to a problem... where is his money going?
Many say that we need higher taxes, that more money will allow us to do more things... Poppy-cock I say. Every year more and more money goes into the black hole we call the US treasury never to be seen again. If we were to raise taxes another 10% on the top earners in America would that help? DO you think our daily lives would be greatly or even marginally enhanced? Highly doubtful. In fact I would put money on it.
Here is a little of my own private tax paying history. In 2004, my first full year in real estate I made give or take $32,000. I worked 6 days a week, nights, weekends, early mornings... the whole bit. My expenses? Give or take $40,000. I had more write offs than earnings so I didn't have to pay income tax because I didn't really make anything. And on top of that I was paying interest on the loans I had to take out. I did however have to pay FICA to the tune of 15%. Yes that's a little perk of being self-employed, I don't get to split my FICA with my employer and only pay 7.5%. Nope I paid 15% on the full $32,000. I will never see that money again. Ever.
And when the option came up to the powers that be to even allow me to take a portion of it to invest for myself I was told that the American people weren't capable enough to invest that money. That we NEEDED the government to do it for us. Well let's see, when I turn 65 I will have approximately $0 from social security. Even if I took $1000 of my FICA taxes every year and stuck it in a simple savings account I would have... let's see... carry the 5... a lot more than $0.
So I continue to pay my taxes and my hero in New Hampshire will be arrested and imprissioned when the Waco-ites on his lawn finally get to him. I won't get into the frivolous things our tax money is going to, that's a blog for another time, but I will say congrats to the man who says, "To what end do I pay my taxes?"
Here is a little info courtesy of http://www.taxhistory.org/
In 2003 the Pres "made" $822,126. Riiiiiight. $727,083 of that was taxable. He paid $227,494 in taxes putting him in the 31% bracket. He had $115,661 withheld and had a $173,280 carry over from 2002. So that means he gets back (carries over) $61,451 to 2004. Not bad for making over $800,000
Now the venerable John Kerry, champion of the poor and impoverished "made" $395,338 (riiiiiiiiiiiiight) in 2003, $346,664 taxable. He had $27,277 withheld. He ended up paying a total of $90,575 meaning he paid a whopping 26% in taxes.
Now we all know they made tons more than that but they are smart and know where to put it. They understand that it's not what you make but what you keep and that any money they out into the system is lost. The great part about it is that it is legal. It is available for anybody to do. So I say get educated people. Don't be guilted into betting on a losing horse. Own don't rent, write off things for your works... do what the people in Washington do. Do what they do but make sure you pay what you owe because the IRS can just go into your bank account and take what they want. Not to mention charge "fees and interest" that would make any loan shark in Little Italy giddy. And if you don't think that your favorite political figure from either side cares more about the money than they do about you, remember this. Michael Moore owns or has owned large quantities of Halliburton and Fox news has changed content because the Saudi "royal" family owns stock.
"Live free or die!"
Well it is a new year and I am already thinking about taxes. Ah yes, taxes. We pay them all day, every day. We pay gas tax and sales tax on cars in order to keep our roads pot hole free (and a marvelous job we are doing too), we pay income tax, bot state and federal, we pay tax at the grocery store on the food we eat, our phones are taxed, our gadgets and gizmos are taxed, our medicine and beer are taxed, and the final kick in the nuts, we are taxed on the money we have already been taxed on when we die.
Yes we pay taxes and then more taxes. We pay taxes when most don't even realize we are paying them. Yet we still have chasm like pot-holes, sub-standard schools, mediocre police protection, politicians with expense accounts at the Bellagio, crappy cell coverage, and an all intrusive government that would rather try to catch you not paying your taxes than catch a terrorist. I know I know, all those cameras on the streets are to catch red light runners and all the phone taps are to catch "terrorists". We would never use them against Americans just trying to make their way in the world.
So now there is a man and woman in New Hampshire who have holed themselves up in their home in New Hampshire because the Man in is their front yard waiting to arrest them for not paying taxes. "Live free or die!" the man keeps yelling. His gripe, and it's a good one, is that he pays more taxes than the president of the United States and makes less money, because he doesn't know all the write offs like the pres does. Yes, indeed that does suck. However any decent accountant can get the same write offs for you and all the info is available on the net or in books. So that I think should fall on him. LLCs, S-Corps, and other things are set up to allow people who work for their money to keep it. A friend of mine made almost 2 million last year and shelled out around $875,000 to Uncle Scam. To what end? His roads are not better, he has no kids but the kids around him aren't doing any better in school, the cops still take forever to get to a problem... where is his money going?
Many say that we need higher taxes, that more money will allow us to do more things... Poppy-cock I say. Every year more and more money goes into the black hole we call the US treasury never to be seen again. If we were to raise taxes another 10% on the top earners in America would that help? DO you think our daily lives would be greatly or even marginally enhanced? Highly doubtful. In fact I would put money on it.
Here is a little of my own private tax paying history. In 2004, my first full year in real estate I made give or take $32,000. I worked 6 days a week, nights, weekends, early mornings... the whole bit. My expenses? Give or take $40,000. I had more write offs than earnings so I didn't have to pay income tax because I didn't really make anything. And on top of that I was paying interest on the loans I had to take out. I did however have to pay FICA to the tune of 15%. Yes that's a little perk of being self-employed, I don't get to split my FICA with my employer and only pay 7.5%. Nope I paid 15% on the full $32,000. I will never see that money again. Ever.
And when the option came up to the powers that be to even allow me to take a portion of it to invest for myself I was told that the American people weren't capable enough to invest that money. That we NEEDED the government to do it for us. Well let's see, when I turn 65 I will have approximately $0 from social security. Even if I took $1000 of my FICA taxes every year and stuck it in a simple savings account I would have... let's see... carry the 5... a lot more than $0.
So I continue to pay my taxes and my hero in New Hampshire will be arrested and imprissioned when the Waco-ites on his lawn finally get to him. I won't get into the frivolous things our tax money is going to, that's a blog for another time, but I will say congrats to the man who says, "To what end do I pay my taxes?"
Here is a little info courtesy of http://www.taxhistory.org/
In 2003 the Pres "made" $822,126. Riiiiiight. $727,083 of that was taxable. He paid $227,494 in taxes putting him in the 31% bracket. He had $115,661 withheld and had a $173,280 carry over from 2002. So that means he gets back (carries over) $61,451 to 2004. Not bad for making over $800,000
Now the venerable John Kerry, champion of the poor and impoverished "made" $395,338 (riiiiiiiiiiiiight) in 2003, $346,664 taxable. He had $27,277 withheld. He ended up paying a total of $90,575 meaning he paid a whopping 26% in taxes.
Now we all know they made tons more than that but they are smart and know where to put it. They understand that it's not what you make but what you keep and that any money they out into the system is lost. The great part about it is that it is legal. It is available for anybody to do. So I say get educated people. Don't be guilted into betting on a losing horse. Own don't rent, write off things for your works... do what the people in Washington do. Do what they do but make sure you pay what you owe because the IRS can just go into your bank account and take what they want. Not to mention charge "fees and interest" that would make any loan shark in Little Italy giddy. And if you don't think that your favorite political figure from either side cares more about the money than they do about you, remember this. Michael Moore owns or has owned large quantities of Halliburton and Fox news has changed content because the Saudi "royal" family owns stock.
"Live free or die!"
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