Tuesday, April 01, 2008
A letter from an old friend(He did not do well in History class)
I've seen this before but it's worth reading again...
And let's not forget the respect that Bill Clinton showed to his position in the Oval Office (no pun intended).
Subject: Interesting info that everyone needs to know before you vote
Whether you are a Democrat, Republican or Independent..... these are
the facts .
Taxes under
Single making 30K - tax $8,400 Single making 30K - tax $4,500
Single making 50K - tax $14,000 Single making 50K - tax $12,500
Single making 75K - tax $23,250 Single making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 60K - tax $16,800 Married making 60K- tax $9,000
Married making 75K - tax $21,000 Married making 75K - tax $18,750
Married making 125K - tax $38,750 Married making 125K - tax $31,250
If you want to know just how effective the mainstream media is, it is
amazing how many people that fall into the categories above think Bush
is screwing them and Bill Clinton was the greatest President ever. If any
democrat is elected, ALL of them say they will repeal the Bush tax cuts
and a good portion of the people that fall into the categories above can't
wait for it to happen. This is like the movie The Sting with Paul Newman;
you scam somebody out of some money and they don't even know what happened.
Your Social Security
Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones)
didn't know this. It's easy to check out, if you don't believe it. Be sure and
show it to your kids. They need a little history lesson on what's what and it
doesn't matter whether you are Democrat of Republican. Facts are
Facts!!!
Our Social Security
Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA)
Program. He promised:
1.) That participation in the Program would be Completely voluntary,
2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400
Of their annual Incomes into the Program,
3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program
would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year,
4.) That the money the participants put into the independent "Trust
Fund" rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore, would only
Be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other
Government program, and, 5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would
never be taxed as income.
Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a
Social Security check every month -- and then finding that we are
Getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to "put
away" -- you may be interested in the following:
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Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent
"Trust Fund" and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it?
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and
Senate.
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Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social
Security (FICA) withholding?
A: The Democratic Party.
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Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?
A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the "tie-breaking"
Deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the
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Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to
immigrants?
AND MY FAVORITE:
A: That's right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party.
Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive
Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them,
Even though they never paid a dime into it!
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Then, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn
around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security
away!
And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it!
If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted
And maybe changes will evolve. Maybe not, some Democrats are awfully sure of
what isn't so.
But it's worth a try. How many people can YOU send this to?
Actions speak louder than bumper stickers.
AND CONGRESS GIVES THEMSELVES 100% RETIREMENT FOR ONLY SERVING ONE
TERM!!!
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong
enough to take everything you have. -Thomas Jefferson
OOOO! So insightful. Lets add up the cost of those administrations just accepting those faulty numbers. Taxes for your grandchildren under Clinton -1.7 trillion. Taxes for your grandchildren under the disasterpresident +4 trillion and counting(we still have the drunken sailor in the disasterwhitehouse).
An article from the evil media before the disasterpresident got in the decider seat......
PRESIDENT CLINTON:
THE LARGEST BUDGET SURPLUS AND DEBT PAY-DOWN IN HISTORY
"Today's good news is a result of hard-won economic choices that put our people first. That strategy has created the most prosperous economy in generations."
President Bill Clinton
Thursday, October 28, 1999
Today, at the White House, President Clinton announced that the Office of Management and Budget and the Department of the Treasury have released figures showing the largest budget surplus and the largest pay-down of debt in history The President urged Congress to keep our nation on course by passing his budget plan that protects Social Security, pays down the debt, and meets the nation's priorities in the areas of education, health care, crime, and the environment.
Clinton-Gore Economic Plan Is Working. In 1993, President Clinton put in place a three-part economic strategy of fiscal discipline, investing in people, and opening markets abroad. Today's figures provide even more evidence that the Administration's strategy is working:
The Largest Surplus in History:
* The $123 billion surplus in 1999 is the largest dollar surplus in history, even after adjusting for inflation;
* The surplus, expected to be about 1.4% of GDP, is the largest surplus as a share of the economy since 1951;
* 1999 is the second year in a row of surplus, marking the first back-to-back surpluses since 1956-57;
* This is the first time in U.S. history that we've experienced seven years in a row of fiscal improvement.
The Largest Debt Reduction in History:
* Over the last two years, America has paid down $140 billion in public debt, the largest debt pay-down ever;
* The debt held by the public is $1.7 trillion lower than was projected when President Clinton took office;
* As a result, in 1999 alone, interest payments on the debt were $91 billion lower than projected.
What Debt Reduction Means for Americans. Paying down the debt means:
* Lower interest rates cut mortgage payments by $2,000 for families with a $100,000 mortgage;
* Lower interest rates cut car payments by $200 for families with a car loan;
* Lower interest rates cut student loan payments by $200 for a person with a typical student loan;
* Businesses have more funds for productive investment;
* Rising investment has contributed to an increase in productivity.
President's Budget Pays off Debt in 15 Years. Under President Clinton's budget plan, the publicly held debt would be paid off by 2015, resulting in:
* elimination of interest payments on the debt;
* more funds available for increased Social Security and Medicare costs for baby boomers;
* more funds available for investment;
* lower interest rates;
* increased worker productivity and income.
Urging Congress to Stay with What Works. President Clinton warned that proposals by Congressional Republicans for irresponsible tax cuts, spending the Social Security surplus, and across-the-board spending cuts would threaten our continued prosperity. The President urged Congress to keep America on this course of progress by passing his budget plan, which pays down the debt, protects Social Security, strengthens and modernizes Medicare, and invests in national priorities like education, health care, public safety, and the environment.
Pull your head out of your ass and look at the real history taking place around you. Unfortunately, for the people to follow propaganda such as this letter, they dont understand that they become part of the propaganda machine. Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton were the only Presidents in the last 35 years to have budget surpluses in their administrations. I think that qualifies as fiscal responsibility........
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” Joseph Goebbels
Can you say Saddam Hussein and Al Queda in the same sentence really fast one hundred times kiddies.......
Friday, March 28, 2008
A gift from the disasterpresident, bend over.......
Think about this. Economists have been saying that we have probably been in a recession for some time. The disasterpresident wont admit this just like every other blunder and war crime he has committed.
The American public are getting fed up and are have been slowing the time frame in which they have been getting their taxes into the government coffers. The people in the middle class that have been squeezed out of their retirement funds, and equity in their homes are holding back on sending that money into the government.
So, the disasterpresident, on pretext of stimulating the economy is sending you all a check, but only if you will pay your taxes on time. The War machine needs the money, give and give generously..............
Thursday, March 27, 2008
News release from John McCain
'WE WILL IGNORE ELECTIONS IN PALESTINE AND SUPPORT THE MINORITY OF PALESTINIANS THAT AGREE WITH ISRAEL AND THE UNITED STATES' JOHN McCAIN
'WE WILL CONTINUE TO SEND YOU 12 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR TO PROP UP YOUR SOCIALIST THEOCRACY FROM FINANCIAL RUIN' JOHN McCAIN
This is just more of the same.......... DID ANYONE ASK IF WE ARE ON THE RIGHT TRACK?
News release from John McCain
News releases from John McCain
DATELINE BAGDAD(IN FRONT OF THE TROOPS): 'WE ARE WINNING THE FIGHT'
MAJOR FOREIGN POLICY SPEECH: 'I KNOW WHY WE CANNOT GET OUT OF THIS WAR, BECAUSE I WAS AS A POW IN VIET NAM, I DID NOT UNDERSTAND THE LAST WAR. THAT MEANS, WE HAVE TO WIN THIS WAR!'
'MY RIVALS ARE DANGEROUS FOR THINKING OF PULLING OUT OF THE WAR. THAT WILL ONLY BUILD UP AL-QUEDA.' JOHN McCAIN
'YOU ARE EITHER FOR US OR YOU ARE FOR THE TERRORISTS.' THE DISASTERPRESIDENT
'THE SURGE IS WORKING' JOHN McCAIN
'MISSION ACCOMPLISHED' THE DISASTERPRESIDENT
'THE STRUGGLE(WAR) MAY LAST 100 YEARS.' JOHN McCAIN
'THE WAR MAY GO ON FOR 50 YEARS.' THE DISASTERPRESIDENT
Americans are you really so stupid as to believe the latest incarnation of the Republican misinformation machine? John McCain is telling the same lies that everyone wanted to hear in 2000(and a majority did not vote for) and 2004(and a majority did not vote for).
Aren't we tired of the death and destruction brought on by the elite in our government, both Democrats and Republicans. The Democrats dont end the War and tell us how bad it is. The Republicans tell us how necessary the War is and how we are winning. Both these positions are delusional.
THE REAL HEADLINE THAT NO ONE IS SAYING:
IT IS OFFICIAL: CIVIL WAR HAS BROKEN OUT IN IRAQ AND WE ARE KEEPING OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS THERE TO BABYSIT AND DIE.
Saturday, February 09, 2008
Who are we?
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Bend over America, you are all now on Welfare......
Send Greg's foundation some money to keep his voice heard, I did.
by Greg Palast
Here's your question, class:
In his State of the Union, the President asked Congress for $300 million for poor kids in the inner city. As there are, officially, 15 million children in America living in poverty, how much is that per child? Correct! $20.
Here's your second question. The President also demanded that Congress extend his tax cuts. The cost: $4.3 trillion over ten years. The big recipients are millionaires. And the number of millionaires happens, not coincidentally, to equal the number of poor kids, roughly 15 million of them. OK class: what is the cost of the tax cut per millionaire? That's right, Richie, $287,000 apiece.
Mr. Bush said, "In neighborhoods across our country, there are boys and girls with dreams. And a decent education is their only hope of achieving them."
So how much educational dreaming will $20 buy?
-George Bush's alma mater, Phillips Andover Academy, tells us their annual tuition is $37,200. The $20 "Pell Grant for Kids," as the White House calls it, will buy a poor kid about 35 minutes of this educational dream. So they'll have to wake up quickly.
-$20 won't cover the cost of the final book in the Harry Potter series.
If you can't buy a book nor pay tuition with a sawbuck, what exactly can a poor kid buy with $20 in urban America? The Palast Investigative Team donned baseball caps and big pants and discovered we could obtain what local citizens call a "rock" of crack cocaine. For $20, we were guaranteed we could fulfill any kid's dream for at least 15 minutes.
Now we could see the incontrovertible logic in what appeared to be quixotic ravings by the President about free trade with Colombia, Pell Grant for Kids and the surge in Iraq. In Iraq, General Petraeus tells us we must continue to feed in troops for another ten years. There is no way the military can recruit these freedom fighters unless our lower income youth are high, hooked and desperate. Don't say, 'crack vials,' they're, 'Democracy Rocks'!
The plan would have been clearer if Mr. Bush had kept in his speech the line from his original draft which read, "I have ordered 30,000 additional troops to Iraq this year – and I am proud to say my military-age kids are not among them."
Of course, there's an effective alternative to Mr. Bush's plan – which won't cost a penny more. Simply turn it upside down. Let's give each millionaire in America a $20 bill, and every poor child $287,000.
And, there's an added benefit to this alternative. Had we turned Mr. Bush and his plan upside down, he could have spoken to Congress from his heart.
-For more on Bush and education read "No Child's Behind Left" in Armed Madhouse excerpted here.
-Also read Palast's take on the 2007 State of the Union here.
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Welcome to our endless War, 1984 came late.....
Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens For Legitimate Government
29 Jan 2008
http://www.legitgov.org/
All items are here:
http://www.legitgov.org/breaking_news
'Every word of Bush's last State of the Union Address actually signified its antonym.' Happy Birthday, Thomas Paine! --The Rec Report By Michael Rectenwald 29 Jan 2008 It is fitting that Thomas Paine's birthday should fall on the day after the last State of the Union Address given by Bush... This year, his birthday should be celebrated as well. Today, we begin our own countdown to liberation from the political, mental, economic, ideological and rhetorical tyranny of the Bush regime. This is particularly fitting as today we begin to shake off the shackles of mental and political bondage imposed on us for seven long years. [A must read!]
New analysis 'confirms' 1 million+ Iraq casualties --Further survey work undertaken by ORB, in association with its research partner IIACSS, confirms our earlier estimate that over 1,000,000 Iraqi citizens have died as a result of the conflict which started in 2003. 28 Jan 2008 Following responses to ORB's earlier work, which was based on survey work undertaken in primarily urban locations, we have conducted almost 600 additional interviews in rural communities. By and large the results are in line with the 'urban results' and we now estimate that the death toll between March 2003 and August 2007 is likely to have been of the order of 1,033,000. If one takes into account the margin of error associated with survey data of this nature then the estimated range is between 946,000 and 1,120,000.
Monday, January 07, 2008
America getting sheared again, Baaaa Baaaa Baaa
Here we go again. You thought Johnson could pull the wool over our eyes with the Gulf of Tonkin incident, now we have the disasterpresident pulling our hair from behind. Wasn't the attack on New York phony enough for you America. Now you will be forced into more sheep pens and sheared of what little cash you have in reserve to fight a War for the people in the world with vast wealth and corporations. These are your sheperds along with the disasterpresident and his trickledown economic contingent. You know what they say about sheperds and sheep...........
Thanks to CarolAnn from Myspace for passing this along.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
FUCKING PUSSIES IN WASHINGTON
43 billion dollars. That is how much the disasterpresident wants more for the war. This dwarfs the amount that would have insured childrens health care that the traitor in the disasterwhitehouse vetoed. This brings the war to 200 billion this year. The suicide rate among our troops is higher than in any previous war in our history. Do they know something is wrong? Over 70% of Americans are against the war. Do they know something is wrong? The coalition of the suckups is melting away before our eyes, even those lap dogs the British. Do they know something is wrong? More information leaks out of this disasteradministration than out of the New York Times press office and the Washington Press corps still bow and scrape for the disasterpresident. Do they know something is wrong? The troops are dying and getting maimed and coming home with horrible emotional scars. Do they know something is wrong? And every General that retires from the Military recently comes out and now tells us what a quagmire Iraq is and what ASSHOLES we have for political leaders. Do they know something is wrong?
We had an election in '06. We elected a House of Representatives with a majority of Democrats. We elected a Senate with a majority of Democrats. We the People knew SOMETHING WAS WRONG and did something about it. We made a mistake. We elected FUCKING PUSSIES where we thought that we were electing real MEN and WOMEN to the office to do the job of STOPPING the WAR. Instead, without realizing it, we elected FUCKING PUSSIES. The disasterpresident will get his 42 billion and anything else he wants because FUCKING PUSSIES refuse to stand up and voice the will of the people in OUR CONGRESS. The People will eventually stand up and take back the power from these traitors that are running our Democracy into the ground. When we do, no one that supported this GENOCIDE in the Middle East on behalf of Israel will be spared being sent to the Hague for WAR CRIMES, even the FUCKING PUSSIES, THE DEMOCRATS.
I apologize to readers of this blog. I have never before used profanity, but I am now so frustrated with ALL the Traitors to Democracy in Washington that I am losing my restraint.
