After blasting BP, Obama now faces its leaders

I wonder if he going to stop taking campaign contributions from them also?

Are we the next Greek tragedy?

"The research found that 178,000 Minnesotans who are eligible for food stamps aren't getting the $172 million they are entitled to."

http://www.startribune.com/local/94879864.html

I would like to think that something you are entitled to would be something that you earned.

For Timmy

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W57aBMYKvU

Budget cuts

Next time you read about government workers bitching about not getting a raise, or budget cuts remember this article.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/26/MNC51CLUBN.DTL&tsp=1&nopu=1

Maybe we should stop governement workers from unionizing, I wish I could effectively get to vote for my raise everyear which is what happens when a large block of voters do when promised something from somone.

How dare they invest in business?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20100218/pl_bloomberg/ahzu17yy1hva

Almost three-quarters of the highest earners’ income was in capital gains and dividends taxed at a 15 percent rate set as part of Bush-backed tax cuts in 2003, the statistics show. Of the 400 earners, 289 paid a total effective federal tax rate of 20 percent or less in 2007, the last year for which figures were available, the data show.

Lets tax the people that are investing in business in this country. Redistritbute it and piss our future down the drain. I challenge the rich to pull all of their money out of muni bonds, US stock and bonds, and put the money into some type of asset that isn't beneficial to America. Liberals just don't get it, what do they think the rich are doing with the capital gains? A. Putting it under their matress. B. Maybe investing it back into the economy?

Remember kids every government job that is created eliminates a private sector job. The government pays that person around 60k a year with benefits. The taxes to pay for that have to come from somewhere.

Dumbshits

If the governor tells you he is going to veto a bonding bill if it has some expenditure he doesn't like and you tell him he is out of touch your a dumbass. Why not leave the fucking thing out of the bonding bill?

Just like the end of session last year here in Minnesota. He told you no tax increases, what did you dipshits do? You put the tax increases in and he vetoed it.

What does one TRILLION dollars look like?
All this talk about "stimulus packages" and "bailouts"...

A billion dollars...
A hundred billion dollars...
Eight hundred billion dollars...
One TRILLION dollars...
We'll start with a $100 dollar bill. Currently the largest U.S. denomination in general circulation. Most everyone has seen them, slightly fewer have owned them. Guaranteed to make friends wherever they go.

A packet of one hundred $100 bills is less than 1/2" thick and contains $10,000. Fits in your pocket easily and is more than enough for week or two of shamefully decadent fun.

Believe it or not, this next little pile is $1 million dollars (100 packets of $10,000). You could stuff that into a grocery bag and walk around with it.

While a measly $1 million looked a little unimpressive, $100 million is a little more respectable. It fits neatly on a standard pallet...

And $1 BILLION dollars... now we're really getting somewhere...

Next we'll look at ONE TRILLION dollars. This is that number we've been hearing about so much. What is a trillion dollars? Well, it's a million million. It's a thousand billion. It's a one followed by 12 zeros.
You ready for this?
It's pretty surprising.
Go ahead...
Scroll down...
Ladies and gentlemen... I give you $1 trillion dollars...

(And notice those pallets are double stacked.)
The area this occupies is just shy of 5 acres, with one hundred bills stacked 6 feet in height.
So the next time you hear someone toss around the phrase "trillion dollars"... that's what they're talking about.

So much for campaign promises not to tax middle class

http://www.aei.org/article/101152

I encourage you all who have insurance especially union members to call and complain. Even if your plan isn't currently excise taxable they are only increasing the excise threshold 1% a year with rates going up way over 1% a year it won't be long until you are hit also.

You get what you vote for.

Thought on our latest Nobel Prize winner.

They voted for this on his 11th day in office? For the love of God could this of not of waited three years or is the hardon the rest of the world/media ever going to end?

"He got the prize because he has been able to change the international climate," Nobel Committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland said. "Some people say, and I understand it, isn't it premature? Too early? Well, I'd say then that it could be too late to respond three years from now. It is now that we have the opportunity to respond — all of us."

So what your saying is that if he does nothing in the next three years that he might not deserve it in three years let alone now?

I fucking quit.

update

Compare this to Greg Mortenson, nominated for the prize by some members of Congress, who the bookies gave 20-to-1 odds of winning. Son of a missionary, a former army Medic and mountaineer, he has made it his mission to build schools for girls in places where opium dealers and tribal warlords kill people for trying. His Central Asia Institute has built more than 130 schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan — a mission which has, along the way, inspired millions of people to view the protection and education of girls as a key to peace and prosperity and progress.

All I can say is wow.

Thought on cash for clunkers

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Cash for Clunkers, the very successful federal program that has brought car buyers back to showrooms, is about to reach a very rough end of the road.

1. It is good to see giving away other peoples money is such a success. Where did we get the money from? That's right our friends the Saudis and Chinese.

2. These were perfectly good cars what are low income people supposed to drive now that these vehicles are headed for the heap.

3. Some of these cars only need 2 MPH better gas mileage. How is that considered green? When you figure in the amount of energy it took to mine the ore, transport oil for plastic parts etc... how much do you really think was saved?

4. What are about the muffler shops that put mufflers on these "clunkers"? Is it ok that we maybe putting them out of business?

5. Since these cars are being scrapped without stripping the parts, how is that green? Wouldn't it be better on mother earth if these parts had been recycled?

I guess that it is better to prop up one segment of the auto industry to detriment of the rest of industry including used car lots.

Howard how could you say this with a straight face?

"Dean urged the Obama administration to stand by statements made early on in the debate in which it steadfastly insisted that such a public option was indispensable to genuine change, saying that Medicare and the Veterans Administration are "two very good programs that have been around for a long time.""

Apparently he has never been treated by the VA I think they kill more people than the war in Iraq. A friend of the family they neglected to tell him to wear compression socks after surgery... oops sorry dead.

I want government telling me how to raise my summer kids

Some maybe here some maybe there. If I had kids. I quit. I am not going to have a dollar left to my name eventually. Thank you Chuck Norris.

http://townhall.com/columnists/ChuckNorris/2009/08/11/dirty_secret_no_1_in_obamacare?page=full

Isn't paid volunteer a oxymoron

Man these a-holes will do anything to push this piece of crap through.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/08/obama-healthcare-reform.html

Income tax hike by a different name

Climate bill to pay hundreds of dollars in rebates

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090608/ap_on_re_us/us_climate_bill_cost

is still a income tax increase. Nice thing is they will provide credits to people who are not currently paying into the system. You get what you vote for.

More government giveaways

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/02/AR2009060203897.html?g=0

FEMA typically provides disaster aid for 18 months. It extended assistance for 45 months since Katrina hit in August 2005.

About 1,150 families in FEMA housing live in units the agency classifies as mobile homes and park models, which will be offered for sale at $5 and $1, respectively. FEMA expects to free up an additional 600 to 700 units from its inventory to donate through state and local governments and nonprofit groups, the administration official said. Individuals who previously bought units will be offered refunds.

A. Sounds like a good way to buy more votes.

B. You've had four fricken years to get off your asses and do for yourself. Teach a man to fish... fuck it just give them the God damned fish.

The High Cost of Poverty: Why Poor Pay More

Full Article - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/17/AR2009051702053.html?g=0

"The poor pay more for a gallon of milk; they pay more on a capital basis for inferior housing," says Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.).
That is assuming they pay for their housing in first place?

"The poor and 100 million who are struggling for the middle class actually end up paying more for transportation, for housing, for health care, for mortgages. They get steered to subprime lending. . . . The poor pay more for things middle-class America takes for granted."
Wow! How about that is what their sorry asses qualified for. Last time I checked home ownership wasn't a right.

You don't have three hours to take the bus. So you buy groceries at the corner store, where a gallon of milk costs an extra dollar.
Food stamps? - once again they aren't paying a extra dollar, the taxpayers are.

"When you are poor, you don't have the luxury of throwing a load into the washing machine and then taking your morning jog while it cycles. You wait until Monday afternoon, when the laundromat is most likely to be empty, and you put all of that laundry from four kids into four heaps, bundle it in sheets, load a cart and drag it to the corner. "
If you are so poor, why are they having a kid let alone four? No self responsibility.

"If I had my choice, I would have a washer and a dryer," says Nya Oti, 37, a food-service worker who lives in Brightwood.
Again, what choices in your life led you to a career in food-service? If the work is temporary(such as layoff) I feel sorry for her, if not it is a choice she made.

She(Oti) buys bags of oranges or apples, but not the organic kind. "Organic is too much," she says.
I don't buy organic either, the crap is overpriced and the way I see it we are all going to die of something. I get a bad feeling that soon organic food will also be "right" in this country.

Randy Albelda, an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. "You have to work a lot of hours and still not make a lot of money. You get squeezed, and your money is squeezed."
There is a reason people are working a lot of hours for low pay. I think I touched on it in reference to the job skills required to work food service.

The poor pay more in hassle: the calls from the bill collectors, the landlord, the utility company. So they spend money to avoid the hassle. The poor pay for caller identification because it gives them peace of mind to weed out calls from bill collectors.
Newsflash if you actually paid you bills you probably wouldn't be getting collection calls. I bet they can still afford their cigarettes though.

The rich have direct deposit for their paychecks. The poor have check-cashing and payday loan joints, which cost time and money. Payday advance companies say they are providing an essential service to people who most need them. Their critics say they are preying on people who are the most "economically vulnerable." In simple terms, the company is charging a $15.50 fee for every $100 that you borrow. On your $300 payday loan -- borrowed for a term of seven days -- the effective annual percentage rate is 806 percent.
I don't get it. Is someone putting a gun to their heads and making them cash the checks or get a loan at these places?

"As you've seen with the financial services industry, if people can cut a profit, they do it," Blumenauer says. "The poor pay more for financial services. A lot of people who are 'unbanked' pay $3 for a money order to pay their electric bill. They pay a 2 percent check-cashing fee because they don't have bank services. The reasons? Part of it is lack of education.
Whose is at fault for their lack of education? In my book you've got no one to look at but yourself.

All these costs can lead the poor to a collective depression.
Kind of sounds like an excuse to me.

"The cheaper housing is in more-dangerous areas," says Reed,
So is the cheaper housing causing the area to be dangerous, or is it the residents of said area what is making it dangerous?

"People working who don't make a lot of money go to the system for help, and they deny them," Nicholas says. "They say I make too much. It almost helps if you don't work."
Maybe our country should put a limit on the time people allowed to be on system so we don't give them a incentive to not work.

What could you accomplish with the lost 20 minutes standing there in the rain? Waiting. That's another cost of poverty. You wait in lines. You wait at bus stops. You wait on the bus as it makes it way up Georgia Avenue, hitting every stop. No sense in trying to hurry when you are poor
Again maybe people need to be made aware about the choices they make in life and how it affects them.

We can't afford the shit we currently fund so lets start another

http://www.startribune.com/nation/44847797.html?elr=KArksUUUU
The report, issued Tuesday by the trustees who monitor the government's two main forms for help for the elderly, shows that Medicare has become more fragile as well and is at greater risk than Social Security of imminent fiscal collapse.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_health_overhaul

Obama's plan to provide coverage to some 50 million uninsured Americans is the cornerstone of his promise to enact a larger overhaul of the health care system. Independent experts put the costs at about $1.5 trillion over 10 years.

Seriously how are we going to pay for this shit? Let's just tax the rich, those fuckers can afford it. Wait even if we tax them 100% we aren't going to be able to pay for all of this. No tax raises on people earning less than $250,000 my ass.

Just a thought...

I'm beginning to believe that the democrats are starting a war on prosperity. Just a thought though.

Proposer of "Sin" tax on Cigs and Booze

Bob and Sheila's neighbor Ann Lenczewski (DFL) Bloomington. Just curious isn't one of the deadly sins gluttony? Here's and idea Ann. How about we have a fat tax you pig. Let he/she who is without sin cast the first tax err stone.

If anyone wonders where I am, I'll be off fortifying my compound

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPvqYK2JevI

How the hell can we allow these clowns to get continually elected.

That's write government knows how to make better decisions than an individual.

Just take my whole check Larry. I'll ask for is enough money to be able to buy enough Vodka and aspirin to off myself.