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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MJ who wrote (92370)	10/6/2010 10:30:09 PM
From: lorne	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224717

Supreme Court spouse: 'Tax crisis' coming Jan. 1 'Democratic Party policies pushing country to brink' October 05, 2010 By Brian Fitzpatrick © 2010 WorldNetDaily wnd.com WASHINGTON – A "tax crisis" will slam taxpayers on Jan. 1 if Americans fail to stand up and confront Congress. So says Ginni Thomas, founder of LibertyCentral.org and wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. "Democratic policies are pushing the country to the brink," Thomas told WND in an interview. "That's why Liberty Central is helping to educate and activate people now. "Their perception of real people is so off," said Thomas of the Democrats running Congress. "They think we're all sitting on big bank accounts with extra money to send to Washington if they would only tax us." LibertyCentral.org is running a petition drive, "Help Stop the Obama Tax Hike," demanding that Congress extend the Bush tax cuts scheduled to be canceled Jan. 1. Opponents of Obama's plan have described the move as a massive tax increase, because the Bush provisions have been law for nearly a decade. Thomas warned that many Americans are not aware that the nation is facing massive across-the-board tax hikes at the beginning of 2011. Read the WND Q&A with Ginni Thomas. "There are many types of taxes that will go up," said Thomas. "The death tax will go from 0 (percent) to up to 55 percent, the marriage tax, business taxes, expensing. The alternative minimum tax will hit millions more taxpayers. There will be over 20 new taxes just from the Obama health care bill." Visit the one and only "tea-party store" now A table on the Liberty Central website shows that tax rates will climb for taxpayers in every bracket. For the poorest taxpayers, those in the lowest tax bracket, income taxes will skyrocket by 50 percent, from 10 percent to 15 percent of income. Raising taxes is very bad public policy during a recession, asserted Thomas. "Read Burton Folsom's book, 'New Deal, Raw Deal,' on the Great Depression," she said. "Folsom proves that raising taxes extended the Great Depression." Thomas described Liberty Central as "ambassadors" for the tea party movement, and predicted that the numbers of tea party activists would "swell" if Congress and the president fail to address the issue of increasing taxes at this point. She also predicts that a "tidal wave" of voters would sweep many "establishment" politicians out of Congress in November. She explained her organization recognizes that the issue of tax hikes "galvanizes the maximum number of people. "It's an issue that needs addressing and Congress refused to address it before they left town. I don't understand the mistake they've made in not addressing the tax crisis that's coming January 1 to all Americans. This issue shows the bubble the Democratic Congress is in. Their perception of real people is so off." She said the campaign will end Friday.

To: MJ who wrote (92370)	10/7/2010 8:17:56 AM
From: lorne	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224717

Not Marine material – not even close -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday October 07, 2010 As a retired Marine, who served three and a quarter years as a Marine recruiter, recruiting both enlisted Marines as well as recruiting officer candidates out of eastern Virginia, I know for a fact, as a trained and experienced professional, the original "certification of live birth," which first appeared on the Daily Kos and was taken from that site and put on Obama's campaign website, before he was selected as the Democrat candidate, was in fact a photoshopped fraudulent document. This was provable by examining the differences in the special backgrounds embossed and printed on official document paper, showing, even visible on a computer monitor, the obvious alterations made to the document. Since that time, a different "certification of live birth," again, not a legal document, but one commonly given to families has been brought to recruiter's offices, requiring recruiters such as myself to get out a "permission slip" we had stacks of, get it signed by the applicant, and personally stand in line in Richmond, Va., at the Department of Vital Statistics, turn in the permission slip and pay the $5 copy fee for a state-certified document, signed by the boss at the department, embossed with the state seal and complete with all the information, including doctor or midwife name, date, time of delivery and full signature attesting to the truth, specifically, and also signed by at least one witness not related to the family of the born child. All of these facts had to be on the certificate in order for me to even talk at length to an applicant. Once I had completed a "package" for enlistment, a process which required some two hours of paperwork by the applicant, including a full and complete FBI security form, some six pages of all the applicant's personal history going back to entry in school and including all the schools attended, and teachers' names, I had about six hours of work to take his work and complete out the full package. I know for a fact that given the associations of Obama's that are all commonly known, just Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn alone on the security form would disqualify Obama from entering the service, any of them, even as an enlisted, because just those two names of domestic terrorists, as listed by the FBI, were more than enough to disqualify him. One of those people alone was sufficient to keep him out. When you add in Jeremiah Wright, his election as an Illinois senator as a member of "The New Party" and the literally dozens of known communist agitators, the recruiting commander who forwarded the package out of the district would have been given an a---chewing, just for not disqualifying him on his own authority, based on the written requirements in the Recruiting Manual. John McClain

To: MJ who wrote (92370)	10/7/2010 10:30:43 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224717

Warren Buffett has said people are 'making a mistake' if they chase the rally in bonds. The 80-year old billionaire investor offered the warning at Fortune magazine's Most Powerful Women conference: He said: 'It's quite clear that stocks are cheaper than bonds. I can't imagine anyone having bonds in their portfolio when they can own equities.' Buffet, who owns big stakes in Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs, also launched a fresh criticism on the casino culture on Wall Street. 'One of the problems we still have is we have unbalanced incentives for managers of huge financial institutions. 'Wall Street does a lot of good things and then it has this casino. It's like a church that's running raffles on the weekend.' Buffett also said it is time that the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy in the US, which are due to expire at the end of this year, are given a serious makeover. He said taxing the rich would be the best way for the US government to start clearing its yawning deficit 'I think maybe we should cut taxes for the middle class,' he said. 'Upper middle class [and] lower middle class.' Taxing the rich, he said, is the best way for the government to boost its income. 'The question is, Do we get more money from the person that's going serve me lunch today, or do we get it from me? I think we should get it from me. 'If you get a hundred billion more of taxes -- just pick a number -- from people like me at the top, it means you borrow a hundred billion less out of the economy. Somebody's going come up with a hundred billion,' he said. 'You're taking the money from the economy either way. The only question is if you take it by borrowing or by taxes.'