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

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (114834)	10/6/2011 2:56:09 PM
From: MJ	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224750

Do you see us going back to a gold standard? I follow the gold markets and the two main threads on Si at which writers appear to have a good grasp on what is happening regarding gold. My concern with Obama is that he will move to confiscate gold with his Executive Pen. Read that the chinese have opened machines up where the Chinese can turn their chinese currency into gold coins. Sorry no link------no idea of how gold the gold coins are. And, yes as 2 wage making people became the norm in families--------the inflation set in making it necessary for women to either work outside of the home or find a way to earn money while being at home. I have lost touch with one woman nearby who set up her business at home so she could be home with the children. She is now worth millions. Pursuing that thought---------I would like to see local governments relax their regulations against home businesses. There are many businesses that can be done at home by mothers or fathers who stay at home. And, yes there are some stay at home Dads.

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (114834)	10/6/2011 3:06:59 PM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224750

of 630668 'Fart Smeller Movement' Joins Occupy Wall Street Protest jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com Obviously he represents the 99% of Americans who want to do ... um, something. Three weeks into the revolution, there is no common theme. At the periphery sit well-heeled thrill-seekers who’ve traveled from Virginia Beach, Seattle, Ohio and Portland, Ore. Others come from Mars. Like the guy who marched with a sign announcing that he was the “Fart Smeller.’’ Say what? “It’s not a joke,’’ he said, as serious as open-heart surgery, showing me a photograph of his important work. “I go up to women and ask to smell their ...’’ At the stinky end of the park, I met a smart man, Phillip Belpasso, 64, in a filthy Army-style jacket, who said he’s been in Zuccotti Park “pretty much since the Towers came down.’’ A decade? “This all happened around me, sort of,’’ he said. “Say, have you figured out what’s going on here yet? I don’t even know if they know what they’re for. ’’ Ian K., who passed as an official -- the word “Security’’ was on the “Hello’’ sticker on his chest -- informed silly me that having a point isn’t really the point. “There isn’t a coherent message,’’ said Ian, 30. “The fact is that we are individuals. You’d have to ask every single individual and you’d get varying answers.’’ The lack of what Ian called a “uniformity of commonality of message’’ was wearing on Calum McPherson-Smith, 23, who’d taken a bus here from Virginia Beach 10 days earlier. “I came because I’m hopeful this will grow into something to combat a giant, vast disease affecting our society and socioeconomic system,’’ he said. “We don’t look serious! We look like a bunch of dirty kids hanging out!’’If Fart Smeller guy isn't amusing enough, it appears mental hospitals have released patients to beef up the numbers in Boston.

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (114834)	10/6/2011 3:52:01 PM
From: joefromspringfield	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224750

"The shifting of the tax burden from business, corporations and the rich to the middle class has a lot to do with women having to enter the work force to stay ahead. Going off the gold standard which paved the way for inflation has a lot to do with the need for a two income family." You are right about shifting the tax burden to the middle class but it wasn't from the rich. They still pay the bulk of the income taxes collected. Today 47% of Americans pay no federal income tax up from about 25% in 2000. According to IRS data, in 1987 the top 5% of earners paid 43.26% of all federal income taxes; today, that group pays more than 60% of the tax burden. By contrast, the share of taxes paid by the bottom 50% of taxpayers has continually fallen to now be well under 3% of all income tax revenue today.