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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RetiredNow who wrote (103471)	10/26/2011 10:10:20 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Well, We Know Who The Felons Are - They Wear Badges After four years of reporting on the various immoral, unethical and in many cases criminal acts perpetrated by people in our financial system *and Congress, we now have our evidence at the bar. This man was gassed for waving a flag. He was not alone. Last night "OccupyOakland" was literally laid siege by the police. Firing rubber bullets and tear gas into a peaceful* gathering, they committed hundreds of cases of felonious assault upon peaceful individuals. I'll lay odds that not one of the felons-in-blue will be indicted, prosecuted and imprisoned for their crimes. I remind everyone that our Constitution guarantees you the right of free speech *including the right to petition the government for redress of grievances.* This does not, of course, include the right to riot, destroy property and commit assaults and batteries. Well, unless you're the cops. Then it appears that you have the right to do all of those things, irrespective of the fact that *the people were exercising their lawful First Amendment rights* - and nothing more. The police didn't stop with tear gas. They also detonated explosives within the crowd - *an act that, taken by an ordinary person, would constitute the use of a bomb and be considered terrorism. Yeah, I know, they call them "flash-bangs"; intended to stun and surprise. Let's call them what they are: They're explosives, otherwise known as a bomb, and legally known to the BATFE as a "Destructive Device" as they contain more than the lawful limit of powder for a common firecracker.* They can (and do) cause personal injury when fired into a crowd. That injury is reasonably foreseeable when the device is delivered. *This makes the act an intentional deployment of a destructive device with the intent to harm a person - a serious felony. Of course such felonies are not prosecuted when the police commit them. Just like the apparent felony murder committed in Chicago by a Gang-Banger in Blue* who fatally shot an unarmed man in the back after he had already been shot four other times and was lying prone on the grass. This man, it appears, was executed in a scene reminiscent of the various murderous thugdoms that have been all-to-common throughout history. Now we have summary justice-by-gang here, and the gang is wearing blue uniforms and badges! Police have a tough job, but that's not an excuse for felonious behavior. The job of the police is to Protect and Serve. Lately, it appears they serve themselves, including smuggling guns, slot machines and stolen cigarettes, shooting anyone who might happen to be a nuisance to their "right" to tromp on the people's necks whenever they so choose. I've long asked the following question: What happens when the people determine that law enforcement agencies - or the government in general - are felons? This is no longer a rhetorical question, and the answer should give all law-abiding citizens pause. I don't care if you hail from the left or right, or what your particular view of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement is. The fact of the matter is that we no longer have the foundational principle of this nation underlying our nation: The Rule of Law. That's the difference between a Constitutional Republic and tyranny. In a Constitutional Republic you do not have the rule of 100 jackbooted thugs wearing badges, discharging firearms (albeit - thus far - with rubber bullets) at people, tossing bombs into their midst and gassing them. You also don't have jackbooted thugs in blue shooting unarmed people in the back. Any rogue individual who attempts such a stunt goes straight to prison to rot along with the common mugger or murderer, *because he or she is one* and should an entire *agency* show up to commit these acts the immediate response is that theNational Guard rises and arrests the entire agency, tossing all of them into the clink where they belong. Today, however, this sort of abusive crap is exactly what we have in this nation and The Guard, who has sworn an oath to protect this land *against all enemies, foreign and domestic, is nowhere to be found. Those in California (along with those in both New York and Chicago) are discovering the hazards of their failure to demand that entire* Constitution be strictly enforced *in favor of the rights of the people. Now you see the consequences of that failure America. You thought you were trading "a bit" of freedom for alleged security. What you were really doing is ceding your rights to a band of gang-banging felons-in-blue who have now demonstrated their clear intent to gas, bomb and even murder* you. Have you discerned the error of your ways yet? We shall see.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (103471)	10/26/2011 2:58:58 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

If, as you claim, the $ is down 98% since Nixon then your chart would demonstrate a lot less stuff bought??? Here is how the Republicans are going to solve the deficit: Top U.S. Republican to outline corporate tax plan 12:42 pm ET 10/26/2011 - Reuters * Ways & Means panel Chairman Camp sets news conference * As reported, Camp expected to back territorial system * Other components likely to be in tax plan, as well By Kevin Drawbaugh WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - A senior U.S. Republican tax writer is set to lay out more details of a plan for tax law changes, including letting multinational corporations pay little or no taxes on their overseas profits. Representative Dave Camp, chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee, has scheduled a Wednesday afternoon news conference to discuss "tax reform." As reported last week by Reuters, Camp favors transforming the corporate tax code to a "territorial system," an idea widely supported by multinationals, but not as enthusiastically embraced by smaller and mid-sized companies with less to gain. Another component that may be in the Camp plan is some form of a repatriation tax holiday, a tax break being aggressively promoted by an army of corporate lobbyists on Capitol Hill. Under current law, U.S. corporations must pay tax -- most at the top rate of 35 percent -- on profits earned at home or abroad, minus credits for taxes paid to foreign governments. For overseas profits, the U.S. corporate income tax need not be paid, however, until earnings come into the United States. While some companies regularly bring home, or repatriate, their foreign income, many do not. Instead, they park these profits overseas to avoid taxes. An estimated $1.2 trillion to $1.5 trillion is stashed abroad for this reason. Corporations have been waging a multimillion-dollar lobbying campaign in recent months seeking two related tax breaks. The repatriation tax "holiday" would let them bring home foreign earning at a discounted tax rate. Some proposals circulating in Congress would set that rate as low as 5.25 percent, giving the companies a huge, one-year tax break. Major corporations supporting a repatriation tax holiday include Apple <AAPL.O>, Cisco <CSCO.O>, Google <GOOG.O>, Microsoft <MSFT.O>, Oracle <ORCL.O> and Pfizer <PFE.N>. The other break sought by the companies is a territorial system that would permanently exempt most or all of their overseas profits from taxation. Camp favors this. CRITICS HIT TERRITORIAL SYSTEM Critics say a territorial system would hurt the economy by driving more U.S. investment and jobs offshore, while also worsening the federal deficit. Advocates say it would give the economy a boost and align the U.S. corporate tax code more closely with those of other major industrialized nations. The White House's bipartisan Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction panel last year endorsed territorial taxation. Such a system has been adopted, in one form or another and with limitations, by Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Australia, Switzerland, Japan and Britain. Nations that still have a worldwide system of taxation resembling the present U.S. regime include South Korea, Chile, Greece, Ireland, Israel and Mexico. China, Brazil and India, growing economies with thriving manufacturing sectors, also tax the foreign income of their companies in much the same way the United States does. Critics of the territorial system say a better idea would be to repeal the portion of the tax code that allows corporations to defer paying income tax on foreign profits. A special deficit-reduction panel in Congress, known as the "super committee," has been mulling a possible cut in the 35 percent U.S. corporate tax rate. Such a measure could be coupled with ending some special interest tax breaks. But the super committee is not expected to have enough time -- because of a Nov. 23 deadline for finding at least $1.2 trillion in deficit reductions over 10 years -- to do a complete overhaul of the country's tax code. (Additional reporting by Richard Cowan; Editing by Steve Orlofsky)