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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John who wrote (75148)	7/6/2012 9:49:23 PM
From: Honey_Bee	2 Recommendations Respond to of 103300

John said: BTW, thank you again for your service to our country, Farm. I second that!

To: John who wrote (75148)	7/6/2012 10:03:23 PM
From: Farmboy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 103300

Please, don't thank me. I enjoyed it too much for that! LOL I am just thankful I got to get out of Arkansas and see some different places in the world, and meet some different people. The Army enabled me to get out of the cottonfields and stand on the gigantic sand dunes of the Sahara Desert, to cross the Congo River in a dugout canoe, to walk amongst acres of Roman ruins in Algeria, to sit on my balcony and look out on the blue green waters of the Mediterranean, whilst sipping some superb red French wine, to wander around in awe at the Metropolis of Seoul, Korea, to sample 'real' pasta at the small, dimly lit 'back alley' home style restaurants in Italy, do battle with a hefty Schnitzel and giant plate of Pomme Frites in Frankfurt, to visit all the great places in our nation's capital and the surrounding areas ... and on and on and on. I truly feel I should be thanking the Taxpayers of America for permitting me to do everything I was blessed with being able to do while wearing that uniform. My 'service' was not at all a large price to pay, for all the opportunities I found at my fingertips, over those 20 years. While I have now moved on, my memory will always carry the thoughts and recollections of those times. And like you say, it is differing opinions that make things more interesting. I can not imagine how dull things would be if everyone in the world thought exactly as do I, about every single thing. Hopefully, neither of us will just 'go along with the crowd'. Sorry for the 'geezing' - it happens more frequently these days! LOL Now, I have a great cigar waiting. If you'll excuse me, I'm headed to the deck!

To: John who wrote (75148)	7/6/2012 11:21:15 PM
From: Wayners	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

I appreciate all the time you take on these boards to make intelligent comments with no typos. I'm just a bad typer and quick to get as much out as possible. That said, take a look at Obama's first use of the Roberts Power. Since a tax is now penalty and vice versa, now for the first time the Feds can BAN something thru taxes. Their first choice is something easy like cigarettes just to see what happens. They now have their foot and the door and now can ban anything they want through a confiscatory tax. It used to be they couldn't do that because the taxes had to actually raise revenue. What's next, alcohol, semi-auto firearms, all firearms? On Friday, President Barack Obama is expected to sign into law a federal highway bill with a section that redefines tobacco manufacturers to include any business with a roll-your-own cigarette machine and taxes those products at the same rate as packaged smokes. The move comes a month after Illinois increased taxes on such roll-your-own machine-made cigarettes. Marcia Smith, 47, of Lake County, decided after the state tax increase that she should move her Smokes & Such tobacco shops in Skokie and Gurnee to Wisconsin, where taxes on rolled cigarettes are lower. If Obama signs the law, she said she’ll shut her doors. The machines, which cost about $33,000 each, allow customers to pick their own tobacco and pour it into a device that can roll the tobacco into a carton, or about 200 cigarettes, within minutes. Disclaimer: I do not smoke cigarettes.