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To: tonto who wrote (128523)	12/6/2012 1:11:32 PM
From: koan	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

We have to get it out of our heads business leaders have special talents for running cities, states or countries. They don't. Business and business leaders are best left to run businesses for the most part. I have spent 20 + years in government an 20+ years in hard core business (real estate). Most of the people I work with are business people and they make terrible leaders of government. Basically because they don't know anything. Like Romney, Bush and most Republican's. In my experience people who understand social science and have a good liberal arts education make the best leaders.

To: tonto who wrote (128523)	12/6/2012 2:32:50 PM
From: Wharf Rat	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Quite the opposite; I'd have said that who oppose only the 2% paying more are teabaggers. However, what I meant was that "At 60,000 one can afford a tax increase...not that you want it", but sometimes you have to do things you don't want to. Nobody really wants to pay more taxes, but there is a time to suck it up cuz the country needs it. It's like the draft was... "Uncle Sam wants you, not that you want it". Of course, we all did what we did cuz we didn't want it. = Nugent from insisting that if he HAD served, he would have been one big mofo soldier. As the Rutland Herald reported, Here's what Nugent said he would have done if he went to Vietnam: "... if I would have gone over there, I'd have been killed, or I'd have killed, or I'd kill all the hippies in the foxholes ... I would have killed everybody," he told the Detroit Free Press in an interview published July 15, 1990." The Herald also noted that Nugent's efforts to avoid the draft make President Bush look like a war hero. (Nugent claims) that 30 days before his Draft Board Physical, he stopped all forms of personal hygiene. The last 10 days he ingested nothing but junk food and Pepsi, and a week before his physical, he stopped using the bathroom altogether, virtually living inside his pants caked with excrement and urine. That spectacle won Nugent a deferment. liveleak.com I guess the rich are shitting in their pants right about now, but that's not a way to get out of the tax. Maybe they should consider moving to Somalia to Avoid The Tax.