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To: i-node who wrote (53540)	9/16/2013 7:03:51 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk	Respond to of 85487

watching these idiots.........who made all these absurd predictions having to eat their words There are still people who deify Paul Ehrlich, wouldn't know Julian Simon from a PBJ. In a world where knowledge is increasing exponentially the low info crowd remains in the ostrich position.

To: i-node who wrote (53540)	9/16/2013 8:19:27 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

Climate change advocates are pushing the idea that even if AGW is wrong and it clearly is and they know it the program of confiscatory taxes to solve it is a good idea. The one real environmental problem that can be addressed and solved is pollution and it gets swept under the rug by these hypocrites. "No society can survive the socialist fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them." G.K. Chesterton

To: i-node who wrote (53540)	9/17/2013 12:31:33 AM
From: FJB	1 Recommendation Recommended By TimF Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

$2,472,542,000,000: Record Taxation Through August; Deficit Still $755B September 13, 2013 - 1:35 PM - See more at: cnsnews.com (CNSNews.com) - The federal government raked in a record of approximately $2,472,542,000,000 in tax revenues through the first eleven months of fiscal 2013, which ran from Oct. 1, 2012 through the end of August, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement for August. That is up about $285 billion from the approximately $2,187,527,000,000 in taxes the government took in through August of fiscal 2012. Despite these record tax revenues, the federal government still accumulated a $755 billion deficit in the first eleven months of fiscal 2013. Total federal spending through the first eleven months of the fiscal year was $3.228 trillion...