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To: Joe Btfsplk who wrote (740152)	9/18/2013 12:36:57 AM
From: FJB	Respond to of 1572507

WASHINGTON — Newly uncovered IRS documents show the agency flagged political groups based on the content of their literature, raising concerns specifically about "anti-Obama rhetoric," inflammatory language and "emotional" statements made by non-profits seeking tax-exempt status. The internal 2011 documents, obtained by USA TODAY, list 162 groups by name, with comments by Internal Revenue Service lawyers in Washington raising issues about their political, lobbying and advocacy activities. In 21 cases, those activities were characterized as "propaganda." The list provides the most specific public accounting to date of which groups were targeted for extra scrutiny and why. The IRS has not publicly identified the groups, repeatedly citing a provision of the tax code prohibiting it from releasing tax return information. DOCUMENT: The IRS list of 'political advocacy cases' usatoday.com

To: Joe Btfsplk who wrote (740152)	9/18/2013 12:58:44 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572507

"How do you prescribe for evolutionary developments that can not be known a priori without buggering the process?" Keynes, knowing the excesses of capitalism by studying it's history, could do it, and did so. The lame-ass "free marketers", having NOTHING, believing in an ahistorical FAIRY TALE, went running to Keynes, as always. ======================================================================== We are all Keynesians now From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "We are all Keynesians now" is a famous phrase coined by Milton Friedman and attributed to U.S. president Richard Nixon. It is popularly associated with the reluctant embrace in a time of financial crisis of Keynesian economics by individuals such as Nixon who had formerly favored less interventionist policies.

To: Joe Btfsplk who wrote (740152)	9/18/2013 10:57:10 AM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572507

You notice that the free market has to have perfect results, if any thing goes wrong, then they think its "proof" that government intervention is necessary, even though severe government failure is far more common then severe market failure. And of course if anything goes wrong in a market with heavy government intervention (like the housing and lending markets) then it has to be the markets fault not the interventions fault.