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To: koan who wrote (758220)	12/16/2013 7:43:44 PM
From: Augustus Gloop	4 Recommendations Recommended By FJB Jorj X Mckie TideGlider tonto Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577178

<<Does your grandma have a PHD in Atmospheric chemistry>> As a matter of fact she does. <<and work full time as a research scientist studying it?>> No....she's opposed to wasteful government spending

To: koan who wrote (758220)	12/16/2013 7:47:16 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1577178

You see, that is the problem you right wingers have, you are unable to distinguish between the knowledge of your grandma and a tenured professor with a PHD. You give them the same weight. Grandmas lots of times know a lot of stuff you don't get through higher education. In fact, one of the most important things a PhD needs to be able to do is recognize when they're wrong or out of their depth.

To: koan who wrote (758220)	12/17/2013 10:33:09 AM
From: Brumar89	3 Recommendations Recommended By Bonefish FJB TideGlider Respond to of 1577178

Ed Schultz is a big fat tax dodging corporate plane owning hypocrite Ed Schultz: employee-stiffing, tax-dodging man of the people 4:06 AM 12/17/2013 Charles C. Johnson MSNBC host Ed Schultz didn’t pay for his workers’ health insurance despite advocating for single payer health care. Schultz also supports higher taxes on the rich but structures his companies to avoid them and got in trouble over delinquent taxes for one of his companies. And while the populist pundit opposes government bailouts for corporations, he supports them for the unions that give him money. Schultz tacitly admitted that he doesn’t pay his workers health insurance by using a third-person construction to describe their situation, even though he regularly attacks companies that don’t offer their workers health insurance. “I have a North Dakota corporation that’s based in Fargo. It`s called Ed Schultz Broadcasting,” Schultz told his audience during the Ed Show on May 19, 2013. “It`s been in business since 2004 when I started my national radio show. And I have employees who have insurance. I have some that don`t.” [iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Jbu7mgnpEO8" frameborder="0"][/iframe] In fact, Schultz owns two North Dakota companies—Ed Schultz Broadcasting, LLC and E.A. Schultz Construction, LLC. Schultz has also repeatedly called for higher taxes on the rich. On October 12, 2011, Schulz advised the Democratic Party to embrace the tax-and-spend liberal attack. “You’re damn right I’m a tax-and-spend liberal. It’s time to tax the top 1 percent and spend it on the working folk of America who need a job, who need a school, who need some health care — all of this,” Schultz announced. “I’m a tax-and-spend liberal. I want to tax those who have had all the breaks over the past 30 years and I want to make sure the working folk of America have a shot.” But while Schultz was calling for higher taxes on the rich, he wasn’t paying them himself. In June 2011 Schultz’s company E.A. Schultz Construction was hit with a tax lien for $5,100 from the State of South Dakota. <img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4022987" alt="edschultztaxlien" src="http://dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/edschultztaxlien.jpg" width="484" height="332" /> By headquartering the company in North Dakota, Schultz avoided the high corporate taxes he would have had to pay in his home state of Minnesota. Schultz also uses his private planes to fly to New York (7.1% corporate income tax) during the week and to Minnesota (9.8% flat corporate income tax) where he lives on the weekends. (Related: Populist blowhard Ed Schultz secretly flies on his own fleet of private jets) Schultz has also made a big deal out of government bailouts of corporations but not of bailouts that help unions, perhaps because he’s a recipient of cash from those very unions. (Related: Labor Dept. documents: MSNBC’s Ed Schultz on labor union payrolls since 2005) Read more: dailycaller.com