The Toxicity of Progressive "Change"
If everything that Midas touched turned to gold, everything “Progressives” touch turns cancerous. A blood cancer, redistributing death to a, heretofore, healthy body.The West mutates before our eyes…..
How much more pain must Americans endure before our masters in Washington let oil companies punch a few holes in the Alaskan tundra? Must we shiver pennilessly in the dark before we may extract new domestic petroleum deposits? Or shall we simply keep buying $114 barrels of oil from people who want us dead?
In case Congress missed the news, four U.S. airlines have gone broke during this month alone. Frontier declared bankruptcy, but will continue flying. Even worse, Aloha, ATA, and Skybus blamed unaffordable fuel as they grounded their jets. Aloha said sayonara to 1,900 employees, NBC News reports. ATA’s demise destroyed 2,200 jobs, while Skybus sacked 450 workers, atop the 80,000 positions lost across the economy as unemployment spiked from 4.8 percent in February to 5.1 in March.Continue reading… More Oil Drilling, Please
The facts about capital gains rates and revenues are well known to our readers, but we’ll repeat them as a public service to the Obama campaign. As the nearby chart shows, when the tax rate has risen over the past half century, capital gains realizations have fallen and along with them tax revenue. The most recent such episode was in the early 1990s, when Mr. Obama was old enough to be paying attention. That’s one reason Jack Kennedy proposed cutting the capital gains rate. And it’s one reason Bill Clinton went along with a rate cut to 20% from 28% in 1997.
Either the young Illinois Senator is ignorant of this revenue data, or he doesn’t really care because he’s a true income redistributionist who prefers high tax rates as a matter of ideological dogma regardless of the revenue consequences. Neither one is a recommendation for President.
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So New Zealanders are to be taxed to hell and back and these morons are promoting the manufacture of biofuels despite all the evidence that they cause massive hikes in food prices–all to send the “right signals” to those foolish oil companies!
The companies which employ engineers and economists and all kinds of other technical staff who–apparently–don’t have access to the wisdom this socialist fucking moron has?
Arrogant. Stupid. Dishonest. No wonder he rose to cabinet rank in the sleaziest, most corrupt government this little country has ever had the misfortune to suffer. Continue reading…What a pity breathing is an involuntary reflex…
Health Minister Nicola Roxon said one idea put forward in a submission was an annual national fitness test where citizens would receive a financial incentive if they pass. Health stream participants in the 2020 summit also discussed increasing public education about how death can be a “positive experience” to avoid patients panicking when they reach hospital emergency departments… many participants had suggested a ban on cigarette sales by 2020…
“I actually think we need to price foods according to their environmental and health impact, rather than harping at people to eat this or that,” she said…. (New.com.au)
“What a surprise eh, a bunch of raving leftists get together and the plans they come up with involved a lot of “forced/cajoled” activities. Oh but lefties are the guardians of liberty and all that folks, can you see the obese pigs gliding majestically by!
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If someone else is coughing up for your healthcare, then you don’t get to do what you feel like. Sorry folks, with responsibility goes liberty, if you want liberty, you must take responsibility. So expect this sort of thing to start happening slowly, you have wall-to-wall Labor now and you’re not willing to grow up.”
Continue reading…2020 Summit - A Socialist Totalitarian Wet Dream
Sphere: Related ContentCongress has succeeded in making the student loan business less profitable. It did not think about the consequences of this, of course, but it should now see–if there is any wit on Capitol Hill–that when you make a business less profitable via government fiat, you decrease the incentives for that business to continue in its previous robust fashion–if at all.
Et voilà, that is precisely what we are seeing. Student loan lenders can’t make as much of a profit thanks to the caps on the interest rates they charge. As a result–especially given the current credit crunch–they are scaling back their activities or cutting out of the student loan business altogether. And this only serves to harm students. Nice work, Congress. What do you do for an encore? Have Speaker Pelosi start brush fires in California? continue reading… Please Stop Helping
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zee April 22nd, 2008 at 1:35 am
You know, I think I read something to that affect as well, but, even so, we must drill, damn it.
I wonder if americans would be so silent if food prices followed oil with astronomical leaps while stockpiles of available food were kept from distribution….