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And again, the interest in campaigns a full year before the ought to begin is evidence that contemporary America has no God but government. Nobody even TALKS about this....

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We never talked about this

Comments have reached Crid-ical mass!

Great Coshery of OWS:

Urban existence is inherently somewhat lonely for the best-equipped and most conformist among us. How much lonelier must it be for the semi-employable crackpot, the born-too-late hacky-sacker, the dyspeptic Social Credit pamphleteer, the lesbian anarchist who dislikes the other four lesbian anarchists in town?

The Occupants have been scorned as bored, mollycoddled trust-fund kids, but in Calgary they spanned the generations. This may, indeed, be part of the fun; people who don’t go to church no longer have much opportunity for face-to-face intergenerational amity. It goes without saying that the protest was also a supreme dating opportunity; those who came with tents carried their own ready-made makeout venues.

Is that pretty great? There are more great lines in there. And how about this?

Well in Wisconsin a Judge Rules you have No Right to Own a Cow or Drink Its Milk

On September 9, Judge Fiedler issued his decision on the motion, stating that the court’s August 12 denial of plaintiffs’ motion for judgment meant the following:

(1) Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to own and use a dairy cow or a dairy herd;

(2) Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to consume the milk from their own cow;

(3) Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to board their cow at the farm of a farmer;

(4) The Zinniker Plaintiffs’ private contract does not fall outside the scope of the States’ police power;

(5) Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to produce and consume the foods of their choice;

(6) DATCP [Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection] . . . had jurisdiction to regulate the Zinniker Plaintiffs’ conduct.

And how about this?

If not satire, this illustrates children who are proud of themselves because they've managed to run a summer camp or a dorm for a week ... and not adults who run the actual city that provides them with the park, sanitation (all those dumpsters have to be emptied somewhere), police protection, crowd control, etc.

In 1953, the top tax rate was 92%, unemployment was at it's lowest rate in our history at 2.5%. The deficit was 1.7% of GDP

In 2011, the top tax rate is %35, unemployment is at 9.1%. The deficit is 10.9% of GDP

It's not class warfare, it's math.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tnLz1oEOGI&feature=youtu.be

Hey Marta, you cool with someone coming and taking 92% of what you bust your ass to earn? No? Then keep your mitts out of other people's bank accounts. Didn't your parents teach you not to steal?

No, I know you're going to say "but I'm not rich" but to plenty of people out there you are. If you can take from others, others can take from you. Ruminate on that a bit.

In 1953, the top tax rate was 92%, unemployment was at it's lowest rate in our history at 2.5%. The deficit was 1.7% of GDP

In 2011, the top tax rate is %35, unemployment is at 9.1%. The deficit is 10.9% of GDP

It's not class warfare, it's math.

--Marta

You're comparing apples and sweat socks.

In 1953, a semi-trained monkey could have successfully run a manufacturing company in the US. Foreign competition was virtually non-existent, most of it still rebuilding from having been destroyed less than a decade earlier in World War II. China and Korea were impoverished nations of subsistence farmers, devastated by years of foreign occupation and warfare.

In 2011, the US is in a highly-competitive global economy and capital is mobile. Tax the top incomes at 92% and watch that capital walk (no, run) to another, more hospitable market, where it will be used to create new businesses and jobs.

Two comments..... Free swim equals crid takeover. And matram, please feel free to forfeit 92 percent of your work if that floats your boat. Why do I picture you in a che beret?

Feel free to comment on whatever is on my mind? Yikes. It is a scary place at times.

1- My mom had a lumpectomy this week after the needle biopsy confirmed breast cancer last week. Scary shit.

2- My brother's wife is really, really ill. More scary shit.

3- Having safe sex talk with my own 17 year old son .... A-W-K-W-A-R-D. Necessary, but very uncomfortable. Keep it covered, cowboy. Stay safe.

4- I hate the week before elections. Too much campaigning. Too many lies. I stopped listening a couple weeks ago.

5- I hate going to the dentist.

> In 1953, a semi-trained monkey could have
> successfully run a manufacturing company
> in the US.

Several did. Every read a mid-to-late 20th business memoir? Ever talk to a post-war (non-soldier) executive from Detroit? Ever work with anyone in broadcasting, ever?

Great point.

And you're right about the flight to less-cumbersome markets, too, but some of that is a pursuit of environmental indifference. The reason that we didn't replace the WTC in the same time it took Dubai to put up an entire skyline is that a lot more people get to sign off on it now, and a lot more perspectives are given consideration.

> Free swim equals crid takeover

She gives me the money on those days, too.

Why not link, or say, something interesting yourself?

"In 1953, the top tax rate was 92%, ..."

Two points:

1. In 1953, Europe was still mostly a pile of rubble, parts of Japan were still glowing, and China was about to take a Great Leap Forward into ruin. We were the only game in town.

2. In 1953, absolutely nobody paid the top tax rate. The tax code was so shot full of loopholes and deductions that the bracket rates didn't much correlate to what you paid. Credit card and car loan interest was deductible. A "home office" (e.g., your den) was deductible. "Business expenses" (e.g., clothes) were deductible. You could incorporate yourself, hire your children, and deduct their allowances. (Okay, that last part was an exaggeration, but not by much.) Remember the AMT? Want to know why it exists? It exists because so many people and companies were really good at gaming the tax code. People who complain about "tax shelters" today have no idea.

"In 2011, the US is in a highly-competitive global economy and capital is mobile. Tax the top incomes at 92% and watch that capital walk (no, run) to another, more hospitable market, where it will be used to create new businesses and jobs."

Marta, take note. Copy this down.

When the "Luxury Tax" added 10% to the price of a yacht, it became obvious that Rudy Choi or Feadship or Blohm & Voss could build a yacht just as well, and the 10% would not only fuel the return to the States, but pay the dockage for a while, too.

The Feds lost: a) unemployment $$ for the workers, mostly in Florida, laid off; b) the direct wages for the assembly of yachts; c) the indirect taxes and wages for the construction of engines, generators, fittings, etc. for installation in these yachts.

When New Jersey decided to tax heavy trucks, they never noticed Philadelphia, right there on the border. Wow. What a surprise that NJ truck dealers were hurt!

And this is independent of the reality: corporations count taxation as a business expense, which is paid by the customers.

If you back the OWS people, you just have no idea how the world works.

And this is not new. When Vergel, a prominent Roman, was informed that his property could be seized for veterans housing, he noted that properties with burial grounds were exempted. So, he spent serious money to erect a mausoleum, stage a large funeral, and inter a pet housefly, and got the break.

Wow. We can't learn shit from history.

Dear God, Man, did you not see that you were offering one of the great setups of all time? It's like a Presidential motorcade rolling straight at us on the 405:

> In 1953, Europe was still mostly a pile of
> rubble, parts of Japan were still glowing,
> and China was about to take a Great Leap
> Forward into ruin. We were the only
> game in town.

With the possible exception of the GLF, which of those conditions doesn't still apply?

(I feel bad about glowing Japanese. Soon enough here stateside, probably.)

In 1953 most banks were still subject to state usury laws, yet they managed to pay 3% on even tiny savings accounts and checking was mostly free.

Crid, we get many of our high-tech pieces from Europe. The US is falling behind in high-tech manufacturing.

When it involves noxious materials, as it often does, I'm kinda cool with that. Don't tell anyone

Jumping in a bit late here, but consider this:

http://www.lompocrecord.com/news/opinion/editorial/article_884d11d4-f3be-11e0-a92a-001cc4c03286.html

Love the way you look in the yellow dress!