The Prez visited my area on Friday 14th and was greeted by "I Need a Freakin' Job." Hope he got the message.
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." *Jim Elliot*
"I can't tell the difference between degrees of Socialism and Communism!" then you are a dunce. People can still own private property under socialism, they can own their own house, etc. There are big degrees of socialism simply from having a progressive tax system with public education and universal healthcare, to pure communism where everything is owned by everyone, but you are still assigned your own "private property", you just don't own it.
Days since the Apocalypse began
"We are living in space-age times but there's too many of us thinking with stone-age minds" | How to spot a Humanist
"Men of Quality do not fear Equality." | "Belief doesn't change facts. Facts, if you are reasonable, should change your beliefs."
Not that anyone thought any different, but the Administration is finally having to come clean in regards to their blatant deceit over the health care tax. I wonder how many people making under $250,000 will be paying this one.
When Congress required most Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, Democrats denied that they were creating a new tax. But in court, the Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an exercise of the government’s “power to lay and collect taxes.”
And that power, they say, is even more sweeping than the federal power to regulate interstate commerce.
Lying scumbag...While Congress was working on the health care legislation, Mr. Obama refused to accept the argument that a mandate to buy insurance, enforced by financial penalties, was equivalent to a tax.
“For us to say that you’ve got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase,” the president said last September, in a spirited exchange with George Stephanopoulos on the ABC News program “This Week.”
When Mr. Stephanopoulos said the penalty appeared to fit the dictionary definition of a tax, Mr. Obama replied, “I absolutely reject that notion.”
From ABC's Jake Tapper:
Breaking News: President Obama Says "I'm Having a Great Time" On Vacation
Apparently it was a slow news day.....
"Don't believe everything you read online."
-Abraham Lincoln
Didn't that swamp creature he's married to just get back from vacation in Spain?
Last edited by PanzerJaeger; 08-27-2010 at 01:29.
I saw this on the economist and thought it might be of relevance and interest to this thread: After Iraq, America has had a bruising decade. But do not underestimate either the superpower or its president
There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.
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