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Critical Memo to Obama: Do Something
This Recession's Not That Bad - And We're More Than Halfway Through
Ramifications of Fannie, Freddie On The U.S. Budget [Housing Tracker]
Can Gold Be Suppressed Indefinitely?
So true.
Can the US Government Afford Future Bailouts?
Obama, McCain and Offshore Drilling
Crisis In Progress: Loan Spreads Widening Further [Housing Tracker]
The Obama Plan: We Can't Entitle Our Way Out of Paying Taxes
Think Kelly Lieberman is to think that corporations pay ANY taxes. They're just turned through to the purchasing public - an indirect tax on the buyer.
Obama's Economic Policy and Reagonomics
If you want to leep spending more than we have, fighting wars in countries we shouldn't be in at all, or trying very hard not to say anything or do anything that might upset your voters, then go with McCain.
If liberalism means to keep going in the direction we're going, (i.e. changing and charging the people more and more to do it), then I'm a conservative. If conservatism means staying the course we're currently on, then I'm liberal.
Why didn't we vote for Romney or Paul instead of these two wishy-washy say and do nothing candidates?
Obama vs. McCain on Fiscal Responsibility
Security (FICA) Program. He promised:
1.) That participation in the Program would be
completely voluntary.
2.) That the participants would only have to pay
1% of the first $1,400 of their annual
incomes into the Program,
3.) That the money the participants elected to put
into the Program would be deductible from
their income for tax purposes each year,
4.) That the money the participants put into the
Independent 'Trust Fund' rather than into the
General Operating Fund, and therefore, would
only be used to fund the Social Security
Retirement Program, and no other
government program, and,
5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees
would never be taxed as income.
Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are
now receiving a Social Security check every month --
and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of
the money we paid to the federal government to 'put
away', you may be interested in the following:
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Q: Which political party took Social Security from the
Independent 'Trust Fund' and put it in to the
General Fund so that Congress could spend it?
A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the Democratically-
controlled House and Senate.
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Q: Which political party eliminated the income tax
deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?
A: The Democratic Party.
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Q: Which political party started taxing Social
Security annuities?
A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the
'tie-breaking' deciding vote as President of the
Senate, while he was Vice President of the U.S.
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Q: Which political party decided to start giving
annuity payments to immigrants?
AND MY FAVORITE:
A: That's right!
Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party.
Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65,
they began to receive Social Security payments! The
Democratic Party gave these payments to them
even though they never paid a dime into it!
'A government big enough to give you everything you want,
is strong enough to take everything you have.'
-Thomas Jeff erson
Four Reasons We Can't Call It a Recession - Yet
"Its hard to feel good about things as they stand right now but on the other hand I've experienced much worse. So, I guess I not depressed, just down a bit. I'll be better soon. Just give me some time..."
A Million Bucks Ain't What It Used to Be
Please, Mr. Greenspan, Shut Up
Were the Tax Rebates a Bust?
Is This a Recession? Wrong Question.