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Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
reply to post by NorEaster
I have never recommended a "free for all" in any way. That is anarchy and chaos which is what we saw in N Orleans.
I don't know what else to say about your post other than it wasn't that way before Socialism came to the States. The N Orleans situation represented a point where everyone was trying to survive during an extreme situation. No respectable person would ever suggest such a thing. I am for personal responsibility, not making others responsible for our actions.
I might add that you have a very peculiar and bizarre way of thinking I just cannot relate to, and also you make a lot of erroneous assumptions. You also do not seem to grasp the basics of American history. Are you American? Are you recently in America or living in a foreign country? Any person understanding the history of the American Revolution can easily grasp the concept of the Tea Party as related to the Boston Tea Party where colonials dumped tea into the harbor as a protest against the taxation of the British, and of course even that tax was far less than the outrageous income tax of today.edit on 3-9-2011 by ThirdEyeofHorus because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by beezzer
reply to post by NorEaster
I find it funny that you target corporations and not the laws that allow corporations to exercize their rights in this manner.
I would assume that your disagreement is with Obama and the GE/China deal?
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
reply to post by beezzer
Hey I like Dancing With The Stars. It's one of the few tv series i will watch any more.
reply to post by NorEaster
Lemme get this straight. You're saying we're screwed. No hope?
I'm in the camp that believes change is possible. Don't like the current corporate laws? Get folks in office who will change them.
But if it's futile? Then join the collective, get the RFID chip, watch MSM, Dances With The Stars, take your flu shot and ambien and sleep well.
edit on 3-9-2011 by beezzer because: (no reason given)
Having taken their blunt budget ax to Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, EPA, NPR, and dozens of other popular and effective programs, they scampered to save one of the least popular and least effective federal programs on the books: the annual taxpayer subsidy for Big Oil.
As gasoline prices were rising to $4-a-gallon and higher, the House GOP voted unanimously to let the oil giants continue siphoning $4 billion a year out of our public treasury.
All 241 of the Republican/Tea Party House members—with not even one dissenter in the bunch—declared that in this time of a supposed budget “crisis,” the neediest among us are....the waifs of Big Oil.
Meanwhile, ExxonMobil just announced a 69 percent leap in profits this year, while Chevron, ConocoPhillips and others are enjoying similar jumps in theirs.
Guess what percentage of those enormous profits the corporations are likely to pay in taxes?
Zilch.
Their lobbyists have punched such gaping loopholes in our tax code that they can escape paying anything for the privileges and benefits they get from America.
Exxon, for example, had a $19-billion profit in 2009, but not only did it pay exactly zero in federal income taxes, it manipulated the system to get a $156 million rebate from us (taxpayers).
Likewise, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips had multibillion-dollar profits that year, paid not a dime in taxes, and also got refunds. www.texasobserver.org...
Originally posted by mishigas
reply to post by beezzer
reply to post by NorEaster
Lemme get this straight. You're saying we're screwed. No hope?
I'm in the camp that believes change is possible. Don't like the current corporate laws? Get folks in office who will change them.
But if it's futile? Then join the collective, get the RFID chip, watch MSM, Dances With The Stars, take your flu shot and ambien and sleep well.
edit on 3-9-2011 by beezzer because: (no reason given)
....and Eat Your Peas. Don't forget your peas...
Originally posted by newcovenant
reply to post by beezzer
And why not?
They are a bunch of thieving scheming traitors except for a few honestly disgruntled and misinformed citizens at the front of the pack...like Joe the Plumber and a few of the posters in this and other threads I have seen. Other than that...mostly scum of the Earth. No good for America at all. Someone has to stop this kind criminal activity and folks, as you can see if you can read - it ain't the Tea Party.
If this is not ripping off American taxpayers, nothing is.
Having taken their blunt budget ax to Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start, EPA, NPR, and dozens of other popular and effective programs, they scampered to save one of the least popular and least effective federal programs on the books: the annual taxpayer subsidy for Big Oil.
As gasoline prices were rising to $4-a-gallon and higher, the House GOP voted unanimously to let the oil giants continue siphoning $4 billion a year out of our public treasury.
All 241 of the Republican/Tea Party House members—with not even one dissenter in the bunch—declared that in this time of a supposed budget “crisis,” the neediest among us are....the waifs of Big Oil.
Meanwhile, ExxonMobil just announced a 69 percent leap in profits this year, while Chevron, ConocoPhillips and others are enjoying similar jumps in theirs.
Guess what percentage of those enormous profits the corporations are likely to pay in taxes?
Zilch.
Their lobbyists have punched such gaping loopholes in our tax code that they can escape paying anything for the privileges and benefits they get from America.
Exxon, for example, had a $19-billion profit in 2009, but not only did it pay exactly zero in federal income taxes, it manipulated the system to get a $156 million rebate from us (taxpayers).
Likewise, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips had multibillion-dollar profits that year, paid not a dime in taxes, and also got refunds. www.texasobserver.org...
And you wonder why we are broke?
Keep blaming the government "programs" that help the poor and the destitute...what a crock.
edit on 4-9-2011 by newcovenant because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by mishigas
reply to post by beezzer
reply to post by NorEaster
Lemme get this straight. You're saying we're screwed. No hope?
I'm in the camp that believes change is possible. Don't like the current corporate laws? Get folks in office who will change them.
But if it's futile? Then join the collective, get the RFID chip, watch MSM, Dances With The Stars, take your flu shot and ambien and sleep well.
edit on 3-9-2011 by beezzer because: (no reason given)
....and Eat Your Peas. Don't forget your peas...
Maybe you should be eating oil?