Nawww...

  

On December 31 of this year...

...this is what you are going to be forced to endure:

"The tax hikes will hit every income level. The top bracket would rise from 35 percent to 39.6 percent; the 33 bracket will rise to 35; 28 will rise to 31; 25 will rise to 28; and the lowest bracket, 10 percent, will rise to 15 percent -- a 50 percent hike. Capital gains taxes will rise from 15 percent to 20 percent, and the tax on dividends will skyrocket to 39.6 percent, which is a far cry from the current 15 percent rate. The marriage penalty will return, and the child tax credit will be cut in half from $1,000 to $500."

Try not to forget this when the time comes around. 
Please.

You know...

...you're doing something right when your opponents have to stoop to these kinds of tactics.

here ya' go...

...from the WSJ:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703720504575377381727739058.html
 
...& in the realm of "no-shit-sherlock?", I give you - 
  
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/business/22fed.html?ref=global-home
 

bet you didn't know...

Opinion in Brief

Dr. Donald Berwick, the new Medicare czar

"Barack Obama's incredible 'recess appointment' of Dr. Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is probably the most significant domestic-policy personnel decision in a generation. It is more important to the direction of the country than Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court. The court's decisions are subject to the tempering influence of nine competing minds. Dr. Berwick would direct an agency that has a budget bigger than the Pentagon. Decisions by the CMS shape American medicine. Dr. Berwick's ideas on the design and purpose of the U.S. system of medicine aren't merely about 'change.' They would be revolutionary. One may agree with these views or not, but for the president to tell the American people they have to simply accept this through anything so flaccid as a recess appointment is beyond outrageous. It isn't acceptable. ... Let's look, then, at what President Obama won't let the American electorate hear Dr. Berwick say in front of a committee of Congress. These excerpts are from past speeches and articles by Dr. Berwick: 'I cannot believe that the individual health care consumer can enforce through choice the proper configurations of a system as massive and complex as health care. That is for leaders to do (emphasis mine; arrogance his). ... Please don't put your faith in market forces. It's a popular idea: that Adam Smith's invisible hand would do a better job of designing care than leaders with plans can. ...' That the Obama White House would try to push this past public scrutiny with a recess appointment says more about Barack Obama than it does Dr. Berwick. Vilifying Dr. Berwick alone for his views is in a way beside the point. Within Mr. Obama's circle they all think like this. Defeat Dr. Berwick, and they will send up 50 more who would pursue the same goals. If the American people want the world Dr. Berwick wishes to give them, that's their choice. But they must be given that choice with full, televised confirmation hearings. Barack Obama, Donald Berwick and the rest may fancy themselves philosopher kings who know what we need without the need to inform or persuade us first. That's not how it works here."
--columnist Daniel Henninger

This today from the "Old Gray Whore" (aka: NYT)

Do you morons out there actually KNOW what this means?
If you don't, take a moment & figure this out...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/16/business/16assess.html?_r=1&nl=us&adxnnl=1&emc=politicsemailema1&adxnnlx=1279310439-0dPGx/QBr4o+S9yULg5a4Q

. . .
(paragraph 4): "Mr. Obama has done what he promised when he ran for office in 2008: he has used government as an instrument to try to narrow the gaps between the haves and the have-nots. He has injected $787 billion in (your) tax dollars into the economy, provided health coverage to 32 million uninsured and now, reordered the relationship among Washington, Wall Street, investors and consumers."
. . . 

Whatever this may mean:

Yesterday - Sunday - I "raced" w/ a kid - engineer - that was on his way back to the ships drilling the parallel wells to relieve the pressure on BP's "Deepwater Horizon" fiasco. He assured me that it WILL work...& he's not an apologist for BP - if anything he thought they should be sued out of business. That being said, I guess we'll have to wait until the end of August to see.

Ike's...

...farewell address - & remember who this man was. He was the 5-Star General - the Supreme Allied Commander - who defeated Hitler. ...& all those crooks in Washington are EXACTLY those - or owned x those - he warned against. Today's generation has been anesthetized to it all. My only hope is - as a wise man once told me "...worse is better...".

I think that at least some of us are beginning to stir.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY
 
 

"The Answer"

   

click HERE to get all the answers to all your ills...

 

"They"...

 

...are so removed from the common-man that "they" don't realize that "We the People..." are reaching the end of our endurance.


Happy 4th of July!!!

 

Happy Independence Day!

 
"...land of the free,

& home of the brave."

Again, please excuse my stupidity.

Will someone please explain this to me? 
Typical double-speak from the "Old Grey Whore".

"The United States added just 83,000 private-sector jobs in June, a dishearteningly low number that could add to the growing number of economists who warn that the economic recovery has slowed to the point that it cannot generate enough job growth.

Over all, the nation lost 125,000 jobs, according to the monthly snapshot of the job market released by the Labor Department on Friday. ... "

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/03/business/economy/03jobs.html?nl=&emc=aua1

4th of July Eve

I've been silent on the McDonald decision. I figured you should mull that one over for yourself a bit before I weigh in. Think for yourself...for a change. Don't "knee-jerk" your reaction, either pro or con. Think. Get in the habit. "...try it, you'll like it."

Hubris Maximus!

...by the Constitution & the will of the people?
Arrogance personified.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100701/ap_on_re_us/us_chicago_gun_ban