Fee Fi Foe Fraud
Here is a headline that unveils a basic tenant of ALL elected officials. Their goal, both Democrats and Republicans, is to find a way to get our money so they can lavish it onto their constituents…
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Funding Kerflufle
As TEA party, conservative (and even Andrew Cuomo) governors take swings at trying to prevent their states from bankruptcy all options to balance budgets are on the table. Unfortunately for many previously “favored” programs raising taxes in a crippled economy will not go over well with the voters and so axes are swinging toward their tax dollars or teat if you wish.
IRS Offers Revised Plan to Tax Cheats
In this series I choose a current news article and you decide via a multiple choice format which terms were used and whether others would have been more accurate…….
NEW YORK — The IRS unveiled a new __________ (initiative, set of rules for politicians, plan to hire thousands of agents, kinder-gentler enforcement approach) yesterday that’s intended to lure tax evaders, but with stiffer penalties than in a previous program. Americans with hidden offshore accounts have until Aug. 31 to report the accounts to the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for penalties below what __________ (politicians, Hollywood stars, they would, we) ordinarily pay. Defense lawyers had been ________ (wondering how to make money on, speculating about, getting ready to turn themselves in, suing someone over) a possible new program after recent statements by IRS officials. The agency created the latest program amid a widening crackdown on offshore accounts sold to wealthy Americans.
Obama Baby
[This is perhaps best enjoyed if you sing along with the song Santa Baby as you read (I could not find a decent karaoke version).]
Obama Baby
Obama baby, slip an earmark under the tree, for me
We’ve been an awful good donor
Obama baby, and fleece another taxpayer tonight
Obama baby, keep your promise to screw the rich, let em bitch
I’ll wait up for you dear
Obama baby, and fleece another taxpayer tonight
Think of all the taxes you’ve got coming due
Let’s NOT Make A Deal!
I have to confess that I am embarrassed by being fooled by Obama last week and his tax “deal.”. I felt a sense of relief when he annouced an agreement with Republicans for an extension of the Bush Tax Cuts for ALL Americans. The far left went nuts over letting the “wealthy” keep their own money as if not stealing it through government dictate is something to give thanks. The official Republican spin was that this was a good deal. As the week wore on, however, we come to find that this deal contained a good deal more crap. As usual the Republicans gave a lot more than they got and the Democrats are still trying to load this bill up with their wish list or more realistically to buy votes so the measure can pass. Here is a partial list of the pork, but none of this is in writing and has all been done behind door number three:
Behind Every Great Philanthropist Is…
I heard a quote once that went something like this, “behind every great philanthropist is an equally great tragedy.” Unfortunately I could find neither the exact quote or the wise man who said it. Rush Limbaugh did a piece on large corporate giants Apple and Google and how they skillfully and legally avoid paying United States taxes on profits made overseas. Both Apple and Google have created a socially responsible public image while conducting their businesses in perhaps a way that might seem hypocritical to the jaded person.
A Missing Link?
This is not a posting about evolution or intelligent design, but it does contain an element of biology. I wish that I knew more about the brain and critical thinking processes in the human brain. I cannot seem to grasp the way big liberal think. Do they have a part of their brain that is overdeveloped? I suspect it is an underdeveloped are, but wanted to give them the benefit…initially. The progressives see life and American so much differently than I do I sometimes have doubts about my own clarity (only briefly).
Maybe they are right?
Jumping Jack Flash It’s A Ga$ Ga$ Ga$
Those living in Western Pennsylvania have been the object of a blitzkrieg of advertising about gas. More specifically a very deep natural gas pocket found in the Marcellus Shale Formation. Some estimates put the volume of gas in the formation at 500 TRILLION cubic feet which has fostered a great deal of interest in drilling this formation which is concentrated in the West Virginia-Pennsylvania-New York areas. West Virginia and Pennsylvania seem to have the greatest potential. Capture of this gas found in very deep geologic formations is not without significant costs and risks to both the drillers and the environment. I would rather focus on the financial part, but did not want to overlook this issue.
If A Crook Falls In The Forest….
A famous philosophical puzzle asks the question whether a tree that falls in the forest makes any sound when there is no one around to hear it. As an engineer by education and thought I really did not enjoy these types of “core” classes in college even though they gave me a “well rounded” education. My philosophy class was perhaps the most tedious class ever and was dominated by seemingly endless discussions about what ifs and could be’s. Our bearded professor certainly looked the part and in many ways I was happy that at least one person with a degree in philosophy was gainfully employed in his profession.
Social Security “Trust” Fund
Social Security wisdom passed along by Rich:
History Lesson on your Social Security Card that you won’t see in the main-stream media–now or ever. Learn these facts–they’re relevant!!!
- Social Security Cards up until the 1980s expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes. Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the message was removed. I compared my SS Card with my daughters and the note regarding it not to be used as identification has been removed.
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