tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882537619389851611.post1808580592261315541..comments2023-11-03T05:09:47.246-07:00Comments on Ramblings ~: Cut the tax cut for the richFranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14198689517878201943noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882537619389851611.post-50689917974539931222010-07-28T06:31:20.029-07:002010-07-28T06:31:20.029-07:00Dada~ Although you captured some important issues,...Dada~ Although you captured some important issues, you failed to mention Lindsey Lohan & what it;s like to be in jail. I mean the media tells us that is the top news story. <br /><br />The people in the Gulf who are hurting because this summer's business was destroyed by BP.... well we already know, according to BP, those are the (and I quote) "small people". <br /><br />Besides all this stuff is getting very expensive... the #1 rule in big business is to make the shareholders happy & keep the profit margins up. <br /><br />I wonder how many small people will lose their homes & businesses because of BP's stalling?<br /><br />I guess angry locals are not as exciting a story as BP fumbling about with more engineering<br />folly to kinda sorta see if one theory or the other might work. <br /><br />Notice they released one reading of the cap test.... after that the cameras went blank, no more info released. <br />We deserve to see the well, and know the numbers. <br />Not enough to just let the seepage happen deep down in the dark murky waters, where they can keep their dark murky secrets. <br /><br />As for Bell CA-- how long did those sky high wages go on for?<br /><br />Well, it's back to business as usual..... the Senate rejected the House version of the $33 billion supplemental war fund. One dollar for teachers, to every $7 to war for was considered "pork" & they want it cut. <br />Apparently education is a wasteful luxury & war $ prevails. <br /><br />WE are to call our congress Critters in the house to tell them NO. <br /><br />My congressman seems to wield the APPROVED stamp every time war funding comes around. <br /><br />So...... like what's going on with Lindsey Lohan? (In my best Valley Girl intonation!)Franhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14198689517878201943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882537619389851611.post-52976578373417321332010-07-28T04:03:54.381-07:002010-07-28T04:03:54.381-07:00I reread this blog hoping it would trigger some hi...I reread this blog hoping it would trigger some hint of a memory of my original lost comment. Nothing -- save for the anger it was written in.<br /><br />@Nonnie - I think you were close to its gist! <br /><br />But whatever my "inspiration" was, long-lived it wasn't, replaced daily by new sources of outrage. Like the outrage spilling over from citizens of little Blue [collar] Bell, CA (pop. 37,000) who just happened to discover what they were paying their part-time city council, police chief ($150K MORE than CofP of all of Los Angeles!) and the most expensive city manager in the state (who stands to make more in retirement than he was "earning" while "GAINfully" employed. (It's NOT illegal.) <br /><br />Or last night's story of BP's intention to cut nearly $10 billion of its tax bill by taking credits for clean-up costs and financial obligations incurred for the destruction of lives, livelihoods, health and environmental damages. We the people will gladly subsidize your obligations you choose to ignore! (It's perfectly fine, it's on the books.)<br /><br />Or there was the recent story of a BP cleanup contractor's abusive, exploitative treatment of displaced oil spill victims TRYING desperately to cling to subsistence while all stand in line for hours for late paychecks, some shorted, some with no paychecks (and no explanation!). Of shorted hours finally paid at a minimum wage rate. Of last weekend off because of Trop.Storm Bonnie (after 45 straight days on the job w/o a day off), and no word from their bosses when/if they are to return to work.<br />(From a worker speaking anonymously for fear she will otherwise lose her "job." Such employer insouciance at the plight or its workforce is becoming more and more common. Why, because they can get away with such shit.<br /><br />And so poor Glenn Beck may be blind in a year. Sorry, but always I thought (mistakenly I guess) that the bastard was born blind. (Maybe it's his Clorox bleach or whatever works for him to induce tears of compassion for the rest of before his shows causing it? -- one can only hope.) <br /><br />Meanwhile, how 'bout congressional Republicans approving Israel's war on Iran. Nice, since they ceded such oversight responsibility to their own fucking president to engage our own nation in wars anywhere he sees damn fit and they'll just rubber stamp the checks (while the homeland implodes!).<br /><br />With such bullshit ongoing, it's easy to suspect their may be some credibility in 2012 or, 'end of the world' scenarios - so freakin' crazy it all seems. Maybe that's why, on my last visit to the library - I was compelled to check out a book on the subject. (One can always hope, can't they?)<br /><br />Sorry I wasn't able to recapture memories of my original post. I suspect its because, in the interim -- from the irrational blathering herein, I've obviously, gone fucking insane. Sorry, sorry.Dadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17257598218959429347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882537619389851611.post-64107901840537159172010-07-26T21:30:23.939-07:002010-07-26T21:30:23.939-07:00Wow Jerry ~ Those are some heavy duty charts &...Wow Jerry ~ Those are some heavy duty charts & graphs & historic financial data you linked. <br />Bottom line is 10 years of tax breaks for those who least need the break, during a recession on the brink of a depression makes no sense. <br />They may have tried to sell the concept of a "jobless recovery"... but the jobless do not recover till they have work- and by work I mean a living wage. <br /><br />DK ~ I knew you'd get a kick out of the Hatch reference.... great nickname you have for him!<br />The way I understand it, is The bush-tax-cuts-for-the-wealthy automatically sunset at the end of this year. But along with the cuts for the oober wealthy, goes some cuts for the middle class & in order to save the middle class cuts it must be voted upon. <br />The Dems are poised to fully play the election card. <br /><br />But Hatch the Snatch gives us a glimpse of what is to come.... they want to play the jobs card. <br /><br />I lost track of just how many jobs evaporated in the end of the Bush era, but it was epic & an epidemic. In the neighborhood of 8.2 million jobs already went away. Hatch wants to talk jobs NOW?<br />Please!<br /><br />nonnie! Don't hold back! Say what you think!Franhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14198689517878201943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882537619389851611.post-69372808105878736122010-07-26T20:10:25.732-07:002010-07-26T20:10:25.732-07:00The documentary I watched brought me to tears. Peo...The documentary I watched brought me to tears. People working so hard on minimum wage, by the time they blew money on things like rent & gas to get to the job, they had $20 bucks left to feed 4 people- for 2 weeks. <br />The only banking they were doing was hoping the local food bank could keep them going. <br /><br />Dada~ I hate it when that happens. You type out a righteous rant & it disappears. Ugh!<br />Well see now we all want to know the gist of it...<br />can you oblige us?Franhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14198689517878201943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882537619389851611.post-21967475635763068432010-07-26T17:03:16.521-07:002010-07-26T17:03:16.521-07:00i don't know what dada's comment was, but ...i don't know what dada's comment was, but maybe it was something like my first thought--fuck the rich!nonnie9999http://mikk2.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882537619389851611.post-61025170668811060202010-07-26T12:43:45.290-07:002010-07-26T12:43:45.290-07:00I'm so glad the "old coot from UTE" ...I'm so glad the "old coot from UTE" wants a debate. There is no debate! <br /><br />The bush-tax-cuts-for-the-wealthy automatically sunset at the end of this year. The way I understand it, unless Congress decides to open up that debate, it is a done deal. Much like congressional salary hikes that automatically kick in unless they vote otherwise, this is an automatic deal. <br /><br />So Coot Hatch can debate with himself and his mean-spirited repubs and some cowardly dems who are facing a tp-riled up base for the mid-term elecs. For 2-yrs they have insisted the dems have 60 votes to do anything (therefore they mostly do nothing). Well let him scare up 60 votes to bring this turkey to the floor.<br /><br />BTW, our nickname for Hatch is Snatch ... as in, he snatches what he can from the middle-class and hand it over to the wealthy. It's his legacy, a reverse robin hood! And he has puh-lenty of cump'nee ... and they will all scream "class warfare" when it is done in reverse ... you watcha, those words are are already forming on tp'ers lips, you betcha bottom dolla (if you still have one left).<br /><br />ps, I wish dada would give us the gist of his lost "ugly comment". This is an ugly subject worthy of much ugliness.D.K. Raedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01451065603615752038noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882537619389851611.post-55350438103423844302010-07-26T11:45:52.614-07:002010-07-26T11:45:52.614-07:00Well said Fran. The tax cuts for those making ove...Well said Fran. The tax cuts for those making over $250,000 per year should be eliminated. Plus, it has been shown in many places (<a href="http://www.angrybearblog.com/2010/07/tax-burdens-and-economic-growth.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FHzoh+%28Angry+Bear%29&utm_content=Google+Reader" rel="nofollow">here</a> and <a href="http://www.presimetrics.com/blog/?p=3" rel="nofollow">here</a>, among others) that increasing the tax burden will improve the economy faster. Hatch is flat out wrong.Jerry Critterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870618647449723147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3882537619389851611.post-83383270213330610162010-07-26T08:56:44.197-07:002010-07-26T08:56:44.197-07:00test, testing. My previous comment was unsaved, un...test, testing. My previous comment was unsaved, unposted, lost by blogger. {sigh} probably just as well. it was pretty ugly.Dadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17257598218959429347noreply@blogger.com