On 16/10/2011 12:09 AM, jps wrote:
On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:15:25 -0400, wrote:



"Wayne.B" wrote in message
...

On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:21:46 -0400, wrote:

Agreed 100%

It's interesting to watch the likes of Chris Mathews (who I respect) and
other liberal minded political commentators tiptoe around this issue.
Officially, the talk is "Wall Street or Big Business Greed", yet he and
many
he interviews concede that Congress is basically bought .... except those
Representatives or Senators that he happens to have on his show of course.
They just blame someone else or finger Wall Street or Big Business.
Blame
them for what? For being in compliance with the rules that they, the
Congress, are responsible for putting into law?

Give 'em all their pink slips.

=======

Maybe the answer is term limits so they only have to be concerned
about re-election once or twice. The real problem is campaign
finance of course.

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No question, but as you know that would be harder to pass as a
Constitutional Amendment than increasing the debt ceiling or health care
reform.
The pols argue that it takes them several terms to develop the political
clout to "make things happen".

How can we possibly trust a group that votes themselves automatic pay raises
every year that only a special vote can prevent.
How can we possibly trust a group that gets the best health care programs
available to anyone on the face of the earth while
the people they represent are going broke trying to pay for theirs?
How can possibly trust a group that has fat pension plans for life simply
because they make promises and deliver nothing?
Anyone with a job evaluation report like theirs' in the real world would be
canned in a nanosecond.

A simpler solution is for voters to invoke De facto term limits by not
reelecting them term after term after term. Shake it up and
prevent long term deals and alliances to special interests to develop.

But everyone hails the politician who brings the pork home. Everyone
wants to feed from the trough, no one wants to pay for the feed.


Yep, we reward deception, using taxes for theft, worship crooked
politicians and persecute the productive, the fleabagger way.

Campaign finance and lobbying reform would do the trick but it'd take
an act of God for those who've invested so much in the present system
to dissolve it.

Politicians don't want to change it, too much back door money and favors
come their way. Lobby group is about government supported bribery.

On way is to make lobby groups illegal. Then replace the funding via
the tax cost. The first $100 in taxes, you vote to a politician.
Government holds the money and politicians can get the money on receipts
of legitimate campaigning. Wants some hookers, booze party isn't going
to float.
--
Eat the rich, screw the companies and wonder why there are no jobs. But
we have big huge government we can't afford...
-- Obama and the lefty fleabagger attitude

On 10/16/2011 6:17 PM, Canuck57 wrote:
On 16/10/2011 12:09 AM, jps wrote:
On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 22:15:25 -0400, wrote:



"Wayne.B" wrote in message
...

On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:21:46 -0400, wrote:

Agreed 100%

It's interesting to watch the likes of Chris Mathews (who I respect)
and
other liberal minded political commentators tiptoe around this issue.
Officially, the talk is "Wall Street or Big Business Greed", yet he and
many
he interviews concede that Congress is basically bought .... except
those
Representatives or Senators that he happens to have on his show of
course.
They just blame someone else or finger Wall Street or Big Business.
Blame
them for what? For being in compliance with the rules that they, the
Congress, are responsible for putting into law?

Give 'em all their pink slips.

=======

Maybe the answer is term limits so they only have to be concerned
about re-election once or twice. The real problem is campaign
finance of course.

-------------

No question, but as you know that would be harder to pass as a
Constitutional Amendment than increasing the debt ceiling or health care
reform.
The pols argue that it takes them several terms to develop the political
clout to "make things happen".

How can we possibly trust a group that votes themselves automatic pay
raises
every year that only a special vote can prevent.
How can we possibly trust a group that gets the best health care
programs
available to anyone on the face of the earth while
the people they represent are going broke trying to pay for theirs?
How can possibly trust a group that has fat pension plans for life
simply
because they make promises and deliver nothing?
Anyone with a job evaluation report like theirs' in the real world
would be
canned in a nanosecond.

A simpler solution is for voters to invoke De facto term limits by not
reelecting them term after term after term. Shake it up and
prevent long term deals and alliances to special interests to develop.

But everyone hails the politician who brings the pork home. Everyone
wants to feed from the trough, no one wants to pay for the feed.


Yep, we reward deception, using taxes for theft, worship crooked
politicians and persecute the productive, the fleabagger way.

Campaign finance and lobbying reform would do the trick but it'd take
an act of God for those who've invested so much in the present system
to dissolve it.

Politicians don't want to change it, too much back door money and favors
come their way. Lobby group is about government supported bribery.

On way is to make lobby groups illegal. Then replace the funding via the
tax cost. The first $100 in taxes, you vote to a politician. Government
holds the money and politicians can get the money on receipts of
legitimate campaigning. Wants some hookers, booze party isn't going to
float.

Wasn't one of O/bama's first broken promises "iam gonna run dem lobyists
outa Washington. There will be no lobying, period." I'm paraphrasing but
that was the gist of his promise.

On 14/10/2011 5:36 PM, X ` Man wrote:



October 14, 2011
Wrong People Arrested on Wall Street
Goldman Boss: ‘Thought They Were Finally Coming for Us’

By Andy Borowitz

NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) - Millions of Americans cheered the news
on Friday that arrests had finally been made on Wall Street, but were
soon disappointed to learn that the wrong people had been taken into
custody.

“I was like, finally they’re going to get those *******s,” said Tracy
Klugian, 27, of Queens, New York, whose hopes were raised by an “Arrests
on Wall Street” graphic he saw on CNN. “I guess it was too good to be
true.”

NYPD spokesman Frank Hannefy explained the controversial decision to
arrest Occupy Wall Street protesters while leaving the people who had
brought the nation’s economy to the brink of Armageddon unmolested.

“As far as soulless individuals pillaging the country for their personal
gain, that’s none of our business,” he said. “But we’ll be damned if
we’re going to let people march on newly seeded grass.”

At banking giant Goldman Sachs, chairman Lloyd Blankfein admitted that
when he heard police sirens outside his building, “I was sure they were
finally coming for us.”

The Goldman chief said he started running up and down the halls
“screaming at people to feed the document shredder like Chris Christie
at a pie-eating contest.”

Mr. Blankfein said that he felt “palpable relief” when he realized that
the police had come to arrest the protesters and were leaving the
bankers at large.

“That was a close one,” he said, chuckling. “We’re all going to have a
good laugh about this over the weekend in the Caymans.”

Elsewhere, Texas Governor Rick Perry announced what he called his
"1-1-1" plan: "Every American gets 1 percent tax, 1 mandatory
vaccination, and 1 execution."

Might be better than 0bamas' 3 zero plan.

0 jobs, 0 home (foreclose), 0 futures (too much debt).

Yep, the zero-bamer 0-0-0.


--
Eat the rich, screw the companies and wonder why there are no jobs. But
we have big huge government we can't afford...
-- Obama and the lefty fleabagger attitude

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On 10/14/2011 7:36 PM, X ` Man wrote:

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Anyone seen a mission statment from these protesters?
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Venting frustration. Understandable, but totally ineffective.
Here's why, IMO:

They are protesting the wrong people and groups. Think about it.
Your CPA or tax return preparer will advise you to take every legal
deduction available to you on your individual tax returns.
Those legal deductions (and legal loopholes) are legislated and determined
by ...... guess who?

Business tax returns and rules governing Wall Street operations are also
subject to legal deductions and loopholes,
legislated and determined by ...... guess who?

The protesters are targeting the wrong groups. The group that should be
protested and voted out of office are the career
politicians in DC who determine and write the rules that individuals, banks,
businesses and Wall Street are subject to.
These corrupt politicians .... on both sides of the political spectrum ....
have established too many IOU's over their "careers"
and have muddied the waters with BS to cast the blame on everyone else other
than themselves.

And we are stupid enough to believe them and continue to re-elect them.

You don't get it. They are protesting the "system."
Part of the system is the Wall Street bought pols getting re-elected.
Where do you get the idea they don't despise the current politicians?
And do you really think most of these people have a CPA, or have enough
income to worry about tax dodges?

What they have is debt and no prospects for a good job.
The protesters have avoided having a political agenda.
That's a good move. Nearly all the pols are bought, so will turn
against them with a vengeance.
For example, 3 new free trade bills just passed Congress a few days ago.
Those trade bills will cost the U.S. hundreds of thousands of jobs.
Who lobbied most for these bills?
Citibank, big pharma, and big agriculture. Wall Street.
Who voted for the bills?
Democrats and Republicans.
The so-called "socialist" President, Obama, will sign them into law.
So we'll soon have Hyundais and other Korean products for sale here that
are produced by North Korean slave labor of Kim Jong-il.
Panama, a premier tax shelter haven, will be able to tax shelter more
U.S. corporations and other wealth with added treaty protections.
The system is broken.

Here's what's going to happen in the not distant future.
As joblessness, despair for a decent future, and wealth disparity become
even more pronounced, the protests will grow.
There will be violence. Blood will flow. Heads will be put on pikes.
It's going to get very nasty.
EVERYBODY in the U.S. is covered by the 2nd Amendment.
Firebombs are easy to construct.
Most people will have to take a side, if they can't just lay low and
keeps their mouths shut.



You are correct. And really, I don't think all right wingers are so
stupid that they don't get it, it's just that they choose to not get it,
put blinders on, so to speak, so that they can continue to denigrate the
protesters.

Yeah, all of them are stupid because they don't wear the same blinders
you do...snerk

Sorry, unlike you, I see good and bad on both sides of the fence.

Right.. rotflmao!

Prove me wrong.

Why, I am a liar, remember?

Yes.

Eisboch wrote:


"Wayne.B" wrote in message
...

On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 17:21:46 -0400, "Eisboch" wrote:

Agreed 100%

It's interesting to watch the likes of Chris Mathews (who I respect) and
other liberal minded political commentators tiptoe around this issue.
Officially, the talk is "Wall Street or Big Business Greed", yet he
and many
he interviews concede that Congress is basically bought .... except
those
Representatives or Senators that he happens to have on his show of
course.
They just blame someone else or finger Wall Street or Big Business.
Blame
them for what? For being in compliance with the rules that they, the
Congress, are responsible for putting into law?

Give 'em all their pink slips.

=======

Maybe the answer is term limits so they only have to be concerned
about re-election once or twice. The real problem is campaign
finance of course.

-------------

No question, but as you know that would be harder to pass as a
Constitutional Amendment than increasing the debt ceiling or health
care reform.
The pols argue that it takes them several terms to develop the
political clout to "make things happen".

How can we possibly trust a group that votes themselves automatic pay
raises every year that only a special vote can prevent.
How can we possibly trust a group that gets the best health care
programs available to anyone on the face of the earth while
the people they represent are going broke trying to pay for theirs?
How can possibly trust a group that has fat pension plans for life
simply because they make promises and deliver nothing?
Anyone with a job evaluation report like theirs' in the real world
would be canned in a nanosecond.

A simpler solution is for voters to invoke De facto term limits by
not reelecting them term after term after term. Shake it up and
prevent long term deals and alliances to special interests to develop.


That could result in a congressional pension overload!

-HB