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W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19048 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Could the name be the reason they didn't call the last vote. http://www.planbonestep.com/ |
Ex: "Socialist" Send message Joined: 12 Mar 12 Posts: 3433 Credit: 2,616,158 RAC: 2 |
Just thought I'd throw this into the mix. Gary, I was going to ask him the same thing. Are you guys accepting Americans?? :-) (I worked many many years at my job before I made that much money.) Edit: My specific trade is in fact on the list posted by WK. Judging by the wife's look when I joked about it, I don't think it would ever happen. :-D #resist |
Ex: "Socialist" Send message Joined: 12 Mar 12 Posts: 3433 Credit: 2,616,158 RAC: 2 |
Question TA, how easy is it to emigrate to Australia? So.... Where is the right's input on this??? Should we keep the WalMart philosophy going? Here's proof that higher wages could help. #resist |
Terror Australis Send message Joined: 14 Feb 04 Posts: 1817 Credit: 262,693,308 RAC: 44 |
......Are you guys accepting Americans?? :-) Yes, we take Americans. There is a skills shortage over here and you do speak English (sorta, kinda) :) My wife is American and we came to the agreement that as long as she pronounced Aluminium (Al-yu-min-ee-um) and place names correctly that would suffice. :D T.A. |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
......Are you guys accepting Americans?? :-) May I say "Foster's"? |
William Rothamel Send message Joined: 25 Oct 06 Posts: 3756 Credit: 1,999,735 RAC: 4 |
Very difficult to work in Australia. Work permits very scarce |
Intelligent Design Send message Joined: 9 Apr 12 Posts: 3626 Credit: 37,520 RAC: 0 |
Inflated cost for a beer too. |
dancer42 Send message Joined: 2 Jun 02 Posts: 455 Credit: 2,422,890 RAC: 1 |
preamble to the Constitution "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense,[note 1] promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." ====================================================================== congressional oath of office "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God." ===================================================================== This seems to say to me that congress in order to fulfill it's oath would have to fight congress? |
Intelligent Design Send message Joined: 9 Apr 12 Posts: 3626 Credit: 37,520 RAC: 0 |
preamble to the Constitution You would have to find someone who understood the Constitution, first. Then you would have to find someone who understood the oath they took, second. You would think out of the 500 + that are there one would show up. LOL! Not even out of the tea party do we have one. |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19048 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Is this the real reason that "the people" are feeling that their income - expenditure figures are out of balance So the question is "If your income had gone up in line with the true rate of inflation, could you afford to pay a few more percentage points in taxes?" N.B. CPI - is a governments way of calculating inflation, which a lot of employers etc. use to calcuate wage and benefit increases. |
BarryAZ Send message Joined: 1 Apr 01 Posts: 2580 Credit: 16,982,517 RAC: 0 |
You mean you didn't compel her to 'insert a 'u' here in words like labor? <smile> ......Are you guys accepting Americans?? :-) |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19048 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Maybe the US needs to follow the German model to reduce medicare costs. Germany 'exporting' old and sick to foreign care homes |
Reed Young Send message Joined: 23 Feb 06 Posts: 122 Credit: 81,383 RAC: 0 |
You're just being dishonest, not clever. Oh yes, great idea, I should have thought of that. No, I just refused to feed you, troll. As everybody with a basic understanding of U.S. government knows, it is the responsibility of Congress to "levy" taxes. However, the President's "bully pulpit" allows significant input to the process and therefore, to setting tax rates. You have willfully misconstrued my words to pretend that I have implied that Presidents set tax rates solo. I said no such thing, and you know it. I take for granted that people debating public policy are intelligent and well-informed enough that referring to "the Bush tax cuts" will not cause people to believe that Presidents set taxes alone. Everybody knows Bush initiated those tax cuts, despite the fact that they could not have taken effect without Congress. And everybody knows that it's "always much easier politically to lower taxes (even if they don't need to be lowered) than to raise them (even if they badly need to be raised, as they do now)." So now it has come time to flat out ask you, why is Obama talking to Boehner if the President sets rates? Because the President doesn't. Are the rest of your observations as astute? You exemplify the average conservative voter's dishonesty. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30638 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
I take for granted that people debating public policy are intelligent and well-informed enough that referring to "the Bush tax cuts" will not cause people to believe that Presidents set taxes alone. I don't. It is obvious the press doesn't and plays that up. So do the politicians when they address the voter. If you don't see that ... |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
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Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30638 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Bad move? He's got new tax revenue coming, it burns a hole in his pocket, same as when the credit card company raises your limit. Well, you may be responsible, unlike much of America that is in debt above the head. |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
Bad move? Of course it is a bad move, but hardly surprising. As it has become increasingly apparent that those elected to serve us, once elected, consider themselves above us. It's time to take away their privileges. Service, and I repeat, service to the populace in the government is supposed to be an honorable duty to one's country and countrymen, not a way to live off of the fat of the land. Our politicians, from the President on down, need right now to be stripped of their gold plated pensions and their gold plated health care packages. They were not awarded these perks by the Americans they are supposed to represent....they voted them in for themselves over many years. They need to be knocked down to the level of the people they were voted into office to represent. Everything in their pension programs......gone. It gets sent into the social security trust, and they have no more right to it than the people who paid the taxes for it. Health care......well, they have every right to the wonderful Obamacare programs coming soon. And that's the only right they should have. Every lawmaker should be bound to abide like all the citizenry by all the law they pass upon the citizenry. That's what the biggest problem this country has right now.......is the complete and total disconnect between those who we elect to govern us, what they propose to do when campaigning for election, and what they do after we have elected them. There is no worse stink raised than by that of an arrogant politician. And that is all we have left in Washington these days. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
kittyman Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51468 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004 |
And ya know.........? The more I sit and think about it the angrier I get. They sit up their in their ivory, protected towers and pontificate at each other across their party bridges about what should be. None of them has any worry if the bridge falls into the abyss. None of them. The taxpayers shall always be there to shore up their bridge. So they think. The end of this nonsense is coming sooner than most of them realize. At least I am sure of it. "Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster |
dancer42 Send message Joined: 2 Jun 02 Posts: 455 Credit: 2,422,890 RAC: 1 |
The real problem is since the late 1940s congress has used the tax laws to micromanage society rather then just collect revenue. if they would stop doing this we would have a lot less government. the loss of government control congress will probably never let happen. |
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