a fact for those who want to increase taxes

Contributor: P'Gell P'Gell
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Originally posted by Sir
I think that what needs to be noted here also is who the people are that MADE the national debt. Was it the people who make minimum wage that put our country into debt? I don't THINK SO! Sure, you could technically argue that we vote on what ... more
Hear hear!

Alan Greenspan, The head of the Federal Reserve when GW Bush was pResident once said, when the stock market was doing well, "Too many little people are getting rich." Suddenly, we lost our surplus and the entire economy for the middle class and the poor goes into the toilet. Coincidence? I don't think so.
08/13/2011
Contributor: BBW Talks Toys BBW Talks Toys
This statement: Just think about all the great things that were invented here in the short amount of time we have been a country.

You know what? We did. We are no longer making any real advances in technology or goods. Basically, we ejaculated prematurely. It was great for a while, but now everyone else has caught up and learned to do it better. (i.e., better and cheaper)

I'm all for capitalism to a degree. Small businesses. People using what they have to provide and earn from their own resources to make a better life for themselves? That is amazing. It's fantastic. And then the problem is when major corporations can offer similar products for cheaper because they outsource, then people won't pay for what small businesses offer because they can find it cheaper elsewhere. Big corporations ARE the problem in this country. Instead of customer service representatives working out of the US, I get some guy from India named "Bob" who CAN'T answer my questions because he doesn't understand what I'm saying, and who is working for $5 less an hour than I would.
08/13/2011
Contributor: BBW Talks Toys BBW Talks Toys
And Glenn Beck is a moron who is bought and paid for by people with agendas. He's a business. And an extremist.
08/13/2011
Contributor: Sir Sir
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Originally posted by BBW Talks Toys
This statement: Just think about all the great things that were invented here in the short amount of time we have been a country.

You know what? We did. We are no longer making any real advances in technology or goods. Basically, we ... more
Oh no, outsourcing. Let's not go there. I have a few choice words to say about that.
08/13/2011
Contributor: Sir Sir
HAHA!!! Looks fun.
08/13/2011
Contributor: gone77 gone77
Hey, guys:

It has been requested that we enact the 24-hour rule on this thread, and given everything I've read (meaning every post), I agree. This thread has gotten out of hand with tempers flaring everywhere. What is the 24-hour rule? From the Expectations of Conduct:

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So, it's 3:08 PM EDT according to my clock, so from 3 PM EDT until 3 PM EDT tomorrow afternoon (08/14), this thread is on lockdown. Let's all cool down and either not return to this thread at all, or come back to it with our heads more level, shall we?

Thank you and have a good weekend.
08/13/2011
Contributor: aliceinthehole aliceinthehole
how about not bringing politics and-or religion to EF? somehow i got the impression (maybe from something i read, maybe from the simple lack of it here) that those topics were to be avoided to maintain a friendly environment. which this site has done an excellent job of doing, which is NOT easy, i'm sure!

there are plenty of forums on other sites where you can get all fired up about it. as it is, leave it at the front door, man.

08/16/2011
Contributor: Errant Venture Errant Venture
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Originally posted by aliceinthehole
how about not bringing politics and-or religion to EF? somehow i got the impression (maybe from something i read, maybe from the simple lack of it here) that those topics were to be avoided to maintain a friendly environment. which this site has done ... more
There have been documented cases - at least, so I've been told - where people actually do talk about religion and politics in a respectful way , so we should at least strive for that on here.
08/17/2011
Contributor: wetone123 wetone123
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Originally posted by married with children
If we took the 2008 profits for exxon mobil (45.2 billion), GE (17.41 billion), wal-mart (12.7 billion) and IBM (12.3 billion). for a total of 87.61 billion. If we taxed those profits at 100%, we still would not have enough to cover 1/3 of the ... more
I do not think it is the sole solution, but as aliceinthehole stated: It certainly couldn't hurt. I agree that we are going down a bad road, with unemployment up, small business shutting down, middle class being wiped out.

In my earlier post I agreed that taxing the rich would not solve our problem, and on its own it won't, not at this late date, and it makes me sad that the bankers have brought the American people down so low... Taxing the rich is a hell of a lot better than over taxing the poor and soon to be non-existent middle class.
08/17/2011
Contributor: wetone123 wetone123
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Originally posted by wetone123
I agree with you 100% sloppy donkey! It makes me mad, but it makes me sad mostly.
I agree that we do not need to look to our government for all our needs.

When you hear a knock on the door and say 'Who is it?' and hear the reply " Its your government, we're here to help" get worried because there will be tons of double speak and red tape.

Government needs to be downsized. The Bill of Rights was written to protect the people of America from greedy politicians. What ever happened to that?
08/17/2011
Contributor: wetone123 wetone123
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Originally posted by El-Jaro
I'm trying hard not to get offended by the rhetoric here.

I like to think of myself as a progressive person, preferring to push the envelope and learn more rather than sticking to the "tried and true" methods that are usually ... more
Yes, I agree that the 2 party system is a joke. No matter who we vote for, it is the same old thing. Government today helps the corperations and wall street as you stated. Not all of us little people out of work. The Rothchilds and Rockefellers run and own most of the world now. They have been working on this since the 1800's possibly earlier.

J.P. Morgan has already taken control of Virginia. Running the school systems, banks, healthcare, welfare, transportation, etc.
Everyone on food stamps today? Guess who this account is run through? J.P. Morgan. Making a profit off of the food stamps of poor people!

It is quite disgusting to me that the Rockefellers main concerns on this earth are curbing back the population. They actively have laboratories making vaccines which lower the tolerance to diseases in children who are required to take them, and older people who take flu shots. I used to think that the chem trails were funded by the government--no! The Rockefellers are funding this! Spraying chemicals on us daily like we are bugs! They call it "population control".
08/17/2011
Contributor: wetone123 wetone123
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Originally posted by El-Jaro
I despise the free market, in this case Wall Street, the Banks, and the top wage earners of the country who really don't have to work to get their money.

Wall Street - The financially minded people only interested in getting more money. ... more
What we all need to understand is that
Chance Didn’t Create The Current Economic Crisis –

What the world is experiencing today did not happen by chance, it was planned that way.

What Congressman Louis McFadden said of the “Great Depression” is as true today as it was in the 1930s. As Chairman of the House Banking Committee he said, “It was no accident; it was a carefully contrived occurrence. The international bankers sought to bring about a condition of despair here so they might emerge as rulers of us all.”

What you are experiencing economically and financially today is nothing new. Just study history all the precedence is there. The bankers and their willing helpers do the same thing over and over again. What these banks represent is corporatist fascism and monopoly. Through their great wealth they control most governments and their court systems. That is why your elected representatives do not listen to you. They have already been purchased by Wall Street and banking. These are the same people who have financed most wars on both sides for centuries.

These bankers and denizens of Wall Street and the City of London control our societies and in particular, business, finance and economics – almost every event within society is controlled by these elitists. Markets are no longer free and are under constant manipulation by elitists behind government.

The media is filled with one fraud after another. In country after country we see runaway deficits. Economic progress is frozen. Inflation grows with each passing day. At the same time the poor get poorer and the middle-class is being destroyed. We are witnessing the deliberate destruction of an empire.

America has lost 11.7 million jobs and 440,000 businesses over the past 11 years, but Congress evidently is ignorant of the fact that keeping jobs at home is easier than creating new ones. The jobs lost are high paying and the replacement jobs are at the bottom rung. All that has to be done is for Congress to pass legislation implementing tariffs on goods and services and to rescind corporate tax breaks for transnational corporations. It is just that simple.

Unfortunately, 95% of Congress is bought and paid for by the very interests that perpetuate this stripping of America. We hear nothing from economists or market commentators regarding what passes for free trade. We learned as a nation in the late 1700s that British mercantilism does not work. We then found, on our way to greatness as a nation, fair and equitable tariffs work very well. Not what we have seen for the past 30 years; the deliberate destruction of our nation and our jobs.

Every answer to the job’s problem or meeting competition is a subsidy of one form or another. We know such socialist solutions do not work, but government uses them and business welcomes them. Very simply, nothing has been fixed and the palliatives haven’t worked and that is why we are about to enter credit crisis II, with assistance from Greece and the rest of Europe. All America now specializes in is financial fraud and corruption. We have a country run by a crime syndicate and even when caught the companies are merely fined and among the connected, no one ever goes to jail.

Our system has deliberately been programmed to fail. It has taken $4.3 trillion just to keep the system afloat until the characters behind the curtain decide to pull the plug.


Most major banks in the US, UK and Europe are insolvent, and are made to look solvent by keeping two sets of books and via accounting ledgermain. Unbeknownst to most, the bank nightmare of commercial real estate is being financed by the Fed. When and if that stops the banks will have a new set of insurmountable problems. The banks are trapped in a dilemma of their own making and there is no way out.

The government might use this opportunity to commandeer 401Ks and IRAs, and replace them with government guaranteed annuities. This threat is very real and if you do not cash in now you may not get the chance to later. Pay the tax and possible penalty and get out. Most workers are trapped in IRA’s and the only way they can get funds out is to borrow against them. Some 30% have already done so to live on having been laid off.

There is no political will in America to cut spending. In addition, the President has been given marching orders for war by those who control him to cover up what they have done to the country and to make ever more profits for the connected Illuminists. There has been no way back for America since June of 2003. The debt is beyond payable. Even if by some miracle a solution to the financial crisis was found, the system is still yet to be purged, so that the banking system could be allowed to go bankrupt, along with many others that have engaged in malinvestment. Then there would be the end of market manipulation.

At the top of the list is the criminal prosecution of those on Wall Street, in banking and government who have committed fraud and treason. They should be tried, sentenced and their families relieved of all of their wealth. That should also be applied to those who committed treason and they should forfeit their lives.


The Fed has been forced to purchase about 80% of US Treasury debt issues because not only are foreigners not interested in such overrated debt, but also no longer are American households and hedge funds. The players all know the economy is weak. Mr. Bernanke verifies that. This is all leading to a major international conference where all currencies will be devalued and revalued and all debt will be multilaterally defaulted upon. A new international trading unit, or currency will be put into service as the world reserve currency and it will be backed by 25% in gold. That is what these sessions by the Fed are all about.

As long as QE3, or something similar, is instituted to prolong the fall into collapse, we can project inflation out for the next few years. The level will depend on what is needed to keep the economy afloat. For QE1 and 2 and stimulus 1 and 2, we see 25% to 30% inflation by the end of 2012. If the Fed injects $1.7 to $2.4 trillion into the economy under QE3 then we will get close to 50% inflation, which to us is hyperinflation in 2013 and 2014. The minute stimulus stops deflationary depression begins.


In Greece the fate of the European financial system hangs by a thread. Like it or not Greece is catalyst number 2, Lehman being catalyst one.


Policymakers main job now is to assist Greece, not to rob and loot it, to save their own corrupt system. Greece, Ireland and Portugal didn’t cause the trillions of unsound debt, the bankers did. They are the experts. They made the loans that should have never been made in the first place. Needless to say the bankers are at least 80% at fault. Banks have to be held responsible.

Worldwide liquidity is drying up because players are afraid to play and the Greek crisis has yet to be contained. These international bankers wanted world banking to be interconnected. They got their wish.

Never give into a lie no matter who is perpetrating it. There is no recovery and there never has been a recovery. Thus, we should not waste our breath discussing such a non-event. About $1.8 trillion, or perhaps more, has been squandered and the only thing QE2 and stimulus 2 have accomplished is slight growth and they have guaranteed 25% inflation next year.


Governments, and central banks never solve debt or economic problems by throwing money at it. CDS, credit default swaps, are not the answer because those on the other side of the trade are losers.

There is no easy way – or perhaps no way – out of this financial morass.
08/17/2011
Contributor: wetone123 wetone123
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Originally posted by Ansley
We can start with their outrageous salaries.
Agreed Sapphire Storm
Read on:

White House’s Top 21 Raises 2010-2011:
As Obama Threatens Seniors And Military With Their Pay

Matthew Vogel, Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, Salary Increase: $71,400 to $130,500; Increase of $59,100; 83% Increase.

Heather Zichal, Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy & Climate Change: $100,000 to $140,000; Increase of $40,000; 40% Increase.

Kevin Lewis, Director of African-American Media: $42,000 to $78,000; Increase of $36,000; 86% Increase.

Elizabeth Olsen, Special Assistant to the President & Director of Presidential Correspondence: $76,500 to $110,000; Increase of $33,500; 44% Increase.

Jessica Wright, Deputy Asst to the President & Director of Scheduling: $96,900 to $130,000; Increase of $33,100; Increase of 34%.

Lauren Paige, Special Asst to the President & Director of Message Planning: $62,000 to $95,000; Increase of $33,000; 53% Increase.

Elizabeth Nelson, Deputy Director of Scheduling: $45,900 to $75,000; Increase of $29,100; 63% Increase.

Ashley Tate-Gilmore, Director of Travel Office: $45,900 to $75,000; Increase of $29,100; 63% Increase.

Carlos Monje, Jr., Special Assistant to the President & Chief of Staff of the Domestic Policy Council: $91,800 to $120,000; Increase of $28,200; 31% Increase.

David Cusack, Deputy Assistant to the President & Director of Advance & Operations: $102,000 to $130,000; Increase of $28,000; 27% Increase.

Kimberley Harris, Deputy Assistant to the President & Deputy Counsel to the President: $130,500 to $158,500; Increase of $28,000; 21% Increase.

Jonathan Samuels, Dep Asst to the President for Legislative Affairs & House Liaison: $130,500 to $158,500; Increase of $28,000; 21%.

Thomas Vietor, Senior Director & National Security Staff Spokesman: $78,000 to $105,000; Increase of $27,000; 35% Increase.

Frederico Gardaphe, Deputy Director: $50,000 to $75,000; Increase of $25,000; 50% Increase.

Denis McDonough, Asst to the President & Dep Natl Security Advisor: $147,500 to $172,200; Increase of $24,700; 17% Increase.

Johanna Maska, Dep Director of Advance & Director of Press Advance: $56,100 to $80,000; Increase of $23,900; 43% Increase.

Kwesi Cobbina, Chief of Staff, Office of Legislative Affairs: $42,000 to $65,000; Increase of $23,000; 55% Increase.

Semonti Stephens, Deputy Communications Director: $53,550 to $75,000; Increase of $21,450; 40% Increase.

Amanda Anderson, Senior Legislative Affairs Advisor: $60,000 to $80,000; Increase of $20,000; 33% Increase.

Stacy Koo, Deputy Chief of Staff for Presidential Personnel: $55,000 to $75,000; Increase of $20,000; 36% Increase.

Andrea Turk, Director of Information Services: $50,000 to $70,000; Increase of $20,000; 40% Increase.

It seems Barack Obama and his staff are living the good life as he threatens senior citizens, Military, and students with their pay. How dare he?
08/17/2011
Contributor: P'Gell P'Gell
Quote:
Originally posted by wetone123
I agree that we do not need to look to our government for all our needs.

When you hear a knock on the door and say 'Who is it?' and hear the reply " Its your government, we're here to help" get worried because there will ... more
But, who is going to protect us from greedy Big Businesses?

Whom are now, due to our biased, in-the-pocket-of -big-business-Supreme Court considered "Individuals."

Sadly, the Constitution doesn't protect us from the most predatory of all things we face in this day and age. The Rich.
08/17/2011
Contributor: P'Gell P'Gell
Quote:
Originally posted by wetone123
What we all need to understand is that
Chance Didn’t Create The Current Economic Crisis –

What the world is experiencing today did not happen by chance, it was planned that way.

What Congressman Louis McFadden said of the “Great ... more
I think you are right. Handing the ENTIRE the country over to the Rich, as the Bush Administration did (and as was started by Nixon and Reagan and continued by Daddy Bush and then the final nail driven into the coffin by Dubya) destroyed our country, erased our SURPLUS and put the middle class and the poor into a near slavery like condition by the upper 3% in order to serve the upper 3%. What amazes me is that there are people who are not PART of that upper 3% who support their mission. Why? From the people I know and have talked to and read about and seen on TV and in person who support the policies of the Upper 3 Per Cent, hatred and racism is the driving force behind their belief system and the main reason they vote the way they do. Either that, or they just don't get it.

A Revolution, by and FOR the middle class (and NO the Tea Baggers are not the Revolution we are needing) may be the only solution.

And people are too overstuffed and lazy from shopping at WalMart and "saving" to want to revolt. (So, what do they do? Join the Tea Baggers? Or just sit on their asses hoping "things will get better as soon as that black guy is out of office." That's an exact quote given to me by a relative who is part of the Tea Party. Only she didn't say "black guy" you can guess what term she used.)

I don't know. We're fucked and The Rich get richer.
08/17/2011
Contributor: wetone123 wetone123
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Originally posted by P'Gell
I think you are right. Handing the ENTIRE the country over to the Rich, as the Bush Administration did (and as was started by Nixon and Reagan and continued by Daddy Bush and then the final nail driven into the coffin by Dubya) destroyed our country, ... more
They know not what they do. The media spreads disinformation and people believe it not knowing any better.

What to do? I believe it is too late to do anything. After all the rich have been systematically putting this plan in action for hundreds of years now. And as you stated, Americans are worn out from their trips to Wal-Mart and are over stuffed with chemically laden foods, flouride laced water, and of course, bug sprayed by Rockefeller Chem planes. Our resistence is low from all that. The brain does not work properly while poisoned.
08/17/2011
Contributor: P'Gell P'Gell
Quote:
Originally posted by wetone123
They know not what they do. The media spreads disinformation and people believe it not knowing any better.

What to do? I believe it is too late to do anything. After all the rich have been systematically putting this plan in action for ... more
My brain doesn't always work well either while being poisoned. (but, hey, those poisons, and their distribution, it is said "make jobs" for people. Puh-leaze!)

I am doubtful about the "they know not what they do." Some of them probably don't. But, IMO, if you don't have all the facts, you shouldn't vote. I have a good friends who admits she "doesn't have time" to follow politics nor does she "care" about it. Yet, she's in line at every election, making choices based on nothing but anecdotes that people tell her... like say... stories about pot smoking neighbors. FACTS, like the fact that 3% of the nation control more than 90% of the Wealth "make no sense" to her, Her response, "Well, the government wouldn't let that happen. How could that be?" Yet, she "has no time" to find out for herself. Raising a 3 year old, and doing nothing else must me all encompassing, I guess. (Damn, I kept up with Current Events when I had TWO kids under 26 months, how can she NOT? And still vote? Drives me crazy.)

FACEPALM.
08/17/2011
Contributor: wetone123 wetone123
Quote:
Originally posted by wetone123
Yes, I agree that the 2 party system is a joke. No matter who we vote for, it is the same old thing. Government today helps the corperations and wall street as you stated. Not all of us little people out of work. The Rothchilds and Rockefellers run ... more
Sorry, I looked up the papers on this one and its Kentucky-Not Virginia that J.P. Morgan has taken over.

I feel so badly about those who are out of work and hurting here on Eden. I also feel badly about agreeing 100% with a statement I do not agree with 100%. Even if it would not bail us out, it could not hurt to tax the rich. It would probably be one ofthe best things we could do. I guess thats why I am over posting on this one and sharing all this dope on the horrible rich people who have basically caused most of the destruction here in America.

I just want you to know that I care and that I know how it feels to be unemployed. Those days are behind me now but you never forget. I hope and pray that times will get better for all of us. I love you all and even tho' I do not know you personally, I have come to think of you as friends.
08/17/2011
Contributor: goofballmaster goofballmaster
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Originally posted by married with children
If we took the 2008 profits for exxon mobil (45.2 billion), GE (17.41 billion), wal-mart (12.7 billion) and IBM (12.3 billion). for a total of 87.61 billion. If we taxed those profits at 100%, we still would not have enough to cover 1/3 of the ... more
Our government has to cut spending and raise taxes in order to substantially lower our country's debt. I doubt anything is actually going to get solved because both parties spend astronomical amounts of money and pander their supporters.
08/31/2011
Contributor: PussyPurr PussyPurr
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Originally posted by married with children
I do not remember slavery being mentioned in the constitution.
Seriously???? It's mentioned twice. They are the "three-fifths of other persons" mentioned right there in the beginning. Article I, Section 2. And, in case you forgot, the 13th Amendment which abolished slavery: "1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

From a far-leftie who actually carries a copy of my Constitution everywhere....

Get your own free pocket Constution here: link so you can reference it.
08/31/2011
Contributor: PussyPurr PussyPurr
Quote:
Originally posted by P'Gell
But, who is going to protect us from greedy Big Businesses?

Whom are now, due to our biased, in-the-pocket-of -big-business-Supreme Court considered "Individuals."

Sadly, the Constitution doesn't protect us from the most ... more
The Constitution, the very foundation of our system, was written by the richest people in the country at the time. Our country was founded on class inequality. Why WOULDN'T those who formulated the framework for our system write it to benefit themselves? Isn't that what the wealthiest have always done, and continue to do? It's the American way!
08/31/2011
Contributor: jg19 jg19
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Originally posted by married with children
If we took the 2008 profits for exxon mobil (45.2 billion), GE (17.41 billion), wal-mart (12.7 billion) and IBM (12.3 billion). for a total of 87.61 billion. If we taxed those profits at 100%, we still would not have enough to cover 1/3 of the ... more
Sounds like its a start to me. Obviously we need to stop our spending overseas there is no reason for us to be at war we started it lets save face and save money we are wrong to be over there get our sons and daughters back asap.
08/31/2011