OTHER PEOPLE’s $$$ IS NOT YOURS….

Quite right…then I would like George W. Bush to return the $300 billion dollars he STOLE from the America people under false pretenses, lies and manipulation of intelligence to start an unfounded war and then fund it.

I would like for the American tax payers to get refund checks for all the wasted money the Halliburton received through no-bid contracts and the $8 million that was “lost” in Iraq.

Finally, every last dollar that Big oil companies have managed to make in obscene profits through price gouging of the American consumer, I want returned in a refund check from Lee Raymond.

Quit right, other peoples money is not yours, nor is it the governments to spend in a friviously and irresponsible manner.

Nice try, though! Care to play again?

People like those who win the lottery pay the estate tax, not poor, defenseless dead people.

Proving once again, without a doubt, that ignorance is the stuff that “demoncracies” are run on.

*sigh*

If only it were that easy you silly ridiculous fool.

Realize this my friends, when minimum wage raises, so does the cost of everything from Big Macs to toothpaste. Why? Because corporations have to make up the loss somewhere.

Basically the rich get their cut and we continue an on going cycle of ignorance. We make more, they charge more and hire less. If you disagree with that simple fact then apparently you haven’t been paying atention over the last 25 years.

You want to fight a war on terror Mr. Bush? How about fighting the war here at home against the sleezy greasball corporations?

Oh wait we don’t get a say in how our country is ran, I forgot.

For framing purposes NEVER NEVER NEVER allow them to call it a tax cut.

larisa, judd, Mr Podesta!……your days as free people are numbered!!!

This is a ridiculous point. In fact, it’s not a point. It’s just a meaningless slime.

I’ll speak for myself and say that I don’t think other people’s money belongs to me. But I’ll make a confession that some conservatives won’t touch: I don’t mind paying taxes. I don’t mind helping to pay for public highways, public schools, a military, law enforcement, a fire department, and a whole host of other things. I don’t like it when my tax dollars are spent on unnecessary wars, on corrupt no-bid government contracts, or on exorbitant salaries for politicians and bureaucrats. But the things we use every day cost money.

The question is: who pays? And what percentage of their income do they pay?

So quit with the “OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY IS NOT YOURS” nonsense, unless you actually believe that we shouldn’t have public highways, a military, law enforcement, and all the rest.

Here in California, it’s unheard of to offer minimum wage – even resident illegals ask for and get $10.-/hr. But, “socially just” progs need a reason to foam at the mouth so they “throw up” a bimbo and her “companion animal”.

I’m convinced the men of TP like digging through her old file photos – I’m surprised the wannabe egalitarians here at Think Progress bring up rich-trash Paris Hilton and forget to mention top tax evader, George Soros. (Is that due to his “financial contributions” to TP?) I suppose like all the big corporation you seem to despise, George is a “bad American” for keeping the bulk of his money off-shore so as to keep the tax man at bay. I hope the hypocrite keeps flushing more millions down the progressive toilet – he hasn’t been getting much of a return on his investment, has he???

Happy Weekend….

Comment by mighty aphrodite — July 29, 2006 @ 2:44 pm

Republicans spend alot more time digging through people’s garbage and the amount of money TP receives from contributors is insignificant compared to Republican campaign finance / Corporate special interest. Millions down the progressive toilet? Thats chump change compared to the TRILLIONS Bush and Republicans flush down the NeoCon Toilet. Get real.

U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK
The Outstanding Public Debt as of 29 Jul 2006 at 11:14:19 PM GMT is:
$8,430,421,818,318.64

http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

National Debt — In the News

20 Mar 06 – Bush signs bill to raise Debt Ceiling (Newsday)
16 Mar 06 – Republican Congress sets new Federal Debt Limit: $9 trillion (National Public Radio)
16 Mar 06 – Republican Senate votes Debt Limit hike to $8.965 trillion (Reuters)
16 Mar 06 – US Debt: At least it’s not $1 zillion (Reuters)
16 Feb 06 – U.S. moves to miss hitting Debt Ceiling (MarketWatch)
8 Feb 06 – Big Deficit looms behind revival of 30-year bond (Reuters)
7 Feb 06 – Bush’s Budget sparks bipartisan protest (CBS News)
30 Jan 06 – Federal borrowing raised to record level (CNN)
10 Jan 06 – Bush seeking to limit spending growth in ‘07 Budget (Bloomberg)
8 Jan 06 – U.S. hovers close to its Debt Ceiling — Treasury boss says government business could be affected (San Francisco Chronicle)
27 Nov 05 – Deficit cracking GOP’s solidarity — party-line vote no longer assured (San Francisco Chronicle)
26 Nov 05 – Opinion: Get down to business on U.S. Deficit (The Indianapolis Star)
20 Oct 05 – Budget debate a defining moment for GOP, groups say (CNSNews)
5 Oct 05 – Editorial: Bush mismanagement worsens Deficit (The Capital Times (WI))
17 Sep 05 – Analysis: Katrina’s costs will swell National Debt (Associated Press)
7 Sep 05 – Budget Deficit yet another storm victim (Los Angeles Daily News)
10 Apr 05 – Editorial: $7,782,816,546,352 in Debt (CBS News)
7 Apr 05 – Editorial: Bureau of Public Debt: Surrounded by IOUs (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
4 Apr 05 – Bush’s agenda faces opposition from election-wary Republicans (Bloomberg.com)
25 Jan 05 – $1.3 Trillion in Deficits forecast over decade (Los Angeles Times)
21 Jan 05 – Does Social Security really face an $11 trillion Deficit? (FactCheck.org)
13 Jan 05 – Critics call Bush’s Deficit efforts feeble (Boston Herald)
10 Jan 05 – Editorial: Deficit deception (St. Petersburg Times)
19 Nov 04 – Bush signs [$800 Billion] Debt-limit hike (CBS News)
18 Nov 04 – Senate votes to let US borrow up to $8.18 trillion (Boston Globe)
4 Nov 04 – Why Democrats should be thankful — at least they won’t have to clean up the Bush fiscal catastrophe (Slate — MSNBC)
3 Nov 04 – Administration pressures Congress to raise Debt Ceiling (Boston Globe)
23 Oct 04 – Where [Bush and Kerry] stand on taxes and the Budget (Detroit Free Press)
9 Jun 04 – Editorial: Reagan policies gave green light to red ink (Washinton Post)
2 Feb 04 – Bush sends $2.4 trillion budget (including record $521 billion Deficit) to Hill (CBS News)
4 Jan 04 – Bush’s budget for 2005 seeks to rein in domestic costs (New York Times)
17 Dec 03 – Bush Deficit plan draws derision (CBS News)
9 Jul 03 – Home is where the National Debt is (The Providence Journal)
28 Jun 03 – Treasury official criticizes Debt ceiling (Washington Post)
19 Jun 03 – Editorial: Delusional on the Deficit, by Sen. Ernest Hollings (Dem-SC) (Washington Post)
15 Jun 03 – Aging population makes this Deficit scarier (USA Today)
10 Jun 03 – Congressional analyst now sees this year’s Deficit exceeding $400 billion (San Francisco Chronicle)
31 May 03 – Democrats expect record Debts — Federal Deficit is forecast to approach $500 billion next year (Washington Post)
20 May 03 – White House urges Senate to raise Debt ceiling soon (Washington Post)
14 Mar 03 – GOP senators oppose size of Bush tax cut (NY Times)
20 Feb 03 – U.S. Government hits national debt ceiling — Treasury begins taking evasive actions (CNN)
29 Aug 01 – Congressional Budge Office: “Social Security funds needed to balance books” (CNN)
22 Feb 01 – Bush unveils ‘fiscally responsible’ budget–reduces Deficit, but not Debt (CNN)
27 Sep 00 – President Clinton Announces Another Record Budget Surplus (CNN)
7 Sep 00 – National Debt Clock Stops, Despite Trillions of Dollars of Red Ink (CNN)
26 Jun 00 – Concord Coalition Warns that the new “Surplus” is not new money, it’s simply a new projection (Concord Coalition)
1 May 00 – Clinton Announces Record Payment on National Debt (CNN)
4 Aug 99 – US to buy back National Debt, first time in 25 years (BBC)

“These are the same reckless, conscienceless, heartless people that tried to paint John Kerry as a “flip-flopper” when he changed his mind!” —Frank
******Note to Frank – This premise is as old and tired as Jimmeh Carter. New material needed! But do remember, John Kerry has been a flipper, if not a flopper. all his adult life – went to Viet Nam to enhance his political credentials, and didn’t like what he saw – who would? War is HELL, but apparently someone forgot to tell him that. Throwing his medals (or ribbons) away — or over the wall, testifying with a BROAD brush before Congress, voting one way when it’s politically expedient and another way when it becomes unpopular – a consistent FLIPPER. (Everyone must be GOOD at something!!)

“…but democrats are just bleeding heart, limp-wristed, cut and run liberals when they do it!” —-Frank’s musings
*******I could not have said it any better….

“Ostensibly, they seem to suddenly want to help those Americans who haven’t had a pay raise in 10 years …” Now stop and think about this – IF you’re an adult employee who has not had a raise in 10 years, you might be a pretty poor employee or you might consider changing jobs and enhancing your job skills. I don’t know one teenage kid who has had a minimum wage job for 10 years – I think those jobs are primarily “entry level” and are designed to teach reliability skills.

And let me just reiterate Frank – OTHER PEOPLE’s $$$ IS NOT YOURS….

Now, start sobbing on cue…..

#152 – “How much do you make? And how much did you have to pay for your house?”
- Comment by SKdeA
*****Answers to both questions which are none of your business: Enough. Plenty.
Comment by mighty aphrodite — July 29, 2006 @ 5:37 pm

Judging from the amount of time this rightwingnutjob spends on here, he’s just another angry white guy that doesn’t make enough money to move out of his mom’s basement and is therefor angry at all the Mexicans in California that earn more than he does because they actually work for a living. This is typical of all racists, bigots, and wannabe Republican types and explains their jealousy, anger, and temper tantrums. MA needs to go do 13 weeks standing at the position of attention and then be shipped off as cannon fodder in the middle east.

By Frank J. Ranelli

House republicans try to blackmail democrats and America on minimum wage hike using cheap parlor tricks to diffuse a wedge issue in the up-coming November election.

The House republicans now, all of the sudden, want to raise the minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 per hour. This latest is a reversal after stonewalling the democrats on raising the federal minimum wage for several years and voting it down in session at least three previous times.

These are the same reckless, conscienceless, heartless people that tried to paint John Kerry as a “flip-flopper” when he changed his mind! The old double-standard – republicans can change course whenever the political winds opposing them are too strong whereas they might crash on the rocks or bottom out, but democrats are just bleeding heart, limp-wristed, cut and run liberals when they do it!

Anyone who sees a silver lining here, look closer. The republicans are not putting forth a straight vote on a minimum wage hike. The republicans are attempting to tie the wage hike bill to a permanent cutting of taxes on millionaires’ estates! If that wasn’t enough, republicans are attempting to weasel into the package incentives that includes a research and development credit for businesses only.

The word “shyster” comes to mind. Unscrupulous and greedy, a misanthropic lot; these republicans — whose impudent behavior, can only be summed up as nauseatingly perverse. Would it really be that complicated to simply give the 1.9 million people in the U.S. toiling away at a pathetic $5.15 an hour a leg-up without reaching into the cookie jar and handing businesses and trust fund babies more money to indulge in excess with?

According to Deborah Pryce of Ohio, the answer to the above question is a resounding, yes! “We’re right in the middle of trying to put a package together that will provide relief to small businesses that raising the minimum wage would tend to hurt,” said Pryce. Another arcane, baseless accusation that raising the minimum wage hurts small businesses, which the partisan-right continues to propagandized for their masters; money and businesses.

Ostensibly, they seem to suddenly want to help those Americans who haven’t had a pay raise in 10 years – while congress has given itself an average pay raise of over $35,000 per year, over the last ten years combined. Where was the wage increase for the poor while these plutocrats were in line for their self-appointed hand outs?

This latest capricious act by the republican leadership is nothing more than a cheap, blatant attempt to actually portray they care about the poor and underprivileged in an election year that clearly shows the American public has caught on to their charlatan act. It’s a vain attempt to diffuse another wedge issue in the up-coming, mid-term elections cloaked in free-for-all giveaways to the rich, while throwing a bone to the poor – just long enough to divert their attention while they steal another election.

Sorry, but not this time. The pungent stink of a dirty rat is all over this desperate attempt to distance the party from Bush’s sinking ship. We have had more than enough hand-outs to businesses and wealthy aristocrats. Its time for an uncompromising helping-hand to those who need it most without some malfeasant bill attachment to a very noble idea: lend a hand to those less fortunate than you and I!

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Authors Website: http://www.ranellirants.blogspot.com

*****But to really appreciate the warped nature of “progressivism” let’s consider the “subjective morality” of the following:
“The estate tax — aka the Paris Hilton Tax — benefits only the ultra-wealthy. This year, the exemption level is $2 million ($4 million per couple), which means only 5 out of every 1,000 people who die will pay the tax.” – Faiz “only 5 out of every 1000″ – I know this will shock some of you, BUT it’s NOT YOUR MONEY. I’ve read where progs here will regularly deem what is enough for someone to earn, own, etc. – who appointed you in charge of “consumption and distribution”??? So according to your logic, it’s OK if only 5 filthy rich people are robbed – they have more than they need.

Well, it could have something to do with the housing prices… and the gas prices… and the lack of public transportation…no one could live on minimum wage here!

How much do you make? And how much did you have to pay for your house?

Imagine how the cows and chickens feel?

But that’s so typical of human egocentricity. Insult those who uncover the reality that inconveniences your comfortable life. Assume that humans are infallable and that anyone to suggest we consider being respectful of other forms of life must be someone who is negative and trying to depress us. Well, if you find teh topic depressing, then perhaps you should consider why. (Hint: it has nothing to do with me pointing it out, but the fact that mistreating food animals is wrong).

My wanting to stop the abuse of food animals is actually quite positive. Your finding it depressing is, well, depressing.

That poster sounds like a good candidate for the ‘Debbie the Downer’(S.N.L.) award.

I’m convinced the men of TP like digging through her old file photos – I’m surprised the wannabe egalitarians here at Think Progress bring up rich-trash Paris Hilton and forget to mention top tax evader, George Soros. (Is that due to his “financial contributions” to TP?) I suppose like all the big corporation you seem to despise, George is a “bad American” for keeping the bulk of his money off-shore so as to keep the tax man at bay. I hope the hypocrite keeps flushing more millions down the progressive toilet – he hasn’t been getting much of a return on his investment, has he???

Happy Weekend….