There is a passsage in the Bible that clearly states that a man whose testicles have been crushed can’t get into Heaven. I’m serious, and so apparently are the very important, very pious, and very close to God leaders of the Catholic Church.
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Hey Seniors, This Is Obamacare
As you can see, cherished senior friends, Obamacare might very well be the sign of the beast, and it will only get worse. In 2014, states will open exchanges that offer competitive, private, insurance plans. Also on those exchanges will be at least one non-profit insurance option, and funds will be provided that will support member-owned insurance co-ops at the state level.
Read the rest of this entry »Deconstructing Glenn Greenwald
Turley, Greenwald, and other observers who I respect have legitimate concerns about this piece of legislation and its ramifications on the liberties that our troops have fought and died to preserve. In that spirit, most of us in the mainstream have allowed too much of our most basic rights regarding evidence, property, and person to go by the wayside. Fear, fear of terrorist attack, has led us to give up a little freedom in exchange for a little security. Ben Franklin cautioned us more than 200 years ago against taking that very step. But the Greenwalds of the world have gone too far in asserting that the President has intentionally stepped towards dictatorial powers, and Greenwald himself has grown ever more willing to twist and mislead in his mission to sully this President.
Read the rest of this entry »The Economic Rights Of The Many
We have worked hard to “improve” the business climate in America since 1980; how is that working out in your community? We have worked hard to “improve” the incentives to become rich since 1980; has that created more opportunity for you and your family? When intellectual grave-robbers like Art Laffer and Alan Greenspan sold Ronald Reagan (and 55% of the rest of us) supply-side economics, the pitch was simple; the rewards earned due to lower taxes on the wealthy and large corporations would “trickle-down” into the economy at large.
Read the rest of this entry »Those Job-Killing Taxes
Constantly labeling taxes as “job-killers” is another matter entirely. Constantly labeling taxes as job-killers is at best an unsupported assertion, and at worst an outright lie. There is nothing wrong with arguing the concept of taxes, or about what they support, but you need to show proof to make the affirmative statement that they kill jobs, and the proof just isn’t there. We covered this topic here before, but it bears repeating; no matter how you slice it, no one has ever been able to point to a period where tax cuts, by themselves, generated GDP growth or accelerated job creation. In fact, the opposite is true. We the people have two shining, large scale examples in the recent past to look at; the Clinton tax increases that came with the Deficit Reduction Act of 1993, and the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003.
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