Politics & Government - 22 December 2006

Just because a Thursday CNN poll says "Bush not trustworthy, doesn't share values, no longer inspires confidence" does not make it so - damn that liberal media !

2006-12-22 11:12:15 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I am ashamed to admit I have a husband who would beat the dog under the bed if we were attacked.

2006-12-22 11:09:54 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

The movie for me was like a wake up call. What was it like for you?

2006-12-22 11:08:59 · 14 answers · asked by 22 Mercedes 1 in Law & Ethics

if every body had American citizenship would this be the start of world peace, if yes will some one start it off

2006-12-22 11:08:41 · 15 answers · asked by alenn g 4 in Politics

I cant take my 1st holiday next year. i have to get a homeowner to take it, why? I was the one who won the prize. Is this not discrimination?

2006-12-22 11:07:54 · 4 answers · asked by baggy trousers 1 in Law & Ethics

Do you think it's the right thing to do? I pay for more than 90% of the bills.

2006-12-22 11:06:07 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

I mean, they only want to kill as many americans as they can.

2006-12-22 11:05:54 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2006-12-22 11:05:33 · 2 answers · asked by aleksandr s 1 in Law Enforcement & Police

The Top 50% pay 96.54% of All Income Taxes
(The top 1% pay more than a third: 34.27%)

October 4, 2005

This is the latest data for calendar year 2003 just released in October 2005 by the Internal Revenue Service. The share of total income taxes paid by the top 1% of wage earners rose to 34.27% from 33.71% in 2002. Their income share (not just wages) rose from 16.12% to 16.77%. However,
their average tax rate actually dropped from 27.25% down to 24.31%


*Data covers calendar year 2003, not fiscal year 2003
- and includes all income, not just wages, excluding Social Security
Think of it this way: less than 3-1/2 dollars out of every $100 paid in income taxes in the United States is paid by someone in the bottom 50% of wage earners. Are the top half millionaires? Noooo, more like "thousandaires." The top 50% were those individuals or couples filing jointly who earned $29,019 and up in 2003. (The top 1% earned $295,495-plus.) Americans who want to are continuing to improve their lives, and those who don't want to, aren't. Here are the wage earners in each category and the percentages they pay:
The top 1% pay over a third, 34.27% of all income taxes. (Up from 2003: 33.71%) The top 5% pay 54.36% of all income taxes (Up from 2002: 53.80%). The top 10% pay 65.84% (Up from 2002: 65.73%). The top 25% pay 83.88% (Down from 2002: 83.90%). The top 50% pay 96.54% (Up from 2002: 96.50%). The bottom 50%? They pay a paltry 3.46% of all income taxes (Down from 2002: 3.50%). The top 1% is paying nearly ten times the federal income taxes than the bottom 50%! And who earns what? The top 1% earns 16.77% of all income (2002: 16.12%). The top 5% earns 31.18% of all the income (2002: 30.55%). The top 10% earns 42.36% of all the income (2002: 41.77%); the top 25% earns 64.86% of all the income (2002: 64.37%) , and the top 50% earns 86.01% (2002: 85.77%) of all the income.

I have made an executive decision as the owner and ultimate editor of this website that this table and these numbers stay on this website forever - updated when each year's numbers come out, of course. In order to get these facts, you have to see them each and every day. This story, along with a link to the IRS chart, will stay somewhere on the RushLimbaugh.com homepage so everyone can see and find these numbers at any time. It's crucial that people get this, so please, share it with a friend now!
The Rich Earned Their Dough, They Didn't Inherit It (Except Ted Kennedy)
October 10, 2003

The bottom 50% is paying a tiny bit of the taxes, so you can't give them much of a tax cut by definition. Yet these are the people to whom the Democrats claim to want to give tax cuts. Remember this the next time you hear the "tax cuts for the rich" business. Understand that the so-called rich are about the only ones paying taxes anymore.

I had a conversation with a woman who identified herself as Misty on Wednesday. She claimed to be an accountant, yet she seemed unaware of the Alternative Minimum Tax, which now ensures that everyone pays some taxes. AP reports that the AMT, "designed in 1969 to ensure 155 wealthy people paid some tax," will hit "about 2.6 million of us this year and 36 million by 2010." That's because the tax isn't indexed for inflation! If your salary today would've made you mega-rich in '69, that's how you're taxed.

Misty tried the old line that all wealth is inherited. Not true. John Weicher, as a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank, wrote in his February 13, 1997 Washington Post Op-Ed, "Most of the rich have earned their wealth... Looking at the Fortune 400, quite a few even of the very richest people came from a standing start, while others inherited a small business and turned it into a giant corporation." What's happening here is not that "the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer." The numbers prove it.

2006-12-22 11:04:54 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

did they go through proper channels to be there. Do they have a visa? A green card? As a soldier they are working there.
Have they accepted their rules for immigration? Is it only illegal immigration if someone is coming to the USA? Wouldn't anyone coming into any country have to go through proper channels?

2006-12-22 11:04:45 · 15 answers · asked by Steven 6 in Immigration

2006-12-22 11:03:03 · 13 answers · asked by Sean 4 in Politics

Fox New's "cousin" is the network with the simpsons...and many other shows most would consider very liberal...

is this odd to anyone else?

2006-12-22 11:01:04 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

First off im an American and I want to know what you guys think of socalized medicine. Do you think that its good that your government is over health care? Do you think its bad? Is it true that you guys wait for years to get a surgery done? And that the health care system is nearly bankrupt. Get back to me on this.

2006-12-22 11:01:01 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

Donald Trump came across as exceptionally smug, obnoxious and narcissistic, all attributes that he personally admires in himself and which nauseate more thoughtful minds. He may be business savvy, but he resorted to the most naive counterarguments against Rosie O'Donnell. Any 'adequate' high school debater knows that an ad hominem attack (retorting the logic of an argument by assaulting the person rather than addressing the issue) is a serious technical foul.

It is interesting that, rather than debate the central claim that he is or is not a 'moral compass' by providing evidence of his good deeds, he instead decided to focus his counterattack on her weight, her homosexuality, and her personality. Has he absolutely no sense of the emotional weight of his words on overweight teenage girls, or on young men who want to emulate his success, and who inevitably will adopt his superficial attitude toward vulnerable women already suffering low self-esteem about their appearance? Is this not demonstration enough of his wayward moral compass, which is what Rosie accused him of to begin with?

A lawsuit? Please. His was an impulsive, venomnous assault to an astute and outspoken comedianne who gets paid to give her subjective 'view' of popular culture. She was completely within the job descriptions of her character on the show. Donald Trump has eagerly played the role of a media-starved business tycoon for decades now, so he is fair-game for the spontaneous dialogue that The View was designed for by his friend Barbara Walters. Rosie is neither a professional journalist who is paid to present objective facts without bias, nor a corporate foe with an agenda related to knowingly disrupting his business interests for her personal profit. I cannot therefore see for the life of me how he would have any basis for a lawsuit; if so, she has an equal basis to sue him for slander.

In fact, I see more potential for a successful lawsuit filed against Donald Trump because his comments were clearly and deliberately designed to impair her career as an entertainer by miring her public reputation, whereas he is not an entertainer and her comments were only indirectly about his business affairs.

2006-12-22 11:00:46 · 12 answers · asked by pat800 1 in Law & Ethics

true or false:based on the principle of "one man ,one vote,"legislators must represent legislative districts of about the same size population

2006-12-22 10:59:18 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Civic Participation

1. Pearl Harbour - 1941 – The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour came as a result of deliberate provocation from President Roosevelt. FDR had foreknowledge of attack, & worked to ensure it happened, so the USA could enter WW2?

2. Gulf of Tonkin – 1964 – Vietnamese patrol boats blamed for attacking US Destroyers. The incident was really an attack by US Forces so President Johnson had a pretext for the Vietnam War.

3. USS Liberty – 1967 - Liberty was in international water & flying US flag, when attacked by unmarked Israeli planes & ships. Israel planned to sink the Liberty & blame Egypt as a pretext for LBJ to get US into Six Day War

4. Iraq – 2003 –Bush told Blair of a plan to “Fly an aircraft in low over Iraq painted in UN colours” & provoke Saddam to shoot it down. It was dropped as "Intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." i.e. forged Yellowcake documents, the dodgy dossier etc.

Is each one true or false?

As many responses as possible please (avoiding abuse)

2006-12-22 10:59:03 · 15 answers · asked by Cracker 4 in Military

2006-12-22 10:54:37 · 12 answers · asked by Sean 4 in Politics

IS THE REDS STATE ECONOMY NOT AS STRONG AS THE YA POSTERS ARE CLAIMING???

2006-12-22 10:51:47 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I feel like I need to do something, should I just write to the State Rep?

2006-12-22 10:50:37 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

Why is it that mostly White Americans(who's relatives by the way came here from way across the ocean)have such a problem with every Mexican-and not just the illegals but every Mexican-Our Race was here First not yours-I understand immigration should be a bit stricter but you have all got to stop being sooo predudice
and realize Mexican/Black/White /Chinese/Italian/Irish are ALL HUMAN BEINGS-So why all the hatred-seriously (and please no racist remarks or ignorant remarks because I will report you)

2006-12-22 10:50:00 · 16 answers · asked by Art 4 in Immigration

2006-12-22 10:49:18 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

2006-12-22 10:48:34 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

Why do the men of today worry about how they smell, how many earrings they have, how they look, whats going on in sports, how much beer they have but do not care about all their rights being taken away and the very land they stand on is being given away to foreign countries while they are looking at themself in the mirror .

2006-12-22 10:46:50 · 12 answers · asked by Michael L 2 in Law & Ethics

I KNOW THEY BRAINWASH THEIR CHILDREN FROM A YOUNG AGE.

2006-12-22 10:45:08 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

With the nation getting deeper into debt, jobs going overseas plus all the other negative issues surrounding the country like Neocons, healthcare, corporations running the country, running out of oil and water. Is the US heading for a collapse and a possible second revolution?

2006-12-22 10:43:11 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

with their own spouse who has dementia in a nursing home?

2006-12-22 10:42:14 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Law & Ethics

those whom side with illegals
racist latinos,,,no that couldn't be,,YES THERE ARE MANY RACIST LATINOS,,IT'S PRACTICALLY A SPORT FOR THEM

how could anyone logically be pro-illegal, Even if the illegals are benifitting us greatly,,which they are not, Don't you think there has to be a regulated flow of settlers into a country , any country if it is worth a damn

I think it's just ultra-sensitive latinos, that are offended at anything a white person does that runs short of hating themselves and praising latinos, THIS BS has got to stop, WHERE are all the wonderful level headed citizens of hispanic orgin,,,, we need you now to stop this childish hate

Lets expose the crap and bring all the lies and BS to the table,, enough is enough already

2006-12-22 10:41:11 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

Her answer is go to google"uk government sport policy guidelines"30 pages.Had to use this way as answers closed!

2006-12-22 10:40:04 · 4 answers · asked by aburobroy 2 in Civic Participation

2006-12-22 10:39:25 · 3 answers · asked by Report Abuse 2 in Military

So a writer writes a book and gets it published. Months later, a person from his/her past drags him/her to court, claiming, "That was my idea, you plagiarized MY book!", a book that, to the writer's knowledge, was never written. The writer uses his/her Fifth Amendment right, but also contemplates asking for an attorney. Since the writer isn't saying anything, is there a way s/he would still be incarcerated somehow?

2006-12-22 10:36:30 · 3 answers · asked by S 1 in Law & Ethics