Politics - 8 November 2007

I get really tired of all the crying & moaning from the Socialists in Canada and Europe do about the United States.

Without the United States and our Bad ASSSSS Military the world would look much different than it does today.

Why doesn't China invade Taiwan? What happened when Saddam Invaded Kuwait? Would the Nazi's still control Germany? Would North Korea invade South Korea? Where are the Soviets? What happened to the Taliban? Who just liberated 50 Million people in the Middle East?

Every Roag Nation in the world with bad intentions must ask "How will the United States React"?

Is this not a good thng?

I Just wish the Socialists in Europe and Canada would say Thank you!!!!!

2007-11-08 07:44:07 · 24 answers · asked by PNAC ~ Penelope 4

I asked a perfectly legitimate question about why Republican make such a false issue out of abortion and gay marriage, which are never mentioned in the bible, yet so many conservatives scoff at placing helping the poor above greed as "socialist".

The question got removed because it talked openly about "moral" hypocrisy in the "party of values".

And Republicans couldnt answer up to it with insight and logic, so they filibustered with abuse complaints to Yahoo to try to shut me up.

Why or why not?

2007-11-08 07:42:11 · 18 answers · asked by Zinger! 3

2007-11-08 07:41:25 · 11 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

Please not negative answers, I was just wondering?

2007-11-08 07:38:26 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

Would this prove once and for all that Hillary does not have the grit to be commander in chief.

2007-11-08 07:37:24 · 8 answers · asked by MY NAME MICHELLE I HATE AMERICA 5

2007-11-08 07:36:30 · 9 answers · asked by Darth Vader 6

See the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MBzLTjVMhY

2007-11-08 07:35:59 · 2 answers · asked by No More 3

Just wondering cuz cons keep confusing them with each other in a lame attempt to justify torture.

2007-11-08 07:33:08 · 21 answers · asked by The President 3

2007-11-08 07:31:35 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

They will not let us drill for new oil anywhere on American soil because the caribou need to freeze in order to mate. Other countries are dilling off of florida and california as we speak? How are liberals, who claim to have a monopoly on morality, helping the energy crisis other than taxing the successful oil companies? The answers from libs should be funny

2007-11-08 07:29:36 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

Or do you libs find that beheading is more humane that waterboarding?

2007-11-08 07:27:00 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous

NEW YORK - Stocks extended their losses Thursday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned he expects a raft of economic troubles will cause business growth to slow
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071108/ap_on_bi_st_ma_re/wall_street

2007-11-08 07:23:41 · 14 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5

2007-11-08 07:22:54 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was in Canada last week and I almost got in a fight due to the ribbing we Americans were taking on our under valued currency. I tried to tell them that our economy was in great shape because our unemployment was less than 5% but that didn't seem to work. What would you have said?

2007-11-08 07:18:18 · 18 answers · asked by huckleberryjoe 3

Should we be wasting all of these scenarios now or should we wait until we are closer to the election.

2007-11-08 07:14:48 · 8 answers · asked by MY NAME MICHELLE I HATE AMERICA 5

publicly disagree with their foreign policy? Surely the answer is still yes, since I know my Republican friends are not hypocrites!

2007-11-08 07:01:18 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am not trying to be mean but if the candidates don't make it an issue, how can that be your only reason for choosing a party or a candidate?

2007-11-08 06:57:09 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

We may be in to deep! If we don't bring the troops home now, we could have a global crises for years . I support the troops and the war , but it's time to bring them home. we're going on 5 years now, and what have we accomplished besides hanging Saddam Hussein? It is un-American to exterminate a people, like we are attempting now.

2007-11-08 06:54:33 · 23 answers · asked by lvillejj 4

2007-11-08 06:54:20 · 16 answers · asked by whoever 2

Who believes the media is telling the truth or promoting their liberal preferences.


Whether you sample your news feed from ABC or CBS (or, yes, even NBC and MSNBC), whether you prefer Fox News Channel or National Public Radio, The Wall Street Journal or The New Yorker, some of the journalists feeding you are also feeding cash to politicians, parties or political action committees.
MSNBC.com identified 143 journalists who made political contributions from 2004 through the start of the 2008 campaign, according to the public records of the Federal Election Commission. Most of the newsroom checkbooks leaned to the left: 125 journalists gave to Democrats and liberal causes. Only 16 gave to Republicans. Two gave to both parties.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19113485/#Correction_page1

2007-11-08 06:50:55 · 26 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2

how many USA citizens will look at labels and tags this Christmas and buy only things made in the USA.
if we buy only or as much as possible of what is made here we will regain a lot of what we have lost.
the companies that have moved out of the country will have to come back. the jobs will come back with the companies. sure they will try to get around it some how. because the higher ups in the companies make more money if they are based out of -hum lets say- China because they don't have to pay the workers much.
but if we stop buying Made In China the big wigs wont make anything and eventually they will have to move the companies back. they will learn that a cut in their very large pay checks is better than no pay check at all
but have we as a nation become so lazy or so selfish that we cant stop buying "everything" we want just for a few months. can you imagine how much better off we would all be, a year from this Christmas if we stick to our guns this Christmas?

2007-11-08 06:47:24 · 12 answers · asked by hmm 6

It's about $4 a gallon now. Why gripe about gas when you can gripe about milk!

Is it really OPEC's fault? For keeping gas prices high - for our trying out ethanol - for the price of corn going up - for the price of corn feed going up - for the price of milk going up?

Or is it some vast conspiracy that we just need to make more cows pump out that milk?

Any thoughts?

2007-11-08 06:33:30 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-08 06:29:42 · 9 answers · asked by saveusfromhumanism 1

House Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel (D., N.Y.) is a powerful man. When he makes the rules, Congress usually sticks to them.

Those rules now include “Pay-Go,” short for “pay-as-you-go.” This is something Democrats promised last year in their successful campaign to retake the Congress. The idea is that every increase in entitlement spending and every cut in taxes must be offset by a spending cut or a tax increase. Congress already spends lots of money it doesn’t have, but the concept here is that they can’t spend additional money they don’t have unless they can find additional revenue or savings somewhere else.

We’re seeing now what that means for fixing the Alternative Minimum Tax. In order to prevent this “tax on the wealthiest” from ensnaring 23 million American families, Pay-Go would force Democrats to raise other taxes to make up for the “lost” revenue.

But what if Rangel were to propose a tax increase that will actually reduce federal revenue? Would that tax increase still count as an offset against the future social spending programs that Democrats envision?

The answer is yes, and it isn’t a theoretical question. As part of his so-called “Mother of All Tax Increases” (H.R. 3970), Rangel would hike the capital gains tax rate by 63 percent. This will severely depress financial markets and almost certainly lose money for the government at the same time. And because Congress’s Joint Tax Committee and the Congressional Budget Office do not consider how taxes affect human behavior, it will count this tax increase as a positive instead of a negative.

The capital gains tax applies to earnings from the sale of investments that appreciate in price. When you buy a stock at $1, for example, and sell it a year later for $10, you pay this tax on your $9 gain. Rangel wants to boost that tax immediately from 15 percent to 19.6 percent, and then let it rise by five more points in 2011, when President Bush’s tax cuts expire.

The capital gains tax has a very direct effect on investors’ decisions because it hits so near to their activity in the market. It represents an extra transaction cost for each profitable sale of an investment. If it is very high, the tax tends to discourage investors from swapping out of mediocre investments into better ones unless they are guaranteed a very high return in advance. It distorts the markets by making tax-exempt bonds appear to be a more attractive investment than they would be otherwise.

This is not just theory — it has been demonstrated conclusively each time the capital gains tax has been raised or lowered. The capital gains tax offers uncontroversial proof that incentives really do matter in tax policy — a staple of supply-side thinking. For thirty years, each time the capital gains tax has been cut, its revenues have increased as investors have taken the opportunity to buy and sell more freely. When it has been raised, revenues have declined.


By 2011, Democrats plan to raise the capital gains rate from 15 percent to 24.6 percent. That would represent a 63-percent increase on the tax cost of every investment transaction — definitely large enough to begin affecting the decisions of the large financial institutions that control most of the stocks bought and sold each day. This could crush shareholder value for everyone — including the little guy. In some cases, it will encourage investors to stick with mediocre investments when their money could be getting more return and contributing more to the economy elsewhere.

Historically, capital-gains-tax hikes have meant less in tax collections, and less revenue for the government. Yet because they use what is called “static analysis,” Rangel’s congressional accountants will certify — contrary to fact — that a 63-percent increase in the capital-gains rate will translate to a corresponding increase in capital gains revenues.

The tax hike will also hurt a lot of people. It would be easy to dismiss a capital-gains-tax hike as something that only affects the wealthy, but this is false in a day when 92 million Americans’ financial fortunes and retirement plans are tied to the stock market, and millions more own investment properties.

Rangel’s tax hike, along with a much-feared pick-up of inflation, could constitute a one-two punch to your financial gut. The U.S. Department of the Treasury does not collect the capital-gains tax based on an investment’s inflation-adjusted or “real” value — you have to pay taxes on the inflation, too. Let’s say your $10,000 investment from 2000 only kept pace with inflation and was worth $11,708 in 2006. If you sold it at that price, you still paid taxes on that false “gain.” Under current law, the tax bill would have been $265. Rangel’s tax hike, once both stages are complete, would make you pay $420 just to recover your own money.

This is what “Pay-Go” means for you. Whether you have an IRA, a 401(k) or a little account on TD Ameritrade, you are going to lose a lot of money so that Democrats can balance congressional revenue and spending at the bottom of a blank page full of false information.

2007-11-08 06:27:06 · 10 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2

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2007-11-08 06:16:15 · 15 answers · asked by Dr. Ray Langston 4

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2007-11-08 06:14:05 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-11-08 06:13:22 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous