By Robert Morrison
Michael Moore was all the rage at the Democratic National Convention a few years back. His conspiratorial "documentary" (try schlockumentary) called "Fahrenheit 911" was shown to convention bigs who praised it lavishly. Even Jimmy Carter invited Michael Moore to sit in the presidential box with him.
Lefty heartthrob Michael Moore
this man is so insignificant, i don't understand why you even keep giving him space on your paper.
the us killed public enemy number 1 and then respectfully buried him. something he would never do for us.
just before the double-tap to the head.
i'm a poet and don't know it.
maybe i should rap all my blogs from now on. that way people won't call me racist.
His sadistic mind brought tragedy to our land.
Slick Willy had him, but let him go that day,
He gave our country for a slut in a red beret.
Karma is awesome and refuses to be defeated,
Her goal, Slick Willy, and she never retreated.
Slick Willy was caught with a cold blue dress,
His Beret slut kept in mama's freezer.
So much time on the taxpayers dime,
To find that Monica was a teaser.
The cold blue dress with a telling stain,
Brought the media to our own land.
As Bin Laden planned the massive murder,
Using our own planes as his plan.
Our Towers bro't down, such fear to prevail,
As our Americans jumped floors into hell.
Bin Laden laughed with his evil clan,
As Karma lay out her strategic plan.
From cave to cave he ran and hid,
With his diapered head like a frightened kid.
A decade passed as he surrounded himself,
With followers covering him right and left.
Karma let him play as he hid away,
Secure in his costly Pakistan slum.
Then Karma called The Seal Team Six,
Knowing the job would be quickly done.
Americans asked, Should he get a trial,
The Seals laughed afterward as they replied.
"i believe that the verdict was read
just before the double-tap to the head."
The task was only unfair to the fish,
To dirty the waters with a rotten dish.
But fish are wise and ROT they ignore,
And Bin Laden sinks to the cold, wet floor.
He is gone,
FOREVERMORE.
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and your obvious stupidity shows you are stupid.
if this is all you've got then maybe you should just give up. ignorant is not a way to live.
The Real "Shadow".
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cubic cedar
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was taken out respectfully
considering his existence of
something without a country
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moore doesn't have the sense my little toe has and i lost it to gangrene years ago.
as far as ceo's et. al. this country runs best when the government has little to no control over the money. the more government control there is, the more likely the "worker" is to be taken advantage of.
the utopian idea that man will work without incentive (socialism) doesn't work and never has throughout history. capitalism on the other hand was working well until the government started regulating businesses. slowly but surely, they've managed to run all of our businesses over seas to places where the regulations are less.
STOP CORPORATE ENTITLEMENTS!!
Your comment is a perfect example of confirmation bias.
By IGOR GREENWALD
IF YOU SAY SOMETHING long enough and loud enough, there's every chance people will come to believe it's true, especially if your opponents tire of rebuttals.
This time-honored political strategy has been working overtime of late, as Republican presidential hopefuls romance the richer Florida retirees with appeals for cuts in corporate taxes.
You may have heard: U.S. corporations face one of the highest income tax rates in the world, though the mention of "rate" is often enough excised, so that what comes through is the assertion that corporations pay too much in taxes. This is simply untrue if your basis for comparison is the developed world. The truth is that while the 35% corporate income tax rate is high indeed, the creativity and global reach of U.S. corporations make them among the most lightly levied.
Between 2000 and 2005, U.S. corporate taxes amounted to 2.2% of the GDP. The average for the 30 mostly rich member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development was 3.4%.
Why the disparity given the high federal rate, which rises to 39% counting state taxes? Part of the answer is that big U.S. companies have become expert at hiding profits in tax havens overseas. And many of the smaller ones simply pass through their income to owners who then report it on their personal returns.
According to one analysis, if so much corporate income hadn't moved to the personal tax rolls over the last 20 years, U.S. corporate taxes would account for 3.2% of the GDP, still a bit below the OECD average. "Usage of pass-through forms of business organization can be viewed as a form of 'self-help' corporate tax integration," writes Peter R. Merrill, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers.
The income not squired away overseas or channeled to the personal returns still enjoys protection in the form of various tax breaks that depress the effective rate to 27%, according to the Treasury Department. Such breaks are expected to cost the Treasury $1.2 trillion over the next 10 years, reducing the corporate tax revenue by 25%.
Meanwhile, there's growing evidence that, despite the occasional crackdowns on especially creative tax accounting, routine corporate tax dodges are way up by historical standards, as multinationals play an increasingly profitable shell game.
According to one
study
, corporate taxable income has increasingly diverged from the (much higher) financial profits reported to shareholders. Another more recent
analysis
estimates that the effective corporate rate in the U.S. peaked at nearly 32% in 2000 but has declined to 25% by 2005.
hello, Microsoft) or merely make sure that U.S. operations incur tax-deductible interest payments by borrowing money from cash-rich subsidiaries overseas. This is what's known in industry parlance as "income-shifting." It passes the time while one waits for the next U.S. tax holiday on repatriated overseas profits.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the solution here: Drop the corporate income tax rate to, say, the Swedish socialist level of 28% to reduce the attraction of tax havens, while eliminating the broad exemptions and industry-specific perks that have turned our tax code into Swiss cheese feeding a regiment of millionaire tax lawyers. Make sure the total share of the tax bill sent to corporations either stays the same or goes up. In recent decades, corporate receipts have declined dramatically in relation to the highly regressive payroll taxes. It's long past time to reverse that trend, restoring work incentives to what they once were.
This is not a left/right issue, as one of the country's foremost corporate tax experts points out. Martin A. Sullivan writes that in Europe, it's the progressive governments that have often pushed for lower tax rates, applied more uniformly. Meanwhile, in Canada, it's the free-market Conservatives who've moved to eliminate tax-favored trusts in order to shore up the national tax base.
The choice is clear: a fairly enforced code that's deaf to special pleadings and thus capable of sustaining rates broadly competitive with those overseas, or else continued erosion of the tax base and tremendous waste from attempts to game the system, leading to various economic distortions and perversions. But this would not amount to a tax cut. And so I guess it wouldn't sell well in Boca Raton.
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this is not "evil" as your ilk are apt to say; but, simply good business.
the reason there are fewer jobs in the US is because taxes are too high and they've been moved overseas.
this is not the corporations fault but the fault of liberal demagogs who want to blame corporations for the problems when it is the government. if the taxes were lower, the jobs would still be here.
if you think a part-time, no-benefit, walmart job is a good job, i feel sorry for you.
if you lower the tax rate and make it so that companies can do business in the us and still compete in a price sensitive market, you will have more jobs and more companies will remain here.
when businesses pay taxes, they add it to their bottom line and charge it against the cost of doing business. they then add their profit and sell their wares to you. now all of the money that a business gets comes from selling goods or services to a consumer like you. so with all this in mind, who pays the taxes for a business? i'll help, it's you.
when the taxes get so high on a business that they can no longer provide the good or service at a competitive price, they are forced to take measures to reduce cost. one way to do this is to relieve yourself of excess taxes. this can be accomplished in several ways the most efficient of which is to move the company to a lower tax area or a place where wages are low. china for instance.
last explanation of this concept for you. after this, i will just assume re that you will never understand.
..I cant watch tv without a republican politician fully supporting minimal oversight and lower taxes for corporations..against workers rights to organize, minimal regulation (see oil spill) ....no thanks. I want my right to work in a safe environment free of harassment and dirty drinking water.
Workers are the backbone of this economy..they existed before corporations but corporations could not exist without them.. or us to buy these darn products we are made to believe we need (thanks to the media). Politicians should be supporting our rights! They answer to us..well not anymore now that corporations can contribute to political campaigns..opening our elections up to non-american interests. That is a bigger threat than the mexican border.
i agree with you there.
and i agree somewhat that companies are in political circles way too much as well.
the solution; however, we do not agree on. governments have always been and are now notorious for being unable to run anything proficiently and giving the government more and more control is the wrong approach.
the federal government was designed by the founding fathers to be small and unobtrusive. it is now larger than anything else in the country. it's time to reduce the size and power of the federal government and return the power to the states as the country was originally designed.
if we continue to allow the federal government to grow, we will have nothing. no freedom, no jobs.
Goverment is the voice of the people, I am not for limiting our voice and removing the only vehicle we have that is somewhat capable of solving problems on a national level. Its not perfect but its better than nothing.
However, I am for removing corporate and other special interests from influencing our government. I believe a failed education system (politicians love ignorant sheep), crooked politicians, campaign contributions, corporations and their buddies - multi national media empires that influence public opinion - are the problem. They tell us what to think, what to fear, who to blame, who to hate, what to buy, who to support. They turn Americans against each other every day.
If government functions as it was intended - answering only to the people - then the people get what they want according to the majority view..assuming they are educated enough to know what they need without someone telling them.
no, make no mistake, our forefather's new exactly what they were doing. do you think greed is something invented by america? trust me, it's been around since the first cave man killed the first mammoth and some other lazy caveman wanted part of it. he called the working caveman greedy for not sharing his hard earned prize.
our founding father's understood the allure and the danger of a large central government and they wanted to guard against it. now here we are 200+ years later and people like you who think they know better have our government running every bit of our lives.
"Those who would trade freedom for security, deserve neither" i'll let you figure out which of our founding father's said that.
You are saying that our problems in this nuclear era are the same problems facing our founding fathers? seriously?
If the US has an economic crisis, it is global. I dont believe the founding fathers knew how integrated we would be.
Fortunately, they included provisions that would allow us to modify the Constitution as needed because the were AWARE that times and needs change over time.
until government stepped in to help, the working man was free to start his own business. now there are too many regulations to follow that are designed to stop new businesses from forming.
believe me when i tell you, government is not helping anyone but themselves and is no longer the voice of the people. explain why 70%+ of the people are dissatisfied with their government if the government is doing what it's supposed to be doing.
i'm not expecting perfection, but i would like to see a modicum of competence.
two quick examples:
- money from the second stimulus package being borrowed to pay off the first.
- general motors dealers being allowed to purchase the volt at retail, receive the $7500 government rebate, then sell the car as used screwing the consumer out of the rebate.
now, these are just the most recent examples but you can go back through history and find countless examples of government incompetence.
it boggles the mind that people like you want to encourage more government when the government we have now is so incapable.
you are DEFINITELY Lord of the Dumb.
look, now you've got me using capitals.
that will change one day. what will you do then? starve? steal? or will you finally get off your duff and go to work?
i give money to people who need it. not these blood suckers that sit around all day drunk or stoned and complaining that they can't find a job.
VOTE REPUBLICAN 2012
IN GOD WE TRUST
the check is a percentage of what you made while working. but if it weren't for all the people cheating the system, the percentage would be higher.
aren't you the one that's been bragging all over this blog how you enjoy taking money from your fellow man while not working? seems to me it's you that have the overwhelming love of money.
maybe you should call the disability office, since you don't need the money and tell them to stop sending you a check.
i think you spout so much BS because you are full to overflowing with it.
its explained every sunday (saturdays for ones who actually understand the bible) in churches around the world. thing i see in these parts is the ones explaining it have no understanding of it themselves. but there are pastors, priests, teachers, ministers, and many others who make a living explaining christianity. there is also buildings they call churches that are used for this purpose. sounds like someone needs to explain christianity to you real bad. i do lack education. but people like you always come around to show me that that they lack more. so if i speak like an idiot just think what you sound like! let me guess dorothy. born and raised in booger bottom?
Get ready lyrics
and it's 4-5-6 open up the pearly gates whoopy ain't no time to wonder why whoopy we're all gonna die.
To sit by His Throne.
Get Ready,
Not to be alone.
Someones coming to take You Home.
and if You're ready,
He will carry You Home.
IN GOD WE TRUST
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PCat will make the change after lunch Thursday in attempts to draw posters.
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Any guess? You could win a biscuit or teacake.
"Mickey and Minnie Poll"
"Two Stooges Poll"
"Big Brother/Little Sister Poll"
Please keep the biscuit and teacake.
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what i have said and i will repeat is that the people who deserve to be able to draw from the system would have more if it weren't for the people who draw from it either as a lifestyle choice or because of poor choices throughout their life that has led them to a bad place.
if at any time something i said seemed like i was putting you down for drawing money that you've earned i apologize.