Specifically, socialism is going to destroy this country by sucking money from the people via increased federal spending, resulting in an absolutely unsustainable national debt. Eventually, the interest on the national debt is going to be another giant expense for the nation, to go along with social security, mdeicare, and defense, which are currently the 3 biggest consumers of federal dollars. And the latest straw that is destined to break the camel's back is Obamacare, which will just add to the spending, and force the tax rates up. Of course, the taxes are already chasing jobs out of the USA, forcing people into less well-paid jobs, resulting in them not paying income tax or most other taxes. That deprives the gov't of tax money, and so it reacts by raising taxes again. Its a vicious circle, that will see the demise of the nation. Eventually no one will loan us money, the ever-increasing tax rates will have chased most of the manufacturing out of the country, and all we'll have to do is burger flipping, stock trading, and suing each other for income.
"I assert with arrogance, certainty and confidence, that any person who dares believe they have influence in politics due to casting a vote is not only a fool but a moron, dumb and gullible."
There's always those 250 million privately owned fireams in American society, too...
Actually, it is the income taxes. The US corporate income tax is 35%, and is augmented to, on average, 39%+ by state corporate income taxes. This compares unvavorably with the rest of the world, except for Japan, who are folks with a corporate income tax a few tenths of a precent higher. That will change in January when the Bush Tax Cuts expire.
About 22%, on avarege, of the price of American goods goes to pay income taxes incurred by US manufacturers. About 11.5% is recoverable by the companies if the income tax went away. Would a $25,000 Jeep Liberty selling for $22,125 sell better? I think so. It would be competititve with a $25,000 Toyota FC Cruiser that, if it is imported, would NOT have any decrease in price, since its factory overseas would not expereince any tax savings from US income taxes that they were not paying anyway.
So, yeah, we could compete internationally in manufacturing if the income taxes went away. IOW, it _IS_ the income taxes.
Degradation of income? You bet - its caused by the income taxes in the USA making this one of the least profitable places to build your business. Anyone that wants to make real money closes their factories here and moves them overseas, or cross-border to Mexico or Canada. Jobs go with them, and good-paying jobs are replaced by crappy-paying "service sector" jobs that largely mean "retail" unless maybe you have a degree. Most people don't have degrees, so make poverty level wages, suck up the food stamp money, and lower the quality of life for all of us.
To paraphrase Bill Clinton's campaign slogan from 1990, "Its the income taxes, stupid." Pass the Fair Tax, which repeals the income taxes, and watch the economy boom. IOW, there _is_ a silver bullet for this, and it is the Fair Tax.
Citizens Rights -> Drug War Gov't Spending -> Aforementioned socialism Offshoring -> Income Tax Constant War State -> Weak response to acts of terror by Clinton Adminstration
Yes, I'd say welcome aboard, and wonder any more why anyone would want to do that, with the country rushing headlong toward socialism and therefore an impending economic collapse. We have all the making of a disaster that will dwarf the Great Depression, and there doesn't seem to be much of anyone who wants to do anything about it.
Aw, we can't punish the poor criminals... they're just misunderstood.
BS.
And prisons are extremely effective at keeping the wacko jealous boyfriend from tracking down his ex-girlfriend and chopping out her liver to have with some fava beans and a nice chiante. The GPS is best, in this case, for summoning the coronor.
Just what I need, an FM radio in everything. Make them bigger, possibly to accommodate an antenna, have some extra chips that need power so the battery has to be bigger and runs down more rapidly, etc, and of course it'll not be free, the item, whatever it is, will cost more. Do they want to put 'em in our GPSs too? How about book readers? Computers? What does "all" mean?
About the only way to combat these sorts of incompatabilities is to order brand new computers from custom manufacturers, and let THEM blow up hardware while trying to find something that works. I had an incompatability that made it APPEAR that the mobo was hosed, but it was really an I/O card doing it. Took it to several repair shops, they never figured it out either. Cost me out the wazoo for the parts to assemble it, and I could have bought a Gateway with more memory, more disk space, and about $1500 less money. Only things I have that the Gateway didn't was Win 7 Ultimate (theirs was 1 version lower) and a Blu Ray burner. Will never build again... just buy it.
It just means you won't be able to get in touch with the helpdesk to reset your password so's you can get into your car and actually start it, and you'll likely die of thirst on a Death Valley crossing or freeze to death in some Minnesota winter right outside Frostbite Falls.
Reduce the CO2 level to pre-industrial levels in 10 years via solar energy, create insane amounts of very pure carbon that can be used in the manufacture of liquid fuels and to generate electricity the traditional, coal-fired way, but without the mercury, radioactives, etc. Just need some lithium and some time to construct it. Should produced about $15 trillion worth of high-quality (zero sulphur) carbon fuel... pay for itself, too.
The vast majority of human knowledge is contained in brains, and not written down. So, sure, just kill manned spaceflight by the USA for 50 years or so while we "save money" and forget how to do it, wait to figure out what we really want to do, and while other countries continue to advance, and are mining the asteroids for rare earth minerals while we are wondering how to get out of the depression that has lasted... 50 years.
Really pointless for anything American to be thinking of space travel. After the final shuttle missions this year, we will never get into space again. Our NASA administrator has been given the main task of making the muslims happy, and the president has cut the funding for people in space. Meanwhile, the freakin' economy is still collapsing, slowly, and you'll never get congress to institute the cure - the Fair Tax would get us out of this mess overnight.
Wise up! Those soldiers invaded, and ENDED ECONOMIC SANCTIONS that, by 1995, had ALREADY killed 500,000 Iraqis from being unable to do things like simply purifying water (they couldn't import chlorine), who knows how many more died by the invasion. After the invasion, that all stopped. The soldiers, overall, have saved far more lives than they've taken.
You bet. I found a tech manual to a radio jammer on the site. Either Iraqi or Afhani insurgents could see it to, and maybe make a successful IED attack on someone I care about (or me, if I get to go back...) Yeah, I'm PO'ed.
If sabotage, great. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch, and much less extreme than my own desire to walk into their server room and toast everything and everyone there with a flamethrower. These doofuses probably got some soldiers killed.
These morons will get the transmitter power reduced even further, and like the bozos that whine about cell towers in their neigborhoods, will be unable to communicate. Then whoever theye are trying to prevent from bleeding to death by dialing 911 will just go ahead and do so, since the call will not happen.
I'm just saying, my current car goes that far, refuels that quick, and I wouldn't replace it with anything less capable. Now, some city dweller that never goes anyplace could maybe put up with the electric as it now stands, but I'm heading for a road rally in Tucson in August, and getting there is a matter of maybe 20 hrs the 1st day, 12 hrs the 2nd day, and maybe 6 the 3rd day. I just can't tolerate something that refuels every 100 miles and takes longer than about 3 minutes to do it.
No, not the Nissan Leaf. It only goes 100 miles on a charge, and the charging cycle is too long.
A viable electric car, to be bought instead of a regular car by the buying public, is going to have to go as far as a regular car (300 mi) and recharge in as short a time as it takes to fuel a regular car (about 3 minutes.) The Chevy Volt does that. Nothing else so far does.
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Specifically, socialism is going to destroy this country by sucking money from the people via increased federal spending, resulting in an absolutely unsustainable national debt. Eventually, the interest on the national debt is going to be another giant expense for the nation, to go along with social security, mdeicare, and defense, which are currently the 3 biggest consumers of federal dollars. And the latest straw that is destined to break the camel's back is Obamacare, which will just add to the spending, and force the tax rates up. Of course, the taxes are already chasing jobs out of the USA, forcing people into less well-paid jobs, resulting in them not paying income tax or most other taxes. That deprives the gov't of tax money, and so it reacts by raising taxes again. Its a vicious circle, that will see the demise of the nation. Eventually no one will loan us money, the ever-increasing tax rates will have chased most of the manufacturing out of the country, and all we'll have to do is burger flipping, stock trading, and suing each other for income.
"I assert with arrogance, certainty and confidence, that any person who dares believe they have influence in politics due to casting a vote is not only a fool but a moron, dumb and gullible."
There's always those 250 million privately owned fireams in American society, too...
Actually, it is the income taxes. The US corporate income tax is 35%, and is augmented to, on average, 39%+ by state corporate income taxes. This compares unvavorably with the rest of the world, except for Japan, who are folks with a corporate income tax a few tenths of a precent higher. That will change in January when the Bush Tax Cuts expire.
About 22%, on avarege, of the price of American goods goes to pay income taxes incurred by US manufacturers. About 11.5% is recoverable by the companies if the income tax went away. Would a $25,000 Jeep Liberty selling for $22,125 sell better? I think so. It would be competititve with a $25,000 Toyota FC Cruiser that, if it is imported, would NOT have any decrease in price, since its factory overseas would not expereince any tax savings from US income taxes that they were not paying anyway.
So, yeah, we could compete internationally in manufacturing if the income taxes went away. IOW, it _IS_ the income taxes.
Yeah, everyone that sees the truth and calls it for what it really is, is a troll. Not.
Degradation of income? You bet - its caused by the income taxes in the USA making this one of the least profitable places to build your business. Anyone that wants to make real money closes their factories here and moves them overseas, or cross-border to Mexico or Canada. Jobs go with them, and good-paying jobs are replaced by crappy-paying "service sector" jobs that largely mean "retail" unless maybe you have a degree. Most people don't have degrees, so make poverty level wages, suck up the food stamp money, and lower the quality of life for all of us.
To paraphrase Bill Clinton's campaign slogan from 1990, "Its the income taxes, stupid." Pass the Fair Tax, which repeals the income taxes, and watch the economy boom. IOW, there _is_ a silver bullet for this, and it is the Fair Tax.
Citizens Rights -> Drug War
Gov't Spending -> Aforementioned socialism
Offshoring -> Income Tax
Constant War State -> Weak response to acts of terror by Clinton Adminstration
And agree that lobbying should be outlawed.
Yes, I'd say welcome aboard, and wonder any more why anyone would want to do that, with the country rushing headlong toward socialism and therefore an impending economic collapse. We have all the making of a disaster that will dwarf the Great Depression, and there doesn't seem to be much of anyone who wants to do anything about it.
...anything that needs jailbreaking.
Aw, we can't punish the poor criminals... they're just misunderstood.
BS.
And prisons are extremely effective at keeping the wacko jealous boyfriend from tracking down his ex-girlfriend and chopping out her liver to have with some fava beans and a nice chiante. The GPS is best, in this case, for summoning the coronor.
What the heck does this have to do with making the Mislims feel good about themselves?
Just what I need, an FM radio in everything. Make them bigger, possibly to accommodate an antenna, have some extra chips that need power so the battery has to be bigger and runs down more rapidly, etc, and of course it'll not be free, the item, whatever it is, will cost more. Do they want to put 'em in our GPSs too? How about book readers? Computers? What does "all" mean?
Cure? Never spend money on DRM crap. They think they gotta DRM it, then they don't need MY money, and I don't need their crap. That simple.
About the only way to combat these sorts of incompatabilities is to order brand new computers from custom manufacturers, and let THEM blow up hardware while trying to find something that works. I had an incompatability that made it APPEAR that the mobo was hosed, but it was really an I/O card doing it. Took it to several repair shops, they never figured it out either. Cost me out the wazoo for the parts to assemble it, and I could have bought a Gateway with more memory, more disk space, and about $1500 less money. Only things I have that the Gateway didn't was Win 7 Ultimate (theirs was 1 version lower) and a Blu Ray burner. Will never build again... just buy it.
It just means you won't be able to get in touch with the helpdesk to reset your password so's you can get into your car and actually start it, and you'll likely die of thirst on a Death Valley crossing or freeze to death in some Minnesota winter right outside Frostbite Falls.
http://www.physorg.com/news199005915.html
Reduce the CO2 level to pre-industrial levels in 10 years via solar energy, create insane amounts of very pure carbon that can be used in the manufacture of liquid fuels and to generate electricity the traditional, coal-fired way, but without the mercury, radioactives, etc. Just need some lithium and some time to construct it. Should produced about $15 trillion worth of high-quality (zero sulphur) carbon fuel... pay for itself, too.
"a) Reflective surfaces"
The better to see you with, my dear... will be vaporized on 1st contact.
"b) dispersing reflective particles from the aircraft as soon as a laser is detected"
Too late...
"c) ditto, thick smoke"
Wanna see U put a smokescreen between a flying aircraft and anything...
"d) attack when it's raining"
Don't bother to run, you'll only die wet...
The vast majority of human knowledge is contained in brains, and not written down. So, sure, just kill manned spaceflight by the USA for 50 years or so while we "save money" and forget how to do it, wait to figure out what we really want to do, and while other countries continue to advance, and are mining the asteroids for rare earth minerals while we are wondering how to get out of the depression that has lasted... 50 years.
Really pointless for anything American to be thinking of space travel. After the final shuttle missions this year, we will never get into space again. Our NASA administrator has been given the main task of making the muslims happy, and the president has cut the funding for people in space. Meanwhile, the freakin' economy is still collapsing, slowly, and you'll never get congress to institute the cure - the Fair Tax would get us out of this mess overnight.
Wise up! Those soldiers invaded, and ENDED ECONOMIC SANCTIONS that, by 1995, had ALREADY killed 500,000 Iraqis from being unable to do things like simply purifying water (they couldn't import chlorine), who knows how many more died by the invasion. After the invasion, that all stopped. The soldiers, overall, have saved far more lives than they've taken.
You bet. I found a tech manual to a radio jammer on the site. Either Iraqi or Afhani insurgents could see it to, and maybe make a successful IED attack on someone I care about (or me, if I get to go back...) Yeah, I'm PO'ed.
If sabotage, great. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch, and much less extreme than my own desire to walk into their server room and toast everything and everyone there with a flamethrower. These doofuses probably got some soldiers killed.
These morons will get the transmitter power reduced even further, and like the bozos that whine about cell towers in their neigborhoods, will be unable to communicate. Then whoever theye are trying to prevent from bleeding to death by dialing 911 will just go ahead and do so, since the call will not happen.
(Inside joke) - NMCI simply took it over, that's all.
I'm just saying, my current car goes that far, refuels that quick, and I wouldn't replace it with anything less capable. Now, some city dweller that never goes anyplace could maybe put up with the electric as it now stands, but I'm heading for a road rally in Tucson in August, and getting there is a matter of maybe 20 hrs the 1st day, 12 hrs the 2nd day, and maybe 6 the 3rd day. I just can't tolerate something that refuels every 100 miles and takes longer than about 3 minutes to do it.
No, not the Nissan Leaf. It only goes 100 miles on a charge, and the charging cycle is too long.
A viable electric car, to be bought instead of a regular car by the buying public, is going to have to go as far as a regular car (300 mi) and recharge in as short a time as it takes to fuel a regular car (about 3 minutes.) The Chevy Volt does that. Nothing else so far does.