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" snipped-for-privacy@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

And here I thought it was the combination of naysayers in the House especially that kept Simpson-Bowles from being even discussed. And the same hi-faluting combo that said yes to the fiscal cliff proposal that is NOW the big problem. Who to blame ...

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Han
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" snipped-for-privacy@att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Here in NJ, it is a Republican heavy weight poster boy who has just about singlehandedly instituted severe austerity. SO far no result on the jobs whatsoever.

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Han

You're kidding yourself. If we continue down the debt rathole - produced by both Rs and Ds but REALLY accelerated by the Hoax And Shame administration - you WILL be affected. Why? Because sooner or later, all the phony dollars being logically printed are going to be worth less. Presumably, you are on a fixed income in retirement. What happens when a loaf of bread costs $7 or gas hits $10/gal (which affects the "price" of pretty much everything)?

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Tim Daneliuk

Just Wondering wrote in news:5035d28b$0$28867$882e7ee2 @usenet-news.net:

Yes. Let us do that. Let us firstly that a letter of intent should accompany all legislation, laying out the spirit of the proposed law. Then somehow codify that legalistic loopholes are not valid if they violate the spirit of the law. I thought that something like that may (have) exist (ed).

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Han

Tim Daneliuk wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@tundraware.com:

It really is simple. I hope, pray and count on my investments to outpace inflation. So far TIAA/CREF has done a reasonable job. Other investments also. Nothing compared to Romney, of course ...

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Han

Yes, it's called "The Constitution Of The United States Of America" in which the Federal government is granted a very narrow, specific, and limited set of things it is allowed to do. They are called "Enumerated Powers" and the Doctrine Of Enumerated Powers was repeatedly affirmed and confirmed as intention by James Madsion, that document's author. Sadly, today's whiny and entitled public want the Feds to be their Daddy (the Republicans) and/or their Mommy (the Democrats) and no end of mischief has transpired thereby.

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Tim Daneliuk

Except it's not funny ... This appears to actually be legit as far as I am able to determine...

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Tim Daneliuk

You need to either use smiley faces or get some help.

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J. Clarke

Tim Daneliuk wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@tundraware.com:

It says it is from the PJ Tatler. Their motto on the banner says: "To pull off the disguises of cunning, vanity, and affectation"

The whispering face already says it is a spoof. To me that means it is meant to be funny, but I don't find it so.

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Han

Yep, I can understand how you might feel that way. Twenty-eight consecutive quarters of economic growth, unemployment below 5%, DJIA above 12,000, inflation almost non-existant. The entire economy was swell up through 2007.

Then the Democrats took over Congress...

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HeyBub

Tim Daneliuk wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@tundraware.com:

I'm going to a set of continuing ed lectures on the Constitution this fall. I may adopt at times your stance to see whether I can rattle the speaker esq.

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Han

But the birth rate is going up faster. It's like bailing the Titanic with a bucket-brigade.

It might be the method used to achieve austerity.

Look what happened in Wisconsin.

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HeyBub

"HeyBub" wrote in news:ysudnaZ_pvRRFKvNnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.com:

Wisconsin is prosperous now they neutralized their governor??

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Han

Heh!

I read an opinion piece in the WSJ last year about a self-employed person who left New York City for Florida and the move saved him over $13,000 in taxes.

Per day.

Rush Limbaugh did the same thing - moved from New York to Florida. Glenn Beck moved from New York to Dallas.

Probably quite a few more less well known souls have voted with their feet.

Heck, inasmuch as you don't have to be a resident of New York to hold political office there (e.g., Senator Clinton), I wouldn't be surprised to see Andrew Cuomo move to New Hampshire!

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HeyBub

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HeyBub

I sure looks legit and I think the "pull of" refers to the pretenses of those in power.

In any case, here is a comment from someone who spent their career in government service for a private conversation we had:

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Tim Daneliuk

So? Assuming the writer of the opinion piece had his facts straight, which is usually doubtful, that amounts to $4,7450,00 in state taxes, which means his AGI was close to $50,000,000 a year. I'm crying crocodile tears.

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Scott Lurndal

Tim Daneliuk wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@ozzie.tundraware.com:

LIRR personnel had something like that going too. google "lirr retirement scam". They got caught. As they should be. And all like that. See, if people just look out for themselves, sometimes it is NOT for the best of everyone.

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Han

You can thank Franklin Roosevelt and his "New Deal" and then-unprecedented court-packing expansion of the Commerce Clause for that.

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Just Wondering

You're conflating apples and railroad ties. There is nothing wrong - not morally, ethically, and not legally - of looking out for our own interests. That is EXACTLY the idea the US was built on. It is EXACTLY what makes the US different, more successful, and better than the social(ist) democracies and other collectivist states around the planet.

What is not OK is "looking out for yourself" when the action requires you to harm others - say by using fraud, force, or threat.

The idea that I exist to serve someone else at the point of your gun - the central idea of all leftism - is a moral outrage.

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Tim Daneliuk

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