No Pennies For Elderly & Disabled But Tax Breaks For The Rich?

[DwightShrute]

why do many liberals care about the rich? I really don't get it.

Rather than concentrate on wasteful spending of their tax dollars (which there is plenty) by their elected officials they are jealous or carry this hatred for anyone more successful than they are.

They will never bring up the huge union pensions that are 100% tax payer funded which no state/country can afford.

[BeatingBaseball]

Since it's Christmas, we should all try to be nice. Thus:


To All My Liberal Friends:
Please accept with no implicit obligation, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with proper respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others or of course their possible choice to not practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2011, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great, which is not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor even the only America in the Western Hemisphere. This wish is of course made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wisher or wishees.


To My Conservative Friends:
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

BB

[DwightShrute]

[Data]

I have great respect for your intelligence based on correspondence in the "tank," Data - but I guess we're 180 apart in this area.

Thanks, but I doubt that we are. Likely, we are looking at the issue from different perspective.

I'm not a big fan of Greenspan either, but he was actually appointed (originally - to follow Paul Volcker) by the great Ronald Wilson Reagan.

I hold Big Al as the architect of the collapse that followed, the man who is the most responsible for what happened to economy. Now, he was appointed by Reagan The Great. Do you imply that Reagan was actually a prophet or a God and could never make a mistake?

As to Barney Frank - I sure hope you weren't in any way involved in that little operation he and his his "special friend" were running out of Barney's D.C. apartment.

I was not. However, I have no problem with Frank being gay while for many conservatives this must be a big issue. This part is of no interest to me, I am talking about Frank's role in what happen. The housing crisis was the result of Fed'd monetary policy. The politicians role in this mess is highly exaggerated. Again, I see Frank is very reasonable on many issues (think, gambling), he is not stupid, he is not the enemy of the American economy like Big Ben. He is not a crazy lefty like Obama. He might have made some mistake while overseeing his backyard sprinkler, it did not make much of the difference when a tidal wave of Fed money finally hit the shore.

My long time dream (posted here about this awhile) was that a third party would emerge. I am not talking about Tea Party, they did not come up with anything new politically, so, I guess, they have no future. I was hoping that that party would expand on the real life political collaboration between Ron Paul and Barney Frank. That party of reason (Stewart with his crazy left gang cannot apply either) could go away from the crazy religious right and from the crazy left. I may not agree with Frank on many things but I think that I need him or a similar figure to be the leader who can bring the reasonable (fiscally responsible) to merge with the reasonable(socially liberal) right.

[rkelly110]

Are ya tipsy? Funny but, true. Same to you in all aspects of your writings.