If plastic water bottles are okay,
but plastic bags are banned, — you might live in a nation (state) that
was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots
If you can get arrested for
hunting or fishing without a license, but not for entering and remaining
in the country illegally — you might live in a nation that was founded
by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If
you have to get your parents’ permission to go on a field trip or to
take an aspirin in school, but not to get an abortion — you might live
in a nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by
idiots.

If you MUST show your
identification to board an airplane, cash a check, buy liquor, or check
out a library book and rent a video, but not to vote for who runs the
government — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but
is run by idiots.

If the government wants to prevent
stable, law-abiding citizens from owning gun magazines that hold more
than ten rounds, but gives twenty F-16 fighter jets to the crazy new
leaders in Egypt — you might live in a nation that was founded by
geniuses but is run by idiots.

If, in the nation’s largest city,
you can buy two 16-ounce sodas, but not one 24-ounce soda, because
24-ounces of a sugary drink might make you fat — you might live in a
nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If an 80-year-old woman who is
confined to a wheelchair or a three-year-old girl can be strip-searched
by the TSA at the airport, but a woman in a burka or a hijab is only
subject to having her neck and head searched — you might live in a
nation that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If your government believes that
the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend
trillions more — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses
but is run by idiots.

If a seven-year-old boy can be
thrown out of school for saying his teacher is “cute” but hosting a
sexual exploration or diversity class in grade school is perfectly
acceptable — you might live in a nation that was founded by geniuses but
is run by idiots.

If hard work and success are met
with higher taxes and more government regulation and intrusion while not
working is rewarded with Food Stamps, WIC checks, Medicaid benefits,
subsidized housing, and free cell phones — you might live in a nation
that was founded by geniuses but is run by idiots.

If you pay your mortgage
faithfully, denying yourself the newest big-screen TV, while your
neighbor buys iPhones, time shares, a wall-sized do-it-all plasma screen
TV and new cars, and the government forgives his debt when he defaults
on his mortgage — you might live in a nation that was founded by
geniuses but is run by idiots.

If being stripped of your
Constitutional right to defend yourself makes you more “safe” according
to the government — you might live in a nation that was founded by
geniuses but is run by idiots.

Please, THINK BEFORE
YOU VOTE

**Yep, you would see it that way.....disregard the baby boomers retiring, business automation and republican offshoring and just provide some intellectually lazy bullschit azz response** You people try to juxtapose your racial animus to Pres. Obama with illogical, irrational policy analysis....you'll never evolve beyond message board with that dumbed-down bullschit...many of you were living for failure to say, "see that proves niggers can't do shit right, we let them become president and they even fucked that off"...why don't you all man up and just say that? But like Klan hoods, racists are coward azz motherfuckers.....ahh...that felt good to say......haha

Treasury Department numbers out Wednesday show that the federal government collected a record amount of taxes in 2014, reaching $3 trillion in revenues for the first time in history.

The largest share of the tax revenue collected comes from the nearly $1.4 trillion collected in individual income taxes followed by around $320 billion collected in corporate taxes.

Federal officials say that the increased tax revenues are the result of economic improvement in the United States raising business and personal incomes.

“The president’s policies and a strengthening U.S. economy have resulted in a reduction of the U.S. budget deficit of approximately two-thirds — the fastest sustained deficit reduction since World War II,” Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said.

Of course, Lew’s victory lap ought to be cut short by the fact that despite record amounts of money coming in, fiscal 2014 ended last month with the government running a $483 billion deficit. While the deficit is at a six-year low, it’s still highly unsustainable from an economic standpoint.

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"Hello Abduoul, this is your boss Barrack, where are you going to be located today"?

"Oh great leader, we will be four miles south of the Main section of Downtown....why do you ask, oh King of Kings"????

"I've set to have our squad drop some bombs and to film it, so I release the film to make it appear I am doing some damage to you my Comrades.....". I just wanted to be sure I do not hit any of you..."

"Thank you Barrack, the Brotherhood thanks you. Perhaps when your Planes drop their bombs, you could have the Pilots hit some sheeps and goats and a camel or two...just to make it look right"....

"Roger that Abduoul....I'll call you later, we will be making sure you have more money and weapons as soon as we can"......

For Those who have forgotten the new law that changed taxes the beginning of this year!

In case you didn't notice, here is what happened on January 1, 2014 :

Top Medicare tax went from 1.45% to 2.35%

Top Income tax bracket went from 35% to 39.6%

Top Income payroll tax went from 37.4% to 52.2%

Capital Gains tax went from 15% to 28%

Dividends tax went from 15% to 39.6%

Estate tax went from 0% to 55%

Remember this fact:
These taxes were all passed only with democrat votes, no republicans voted for these taxes.

These taxes were all passed under the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.

I think it is important that everyone in the U.S. should know this. Romney would have Repealed all this.

Elections are coming!


RETW 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-) 8-)

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On the statewide news, today, I could find neither news of any beheadings nor news of any exotic infections here, like Ebola.

Like the majority of American voters, I voted for President Obama twice. I view President Obama as one of the better presidents in my lifetime, especially because of the launching of an embryonic national health care system that will eventually bring us up to speed with the other western industrial democracies.

In spite of the usual saber rattling in the middle east, the President has (mostly) extricated the bulk of our troops from a "fools errand" into the quicksand for which the region is so famous.

He is certainly dramatically better than the violent war pimps, who occupied the White House before him.

Dr. Francis Collins, the head of the National Institutes of Health, said that a decade of stagnant spending has "slowed down" research on all items, including vaccinations for infectious diseases. As a result, he said, the international community has been left playing catch-up on a potentially avoidable humanitarian catastrophe.

"NIH has been working on Ebola vaccines since 2001. It's not like we suddenly woke up and thought, 'Oh my gosh, we should have something ready here,'" Collins told The Huffington Post on Friday. "Frankly, if we had not gone through our 10-year slide in research support, we probably would have had a vaccine in time for this that would've gone through clinical trials and would have been ready."

It's not just the production of a vaccine that has been hampered by money shortfalls. Collins also said that some therapeutics to fight Ebola "were on a slower track than would've been ideal, or that would have happened if we had been on a stable research support trajectory."

"We would have been a year or two ahead of where we are, which would have made all the difference," he said.


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/13/1336176/--We-d-have-a-vaccine-by-now-if-it-were-not-for-budget-cuts-says-head-of-NIH-about-Ebola?detail=email