All Saints' Day (in the Roman Catholic Church officially the Solemnity of All Saints and also called All Hallows or Hallowmas[3]), often shortened to All Saints, is a solemnity celebrated on 1 November by parts of Western Christianity, and on the first Sunday after Pentecost in Eastern Christianity, in honour of all the saints, known and unknown.

DO IT YOURSELF!

Here’s one idea that won’t impress Occupy Wall Street protesters. Ron Paul explained his education stance on State of the Union, telling Candy Crowley that “college costs too much” for the government to offer federal student loans for higher education. His reasoning? He did it on his own, so why can’t kids today can’t do the same? After all “anyone who is ambitious enough” will make it, according to Paul.

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ZERO. ZIP. NADA!

Take Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, who complained over the summer about Americans who escape federal taxes -- and worse, get help from the government.

"A majority of American households paid no income tax in 2009. Zero. Zip. Nada. No income tax was paid by 51 percent of the households in America in 2009," Cornyn said with derision in a Senate floor speech.

"Actually, to show how out of whack things have gotten, 30 percent of American households actually made money from the tax system by way of refundable tax credits -- the earned income tax credit, among others," complained Cornyn, holding that fact out as evidence that the tax system needs to be fixed, presumably so those people pay more.

Can you imagine that there are Americans who actually make money off of our revenue system?

"My tax plan is unique from all the other plans in that I call for all Americans to pay something in taxes." She goes on to say that 51% of Americans don't pay income taxes and this needs to change because everyone needs to pay something. Of course, EVERYONE DOES PAY SOMETHING -- everyone pays sales tax, and payroll tax, and there are all sorts of fees baked in to daily life, so it's hardly worth mentioning that some people do not pay income taxes. Those that don't have a reason why not! They are RETIRED. Or they make so little income that it's not worth taking a portion. Or they are small children.

But here's the thing, if Bachmann's plan is "unique from all the other plans" then how has Rick Perry stolen it? "Hey, I decided to write a book/cook a meal/make a website about this." "Oh, awesome. I'm going to write a book/cook a meal/make a website about something totally different." "WHAT?! NO FAIR! THAT WAS MY IDEA, TO HAVE AN IDEA.”

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RANDOM THOUGHTS

If we could just tax all those miscreants who just sit around all day on the Dock of the Bay we could increase revenues in this country by about 5%.

And if we taxed everyone sitting on docks (after all there are more docks than just those related to bays) we could increase our nation's revenues 10%.

But do we even consider such measures?

HELL NO!

A MILLION AINT WHAT IT USED TO BE!

The head of advertising giant WPP stunned MPs as he defended bumper income rises for boardroom chiefs as millions of other workers are seeing their pay frozen or rise very slightly.

He was grilled on BBC radio on his £4.2 million pay package for 2010, up from £2.3 million a year earlier, after a report revealed that FTSE directors had seen their remuneration rise by 49 per cent on average.

Sir Martin, whose basic salary is
£1  million, said: "It's a very low base pay. The base pay is then increased by a short-term incentive which is an annual cash plan and a long-term incentive - a stock in the company in which I continue to invest."

He stressed he continued to invest millions in WPP and that his risk was "very much key to the success of the company."

He also emphasised that WPP's profits had risen significantly from 2009 to 2010.

His comments amazed some MPs. "What planet do these people live on?" asked shadow education minister Karen Buck, who described the huge rises as "grotesque".

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CHILDREN ARE RIPPING US OFF!

Michelle Bachmann said Saturday she would not help children of immigrants who come to the U.S. illegally.

At a campaign stop in Iowa, a Latino college student asked the presidential hopeful what she would do to the children of undocumented immigrants. Bachmann reiterated her hard-line stance that the federal government should not grant them citizenship and said she "would not do anything" for them.

"Their parents are the ones who brought them here ... they did not have the legal right to come to the United States," she said. "We do not owe people who broke our laws to come into the country. We don't owe them ANYTHING!"

HALF AN ACRE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgy1rbYXj5g

FAT POOR FOLKS ARE RUINING THIS NATION

Congress already has started cutting some food programs, including reducing the Women, Infants and Children Program by $500 million as part of a deal on this year's budget. And last year, more than $2 billion in future funding for food stamps was redirected to other programs.

On Friday, the House approved a Republican proposal to overhaul the $65 billion food stamp program — known officially as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP — by replacing it with capped block grants to states, which would pay for the aid but make it contingent on work or job training. That proposal was included in a 2012 budget plan put forward by Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan, R

 

Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) along with eight other congressional Democrats are eating on a budget of about $4.50 a day to show solidarity with food stamp recipients who receive $32.59 a week.

The personal thrift, which is part of a challenge organized by Fighting Poverty With Faith, was reported by Pacifica Patch. The site also listed the food items that Speier was now buying.

Speier displayed some of the items she was able to purchase for her first day of living on a food stamp budget: a bag of coffee and a loaf of bread from the Dollar Warehouse; a can of Campbell's low sodium chicken noodle soup; and a can of sweet peas, possibly to put in a tuna casserole later in the week.

"And this is my treat for the week," Speier said, holding up a box of microwave popcorn packets.