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If you really wanted to make

NCD — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 16:52:45 +0000

If you really wanted to make some dough you could send savings to Wall Street where they could use it to buy up low income housing in Spain and quadruple rents on disabled people.

Of course, increased taxes on hedge funds, and using the money to rebuild our 1960's infrastructure creating thousands of jobs, would endanger freedumb.

Improbable, not scary.

Oxy Mora — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 15:43:02 +0000

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Improbable, not scary. Whoever wins the Senate, nothing will be done on the jobs front. But I'm warming up to the idea of mercenaries.

I own and manage a small

Oxy Mora — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 15:37:05 +0000

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I own and manage a small business. Cutting my taxes wouldn't mean I would hire anyone. I would stash the cash, then, I would use the cash as an investment, if I could, to increase the efficiency of the people I have already. Corporations today are awash in cash, it's the demand side which is lacking.

Frankly, other than fast depreciation---which means I can add to my cash---I can't think of any decision I've made---leastwhile hire someone---based upon my tax rate.

Oh, I just bought a new truck, 26,000 lbs Gross Van Weight. It's a Japanese make.

The NYT has a column today by

NCD — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 14:57:21 +0000

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The NYT has a column today by a couple of novice psychology professors with a book on "self-interest" and a theory that "Most people aren’t ideologically pure, and most don’t derive their opinions from abstract ideologies". My comment on the op-ed:

Republicans promote nothing but ideology. The current "ideology" is "Stop Obama". It stands for nothing concrete. History is replete with ideological political movements that ignored facts and outcomes of their policy only to lead nations into disaster. It's the ideology of the right that ignores the facts of climate change, that says against all evidence that cutting taxes again will lead to jobs, that denies family planning is the only way to reduce abortion and on and on.

The Republicans attract low education voters because The Base doesn't have the ability for independent observation, analysis and the objective thinking required to lead them to realize that the GOP's ideology is a fraud.

Scary thought isn't it?

Resistance — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 06:35:02 +0000

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Scary thought isn't it?

Here's a partial list of the

Oxy Mora — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 04:57:12 +0000

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Here's a partial list of the new Republican plan to create jobs.

Tax breaks will encourage new shooting ranges for toddlers.

Raise student loan interest rates on existing loans. This will create 100K new bill collector jobs.

New Training programs for White House fence jumpers. Maybe a couple thousand here, plus extra security personnel required.

Send 50K mercenaries to fight ISIS.

Redact Air Emission equipment on industrial plants. This will require people to take the emission control equipment out of circulation, steam roller it, then bury in landfills. Also new landfills required.

Put some nurses in quarantine. This will put the nurses on paid leave, creating jobs for their replacements.

...to mention a few

Would prices come down?

Resistance — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 03:08:45 +0000

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Would prices come down?

Look.

Richard Day — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 03:01:40 +0000

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Look.

If the minimum wage were three bucks an hour, well, then everyone would be employed.

Just go to China or India or Mississippi.

the end

Mr. President, meet Mitch

Resistance — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 02:19:04 +0000

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Mr. President, meet Mitch McConnell