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Kevin Spacey Compares Donald Trump’s Campaign to George Wallace’s

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In 1968 it was still possible to have a middle income career without a 4 yr or advanced degree.

In 1968 we had no terrorists acting to destroy our way of life and advertising how much they wanted to kill americans in their own streets.

In 1968 nations would NEVER have challenged our interests the way MANY do without fear now, which ultimately affects our economy.

In 1968 there was no free trade which sent careers, engineering and manufacturing to the lowest cost everywhere on the globe.

In 1968 General Motors, Ford and Chrysler were among the largest manufacturing concerns on the planet.

In 1968 we did NOT have millions traversing a border which BOTH PARTIES insisted can not be defended or secured.

In 1968 we did not have a banking system ready to fill its uncontrolled greed, and its unbrideled human nature acting to DEFRAUD the public (and the world) with financial 'products' designed to generate instant revenue for themselves, and the FEW in a position to gain heedless of the results, and confident the extreme duress would compel the govt to save them.

Other than that, Spacey is correct.

BTW, people like Kevin Spacey (a great ACTOR, btw) opening their big fat, uninformed, mouths which are so obviously disconnected from the mass of the American public, ENHANCE the candidacy of Mr Trump every time they open their traps.

They would do ar better to STFU if they wat Trump out.

Full disclosure - I am UNDECIDED, still.

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Capital is a force of nature: LIKE WATER it goes where resistance is least

Sarkozy's plans 'to dodge new 75% French tax rate by moving to London with wife Carla and setting up £1bn private equity fund'

Fraud police found details of move and business plan in raid on home

Sarkozy is under investigation for corruption in France

He will be latest Frenchman to escape potential top French tax rate of 75%

Couple would become London's most high profile Gallic celebrities

Sarkozy would hope for fund support from French entrepreneur Alain Minc

Nicolas Sarkozy is preparing to move to London to set up a billion pounds plus investment fund, it was claimed today.

If the move goes ahead, the controversial Frenchman will become the latest to escape a potential top tax rate of 75 per cent in his home country. 

He and his former supermodel third wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy would be likely to settle in an affluent district like South Kensington – so becoming the most high profile Gallic celebrity couple in the city. 

But the former president is under investigation for corruption in France, and if he does cross the Channel there will be outrage.

Details of the planned move were uncovered during a raid by fraud police on Sarkozy’s Paris mansion last June.

It came within weeks of Mr Sarkozy losing his immunity against prosecution after being defeated by Socialist rival Francois Hollande in the May presidential election.

Now the hugely respected investigative news site Mediapart reports that the ‘first draft’ of Mr Sarkozy’s London project was found by detectives examining his computer files.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2266331/Nicolas-Sarkozy-Carla-Bruni-dodge-new-French-tax-hike-moving-London-setting-1billion-fund.html#ixzz2IiYk94La  Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

This is where the USA is going to be.

In Rome beginning about the time of the Gracchi (~130BC), elected consuls of the Republic could expect to the the subject of criminal investigation and exile or worse after they left office

Individuals property is not the potential property of the state because they need it when they say they need it. The vote of the majority cannot be used as a legitimizing method for THEFT.

Otherwise, we will all become criminalized by aggressive, coercive irresponsible govts elected by selfish majorities made desperate by past stupidities.

Right now, THAT is the future of the USA.

Don't think so?

San Bernadino CA, declared bankruptcy because they could not pay for needed services AND current pensions, AND contribute to CALPERS, the state run pension authority.

Result?

The court just decided San Bernadino would STOP PAYING ANY PENSIONS, AND INTO THE CALPERS FUNDS.

Anyone think the US govt would do this? Stop paying Medicare, Veterans pay and and Social Security before they voted to raise taxes to punishing rates so that every old person and vet in the USA didn't vote the other way?

The USA is RIGHT NOW in the mode - in the minds of those who even RECOGNIZE THIS - shuffling along thinking the worst just CANNOT HAPPEN, RIGHT?

But things which cannot go on forever, ...

DO NOT

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Keep your eye on one thing and one thing only: how much government is spending, because that’s the true tax

Milton Friedman

Nobel Laureate Economics

Keep your eye on one thing and one thing only: how much government is spending, because that’s the true tax ... If you’re not paying for it in the form of explicit taxes, you’re paying for it indirectly in the form of inflation or in the form of borrowing. The thing you should keep your eye on is what government spends, and the real problem is to hold down government spending as a fraction of our income, and if you do that, you can stop worrying about the debt.

RCP: 

It is time to remind Republicans that the same rules of economics still apply to today’s deficit spending. The debate over the “fiscal cliff” presents an opportunity to hammer home what is fundamentally flawed about Washington’s approach to funding government.

Let’s start by finally acknowledging that Republicans who have been complicit in deficit spending have repeatedly violated Grover Norquist’s “Taxpayer Protection Pledge.” While Norquist’s pledge has been effective politically, the policy goals of fiscal conservatives remain unfulfilled, because deficit spending is taxation.

The problem with focusing foremost on preventing new taxes is that borrowing and printing to finance government largesse causes even more pernicious economic distortions

Either you believe in Keynes, who stipulates that long term debt has no consequence, the real cost is the service, or you don't and you believe govts must behave as if they are a large family with it's own budget.

Here’s a whole passage from Keynes. Sylvie and Bruno is a Lewis Carroll novel that was surely better known in Keynes’s day than in ours:

Let me remind you of the Professor in Sylvie and Bruno:

“Only the tailor, sir, with your little bill,” said a meek voice outside the door.

“Ah, well, I can soon settle his business,” the Professor said to the children, “if you’ll just wait a minute. How much is it, this year, my man?” The tailor had come in while he was speaking.

“Well, it’s been a-doubling so many years, you see,” the tailor replied, a little gruffly, “and I think I’d like the money now. It’s two thousand pound, it is!”

“Oh, that’s nothing!” the Professor carelessly remarked, feeling in his pocket, as if he always carried at least that amount about with him. “But wouldn’t you like to wait just another year and make it four thousand? Just think how rich you’d be! Why, you might be a king, if you liked!”

“I don’t know as I’d care about being a king,” the man said thoughtfully. “But it dew sound a powerful sight o’ money! Well, I think I’ll wait—”

“Of course you will!” said the Professor. “There’s good sense in you, I see. Good-day to you, my man!”

“Will you ever have to pay him that four thousand pounds?” Sylvie asked as the door closed on the departing creditor.

“Never, my child!” the Professor replied emphatically. “He’ll go on doubling it till he dies. You see, it’s always worth while waiting another year to get twice as much money!”

Perhaps it is not an accident that the race which did most to bring the promise of immortality into the heart and essence of our religions has also done most for the principle of compound interest and particularly loves this most purposive of human institutions.

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What % of this year's deficit will be closed by raising rates on those who earn >250k?

You are one of those 67% who support raising the tax rates on people who earn over $250K?

FINE

What else are you prepared to do? Because while we can argue about whether those people paying more taxes will invest less, spend less, and do less thus CUTTING FEDERAL, STATE, and LOCAL TAX REVENUES, this will only close the deficit gap by a TINY percentage.

Will you consider raising the retirement age to 70 for those 45 or less over the next 15-20 years?

Will you consider raising the Medicare age for those less than 55 to 67?

Okay, NEITHER of those will affect the deficit this year?

ONLY ONE THING WILL AFFECT THE DEFICIT THIS YEAR.

GROWTH.

What are the leaders doing to spur MAJOR, IRREVERSIBLE GROWTH THIS YEAR?

Geithner: Ready to Go Over 'Cliff' If Taxes Don't Rise

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geither told CNBC Wednesday that Republicans are "making a little bit of progress" in"fiscal cliff"talks but said the Obama administration was "absolutely" ready to go over the cliff if the GOP doesn't agree to raise tax rates on the wealthy.

"I think they're making a little bit of progress," Geithner said. "They're clearly moving and figuring out how to try to move further."

But Geithner said the White House would "absolutely" go over the fiscal cliff — triggering over $600 billion in automatic spending cuts and tax increases — unless tax rates increase on the top 2 percent of wage earners.

So if they don't get what they want, a demagogic tax rise of ARGUABLE effect, they will hurt EVERYONE.

Why?

So they can blame the republicans for the 2014 elections?

Be careful what you wish for Bronco.

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And the horse you rode in on...Democratic Rep: Amend Constitution To Allow Control Of Speech

I know, I know, I hear you out there.... this is a racist post, right?

Sorry douchebags, I hold the permanent kryptonite on that one, having stood (and sat) face to face in the mid and late 60's in the south in voter registration drives with the white sheet committee. So EFF OFF.

So now let me use the ultimate NEW dog whistle code word for the permanent and professional grievancers since this gavone TOOK and OATH to uphold and defend the constitution, I say he is BOTH incompetent and in violation of his office.

Atlanta voters, take it away.

ATLANTA (CBS Atlanta)- A Democratic representative is calling for an amendment to the United States Constitution that would allow for some legislative restriction of freedom of speech.

“We need a constitutional amendment that would allow the legislature to control the so-called free speech rights of corporations,” Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) was quoted as saying by CNS News.

He reportedly made these comments while speaking at the Annesbrooks HOA candidateForumheld last month.In a video obtained by the website, Johnson asserts that “corporations control … patterns of thinking.”

“They control the media. They control the messages that you get,” he added.

I thought that was the jews, you moron.

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But it wasn't the jews!

I have been waiting.

Al Gore:

Hurricane Sandy is a global-warming 

SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE

Former vice president-turned-climate-change-activist Al Gore warned Tuesday that the storm that ravaged the East Coast Monday is “a disturbing sign of things to come.”

“We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather,” Gore said in a statement posted on his blog Tuesday afternoon.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/83064.html#ixzz2AoMiY1vA

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The Criterion of Panic, and Resignation?- EJ Dionne

EJ Dionne from RCP:

The right wing has lost the election of 2012.

The evidence for this is overwhelming, yet it is the year's best-kept secret. Mitt Romney would not be throwing virtually all of his past positions overboard if he thought the nation were ready to endorse the full-throated conservatism he embraced to win the Republican nomination. If conservatism were winning, does anyone doubt that Romney would be running as a conservative? Yet unlike Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater, Romney is offering an echo, not a choice. His strategy at the end is to try to sneak into the White House on a chorus of me-too's.

The right is going along because its partisans know Romney has no other option. This, too, is an acknowledgement of defeat, a recognition that the grand ideological experiment heralded by the rise of the tea party has gained no traction

NEINER NIENER, you Tea Party racist losers have lost, too?

Mr. Dionne, the ONLY priority for anyone in the 'right wing' (which to you really is the center, I mean, come on you can't see the difference anyway) is to GET RID OF THAT AMATEUR MORON IN THE WHITE HOUSE WHO ONLY SEES REAL ENEMIES WHEN THEY ARE REPUBLICANS

That's it. Just as the Tea Party ceases to exist once you get past fiscal responsibility and adherence to the Constitution, so the only thing that counts in 2012 is the election of NOT OBAMA. That's what happened in 2008. I know you don't recognize it because it means there was never a mandate for change, but in 2008 what the Nation wanted was a NOT BUSH.

Now they want GROWTH and the growing recognition is that GROWTH=NOT OBAMA.

There is no other issue.

There never really was.

This has to be first.

Growth will bring fiscal responsibility. Romney will certainly adhere more to the founding document than Obama.

That sounds like a Tea Party definition of victory.

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FINALLY, ROMNEY SAYS IT, 'ON LIBYA, OBAMA IS DELUDED' .. now complete the equation Mitt...IT'S ACROSS THE BOARD

Romney campaign: Obama misled himself on Libya

President Barack Obama and his administration did not only mislead the American people, they misled themselves on what happened the night of Sept. 11 in Benghazi, a top Romney foreign-policy advisor toldThe Cableahead of Monday night's debate.

Regardless of whether or not Obama called the events in Benghazi an "act of terror" in the days following the attack,Mitt Romneydoes not believe the administration's insistence that the attack was related to an anti-Islam video was based solely on reports from the intelligence community, Romney advisor and former National Security Council official Eliot Cohen said in an interview.

"This notion that this was all because the intelligence community gave them bad information is just not correct. The idea that this was all attributable to the trailer for a crackpot movie was just not true," Cohen said. "That's a big fundamental problem that the administration has to deal with, that they did mislead people for a period of time, and what's even scarier, they misled themselves."

Both theWall Street Journal and theNew York Timeshave reported that the intelligence community didn't formally revise its view that there may have been a protest related to the video until Sept. 22; the intelligence community maintains, according to theTimes, that militants involved in the attack were inspired by the breach of the U.S. Embassy walls in Cairo.

But the Romney campaign's critique is broader than its claims of mishandled intelligence.

Cohen said that during Monday night's debate, Romney will likely refer to the administration's reaction to the Benghazi attack to counter the administration's claim that it has dealt a devastating blow to al Qaeda and that al Qaeda is "on its heels,"as Obama has said many times in the past.

"They wanted to believe the narrative that this was an understandable if excessive and unacceptable reaction to a provocative piece of video, because the alternative would be to believe that their story, which is that the extremist problem is an essentially an al Qaeda problem, that it's a narrowly defined problem that you can deal with through targeted killings, that al Qaeda was on the verge of strategic defeat, is not true," he said. "In fact you are dealing with a larger problem which has metastasized across the Middle East. That is something they did not want to believe. You get into trouble when you try to fool other people. You get in bigger trouble when you try to fool yourself."

Let me channel Muslim Brotherhood Morsi, the president of Egypt when he heard his Imam pray for death to the jews and their supporters, and say

AMEN

GIVE EM HELL, MITT

Sweetly