Seriously.
Most mainstream American voters are undoubtedly suffering from economist fatigue these days. This one calls for tax cuts; that one condemns them. One says we’re wasting hundreds of billions of dollars; the other claims that sum falls pathetically short. A plague on all their houses! Surely common sense would dictate that when Congress is doling out fat dollops of taxpayers’ money, due time should be delegated for sober consideration and debate. The administration’s coercive rush toward instant action, accompanied by apocalyptic pronouncements of imminent catastrophe, has put its own credibility on the line.
But aside from the stimulus muddle, Obama has been off to a good start. True, I was disappointed with the infestation of the new appointments list by Clinton retreads and slippery tax-dodgers. Nevertheless, I was very impressed by Obama’s relaxed, natural authority with military officers on Inauguration Day, in contrast to the early Bill Clinton’s palpable unease and exaggerated posturing. I applauded the signal Obama sent to the world by starting the closure of the Guantánamo detention center. Contrary to the rote claims of conservative talk radio, there is as yet no public evidence that every individual being held at Guantánamo is a proven “terrorist”– whom we would all agree should be severely punished. That is the entire point of a rational process of indictment and trial. If Guantánamo became a symbol of un-American repression, it is the procrastinating, paralyzed Bush administration that should be blamed.
via Camille Paglia on Obama, stimulus plans, Nigella Lawson, Mary McCarthy and Justin Timberlake | Salon.
Wow. Just. Wow. She goes on to opine for the bringing back of the fairness doctrine and also fails (or refuses) to see why Progressive talk radio is failing. Could it be that America or as most of the Liberals see it, as “Amerikkka”; just does not buy into the whole idea of the far left Anti-Capitalist, Anti-American, communist-lite nonsense that is pumped on those stations?
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I am a little scared.Were their really enough people in America,like her,to elect a “Know Nothing” like obama….Obviously their are.
I’m glad Obama has said Guantanamo will be shut down. But we shouldn’t give him too much credit until it actually happens, and even then it’s just one facility — without systematic changes in training and attitude among government personnel, similar abuses could easily continue to be perpetrated elsewhere. If the prisoners at Guantanamo are guilty of terrorist acts, what’s so difficult about bringing them to trial? These are high-profile prisoners on whom the U.S. government has spent lots of resources — it shouldn’t take years to build a case and put it before a judge and jury (yes, a jury should be involved, not just a judge). The fact that it seems to be taking years is a good sign that they don’t have a case with most of these guys.
Is this woman retarded or is she just trying to gain ground in Nobama’s bail out. Does she have her hand out too?
Listen to all the local radio personalities like Bill Oriely Micheal Savage and Dave Ramsey, call non-tax payers “criminals” and those 95% of American citizens that “cheat” on their taxes, “liars”. Someone explain this to me.
If their is NO LAW saying an American citizen is REQUIRED BY LAW to pay taxes on his labor, why would it be a crime? If there is NO LAW and you are supposedly cheating on your taxes, that there isn’t a law for, how can one be a liar and a criminal? Many videos about this and they refuse to talk about any of them. They are all in cahooz with the Goverment propaganda. According to the Federal Tax Code, only one that makes 6 (six) times the National average wage ($32,000 a year), one would have to make a MINIMUM of $192,000 per year before they are required to pay a tax. And it is not income tax, it’s a Coporate Tax.
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