This economy has gone to the dogs...

Times are tough right now. People are struggling to pay their bills. People who bought a much bigger house than they really should have are now paying the piper. Medicine, or food? Gas, or the phone bill. Cigarettes, or, never mind (smokers always seem to afford these).

While reading today's local newspaper, the Jackson Sun, I noticed an add for a business that I never even imagined I'd see. It's one of those entrepreneurial opportunities that, once you read about it, you think, "why didn't I come up with that?" According to this company, their services are absolutely essential to your health, and the health of those you love.

I do not know this guy; to my knowledge I've never even been in the same BigBox store with him. I've never called him requesting his services. But maybe you should.

Dave's Doo Deporters.

Taxes, explained

I got this in one of those "forwarded" emails. For a change, I like it, so I thought I post it here.

AN EXPLANATION OF OUR TAXATION SYSTEM



Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beers (a great idea) and the bill for all ten comes to $100.00

If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:

The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.

The fifth would pay $1.

The sixth would pay $7.

The eighth would pay $12.

The ninth would pay $18.

The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.

So, that's what they decided to do.

The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement, until one day, the owner threw them a curve.

"Since you are all such good customers," he said, "I'm going to reduce the cost of your daily beers by $20.00. Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.00."

The group of ten men still wanted to pay their bill they way we pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected. They would still drink for free. But what about the other six men - the so-called PAYING customers:

How could they divide the $20.00 windfall so that everyone would get his 'fair share?' They realized that $20.00 divided by six is $3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's share, then the fifth man would end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's bill by roughly the same amount, and thus, he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay..

And so we have these results:

The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).

The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3. (33% savings).

The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7. (28% savings).

The eight now paid $9 instead of $12. (25% savings).

The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18. (22% savings).

The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).






Each of the six was better off than before and the first four continued to drink for free, but once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.

"I only got a dollar out of the $20," declared the sixth man.. He pointed to the tenth man, "but he got $10!"

"Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man. "I only saved a dollar, too. It's unfair that he got TEN times more than I!"

"That's true!" shouted the seventh man. "Why should he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get all the breaks!"

"Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison. We didn't get anything at all. They system exploits the poor!"

The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat the S**T out of him.

The next night the tenth man didn't show up for drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something very important . . . . . they didn't have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!

And that, boys and girls, journalist and college professors, is how our tax system works. The people who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction. Tax them to much, attack them for being wealthy, and they just may not show up for drinks anymore. In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.

Economic Crisis

"Crisis is the friend of the state. And they have always used crisis to increase their power and their hands on our money".

John Stossel said this tonight while he was on the "O'Reily Factor". I don't know who said it first, but it is certainly the truth. Look for more government intrusion into our lives after their "fix". And, just like a heroin junkie, one "fix" will lead to another.

Will they debate?

John McCain states that the crisis in the economy is too important for him to take time off for a presidential debate.

Barak Obama states that the crisis in the economy is too important for him to not take part in the debate.

I don't really know who's right. But something struck me as funny today. Both candidates are supposed to be US Senators. Yours and my tax money pays their salaries. To the tune of over $169,00.00. Has either candidate actually done a fricken' thing they are being paid to do during the past 2 years? I think any sitting U.S. member of Congress, either house, that runs for any other office should repay their salary back to the people, since they aren't doing their jobs. Let 'em run for President on someone besides the U.S. Taxpayer's back.

Infanticide

Presidential hopeful Barak Obama apparently supports the idea of infanticide. Four times while in the Illinois Senate, Senator Obama voted against the Born Alive Protection Act. This act, which became law in Illinois in 2005 (after Obama left the state senate), protects children who survive an abortion attempt.

Up until that point, in many cases, if a child survived an abortion procedure, they were left to die on the operating table, whether this took minutes or hours. Mr Obama felt that an infant who was to be aborted was less than human, and didn't have the same human rights as a wanted child who was born prematurely. The Born Alive Protection Act would require physicians give such a child the exact same life-saving attention that were used on premature babies.

Even NARAL (the largest abortion rights group in the world) did not oppose the passage of this bill. The most liberal members of the US senate voted unanimously with the rest of the Senate in the passage of a similar national bill.

This man wants to be our President. He is supposed to protect the citizens of the United States against all threats, foreign and domestic. Yet he REFUSES to protect the most frail, the most vulnerable, citizens. What other duties and responsibilities will he refuse?

Cheers

The Left's botched "Gotcha"

The liberal media is all aflutter now. They think they have proven that Sarah Palin is unqualified to be the Vice-Commander-in-Chief.

During Mrs Palin's interview with ABC news' Charlie Gibson, he asked, "Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?"

She replied, with all honesty (unlike most politicians) "In what respect, Charlie?"

Thinking he finally had her, and barely able to hide his glee, he eventually told her, that the Bush Doctrine "is that we have the right of anticipatory self-defense." The New York Times reported that Mr Gibson "sounded like an inpatient teacher" as he lectured the naive Mrs Palin.

Unfortunately for Mr Gibson, he was wrong. According to Charles Krauthammer, the man who coined the term "Bush Doctrine", the term has had four definitions throughout the Bush administration, and that the currently acceptable definition is most certainly NOT the one used by the arrogant Mr Gibson.

The Bush Doctrine is "the fundamental mission of American foreign policy is to spread democracy throughout the world."

Perhaps in their attempt to aid their messiah, Barak Obama, Mr Gibson's writers should have spent a bit more time on the Internet doing research. Go Sarah Palin!

I Pledge Allegiance

Here's a video of Don LaFontaine reading the Pledge of Allegiance. He died September 1, 2008. Movie previews will never be the same!

Random Ramblings

People are criticising Sarah Palin for "parading her pregnant daughter" on the stage last night at the Republican National Convention. What else was she supposed to do? If her daughter hadn't come up on stage, the elite media would all be saying this morning, "see, she's ASHAMED of her daughter!" Besides, we all know what Barak Obama would do if, God forbid, one of his daughters were to become pregnant, in his own words: "I don't want them punished with a baby!"




During hurricane Katrina, people (myself included) complained that the local government didn't do enough to evacuate the poor. Now,this time around, people are complaining that people were evacuated in time. Can't win for losing.

A big topic this election cycle is health insurance. If only we had universal health insurance, people would be better off. However, what people don't seem to recognize is that having insurance does not equal access to medical care. We're going to need thousands more primary care physicians if we are to actually treat all these people; that isn't going to happen if primary care income keeps going down, while the debt for medical school alone (not counting any debt needed to start a medical practice) is over $150,000. When I left school, at the age of 26, I had loan payments of over $1500 per month just for school debt.


Barak Obama has years of experience in the Legislative branch of government. John McCain and Joe Biden have decades of experience in the Legislative branch. Sarah Palin may be "greener" than even Obama, but she has 8 years of executive experience (both as mayor and Governor). Unfortunately, the president is an executive job, not a legislative one.

Gas in my town is all the way down to $3.39 per gallon, and I actually got excited about that!

If the environmental wackos really want to win over people, they need to stop whining about the "sick Earth". Hit people where it hurts, their pocket books. I want to drive a car with better gas mileage, not from some misguided belief that I will save the planet, but because gas is too fricken expensive. I actually have a couple of those toxic, mercury laden light bulbs in fixtures that we tend to leave on quite a bit. Again, not because Gaia told me to, but because they use less electricity, thus costing less! Plus, I'm trying to get my kid to pee in the back yard more, just so I don't have to spend the money on water and sewage (fyi, my wife's not too happy about this one!).

A man has been arrested for trying to bomb the Republican National Convention with Molotov cocktails. Maybe I missed it. Were any non-democrats arrested for behavior that could potentially kill others during the Democrat's convention? Why such a violent hatred from such supposedly more tolerant people?

Who would John Galt vote for? For certain, I can say he wouldn't vote for Obama/Biden. That combo guarantees greater governmental intrusion into our public lives. The Libertarian party nominee is really just seems to me to be a disgruntled Republican, so no vote there, either. The Green party wants us to live like it was 1875, so no vote there, either. The Constitutional party really seems closest to what the libertarian-leaning protagonist would like, but I don't know enough about their candidate, yet. I doubt he'd like McCain, either, with his McCain-Feingold bill as one of his greatest accomplishments.