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"Stuff it!"
Okay genius...
but here is a thought for you:
a taxpayer who's status is single is/has/always will be f'ed
"Maybe you and your accountant have found a way to cheat"
knowledge is not cheating...the rules of the game keep the idiots in the dark...try turning on a light.
Barack...
his facial expressions were different in this debate...he was uncomfortable.
just my take.
"american edsel"
I do enjoy your post/writings :)
"You can spin it anyway you want"
I have spun nothing!
95% is out of 100%...no?...that leaves 5%.
Yet 29.5% (2003) have a zero tax liability...explain that to ME genius
"I have never paid this much in taxes in my life"
what is your filing status?
"Republicans do not care about the election this time."
Your assessment may be correct...
but many will still make their voice heard...just not in the polls.
"95% of the American people will see a much, much greater decrease in taxes"
2003 est. by the tax foundation states that 29.5% of filers have a zero tax liability.
http://www.taxfoundation.org/research/show/207.html
Explain that liberal math for me genius.
One other thing:
It’s often argued that while these families do not pay income taxes, they do pay other federal taxes such as payroll (or Social Security) taxes. Here again, the table shows that for most of these families, the combined benefit from the child credit and the EITC more than erases their payroll taxes too.
Another issue that has been lost in this debate is the fact that the most recent tax bill increased the number of tax filers with zero-tax liability by 3.8 million, to a record 40 million. As Table 2 shows, since 2000, nearly 10 million tax filers have been taken off the tax rolls because of the last three tax cut bills. Nearly 30 percent of the roughly 133 million tax filers this year will have no income tax liability. This is twice as many non-paying filers as there were in 1980.
from the above link.
The results may be favoring Obama simply because more Democrats than Republicans tuned into the debate. Of the sample of debate-watchers questioned in this poll, 41 percent of the respondents identified themselves as Democrats, 27 percent Republicans and 30 percent independents.
You furnished the link.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, is “a terrific debater” who could give Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joe Biden (D-Del.) a run for his money when they meet Thursday.
David Plouffe
"to vote for him...twice."
You assumptions are as wrong as your facts.
bush/gore/kerry did not deserve my vote.
Speaking of spending taxpayer money:
2,300 earmarks included in Congress' spending bill
Taxpayers for Common Sense, a budget watchdog group, calculates that earmarks account for $6.6 billion of the omnibus bill's cost, which totals more than $630 billion.
Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, who is on trial a few blocks from the Capitol on ethics charges related to financial disclosure, appears to have gotten more earmarks than anyone else: 39 items totaling $238.5 million, according to the organization's tally.
Rep. John P. Murtha, D-Pa., was the apparent winner in the House, with 30 items totaling $111 million, including $24.5 million for the National Drug Intelligence Center in Johnstown, his hometown.
Murtha told reporters that earmarks were just a tiny fraction of “what the administration wants to bail out those rich guys in New York."
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080926/news_1n26earmarks.html
New York is a liberal state...
stevens/murtha...hopefully the short one will be convicted...and the fat one will kill over.
"The Annenberg question is an important one."
Agreed.
"Denial in what?"
This:
Bigoted white Dems could doom Obama's effort
'08 CAMPAIGN | Bigoted white Dems could doom Obama's effort if election is close, poll finds
September 21, 2008
BY RON FOURNIER AND TREVOR TOMPSON
WASHINGTON -- Deep-seated racial misgivings could cost Barack Obama the White House if the election is close, according to an AP-Yahoo News poll that found one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks -- many calling them ''lazy,'' ''violent'' or responsible for their own troubles.
The poll, conducted with Stanford University, suggests that the percentage of voters who may turn away from Obama because of his race could easily be larger than the final difference between the candidates in 2004 -- about 2.5 percentage points.
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Barack Obama speaks Saturday in Jacksonville, Fla. AP-Yahoo News models suggest racism may cost him 6 percentage points.
(AP)
Certainly, Republican John McCain has his own obstacles: He's an ally of an unpopular president and would be the nation's oldest first-term president. But Obama faces this: 40 percent of all white Americans hold at least a partly negative view toward blacks, and that includes many Democrats and independents.
More than a third of all white Democrats and independents -- voters Obama can't win the White House without -- agreed with at least one negative adjective about blacks, according to the survey, and are significantly less likely to vote for Obama than those who don't have such views.
''There are a lot fewer bigots than there were 50 years ago, but that doesn't mean there's only a few bigots,'' said Stanford political scientist Paul Sniderman, who helped analyze the exhaustive survey.
The pollsters sought why Obama is locked in a close race with McCain even as the political landscape seems to favor Democrats. President Bush's unpopularity, the Iraq war and a national sense of economic hard times cut against GOP candidates, as does the fact that Democratic voters outnumber Republicans.
The findings suggest that Obama's problem is close to home -- among his fellow Democrats, particularly non-Hispanic white voters. Just seven in 10 people who call themselves Democrats support Obama, compared with the 85 percent of self-identified Republicans who back McCain.
Race is not the biggest factor driving Democrats and independents away from Obama. Doubts about his competency loom even larger, the poll indicates. Still, the effects of whites' racial views are apparent.
Statistical models derived from the poll suggest that Obama's support would be as much as 6 percentage points higher if there were no white racial prejudice.
The survey of 2,227 adults was conducted Aug. 27 to Sept. 5. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2.1 percentage points. AP
Copyright 2008 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/1176365,CST-NWS-Poll21.article
What ethinic background are you?
"Jesus Christ teaches us to give to the unfortunate ones."
I agree...
but Jesus mentions nothing of a middle man/woman named obama or susan deciding where my goodwill should go.
“It goes down a bureaucratic rat-hole, lining the pockets of people who are connected to the power structure,” said Hanke, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. “It’s basically a system to redistribute income from middle class people in the United States to rich people in poor countries. It never reaches those people who are living on a dollar a day.
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/19/obama-laments-debt-but-promises-billions-for-anti-poverty-program/
Do you not understand?
Only a...
poll will/may tell!
Denial:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial
Care to answer the ethnic part?
"And we're a red state."
The state of NC is pretty much in the democrats hands...or has something changed since Black went to jail.
Susan Rice, one of Obama’s top foreign policy advisers, says the U.S. should give 0.7 percent of its Gross Domestic Product to developing nations.
.....
“It goes down a bureaucratic rat-hole, lining the pockets of people who are connected to the power structure,” said Hanke, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. “It’s basically a system to redistribute income from middle class people in the United States to rich people in poor countries. It never reaches those people who are living on a dollar a day.
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/19/obama-laments-debt-but-promises-billions-for-anti-poverty-program/
Pelosi and Reid Blew It
By Andrew Cline
Published 9/19/2008 12:08:46 AM
The most fascinating political development of the summer has occurred with little notice. Republicans are respected again. Wait, what?
Believe it or not, entering the final quarter of the eighth year of the George W. Bush presidency, Republicans are ascending in popularity, Politico.com reported yesterday. Half of registered voters and half of independent voters have a favorable opinion of the GOP, according to a new poll from the Pew Center for the People and the Press. Democrats hold a slight edge in favorability among registered voters (55 percent to 50 percent), but they are statistically tied with Republicans among independent voters (Republicans 50 percent, Democrats 49 percent.)
How could this happen? Anyone half-paying attention for the past eight years can rattle off the list of reasons voters are supposed to be fleeing the GOP: Iraq, Katrina, Wall Street, Abramoff, DeLay, Bridge to Nowhere, bin Laden at large, gas prices, and home mortgages. When Democratic presidential candidates dream, they dream of election years like this one.
And yet since August the Republicans have closed an 18 point gap with Democrats among independent voters. A new Gallup poll finds that Democrats have only a three-point edge (within the margin of error) when people are asked which party they want to control Congress.
I think the answer is pretty clear: The Democratic leadership in Congress took the golden opportunity it was given in 2006 and pissed it away on petty partisanship -- just like the Republicans who preceded them did.
A Gallup poll out this week is revealing. It found that only 47 percent of Americans say they have trust in the legislative branch of the federal government. That's the first time that number has dipped below 50 percent since Gallup began asking that question in 1972. The same poll found that only 18 percent of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing vs. 31 percent who approve of the job President Bush is doing.
There is good reason for those low ratings. When voters swept Democrats into power two years ago, they expected that the party would deliver on its promises. It hasn't. Instead of leadership and statesmanship, we got gamesmanship. Instead of governing, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid embarked on a two-year political campaign.
The Democrats opposed the troop surge in Iraq. When the surge turned a raging insurgency into a slinking retreat and the Democrats ridiculously proclaimed that it wasn't working, an average American listening to both sides could only shrug his shoulders and wonder what in the world the Democrats were smoking.
When Democrats opposed every measure to increase domestic oil production, they angered millions of Americans. And when they finally tried to claim they were for new drilling by producing two bills that allowed new drilling only where there was little or no oil, Americans quickly picked up on the scam.
On all of the major issues of the past two years, the Democrats chose to play political gotcha instead of actually govern. The public, it turns out, seems to have seen through the charade. It's kind of hard to convince Americans that you feel their pain when, for example, you are doing everything in your power to keep gas prices high through the election. By being Democrats first and public representatives second, Democrats have lost the enormous advantage in goodwill the Republicans handed them on a silver platter two years ago.
This election year should have produced a Democratic sweep of historic proportions, delivering the White House and massive majorities in the House and Senate. But thanks to the incompetence of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, Republicans might pull a respectable showing.
Andrew Cline is editorial page editor of the New Hampshire Union Leader.
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=13913
Bigoted white Dems could doom Obama's effort
http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/1176365,CST-NWS-Poll21.article
one-third of white Democrats harbor negative views toward blacks -- many calling them "lazy," "violent" or responsible for their own troubles.[/B]
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:IlAyp0vY-y4J:www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2008-09-20-1317292352_x.htm+poll+one+third+of+white+dems&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=21&gl=us
Same story...different headlines.
"Too black for you?"
Poll: Racial views steer some white Dems away from Obama
http://news.yahoo.com/page/election-2008-political-pulse-obama-race
Biggest Threat to Obama's Candidacy -- White Democrats
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=e3d3f8a97e8a8fd22ba3fd677b53323c&from=rss
I'd worry about those in your own party/ethnic(?) background.
I do agree.
"has been less than truthful"
You are referring to the kos as well as yourself...Polly???
Ones opinion...
you should read the article when/if time permits.
By all rights, the Democrats should win this election. They will lose, I predict, because of the flawed character of their candidate.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JI03Aa02.html
Yea 90-Nay 8...
http://banking.senate.gov/conf/
Am I correct in assuming that some of those 90 yea votes were democrats...
I haven't had...
a drink in 10 minutes...
still don't see it.
I don't see it...
"Our country needs a smart person"
We are witnessing the "work" of the so-called "smart person/people"...
You mentioned AIG...but no Freddie or Fannie...why?
"Very few craftsmen around anymore"
I see/work with them everyday...they are an amazing group of people.
"Asian pipe/steel is crap"
Last two jobs we put that ch*t up in the racks...out-of-square, out-of-round, and actually had some 4" that was bowed.
Amazing what good fitters/welders can do.
"but not so much today"
The fitters I know who work with pipe/fittings from china would disagree with you...
"I miss the days of U.S. Steel. :•("
Those same fitters say the same thing.
"foreign pipe"
pipe shows up oval instead of round...out of square 90's...
sound familiar?
Concerning the h-p article...
"...Obama's behalf in Beverly Hills. It was to be a two-step evening with a reception and dinner costing $28,500 a person followed by a later event featuring Streisand at $2,500 a ticket."
http://news.yahoo.com/story//ap/20080916/ap_on_el_pr/obama
Have you considered the job's that have been shut down due to the liberal mindset...loggers, construction, etc...
OT...
Do you listen to Delbert McClinton...
Saw him at the House of Blues in Myrtle Beach this weekend ...great atmosphere/show.
SL
"Let me be clear: the organizers used a hand-clicker and counted"
Population of Anchorage:
260283
That is every man,woman and child.
Now my first thought was to remove the number of children from the equation...but the pictures showed children with parents/some holding signs...which tells me that the "hand-clicker" (give me a break) counted them as well.
My point is...1500 people out of a town population of 260283 is not "huge"...
Edit: delete
Ask Barack...
I was quoting him...
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=32161575
"the 2 regions broke from georgia long ago"
"Over the last several weeks, Russia and Georgia have been engaged in a steadily more dangerous confrontation over two secessionist regions of Georgia -- South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Although these territories are located within Georgia's internationally-recognized borders, the Russian government seems determined to challenge Georgia's territorial integrity in both places. Developments took an especially provocative turn several days ago when four Russian warplanes violated Georgian airspace close to the Georgian capital for forty minutes.
This is a quote from Barack Hussein Obama...
My Biden moment
http://www.barackobama.com/2008/07/23/statement_of_senator_obama_on_1.php
Now...what were you saying about foreign policy experience?
"that if georgia was in nato we would have to defend then and go to war with russia."
Go back...read the question by Gibson, then the answer from Palin.
She answered it correctly
And Russia was...
within its right to invade Georgia even though these territories are located within Georgia's internationally-recognized borders
"did not respond correctly at all"
You need to read/read up on Nato.
YOU stated
"Georgia attacked first when they went into south ossetia. russia was respinsive after that."
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=32113726
I am asking
Concerning-South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Although these territories are located within Georgia's internationally-recognized borders, the Russian government seems determined to challenge Georgia's territorial integrity in both places.
Do YOU disagree
Point...
very well taken/explained.