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Nichole59 commented on the blog post Obama’s Deficit Plan is a Plan for Re-Election, Not the Opening Position for a Negotiation
The problem is, when you ask people with high inocomes to pay too much, they put their money elsewhere to shield their incomes from taxes.
Umm, no. The Repugs just say they do that. You’ve been listening to Rush again, haven’t you. Actually, they don’t. Not in the 50s and not now, they stay and have their accountants and attorneys lower the bills to about 35%.
The “the job creators” are gonna go to China or Bangladesh is utterly bs on two accounts.
1) They do not create jobs, that would be too much like work. They create financial instruments and up usury to above 20% levels. That way they can sit at the track and sip cognac and make more in two hours than you’ll make in a career.
2) They’ve already exported most of the jobs outta here already. But they won’t export themselves. They are just too addicted to the game to understand how they are cutting their own throats. All that social and infrastructure that makes for a good place to live at a rather modest expense? That goes up by a whole lot when you have to pay for your own security army and its training, build your own roads and educate your own children.
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Nichole59 commented on the blog post “Shut up and explain how we could assist the FPs in finding *MORE* detainees”
Catherine,
In reading your response it seems like you’re asking for a finished product to be provided before the production line has even been built.
Bradley Manning said: “everything started slipping after that… i saw things differently” That sounds like the beginning of a process, not the culmination of it. Perhaps there were no records of the event left. Perhaps he could recall the event, but not the particulars. After all, when he’s chatting with Lamo, he’s removed from that original set of actions and thoughts by some distance. Naturally, one might make one’s conversion as a particular time (which you evidently would prefer.)
But he seems not to be doing that. Manning seems instead to be saying “as I look back I think this is where I maybe started to feel like something had gone wrong. After pondering and watching more I eventually camr to the conclusion ….”
I dunno how you think, but that pattern would follow my conversion experiences pretty much to the period. I seldom arrive convinced and ready for action when I first see something that makes re-think a cherished belief (America first, last and always, for instance, we are always the good guys.) That belief would require some wearing down over time. There’s very little, I imagine, after the sort of indoctrination that most of us go through, that could/would make an abrupt change in our thinking and acting. Why would bradley Manning be different?
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