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The Lounge	Obama Tax Calculator	Oct 30 2008 02:20 (UTC)	3
Original Post by kisteel: Original Post by melkor: Why your taxes must increase. You, personally, right now, your share of the US national debt comes to $34,532.98. That's on top of any other debt you have, by the way. Sooner or later, that's going to have to be paid back you know - you can't live on credit forever. The national debt is based on the US government borrowing cash now against the security of future tax income - more tax cuts now means you're pushing back the moment you can start paying down some of what you owe. Your government has already spent that money, and you can't opt out of helping to pay it back. Still wanna vote for the guy who promises to structure your national debt like an option ARM? What happens when China calls in the mortgage and you discover that you need to give them California and Alaska to pay the debt due? Taxes are there for a reason. At this point, mostly debt service on the profligate drunken spending spree of the past 8 years. The notion that China is going to call in their debt it absurd. They have just as much of an interest in our economic well being as we do. So you think China's never going to want to be repaid? Interesting notion, but one not supported by China's actual actions lately, where the central bank and the Party specifically forbade Chinese-owned banks to invest in or aid any distressed American-owned financial sector company. Like Paul Krugman - this year's economy Nobel Prize winner said it back in the day - ``These days, Americans make a living by selling each other houses, paid for with money borrowed from China,'' he wrote in a column on Aug. 29, 2005. ``One way or other, the economy will eventually eliminate both imbalances.'' You can't only borrow. Loans need to be repaid, and the longer you wait, the worse the interest bite's gonna be. Besides, you're making one fundamentally erroneous assumption - that China's long term strategic interests are in any way served by American economic well-being. right now they're content to use you to build up their industrial base by being somewhere to dump their surplus production, but that's eventually going to change. When it does, when China's strategic interests will be best served by an impoverished USA that can't afford to compete with them for raw materials and oil on the international market... what do you think's gonna happen? China's long-term strategic interests are not served by a strong USA. You should keep that in mind, when you discuss the implications of turning all your manufaturing capacity over to the chinese.
The Lounge	When there's something strange in your neighborhood. Who ya gonna call? Chat-busters!	Oct 29 2008 19:19 (UTC)	161
Original Post by yachtracer1977: Original Post by hkellick: You know.. I don't pretend to be the authority on Barack Obama. But... it seems to me that about half the things people voting against him believe.. are totally garbage, totally entirely wrong. Yep. My dad tried to convince me he's a Marxist. At least my dad doesn't think he's a Muslim terrorist. :-) It's because Karl Rove and the gang can read an electoral map and voter chart as well as the next irresponsible, slimy thug and notive what Fred Clark noted, that Democratic voters outnumber Republicans 2:1 in most of the contested states. At this point they're left to throw anything and everything they can think of out there to somehow, someway mobilise enough of the crazies and scare away the reasonable people - or try to supress their vote for being Brown or Poor which is what the ACORN challenges are all about.
Fitness	Power to the people... working out green.	Oct 29 2008 18:58 (UTC)	2
Interesting workout indeed - there's an alternate one called "car pushing" you can try as well. Ususally people only try that one when it snows and they skid into the ditch, but it's also a great fat-burning workout when you're not stuck at the side of a country road at 3 AM in January ;)
The Lounge	When there's something strange in your neighborhood. Who ya gonna call? Chat-busters!	Oct 29 2008 18:53 (UTC)	189
..oh thanks, now I've got Bon Jovi and "I'm a coowboooy, on a steeeel hoooorse I riide" on my brain.
The Lounge	When there's something strange in your neighborhood. Who ya gonna call? Chat-busters!	Oct 29 2008 18:24 (UTC)	258
Original Post by purespark: Original Post by melkor: Original Post by purespark: Truman, I don't believe you could ever look fluffy... just sayin'. what, not even with fuzzy bunny slippers and my hair down? Maybe in a grown-up version of this Oh man, that's so not happening. That's is so very, very wrong on so many levels :)
The Lounge	When there's something strange in your neighborhood. Who ya gonna call? Chat-busters!	Oct 29 2008 18:17 (UTC)	278
Original Post by purespark: Truman, I don't believe you could ever look fluffy... just sayin'. what, not even with fuzzy bunny slippers and my hair down?
The Lounge	When there's something strange in your neighborhood. Who ya gonna call? Chat-busters!	Oct 29 2008 18:07 (UTC)	302
Original Post by hkellick: Every once in a while, there's nothing better than a little bit of fluff. :) tries to look fluffy
The Lounge	When there's something strange in your neighborhood. Who ya gonna call? Chat-busters!	Oct 29 2008 17:48 (UTC)	328
Hmm. smirks as Laura apparates in the riding-crop factory
The Lounge	When there's something strange in your neighborhood. Who ya gonna call? Chat-busters!	Oct 29 2008 16:03 (UTC)	433
I have some ice cream in the fridge, but it's been there for two years unopened so I don't think it's edible at this point. Which reminds me, I should totally throw it out....
The Lounge	When there's something strange in your neighborhood. Who ya gonna call? Chat-busters!	Oct 29 2008 15:52 (UTC)	449
If God wanted to let us know, he'd go on Oprah. He's all-powerful, I'm sure his agent could get him on during the Book Club to talk about the one he's inspired. That he hasn't done so points to hir non-existence - either that, or s/he needs a new agent.
The Lounge	When there's something strange in your neighborhood. Who ya gonna call? Chat-busters!	Oct 29 2008 15:16 (UTC)	487
Original Post by hkellick: Can I just ask, though.. what the FRELL is with politicians in Alaska? I mean.. I thought Louisiana was bad, but.. holy moly.. did the Oil Companies buy them ALL?!?! Yes. They're pretty cheap, after all - one day's operating profits pays for a lot of politicians. It bought a presidency not that long ago.
The Lounge	Obama Tax Calculator	Oct 29 2008 15:12 (UTC)	18
Why your taxes must increase. You, personally, right now, your share of the US national debt comes to $34,532.98. That's on top of any other debt you have, by the way. Sooner or later, that's going to have to be paid back you know - you can't live on credit forever. The national debt is based on the US government borrowing cash now against the security of future tax income - more tax cuts now means you're pushing back the moment you can start paying down some of what you owe. Your government has already spent that money, and you can't opt out of helping to pay it back. Still wanna vote for the guy who promises to structure your national debt like an option ARM? What happens when China calls in the mortgage and you discover that you need to give them California and Alaska to pay the debt due? Taxes are there for a reason. At this point, mostly debt service on the profligate drunken spending spree of the past 8 years.
The Lounge	When there's something strange in your neighborhood. Who ya gonna call? Chat-busters!	Oct 29 2008 14:57 (UTC)	532
I'm still wondering how Glinda deals with the 27 (or thereabouts) children she had last year, and whether she had them all at once or in smaller batches.
The Lounge	When there's something strange in your neighborhood. Who ya gonna call? Chat-busters!	Oct 29 2008 14:42 (UTC)	562
"Why Palin is Fail", part umpty - confronting her about her boasting about sharing the wealth from the Alaskan permanent fund ;) That sometimes happens when your tea is stronger than your stomach lining is prepared for. Try having some milk or something with lemon in it, either should do to settle your stomach. Tums might do in a pinch too, but milk's better.
The Lounge	When there's something strange in your neighborhood. Who ya gonna call? Chat-busters!	Oct 29 2008 14:30 (UTC)	573
Reason number 2637 why I love Keith Olberman in a manly way.
The Lounge	When there's something strange in your neighborhood. Who ya gonna call? Chat-busters!	Oct 29 2008 14:07 (UTC)	591
Original Post by glinda: I only had about 27 kids last year. Is impressed How do you deal with feeding them, not to mention changing 27 diapers? Or thereabouts - I understand losing count after birth number 20 in a year, but honestly, haven't you managed to count them up by now?
The Lounge	When there's something strange in your neighborhood. Who ya gonna call? Chat-busters!	Oct 29 2008 13:38 (UTC)	626
Hope for lots of small beggars, so Split has a wide selection of targets?
The Lounge	When there's something strange in your neighborhood. Who ya gonna call? Chat-busters!	Oct 29 2008 13:32 (UTC)	631
We had snow in Chat earlier, don't know where it went to. Maybe HK took it with him?
The Lounge	When there's something strange in your neighborhood. Who ya gonna call? Chat-busters!	Oct 29 2008 13:19 (UTC)	640
Pays wilma in Lehman Brothers stock options
The Lounge	When there's something strange in your neighborhood. Who ya gonna call? Chat-busters!	Oct 29 2008 12:56 (UTC)	682
Original Post by hkellick: You have to SHARE the Coffee, Melkor ;p Eventually, Lily'll get here too! I can make more when she shows up ;)

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