“The corporations use their new windfall profits from the tax breaks to buyback shares to jack up prices (and bonuses). Since Fed gov cannot cover with lost revenue, it increase debt. Ergo, the share buybacks were leveraged buybacks funded by suckers…YOU!”
Dave Collum
Every taxpayer should have known this to be the case … yet the vast populace indulges in mere distractions rather than paying attention to what is important. Translation … don’t blame the wolves for gorging on the sheep.
You’re an idiot if you think it’s the taxpayers fault. Besides, what windfall are we talking about anyway…Tarp, the new tax changes, offshoring? Specifics maybe?
Q: is there such a thing as a victim?
I find it hard to disagree with the last sentence.
Slipknot around the neck. Check.
I used to believe Reagan was a great President.
Then I grew up.
Are your puppet strings comfortable?
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Legislation had been introduced in DC to lower the STATE and FEDERAL voting age to 16.
NOT A TYPO…….16. Egad!!
WTF?
The typical frontal cortex isn’t fully developed until at least age 20.
I went down to the free cone day at Ben & Jerry’s last week and voter registration people (democrat organizations by the stickers) were signing up 16+ in age per their signs.
The average joe can make money in the market but it’s all about knowing when to take your money off the table. The bulls make money, the bears make money and the hogs end up having their 401Ks/IRAs stolen. The scorpion and the frog; it’s their nature.
The taxpayer got hosed on this one? We better nip this in the bud. We don’t want any bad precedents to get started in the “land of the free and home of the brave”.
The taxpayer, aka the little guy, the schmuck, whom nobody cares about unless somebody messes with the government scam. Then it’s all about how the taxpayer got cheated. Imagine if the government could take out a loan, thousands of loans in your name, imagine what an outrage that would be.
It used to be they floated bonds to fund a war. Now, they merely print money to fund many wars. That’s the way people play, first they borrow a screwdriver then they borrow your car. Users!
el vivo vive del menso (or – del mas pendejo) in rough terms – the quick witted lives off the dullard.
Wip – get with the program. The vast populace spends its time on mindless persuits. They know nothing of the world around them. They do nothing to continue in life-long education. In a differnt age, politicians would not have been as brazen with their schemes. People would have long been ‘on to them’. But we no longer live in an era where people question … anything. And you get the thievery which is now commonplace. I guess the fact that we are now collectively sowing what we have rept makes me an idiot. Whatever old man.
As if it would change anything? Haha
Being the victim of a crime does not make one a dullard.
As our nation circles the drain the spin increases in speed and pulls everything down with it . Thanks to the military industrial complex and its minions in the continuous circle jerk from Wall Street to K-Street to Capitol Street with the occasional spin off to the Pentagon and the Whitehouse there is not much left . The “THEY” group control everything of any value and those wishing to play must dance to the tune prescribed and plastered from wall to wall 24/7/365 ! If you dare question anything you are ostrisized and locked out , shunned !
People standing up to this machine are eaten alive , don’t believe it go to a town hall meeting and if you are allowed in ask a non scripted and approved question and demand an answer . Tell a friend in advance so the can arrange bail for you !
“I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.”
H. L. Mencken
Agreed HSF, in this situation Free thinking individuals can only be aware of what’s coming and prepare and hope it will miss us in whole or in part . We will all take a hit may it pass quickly . I do like to see it coming , a flaw of being a realist and refusing to be a fatalistic victim !
Who reads that stuff? Nowadays, rappers are getting the Pulitzers.
Let’s see, my Ebonics rhyming dictionary says Uh rhymes with Fuck.
Now what word rhymes with Shit?
Hypocrite.