Honestly, stories of democrats cheating on their taxes are so common that it is almost a non-story.
I love this quote:
“This is not a tax credit that Rep. Levin applied for and in an abundance of caution he has paid the full amount to Montgomery County to correct their mistake,” Levin Chief of Staff Hilarie Chambers wrote in an e-mail Friday.
So, "in an abundance of caution" the guy actually decides to obey the law. LOL.
Actually, what makes this a news story is that Levin may not have intended to cheat on his taxes, but instead did it accidentally.
Now everyone else needs to get back to work so you can pay your fair share.
I love it. After admitting that I'd better go hide my dog. Honestly, if kids acted like that in this country the SS would swoop down on them and teach them to honor their leaders.
The students carried banners branding Obama as an enemy of Islam . . .
LOL.
Of course the left-wingedness of the author of that article must come out. Here is a sample:
They also threw shoes at large pictures of Obama's head. An Iraqi journalist was sentenced to a year in prison for throwing his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush during a news conference in Baghdad in 2008.
You see, it's all Bush's fault, or something like that. How long has this loser been President? The left wing is still trying to compare him with George W. Bush.
Funny, but the last time I checked a map Jakarta wasn't in Iraq.
When a left wing rag like the Washington Post has a story about this then you know we are in deep trouble.
From the article:
President Obama's proposed budget would add more than $9.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade, congressional budget analysts said Friday.
I'll interpret "more than $9.7 trillion" as "at least $20 trillion and probably closer to $30 trillion".
Here you can see the left wing ragness of the paper showing through:
Proposed tax cuts for the middle class account for nearly a third of that shortfall.
Equating tax cuts with loss of revenue is a classic error that marxist make. However, in this case you have to be careful about the definition of "middle class". A lot of people who are really middle class are redefined as "evil rich" and will never see a tax cut.
Here is a particularly scary part:
Deficits of that magnitude would force the Treasury to continue borrowing at prodigious rates, sending the national debt soaring to 90 percent of the economy by 2020
I have a difficult time even imagining what that really means, or maybe it is too frightening to think about.
These are "pretty" numbers in my opinion. They don't include stuff like huge increases in illegal immigration and people being taxed so much that they quit trying to earn more and start looking for ways to have a good lifestyle on less money. Published numbers like this from the government are almost always optimistic.
This is humorous:
Obama is convening a special commission to bring deficits down to 3 percent of the economy
The best thing the President could do to help the situation is resign, but I'll bet that won't be one of the recommendations.
The hilarity continues:
Other policy changes, such as Obama's signature health-care initiative and a plan to dramatically expand the federal student loan program, would have significant effects on the budget, Elmendorf wrote, but they generally would be paid for and therefore would not drive deficits higher.
What kind of drugs are these people taking!? Is this Elmendorf character serious? Does anyone actually think that the socialized medicine plan "would be paid for and therefore would not drive deficits higher"?
This reminds me of a Three Stooges episode. The relevent part starts about 8:40.
I feel like the government is blowing more holes in the bottom of this sinking ship to let the water back out. I don't think it's going to work.
Maybe it's old news but I've seen a huge increase in the last few months. I commute about 45 miles each way to work. From when I started this commute 10+ years ago up until the last year or so I would see police running radar once or twice each year. Usually one state patrol and one county sheriff or small town police.
For the last two months I've seen at least one LEO per week running radar. Three this week already.
I knew a woman once who raised cattle with her husband. They had a bull and described it as "one of the family" and treated it like a pet. Great. Fine. My advice, though, was "Don't turn your back on it and don't ever let your guard down." She laughed. I've lost touch with her and don't know if she or her husband were ever injured or killed by any of their 1000+ pound "pets" or not.
Here is a guy that seems to have let his guard down and paid the price.
From the article:
"The poor man, he loved his animals," (Deputy Coroner) Straka said. "They were his pets."
The guy forgot that large animals can easily kill or maim you, on purpose or by accident. I know a guy that raises cattle and he was almost killed when a cow suddenly moved sideways and pinned him against a fence in his feedlot and almost squished him through the fence. He wasn't sure if she was pushed out of the way by a more aggressive cow or if she decided to scratch herself on the fence. Either way he could have ended up badly injured or killed. After that he decided to always carry a cattle prod with him when he worked in a close area with his cattle.
Be especially cautious if an animal is injured or is a mother with little ones. Mothers sometimes decide they don't want you too close to their young and a cow or pig is big enough to do something about it.
When my dad was a boy he went with his dad to pick up a bull. Grandpa towed an open-top cattle trailer over to the place behind his car and backed the trailer up to a chute so they could load the bull. My dad will playing in the back seat of the car. At first the bull decided that he didn't want to go into the chute. That provided some moments of excitement for Grandpa and the seller, but since my dad was inside the car my grandpa wasn't worried about him. Finally, after some effort on the part of the men the bull decided he would go into the chute after all. He was so enthusiastic that he charged through the chute onto the trailer and then jumped over the front end of the trailer and onto the trunk of the car.
My dad recommends against sitting in the back seat of a car when a bull jumps onto the trunk. Of course if the bull had covered a few more feet in the air before he landed then I might not be here to type this drivel.
The moral of the story: Barnyard animals are unpredictable.
It doesn't matter if you think they are pets. They can still kill you.
What exactly are the soldiers guarding? Are they there to make sure that the property owners don't try to prevent people from taking things that don't belong to them?
From the article:
Eduardo Aundez, a Spanish professor, watched with disgust as a soldier patiently waited for looters to rummage through a downtown store, then lobbed two tear gas canisters into the rubble to get them out.
That soldier was really doing a great job of guarding there, wasn't he?
More:
A dusk-until-dawn curfew has been imposed in Concepcion after looters sacked virtually every market in a city stricken by Saturday's massive earthquake.
There's nothing like closing the barn door after the horses have all gotten out.
In times of disaster you are truly on your own.
If you have supplies stored they may be destroyed or you may not be able to reach them.
If you are a store owner you are screwed and are dependent on an insurance company to cover your losses.
If you work for an insurance company then you are screwed because nobody will stop the looters and you will have huge claims to pay when it is all over. Don't even think about raising your rates afterwords or the whole world will declare you the bad guy and congress will subpoena you to testify as to why you are so evil as to actually try and make a profit.
