The Breakfast Club - July 9, 2010

From a fellow (though not a 'fellow' in any way) BCer:
Candidate for picture of the year -

Online headline: "Secret Service confiscated twice as much counterfeit money as a year ago" -- Probably printed by the US as part of potUS Nero-bama's "economic surge plan". Now this is a surge that won't work!
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Before any of potUS Nero-bama's press team makes a spin on what's going on in policy or general White House business, the spokespersons should be required to be hooked up to a polygraph machine that is monitored by a video camera so we know what is the real truth versus what the spin is.
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potUS Nero-bama want a 1% consumption tax on all transactions made, even taking money out of your savings account to make another purchase. If potUS Nero-bama wants a new source of tax revenue, how about taxing legal fees, union dues, and political contributions, and all political campaign expenditures. In addition, all political campaign revenues not spent during a current election period should be turned in to the General Fund, rather than being held for future elections.
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Another glorious day at the beach. We walked west on Grayton/Blue Mountain beach yesterday morning for about a mile & a half, During this walk we saw 74 people supposedly working on the oil cleanup, but since there was no oil to clean up, we counted 54 of those people sitting around in tents doing nothing, or driving port-a-lets between the tents, and the balance walking around doing nothing...nothing except collecting a paycheck for doing nothing. If there was any oil cleaned up, it was from the gas driven carts and tractors pulling port-a-lets around to the clean-up crew. If there was any oil cleaned up, it probably was dripped from those vehicles' engines as they idled doing nothing. The crews that have been hired look like none have ever been to the beach in their lives before this job. There is no uniform for them, and the only things they wear in common are non-beach clothing, blue antiseptic gloves, and some sorta yellow bootie over their shoes (except for two who wore red booties - guess they were either management or rookies).
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If potUS Nero-bama truly wants to be a President of all the people, how come he only listens to 'his people", and he gives them jobs and powers by circumventing the input/confirmation of "our people"?
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Why is it, no matter at what level, that government has only one solution to economic woe, and that's to raise or add new taxes, despite the fact that no tax revenue increase seems to solve the problem of the constant decline of quality of government services?
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Online headline/story: "Breakdown: Queen Elizabeth's Budget Crunch * You know times are tough when even Queen Elizabeth II has to cut back. * While she's not exactly scraping by, reports have suggested she might be out of rainy day money by 2012 if her current spending habits continue." -- As Red Allen might have viewed it, there might be a taxpayer revolt in England and the US in 2012; 'how about that'!
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L-E headline/story: "Fountain City Midnight Basketball League tips off tonight * The league provides a comprehensive crime prevention program for males 17-25 years of age and females 15 and over." -- Doh? Doesn't throwing in 15 year old girls into an environment of 25 year old men create a crime scenario?
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I really feel sorry for the family of Kenneth Walker, primarily because they cannot, will not 'let go'. My next door neighbors 17 year old son died a couple of months ago in a tragic car wreck. He got into the back seat of a friends car for a ride home, and within the 2 mile ride, became victimized by the drivers decision to engage in a road race with another vehicle. Half way home, the driver lost control of the car, and hit a truck that crushed my neighbors' son. He was no more deserving to die than Kenneth Walker, but they suffered death because they made bad choices. I pray the Kenneth Walker family and their bitter 'friends' let go and seek peace with God. It's the same prayer I make for my neighbors.
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