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Yeah, I think when Pelosi mentioned it, she meant it on top of existing sales, income, etc...taxes, not in place.

I think one big problem with healthcare and health insurance also is that it is so huge, we have to work at changing it one component at a time. You can't just try to fix the whole thing at once, it's too big. Another thing to remember is if we want European-style social service systems, we...

Yes, but it's well-regarded because in general one has to have done something of extraordinary caliber to get it. President Obama was nominated for it after he'd been in office for a few weeks, then selected for it while not having been President for even a year yet. That pretty much blows...

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Well when you're that rich, I don't think it matters a whole lot, however from what I have read, the 767 is pretty cost-efficient. I'll also get me a nice private helicopter and P-51 Mustang, along with some other WWII airplanes as well, if/when wealthy enough. Also one of these...

Hoping for the best, but I am not getting excited until they rule it's an individual right.

Sleek-looking aircraft, but if/when I get the $$$, I think I'll just spring for a Boeing 767. Not as slick-looking, I am guessing not as fast either, but very luxurious and roomy :)

You can speed it forward, just click along the progression bar thing or whatever it's called.

Why shouldn't a business owner be allowed to discriminate against a disabled person? The purpose of the business is to make a profit. No business owner should be forced to have to accomodate the disabled. If someone is truly disabled, that is what social programs are for.

Just wondering, so does this mean women cannot be nuclear officers who operate the reactor on surface ships either? Can female nukes only be instructors or whatnot?

Well there is truth to this to.

Russia is a nation responsible for some of the greatest art, architecture, music, literature, and philosophy in the history of the world. They are a great people in certain ways. And I believe under Catherine the Great, had some great prosperity. They also have a country with some of the most...

President Bush did not spend more than in World War II, we ran a deficit something like 2/3 of the economy at that time. And President Bush was not "conservative" in the fiscal sense, he was a compassionate conservative. Do you have any idea what the minimum wage is? It's a price control on...

I am no healthcare expert, all I know is that: 1) I highly distrust the government to manage anything as complex as healthcare when it is so monumentally complex 2) A public option will wipe out private insurance most likely, leading us to single payer, leading to enormous government control...

The debt is serviceable still, and a national debt that is reasonable can be a good thing. The key is to manage it will. The bad thing is when it gets to be too large. Ours is around I think 65% or so of GDP right now. Japan's is like 200%, and the European nations on average have larger debts...

You two are correct, I actually remember having read this some time ago; okay, lemme upgrade, then could one imagine us fighting the current wars without Abrams tanks:) I mean I am guessing we could, but it's always nicer to have the much better equipment. This is what I mean, I don't think...

I am no expert at all on this stuff, but isn't the F-22 also needed for situations for example if some third world country has some target in it that needs to be taken out, but said little country also has some sophisticated anti-aircraft missiles and radar that they have purchased from the...

My worry is that this "universal healthcare plan" will bankrupt the nation, will tank our healthcare, will give our government far more control, will drive the private insurance industry out of business, and will wreak havoc with the economy due to the amount of money they'll have to borrow to...

I would not call Iraq a failure, regardless of whether or not the initial strategies tried in Iraq were successful or not. Time will tell with Iraq.

The bold thing was a mistake actually, I don't know why I didn't even notice it here when I posted it, as that is A4sForever's signature way of posting, plus like you said I am not an authority figure here. I posted a similar post over at a different site and had posted it in bold, and...

HECK NO, I certainly am not. But no one can deny that the state was made great through economic liberalism (and in its heydey decent social liberalism), but since then has been over-run by the hardcore Left. I want it to return to the policies that made it great. Unions, environmentalism...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/22/opinion/22mathews.html?_r=1&ref=opinion http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124260067214828295.html As I see it, California is the prime example of what a failure the policies of the Left are (whether followed by Democrats or Republicans). Considering the...

Well that proves it folks, MARRIAGE IS TORTURE:):) Waterboarding I understand is excruciating, and if done by untrained people for too long, can result in lung damage and brain damage and so forth. But when done by trained professionals, with a doctor present, it does no mental or physical...

What is exceptional about them? And as far as I can see, Obama is making us look weak to the terrorists and giving them all the information they need to prepare for more capture. His notion that waterboarding "encourages recruitment" is one of the most insane things I've ever heard. Yeah, it...

The notion that the Fair Tax would be regressive and harm the poor is one of the biggest misconceptions about it. I forget the exact details, but they fully address all of this in the books and website. The other option is a 12% flat income tax with no loopholes and 12% flat corporate tax, no...

Regarding this 40% number, is it that 40% don't pay federal income taxes, but DO pay state, county, local, sales, property, etc...taxes, or 40% literally pay NO taxes at all?

Jonah Goldberg from National Review said this was a legit criticism of Fox News during a talk on Fox News over the weekend. Regarding the taxes, my big beef with when making $250K and over is that these are usually your high-earning professionals who work 60+ hours a week and who put...

Probably more time than I should :)

I don't think Greta is an anchor anymore, she does an opinion show too I believe. Greta I don't think was a headline speaker at any event either, was she? I remember she was one of the more skeptical ones about the tea parties even. As for the anchor, I can't watch the video at the moment...

Wouldn't go that far. The vile stuff that was spewed by the other networks I think took the cake for destroying any veneer of journalistic impartiality, with how openly biased they were. I don't remember Fox being openly for or against the tea parties, it was Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and Neil...

It is not the "wealthy." You bust your butt to make $250,000 or more a year, you aren't wealthy. You are just upper-middle class. You start making $5 million or more a year with a net worth $10 million and up and you're wealthy. Also it isn't a 3% increase, it is an increase of 4.6 percentage...

I meant the popular vote. I don't think the idea of the tea parties was to imply that today's political situation is the same as that in 1773 with an implication that rebellion is on the horizon. And I didn't see anyone crying for rebellion or to march on Washington. Just the idea of...

It wasn't about taxation or revoking the Bush tax cuts, it was about the out-of-control spending and borrowing that is occurring. There were of course your ultra-Libertarian types who didn't know what they were saying at these rallies (you listen to talk radio and they occassionally call in...

Yes, MSNBC had people on it saying some outright vile things. Then there was just the general tone of most of the media that these people were idiot right-wing redneck hacks, and so forth. O'Reilly and Hannity are not hateful in the slightest IMO, just critical. And as regards Obama, O'Reilly...

I hope these Tea Parties are the start of something, and not just a one-time thing, time will tell though. The political Left are very threatened I think by them, and the visceral hatred and snobbiness shown at them from much of the media I think was disgraceful. How DARE people exercise their...

Some say he's a trans-nationalist, others say that's just tinfoil-hat fears, so I don't know what to think; I figured I'd post the link and get opinions.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/03/31/obamas-appointment-koh-state-department-legal-adviser-stirs-controversy/

So what's this with Obama firing GM's CEO, I thought the President isn't supposed to have this power...? The President is not supposed to be able to fire a CEO of a private company, especially without any oversight like this. What does this mean for other companies? If any company has received...

The New York Subway system was originally privatized when it first began from my understanding, the reason the city took it over was because they enacted price controls with a price ceiling, preventing the subway company from raising the price beyond a certain point. However, with inflation, the...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aPa3d0C4ewdo&refer=home All this talk of "global" this and that has me concerned, especially with this administration, I do not like the idea of a new global currency as China and Russia are calling for and I do not like the idea of a new...

How can one be bi-partisan though if you disagree strongly with what the other side is proposing? If the country is in trouble, both sides do want to address the issues at hand, but both have different ideas for how to do it. One side wants to raise taxes, the other lower them. One side wants to...

Doesn't the majority of the stimulus plan's spending begin in 2010 and 2011...?

Smart Brit he is.

It just did under the Bush Administration. The Republicans spent crazy amounts of money, but the deficit still started shrinking around 2006-2007. What is not true is the claim that cutting taxes will always increase revenues. So yes, the Republican claim that "You cut taxes, you increase...

Not quite; they went down into the middle-class as well, and removed an additional ten to fifteen million off of the tax roles I believe; many of the individuals paying income taxes in the highest bracket are small businesses as well, which are who create the jobs. They also helped the U.S...

You know, I believe something like 40% of the labor force in Switzerland, a country reknowned for having a business climate friendly to free-enterprise, is unionized. Yet, in Switzerland, you don't see the unions and businesses clashing with each other the way they do in America. This is a good...

Electric cars are not the panacea many of the green types think of them to be either. I've read it's estimated our energy costs will triple in the ensuing decades in the United States alone; what do these greenies think will happen if we end up with say sixty million electric cars on the road...

American CEOs are paid so much likely because American corporations are the biggest and most productive in the world. When you get to the upper echelons, pay goes up exponentially. When you expect someone to be at the helm of a major corporation, you have to pay them accordingly. Same with...

There's blame both ways I think, however, I think the problem here is that these are public companies (although Chrysler just went private). The problem is with public companies, shareholders expect earnings and profits to increase every quarter. So long-term planning/growth may be difficult...

http://www.airshipventures.com/ - would be neat to fly in one of these. Hope they are successful.