Archive for the ‘Budget’ Category
Friday, August 11th, 2006
While the British terror suspects were hatching their plot, Dubya continued his winning ways by trying to divert $6 million planned for developing new homeland explosives detection technology.
Atta boy George. Way to fight those "terrists".
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Posted in Budget, Current Affairs, General, Gonzo's Grab Bag, Homeland Security, IDIOT, Politics, World News | 26 Comments »
Friday, July 28th, 2006
Boy, this Bush economy is really spreading the wealth around, at least for Big Oil and the Military-Industrial complex.
Third quarter reports show ExxonMobile reaping record profit levels, raking in over $10 Billion in profit in the third quarter alone. Since the costs of extracting, refining, and delivering crude oil has ...
Posted in Budget, Current Affairs, Economics, Homeland Security, Military, Politics | No Comments »
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
Strong for who?!
George W Bush has been making statements about the strength of the economy again. This time they used the old corporate trick of predicting a poor quarter and then bragging about how well the economy has improved based on their over inflated prediction. What they don’t say is ...
Posted in Budget, Economics, General | 22 Comments »
Monday, July 10th, 2006
Seems like fighting the War Against the Evildoers and keeping the lights on at our Army posts at the same time is just too much to ask for. Oh well, just another sacrifice that our soldiers and their families will have to make while the rest of us keep shopping ...
Posted in Budget, Current Affairs, General, Military, Politics | 10 Comments »
Friday, June 23rd, 2006
While the GOP attempts to cut, more like gut, the Estate Tax, they fail to give a raise to the poorest workers in the country by raising the minimum wage, afflicting the afflicted. While the move to kill the Estate Tax cut was killed in the Senate, the House ...
Posted in Budget, Economics, Quickie | 3 Comments »
Monday, June 12th, 2006
...that must be the new GOP Motto. During the last six years of the Clinton Administration, the Federal Government spent an average of $4 billion per year in "supplemental appropriations"; basically "extra-budgetary" spending. Since 2001 the "fiscal conservatives" who hold the reigns of power have spent over $577 ...
Posted in Budget, Quickie | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
Come on righties, wake up. The Estate Tax only affects 1% of our population and yet we see the GOP trying really, really hard to repeal it. The repeal would cost around $1 Trillion (that's with a T) over the first decade. This decade, when many boomers ...
Posted in Budget, Politics, Quickie | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
Looks like the GOP is once again going to raise the Debt Ceiling while at the same time extending tax cuts. When Dear Leader took (I mean took) office the Debt Ceiling was at $5.95 trillion, but if Congress gets their way the new Debt Ceiling will be close ...
Posted in Budget, Quickie | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, April 12th, 2006
Currently 1/3 of Federal revenue comes from the Income Tax while the other 2/3 is generated from tariffs, excise taxes and property taxes. Before 1913, there was no such thing as an income tax which means that for the first 126 years of the Republic, we got along just ...
Posted in Budget, Politics, Quickie | 13 Comments »
Wednesday, April 5th, 2006
I guess it really didn't take an analysis to know that cuts in Investment Taxes favor those who invest most, and yes, that would be the wealthiest Americans. People with incomes greater than $1 million (which represent 0.1% of all taxpayers) saw relief averaging about $41,400 each with the ...
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