Recent content by Bongulator

I don't hate government. I just hate those who use their position IN government to give money to the rich. Especially when that money originates with the poor. Government is a tool, and like any other, it can be used for good or evil. Getting 4 million children health care, that's good...

I've found plenty to like with Obama: 1) Speaks his native tongue very well. 2) Reversed Bush's pro-torture policy. 3) Started the process of withdrawing from Iraq. 4) Reversed Bush's pro-oil exploitation of our most cherished lands. 5) Cutting taxes for the poor and middle class. 6) Man...

The thing that Reagain did that really pissed me off was this: he killed three years of social security for me. (I was getting it because my mother died -- and she worked hard to leave me that.) What he did was, he made it necessary to be fulltime enrolled in college by April or May of 1982 if...

Ameros being shipped to China? Well, if you have THAT information, then surely you have a picture of the Amero from a reputable news site? Because if not, then you're blowing farts out of your mouth and nothing more. Conspiracy theory, yay. The 'hands-off' small-government...

If government revenues under Reagan increased so much, why did Reagan pass on an enormous debt burden to Clinton? Ah yes, because Reagan gave enormous tax cuts to the rich, while screwing over the poor. So, if there were greatly increased revenues, Reagan funneled it all to rich folks. It took...

What? getting captured, tortured, and then volunteering info to the enemy and betraying your fellow soldiers -- that shouldn't be questioned? What was the part that makes him an unquestionable hero? The betrayal part, the getting tortured part, the getting captured part? I'm a combat veteran...

I don't think he's promising a check. You'll just have a bigger check, because less taxes will be taken out of it. He's just letting those big rich-folks tax cuts that Bush passed expire for the rich folks, then redirecting that money back onto the middle class. Basically, we'll be going back to...

Some of his fellow prisoners didn't live, and some that did survive were minus a limb or two. Those people were/are the real heroes in the Story of John McCain.

Well, CASH doesn't vanish. Money does though. They're talking about doing a complete reset on credit default swaps, just wiping them off the books entirely. How much money is in swaps? Nobody knows, really, because there is no central clearinghouse for buying/selling swaps (nothing like a...

Heh, yeah, I'm quaking in my boots at the rich folks having to pay the same tax rate they did under H. W. Bush and Clinton. That just totally destroyed our economy. Oops, wait, no it didn't -- those were times of economic prosperity, and we were paying all our bills, and the Congressional...

Well, see, I disagree with that. He didn't have to tell his captors he was the son of an admiral. He *volunteered* that information, to get better treatment than his fellow soldiers. Maybe you think that's okay, but his fellow soldiers don't think much of him for doing that, and neither do I.

Unless you reduce the ambient temp of the room housing the tent, all the fans in the world are just going to be blowing hot air from one corner to another. The heat must be removed from the room, or else it will just build up. (I use that to good advantage in the winter -- I don't need to heat...

I think the rate should be lowered, even for oil companies. However, they need to address the loopholes so that what we say the rate is, is actually what is paid. Most small businesses pay nothing. (Large businesses can't loophole away such vast sums, so they do end up paying some.) But no...

We have a high BASE rate. But again, very few ever pay that. Most business pay a 0% rate, because of loopholes and deductions. I ran my own business for about a decade and paid no corporate taxes. It didn't even look like I'd pay any corporate taxes even if I made five million a year gross...

Here's a link, since you can't seem to be able to figure out how to use google: Local News | Windfall tax lets Alaska rake in billions from Big Oil | Seattle Times Newspaper If you want more, find them yourself. The relevant quote is: "ConocoPhillips said that in total, once royalty payments...