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What is a tax cut?
by HT on Feb.04, 2009, under News & Politics
A lot of talk has been made recently about the economic “stimulus” plan that President Obama and the democrats have proposed. One of the things you’ll hear is that a large portion of the bill, about $275 Billion worth, is going to include tax cuts for 95% of Americans. If you have a good memory, which most Americans don’t, you’ll remember that President Oboma promised tax cuts to 95% of Americans on the campaign trail and that this policy helped him gain support across the country. What Senator McCain failed to articulate a few months ago and what the media is failing to indicate now is that a great portion of these so called “tax cuts” aren’t really tax cuts at all.
The Zomgee Bubble
by HT on Jan.28, 2009, under Humor, News & Politics, satire
During the past year Zomgee.com has had fairly steady posting and while we may not have updated as frequently as some may have preferred, the site was at least consistent. At the end of 2008 everything changed and the evil CEOs of Zomgee decided to get greedy and push for more and more posting. Expectations were set high, and the post volume increased likewise. The greed could only be fueled for so long and I’m afraid that over the last week we may have seen the Zomgee bubble burst. (continue reading…)
Inaugural Ideals
by HT on Jan.22, 2009, under News & Politics
Tuesday January 20th, 2009 was a day of historic proportions. Why? Because for the 44th time in our nation’s history we had a peaceful transfer of leadership. There were no riots, no assassination attempts, no military coup, and other than some rude behavior to our former president there was relatively little trouble at all the entire day. We should all stop and be thankful that we have such days. But Tuesday is over, and the time for action has begun. You see it’s our job to hold our elected leaders accountable for what they say and do, and now that President Obama is doing things I feel compelled to hold him accountable for them. (continue reading…)
Good News
by HT on Jan.14, 2009, under Humor, News & Politics
I am often the bringer of bad news, the harbinger of the horrible and the writer of worldly woes yet today I think we could all stand to hear some good news. No one wants to talk about how we’re poised to go into a period of record inflation, large scale job-loss, all kinds of new taxes, and more broken government programs. You don’t want to think about bailouts of everything under the sun, nor about how if you happen to live in California you’ll get an IOU rather than a tax-rebate, or if you’re in New York you’ll have dozens of new taxes added to your new year, or how if you live in South Florida your schools won’t be getting the money they use to get.
Don’t worry about the bad news, you’ll just get ulcers. Instead focus on the good things, like the nice weather we’re all having right now. I mean I’ve got my windows open and my shorts on. I know some people find it a little chilly but hey it’s not that bad. Walk outside at night and it’s a bit cool but otherwise it’s quite comfortable and there’s even a nice breeze right now. All in all when we’ve got nothing else, at least we we can be thankful for the weather. I hope all of you are enjoying it as much as I am because really if you don’t have this nice weather it’d be really easy to get down and depressed about the state of the world.
Pacifist War
by HT on Jan.08, 2009, under News & Politics
If you’ve been following the situation in Israel at all in the last few days you’ll realize that there’s a war of sorts going on between Israel and the Hamas militants in Gaza. I say militants because that’s what it seems the media wants you to think of them, a better term would be terrorists. Unfortunately I’m afraid if we called them terrorists then we might have to believe that Israel was doing the right thing in this situation.