Where's the benefit...

They're tired of Bush being in the running for the Greatest Doof of All Time?

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Then they can celebrate not only out Doofing him by several orders of magnitude but getting there 7 times faster.

These are politicians we are talking about. They do not do it to benefit the country, only themselves. For the destination of any benfit going, look in their pockets.

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It is an invitation for them to pass a similar statement about our genocide of the Amerinds. We need to admit this, but cannot bring ourselves to do it, so we are motivating them to do it for us. The difference between their genocide and ours, is that their present government was not responsible but ours was.

Horse pucky. Do you think our present government bears any resemblance to our government back then?

Our present government can't even kiss its own ass without apologizing... when the Democrats gain power it will be the beginning of the end... much like that of the Roman Empire :-(

...Jim Thompson

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It's an insult to the Roman empire even to analogize this deluded mass of descendants of pig farmers, hucksters, and murderers who haven't won a significant military victory in the past 65 years. However there are some similarities germane to our demise, the main one being obsession with material wealth and the belief that anything can be bought. The Romans too used a mercenary military and bribery of potential foes to buy themselves a few years of vapid security, but that ended real fast. Then there is the problem of thoroughly, criminally, corrupt and incompetent, if not insane, leadership, things like electing a very low quality, effete, draft dodger as President.

According to Noam Chomsky - whom Jim Thompson ought to take seriously, since he is on the academic staff at MIT - the current U.S. administration has a great deal in common with the administrations who dealt less than fairly with the American Indians.

Regan's administration certainly looks like a better candidate for the beginning of the end - the US balance of payments deficit went decisively negative during that administration, and has never recovered since. They also started a process of moving the tax load from the rich to the poor which still seems to be continuing, and isn't doing anything for the social stability of the country.

Jim is - of course - notoriously out of touch with reality, to the extent that he fears that the Democrats might reverse these trends.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

The Dems? Surely they are just slightly to the left of Maggie Thatcher :-)

But without her Balls

Martin

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84.6% of taxes are paid by the top 25% of earners The top 50% of earners pay 96.7% of the taxes The top 1% of earners pay 36.8% of the taxes Source; Latest tax year released by the Internal Revenue Service

That looks like 75% of the taxpayers only pay 15.4% of the tax burden. What can we do to speed up that -process- Reagan started, seems so unfair now. Mike

Why is Slowman so ignorant? I think it's ignorance that gets us into socialism... totally out-of-touch and living in a dream world.

...Jim Thompson

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Now post the wages those brackets earn. And you'll see the shift.

There are people out there earning 1,000 x the minimum wage, and paying less taxes per dollar earned than those who make minimum wage. Oh, and with the grossly inflated compensation packages, they still manage to pay more in taxes. This isn't a call to reduce their taxes, but to reduce the absurd astronomical compensation paid to a few. A CEO who earns a $400,000 bonus on top of his salary as his company files for bankruptcy isn't really doing the shareholders any good.

It depends upon if you believe in freedom of speech. The bill is not only about events that happened 92 years ago but about events that are happening today.

Here is a quote from a BBC article on this topic:

"In Turkey, the penal code makes calling "for the recognition of the Armenian genocide" illegal. Writers and translators have been prosecuted for attempting to stimulate debate on the subject."

The full article is at:

When a country makes even discussing history a crime then those who believe in freedom of speech should not be quiet.

Here is another article upon a Turkish journalist who was murdered because he wrote about the genocide:

Oh, you mean like the Patriot Act and the DMCA? :-)

Sounds like a waste of time. Now if the historians want to establish the truth, that's a different matter.

It does have similarities with pursuing WW2 war criminals who must now be at least 80 years old.

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Bill Sloman wrote:

That's a myth. What makes you believe it?

James Arthur

There you go. Jim can't even spell my name right and he still thinks that he can berate me for ignorance.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Thompson should be derated for ignorance.

Sloman is so-o-o-o-o ignorant he couldn't see that I spelled it that way on purpose... you know SLOW-man ;-)

Democrats, AKA leftist weenies, are easily recognized by their Klein-bottle-like body shape... formed from shoving their head up their own ass ;-)

...Jim Thompson

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At least one big difference: the 80 year old war criminal is the one who committed the crime.