What Happened To Our Country?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Romney has stock. stockholders own the company. the company makes profit. the profit belongs to the stockholders. THE FEDERAL GOVERMENT TAKES 30% of the profit (stockholders income) before any of it is given to the stockholders. THEN THEY TAX IT AGAIN at 15%. an effective 40% tax rate. people are so stupid.

I make a dollar, and pay my income tax on it. Then I pay my phone bill AND IT'S TAXED AGAIN. Then the phone company has it, AND IT'S TAXED AGAIN. Then the phone company gives its stockholder a dividend, AND IT'S TAXED AGAIN!!!111!!!

It's total insanity! Where's the double jeopardy protection for our currency?! The only reasonable solution is to record the serial number of every bill as it is taxed the first time, to ensure that it is never taxed again. Are ya with me?!

And the next time your president wants to start a couple of unnecessary wars, we can count on you to make a generous donation, right?

[Anonymous]

OP, I think people were always this uninformed. We didn't "become" this way. Sad but true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Romney has stock. stockholders own the company. the company makes profit. the profit belongs to the stockholders. THE FEDERAL GOVERMENT TAKES 30% of the profit (stockholders income) before any of it is given to the stockholders. THEN THEY TAX IT AGAIN at 15%. an effective 40% tax rate. people are so stupid.

I make a dollar, and pay my income tax on it. Then I pay my phone bill AND IT'S TAXED AGAIN. Then the phone company has it, AND IT'S TAXED AGAIN. Then the phone company gives its stockholder a dividend, AND IT'S TAXED AGAIN!!!111!!!

It's total insanity! Where's the double jeopardy protection for our currency?! The only reasonable solution is to record the serial number of every bill as it is taxed the first time, to ensure that it is never taxed again. Are ya with me?!

Right and let's make money out of thin air because once I get my salary and pay taxes nobody should ever have to pay tax on that money again. Not the supermarket, or the gas station, or the department store I spend it at. Hmmmm, so only people who get newly printed bills should have to pay taxes and then everyone else will just go free.

[Anonymous]

Corporations are people too.

[Anonymous]

RE: What Happened To Our Country?

I heard something a long time ago that I can't get out of my head. By rule, the average IQ is 100. That's how the tabulation works. So if you realize that half of the adults who are working, voting, walking around, driving, commenting on articles online, have an IQ below 100, the world makes more sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think our country heading back to the bad old days of the 1800's. Pretty soon you will either be the home owner upstairs or the servant downstairs.

We have that now. 1% are the home owners who own practically everything. 99% are the servants who serve and owe the 1% directly or indirectly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think our country heading back to the bad old days of the 1800's. Pretty soon you will either be the home owner upstairs or the servant downstairs.

We have that now. 1% are the home owners who own practically everything. 99% are the servants who serve and owe the 1% directly or indirectly.

I am unclear about the point you are making, but just to set the record straight, our home ownership rate is 67%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think our country heading back to the bad old days of the 1800's. Pretty soon you will either be the home owner upstairs or the servant downstairs.

We have that now. 1% are the home owners who own practically everything. 99% are the servants who serve and owe the 1% directly or indirectly.

I am unclear about the point you are making, but just to set the record straight, our home ownership rate is 67%.

The homeowners is a metaphor for the 1% of the wealthiest Americans. The servants downstairs is a metaphor for the 99% who are working class or poorer, not in the 1%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Corporations are people too.

They are actually. You can even execute them. See, e.g. Arthur Andersen (a corporation, not a person).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think our country heading back to the bad old days of the 1800's. Pretty soon you will either be the home owner upstairs or the servant downstairs.

We have that now. 1% are the home owners who own practically everything. 99% are the servants who serve and owe the 1% directly or indirectly.

I am unclear about the point you are making, but just to set the record straight, our home ownership rate is 67%.

The homeowners is a metaphor for the 1% of the wealthiest Americans. The servants downstairs is a metaphor for the 99% who are working class or poorer, not in the 1%.

It's a really clumsy and poor metaphor. Then again, messaging has never exactly been OWS's strength.

This is still the United States of America, not a feudalistic Downton Abbey.

[Anonymous]

Most people in the US are not very intelligent. Go to any Walmart and just observe.
I blame laziness and our school system.

[TheManWithAUsername]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Romney has stock. stockholders own the company. the company makes profit. the profit belongs to the stockholders. THE FEDERAL GOVERMENT TAKES 30% of the profit (stockholders income) before any of it is given to the stockholders. THEN THEY TAX IT AGAIN at 15%. an effective 40% tax rate. people are so stupid.

I make a dollar, and pay my income tax on it. Then I pay my phone bill AND IT'S TAXED AGAIN. Then the phone company has it, AND IT'S TAXED AGAIN. Then the phone company gives its stockholder a dividend, AND IT'S TAXED AGAIN!!!111!!!

It's total insanity! Where's the double jeopardy protection for our currency?! The only reasonable solution is to record the serial number of every bill as it is taxed the first time, to ensure that it is never taxed again. Are ya with me?!

Right and let's make money out of thin air because once I get my salary and pay taxes nobody should ever have to pay tax on that money again. Not the supermarket, or the gas station, or the department store I spend it at. Hmmmm, so only people who get newly printed bills should have to pay taxes and then everyone else will just go free.

That was me, accidentally not signed in. I was being - y'know - sarcastic.

Anonymous wrote:It's a really clumsy and poor metaphor. Then again, messaging has never exactly been OWS's strength.

Ho, ho, ho! Except I kinda doubt anyone posting here is part of OWS.

And you're one of those dense people would had trouble understanding that OWS was communicating their dissatisfaction with economic oligarchy?

Anonymous wrote:This is still the United States of America, not a feudalistic Downton Abbey.

The 1% live in gated communities with private security, attend separate schools, shop in different stores (and towns), eat different food. If you are at the 50th percentile, you could easily go a year w/o encountering a 1-percenter. Looks like a pretty good metaphor to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Corporations are people too.

They are actually. You can even execute them. See, e.g. Arthur Andersen (a corporation, not a person).

Was the Lehman Brothers takedown a serial kill then?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Corporations are people too.

They are actually. You can even execute them. See, e.g. Arthur Andersen (a corporation, not a person).

Was the Lehman Brothers takedown a serial kill then?

Frankly, that was a suicide. The government just brought that body to the morgue.

[Anonymous]

In my opinion, our country is dangerously incapacitated by strident ideologies and therefore unable to deal with urgent issues. The reason this situation has arisen is multi-factorial. Off the top of my head, I would blame

A. Poor education system that is underfunded and controlled by vested interests and/or sold out to commercial interests.

B. Media hyping of celebrity over accomplishment,

C. "Fair and Balanced" news media that feel it is necessary to give equal time to opposing opinions, even if the opposing opinion is both marginal and factually incorrect.

D. News media funding cutbacks/24-7 news cycle that relies on opinion or biased-fact providers rather than journalism and that permit factual inaccuracies to go unchallenged and uncorrected (see C., above).

E. Religions that reject science in favor of a belief in magic.

F. Racism, prejudice

G. Corporate greed and the devaluation of altruism and modesty (see B., above).

H. Loss of a sense of community, especially as children grow up and move away to other places and lose their sense of a home community

Any other ideas?