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April 3rd, 2013, 03:27 AM | #181 | ||
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A terrifying number of Americans already vote that way.
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It says: in average including the lower middle-class your countryman are earning less; the higher middle-class got a moderate increase. But your 1 Percenter got an enormous increasing in their income. That's not only in your country! But (!!): a lot of deals were made in tax havens, using the infra structure of your country (Wall Street !!!) and paying no taxes. That's absolute legal !! I posted (for European issues) an example of Delaware, how this works. The principle for your country is identically, except the tax haven, of course. ------------------------------------- BTW: I have found pretty less in English of that "Global Braintrust" - meeting in San Francisco; can anyone confirm this ? I've got less response about ! I think this was an important political & economical milestone in strategies for the future (in a negative way), already some of it is fulfilled.
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Good and humanitarian intentions are wonderful but they should never cloud common sense and historical fact. Intelligence is so much more. Clinton had an uncanny ability to read people and make them feel comfortable, which some people say was a trait GWB also possessed. That is a form of intelligence but how do you quantify that. Andy Warhol, who is considered one of the greatest artists in history, supposedly only had an IQ of 86, but he is considered a genius in the artistic world. All of us are intelligent in some areas and complete idiots in others. The trick is to know what those areas are and stay out of the others. Something politicians just cannot seem to do. |
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Well to be fair the Madame Chairwoman of the Georgia GOP is half right.
I live in one of the highest concentrations of gay populations in the US, and I can tell you that access to health care was in fact one of the major points which started the gay marriage movement going forward. Gay couples found if one partner was HIV positive that healthcare was unobtainable, and because they were not married, that one frequently could not get healthcare through their partner’s employers. However now that the US has “Obamacare” everyone will be covered and pre-existing conditions will not be a bar to coverage. So the idea of marrying someone to just to get healthcare is nonsensical. Chances are being a Republican, this lady opposes Obamacare. Pick your poison, and be happy with it. And while we’re on the subject, much of the push for gay marriage in reality boils down to financial reasons, not equality. Many gays admitted as much to me. The Plaintiff in the case just heard by the Supreme Court on the DOMA sued because she didn’t want to have her Estate pay the required Estate taxes. Certain tax rates favor married couples. Gay partners would be able to receive additional benefits under the Social Security system if their marriages were recognized. The other reasons trotted out don’t hold water: My partner can’t inherit from me; Yes, they can. It’s called a Last Will and Testament. The only thing marriage will do for you is make impossible for you to disinherit your partner. I can’t make healthcare decisions for my partner; Yes you can. Designation of Healthcare surrogate. You can find the form online. Does not need an attorney. I can’t manage my partner’s property if something happens to them. Yes you can. It’s called Power of Attorney. All of the above are frequently drawn up even when the parties are married. The main consequence I can see is that if prohibitions against gay marriages are struck down as violating equal protection principles, is that once you do that there is not one reason in my mind why one could not have several wives. (BTW this precise point was brought up in the argument before the SCOTUS) Polygamy would be back. Mormons rejoice. And you couldn’t thump your Bible in protest, because there’s a whole lot of polygamy going on in those pages.
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