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"Being for smaller government puts me on a terrorist watch list, according to Homeland Security. So be it. I prefer liberty to slavery."

You have evidence of this? Perhaps you have requested said watch list under the Freedom of Information Act and circled your name?

Rosa Klebb has pretty much put anyone who hasn't boarded the little messiah's ship of fools on her watch list...

Including our military.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/16/politics/main4949158.shtml

BTW Ed, the words terrorist and war on terrorism no longer exist.

The war on terrorism is now called an "overseas contingency operation". I never liked the former term anyway, it should have been War on Radical Islam.

Mr. Preson, unions are not part of corporations. They are independent organizations that perform collective bargaining with corporations for fair wages and safe working conditions for the corporation's workers.

While the fortunes of a corporation and a union can be closely tied together (GM, Chrystler), the union has no say in how the company is run, or what political candidates the corporation chooses to support. Unions are supported through member dues, not government bailout funds.

So your proposal regarding unions would be thrown out as Unconstitutional.

But in fact the whole thing is unconstitutional as corporations do have free speech rights, and the right to lobby and participate in the political process. They don't lose that right just because they get TARP money any more than the guys getting food stamps do.

" It will be illegal to make political contributions to any elected official or political party"

" It will be illegal for any elected official or political party to receive contributions "

Now there's change we can live with!

Add this to the restrictions:

ONLY individuals allowed to contribute to any campaign. No organization, groups, unions, corporations of any kind will be allowed to contribute OR if they do, they have the exact same limit as any individual, i.e. $2500 and the amount donated is deducted from the amount the members are allowed to donate.
Allowing groups to donate is just a way for people to get around the limits by giving the money to a group and having the group give the money to a candidate.
Corporations cannot contribute, period. Same logic as above. Note that the vast, vast, majority of corporate contributions come from non-American corporations.
Also, companies not owned and headquartered in the US should not be allowed to lobby. Currently most lobbyists are employed by corporations or their front groups whose offices are outside of the United States.
Why do Republicans support foreign corporations getting US tax dollars and then complaining when some US worker, unemployed because one of the foreign companies moved his job to China, gets three weeks of unemployment benefits?

A final question for the Fox Newsers out there: who pays more taxes, me or Fox News? Answer: me. Fox moves most of its revenue off shore to avoid paying taxes to the nations that provides 90% of their revenues, choosing instead to create "152 subsidiaries in low-tax or no-tax countries" outside of the US so that they can reap the benefits of US services at your expense. In other words, they are worse than any illegal alien who at least has wage taxes and FICA deducted against his illegal social security number. Yet Republican sheep flock to them and call them patriots. I call them traitors, thieves ad liars.

Who hires a larger proportion of American Citizens relative to their workforce, me or Fox News? (I employ 27 people, all US Citizens). Fox News is a large supporter of the H1-B visa program which brings in foreign workers even when the US unemployment rate is about 10%. Their goal is to reduce American wages and bring in foreigners to take our jobs. But Republican sheep lap up every bit of anti-American drivel they spew in front of their flag graphics.

Here is a link to FOX News hiring foreigners instead of Americans:

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Visa-Sponsor/FOX-News-Channel/203540.htm

Note that the number mentioned does not include contractors. The vast majority of their contractors are foreign (~95%). Is this the Republican idea of "pro-American"?

neocon, dan: I wait anxiously to read your "right-wing" responses to Vereise's comments re the great "right-winged" FOX. Please say something!

Zzzzzzzzzzz....

"152 subsidiaries in low-tax or no-tax countries"

I found a Wiki link with the exact wording in a Google search:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Corporation

Are they breaking any laws verelse?

I would venture to guess Bill O'Reilly alone (throw Hannity in too if you wish) pays more taxes than you and your 27 employees combined. No insult intended, I find what you do remarkable as I'm self-employed and have no desire to have employees. Too many govt. regulations ;-)

News Corp. was founded in Australia, read the article. They are located around the world so I'm not surprised they have subsidiaries in other countries.

I have no idea what this has to do with this letter, but if you wish.

Truman: goshZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZgosh

Dan, with hope 'n change turning out to be such a dud, and since it's hard to make the connection between Bush and the little messiah's 'generational theft', the leftists has got to unload on someone/something they connect to conservatism. A stretch, I know, but it's all they're left with, with Nirvana falling through and all...

I'd say Fox news pays no taxes at all, their advertisers pay them to sell their products...products that we, the consumers purchase and pay the advitisers' tax. It ain't rocket science.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzz.....

I don't know why verelse got into Fox News not paying taxes Neo, normally he is more balanced, it seems from their competitor that many other firms don't pay taxes either:

http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/12/news/economy/corporate_taxes/

This is the kinda stuff that gives JDR heartburn. Who can blame them? This country taxes too much.

Speaking of Fox News, Hannity just showed a recent Obama speech with a teleprompter malfunction. As soon as the thing went down, he went silent and started stuttering. Pitiful. Too soon to be on Youtube.

Forgot the goshzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzgosh for the lack of substance truman. I bet he buys and sews Canadian flag patches as well.

Dan,

The "Fox News" comment came from the ludicrous statement by the writer of the LTE: "Being for smaller government puts me on a terrorist watch list, according to Homeland Security."
It's one of those Fox "News" snippets that they couch as a question: "Homeland security puts gun owners on terror list?" so they can pretend not to be libelous. The writer revealed his sources so I attacked them.
I admit it was a rant, though. We all get frustrated with false info.

Neo:

I never look to politicians as a messiah, so have no disappointment in Obama. He is doing about 8% better than Bush. One step at a time. If we can get the next pres to do 8% better than Obama, sooner or later we will be better off. He shares many of the same problems that Bush had: Pelosi, Pelosi, Pelosi. And the economy.

The stimulus bill is 60% pork, but pork gets spent in the US as opposed to the hundreds of billions that Bush gave away to foreign governments and companies through AIG.

I would rather have no pork, of course. Spending on health care, if you look at it from a pro-American point of view, makes sense. Nearly 100% of your health care dollar goes directly to American businesses.

"He is doing about 8% better than Bush"

We're all entitled to our opinion.

Here's mine: He is a buffoon who is lost without a teleprompter being led around by the nose by far left loons like Rham Emanuel and David Axlerod who never met a communist they didn't like. And with the help of the left wing media He brushes it off, but He has been steeped in Chicago politics, arguably the most corrupt in the country, and has spent His life either paling around with or listening to America haters like Wright and Ayers. I'm also of the opinion that Fox News is drug through the mud by liberals because they dare to report these shennagians.

I have no problem with you, you have my respect as a veteran and a father of a member of the military. But I take exception with you painting anyone who watches Fox News ("Fox Newers") as brain dead uneducated buffons incapable of thinking for themselves.

Neocon:
"But I take exception with you painting anyone who watches Fox News ("Fox Newers") as brain dead uneducated buffons incapable of thinking for themselves."

You would be right to take exception. I watch Fox News myself. However, I take them at face value: that is a partisan media outlet. Most outlets these days have a bias in one direction or the other. It's why I take my news from multiple sources.

Fox began a few years ago to place sensationalistic news bits couched as "questions", such as "Nanci Pelosi from Outer Space? Hannity examines the evidence". This is clearly an exaggeration, but this sort of thing has no place on a news channel. The problem with these bits is people do not remember the question mark. Fox knows this.

There ARE a lot of people who read only what they want to believe, discounting everything else as propaganda. The writer's assertion that he is on DHS list because of his beliefs came directly from one of these Fox News "questions". I doubt most people would remember that they phrased it as a question and never "reported" that any such list exists. It's like Boortz assertions about "the Fairness Doctrine" or a stock analyst who constantly predicts a crash. Sooner or later something is going to come along and they will both be able to say "told you so".

I apologize if I went on a rant...I do that sometimes and then have to dig myself out of it.

But please understand that those of us who cannot stand the current crop of Republicans still want the best for the country. It does not make us socialists or communists or anything like that. I understand the frustration at getting your voice heard. Most media outlets lean fairly far to the left and conservative voices other than talk radio and Fox News are often shut out (go to any college campus for a taste of this). BUT that does not excuse Fox calling themselves a "News" channel then lacing the news with innuendo and opinion in order to feed an agenda.

Many people ARE sheep and get led by the nose by this or that politician or group. The Republican Party is being led by fear instead of leading by its ideas as it once did. Remember the Contract with America? That was the party leading by ideas instead of fear. You guys need to get rid of Cheney and the fear mongers. Let's operate from reason.

I will cease with the ranting already,

The current crop of republicans have no power. The change you longed for is here.

If Texas or Alaska do secede, I'll be tempted to hop across their border and bring my family with me to avoid the massive debt created for my great-grandchildren by this idiot. This does not make me a traitor.

The change I long for is not here. Representative Democracy is the change I hoped for.