The most disturbing factoid that I learned on Tax Day was that the average American must now spend a full twenty-four hours filling out tax forms. That's three work days. Or, think of it this way: if you had to put in two hours per night after dinner to finish your taxes, that's two weeks (with Sundays off). I saw a talking head economics professor on some Philly TV channel pontificating about how Americans procrastinate. He was laughing. The IRS guy they interviewed actually said, "Tick, tick, tick." You have to wonder if Governor Ruth Ann Minner and her cohorts put in twenty-four hours pondering whether or not to give Kraft Foods $708,000 of our State taxes while demanding that school districts return $8-10 million each?
“A market economy is to economics what democracy is to government: a decent, if flawed, choice among many bad alternatives.” -- Charles Wheelan, "Naked Economics"
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Anyone remember Cambodia? 2 million brutally killed under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge in 1977/78, and the United States did nothing.
The slaughter in Afghanistan, of mostly women and children, if we pull out too soon, will make Cambodia look like a walk in the park.
Scott Getty looks like he's got a nice young girl there. Wonder how he would feel if the Islamists invade the U.S. and force her to wear a burka from head to toe?
Hey, it's "non-interventionism" don't ya know???
Father of fallen Long Island Marine Lance Cpl. Gregory Buckley Jr. pleads to end war in Afghanistan
"'Get the rest of those boys out of there,' Buckley Sr. said. 'He had only four months left on his tour. There’s no purpose for us being there.'”
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/father-fallen-long-island-marine-lance-cpl-gregory-buckley-jr-pleads-war-afghanistan-article-1.1135077