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A nation that forgets the
´70s will repeat it
Union Leader [Manchester, NH], by Amity Schlaes
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Posted By:nhchemist, 11/13/2012 4:36:28 PM
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| Do Americans suddenly like tax increases and bigger government? Or did they simply forget what happens when you raise taxes and make government larger? These are questions to ask as we analyze Tuesday´s election results to discern the fiscal consequences. Advocates of higher taxes prevailed in the presidential and legislative races, and resoundingly. (Snip) These votes suggest Americans are indeed looking at government and taxation differently.
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Comments:
Many writers have commented on the contradictions of voter´s political beliefs and their actual votes. Have we lost the ability draw logical conclusions from the facts presented?
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
curious1, 11/13/2012 4:51:56 PM (No. 9012068)
The ones aiding the vote cheating and supporting bigger government aren´t the ones who will be paying higher taxes. The morons will still suffer from the currency collapse, but they are, in a word, morons. Which is why morons (aka libtards) should be disenfranchised for the next 10 generations.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan, 11/13/2012 4:56:23 PM (No. 9012077)
The biggest difference between now and the 70´s is that Jimmy Carter didn´t steal his election with rampant vote fraud and we were able to correct the error with Ronaldus Magnus in 1980.
These days, with the collective efforts of TASS (aka the media), the me-gimme-mine´s and the terminally ignorant, as well as the criminal unions and their fraud machines, it would have taken a Reaganesque miracle to win this election.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 11/13/2012 4:59:48 PM (No. 9012089)
Oh. Schlaes is talking about the 1970s.
I was hoping the topic was the 1770s.
We´ll see, though...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
hardhead, 11/13/2012 5:03:03 PM (No. 9012093)
The 70´s aint nothin´ compared to what´s coming.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
nimby, 11/13/2012 5:29:34 PM (No. 9012135)
The loony bins in their 20s have no concept of 70s.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Heraclitus, 11/13/2012 5:37:39 PM (No. 9012156)
Think of how many voters weren´t even born in the 70s, or were toddlers, or were blotto.
People can´t remember three years ago, or 6 or 12. How many people remember the low unemployment days and economic growth of the so hated President Bush years?
Hate to harp on this, but people must be educated.
For the ancient Greeks thinking about education like they investigated everything else, saw the process of education as literally leading a person out of the darkness of ignorance into the light of knowledge.
Articles like Amity´s are important. But we´ve got to find ways of disseminating the information. one hopes
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Starlady, 11/13/2012 5:58:05 PM (No. 9012205)
How many voters voted GOP but their vote was changed after the fact by a reprogram of the computers? I have to admit I wondered if my vote would be counted TRUE to MY vote as I voted on Election Day. I would rather we go back to basics and write our votes on a piece of paper than wonder if SEIU has reprogrammed the votes to their candidate. I live in SW VA but I still felt threatened by the union voter fraud as I voted.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
dolphin, 11/13/2012 6:41:29 PM (No. 9012287)
Half of the country gets representation without taxation. We are now their slaves. If they want more they just pass laws to take it from us. How long we´ll take it is anybody´s guess.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Hobbiest, 11/13/2012 9:41:03 PM (No. 9012583)
If you haven´t read her The Forgotten Man, do so. This election was a replay of 1936 and the results will be the same- a worsening economy.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 11/14/2012 4:19:48 AM (No. 9012919)
The 70s was 40 years ago. Only the people who survived the 70s and are alive today remember it and those are dying off. Stupid is as stupid does if you want the Carter years back.
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Gun control has been driving the news this week, or at least the mail. In recent weeks readers have been encouraging me to dive into the morass. There is so much noise on this issue that I don´t know where to begin. (Snip) There are abundant gun laws on the books. If they were enforced and followed up we might be able to make a dent in gun violence. But laws don´t curb the lawless.
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Today the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis released their 2012 personal income estimates. Personal income is an important economic measure of a state’s well-being. (Snip) Since 1950, Maine has increased taxes and spending dramatically with the introduction of the sales tax in 1951 and the income tax in 1969. New Hampshire, on the other hand, did not. Increasing taxes on the private sector has two consequences. First, higher taxes will mean less money in the pockets of individuals and businesses which will reduce their ability to invest for the future.
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Many who march in the army of the president say that all they want is to return to the good old days when Bill Clinton rode the range and rich people paid their fair share of taxes. Back then, they say, all was good. In 2000, the top tax rate was 39.6 percent and there was a 2.9 percent Medicare tax on top of that. (Snip) This means that the top stated rate for taxes is now 43.4 percent — a rate that is higher than that paid in Clintonian times.
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Union Leader [Manchester, NH], by James A. Kimble
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Brentwood - A Portsmouth man received the maximum sentence for attempting to kidnap a woman as she got out of her SUV at a shopping plaza, and almost got ordered to pay for the gun she later bought to protect herself. James Perry, 37, was sentenced to 7½ to 15 years in state prison Thursday, drawing harsh words from Judge N. William Delker about the lifelong fear he imposed on the victim, Katherine Booth. "My only regret in this case is that I can´t sentence you to more than the maximum," Delker said. "You are a complete predator. ... You are a walking example of what society fears
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Posted By: nhchemist- 2/4/2013 10:05:30 AM
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The lesson is that huge budget deficits and ultra-low interest rates — the basics of stimulus — have limits and can be self-defeating. To use a well-worn metaphor: Stimulus becomes a narcotic. People feel better for a while, but the effect wears off. The economy then needs a new fix. Too many fixes may spawn new problems (examples: excessive debt, asset “bubbles,” inflation). That’s already happened in Japan. It’s caught in a trap. On the one hand, it needs stimulus to grow. On the other, the debt from past stimulus measures threatens future growth.
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Union Leader [Manchester, NH], by Ted Siefer
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The city´s designated emergency ambulance company, American Medical Response, has significantly increased its rates, prompting fresh complaints about large bills for trips to the hospital. Starting on Jan. 1, the company hiked its rates about 50 percent, charging $2,445 for a standard trip to the hospital. (Snip) AMR officials have said that it is forced to raise the rates it charges insurance companies to defray the costs of providing emergency service to those only covered by Medicare or Medicaid, as well as those who do not have insurance and cannot afford to pay.
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Union Leader [Manchester, NH], by Meghan Pierce
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/8/2013 6:56:50 AM
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North Korea’s young leader Kim Jong-un is waiting for United States President Barack Obama to make a phone call to Pyongyang to discuss easing tensions on the Korean peninsula, according to Russia’s news agency Itar-Tass. The report cited United Kingdom diplomats, saying Pyongyang was demanding the U.S. president personally call Kim Jong-un as one of the conditions to relieve the current conflict at hand. Itar-Tass also quoted the U.K.’s Sky News as saying North Korea currently has eight nuclear warheads.
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Beginning a week of high pressure on gun control, the White House on Monday accused some Republican senators of cowardice for planning to filibuster gun legislation without allowing the full Senate to vote on President Obama’s initiatives. “If they oppose this legislation, have the courage to say so on the floor and vote no,” said White House press secretary Jay Carney. “Don’t block it. Don’t hide behind a procedural action to prevent a vote. That’s the wrong thing to do, and that’s how the president clearly feels.”
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Annette Funicello, the dark-haired darling of TV´s “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the 1950s who further cemented her status as a pop-culture icon in the ´60s by teaming with Frankie Avalon in a popular series of “beach” movies, died Monday. She was 70. Funicello, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1987 and became a spokeswoman for treatment of the chronic, often-debilitating disease of the central nervous system, died at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, Walt Disney Co. spokesman Howard Green said. Funicello and her husband, Glen Holt, had moved from
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Chelsea Clinton has raised her profile in the last few days, which sparked the inevitable question about the former first daughter´s future: Will she ever be like Mom and Dad and run for office? Clinton, 33, essentially said "maybe" in an interview that aired Monday on NBC´s Today show. "Right now I´m grateful to live in a city, a state and a country where I strongly support my mayor, my governor, my president and my senators and my representative," said Clinton, whose father, Bill, was president from 1993-2001 and her mother, Hillary
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President Barack Obama is bringing 11 relatives of those killed in the shooting at Connecticut´s Sandy Hook Elementary School to Washington on Air Force One on Monday so they can personally encourage senators to back gun legislation that faces tough opposition. A nonprofit organization that works with the families, Sandy Hook Promise, said that after Obama´s speech on gun control in Hartford, he is flying with relatives of seven children and one staffer killed during December´s massacre at the school. The White House says Obama is going to argue that lawmakers have an
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Updated: White House, McCain
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Houston Chronicle, by Joanna Raines
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/8/2013 4:55:05 PM
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There was growing buzz over the weekend that a bipartisan agreement on gun control — a deal that would expand background checks — could hit the floor as early as this week. However, any deal could be derailed by the looming threat of a Republican filibuster involving Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. With Cruz standing proudly in the way of any gun legislation, Democrats are trying to make him pay a political price — and even a couple of high-profile Republicans are questioning his tactics.
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North Korea´s Army Is Full of Jumping,
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Atlantic, by Connor Simpson
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 4/8/2013 5:48:23 AM
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Amid all of the very real threats of war and stuff from North Korea, you´d think American intelligence officers want as much video footage of the enemy as possible. Well, here is one video featuring North Korean exercises and Kim Jong-Un holding a gun, and we´ll say this: they certainly get points for presentation. Remember the clap-happy report from Dennis Rodman´s diplomatic basketball vacation? This video comes courtesy of the same Youtube channel that gave us that Rodman video. It appears to be the same state news channel.(Snip for video)This latest dispatch from North Korea´s state television
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Gay Connecticut couple accused
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New York Daily News, by Erik Ortiz
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Posted By: Drive- 4/8/2013 8:52:23 AM
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The case of a same-sex Connecticut couple accused of repeatedly raping and abusing two of their nine adopted boys is headed for trial. Married couple George Harasz and Douglas Wirth of Glastonbury were supposed to be sentenced Friday in Hartford Superior Court under a plea deal, but instead withdrew from their agreement with prosecutors. The men had already pleaded no contest in January to one felony count each of risk of injury to a minor — a reduction from even more serious charges related to sexual assault....
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