“Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured… but not everyone must prove they are a citizen.”
Now add this, “Many of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.”
-Ben Stein
Trust me, ladies and gentlemen, there are people who are completely unable to understand the above quote whatsoever.
BZ
From CNN:
(CNN)– Sen. Harry Reid said nothing of his earlier claims that Mitt Romney had not paid taxes over a ten-year span in a Friday statement joining Democrats in responding to Romney’s release of tax-related documents on Friday.
The Nevada Democrat and Senate majority leader called Romney’s accounting “galling” and said the documentation “reveals that Mitt Romney manipulated one of the only two years of tax returns he’s seen fit to show the American people – and then only to ‘conform’ with his public statements.”
Though Romney:
- In 2011, the Romneys paid $1,935,708 in taxes on $13,696,951 in mostly investment income.
- The Romneys’ effective tax rate for 2011 was 14.1%.
- The Romneys donated $4,020,772 to charity in 2011, amounting to nearly 30% of their income.
- The Romneys claimed a deduction for $2.25 million of those charitable contributions.
- The Romneys’ generous charitable donations in 2011 would have significantly reduced their tax obligation for the year. The Romneys thus limited their deduction of charitable contributions to conform to the Governor’s statement in August, based upon the January estimate of income, that he paid at least 13% in income taxes in each of the last 10 years.
So according to Reid and the Demorats, Leftists, Religion Left and DEM/MSM, Romney is a tax cheat and a manipulator because he didn’t release enough documents or because he gave them what they wanted. Romeny can’t win either way.
Say, this wouldn’t be any kind of a purposeful election-time ploy, would it — ?
BZ
P.S.
Harry Reid, where are your tax records? What’s been your source of millionaire’s income?
First, the video from what was thought to be a private fundraiser in May of this year:
The DEM/MSM is taking this video from Mother Jones viral today, and every organ that can write, broadcast, bleat or whine is opining on its content. The DEM/MSM is saying that Mitt Romney kissed half of the electorate goodbye in the video.
Sadly, in my estimation and that of others, what Romney said tends to be the truth. The additional truth is that people don’t care to have their greed placed quite so bluntly on Front Street. Makes them uncomfortable, you see.
The truth is — again — that too many Americans on numerous levels simply want:
The DEM/MSM is going to ensure that Romney’s video is in the forefront 24/7 for at least the next week, minimum.
That said, since any campaign involves a war of words, historically, everything is up for grabs. If Romney’s words bear examination, I submit that Mr Obama’s words are also up for critical examination — in terms of “I actually believe in redistribution.”
This, of course, isn’t a fabrication on my part. I’m not nearly so technologically facile as those who know me realize.
And allow me to state the obvious with regard to “earned success,” which is to what Mr Romney refers. From Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute:
People take pride in success, in doing things for themselves. This is the foundational point of Conservatism. In three words: Free Cheese Corrupts.
Question: is this Romney’s proverbial “death knell”?
“Socialism always promises happiness, and delivers misery.”
– Arthur Brooks
I could not possibly have said it better.
BZ
Here is a photograph:
What is this? It is: “Just after midnight Saturday morning, authorities descended on the Cerritos home of the man believed to be the filmmaker behind the anti-Muslim movie that has sparked protests and rioting in the Muslim world.”
What is this? It is: The look of our very cherished First Amendment being abrogated.
Whereas — at first glance — you would believe that these First Amendment abrogators are members of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, the truth is actually up a level.
This man — not a particularly ethical or wise or insightful man — is a Coptic Christian. I suspect he created the video because his kind has been historically slaughtered in the Middle East at the behest of violent Muslims. And I suspect he’d had enough. Which resulted in his video. He managed to escape from Egypt and took his history with him.
On the other hand, he’d somehow come into contact with the federal law enforcement system in terms of various financial fraud counts. And let there be no mistake: evidently convicted.
Therefore, he was on “federal probation.”
From the UKDailyMail.com:
After arriving at his home just after midnight deputies escorted Nakoula to an awaiting car and he was taken to the station where he was questioned over his involvement in the film production which has been blamed for the mass protests across the Middle East which resulted in the death of four American citizens on Wednesday.
Convicted of $800,000 worth of bank fraud in 2010, Nakoula, who is suspected of using the alias Sam Bassil during the production of the controversial film was released on the condition that he did not access the internet or use aliases.
And here are the details. The details you won’t read quite so conveniently in the DEM/MSM.
I know this on two levels: First, having worked for two federal law enforcement entities, and Second, having currently seen and experienced the complete and total incompetence of the federal probation system.
Most recently, a deputy with my department was savaged — and his wife and two children — in a rural community by a white male on federal probation. He played loud music, smoked dope, sped on local roads, told my deputy he knew he was a cop and would take him down, threatened his wife and children, and wholly did what he wished when he wished. Further, he posted his own behaviors and photographs on various social media networks. To include the photographs of dope and tattoos and gangs and crimes.
With nary a peep from his federal probation officer.
Further, let me add the obvious: the offender had a black female PO, and my deputy was a white male. You cannot tell me that the indifference of the offender’s PO didn’t include race, on two levels: her white probationer, and the problems of a white male complainant. Further: a white male complainant as a LEO, having the temerity to challenge her veracity.
Two white males contesting each other: sounds like “no problem” to a black female PO.
Therefore, I know the massive inefficacy of the federal probationary system. It simply reeks.
With that in mind, I would submit that the LASO was contacted by local federal authorities and asked to coordinate the detention of Nakoula. On the pretext of a potential federal probationary violation. Because federal authorities don’t do anything without a warrant or political support. There is no such general concept as a “fresh arrest.”
That said, LASO knew that Nakoula was a hot point. They didn’t want to be the agency responsible for the death of the man if assaulted in their detention. They didn’t want Nakoula killed whilst in their custody. Hence the large force.
Therefore the midnight extraction and the large number of LASO deputies present.
Two points federally:
– Nakoula was targeted for a very PUBLIC extraction because they wanted his name and address and point of contact to be in the public domain;
– They wanted him to be the focus of Islamic hate, and not Mr Obama.
By running the man into the public media, they made him an eliminational target 24/7.
It’s all bullshit.
Because there were multiple agendas going on here.
The LASO acquiesced to the midnight heist because they believed they were assisting the feds with a potentially-violent situation
The district AUSA got a call in the middle of the night telling him to put a lid on it. “Threatened,” would be more likely. “Just handle it,” is what he would have been told.
The federal government wanted to take the film down on YouTube. Google, oddly enough, resisted this force.
In this case, Google was completely correct.
Now you know the truth.
BZ
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