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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img class="left-image" title="Obama E. Neuman" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/obama-neuman.jpg" alt="Obama E. Neuman - What, Me Worry?" width="150" height="220" />Many Americans believe that Obama has had few, if indeed any, meaningful successes of his own during what has been passed off as his presidency so far. Contrariwise, many Liberals have and will continue to present a laundry list of the boy's supposed "wins."

While the drivel spilling from the maws of the Obama Regime, its remaining cultists, and the Liberals is laughable, it's not fair to call Obama a <em>total</em> failure. It's not all bogies, double bogies, and triple bogies on Obama's scorecard and not every success was the result of a Mulligan.

There's one area where Obama has more than made par...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="left-image" title="Obama E. Neuman" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/obama-neuman.jpg" alt="Obama E. Neuman - What, Me Worry?" width="150" height="220" />Many Americans believe that Obama has had few, if indeed any, meaningful successes of his own during what has been passed off as his presidency so far. Contrariwise, many Liberals have and will continue to present a laundry list of the boy&#8217;s supposed &#8220;wins.&#8221;</p>
<p>While the drivel spilling from the maws of the Obama Regime, its remaining cultists, and the Liberals is laughable, it&#8217;s not fair to call Obama a <em>total</em> failure. It&#8217;s not all bogies, double bogies, and triple bogies on Obama&#8217;s scorecard and not every success was the result of a Mulligan.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s one area where Obama has more than made par&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Obama&#8217;s class warfare has brought us to the point where successful people feel they have to apologize for getting it right.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: right;">&#8211; <a title="Neal Boortz - Facebook Page" href="https://www.facebook.com/talkmaster/posts/242137839195119" target="_blank">Neal Boortz</a></p>
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<p>Yes! Obama has been quite successful at class warfare. It is, in point of fact, the defining point of the boy&#8217;s presidency.</p>
<p>To be fair and to give Obama the props which are his due, as the <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/politics/black-tuesday/">First Black President</a> the boy is <em>de facto</em> a Black Leader and Black Leaders have to dream and dream big.</p>
<p>The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed of integration and equality and of a nation where Race didn&#8217;t matter. His successor, Malcolm X dreamed of a race war and the annihilation or subjugation of the Whites.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-49453" title="Obama Has a Dream" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/obama-has-a-dream.jpeg" alt="Obama Has a Dream" width="450" height="334" /><br />
<strong class="highlight">Obama Has A Dream</strong></p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s dream is somewhere in the middle of those two and skewed a lot towards the Left, or so he and/or his handlers want people and the Liberals&#8217; constituents to believe because it&#8217;s Obama&#8217;s first, best, and last hope of keeping his job.</p>
<p>Yes, Obama has been singularly successful at class warfare. The question is whether this singular success, being mere words from his bully pulpit, will be enough to gain him victory in the 2012 elections.</p>

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		<title>Of Reid, Jobs &amp; Unicorns</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img class="right-image" title="Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV)" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/harry-reid-150x150.jpg" alt="Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) - Socialist, Racist, Traitor" width="150" height="150" />I'm well aware that the head of America's domestic enemies in the Senate, Harry Reid is not fond of the truth. I'm equally well aware of the more pleasant fact that he has little more skill in lying than he does in most other things.

Still, upon occasion, his stupidity - though not his mendacity - is shocking. Such is the case in his <a title="C-SPAN Archives - JOB CREATORS ARE LIKE UNICORNS, IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND AND DON'T EXIST." href="http://www.c-spanarchives.com/appearance/600973181" target="_blank">recent comparison</a> of job creators with unicorns.

It beggars the mind to expect Americans to take Reid seriously - except as a clear and present danger to America - when he jabbers such inanities that are so easy to refute and debunk.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="right-image" title="Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV)" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/harry-reid-150x150.jpg" alt="Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) - Socialist, Racist, Traitor" width="150" height="150" />I&#8217;m well aware that the head of America&#8217;s domestic enemies in the Senate, Harry Reid is not fond of the truth. I&#8217;m equally well aware of the more pleasant fact that he has little more skill in lying than he does in most other things.</p>
<p>Still, upon occasion, his stupidity &#8211; though not his mendacity &#8211; is shocking. Such is the case in his <a title="C-SPAN Archives - JOB CREATORS ARE LIKE UNICORNS, IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND AND DON'T EXIST." href="http://www.c-spanarchives.com/appearance/600973181" target="_blank">recent comparison</a> of job creators with unicorns.</p>
<p>It beggars the mind to expect Americans to take Reid seriously &#8211; except as a clear and present danger to America &#8211; when he jabbers such inanities that are so easy to refute and debunk.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Millionaire job creators are like unicorns. They’re impossible to find, and they don’t exist. </em></p>
<p>Only a tiny fraction of people making more than a million dollars, probably less than 1%, are small business owners. And only a tiny fraction of that tiny fraction are traditional job creators.</p>
<p>Most of these businesses are hedge fund managers or wealthy lawyers. They don’t do much hiring and they don’t need tax breaks.</p></blockquote>
<p>The pathetic Leftists of NPR, ever eager collaborators with any and all of America&#8217;s enemies, was quick to <a title="NPR - GOP Objects To 'Millionaires Surtax'; Millionaires We Found? Not So Much" href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2011/12/09/143398685/gop-objects-to-millionaires-surtax-millionaires-we-found-not-so-much" target="_blank">attempt to support</a> Reid&#8217;s stupidity.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>We wanted to talk to business owners who would be affected. So, NPR requested help from numerous Republican congressional offices, including House and Senate leadership. They were unable to produce a single millionaire job creator for us to interview.</em></p>
<p>So we went to the business groups that have been lobbying against the surtax. Again, three days after putting in a request, none of them was able to find someone for us to talk to.</p></blockquote>
<p>Of course Americans can expect nothing else from NPR; they&#8217;re devoted to being a <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/politics/fourth-estate-sale/">5th Column</a> and to the destruction of America.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><img class="left-image" style="margin-top:5px;" title="jonolan" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/dark.thumbnail.jpg" alt="" width="36" height="36" /><em>Really! Creatures like those controlling NPR were some of the few valid reasons for the original provisions in Section 1021 &amp; 1022 of NDAA 2012.</em></p>
<p>It&#8217;s not surprising at all that NPR couldn&#8217;t find an American who talk to them, especially an American who is part of the demographic currently targeted for harm by the Liberals. Americans, after all, do not make a habit of speaking with the enemy. And it&#8217;s equally unsurprising that NPR would spin such a refusal to speak to them into &#8220;supporting evidence&#8221; for Reid&#8217;s spurious an specious attack.</p>
<p><img class="left-image" title="Golden Unicorn" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/unicorn-money.jpg" alt="Golden Unicorn" width="150" height="149" />It did not, however, take long for Americans to refute and debunk Reid and NPR. All it took was for a contributor to Forbes, <a title="Forbes - Paul Roderick Gregory" href="http://blogs.forbes.com/paulroderickgregory/" target="_blank">Paul Roderick Gregory</a>, to make a few simple inquiries with the IRS and then to put thing together.</p>
<p>What Professor Gregory discovered is that are, in fact, unicorns prancing around &#8211; or, at least, <a title="Forbes - Sen. Harry Reid's Unicorns: Fact Checking A Whopper" href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2011/12/25/sen-harry-reids-unicorns-fact-checking-a-whopper/" target="_blank">millionaire job creators</a>. <img src='http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>This is simply because it&#8217;s delusional to believe that the 236,765 millionaire or above taxpayers, who earn an aggregate taxable income of $623 billion per annum are overwhelmingly hedge fund managers or wealthy lawyers and that they provide few, if any, jobs for their fellow Americans.</p>
<blockquote><p><em> I do not know what Harry means when he says “a tiny fraction of a tiny fraction.” If we let 5 percent represent Harry’s “tiny fraction,” we are left with 118 businesses owners who earn a million or more and create jobs. Yes, they are only slightly less rare than unicorns, if Harry is to be believed.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Is it even in the same timezone as logical to believe that only 118 out 236,765 millionaires create jobs? Even doubling it to 10% &#8211; tiny is, after all, relative &#8211; would only give us 236.</p>
<p>You&#8217;d really think that the Senator from Nevada would know not to draw to an inside straight or, at least, how to bluff. Then again, he probably trusts the lamestream media, like NPR, to either actively support his lies or stay quiet about them.</p>

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		<title>Break Or Raise?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img class="right-image" title="Obama - Stalin" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Obama-Stalin.jpg" alt="Obama - Stalin" width="150" height="208" />Obama had claimed that America was at a "<a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/politics/make-or-break/">make or break</a>" moment for the middle class when it came to his plan to extend and increase the payroll tax breaks of last year. This is all well and good in the short-term, though it further beggars Social Security in the long run if the resultant revenue shortfall isn't made up for.

Extending and deepening these "middle class tax cuts" wasn't even a particularly contentious issue. The congressional Republicans quickly agreed that not extending these cuts was economically contraindicated at this exact time.

So the GOP-led House drafted a bill to extend the payroll tax breaks, additional limited unemployment benefits, and a continuation of full payments to doctors who treat Medicare patients - essentially everything that Obama had claimed he wanted and that the middle class needed.

Obama, his handlers, and his sycophants response was to have a tantrum because funding for the measure did not come from taking further wealth away from higher income Americans. It was solely funded through a freeze on spending for federal salaries. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="right-image" title="Obama - Stalin" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Obama-Stalin.jpg" alt="Obama - Stalin" width="150" height="208" />Obama had claimed that America was at a &#8220;<a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/politics/make-or-break/">make or break</a>&#8221; moment for the middle class when it came to his plan to extend and increase the payroll tax breaks of last year. This is all well and good in the short-term, though it further beggars Social Security in the long run if the resultant revenue shortfall isn&#8217;t made up for.</p>
<p>Extending and deepening these &#8220;middle class tax cuts&#8221; wasn&#8217;t even a particularly contentious issue. The congressional Republicans quickly agreed that not extending these cuts was economically contraindicated at this exact time.</p>
<p>So the GOP-led House drafted a bill to extend the payroll tax breaks, additional limited unemployment benefits, and a continuation of full payments to doctors who treat Medicare patients &#8211; essentially everything that Obama had claimed he wanted and that the middle class needed.</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s , his handlers&#8217;, and his sycophants&#8217; response was to have a tantrum because funding for the measure did not come from taking further wealth away from higher income Americans. It was solely funded through a freeze on spending for federal salaries. </p>
<blockquote><p><em>This debate should not be about scoring political points. This debate should be about cutting taxes for the middle class.</em></p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">If the President were presented with H.R. 3630, he would veto the bill.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: right;">&#8211; Executive Office Of The President<br />
Office Of Management And Budget<br />
<a title="White House - EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET - STATEMENT OF ADMINISTRATION POLICY H.R. 3630 – Middle Class Tax Cut Act of 2011" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/legislative/sap/112/saphr3630h_20111213.pdf" target="_blank">Statement Of Administration Policy</a></p>
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<p>It seems that the extension of the payroll tax cuts for the middle class are only vital and necessary if they&#8217;re paid for by increasing the amount of money taken from wealthier Americans and that wealth redistribution is the avowed administrative policy of the Obama Regime.</p>

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		<title>Make Or Break</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 11:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Campaigner-in-Chief's handlers decided a while back to discard most of his campaign platform. But they kept one.
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-46888" title="Make or Break Moment" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/make-or-break.jpg" alt="Make or Break Moment" width="450" height="298" />
<strong class="highlight">Obama Preaching From His Favorite Plank</strong></p>

They're just hoping that it will hold up under the weight of the Obama Regime long enough to make it through the 2012 elections.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Campaigner-in-Chief&#8217;s handlers decided a while back to discard most of his campaign platform. But they kept one.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-46888" title="Make or Break Moment" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/make-or-break.jpg" alt="Make or Break Moment" width="450" height="298" /><br />
<strong class="highlight">Obama Preaching From His Favorite Plank</strong></p>
<p>They&#8217;re just hoping that it will hold up under the weight of the Obama Regime long enough to make it through the 2012 elections.</p>

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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img class="left-image" title="Obama Emperor" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/obama-emperor.jpg" alt="Emperor Obama wearing laurel wreath" width="150" height="160" />The Obama Regime is nearing the culmination of its push against numerous European banks that have been used by people attempting to shelter their wealth from confiscation by the US federal government.

They've already extorted $780 million and the identities of 4,700 account-holders from UBS in 2009. Now they're close to coercing "cooperation" and reparations from 11 other foreign banks.

You can be assured that, in any other situation, the POTUS and his henchmen in the DOJ forcibly coercing foreign bodies who were operating within the respective laws of their countries to pay the American government 100's of millions of dollars - <em>probably billions of dollars by the end of this</em> - and divulge confidential information about their clients in violation of the applicable laws of <em>their</em> nations, would be decried by the Liberals and Progressives as examples of "American Imperialism" and the "American Hegemony."]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="left-image" title="Obama Emperor" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/obama-emperor.jpg" alt="Emperor Obama wearing laurel wreath" width="150" height="160" />The Obama Regime is nearing the culmination of <a title="Bloomberg - Swiss Banks Said Ready to Reveal Clients" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-24/swiss-banks-said-ready-to-pay-billions-disclose-customer-names.html" target="_blank">its push</a> against numerous Swiss banks that have been used by people attempting to shelter their wealth from confiscation by the US federal government.</p>
<p>They&#8217;ve already extorted $780 million and the identities of 4,700 account-holders from UBS in 2009. Now they&#8217;re close to coercing &#8220;cooperation&#8221; and reparations from 11 other foreign banks.</p>
<p>You can be assured that, in any other situation, the POTUS and his henchmen in the DOJ forcibly coercing foreign bodies who were operating within the respective laws of their countries to pay the American government 100&#8242;s of millions of dollars &#8211; <em>probably billions of dollars by the end of this</em> &#8211; and divulge confidential information about their clients in violation of the applicable laws of <em>their</em> nations, would be decried by the Liberals and Progressives as examples of &#8220;American Imperialism&#8221; and the &#8220;American Hegemony.&#8221;</p>
<p>No such outrage can be reasonably expected from the Leftists when the POTUS and his cabal are ignoring the laws and sovereignty of foreign nations in order to apply <em>American legal jurisdiction</em> in an attempt to seize the assets of alleged tax evaders.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s something to remember about America&#8217;s domestic enemies; they only get outraged and cry imperialism and/or hegemony when the supposed victims aren&#8217;t wealthy and aren&#8217;t presumed to be White. It&#8217;s all about class warfare and ethnoguiltism with them.</p>

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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-44804" title="Occupy Wall Street Bandwagon" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/bandwagon.jpg" alt="Obama Jumps On The Occupy Wall Street Bandwagon, Goes Nowhere" width="450" height="342" />
<strong class="highlight">The Movement Is Off The Ground</strong></p>
Obama, in an increasingly desperate bid to keep <em>his</em> job, has jumped on the slackers of the Occupy Wall St.'s bandwagon now that his handlers have convinced him that the movement is off the ground.]]></description>
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<strong class="highlight">The Movement Is Off The Ground</strong></p>
<p>Obama, in an increasingly desperate bid to keep <em>his</em> job, has jumped on the slackers of the Occupy Wall St.&#8217;s bandwagon now that his handlers have convinced him that the movement is off the ground.</p>
<p>Of course Obama and his handlers forgot to check to see if &#8220;off the ground&#8221; really meant &#8220;up on blocks&#8221; before trying to harness the neo-Socialist class warfare of these rabble.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the problem with old saying like, &#8220;jump on the bandwagon.&#8221; They often don&#8217;t workout so well in reality. Face it, Obama and his coterie would &#8220;hitch their wagon to a star&#8221; only to have it implode into a brown dwarf. <img src='http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_lol.gif' alt=':lol:' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>

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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We continue to hear a bit, though not a great deal, about the anti-market and anti-American filth "occupying" Wall Street in New York. But what is it that this rabble wants?
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-44289" title="Other People's Money" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/other_peoples_money.jpg" alt="Other People's Money" width="450" height="662" />
<strong class="highlight">What Do They Want? Other People's Money!</strong></p>
They're utterly unfocused and don't even have an agenda beyond hating the productive and wanting the government to redistribute the wealth so that they don't have to take responsibility for themselves and their own survival and/or prosperity.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We continue to hear a bit, though not a great deal, about the anti-market and anti-American filth &#8220;occupying&#8221; Wall Street in New York. But what is it that this rabble wants?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-44289" title="Other People's Money" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/other_peoples_money.jpg" alt="Other People's Money" width="450" height="662" /><br />
<strong class="highlight">What Do They Want? Other People&#8217;s Money!</strong></p>
<p>They&#8217;re utterly unfocused and don&#8217;t even have an agenda beyond hating the productive and wanting the government to redistribute the wealth so that they don&#8217;t have to take responsibility for themselves and their own survival and/or prosperity.</p>
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<p>Fortunately for Americans, the same lack of merit that caused these slackers to protest keeps them from being much of threat to <em>our</em> nation for now. If that changes later, we will just have to slaughter amongst them until they crawl back into the sewers where they belong.</p>
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		<title>Taxing Corporations Away</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img class="left-image" title="Galt's Gulch Emblem" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/galts-gulch-emblemt.jpg" alt="Galt's Gulch Emblem" width="150" height="150" />There's more than a little rancor over the fact that many large corporations don't pay what is seen as their "fair share" in taxes to the government.

This fallacy is being promulgated by America's domestic enemies, the Liberals, their minority tenants, and their pet "lamestream" media.

This tactic of fostering class warfare works well upon the weak-minded eaters.

Of course these looters won't tell the eaters or anyone else that America taxes its corporations at a punitively high rate in an effort to fund the various Liberal-sponsored, demanded, and installed entitlement programs that have gone a long way towards beggaring our nation.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="left-image" title="Galt's Gulch Emblem" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/galts-gulch-emblemt.jpg" alt="Galt's Gulch Emblem" width="150" height="150" />There&#8217;s more than a little rancor over the fact that many large corporations don&#8217;t pay what is seen as their &#8220;fair share&#8221; in taxes to the government.</p>
<p>This fallacy is being promulgated by America&#8217;s domestic enemies, the Liberals, their minority tenants, and their pet &#8220;lamestream&#8221; media.</p>
<p>This tactic of fostering class warfare works well upon the weak-minded eaters.</p>
<p>Of course these looters won&#8217;t tell the eaters or anyone else that America taxes its corporations at a punitively high rate in an effort to fund the various Liberal-sponsored, demanded, and installed entitlement programs that have gone a long way towards beggaring our nation.</p>
<h3 style="text-align: center;">2010 Combined Federal-State Corporate Tax Rates in OECD Nations</h3>
<table class="highlight" style="padding-left: 60px;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="375" height="527">
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<td style="text-align: left;" width="150" height="20"><strong>Nation</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="175"><strong>2010 Tax Rate</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: right;" width="50"><strong>Rank</strong></td>
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<tr height="16">
<td width="150" height="16">Japan</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="175">39.54%</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" width="50">1</td>
</tr>
<tr height="16">
<td width="150" height="16">United States</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="175">39.21%</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" width="50">2</td>
</tr>
<tr height="16">
<td width="150" height="16">France</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="175">34.43%</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" width="50">3</td>
</tr>
<tr height="16">
<td width="150" height="16">Belgium</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="175">33.99%</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" width="50">4</td>
</tr>
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<td style="text-align: left;" width="150" height="16">Germany</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="175">30.18%</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" width="50">5</td>
</tr>
<tr height="16">
<td style="text-align: left;" width="150" height="16">Australia</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="175">30.00%</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" width="50">6</td>
</tr>
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<td width="150" height="16">Mexico</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="175">30.00%</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" width="50">7</td>
</tr>
<tr height="16">
<td width="150" height="16">New Zealand</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="175">30.00%</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" width="50">8</td>
</tr>
<tr height="16">
<td width="150" height="16">Spain</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="175">30.00%</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" width="50">9</td>
</tr>
<tr height="16">
<td width="150" height="16">Canada</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="175">29.52%</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" width="50">10</td>
</tr>
<tr height="16">
<td width="150" height="16">Luxembourg</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="175">28.59%</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" width="50">11</td>
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<tr height="16">
<td width="150" height="16">Norway</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="175">28.00%</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" width="50">12</td>
</tr>
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<td style="text-align: left;" width="150" height="16">United Kingdom</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="175">28.00%</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" width="50">13</td>
</tr>
<tr height="16">
<td width="150" height="16">Italy</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="175">27.50%</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" width="50">14</td>
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<tr height="16">
<td width="150" height="16">Portugal</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="175">26.50%</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" width="50">15</td>
</tr>
<tr height="16">
<td width="150" height="16">Sweden</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="175">26.30%</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" width="50">16</td>
</tr>
<tr height="16">
<td width="150" height="16">Finland</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="175">26.00%</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" width="50">17</td>
</tr>
<tr height="16">
<td width="150" height="16">Netherlands</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="175">25.50%</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" width="50">18</td>
</tr>
<tr height="16">
<td width="150" height="16">Austria</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="150">25.00%</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" width="50">19</td>
</tr>
<tr height="16">
<td width="150" height="16">Denmark</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="150">25.00%</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" width="50">20</td>
</tr>
<tr height="16">
<td width="150" height="16">Korea</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="150">24.20%</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" width="50">21</td>
</tr>
<tr height="16">
<td width="150" height="16">Greece</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="150">24.00%</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" width="50">22</td>
</tr>
<tr height="16">
<td width="150" height="16">Switzerland</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="150">21.17%</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" width="50">23</td>
</tr>
<tr height="16">
<td width="150" height="16">Turkey</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="150">20.00%</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" width="50">24</td>
</tr>
<tr height="16">
<td width="150" height="16">Czech Republic</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="150">19.00%</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" width="50">25</td>
</tr>
<tr height="16">
<td width="150" height="16">Hungary</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="150">19.00%</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" width="50">26</td>
</tr>
<tr height="16">
<td width="150" height="16">Poland</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="150">19.00%</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" width="50">27</td>
</tr>
<tr height="16">
<td width="150" height="16">Slovak Republic</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="150">19.00%</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" width="50">28</td>
</tr>
<tr height="16">
<td width="150" height="16">Iceland</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="150">15.00%</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" width="50">29</td>
</tr>
<tr height="16">
<td width="150" height="16">Ireland</td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="150">12.50%</td>
<td style="text-align: right;" width="50">30</td>
</tr>
<tr height="24">
<td width="150" height="24"><strong>OECD Average</strong></td>
<td style="text-align: center;" width="150"><strong>26.20%</strong></td>
<td width="50"></td>
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<p>The United States&#8217; top combined federal and state tax burden on corporations was the <a title="OECD - Basic (non-targeted) corporate income tax rates (Table II.1), showing separately central, sub-central and combined rates." href="http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/26/56/33717459.xls" target="_blank">2nd highest in the world</a> in 2010 and 33.7% above the average (26.20%) for developed nations according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (<a title="Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) - an international organisation helping governments tackle the economic, social and governance challenges of a globalised economy" href="http://www.oecd.org/" target="_blank">OECD</a>).</p>
<p>Money is much like water; it will flow best with less restrictions. As things stand now it is flowing <em>from</em> America <em>to</em> foreign nations&#8217; coffers largely, though not entirely, because corporations will not willingly invest in profit garnering enterprises in America under the current tax burden.</p>
<p>In this global economy what happens is that the larger corporations, mostly being trans-national, move their profit centers to other, less repressive nations and leave their cost centers such as research and development in America. This means that the bulk of the jobs, <em>especially the middle-class jobs</em>, end up in other countries.</p>
<p>If people want employment in America to improve then we need to encourage corporations to develop operations in America instead of taxing corporations away to foreign lands.  If people want to destroy America&#8217;s economy then we can just continue on with the looters&#8217; and eaters&#8217; &#8220;<a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/politics/a-bigger-bite/">Eat The Rich</a>&#8221; pogrom.</p>

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		<title>Cry Me A River</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 20:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Poor little Obama; he's <a title="Houston Chronical - Texas on the Potomac - Hearst exclusive: Obama talks about his golf habit, his favorite magazines and personal frustrations" href="http://blogs.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/04/hearst_exclusive_obama_talks_a.html" target="_blank">not quite as happy</a> being the - titular in his case - leader of the Free World as he seems to have thought he'd be.
<blockquote><em>"I just miss — I miss being anonymous," he said at the meeting in the White House State Dining Room. "I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks. I can't take a walk."</em>

<em>He says he enjoys golf but is not the fanatic that some have portrayed him to be because of the frequency of his golf outings.</em>

<em>"It's the only excuse I have to get outside for four hours at a stretch," he told the Hearst executives.

</em><em></em><em>His impossible dream: "I just want to go through Central Park (in New York) and watch folks passing by...Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that."</em>
<p style="text-align: right;">-- President Barack Obama</p>
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Cry me a river, boy - then throw yourself into it, which would serve more purpose and a greater good than attempting these pathetic attempts of garnering populist sympathy.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Poor little Obama; he&#8217;s <a title="Houston Chronical - Texas on the Potomac - Hearst exclusive: Obama talks about his golf habit, his favorite magazines and personal frustrations" href="http://blogs.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/04/hearst_exclusive_obama_talks_a.html" target="_blank">not quite as happy</a> being the &#8211; titular in his case &#8211; leader of the Free World as he seems to have thought he&#8217;d be.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I just miss — I miss being anonymous,&#8221; he said at the meeting in the White House State Dining Room. &#8220;I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks. I can&#8217;t take a walk.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><em>He says he enjoys golf but is not the fanatic that some have portrayed him to be because of the frequency of his golf outings.</em></p>
<p><em>&#8220;It&#8217;s the only excuse I have to get outside for four hours at a stretch,&#8221; he told the Hearst executives.</em></p>
<p><em> </em><em></em><em></em><em>His impossible dream: &#8220;I just want to go through Central Park (in New York) and watch folks passing by&#8230;Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.&#8221;</em></p>
<p style="text-align: right;">&#8211; President Barack Obama</p>
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<p>Cry me a river, boy &#8211; then throw yourself into it, which would serve more purpose and a greater good than these pathetic attempts at garnering populist sympathy.</p>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonolan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<img class="left-image" title="Beer!" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/beer-01.jpg" alt="Beer!" width="150" height="150" />Beer! It's is, and has been for millennia, truly one of the foundations of civilization.  Along with <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/food-and-drink/recipes/foole-meze/"><em>foole</em></a>, beer allowed the Pyramids and other great public works of ancient Egypt and it allowed the rise of the great cities in Europe despite the dangerously contaminated water supplies they endured.

In the words of the American poet <a title="Wikipedia - John Ciardi" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ciardi" target="_blank">John Ciardi</a>, "Fermentation and civilization are inseparable."

Yes, beer has always been the Everyman's drink; the preferred quaff of Joe Six-Pack - <em>and Jane Six-Pack of course</em> - after a long day toiling as the often forgotten and sometimes lambasted backbone of America. It's long been a convivial beverage that had escaped the ceremonies, snobbery, and elitism that is so entrenched in wine.

Sadly, times are changing in America and the glorious rebirth of the American craft brewing industry has also birthed the misbegotten by-blows known as <a title="Modern Drunkards Magazine - The Subtle Art of Beer Snobbery" href="http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/01-05/0105-beer-snobbery.htm" target="_blank">beer snobs</a>.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="left-image" title="Beer!" src="http://blog.jonolan.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/beer-01.jpg" alt="Beer!" width="150" height="150" />Beer! It is, and has been for millennia, truly one of the foundations of civilization.  Along with <a href="http://blog.jonolan.net/food-and-drink/recipes/foole-meze/"><em>foole</em></a>, beer allowed the Pyramids and other great public works of ancient Egypt and it allowed the rise of the great cities in Europe despite the dangerously contaminated water supplies they endured.</p>
<p>In the words of the American poet <a title="Wikipedia - John Ciardi" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ciardi" target="_blank">John Ciardi</a>, &#8220;Fermentation and civilization are inseparable.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yes, beer has always been the Everyman&#8217;s drink; the preferred quaff of Joe Six-Pack &#8211; <em>and Jane Six-Pack of course</em> &#8211; after a long day toiling as the often forgotten and sometimes lambasted backbone of society. It&#8217;s long been a convivial beverage that had escaped the ceremonies, snobbery, and elitism that is so entrenched in wine.</p>
<p>Sadly, times are changing in America and the glorious rebirth of the American craft brewing industry has also birthed the misbegotten by-blows known as <a title="Modern Drunkards Magazine - The Subtle Art of Beer Snobbery" href="http://www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com/issues/01-05/0105-beer-snobbery.htm" target="_blank">beer snobs</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>There&#8217;s beer geeks and there&#8217;s beer snobs, and I&#8217;m a card-carrying, dyed-in-the-wool member of the beer geek community. How I differentiate between a beer geek and a beer snob is this: they could have an equal amount of knowledge about beer; they could have equally awesome palates; [they] can articulate everything about the qualities of beer; [and they can] tell you the history of brewing styles. Their knowledge might be the same. But a beer geek loves beer because he or she loves beer, and they want to learn more always, try new beers, and share that with the people they love. Whereas beer snobs try to know as much as they can about beer as a power point and to lord it over people, or to stick out as an expert in a field of neophytes.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: right;">&#8211; <a title="Washington City paper - Young &amp; Hungry - Beer Geeks vs. Beer Snobs" href="http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/youngandhungry/2009/08/17/beer-geeks-vs-beer-snobs/" target="_blank">Sam Calagione</a><br />
Founder, <a title="Dog Fish Head Brewery" href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;cd=1&amp;ved=0CCIQFjAA&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dogfish.com%2F&amp;rct=j&amp;q=dog%20fish%20head&amp;ei=kvRbTbHbM43qgQfmv6zmDA&amp;usg=AFQjCNFd8KwtJ3C5JBsCzhhnEBVCZKU16Q&amp;cad=rja" target="_blank">Dogfish Head Brewery</a></p>
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<p>Beer lovers must not repeat the mistakes of the wine enthusiasts and devolve into snobbishness, elitism, and exclusion. </p>
<p>We lovers of beers certainly do not want to go down the road which led to 86% of all the wine drank in America being drunk by only 12% of the American population. This is especially true since 97% of the breweries in America are described as craft or microbreweries yet they account for 5% of the total market share.</p>
<p>Staying True To Joe Six-Pack is paramount irrespective of what each of our preferred six-packs might be.</p>

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