A Police Chief, A Lawsuit And A Small-Town Mayor

"If its so Patriotic JOE then why don't ALL Americans pay more. If I pay 35% then YOU should pay 35%. When I pay 10x more than most others I'll have no problem with that as I make 10x more. But when I pay 12 to 15x more and only make 10x more its unfair."

Quoted for truth.

Well firstly I never said I never in my life have lost money trading. When I started I lost a lot. Trading is hard and the key is small losses and let your winners run. I have automated systems doing most of my trading and my winning percentage is about 55% but avg win is about 1.5 times the losses and thats how they make money.

As for our business we employ 3 people and have financial incentives based on their performance. In our location they are making about 40% more than market value due to them being very smart and hard working and of course we have the best product in the market and most customers find us by word of mouth.

Considering high tax payers already pay 70% of the taxes raising them more isn't fair. If taxes need raised raise the percentage to EVERYBODY!

Biden said today paying more in taxes is the patriotic thing to do for America. "It's time to be patriotic. It's time to jump in. Time to be part of the deal. Its time to get out of the rut" He said this a few minutes ago.

If its so Patriotic JOE then why don't ALL Americans pay more. If I pay 35% then YOU should pay 35%. When I pay 10x more than most others I'll have no problem with that as I make 10x more. But when I pay 12 to 15x more and only make 10x more its unfair.

You Democrats seem to FORGET that I and my partner had the ideas and did all the thousands of hours of work, we worked for FREE for many years before the software was ready to sell, we invested money we saved which took YEARS to do. It's SOOO EASY for the typical Democrat who may make $35,000 to $50,000 max to say Yeah lets tax the rich. But YOUR JOB is from somebody who took a chance and started a company. You owe everything you buy to that man or woman. Everything you have in your home and the home itself came from a business. Many businesses fail and people's hard work and toil was for nothing.

What Democrats fail to realize is that WE TOOK THE RISK, WE DID the work and we are ENTITLED to at least half of the money WE make. I'm not being unpatriotic if I'm forced to go offshore to keep 1/2 to 2/3 of my income. It's mine, NOT YOURS.

I believe Mc Cain will also keep America safer but the economy and having it strong, keeping JOBS IN THE US vs having them flow outside the US due to Obama's not very well thought out policies will be a nightmare for everybody who lives here.

They probably don't because Biden has been actually found guilty of ethical violations. That would probably be even more upsetting for most of their readers.

That's plain stupidity.

Bush alone is NOT responsible for the banking failure! Democrats as well as Republicans WANTED to make obtaining a house something that MINORITIES could obtain. So they first reduced the down payment, then it went to ZERO DOWN.

No politician wanted to be ACCUSED OF RACISM so few voted against having strict financial standards!

Bush went along with a LIBERAL agenda to help blacks, hispanics and other lower income groups get their first house.

Now look at us! The banking industry deregulation happened many years before this mess and this mess can't be blamed on that. It was the mistakes of the Fed and Greenspan made also.

Mc Cain in 2005 said we have a problem with Freddie and Fannie and this will come back and bite the tax payer in the ass but nobody listened to him and the Democrats voted AGAINST his reform bill. That's a fact go look it up.

Then on TOP of this mess of people who had NO BUSINESS buying houses because they didn't make enough, had no savings, and were using the interest only or ARM loans the HOUSING MARKET exploded because money was cheap and people could 'seemingly' afford more than they REALLY COULD AFFORD.

On top of this people took home equity loans year after year and SPENT THAT MONEY! When housing prices fell, when ARMs went up to their real rates people couldn't pay for their houses and they defaulted leaving banks and the CMOs holder holding HUGE LOSSES.

The blame is in EVERYBODY's hands, every politician, the Fed, the greedy wall street types, and YOU AND ME who bought houses at prices we shouldn't have. I have two houses and one is unrented and it fell about $100,000. I can't get rid of it. The other one I live in lost $220k from the high and is still slightly worth more than we bought it for.

That's the REAL story and if anybody wants to debate this I'd be happy to. Blaming Bush 100% just makes you look like the biggest dumb A$$ in America!

If you are one of the ones lucky enough to be in the top 10% of the income earners in the United States, then perhaps, you will have a tax increase. For the other 90% of us, not true. Obama's tax plan rate is less than that of Clinton's in the 90s.(38% on the highest bracket) Compare the US economy in 90s with the past 8 disastrous years of the Bush administration tax cuts. We have become a Payday loan nation...

I trade currencies and they are most active from 3am till 11am or so. Rarely do I wake up at 3am but if a trade is filled I hear the alert and one gets sent to my cell phone and I'll put in my stop loss and take profit levels and go back to bed.

This economy is BAD and we can't afford Obama. I can't afford Obama and my kids can't afford Obama!

I know I'll be forced to go offshore with my business if he wins and raises all the taxes like he says.
Meanwhile lazy bastards like you don't care because he'll send your poor ass a $1,000 check in the mail. How nice for YOU! Nobody has to pay me anything, Obama will cost me $50k to $75k a year. A few hours here and there defeating the BS Democrat lies and forcing you to debate the issues is a good trade off. Probably worth $300 to $500 an hour of my time, very well worth it I'd say!

No response BFid? Come on explain Chuck Keating and McCain. Defend him you man you hack.

Sarah "the Queen of Pork" Palin is being criticized for saying she's against earmarks, while at the same time hiring a lobyist for her small Alaskan town to bring in millions of pork. She's being criticized because she was for the bridge to nowhere before she was against it, and kept the money that was earmarked for it. She's being criticized because she's used her positions of power to carry out personal vendettas. She's being criticized, because she is unable to answer basic questions regarding the disasterous "Bush Doctrine". She's being criticized because she says that families of handicapped children will have a friend in the white house if she's elected, while as Governor of Alaska she cut the budget for the Special Olympics in half! She's being criticized because she lacks a solid educational foundation having attend 4 schools in five years. She's being criticized because, while she wants to push abstinence only education on America, she wasn't able to successfully educate her own daughter in sexual responsibility.

Don't cry sexist, because she's being criticized. It would be sexist NOT to criticize somebody with little education, questionable morals, and a record that contradicts the Republican hype. My guess is that you're not really offended at the criticism. What you want to do is shut down anybody taking a hard look at this candidate for the second highest office in the land. She's not interviewing for a job at the local Burger King, she's interviewing for the job of Vice President of the United States of America. If she can't stand the heat she needs to get out of the damn kitchen!

No, Palin is just a dirty politician who happens to wear a skirt and not a suit. When are you people going to get it that it's NOT sexist to question her ethics/decisions. Jeezus.

Who are you trying to kid? It wouldn't have made any difference who McCain picked, you would've said the same exact thing about him or her being Bush.