Political Football

Well I can see I didn’t miss much news. Iran is mad, fires still raging on the Left Coast and Obama is sounding more like Hillary than early 2008 Obama… I just returned from a working vacation in Texas – Republican State Convention is next weekend, then the County Fair starts… (and that’s not counting keeping up at work!) so it continues to be very busy for me. Here is a picture of the 4th of July group I missed in Muscatine:

Mary, Jonathon, Dez, Mariannette and Bob

For those of you who think the rich need to pay more taxes – dig this:
The top 1% of tax payers paid 24.6 per cent of all federal income taxes
The top 5% of taxpayers paid 43.4 per cent of the taxes
The bottom 50% of tax filers paid 5.5 per cent of the taxes

Out of 134 million tax filers in 2005, 43 million (almost one third) paid NO Income Tax. (Link)

And remember this: the rich are those of us who are most capable of just leaving the country to set up in a new country that doesn’t tax quite so much. Who pays the taxes, and employs those workers in the US then?

more stats: Link

Man Made Global Warming – The Truth
(click below to view – do not try with dial-up connection)
The Great Global Warming Swindle
hat tip to Kathy Burt for finding this video

Again folks, these are important times.

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