Displaying 331 To 360 Of 5,801 Comments KT, this is going to cost millions and he will be in jail for years before hi gets the needle. They say it would be cheaper to give him life. » Posted By Nirek On May 16, 2015 @ 7:06 am Funk and KT, if I may inject how I feel about life/death, I feel a lot like Funk does. On the one hand death is too good for some of the perpetrators, but we would not have repete offenders if they were put to death. But with so many people being freed after DNA proves they are innocent. It is a very confounding subject. (now I’m beating my head against the keyboard, too, Funk) » Posted By Nirek On May 14, 2015 @ 4:48 am DB2, I too have felt the concussion you talk about. Mine was in Vietnam but when a bomb goes off close to you the concussion is the same in Boston , Nam, or any other place that radical idiots set them off. Your story hit home as I was watching on the TV when it happened. My heart goes out to all the innocent people hurt physically or mentally. Just being near enough to feel it is enough to cause PTSD. Thanks for sharing your story with us. » Posted By Nirek On May 11, 2015 @ 3:42 pm KT, I have thought a lot about this. At first I wanted him gone ASAP. But, like you say the apeals will take years. I don’t believe in his being a martyr but he sems to. So my vote is life with no chance of parole, ever! Let him suffer and think about the damage he did to all those innocent people. » Posted By Nirek On May 11, 2015 @ 10:03 am Texas Has Finally Gone Full Metal Straightjacket » Posted By Nirek On May 10, 2015 @ 3:35 am » Posted By Nirek On May 8, 2015 @ 4:23 am http://leftaction.com/action/save-nasa-climate-research » Posted By Nirek On May 8, 2015 @ 4:09 am LOL, fraking fluid is a cocktail of many chemicals » Posted By Nirek On May 8, 2015 @ 4:02 am
You know AdLib, that the crazies that have wormed their way into the Texas “leadership” have arrived from places like Conn. (‘W”) , Canada via Cuba (Cruz), and others. Great peice Ad, but watch out some of it is already coming true. It must be hard to come up with these things ahead of them becoming real. » Posted By Nirek On May 8, 2015 @ 3:59 am Senator Bernie Sanders For President! http://www.vox.com/2015/5/20/8628901/bernie-sanders-redditt » Posted By Nirek On May 20, 2015 @ 1:32 pm Here are the 18 CEO’s Sanders labeled job destroyers in his report. (All data from Top Corporate Dodgers report.) 1). 1. Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan 2). Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein 4). General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt 5). Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam 6). Boeing CEO James McNerney, Jr. 7). Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer 8). Honeywell International CEO David Cote 9). Corning CEO Wendell Weeks 10). Time Warner CEO Glenn Britt 11). Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier 12). Deere & Company CEO Samuel Allen 13). Marsh & McLennan Companies CEO Brian Duperreault 14). Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs 15). Tenneco CEO Gregg Sherill 16). Express Scripts CEO George Paz 17). Caesars Entertainment CEO Gary Loveman 18). R.R. Donnelly & Sons CEO Thomas Quinlan III Eighteen of the 80 CEOs who signed the call for deficit action are actually some of the biggest outsourcers and tax cheats in America. First, they crashed the economy in 2008. They followed that up by taking billions in taxpayer bailout dollars. Their next step was to outsource jobs and evade taxes. Now they are calling for action on a deficit that they helped create over the past four years. Bernie Sanders is exposing the hypocrisy of these CEOs, and every American should understand that if Mitt Romney is elected president, these pigs see potential for unlimited feeding from the taxpayer trough. Only by standing together can we tell these CEOs that the bill has come due, and it is time for them to pay. We can tell these gluttons of our dollars that the all you can eat taxpayer buffet is now closed. » Posted By Nirek On May 18, 2015 @ 2:42 pm Another reason to vote for Bernie! There really is no shame. The Wall Street leaders whose recklessness and illegal behavior caused this terrible recession are now lecturing the American people on the need for courage to deal with the nation’s finances and deficit crisis. Before telling us why we should cut Social Security, Medicare and other vitally important programs, these CEOs might want to take a hard look at their responsibility for causing the deficit and this terrible recession. » Posted By Nirek On May 18, 2015 @ 2:37 pm Funk, that reflects my plan. I am all about Bernie! If he is not the nominated, I will vote for the one Democrat. The GOP has not got a single person I can vote for. » Posted By Nirek On May 14, 2015 @ 4:36 am JJ, we seem to be in agreementt. » Posted By Nirek On May 10, 2015 @ 3:21 am
» Posted By Nirek On May 9, 2015 @ 1:04 pm Gyp46, I disagree that he has no chance. Even though I disagree, we can still agree that his candidacy will bring good issues to light. If his “grassroots” campaign works and enough moderat republicans and independents and Dems vote for him he can win. Most of us supporting him will vote for the D that gets the nomination rather than any R! Compition is good for the party. Hillary will be moved a little to the left which is also good, in my opinion. » Posted By Nirek On May 9, 2015 @ 8:18 am Filo, if the media doesn’t ignore Bernie, I think he can win. Running as a Democrat is brilliant on his part. He will be included in the debates and nobody can dispute the truth when he speaks. Maybe he will not win, but I’m trying my best to promote Bernie for President. Just because he is a far better choice than any pther we have. Thanks for the response, Filo. » Posted By Nirek On May 9, 2015 @ 3:36 am Weekend Music Thread – The Name Game
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Peace.
It isn’t that he deserves to live, it is that he and his ilk think he will be a martyr. No way, he is scum!
Amount of federal income taxes paid in 2010? Zero. $1.9 billion tax refund.
Taxpayer Bailout from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department? Over $1.3 trillion.
Amount of federal income taxes Bank of America would have owed if offshore tax havens were eliminated? $2.6 billion.
Amount of federal income taxes paid in 2008? Zero. $278 million tax refund.
Taxpayer Bailout from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department? $824 billion.
Amount of federal income taxes Goldman Sachs would have owed if offshore tax havens were eliminated? $2.7 billion
3). JP Morgan Chase CEO James Dimon
Taxpayer Bailout from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department? $416 billion.
Amount of federal income taxes JP Morgan Chase would have owed if offshore tax havens were eliminated? $4.9 billion.
Amount of federal income taxes paid in 2010? Zero. $3.3 billion tax refund.
Taxpayer Bailout from the Federal Reserve? $16 billion.
Jobs Shipped Overseas? At least 25,000 since 2001.
Amount of federal income taxes paid in 2010? Zero. $705 million tax refund.
American Jobs Cut in 2010? In 2010, Verizon announced 13,000 job cuts, the third highest corporate layoff total that year.
Amount of federal income taxes paid in 2010? None. $124 million tax refund.
American Jobs Shipped overseas? Over 57,000.
Amount of Corporate Welfare? At least $58 billion.
Amount of federal income taxes Microsoft would have owed if offshore tax havens were eliminated? $19.4 billion.
Amount of federal income taxes paid from 2008-2010? Zero. $34 million tax refund.
Amount of federal income taxes paid from 2008-2010? Zero. $4 million tax refund.
Amount of federal income taxes paid in 2008? Zero. $74 million tax refund.
Amount of federal income taxes paid in 2009? Zero. $55 million tax refund.
Amount of federal income taxes paid in 2009? Zero. $1 million tax refund.
Amount of federal income taxes paid in 2010? Zero. $90 million refund.
Amount of federal income taxes Qualcomm would have owed if offshore tax havens were eliminated? $4.7 billion.
Amount of federal income taxes Tenneco would have owed if offshore tax havens were eliminated? $269 million.
Amount of federal income taxes Express Scripts would have owed if offshore tax havens were eliminated? $20 million.
Amount of federal income taxes Caesars Entertainment would have owed if offshore tax havens were eliminated? $9 million.
Amount of federal income taxes paid in 2008? Zero. $49 million tax refund.
Our Wall Street friends might also want to show some courage of their own by suggesting that the wealthiest people in this country, like them, start paying their fair share of taxes. They might work to end the outrageous corporate loopholes, tax havens and outsourcing provisions that their lobbyists have littered throughout the tax code – contributing greatly to our deficit.
Many of the CEO’s who signed the deficit-reduction letter run corporations that evaded at least $34.5 billion in taxes by setting up more than 600 subsidiaries in the Cayman Islands and other offshore tax havens since 2008. As a result, at least a dozen of the companies avoided paying any federal income taxes in recent years, and even received more than $6.4 billion in tax refunds from the IRS since 2008.
Several of the companies received a total taxpayer bailout of more than $2.5 trillion from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department.
Many of the companies also have outsourced hundreds of thousands of American jobs to China and other low wage countries, forcing their workers to receive unemployment insurance and other federal benefits. In other words, these are some of the same people who have significantly caused the deficit to explode over the last four years.
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