The actual sentence is 30 to 60 years, but since he is already 68, he is in prison for the rest of his life.
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I have read that Senator Charles Schumer is keen on selling out "entitlements" in exchange for tax increase demands by the Dems.
However, this piece says he is wanting to ditch Simpson-Bowles.
I still don't trust anybody from the Democratic Party anymore.
The austerity shit has to stop. It's a scam anyway.
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It is probably conservative to estimate one in five Americans has no religious affiliation.
Their numbers have increased dramatically over the past two decades, according to the study released Tuesday. About 19.6 percent of Americans say they are “nothing in particular,” agnostic or atheist, up from about 8 percent in 1990. One-third of adults under 30 say the same. Pew offered people a list of more than a dozen possible affiliations, including “Protestant,” “Catholic,” “something else” and “nothing in particular.”_____
For the first time, Pew also reported that the number of Americans identifying themselves as Protestant dipped below half, at 48 percent. But the United States is still very traditional when it comes to religion, with 79 percent of Americans identifying with an established faith group.
These tax loopholes should piss everybody off. Take a look at this one:
A break for shipping your job to China.
In April, 750 workers at a Kimberly-Clark paper mill in Everett, Wash., lost their jobs when the company shipped them to a lower-cost facilities overseas.
Steelworkers in Stevens Point, Wis., suffered the same fate. Their mill's owner, Joerns Heathcare, took away 150 jobs last month by moving operations to Mexico.
Another 170 people making auto sensors at a Sensata Technologies plant in Freeport, Ill., will be out of work by year's end. Their jobs are being carted off to China.
In each case, American taxpayers will subsidize the evacuation.
It's not just cheap labor that pushes work overseas. The U.S. tax code allows companies to expense every last cost of sending your job abroad. At a time of 8 percent unemployment, one would think Congress would rush to kill a loophole that actually encourages economic misery. One would be wrong.
This summer, Senate Democrats introduced the Bring Jobs Home Act, which would kill the loophole and offer a 20 percent tax credit to companies that bring work back to America. Republicans filibustered the bill to death. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) went so far as to call the measure "a joke," ensuring another nervous Christmas for the country's blue collar workers.
Hatch is an anti-American asshole.
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Could Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson be a spoiler for Mitt?
Ask the same question about Jill Stein or Rocky Anderson.
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Even a few Republicans are found by the party to be beyond the pale.
These lunatics must be Christian Reconstructionists. Those people believe in slavery also.
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