What Do You Do With A Busted Rupert?

[kyfanatic]

I don't like Dems at all,I barely have any feelings for republicans.I think we should run the whole mess of them out of the country on a rail,start over with ordinary working class people who actually give a **** about this country,people who care more about the future than they do about lining their pockets.
I used to consider myself middle class,but since the Socialist Libs took over I seem to keep losing ground while they spend away for things I totally disagree with,meanwhile they keep finding new ways to take money away from me,as if they don't get a cut out of everything I do in this excuse for a free country.My family came to this land in the late 1500's to escape overtaxation and regulation from where they came,now we are worse off than the place they escaped from to start with.

[roadrunner]

I don't like Dems at all,I barely have any feelings for republicans.I think we should run the whole mess of them out of the country on a rail,start over with ordinary working class people who actually give a **** about this country,people who care more about the future than they do about lining their pockets.
I used to consider myself middle class,but since the Socialist Libs took over I seem to keep losing ground while they spend away for things I totally disagree with,meanwhile they keep finding new ways to take money away from me,as if they don't get a cut out of everything I do in this excuse for a free country.My family came to this land in the late 1500's to escape overtaxation and regulation from where they came,now we are worse off than the place they escaped from to start with.

I agree we don't need full time politicians we should send working people to Washington let them be there about a month then return to their jobs. This is what our founding fathers intended.

[RoadToad]

Vetbass
Top 1% pay 38% of Income tax
Top 10% pay 70%
Top 50% pay 97.3 %
Bottom 50% pay 2.6%

Maybe you would be happier if the top 10% payed 100% that seems fair since in your world they get to be the top 10% and don't work. How did they get their money with out working.

Where are you getting those numbers?

[GeoFisher]

Where are you getting those numbers?

http://www.kiplinger.com/features/ar...stacks-up.html

[RoadToad]

Thanks, Geo. As I thought, there's more to the story:
"The latest numbers from the IRS – based on 2008 tax returns – show that the top 1% of income earners paid 38.02% of individual income taxes paid. That’s a lot, but it’s actually a smaller share of the total tax bill than the top 1% paid in 2007. That year they paid 40.42%. We also learn from the IRS that, in 2008, the richest 1% of Americans made 20% of all the adjusted gross income reported. That’s almost twice the 12.75% of total income earned collectively by the lowest-earning 50% of workers. Yes, 1.4 million taxpayers earn 20% of all income reported while 70 million share just 12.75%."

[RoadToad]

Libs are lying sacks of crap

I am a liberal, and am also a very honest person, who would sooner take a beating than tell a lie. This type of sweeping generalization only comes from people with a very limited world view, and proves to me that your opinions aren't worth consideration.

[kyfanatic]

I am a liberal, and am also a very honest person, who would sooner take a beating than tell a lie. This type of sweeping generalization only comes from people with a very limited world view, and proves to me that your opinions aren't worth consideration.

the problem is your not a politician now are you?

[FlyLie]

Rupert management team falling like a stack of cards.

Resignations this week (as of 6:30 pm EST ) include:

* Rebekah Brooks, Chief Executive of News Corp's British newspapers unit
* Les Hinton, Chief Executive of Dow Jones & Co

With both the British and US Governments investigating past activities of Rupert's publications, it may not be over yet....,i.e., not until the fat lady sings..

[RoadToad]

This just keeps getting bigger. Now Rebekah Brooks has been arrested, and London's Metropolitan Police Chief, Sir Paul Stephenson, has resigned.

In case any of you don't know yet what it was that started this whole thing, it was something absolutely appalling. Some reporters working for News Corp hacked into hacked into a phone belonging to a missing girl, Milly Dowler, and actually deleted some messages to make room for more. She was later found dead. I saw her parents interviewed later and they said when they saw those messages get deleted, they thought she was alive. But apparently that was just the tip of the iceberg. It extended across the pond and included 9/11 victims and their families, soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and maybe others. And there was even complicity with the police.

[kygorski]

NEVER PUT ALL YOUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET. sound familiar?Letting one or two folks control the mass media was never a good idea.This wont go very far in this country, too much has been spent, too many pols bought. Capitalism has many good things going for it, and a lot of not so good things associated with it.One of the fundemental rights we have is the right to petion government, but more and more only the louder voices are being heard.