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| Thread ID: 97416 | 2009-02-14 22:47:00 | $30 Million USD For Salt Marsh Mouse? | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
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| 748006 | 2009-02-14 22:47:00 | The whole of the US is reeling under the bills and loss of income and new taxes that are being levied on the trench-workers, while leaving the CEOs and Hollywood untouched and Ivory-Towered . The tax credit for film companies is intended to keep productions from moving out of state . (Awwwww!) It would deprive state coffers of $100 million a year which the lower-echelon tax-payers would have to cough up to help the movies, er - make movies, which everyone knows is a staple full of vitamins, minerals and lip-smacking tasty-treats for your palette . Then there's the Salt Marsh Mouse, which will be getting a $30,000,000 . 00USD check in the mail for it's care and feeding and taking-by-force any properties that are in it's neighborhood so the mouse can have his Paleozoic stomping grounds returned to kind . Dang! That's so SAD! Now - let me set things right here - I LIKE little fuzzy animals and even own a couple as housepets (well - the cat isn't a pet in any stretch of the word, but it at least lets us live in the same building as long as we feed it) - I like birdies, bees and creepy-crawly things too . But a mouse without even the ability to endorse and cash a check like that just kinda gives me a case of the jaws . This "trend" to protect animals isn't new to the trenchers here in Southern California since we are also used to paying for the Spanish-American war Veterans Assistance Association in a "temporary" tax that was established in - oh, about the early 1900s - and yet we are still paying this fee on our phone bills as a tax that is hidden in "Basic Charges" on our monthly statement . Cute - huh? When did "temporary" becomes "forever"? Oh - I see that there's also a "temporary" sales tax increase that takes California to a new high and the highest sales tax in the nation, not to mention the civilized world! Our gasoline tax per-gallon is going up by about 30-40¢ and then there's the car registration fees that are now doubled . Schwarzenegger has said the state (Cal-ee-fohr'-nee'yah) faces "financial Armageddon" and warned that he would start the process of laying off 10,000 state employees if a budget deal was not reached by Friday . Cal-Trans shovel holder-uppers and donut-eaters are NOT affected though . His office said the governor decided against pulling the layoff trigger because it appeared the Legislature was on the verge of passing a plan to close the deficit . Now, I'm all in favor of getting people off the state official mammary glands, but then the get unemployment and then state aid and then free food and housing - but don't we all know that there's NO FREE LUNCHES? Schwarzenegger as I see him is just another Kennedy, although he knows how to keep his pants zippered - for now . I also feel that he knows me and my household - in the Biblical way . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 748007 | 2009-02-14 23:06:00 | Our gasoline tax per-gallon is going up by about 30-40¢ That's not to pay for the disastrously stupid and ill-advised billions spent every week in Iraq and Afghanistan, is it? Maybe a good place to start saving money in the US economy would be to pull out of the goddamn Middle East huh? Instead of whinging about the piddly (by comparison) $30 million on that mouse - what about the $340 US million PER DAY that your country is spending on an unwinnable war? Jesus wept. |
Deane F (8204) | ||
| 748008 | 2009-02-14 23:21:00 | You Yanks have wasted and burned cheap fuel for 100 years, well its running out and you are gunna pay market price. Your state has been living beyond its means for years so a blardy big tax increase is only way to balance the books I don't have a problem spending money on an endangered animal, if its gone forever in a thousand years that price would be considered pittance. What happened to all those millions of carrier pigeons that were flying around? |
prefect (6291) | ||
| 748009 | 2009-02-14 23:42:00 | You Yanks have wasted and burned cheap fuel for 100 years, well its running out and you are gunna pay market price . Your state has been living beyond its means for years so a blardy big tax increase is only way to balance the books I don't have a problem spending money on an endangered animal, if its gone forever in a thousand years that price would be considered pittance . What happened to all those millions of carrier pigeons that were flying around? Wrong again! The taxes the average US-zen pays support the rest of the world and it's hand-biting time so I see! Not defending the US or politicians/gummermints in general, but the truth be told, the whole rest of the world sidles up the the 38Ds of Mom for a slurp and a nap . Jealousy will get you a bad rating in the "feed me or I might not like you any more" club that runs rampant in the rest of the world against the US . I hate what the US has done to everything myself, so don't get all high-n-mighty on me! The salt marsh mouse is a sole-California project - and it just shows you the porkulus legislation that goes on here . We have K-Rats, Yellow tipped Swamp-Tits and all the grasshoppers we need or could want unless they suddenly become edible - which I foresee in the very near future . If the US taxpayers go to ground, hunkers in and stops paying taxes - which is the next real pix here - the rest of the world will starve their protesting butts off . The average citizen is hogtied to correct or change the priorities of the Lords and Dukes in the state capitols and even DC . What's really going on is that the publicans are running amok with money that isn't theirs and telling the plebeian trench people that more taxes are good fer ya' and to buck-up and take it like a Bangladeshi . No - the frustration is that everyone is in sub-human survival mode here and it's coming to your neighborhood - soon . Unless you read Neville Shute's "On The Beach" and made it your fantasy Bible, you are in for a rude awakening . It's gonna be more like "A Boy & His Dog" . :crying |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 748010 | 2009-02-14 23:44:00 | Your country should not have been giving out mortgages to anyone who just happened to ask for one whether they can pay it or not and pay actors what their worth not what they want | gary67 (56) | ||
| 748011 | 2009-02-14 23:53:00 | SurferJoe46 - your country is spending $340,000,000 per day in Iraq and Afghanistan - how in hell is that helping the rest of the world? And you are whinging about $30,000,000 on an ecological spend? *** man - is your vision really that narrow? |
Deane F (8204) | ||
| 748012 | 2009-02-14 23:56:00 | Your country should not have been giving out mortgages to anyone who just happened to ask for one whether they can pay it or not and pay actors what their worth not what they want And what about sports players too? Millions in endorsements while the slums burn and little kids eat cockroaches to fill their bellies . The US is NOT the milk-n-honey that SOME have the misconceived notion it is . We have troubles, slums, gangs, drive-by shooting and starvation . Fortunately for the 50+ years I worked, I got forcefully inducted into the Social Security Club and now am reaping the beni's of that good fortune . It's my only income and I am making ends meet . That is - until the gummermint folds and I don't get my stipend any more either . We don't all waste and want for nothing here . It's doggy in the best of times and this latest situation is pre-written about in a lot of different places, on walls and paper . Hopefully, many of the friends I have met and grown to know in a "literary sense" are all well and hearty . MY thoughts go out to those who put their head in their nether and just accuse with no sense of propriety or intellect . My CONCERN is for those who can think and stop accusing . Live long and prosper . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 748013 | 2009-02-14 23:59:00 | SurferJoe46 - your country is spending $340,000,000 per day in Iraq and Afghanistan - how in hell is that helping the rest of the world? And you are whinging about $30,000,000 on an ecological spend? *** man - is your vision really that narrow? Nope - not at all . I am just showing the arcana of the situation . It's a good politician who can spend money that they don't have, will not get and yet promise a healthy return for it . The slab-sided intellect that passes here as loving and kind and looks good to those abroad are just iceberg tips and I am pointing to the absurdity of it all . "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtains" |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 748014 | 2009-02-15 00:02:00 | Joe, Just be thankful that the wimpy "Greens" aren't in power :D :D |
Zippity (58) | ||
| 748015 | 2009-02-15 00:08:00 | Wrong again! The taxes the average US-zen pays support the rest of the world and it's hand-biting time so I see! Not defending the US or politicians/gummermints in general, but the truth be told, the whole rest of the world sidles up the the 38Ds of Mom for a slurp and a nap. We stopped having a suckle when we banned your ships entering our ports. I would think the US would rely on China as much as you think the rest of the world rely's on the US. Most people in NZ have little sympathy for the US or its inhabitants |
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