tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post8163936245082225527..comments2023-10-30T09:23:42.803-05:00Comments on Some Assembly Required: SAR #13154Charles Kingsley Michaelson, IIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04364694465614330540noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-22109237847316550382013-06-03T21:35:06.961-05:002013-06-03T21:35:06.961-05:00Some ?s: Every billion that is "squandered&qu...Some ?s: Every billion that is "squandered" on the poor, is a billion that could have gone into the stock, bond, real estate, ABS, or commodities market. No worries, though, they won't succeed. Even the Republicans understand that what they're buying is complacency. HShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00297340044154436927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-72187879845328883252013-06-03T19:00:42.552-05:002013-06-03T19:00:42.552-05:00Take a good look at that bee. I understand they ar...Take a good look at that bee. I understand they are becoming rare and that there might not be any in years to come...<br /><br />Then all of the unemployed can get jobs pollinating crops by hand.Classof65https://www.blogger.com/profile/15620524862669295761noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-38189807931431978712013-06-03T14:04:30.039-05:002013-06-03T14:04:30.039-05:00Food (really?) Stamps:
To call the government pro...Food (really?) Stamps:<br /><br />To call the government program "food stamps" is to use a very loose definition of what constitutes food. The AGRIBIZ shillers of this industrialized chemical matter even themselves have had the name changed to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) trying to claim that the program delivers good nutrition which it does not.<br /><br />There are many well qualified critics of this misnamed program. Even the MSM rag, TIME, questions this program and its objectives and real purpose:<br /><br />"Sure, poor Americans who get food on the table for dinner, partly with the assistance of SNAP, must appreciate the program. But major corporations and food groups, including Pepsi, Kraft Foods, Kroger, Coca-Cola, and the Corn Refiners of America, also warmly embrace SNAP. All, in fact, have lobbied Congress and/or various states to expand SNAP and make sure that recipients have the most freedom possible in deciding how to use their allowances, including the unlimited purchase of soda and junk food."<br /><br />http://business.time.com/2012/07/09/food-stamps-more-benefit-to-big-food-than-to-the-poor/<br /><br />So, evoking some heart-wringing appeal to give people "food" is extremely misleading. What they really need is good nutrition and AGRIBIZ is little able to deliver that, particularly at a cheap price. <br /><br />For years, for example, I have passed the food donation bins at the Stupormarket and they are piled with Kraft "dinner", Frosted Flakes, Pop Tarts, Doritos, etc. How ignorant can the Food Banks be that they do not even understand basic nutrition. There would be lots more bang for the food buck by distributing bulk, simply packaged, basic staples, like oats, beans, wheat, etc. But AGRIBIZ would get less $$$$$$. <br /><br />The old saying "You are what you eat." is now "You are what they want you to eat."<br /><br />As to cost, how much does it cost to get sick from eating Industrialized, Processed, Chemicalized Matter for year after year. Those healthcare premiums, whether state subsidized or not, look quite hefty to me. <br /><br />But, of course, AGRIBIZ and SICKCARE have the same vested interests, making lots of money, so keep those TIME "soda and junk food" stamps coming. Mmmmm, mmmmm goooood!<br /><br />Financial Fraud begets Food Fraud. <br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7806136543904112143.post-80840440977295843682013-06-03T12:52:39.480-05:002013-06-03T12:52:39.480-05:00re the US Tax Code
I would like to call to your a...re the US Tax Code<br /><br />I would like to call to your attention the recent view of a reader of the Financial Times, who has a bold proposal for simplicity and fairness:<br /><br /><br /><br />http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/41742a98-59b3-11e2-88a1-00144feab49a.html#ixzz2VB0Ijwsa<br /><br />May 30, 2013 <br /><br />True equality would see us all pay the same amount of tax<br /><br /><br />Sir, Gary Silverman vaunts the simplicity of the flat-rate tax (New York Notebook, May 24) yet continues to pine for a progressive tax. I, in contrast, decry the progressivity of the flat-rate tax and pine instead for a flat-amount tax.<br /><br />Some of us are concerned by rising income inequality, for which remedies are proving elusive, and do not want to see it perpetuated in tax system progressivity. But unlike income inequality, this is something we can fix.<br /><br />Having every citizen pay the same amount of tax irrespective of economic standing would strike a blow for the simplicity Mr Silverman craves and bear a standard for true equality before the law. Now that’s something worth pursuing!<br /><br />Anson J. Glacy, Chicago, IL, US<br />mistah charley, ph.d.http://mistahcharley.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com