Whine & Cheese

Phat writes:I deserve it more than they do. Im American, and will not be a second or third class anything.

Buz writes:The American Enterprise Institute has all of the stats. You need to read the whole page to get the whole story. The Bush tax cuts cut the taxes of the wealthy the most but due to investment and incentive these same wealthy contributed record tax revenues, The stats are astounding and revealing.

Wiki writes:Statements by Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist that these tax cuts effectively "paid for themselves" have been disputed by the CBPP,[5] the U.S. Treasury Department and the CBO.[6][7][8][9] Economist Paul Krugman wrote in 2007: "Supply side doctrine, which claimed without evidence that tax cuts would pay for themselves, never got any traction in the world of professional economic research, even among conservatives."[10] Since 2001, federal income tax revenues have remained below the 30-year average of 8.4% of GDP with the exception of 2007, and did not regain their 2000 dollar peak until 2006 (see chart at right).[11]Some policy analysts and non-profit groups such as OMBWatch,[12] Center on Budget and Policy Priorities,[13] and the Tax Policy Center[14] have attributed much of the rise in income inequality to the Bush administration's tax policy. In February 2007, President Bush addressed the rise of inequality for the first time, saying "The reason is clear: We have an economy that increasingly rewards education and skills because of that education."Critics state that the tax cuts, including those given to middle and lower income households, failed to spur growth. The cuts also increased the budget deficit, shifted the tax burden from the rich to the middle and working classes, and further increased already high levels of income inequality. Economists Peter Orszag and William Gale described the Bush tax cuts as reverse government redistribution of wealth, "[shifting] the burden of taxation away from upper-income, capital-owning households and toward the wage-earning households of the lower and middle classes."

Phat writes:I believe that my father earned my spot for me through his labor.

Oni writes:Who the heck is better than the US?

Dark Oni writes:I got one criteria: who wins in a fight.

Dark Oni writes:The US is the best country in the world. I can say that proudly.

Dark Oni writes:I got one criteria: who wins in a fight.

Buz regularly writes:"brainwashed sheeples"

Dark Oni writes:You would love him in the gym.

Dark Oni writes:Great workout partner.

Oni writes:Listen buck-o, you don't want to tangle with the likes of me, not these days especially. My squat presses alone would make you quiver in fear.

Dark Oni writes:New York is a great city, but you know what's a great city too? Alabama and Georgia.

Dark Oni writes:Oni

Straggler writes:The new Oni is a dickwad. I don't like him.

Buz writes:Straggler, that goes to show how irrational you really are.

Dark Oni writes:Happy, old people, watching football in great seats. You're telling me other countries have that? I didn't think so.

Dark Oni writes:But that's how you rank a country, by it's military power and overall control. So it should make you proud actually.

Dark Oni writes:You don't have the amount of fast food places we have, thus you have healthier, skinnier people living in your country who tend to get sick less. Your healthcare system can include EVERYONE and look better on paper. Ours can't. Can you imagine what kind of medical requirements are needed to take care of these over weight slobs?

Dark Oni writes:Sometimes you have to kick a little butt to change the way people behave, but not all the time. I mean, how else do you propose we make middle easterners think like us? Ask them nicely?

Dark Oni writes:She's a model, can dance, has her own clothing line and fragrance, sings too... What else does one need to do to be an artist? She's been rewarded with a tv show for a reason. Networks don't make mistakes.

Dark Oni writes:I look around, I just don't see who is unhappy. Polls or not, go to a bar, everyone is having a good time watching a game on tv. Go to any one of the malls in the US, they're FULL. People aren't shopping like that if they're not happy. Why would anyone want to commit suicide when they could hit an Applebees during happy hour and really enjoy themselves?

Drone writes:If this new "Oni" isn't an imposter, I'm hoping Oni is merely doing some type of TEMPORARY research study showing the effects of "jerkism" perpetrated on the general population.

Drone writes:Some one should tell him similar studies have already been done using American television.

jar writes:I would teach my kids that they need to compete with everyone else in the world and that it will be an exciting, wondrous and fun existence.