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Actually, it's President Obama, and taxes are at their lowest levels in approximately 60 years.

Wrong!

Right.

Tax bills in 2009 at lowest level since 1950

Amid complaints about high taxes and calls for a smaller government, Americans paid their lowest level of taxes last year since Harry Truman's presidency, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data found.

Some conservative political movements such as the "Tea Party" have criticized federal spending as being out of control. While spending is up, taxes have fallen to exceptionally low levels.

Federal, state and local income taxes consumed 9.2% of all personal income in 2009, the lowest rate since 1950, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reports.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/taxes/2010-05-10-taxes_N.htm

Facts are facts, Ulysses G.

Even if they don't provide support to your particular ideology.

I was just thinking about this post, and the above statistic is for all taxes (local, state and federal), so I did a bit of searching and found this graph which shows federal income tax levels for the past 50 years on average, middle-income families.

http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3151

I don't know if this event was real or not, but do you really think that Mossad and other covert Israeli military agencies wouldn't engage in "false flag activities" at this juncture?

They do not need to bother.

Yeah, that's probably the decision Netanyahu came to, so he sent a quick message over to Mossad: "No need to bother".

That's only assuming the money saved would have been spent on bridges. The last couple years of the Clinton administration we had a surplus. It would have been nice if some of that went to repair bridges, strengthen the levees in New Orleans or even feed the poor. BUT IT DIDN'T.

Governments don't spend money to feed the poor in their own country, it's left up to charities.

In November 2008 (3 months before President Obama took office), 30 million americans were using food stamps.

Food stamps are issued by the US govt. to feed the poor in the US.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/25/AR2008112502553.html

I just thought of another US government funded program that feeds the poor in the US.

The National School Lunch Program.

http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/lunch/

This fantastic program provides a nutritional lunch to children from low income families.

It is highly unlikely that Hamas or anyone Palestinian for that matter, will provoke Israel in advance of the September UN vote. Even the dumbest person should consider the reality of this when placing blame for the day to day nonsense between the two groups. Expect some false flag activity as it is highly likely and for very logical and academic reasons.

And away we go with the conspiracy theories.

I don't know if this event was real or not, but do you really think that Mossad and other covert Israeli military agencies wouldn't engage in "false flag activities" at this juncture?

Appears to be a job well done by the Phuket police. However, these two don't strike me as master criminals.

In November 2008 (3 months before President Obama took office), 30 million americans were using food stamps.

Food stamps are issued by the US govt. to feed the poor.

http://www.washingto...8112502553.html

And now over 45 million rely on them, over 50% increase. How's that for change?

Do I need to remind you of the financial crisis that took place in 2008?

Take a look at the unemployment numbers for 2008. Are you seriously claiming that the millions of people who lost their jobs in the final quarter of 2008 are on food stamps because of President Obama?

No. Seriously.

So then why did you post, "And now over 45 million rely on them, over 50% increase. How's that for change?"

I've always understood it to be "boys in brown".

In November 2008 (3 months before President Obama took office), 30 million americans were using food stamps.

Food stamps are issued by the US govt. to feed the poor.

http://www.washingto...8112502553.html

And now over 45 million rely on them, over 50% increase. How's that for change?

Do I need to remind you of the financial crisis that took place in 2008?

Take a look at the unemployment numbers for 2008. Are you seriously claiming that the millions of people who lost their jobs in the final quarter of 2008 are on food stamps because of President Obama?

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_04/023170.php

^Actually, it's President Obama, and taxes are at their lowest levels in approximately 60 years.

I read recently that if the tax rates were brought back to the levels they were at during the 1990s (arguably the largest economic boom in the history of the US), it would wipe trillions of dollars off the deficit.

Actually it is anything we want to call him

I suppose it's a question of how one is brought up.

That's only assuming the money saved would have been spent on bridges. The last couple years of the Clinton administration we had a surplus. It would have been nice if some of that went to repair bridges, strengthen the levees in New Orleans or even feed the poor. BUT IT DIDN'T.

Governments don't spend money to feed the poor in their own country, it's left up to charities.

In November 2008 (3 months before President Obama took office), 30 million americans were using food stamps.

Food stamps are issued by the US govt. to feed the poor in the US.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/25/AR2008112502553.html

Also what kind of meglomaniac proposes 3.7T in spending when they know what current revenues are? Must be that Yes We Can thing?

President Bush's final budget proposal was for $3.1 Trillion. I wonder if you posted about his megalomania?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/04/AR2008020400493.html

Actually, it's President Obama, and taxes are at their lowest levels in approximately 60 years.

Wrong!

Right.

Tax bills in 2009 at lowest level since 1950

Amid complaints about high taxes and calls for a smaller government, Americans paid their lowest level of taxes last year since Harry Truman's presidency, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data found.

Some conservative political movements such as the "Tea Party" have criticized federal spending as being out of control. While spending is up, taxes have fallen to exceptionally low levels.

Federal, state and local income taxes consumed 9.2% of all personal income in 2009, the lowest rate since 1950, the Bureau of Economic Analysis reports.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/taxes/2010-05-10-taxes_N.htm

Facts are facts, Ulysses G.

Even if they don't provide support your particular ideology.

^Actually, it's President Obama, and taxes are at their lowest levels in approximately 60 years.

I read recently that if the tax rates were brought back to the levels they were at during the 1990s (arguably the largest economic boom in the history of the US), it would wipe trillions of dollars off the deficit.

President Barack Obama has wrung a big concession from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who has essentially agreed to accept the 1967 borders as a starting point for peace talks with the Palestinians, according to an Israeli TV report on Monday.

The decision by Netanyahu represents a dramatic policy shift for the Israeli prime minister who was incensed in May when Obama publicly proposed that the 1967 borders be the basis for negotiations with the Palestinians.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/60429.html#ixzz1TpE7ovpW

The arc of history is long but it bends towards justice!

And that UN vote next month was certainly a factor too.

^^Racist images certainly don't help to lift the level of discourse. You should be ashamed of yourself.

President Bush and the Republican controlled congress brought the US economy to the brink of chaos, and now Republicans are blaming President Obama for not cleaning it up fast enough.

Talking about the freshmen congressmen, the tea party guys. They don't owe anything to anybody

Except the one who was recently sued for $117,000 because he didn't pay his child support.

http://news.yahoo.com/ex-wife-ill-congressman-owes-117k-child-support-053204680.html

I just read in a newspaper (which can't be linked to) that the sale of those inflation indexed bonds ended today, not next Wednesday.

Just looking for opinions on the question posed in the thread title.

Additionally, do you think it will be a long term effect or is it likely to revert back to ~30 once the debt ceiling is eventually increased?

Thanks.

an embarrassment to Israeli democracy and makes people around the world wonder if there is actually a democracy here,"

Yes, a type of "democracy" still exists in Israel, but it is increasingly becoming one which is primarily used for propaganda purposes.

In my opinion, what people around the world are wondering is what it's going to take to rein in the extremists currently heading the Israel government.

Camp David is "Obama's country retreat"?

It has been used by every US President since the 1930s, and President Eisenhower renamed it after his grandson, David.

This a short-sighted decision from an intellectually challenged, faux cowboy, Texas governor.

Hmmm.

There seems to be a pattern emerging.

Forget all those sugary drinks and switch to water for a month or two. You'll be surprised at how much weight you drop.

Thanks again for your replies to this thread.

Yes, there is accomodation available at SuanSon Pradipat Army Building, but the rooms don't appear to be very nice.

Can anyone recommend a clean and safe dog kennel in NST?

Thanks.