The rich will continue to have their toilets cleaned by the poor.


But the poor will learn a life's lesson by cleaning other people's toilets.

Organizing here:
https://www.facebook.com/OccupyLouisville#...

(Nice graphics, by the way.)

"I think we overvalue passionate feeling in this country as some form of cleansing sincerity. Feeling something has the sensation of actual knowledge, bypassing mental work, the necessity of thought and the application of reason, not to mention actual information. I think it is significant that among people suffering from dementia, the last thing to go is the ability to have a strident opinion. It is the easiest thing to generate."

Mick LaSalle - San Francisco Chronicle 8/28/11.

As one of my favorite music reviewers wrote recently in regards to internet comments: "Feeling something has the sensation of actual knowledge, bypassing mental work, the necessity of thought and the application of reason, not to mention actual information. I think it is significant that among people suffering from dementia, the last thing to go is the ability to have a strident opinion. It is the easiest thing to generate."

Mick LaSalle - San Francisco Chronicle 8/28/11.

The 1st $4896 of income is taxed at 10% = $489.60

The next bracket is $4897 - $16,896. The 1st $4896 is taxed at 10% and the next earnings up to $12,000 is taxed at 15%. Thus if your taxable income is $16,896 the actual tax rate would be 13.6%

The next bracket is $16,897 - $39,552. The 1st $4896 is taxed at 10%, the next $12,000 is taxed at 15% and the remaining $22,656 is taxed at 25%. Thus if your taxable income is $39,552, the actual tax rate would be %20.1

The next bracket is $39,553 - $81,456. The 1st $4896 is taxed at 10%, the next $12,000 is taxed at 15% and the next $22,656 is taxed at 25% and the remaining $41,904 is taxed at 28%. Thus, if your taxable income is $81,456 the actual tax rate woudl be 24.17%

The U.S. has only two more brackets. 33% for those earning between $81,457 - $175,956 (Using the formula above, actual tax rate would be 28.91%)

And 35% for every single other person making above $175,957.

Clearly we need to expand the brackets (and I think eliminate all taxes for those below the poverty rate).

to legislate less than the state level or eliminate sales taxes altogether.

And again, this is bullshit. The company that I work for must take out a resale license in every state in which we want to do business (that is, ship wine to). We collect the taxes and pay the taxes. What Amazon is arguing is putting a bone-headed ballot initiative on the ballot to dismantle current regulation.

From AFP via Forbes

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/artic...




http://blogs.forbes.com/erikkain/2011/07/0... /

Also, Glenn Greenwald published a white paper about this subject a few years ago for the Cato Institute. The only time, I believe, he has published original material there and for which he's been smeared through guilt by association and mislabeled a libertarian.

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id...

FYI, Assange is the Editor-in-Chief. Most of the articles were by-lined with "Wikileaks Staff". Though, Wikileaks states that he wrote most of the summaries that introduce the leak documents.

But here are some articles that Wikileaks has produced.

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/The_looting_of_K...

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin_Yaho...

http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Wikileaks.or...

http://mirror.wikileaks.info/wiki/Serious_... /

More info on the process on the Wikileaks site:
http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Wikileaks:Ab...

that a President can exercise when engaging our military in a new war.



If any of the above conditions are met, the the 60 day condition kicks in.

These are known as facts upon which and intelligent person may form an opinion.

One method of teaching is to break down a complex problem and relate it to real life experiences. Here is an example from my own life...

When my daughter was a new teenager, she wanted to go out with her friends at night (AKA; engaging the military).

1 ) Her Dad and I had a parental (AKA; Constitutional) duty that stipulated the she consult with us before she went out (AKA; engaging the military).
2 ) Even though she may have screamed, "I hate you and I can do what I want!", we nevertheless asserted our authority (AKA, The War Powers Resolution) and stipulated that:
a ) Based on that discussion of; who, what, where, and when... and gleaning as much extraneous information as possible (phone numbers of friends and other parental units, bus schedules, etc.) her dad and I, in consultation with each other, would say yea or nay (AKA; declaration of war).
b ) Recognize that we already said she could go to that concert two months ago (AKA; specific statutory authorization)
c ) Allow for the fact that if there is an earthquake and we are unreachable she may arrange to meet up with her friends (AKA; respond to an attack).

3 )If and only if any of the above stipulations are operative then the following conditions will apply:
a ) She must report when she reaches her destination (AKA; the 48 hour rule).
b ) She must call us every hour (AKA; the 60 day rule).
c ) We reserve the right to order her home at any time (AKA; the 30 day rule).

There is nothing in that parental duty (Constitution) and the rules (The War Powers Act) that would have allowed my daughter to skip step #2 and to straight to step #3.


(Edited to clean up some formatting.)