Great idea, put $600 in one of my pockets while taking $25000 out of my other pocket.

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Keep the ILLEGALS out, join NumbersUSA to send free faxes to your reps.

I'm a teacher, making about $60K, but my wife does pretty well...at tax time, the $34K we paid throughout the year wasn't enough for these greedy SOB's so we had to write the IRS a $7K check, upping our 2007 taxes to $41,000....meaning we paid 23 pct just in federal taxes....i live in maryland, so I won't scare you with my new tax obligations at home....but considering all the taxes we paid, wouldn't you say my family of four qualifies as legit tax payers??? no...we made too much to even get a rebate check....

Rich Galen at townhall.com has an idea why Obama can't close the deal. (Don't let the column title about Dubai fool you..it's in there):

Why? Because this is a country at war. It is a country sliding into a recession. It is a country where food and fuel inflation is beginning to affect everyone. And it is a country where people are saddled with home mortgages, student loans, car loans, and maxed out credit cards which means most of us are not more than one large financial hit - a new roof, for instance - of being completely underwater in are [sic] ability to pay our debts.

Ain't. Gonna. Happen.

The housing market revaluation has brought home ownership within my grasp. Every dime I can hoard is going to go toward a down payment.

I guess that removing one home from the vast sea of available properties, paying property taxes and spending on home improvements and the like will have a lasting effect on the economy, even if it is stupendously fractional.

I'm only one person, after all. But I'll put my rebate to good use.

Now Ted says that food riots are going to become more commonplace.

He's not alone, right? Well, his reasoning definitely puts him a class by himself. Why?

According to Ted, biofuels are not the problem, they are the solution!!

Says Ted (emphasis added):

“There are a lot of different problems being caused by an ever-increasing number of people in a finite-sized world,” Turner said. “The resources of the planet just can’t keep up with the demand and I’m afraid this going to be more commonplace. I’m afraid we’re just seeing the tip of the iceberg.

and

“liquid fuels made from plants and trees, including biodiesel for trucks and generators and ethanol for cars and cooking – could do more than fight problems like pollution and global warming.”

So what we need is more biofuels, not less!!

Oil has been a problem, but also the answer to many problems, since before WWII.  Wild-eyed speculation regarding its effects on the environment, now and in the future, are a result of thousands of lies by individuals who know that "the masses are asses". Drill and refine. Jumping into "alternative" energy with no guarantees that it will lessen our dependence on oil is foolish. Drill and refine; put the environmental charlatans out of business and the future will  be secure. Not to do so is dangerous and foolish. When it's a choice between your kids and a rare turtle, which will you choose? Your tax "rebates" are just being sucked up at the pump and at blown away at the food store. Wake up, America!

NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"

I would love to buy a Blu Ray Player, but I wiped out my savings on new car and big screen tv last year.

Layoffs are also abundent at my wifes company and things not stable at my job either. I also think gas at 117.00 a barrel and the housing crises is going to have a huge ripple effect on the economy.

I was reading an article about the violence in Chicago last weekend and the plans to stop it this weekend. As usual the liberal mayor blames the gun industry. I have a simple solution. If you are seen on the street carrying a gun, you would be fair game and shot on sight. If I found that you were trying to conceal a weapon you would be disarmed and shot. If the problem is gangs, then lock them up. If the city had a pack of wild dogs running loose then they would stop them. To me gangs are like wild dogs. There would be no mercy.

"A pharisee is hard on others and easy on himself, but a spiritual man is easy on others and hard on himself." A.W. Tozer (Pharisee=modern day liberal)

President Bush's last White House Correspondents' Association Dinner is on now on C-SPAN...may be a few good cheers and jeers in this...I hope so anyway.

Hope VP Cheney get's to speak here, he is the best when it comes to comedy and sticking it to the press....

Well, I am editing this a couple of hours later...anyway it just got over and I could post a lot about it all, to cut to the chase, I have heard of Craig Kilbourne (sp) before, but he was funny to me...you have to catch what he is saying, he was hilarious to me, plus him being Scottish and all made this gal prejudice...I say bless you Craig for what you said about his country at the very end. 

"Never murder your opponent when he is committing suicide." ~ W. Churchill

Outrage: McCain Vice-Presidential Hopeful Florida "Republican" Governor CHARLIE CRIST Wallops SMALL Business Folk with NEW $538.75 Annual Renewal FEES!!

Ever since 1999 the Fee to renew an LLC (Limited Liability Company) has been just $50 a year with no "gotcha" penalty if the owner fails to pay the fee by the MAY 1 deadline. This made Florida one of the most attractive states to set up a new business in.

LLC's are the most popular type of business entity for small family run businesses like farms, Mom and Pop stores, and self-employed people like landscapers, handymen, tree trimmers, dog groomers, etc. because they are simple to set up and operate for non-lawyers and there are no complicated tax returns involved, and the owners personal assets are not at risk if the company goes under.

LLC's have become the engine that drives new entrepreneurism in the US over the past two decades. But now it seems that Florida Governor Charlie Crist wants to punish entrepreneurism in Florida and take food out of the mouths of families who have taken the plunge and attempted to make their living by starting up their own small or home business, many of them single mothers.

Small business is the lifeblood of our economy and drives most of the new jobs in Florida.

Last year the Florida Legislature passed, and Gov. Crist signed, a bill that added a NEW $88.75 FEE to the $50 annual renewal fee for LLCs, called the "Supplemental Corporate Fee", which was originally meant to be applied to big corporate entities, not small LLCs. But the bill changed the law to charge the same fee to LLCs regardless of size. On top of that, a new $400 "gotcha" late payment fee was added to the law for LLCs. That is an 800% penalty for paying even 1 day late!!! I checked, and no press release can be found, and not one mention of it on the State's website until just before you go to make your payment online, then Wham!! a little pop up window informs you of the new whopping fee!!.

It almost seems a though they are hoping that small businesses like Grandmas Corner Bakery and all those other small and home-based business owners will miss the renewal date and have to pay the full $538.75, instead of the $50 they had been expecting.

It seems that "Republican" Gov. Charlie Crist is no friend of small business people trying to make a go of it.

Obviously, now that the cat is out of the bag, Small business will flee the state for cheaper places to incorporate. That's too bad, because Florida is one of the states hardest hit by the Recession and it now looks like that $600 that President Bush is sending, for some business owners, may end up going straight to the Florida Treasury.

In case you were wondering what Florida gives you in return for that renewal fee, the answer is virtually nothing. You get to keep the word "active" on your business file for another year, and you don't even get a certificate of renewal, they charge an extra $5.00 for that if you want one.

I miss Jeb Bush already.

And, yes, Florida has the Line-item-veto, so no excuse there for Crist.

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Communist vs. Statist '08

Q. Is Panamanian born John McCain a "Natural Born Citizen"