JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- English Instructor (Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe)
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sailwind
Just for the record I was backing Cain way back in May when he first announced. Good to see him move into a real frontrunner status..
sailwindMay. 22, 2011 - 02:50PM JST
I like the guy. Knows how to create jobs, real jobs and was head of the Federal Reserve Bank in Kansas City. He knows economic reality and federal policy. A potent combination to get our economy back on track with some real 'been there, done that' experience. Plus he isn't a darling of the Washington beltway or Ivy league elite types, I like that.
The Herminator is my number 1 pick in the field so far.
Posted in: Confident Cain plans to cut back campaign events
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sailwind
Count me as being on-board the Cain Train.
Article could use a little actual research though.
He was in Iowa last Saturday 23 Oct and he was in New Hampshire 13 Oct giving speeches.
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sailwind
I also see in color. Prominent Democrats and their traditional union supporters have voiced their support to this movement. Our mainstream media in the U.S has a left wing bias and when it comes to reporting you will get a left slant. Party affiliation is important in the context of the whole movement. Reporting on the the Tea Party movement almost never fails to mention that it is primarly Republican party backers in nature in an article. Why the exception in this case or any other articles on the OWS movement? Bias.
An objective article would have included party affiliation to let people decide for themselves if Democrats really do support the movement after all.
Posted in: Patience tested over waste, crime at Occupy protest sites
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sailwind
Article fails to mention that the Mayor of Oakland is a Democrat, The Mayor of Providence is a Democrat and the Mayor of Philidelphia is a Democrat. Don't blame them though for taking some pretty heavy measures to boot them out though.
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sailwind
Actually this was a pretty easy call for President Obama. Though we might be leaving Iraq's official borders we will still have a permanent large presence in the area right next door in Kuwait. There are 7 Army base camps there and one Air force base in country. Kuwait has no problems hosting us or our bases after liberating the country from Saddam in the first gulf war.
It would have been better if we could have reached a joint security pact with the Iraq's and maybe have one base set up in the country in my opinion though. The Iranians show no sign of being nice in the future toward anyone in the region. Though a base in Iraq would really be more geographically symbolic its not really geographically important with Kuwait so close by.
Our military presence in Kuwait should still cause the Iranians serious pause if they have designs on stirring up trouble in Iraq. It also allows the Iraqi Government to save a little face also by holding a hardline on the U.S. The Iraqi's are smart enough to know that we aren't really leaving the area. Were just moving back in next door and will be right back in if needed by the Iraqi Government.
Good for President Obama to praise the troops in his statement today I might add.
Posted in: Obama announces total U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq by year's end
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sailwind
Alphape - " If you say that there is not anyone who is viable, then are you saying that half of the Americans polled are not too bright"
I think millions around the globe would say 'Amen!' to that. :-)
Must be the reason we voted in President Obama not being very bright and all.
Posted in: Public unsettled on who should challenge Obama
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sailwind
Which either makes them Socialists or Communists or just fringe and should be treated as such.
Posted in: Occupy Wall Street movement flexes muscles one month on
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sailwind
Yabits,
Nothing in life is "free".
Just ask our native American Indian population about the price they had to pay so our Government could give away "free" land.
Posted in: Occupy Wall Street movement flexes muscles one month on
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sailwind
Seems many in the OWS aren't waiting around to get some wealth distributed right away.
Occupy Wall Street protesters said yesterday that packs of brazen crooks within their ranks have been robbing their fellow demonstrators blind, making off with pricey cameras, phones and laptops -- and even a hefty bundle of donated cash and food.
“Stealing is our biggest problem at the moment,” said Nan Terrie, 18, a kitchen and legal-team volunteer from Fort Lauderdale.
“I had my Mac stolen -- that was like $5,500. Every night, something else is gone. Last night, our entire [kitchen] budget for the day was stolen, so the first thing I had to do was . . . get the message out to our supporters that we needed food!”
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sailwind
They finally discovered that there really is no such thing as a free lunch. But it isn't keeping them from trying to get one anyway.
Posted in: Occupy Wall Street movement flexes muscles one month on
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sailwind
Well, you are certainly free to believe in the all the falsehoods and misconceptions you want to, but are you ever going to be embarrassed when you come to finally learn the truth.
That the Constitution really consists of negative rights? Limiting what the Government can and cannot do? That those limits are enshrined as law therefore granting and guarenteeing Freedom to all the citizens?
Gosh, I never knew.........If you make something the law of the land that prevents the Government from taking away your freedom that it really means the State didn't grant you your freedom in the first place. Those founding fathers sure were a sneaky bunch after all.
Posted in: Obama uses King speech to attack obstructionism
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sailwind
Yabits,
You do know the difference between The Declaration of Independence which you are quoting and the Constitution I would hope. You've confused the two. The Constitution is our actual Governing Document and the Bill of Rights is where that Freedom of assembly, Freedom of Speech can be found as the law of the land. Our rights and freedom IS granted by the State.
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sailwind
The Constitution says the state does give freedom to the people and our leaders swear fidelity to that piece of paper. Abstract concept? The Bill of Rights is an abstract concept? Martin Luther King didn't understand that and demanded that the same be afforded to all Americans no matter what color??
He said in case you missed it.......When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.
I think I understand what he was saying just fine.
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sailwind
Respectfully disagree. The most important duty of the state is to be a servant of the people. Government of the people, for the people and by the people. In a free society kids that do have talent already have that chance by the very nature of living in a free country. No matter how poor one is or what station in life the promise of America was and is that anyone could make it no matter who or what his background was. It was what caused the flood of immigrants to our shores. The statue of Liberty with her words “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
Martin Luther King in his wise words in his " I have a Dream" speech understood that basic promise and tenet in American life and faith in the individual rising no matter his condition was denied for Black Americans and codified into law. His speech the part that many folks gloss over was in fact a demand that America finally cash that check for freedom to all Americans regardless of skin color.
His words;
In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
I have always been moved by that part of his speech.
The state owes our children one thing and one thing only, freedom and real freedom means all the joy and terror that comes that word when one has to rely on self first and Government second.
My humble opinion for your consideration on what Mr. King's legacy means to me.
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sailwind
They are called parents and their responsbility. Government makes a lousy substitution for them.
Fairness and an equal playing field are noble goals to pursue but it does not promise an equal outcome that is utopian thinking. This is where Liberals fail. Equality of results is nothing more than zero sum and life does not work that way. Martin Lurther King was a great man and "to be judged on the content of ones character and not the color of ones skin" is all anyone can ask of another. You take and judge men one at a time and life will never be "fair" but it can be just to ensure all rise or fail based on their character and worth.
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sailwind
Yabits,
Actually it is the policies you advocate that keep millions mired in poverty for generations. And it also obvious you have not really looked into Cain's plan and are just repeating hyperbole.
Point one. The 9 percent national sales tax is not an add-on tax at all. It replaces all the hidden taxes already embedded in selling prices the commonly called "hidden taxes" that we all pay everyday. Here are some items that already jacked up by the federal govt. Want to buy a bicycle made in Chine and sold in the U.S your already paying a 11 percent import tax. Flashlight made in the Canada your paying 18 percent, how about a broom? 32 percent. Cain's plan replaces the current tax code entirely. Also as a Liberal this is about as close as you can get to that darling of a Tax that Liberals love so much......A VAT tax something that been hawked around Liberal think tanks and looked at since the Clinton administration. Many Conservatives have major heartburn with this portion of his plan. I agree with it though for the simple fact that once you ring out all the hidden taxes and costs during production that we currently have in our current system and base all of production on a one time 9 percent rate, consumer prices will actually go down not up.
Posted in: Obama blasts Republicans for blocking jobs bill
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sailwind
Yabits,
Could you leave out the personal attacks......Thanks in advance.
Posted in: Obama blasts Republicans for blocking jobs bill
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sailwind
zurc,
You do understand that Cain's plan throws out the current mess we call our Tax code. Throws all of it out and that includes all the tax breaks currently in it for the rich. Talk about a real game changer on how Washington currently works and how it would have to change the way it currently does business and in my opinion for the better. Lot's of lobbyists and special interests groups are going to have find a new line of work.
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sailwind
Obama's plan failed the first time. I am at loss why he try it again under a different name. Cain's plan.......
Former Treasury hands Gary and Aldona Robbins priced out the Cain plan on a static basis and discovered it to be revenue neutral. Essentially, they found a $26 trillion tax base yielding $2.3 trillion in revenue for a 9.1 percent overall rate. Hence, 9-9-9.
In essence, the Cain plan combines the flat tax (with its single marginal rate) and the fair tax (which uses the national sales tax). I don't know if this is really possible. But in terms of first principles, throwing out the tax code, lowering marginal tax rates, getting rid of the carve-outs and deductions that make the current code impossible to understand, and providing an economic-growth tonic to heal our current funk, it makes a lot of sense.
That Herman Cain is rising in the polls is no surprise.
Lawrence Kudlow's take on it.
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sailwind
Only who's going to pay for it?
Our next generation as usual.
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