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Re: http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/local/ci_20709112/brown-warren-even-poll-most-call-native-american

op23 — Mon, 28 May 2012 15:17:02 -0000

"monitored and controlled better"? Isn't that "Big Government" talk? Are you sure you have your messaging right?

I agree that our "beneficial and worthy" social programs should be efficiently managed, and not torn apart.

Perhaps we are not so different than it seems.

However, someone is always "taken care" of. The Republicans want to "take care" of billionaires, and the Democrats want to "take care" of the working class. Since 70% of our economic activity consists of spending by this vast working class, "taking care" of them provides a better economic environment for the rich as well.

History has proven that the reverse is not true. You cannot have a robust economy based on favoring the rich.

Re: http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/local/ci_20709112/brown-warren-even-poll-most-call-native-american

ChuckPotrazebie — Mon, 28 May 2012 11:50:45 -0000

It's not the government's job to "take care" of anyone. That's the whole problem; people don't want to take care of themselves, they'd rather look to the government for a hand out. I'm not saying that there are no beeficial and worthy programs, but it needs to be monitored and controlled better.
If you really believe Dems should"take care" of the un-rich, then how are they helping you? Are you better off by recieving this care? What is it costing me and millions of others to give you that care?

Re: http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/local/ci_20709112/brown-warren-even-poll-most-call-native-american

Union123 — Mon, 28 May 2012 08:13:20 -0000

You didn't answer the question. I'm not really sure what your mean by "What kind of care are you getting?" and "Are you better off now?" Better off than when?

Re: http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/local/ci_20709112/brown-warren-even-poll-most-call-native-american

op23 — Sun, 27 May 2012 19:22:23 -0000

Simply listing programs is irrelevant. Show evidence of waste please, because the cost cutting measures that have been enacted so far have been responsible for teachers, cops, and firefighters losing their jobs. Is the idea to become more efficient or to kill jobs?

Here was their [republican] outline of their "wasteful spending" alternative bill:

"a Congressional Budget Office review of a similar proposal found it
would create net savings for the federal government of only several
million dollars, far short of the $6 billion needed to avoid a doubling
of interest rates on student loans to 6.8 percent on July 1.

Brown said his bill would raise the money by creating a
government-wide "Do Not Pay List" list to reduce improper payments and
wasteful spending."

Basically a bill that would do nothing.

Investment tax rates should be for investors, not brokers. Leaving that tax loophole open and forcing the student loan interest rates up was a kick in the fork for young people struggling to gain footing, and a boon for his wall st benefactors.

Scott Brown robs from regular working people to give more to his favorite demographic. Wall St Billionaires.

Re: http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/local/ci_20709112/brown-warren-even-poll-most-call-native-american

ChuckPotrazebie — Sun, 27 May 2012 18:42:38 -0000

Do you really think they're taking care if the "un-rich"??
Tell me how; by spending more and more money on welfare recipients, particularly those who choose not to work and make more babies?
What kind of care are you getting? Are you better off now?

Re: http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/local/ci_20709112/brown-warren-even-poll-most-call-native-american

ChuckPotrazebie — Sun, 27 May 2012 18:31:20 -0000

WHAT? Not enough "wastetful spending"???
How about;
209 federal Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education programs, administered by 13 different federal agencies, costing taxpayers more than $3 billion annually.
or
Congress has spent $30 billion on more than 200 duplicative Department of Justice (DOJ) grants and programs meant to help crime prevention and assist victims of crime.
or
In 2010, the government spent roughly $170 billion on 160 housing programs aimed at helping homebuyers, homeowners and rental property owners.
or
A total of 53 programs at the Departments of Agriculture, Housing and Commerce, plus the Small Business Administration, provide similar assistance to aspiring entrepreneurs -- costing a combined $2.6 billion.
And I won't go into the millions, if not billions, in welfare fraud and abuse?
The millions, if not billions, in excessive Medicare/Medicaid payments.

The millions, if not billions, in foreign aid to countries that want us all dead!

And, there's nothing wrong with taxing rich people at the same RATE as middle income earners. However, rich people are taxed at the highest RATE for payroll earnings. Investment income and capital gains (which EVERY individual in America is allowed to participate) is taxed at a lower RATE, and that's for a reason; to promote investment in companies that hopefully are increasing the nation's prosperity.

Re: http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/letters/ci_20717678/sad-day-lunenburg-but-fight-worth-fighting

Christopher Taylor — Sun, 27 May 2012 16:02:27 -0000

Right. Because we should always vote to raise taxes on ourselves.

Re: http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/community/ci_20722732/remember-memorial-day

TinnyRay — Sun, 27 May 2012 12:28:08 -0000

No one should stand for the Pledge of Allegiance - it was the origin of the Nazi salute and Nazi behavior (see the work of the historian Dr. Rex Curry). When stories such as the one above come out, the old news media will never mention the Pledge's putrid past, nor print a photo or video of the early American stiff-armed salute. If they did, then no one would stand for the pledge. The pledge continues to be the source of Nazi behavior wherein government schools (socialist schools) begin each day by teaching bullying and peer pressure and punish dissenters. The pledge is a daily repetition of the Milgram experiment and a demonstration of the banality of evil. It is sad to see that the news recently had two stories: an adult selectwoman politician in Falmouth, MA who cowardly caved in to bullying regarding the pledge, and a 13-year-old student in a government school in Brownsville, PA who is not a coward and who defied the pledge despite ongoing persecution from cowardly adults. Francis Bellamy is sometimes referred to as America's Leni Riefenstahl because of his earlier influence on spreading socialism (and the stiff-armed gesture) through government schools et cetera. Of course, Bellamy was very religious, a "Christian socialist" and his original pledge was a small part of a his much larger pledge program replete with hymns, prayers, references to the Bible and God, including the phrase "under God." That is why the original pledge program cannot be performed in government schools, only the pledge's tiny part (to which the deifiication was also added in 1954). Bellamy wrote the pledge so that it could be imposed on children worldwide to spread his socialism. And Bellamy was successful, including success in Germany were his pledge salute was borrowed along with robotic chanting.

Re: http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/local/ci_20709112/brown-warren-even-poll-most-call-native-american

Union123 — Sun, 27 May 2012 08:17:19 -0000

If the Dems aren't taking care of the rich or the "un-rich", who are they taking care of?

Re: http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/local/ci_20709112/brown-warren-even-poll-most-call-native-american

op23 — Sun, 27 May 2012 01:05:24 -0000

There is not enough "wasteful spending". That is a vague idea that sounds good but does not add up on paper. The legislation before the senate had a concrete plan and was revenue neutral and Senator Brown opposed it specifically because it was paid for by filling a tax loophole for wealthy finance execs. (his benefactors) What exactly is wrong with taxing rich people at the same rate as middle income earners? Do the super rich deserve special treatment?

Re: http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/topstory/ci_20679426/fired-officer-seeks-return

ChuckPotrazebie — Sun, 27 May 2012 00:10:08 -0000

I don't get what you're saying "No one asks WHY there's an interest rate,....".
Why wouldn't there be an interest rate? If an entity lends money/credit, be it a bank, store, loan shark, the mob, why would they do that with no return for their efforts/cost of doing business?

Re: http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/local/ci_20709112/brown-warren-even-poll-most-call-native-american

ChuckPotrazebie — Sat, 26 May 2012 23:44:08 -0000

So what I said was the GOP wanted to "reduce wasteful spending". So what's wrong with that? Why do the Dems always want to raise taxes? Why is it always an easy answer to "tax the rich"? Because it's a ploy to make the "un-rich" believe that the Dems are taking care of them, but you know as well as I do that even if they taxed the rich at 100% they still wouldn't reduce the deficit.

Re: http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/local/ci_20709112/brown-warren-even-poll-most-call-native-american

op23 — Sat, 26 May 2012 22:13:03 -0000

The Globe reports:

"Senate Republicans said they favor preventing the interest rate increase
but oppose how Democrats would pay for it: Boosting Social Security and
Medicare payroll taxes on high-earning stockholders of some privately
owned corporations."

Your definition of "small business owners" includes "high-earning stockholders of some privately owned corporations"? We are talking about hedge fund managers here. Billionaires. That is not what I think of as "small business owners". What do you stand to gain by acting in the interests of hedge fund managers, Chuck?

Again, Brown voted against his constituents in favor of Wall Street Barrons.

Thanks for helping to clear that up.

Re: http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/local/ci_20699297/fitchburg-chief-officers-relationship-suspect-harmed-probe

EricAlmighty — Sat, 26 May 2012 13:59:23 -0000

Smells like he's your RELATIVE or BUDDY.

Re: http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/community/ci_20709981/hands-joined-circle-life

Peter Tocci — Sat, 26 May 2012 13:28:44 -0000

Respectfully suggest that before anyone gives a dime or expends any effort for cancer research, they go here: http://cutpoisonburn.com/ See the evidence that good intentions are exploited and people are being ripped off.

Re: http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/topstory/ci_20679426/fired-officer-seeks-return

Peter Tocci — Sat, 26 May 2012 13:18:07 -0000

What the mainstream networks (owned/controlled by a relative few) have in common is a taboo on the intrigue behind events (such as planning, instigating, infiltrating uprisings—or wars, for that matter), or anything that would reveal that the system is deeply rigged and manipulated by the Elite.

But I'd say it's pretty even, because people watch the network that suits them. It does seem that Fox has a little more bias, but I've also seen decent stuff on there, within limits (rarely watch any mainstream news).

But the Elite don't miss a trick, so there's also the faux alternative camp, that tries to look like it's really on track. Typical 'damage control.'

The manipulaton of human society has been going on for a very long time. SO, there are things woven into society that we think of as good, necessary, or the way things must be; but they're still part of the trap. 'The' interest rate, for example. No one asks WHY there's an interest rate, only HOW MUCH, you see? Another one is 'economic growth.' This is a suicidal compensation for debt/inflation, which are wealth-stealing elements of the rigged system.

A biggie is the consumer orgy. The conditioning that equates material lust with freedom. It's really like a drug addiction. Enslavement sold as freedom. We live in an illusion of freedom, the price of which is the destruction (liquidation) of our source of life.

There's a lot of 'normalized' insanity :-) As John Lennon said: "Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."

Re: http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/local/ci_20699297/fitchburg-chief-officers-relationship-suspect-harmed-probe

JusticeForALL18 — Sat, 26 May 2012 12:23:05 -0000

You might not know, but discrimination
does exist ESPECIALLY in that field. Whether your honest or not it's ALL about who the boss
likes, Despite having a good record. Who does not know someone who has had issues with the law.
This case smells like DISCRIMINATION..

Re: No Town Meeting to be held on Ashby dispatch services - Sentinel & Enterprise

Ashby Cantwin — Sat, 26 May 2012 10:14:02 -0000

RECALL RECALL RECALL

Re: http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/local/ci_20688347/open-meeting-complaint-ashby

Ashby Cantwin — Sat, 26 May 2012 10:12:38 -0000

king peter and court (kangeroo) he needs to go. where is that recall petition?

Re: http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/topstory/ci_20679426/fired-officer-seeks-return

ChuckPotrazebie — Fri, 25 May 2012 18:02:06 -0000

So I guess what you're saying is actually good news for Fox viewers. With their low answer-rating, they actually believe less of the propaganda that Fox, NPR, MSNBC, NBC, et al are putting out, which means the other listeners are more gullible.

Re: http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/local/ci_20709112/brown-warren-even-poll-most-call-native-american

ChuckPotrazebie — Fri, 25 May 2012 17:51:44 -0000

Op23, I think you got it a little backwards. Both the GOP and Dem plans failed, so let's stop blaming Brown. The GOP bill wanted to keep the low rate while cutting wastful spending in the preventative health care fund. On the other hand, the Dem bill wanted to end a provision in the tax code that allows small business owners to claim some income as business profits to limit the payroll taxes paid. So in other words, the typical Dem "raise taxes" mantra.

Re: http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/editorial/ci_20709033/selfless-heroism

Peter Tocci — Fri, 25 May 2012 16:52:28 -0000

Great story. Though it is awe inspiring, it is at the same time tragic. The Korean War was probably another unnecessary one.

Eerily, a scenario similar to that which led to the first Gulf War, engaged in response to Saddam's invasion of Kuwait, had occurred all those years ago in Korea.

After Saddam obediently ran the war with Iran, he wanted to recoup expenses by selling his oil. But our friend Kuwait suddenly dumped oil on the market, depressing prices below what Saddam could stand, given his poor production equipment. Kuwait was also stealing Iraqi oil across the phony border that had effectively annexed part of Iraq's southern oil fields, with slant drilling equipment acquired from GHW Bush's Zapata Off-Shore Company.

Saddam had informed the US that he wanted either the entire southern field or the Shatt-al-Arab waterway to the sea (confluence of Tigris and Euphrates rivers).

In response, he was told by two people in James Baker's State Dept.—one April Glaspie especially—that 'we have no interest in your Arab-to-Arab border disputes.' The rest is history as they say.

Prior to the Korean War, South Korea was very vulnurable to attack from the North. But Truman's State Dept, headed by Elite operative Dean Acheson, did not officially establish South Korea within the US defense perimeter. Whether this encouraged the north or not is not entirely clear, but given the tensions of the time (general Communist expansion and several years of increasingly bloody frontier incidents), it was likely that an attack would result due to this political posture and minimal military presence.

After Saddam did his job on Kuwait, April Glaspie said that no one thought he'd try to take the whole thing... Iraq was Bush-whacked. War is a racket.

But I do have to agree that the word 'hero' gets thrown around too easily. I'd say, heroes also are soldiers, like Lt. Ehren Watada, who put their weapons down when conscience tells them.

Re: http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/topstory/ci_20709232/this-is-last-thing-i-wanted-happen

Peter Tocci — Fri, 25 May 2012 15:09:53 -0000

One key question that should (but won't) be pursued in this case is if Mr Gulla was, at any time, on a violence-inducing psychodrug of any kind, but especially the SSRI type, which are notoriously associated with many cases of 'unexplained' extreme violence, including almost all the school shootings. http://www.ssristories.com/ind...

Re: http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/topstory/ci_20679426/fired-officer-seeks-return

Peter Tocci — Fri, 25 May 2012 14:50:49 -0000

If you're looking for answers to these questions from any mainstream news outlet, all you're going to get is propaganda. Faux, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, yada, yada, it's all brainwash. The 'Big O's plans are those of the Elite he serves, just as Dubya's were and all the puppets that came before.

Most uprisings are externally provoked and made more violent to provide an excuse for a regime change that advances the globalist agenda. The criminals working for this are basically the same ones who criminalize our government and control the media.

Assad has said he'd cooperate if terrorist attacks against his government would stop. So WHO is actually uprising, we don't really know, even though there may be genuine unrest (as in the US? :-) What would happen if we went to DC with guns to take down the regime?

The world's debt is a direct symtpom of the legalized crime of private banking, especially central banking. I've written about this numerous times. Monstrous scam.

There are already economic sanctions on Iran--have been for quite a while. It's a big game. Iran is NOT our enemy. It's all propaganda, not to mention that Israel sneakily and hypocritically BUYS Iranian oil.

But I'll tell you, if the US or Israel—anyone— attacks Iran, they better just nuke the place and kill everyone, because Iran's response will be total and very powerful. Iran could sink every US vessel in the Gulf in a morning. Unstoppable without nuking virtually the entire Gulf coastal region. ANY violence in the Gulf will result in severe interruption of oil. Then the media-brainwashed, self-righteous American gas guzzlers will be crying. The whole world will be on its knees.

Re: http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/local/ci_20709112/brown-warren-even-poll-most-call-native-american

op23 — Fri, 25 May 2012 13:34:11 -0000

There is no question of "where the reduced money will be made up" when Brown votes to shield banks from having to pay for their own regulation. He's happy to charge us taxpayers for that. So why is the revenue an issue when the matter benefits constituents, but not when it benefits Wall St? Hmm, maybe it has something to do with all the VERY generous campaign contributions Brown has been getting from JPMorgan and the rest of the Wall St Banksters.