[Rhodes22-list] Reduce your federal income tax (political humor)

[3drecon at comcast.net]

The Federal Government needs to stay out of the state's business and do what the Constitution and Bill of Rights allows regardless of party.  The Dept of Ed was a Democrat Frankenstein (just like the Dept.of Homeland Security is a Republican Frankenstein) to make the ignorant populace feel better.

Philip

P.S.  No problem about the boating questions.

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From: "stan" <stan at rhodes22.com> 

> Philip, 
> 
> As long as you put it in the form of a question, I thought the dumbing down 
> of America was a Republican program since they have controlled the 
> government for such a long stretch. I thought "no one left behind" was a 
> plan to hold back all the bright kids until the ones who apply for jobs with 
> GB ketch up I thought their slogan was, "an uneducated electorate is our 
> best customer". 
> 
> Philip - I will answer your boating queries off line tomorrow when I am 
> thinking right (instead of left) - just killing time waiting for a 4 o'clock 
> prospect. 
> 
> stan/gbi 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <3drecon at comcast.net> 
> To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" 
> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 2:58 PM 
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Reduce your federal income tax (political 
> humor) 
> 
> 
> > The education system in this country has been in the clutches of the 
> > Democrats for years, speficially the NEA and AFT. A majority of the 
> > teachers in this country are liberals. Jimmy Carter's Dept. of Education 
> > hasn't helped and, as a matter of fact, things have become worse since the 
> > creation of that leviathan. Who is responsible for the deplorable 
> > condition of education in this country? 
> > 
> > Philip 
> > 
> > -------------- Original message -------------- 
> > From: "stan" 
> > 
> >> We can testify to the righteousness of Brad's sermon - the only 
> >> difference 
> >> may be that our guys are very nice - probably because they have such a 
> >> nice 
> >> boss... 
> >> 
> >> I have been trying to tell Lou Dobbs and my Congressman Butterfield (he 
> >> claims to be a Democrat but I have not noticed) that it is not a matter 
> >> of 
> >> not wanting to hire locals or paying imports less (we pay them more) or 
> >> even 
> >> finding some locals who really want to work. The issue that gets buried 
> >> is 
> >> that the locals just cannot do it. Their education is an embarrassment. 
> >> Locals have told me their sun rises in the east and makes a right turn to 
> >> set in the south or rises in the west and makes a turn to set in the 
> >> north - 
> >> depending on which way you are facing. I have actually been told that the 
> >> reason they drilled a hole in the boat in the wrong place (where 
> >> incidentally no one with a brain could imagine the hole would go) was 
> >> because their ruler was different than mine. I gave it an 18 year shot. 
> >> They just can't do it. The guys I get form other countries and who can 
> >> barely speak the language, can do anything, will do anything or learn it 
> >> in 
> >> minutes. 
> >> 
> >> If we do have to stop the world to let me off, I will fight to take them 
> >> with me - 
> >> 
> >> ss 
> >> 
> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >> From: "Brad Haslett" 
> >> To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" 
> >> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 1:07 PM 
> >> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Reduce your federal income tax (political 
> >> humor) 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> > Dave, 
> >> > 
> >> > Here is the key economic issue for the contractor. You can't clain an 
> >> > expense for labor costs that you didn't pay, because it would be 
> >> > illegal 
> >> > to 
> >> > pay illegals, get it? So you balance your income tax rate against 
> >> > against 
> >> > the risk of not doing business. What is the risk? The risk is that 
> >> > nothing 
> >> > would have happened that day because no one showed up. There are some 
> >> > other 
> >> > benefits. Illegals don't sue you. They couldn't sue you for being 
> >> > racist 
> >> > because, after all, you hired someone with different colored skin than 
> >> > you. 
> >> > But they could sue for safety violations, but they're not stupid. 
> >> > Supply 
> >> > and demand being what it is, they'll tell you to go f*%k yourself if 
> >> > you 
> >> > put 
> >> > them in harms way, in Spanish of course but you get the message. The 
> >> > American dream isn't being stolen away. People are giving it away, or 
> >> > smoking it away, or shooting it up away, etc. These Beaners (yes I said 
> >> > it, 
> >> > I say it to their face and don't apologize for for saying it to you) 
> >> > are 
> >> > out 
> >> > hustling the lazy Americans. 
> >> > 
> >> > Lazy Americans. Gone for the afternoon, another subject for another 
> >> > day! 
> >> > 
> >> > Brad 
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > On 6/29/06, DCLewis1 at aol.com wrote: 
> >> >> 
> >> >> 
> >> >> Bill, 
> >> >> 
> >> >> I don't doubt that people were excluded in WWII, but many were 
> >> >> accepted. 
> >> >> And it occurs to me that their simply walking across the boarder - as 
> >> >> so 
> >> >> many 
> >> >> immigrants do today - would have been one straightforward solution, 
> >> >> and 
> >> >> a 
> >> >> very 
> >> >> easy solution back in 1940. They could have caught a cruise to NYC, 
> >> >> Vera 
> >> >> Cruz, wherever, and just not gotten back on the ship - I bet many 
> >> >> refugee 
> >> >> immigrants do just that. 
> >> >> 
> >> >> Regarding people not born in hospitals not having birth certificates 
> >> >> so 
> >> >> they 
> >> >> can't apply for Soc Security, you and I both know people are born at 
> >> >> home 
> >> >> every day - they are born on the highway, at 30,000 ft, everywhere - 
> >> >> you're 
> >> >> going to tell me that these people are now stateless, destined to 
> >> >> wander 
> >> >> the 
> >> >> world as homeless people? I don't think so. I'm confident the 
> >> >> government - 
> >> >> brain dead though it may be - has a straightforward way to certify 
> >> >> these 
> >> >> people 
> >> >> as citizens, and if they can be certified as citizens they can have a 
> >> >> Soc 
> >> >> Security card and/or other proof of citizenship. 
> >> >> 
> >> >> Now you may counter the above by saying the people you were dealing 
> >> >> with 
> >> >> just never went to that trouble, but again I have to wonder 
> >> >> why. Having some 
> >> >> proof of citizenship will let you get a drivers license, proof of ID 
> >> >> from the 
> >> >> DMV, etc. People use those documents daily to get into bars, drive 
> >> >> cars, 
> >> >> get 
> >> >> jobs, etc. It's passing strange that it just never occurred to your 
> >> >> friends 
> >> >> to make that effort - surely it's inconvenienced them in myriad ways. 
> >> >> I 
> >> >> have 
> >> >> to wonder what's up. 
> >> >> 
> >> >> Regarding your statement that substantial payments are made by the 
> >> >> illegal 
> >> >> immigrants to support their infrastructure needs - this is the core of 
> >> >> our 
> >> >> disconnect. Neither I, nor Wally, Brad in his dreams, nor anyone else 
> >> >> posting 
> >> >> on this board - other than you - believe that illegal immigrants 
> >> >> working 
> >> >> on a 
> >> >> daily cash basis make payments (i.e. report their income and pay 
> >> >> taxes) 
> >> >> to 
> >> >> support the social infrastructure they use. If a contractor is billing 
> >> >> his 
> >> >> costs, THE CONTRACTOR (not the immigrant worker) may have to pay 
> >> >> taxes, as 
> >> >> PT pointed out, but if he's not billiing hours and their costs don't 
> >> >> appear, 
> >> >> he may well not pay any taxes. We may just have to disagree on this 
> >> >> issue. 
> >> >> This is the core issue. 
> >> >> 
> >> >> Dave 
> >> >> 
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