Comments on: It Turns Out That I Am Not A Patriot http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/02/it-turns-out-th.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:42:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Louis Howe http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/02/it-turns-out-th.html/comment-page-1#comment-9653 Louis Howe Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:13:45 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/02/it-turns-out-th.html #comment-9653 <p>This site spews the short sighted, selfish crap that gives some small businessmen a name....I ran a small business for 20 years and always provided my employees with health insurance when most of my competitors didn't. I ended up with the best staff and twice the business of any local competitor.</p> <p>Why should American taxpayers provide tax breaks and investment credits to transnational corporations moving production jobs overseas? It only makes sense that companies selling goods into the domestic market pay the full tax burden when competing with domestic producers. It's not raising tariffs, but making sure foreign production companies pay the full price of sustaining the greatest consumer market in the world.<br /> </p> This site spews the short sighted, selfish crap that gives some small businessmen a name….I ran a small business for 20 years and always provided my employees with health insurance when most of my competitors didn’t. I ended up with the best staff and twice the business of any local competitor.

Why should American taxpayers provide tax breaks and investment credits to transnational corporations moving production jobs overseas? It only makes sense that companies selling goods into the domestic market pay the full tax burden when competing with domestic producers. It’s not raising tariffs, but making sure foreign production companies pay the full price of sustaining the greatest consumer market in the world.

]]> By: SuperMike http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/02/it-turns-out-th.html/comment-page-1#comment-9652 SuperMike Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:30:06 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/02/it-turns-out-th.html #comment-9652 <p>Why do you hate America so?</p> <p>You should get the AARP to lobby to have them throw in language so that all money earned by retired people goes straight to the numerator of those metrics, and that decreases the impact of earned income on social security.</p> <p>It'll either kill it dead or you and WalMart will never pay taxes again.</p> Why do you hate America so?

You should get the AARP to lobby to have them throw in language so that all money earned by retired people goes straight to the numerator of those metrics, and that decreases the impact of earned income on social security.

It’ll either kill it dead or you and WalMart will never pay taxes again.

]]> By: skh.pcola http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/02/it-turns-out-th.html/comment-page-1#comment-9651 skh.pcola Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:57:07 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/02/it-turns-out-th.html #comment-9651 <p>True, Frederick. Bobama is presenting his socialism in a populist style that appeals to the teeming masses. This is how the "progressives" have been able to shift our society leftward over the past several generations. I'd bet ~50% of the population doesn't see any problem with this proposal. I'd make a side bet that Hillary is pissed that she didn't dream this up first.</p> True, Frederick. Bobama is presenting his socialism in a populist style that appeals to the teeming masses. This is how the “progressives” have been able to shift our society leftward over the past several generations. I’d bet ~50% of the population doesn’t see any problem with this proposal. I’d make a side bet that Hillary is pissed that she didn’t dream this up first.

]]> By: Frederick Davies http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/02/it-turns-out-th.html/comment-page-1#comment-9650 Frederick Davies Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:41:06 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/02/it-turns-out-th.html #comment-9650 <p>skh.pcola,</p> <p>There is nothing pseudo- about Obama; that is Socialism. No buts, ifs or maybes.</p> skh.pcola,

There is nothing pseudo- about Obama; that is Socialism. No buts, ifs or maybes.

]]> By: ridethewomble http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/02/it-turns-out-th.html/comment-page-1#comment-9649 ridethewomble Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:39:38 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/02/it-turns-out-th.html #comment-9649 <p>As expected, Obama blew the doors off the other candidate here in my home town of Arlington, VA. Curiously, I was one of two people I observed walking or riding a bike to my polling place all day. It seems strange that supporters of a guy who wants to reduce CO2 emissions to "80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050" (The Blueprint for Change, Barack Obama's Plan for America) would miss such a golden opportunity to demonstrate their convictions.</p> <p>The precinct is small enough that all voters are well within walking distance, yet most voters drove their six cylinder minivans. There's quite a bit of "do as I say, not as I do," here in the home of many of our nation's government employees and Capitol Hill staffers.</p> As expected, Obama blew the doors off the other candidate here in my home town of Arlington, VA. Curiously, I was one of two people I observed walking or riding a bike to my polling place all day. It seems strange that supporters of a guy who wants to reduce CO2 emissions to “80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050″ (The Blueprint for Change, Barack Obama’s Plan for America) would miss such a golden opportunity to demonstrate their convictions.

The precinct is small enough that all voters are well within walking distance, yet most voters drove their six cylinder minivans. There’s quite a bit of “do as I say, not as I do,” here in the home of many of our nation’s government employees and Capitol Hill staffers.

]]> By: Avatar300 http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/02/it-turns-out-th.html/comment-page-1#comment-9648 Avatar300 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:22:44 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/02/it-turns-out-th.html #comment-9648 <p>I wonder what everyone who called Obama a "left-libertarian" is saying now? I watched some of his speech in Madison the other night and thought maybe Hugo Chavez had ghost written it for him.</p> I wonder what everyone who called Obama a “left-libertarian” is saying now? I watched some of his speech in Madison the other night and thought maybe Hugo Chavez had ghost written it for him.

]]> By: Jim K http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/02/it-turns-out-th.html/comment-page-1#comment-9647 Jim K Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:13:04 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/02/it-turns-out-th.html #comment-9647 <p>So when Obama says he is for "change" we now know that change means: "even more social engineering via the tax code". Thank you for clarifying that for me Barak</p> So when Obama says he is for “change” we now know that change means: “even more social engineering via the tax code”. Thank you for clarifying that for me Barak

]]> By: skh.pcola http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/02/it-turns-out-th.html/comment-page-1#comment-9646 skh.pcola Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:58:58 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/02/it-turns-out-th.html #comment-9646 <p>Democrats in general don't know diddly squat about patriotism. It's ironic to see "patriotic" efforts morph into pseudo-socialism from Obama.</p> Democrats in general don’t know diddly squat about patriotism. It’s ironic to see “patriotic” efforts morph into pseudo-socialism from Obama.

]]> By: tribal elder http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/02/it-turns-out-th.html/comment-page-1#comment-9645 tribal elder Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:31:34 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/02/it-turns-out-th.html #comment-9645 <p>Obama was no mover and shaker as an Illinois Senator. </p> <p>As I expect him as effective as President as he was as an Illinois and US Senator, I believe he is the least able to permanently damage the country of the current likely Presidential prospects.</p> <p>Obama was the Illinois Republican Party's gift to the Democrats. The former incumbent Republican US Senator, Peter Fitzgerald, was abandoned by the Illinois Republicans as a sanction for backing bringing an an aggressive US Attorney to Chicago. That US Attorney started a corruption investigation (license-for-bribes) that uncovered lower level state civil servants taking bribes, at least in part to meet political contribution DEMANDS from the then IL Secretary of State/now former governor/now current guest-of-the-United-States-at-the-prison-farm-at-Oxford, WI, George Ryan. </p> <p>As for steel mills in Illinois, they're most gone. </p> <p>Obama's Illinois Senate district is an interesting community. It is the University of Chicago area--part urban/urbane/affluent and part uban ghetto.</p> Obama was no mover and shaker as an Illinois Senator.

As I expect him as effective as President as he was as an Illinois and US Senator, I believe he is the least able to permanently damage the country of the current likely Presidential prospects.

Obama was the Illinois Republican Party’s gift to the Democrats. The former incumbent Republican US Senator, Peter Fitzgerald, was abandoned by the Illinois Republicans as a sanction for backing bringing an an aggressive US Attorney to Chicago. That US Attorney started a corruption investigation (license-for-bribes) that uncovered lower level state civil servants taking bribes, at least in part to meet political contribution DEMANDS from the then IL Secretary of State/now former governor/now current guest-of-the-United-States-at-the-prison-farm-at-Oxford, WI, George Ryan.

As for steel mills in Illinois, they’re most gone.

Obama’s Illinois Senate district is an interesting community. It is the University of Chicago area–part urban/urbane/affluent and part uban ghetto.

]]> By: r http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2008/02/it-turns-out-th.html/comment-page-1#comment-9644 r Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:48:38 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2008/02/it-turns-out-th.html #comment-9644 <p>I wonder if Obama will bring back the Blue Eagle? He, too, might rise to the heights of throwing people in jail for charging too little. A new FDR, indeed.</p> I wonder if Obama will bring back the Blue Eagle? He, too, might rise to the heights of throwing people in jail for charging too little. A new FDR, indeed.

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