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Even Milton Friedman (one of the foudners of the Reagan revolution) has come out in support of legalization. http://www.forbes.com/2005/06/02/cz_qh_0602pot.html This would be the true depression indicator...FDR ended prohibition so folks could blow off some stress in the 30s; same thing withg the current Depression? You'd have to throw NY in there. I plan to spend some of my Obama-tax-policy-reduced discretionary income on a little weekend vacation to whichever state legalizes first.

There is a bill pending in your state to legalize outright. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/deadlineus...ion-legislation It will raise revenue, shift costs to where they are better needed and help stem the Mexican drug problem. If the Federal gov't is willing to cede authority to the states, we may be setting up a states rights case on this. If the states win, its legalized (in any state that wants it).

Kelly Noone is arguing about this point. I would venture to say that most folks on this board give to charity, both their time and money. I know I certainly do. The point is that it was your choice to give to your friend. The objection is where it is no longer your choice, but forced upon you by the government. And you have no choice but to give and they spend your money how they see fit.

Greatest 21 days of my life.

Except for that little problem that only 2% of Americans make over $250k. And this 2% already pays 66%+ of the taxes in this country. You're not taking the 7500k and dividing it 4 ways, you are dividing it 98 ways. Doesn't go so far and the economy doesn't get nearly as stimulated.

Again, going back to LA's point...how is it better to take capital from productive, intelligent people and give it to the mathmatically challenged? Lets take an example...that $7500 will allow me to take my family to Disney for a few days. I was intelligent enough to figure out how to make money, prudent enough not to spend what I didn't have and have to buck up a portion of discretionary income that would have been spent in the US economy. Lets not get into how stimulative a trip to Disney actually is for the economy, spending cash on flights, hotels, park tickets, meals etc. All those people need jobs too. See the point?

Because I'd rather not stare at a computer screen on the train? I tend to buy two papers a day, NY Post for fun and WSJ for information. Buying a paper with a bunch of syndicate coverage would be a waste, IMHO. You can get that online. The real value is the local writers and their various slants. The WSJ seems to have a great online model, much of the stuff is for paid subscribers, but some of it is free. The free stuff helps drive traffic to the site, the paid stuff is the real good stuff. Of course, flybys will not pay, but you still charge for the ads. Those that pay (and register) presumably permit you to charge higher advertising rates because you have demographical information.

If you take the increased Federal marginal rate of 39.6%, add the CA state rate 9.3% (I think) you are now almost at 50% without paying any local taxes, school taxes, property taxes etc. Thats a tough nut.

OK, then tell me how we will recover when the bulk of the nasty 5 year Option ARMs (many granted with no money down, no documentation and negative amortization) were written in 2004-2007 begin resetting in 2009 to much higher payments? This will get much worse before it gets better.

Funny!! 2012 at the earliest (and thats my best late-90s optimist talking).

Ooops, make that two lost decades....wow! piece de resistance

Hope you did...hope you don't work for a small business.... Article Didn't really think of that one right? Yeah, 4 states that voted overwhelmingly for him. Talk about irony of ironies.

Grab your ankles.... "Obama’s 2010 budget proposal, released today, would reinstate the top two Clinton-era tax rates of 36 percent and 39.6 percent in 2011, up from the 33 percent and 35 percent the richest Americans now pay. It would raise taxes on capital gains and dividends to 20 percent, up from the 15 percent. Obama also wants to reduce the rate by which wealthier people (couples making $250 k a year) can cut their taxes through deductions for mortgage interest, charitable contributions, local taxes and other expenses to 28 cents on the dollar, rather than the 35 cents they can claim now." Triple whammy.

Exactly what were you searching for when you found that webpage?

So, we can improve our defense by signing a guy who got replaced by Coy Wire for 1st and 2nd down? Please...no.

My feelings exactly. Look, its possible we sign Saturday and Brown, but highly unlikely. And will Brown or Saturday even be as good as Dockery was or will we get some drivel about developing our own guy in the quest for dominance and taking him in the 3rd/4th round of the draft. Meanwhile said pick will take two years just to get to Dockery's level of competance. I am not happy at all about this move. And anyone who thinks a WCO will work in Buffalo obviously did not watch the NE game at the end of December. You MUST have a strong running game and be able to stop the run. Period.

Yep. While I was not a huge fan of Dockery, he played every down and was more than serviceable. He just never lived up to the big money contract. Now we have two glaring holes on the OL. I have very little confidence that our OL will be improved next year, overall.

Lots of thing are fun in Amsterdam Especially when you are there at 22 years old

By the U6 unemployement measure (taking into account people working part-time, but looking for full-time work, those that cannot find a job for 12 months or more etc.), we are already at 16%. If you ask me, their worst case scenario is most likely and a true worst case scenario 30% unemployment, 20% of S&P 500 bankrupt, housing falling 50%, is still on the radar.

Amsterdam

True, they will really want change (again), but will the Republican party be that change? Not sure about that. Perhaps the time is right for a third party? The Libertarians? I hope so.

A part of it is the stimulus, but the real big problem is that the gov't keeps changing the rules. You'll notice the street has absolutely tanked since Geithner unveiled his infamous "non-plan" to bail out banks. At this point, I really don't care if the banks are nationalized or not, all I want is the gov't to announce what they are going to do, then shut up, stick to it and do it. Anything else will continue to crush the market with its volatility and my 2009 market low of S&P 600 is looking downright optimistic. The uncertainty over what the government will or will not do is absolutely devastating the market right now.

According to this, this appears to be one big non-story. http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_dadd...?urn=nhl,142339

Can we offer NE our 1st, 2nd and 3rd for Brady? They can keep Cassel.

OK, so Rev Al get hundreds of people to show up and protest in front of the NY Post. Apparently, we are now protesting cartoons. My question....given that this was a Thursday, why the f&*$ were these people not at work? http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090219/ts_al..._20090219234906