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I was travelling and in an airport yesterday the 25th. I took a peek at the front page of the newspaper (NY Times) and was SOOOO dismayed. It wasn't any one story, but the conglomeration that got to me. Top stories.
- North Korea threatens US with "merciless response" if it tries to make the current nuclear crisis on the peninsula an international issue rather than a US/NK issue.
- Bush considers new congressional proposal from congress to cut dividend taxes as economic stimulus. (Only those who already *have* money get dividends, and only stocks that *made* money pay dividends, you f-ing morons).
- Congress rejects proposals to limit prescription drug prices (guess which lobby influenced that decision? - please just bleed us middle class dry so some fat cat can piss away America's wealth)
- "Santa"-clad soldiers deliver Saddam's Christmas present (missiles, of course), to US soldiers in Kuwait
Add that to what I saw today in a Business Lawyer's magazine:
- CEO's actually got a *net* increase in total compensation of 7% last year.
- In fact, American Express CEO (don't get me wrong, I really like AMEX) Kenneth Chenault got a pay raise of 100% from the previous year - and now makes $14.5 million a year. Talk about winning the lottery.
- American businesses are running offshore at amazing rates - where they avoid taxes. Never mind that declaring bankruptcy protects businesses so easily it is second nature (unlike normal people, who just had the noose tightened on their declarations of bankruptcy). Never mind Bush wants to cut corporate taxes. None of it matters when you put your company in Bermuda. Enron has 8 subsidiaries there - oh, and Enron has paid NO taxes for four of the last five years in the states. Tyco International headquarters itself there as well, with only 2 of its 240,000 employees manning the office. This bullshit costs the government $70 billion last year.
Okay, this is becoming a [img]graemlins/rant.gif[/img]
Guess my question is simply wtf? No, let me say it clearer: W_T_F?????!!!!!!
Guees it's a repug world - hope you like it. [img]graemlins/dontknowaboutyou.gif[/img]
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