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Originally posted by Parihaka
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Pari one question. Did you believe in climate change at all 12 years ago? I hae a hard time accepting the argument from people it isn't manamade if their previous arguement was it wasn't real. In this country that's been the shift. Most of those who say it's real and natural today claimed it wasnt real in the past. It is natural I agree. it's a natural predicted effect of green house gas concentration.....I dont want to hijack the thread so will drop it. My self I think time will continue to prove the point. 10 yrs ago it wasnt real today it isnt manmade in ten yrs it wont be an argument in the USA anymore. I say USA because we are the only adanced nation with a large percentage of deniers left.
The best we have is scientific method hypothesis= outcome= true or false hypothesis. I respect real sleptics and trust in time they will be concvinced by facts as some notable one were this year that previously had been sited as experts in denial. The folks who still claim it isn't warming at all are living in a bubble and grab things like the predicted cooling of the upper atmosphere as proof the theory is false when the cooling supports it.
As to the Presidential race i thought Mitt was very Nixon like yesterday releasing a notorized account of the last 2o yrs. Itr shows he paid half my rate the entire period een without seeing the dirty details. Given the swiss account amnesty in 2009 and the swiss account not being mentioned on his MA disclosure form I think this is probably as far as he can go. A lot of folks just like him had swiss accounts start appearing in 2010 because of the amnesty. While it was forgiven i think in a candidates case it would be doom. If the acount had been noted in 2002 when gov i wouldnt think so but the likelihood he decided to open a swiss accoutn after it lost it's advantages is less likely than his having had one from his pre public service days.
Also, his IRA investments would of been shown and the value he placed on them at the time he made them. Given an IRA can only recieve 2500 a yr it isnt a stretch to think his with 100 million might of been built on by filling it with stock worth far more than the stated value.
Then there is the therapy horse in the olympics. Does anyone really believe a horse in constant training to compete ws the therapy horse not t he horse in the next stall with far lower costs?
He is guilty of being of his class and taking adantage of all tax benefits purchased by political donations only. The problem is it wouldnt play well with the middl if they realized just how skewed the system was. After all my last yr working I made about 80k and my total tax on wages was 23k twice Mitts rate. See, Mitt is in that unknown percentage that doesnt pay payroll taxes at all and payroll taxs are an equal portion of federal revenue as income taxes
I think the man's goose is cooked but sadly he was the best choice. it's a shame GWB so damaged the Bush brand Jeb imo would of had a great potential to be a right of center President who returned us to fiscal sanity unlike his brother who recreated fiscal insanity. he would of benn able to raise taxes and reign in entitlerments. Now, we have Boehner saying no high end increases ever which is basically like saying eliminate medicare social security or medicaid but not payroll taxes or run insane deficits forever
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