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Mr. Wonderful Talks Politics
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04/30/01 (9:23AM) : Charity, Arsenic and Desoto's !
Yes, as is my want, your Mr. Wonderful was up Sunday at the crack of dawn watching the morning TV talk shows. Of course, I was distracted for over thirty minutes by an MTV2 Behind the Music program about the Partridge Family. But as soon as all the former prime time celebs were once again fat and happy or dead, I switched over to Tony Snow's Fox News Sunday. There I heard Vice President Dick Cheney's unabashed truth-telling about our Congressmen, as he smilingly observed, ". . . they've got a three day week usually." And I was not surprised when he matter-of-factly stated that he had donated $7,000,000 in stock options to charity in year 2000. Which I quickly contrasted to the $300 the liberal millionaire, and former Vice President Al Gore contributed to those less fortunate in 1999. Arsenic in the water was a huge topic, because only after 7 years and 364 days in office did the criminal Clinton Presidency see fit to raise the arsenic standard to a maximum 50 parts per billion in our water. Which the new Bush Administration saw as an unnecessarily high level of purity and threatened to quickly rescind. With American life-spans continuing to increase I seriously doubt 'high' arsenic levels are causing any damage. Dear Readers, please realize that these unrealistically strict water purity standards come at a cost of millions and billions of taxpayer dollars. Your dollars. Let me compare this 'water-purity-mania' to Washington's desire to force Detroit to build the perfectly safe crash-proof passenger vehicle, rather than focusing on the drivers behind the wheel who cause 90% of all automotive collisions. Were it not for all the costly, mandated safety add-ons, which are never used by the majority of Americans (from the 'high mounted center brake light' to the blasting and flesh burning air bag designed to protect those morons who don't don the proven seat belt shoulder harness laying beneath their fat asses) our young people today would have a choice of dozens of well manufactured, substantially constructed and entirely safe showroom-fresh vehicles for well under $10,000. Rather than the $15,000 to $20,000 'safe' vehicles that exist today. I would have few doubts of how well my 1980s teenager, behind the ocean-liner-sized wheel of a 1950 Desoto, would fare in our daily Phoenix intersection demolition derbies. Strong as a tank, that Desoto would deflect today's crushable cars and most SUV's much like a nuclear submarine surfacing beneath a Japanese fishing trawler. And new, the Desoto cost but $900. Supposedly the compassionate Democrats care about the 'common man' but they don't care about causing him to pay the price, through higher water bills due to the cost of expensive filtering equipment and testing, to provide ultra clean water. Are you aware that bottled water, at a consumer cost higher per gallon than gasoline, doesn't even meet this new standard, hmmmm?
04/26/01 (10:38AM) : CA Senator Boxer Blathers on Gas !
As I was driving back from dropping my youngest at private school this morning (understand that private schools cannot afford any $150,000 yellow school buses) I heard socialist Barbara Boxer complaining about high California gasoline prices. She whined of how refiners were probably unfairly profiting from per gallon prices edging into the $2.00 range. Remember when Al Gore was slated to be our first President of the new century, back when statists like Ms. Boxer expressed no fear of his proposed $4.00 per gallon prices? With 75% of that $4.00 retail price to consist of city, county, state and mostly federal taxes we heard no talk of unfairness. Imagine, if that now Marlon Brando-sized Al Gore, Jr., (who has apparently rediscovered the joy of cannabis consumption) were now President, and gasoline was indeed a government mandated $4.00 per gallon, would Barbara still be vapor-locked about prices?
04/25/01 (4:21PM) : Finally an Administration that Watches Our Money !
The April 23rd, 2001 issue of the Washington Post, has exposed the Bush Administration as being concerned about how our tax dollars are spent. FEMA's director Joseph Allbaugh, commenting about Davenport, Iowa's refusal to construct a six foot high permanent flood wall said, "There is a point of no return. I don't know whether it's 'two strikes, you're out [or] three strikes, you're out.' . . . The question is, how many times the American taxpayer has to step in and take care of this flooding, which could easily be prevented by building levees and dikes." Davenport's Mayor Phil Yerington responded that the wall would destroy the aesthetics of his tourist town. Hell, my Phoenix is a tourist town too, but our Mayor Skippy doesn't give a hang about aesthetics. As evidenced by his trenching up of miles and miles of the most traveled streets in Phoenix and Tempe, for decades, so a mere 1.25% of our citizens, may someday be transported up to ten miles by the wildly expensive Skip Rimsza Memorial Light Rail System.
04/18/01 (7:02AM) : Powerball Lottery Send Millions to Washington !
Two Arizona brothers, Joseph and Robert Maggiano will share the $33 million Powerball lottery they claimed yesterday. Of course those millions are only what is left after the I.R.S. deducts their $22 million! Notice how these S.O.B.'s collect the taxes before they are due. Why? Because given the chance or choice the majority of taxpayers would not voluntarily pay their Federal Income Tax bill. (I find it humorous that this State sponsored Powerball lottery, when run by private citizens, was considered a felony, but when sanctioned by the federal government it is just another front to rip off taxpayers.) Understand, that one of the main functions the lottery accomplishes is to collect taxpayers dollars through gamblers residing within the boundaries of the States and move it to Washington, D.C. by hacking 40% off the winner's portion via income taxes.
04/16/01 (6:23AM) : Beltway 'gods' Ask More than God !
Today at midnight is the cutoff for filing our year 2000 Federal Income Taxes. It is also virtually the only occasion where our federal government deigns to assist the common (non-welfare imbibing) man and woman by offering actual tax preparation assistance and by allowing the USPS to collect mail until fifty nine minutes after eleven PM. How generous of the bastards to prop open the mail slot six more hours for the trillions of dollars they will siphon from the families and corporations who earned it. Only then to redistribute our income as they see fit! With Vice President Cheney's taxable income at $36.1 million, he paid 39.6%, or $14.3 million in federal income taxes. Ponder that transaction. The I.R.S. collects $14,300,000 from this gentleman for doing what, exactly? What in God's name did our federal government do to lay claim to almost forty percent of the Cheney family's income? Basically nothing. Well, not anywhere near $14 million worth. And still, the federal take of our income expands as if it were an undetected pancreatic tumor. Federal taxes increase, if not through the oh-so-obvious April 15th filings, but through other, even more chicken shit devices. For instance, can you recall the long gone benefit of being allowed to deduct the interest charges we paid on our portfolio's of credit cards? And what's with the $17.50 (11%) "US Tax" that was added to my $160 airline tickets? Speaking of God, the One who many Americans (both evil 'whites' and saintly people of 'color') still believe created all we see and continues to bless and shelter us, HE spoke in Leviticus 27:30 of His taxes: " A tithe (1/10th) of everything from the land, whether grain from the soil (or oil) or fruit from the trees, belongs to the LORD. " Considering that our Beltway-gods demand a tax portion 400% more than the Creator, shouldn't we be up in arms? Or am I the only one who cares?
04/14/01 (9:10AM) : Endangered Species Act Provision Endangered by Bush !
The environmental whackos are steaming mad at a Bush Administration proposal to limit the designation of "endangered species" solely to the discretion of the Interior Secretary, rather than to the squadrons of lawyers employed by the millions of human-hating animal worshipers. Currently, the Fish and Wildlife Service is wrangling 75 lawsuits over 400 species, with another 86 lawsuits in the wings. (Apparently the individuals most upset over this proposal will, once again, be the scum sucking $300 an hour scab eating lawyers.) On my Arizona Politics column of March 3rd, 2001, I detailed how the mere threat of a lawsuit by these homo sapiens-haters predicated the shut down of Lake Powell's massive Glen Canyon Dam generators so a serpent the size of a gherkin could be intensely studied! Of little concern to the Environmental-Investigators was the small fact that our Colorado River Storage Project was forced to spend $55 million tax dollars to purchase elsewhere the electrical current that was no longer flowing from the Glen Canyon generators! If more American citizens realized just how many billions of tax dollars these lawsuit-loving-lawyer-licking-people-hating-fish-hugging-freaks cost us we would gladly slice the mile wide umbilical cord sucking torrents of tax dollars from human needs to feed and protect attorneys and other invertebrates.
04/06/01 (1:26PM) : Senate Vote Keeps Additional $350 Billions Flowing to Beltway !
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Our brave Senators voted for a compromise blueprint tax bill of $350 billion less than President Bush has campaigned for. The votes of 50 Republicans and 15 Democrats passed the shrunken $1.25 trillion tax cut with the remaining 35 Dem's voting against it. What this means is that these Sneaky Snake Senators (even being fully aware that the Bush $1.6 trillion tax cut plan included the possibility of collecting $1 trillion less in taxes over the next ten years than projected) believe that either tax collections are going to plummet by $1.35 trillion (ie. a severe recession) OR they anticipate spending an additional $1,350,000,000,000 of tax dollars collected from you OR a combination of both. But either way know that these Civil Servant Senators have clearly demonstrated that their having your dollars to spend is more important than you having your dollars to spend!
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04/05/01 (5:23PM): The Clinton Legacy Part 327 .
Some former military types, and myself included, wondered why our now captured EP-3E Orion was not instead ditched into the South China Sea after being damaged by a collision with a Chinese fighter. We know this might have caused the death of all aboard but . . . that's what we imagine (imagine) we would've done. Then I heard the age of one of the crew members as twenty four years old, meaning that since the age of sixteen he had been living, and learning, from the most corrupt Clinton Administration. An administration so evil that even it's proposed successor tried to steal the election by counting fly specks and paper flaws as votes! Many of the servicemen aboard can recall only a President who appeared on MTV to answer the "underwear question" and "didn't inhale" and caused poorly armed United States servicemen stationed in 14th Century Somalia to be slaughtered, and drug through the streets, and was proved to be inserting his bratwurst into the mouth of a Brentwood-Brat in the Oval Office while a major terrorist plucked his beard waiting outside. Imagining that's the history of our Commander-in-Chief the majority of the servicemen aboard the EP-3E experienced, I completely understand why the plane wasn't ditched.
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But as soon as all the former prime time celebs were once again fat and happy or dead, I switched over to Tony Snow's Fox News Sunday. There I heard Vice President Dick Cheney's unabashed truth-telling about our Congressmen, as he smilingly observed, ". . . they've got a three day week usually." And I was not surprised when he matter-of-factly stated that he had donated $7,000,000 in stock options to charity in year 2000. Which I quickly contrasted to the $300 the liberal millionaire, and former Vice President Al Gore contributed to those less fortunate in 1999. Arsenic in the water was a huge topic, because only after 7 years and 364 days in office did the criminal Clinton Presidency see fit to raise the arsenic standard to a maximum 50 parts per billion in our water. Which the new Bush Administration saw as an unnecessarily high level of purity and threatened to quickly rescind. With American life-spans continuing to increase I seriously doubt 'high' arsenic levels are causing any damage. Dear Readers, please realize that these unrealistically strict water purity standards come at a cost of millions and billions of taxpayer dollars. Your dollars. Let me compare this 'water-purity-mania' to Washington's desire to force Detroit to build the perfectly safe crash-proof passenger vehicle, rather than focusing on the drivers behind the wheel who cause 90% of all automotive collisions. Were it not for all the costly, mandated safety add-ons, which are never used by the majority of Americans (from the 'high mounted center brake light' to the blasting and flesh burning air bag designed to protect those morons who don't don the proven seat belt shoulder harness laying beneath their fat asses) our young people today would have a choice of dozens of well manufactured, substantially constructed and entirely safe showroom-fresh vehicles for well under $10,000. Rather than the $15,000 to $20,000 'safe' vehicles that exist today. I would have few doubts of how well my 1980s teenager, behind the ocean-liner-sized wheel of a 1950 Desoto, would fare in our daily Phoenix intersection demolition derbies. Strong as a tank, that Desoto would deflect today's crushable cars and most SUV's much like a nuclear submarine surfacing beneath a Japanese fishing trawler. And new, the Desoto cost but $900. Supposedly the compassionate Democrats care about the 'common man' but they don't care about causing him to pay the price, through higher water bills due to the cost of expensive filtering equipment and testing, to provide ultra clean water. Are you aware that bottled water, at a consumer cost higher per gallon than gasoline, doesn't even meet this new standard, hmmmm?
