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2 mangos diced, 1 small red onion chopped, 3 jalapenos chopped, 1/2 cup Italian dressing, 1 can Rotel Chili Fixins. Serve over fish or chicken.

A little good news.

Actually, facism is simply a tweaking of Marxist socialism, Mussolini, the founder of modern facism, was initially a Marxist. The main difference between marxism and facism, in economic terms, is Marxists want businesses run by government bureaucrats while facists want government bureaucrats to lord over the leaders of business who still decide how to best produce what the government demands they produce. Facists and Marxists are both socialists to a very high degree. A bit on Hitler's economic policies QUOTE In the 1930s, Hitler was widely viewed as just another protectionist central planner who recognized the supposed failure of the free market and the need for nationally guided economic development. Proto-Keynesian socialist economist Joan Robinson wrote that "Hitler found a cure against unemployment before Keynes was finished explaining it." QUOTE What were those economic policies? He suspended the gold standard, embarked on huge public works programs like Autobahns, protected industry from foreign competition, expanded credit, instituted jobs programs, bullied the private sector on prices and production decisions, vastly expanded the military, enforced capital controls, instituted family planning, penalized smoking, brought about national health care and unemployment insurance, imposed education standards, and eventually ran huge deficits. The Nazi interventionist program was essential to the regime's rejection of the market economy and its embrace of socialism in one country. Sounds like left-wing economic policies to me. A bit more information: QUOTE In 1977, Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in his book The Age of Uncertainty that Hitler "was the true protagonist of the Keynesian ideas." QUOTE Keynes himself even explained that his theories were not incompatible with national socialism. In the forward to the German edition of his book The General Theory (1936), Keynes wrote that "the theory of output as a whole, which is what the following book purports to provide, is much more easily adapted to the conditions of a totalitarian state, than…under conditions of free competition and a large measure of laissez-faire." QUOTE "Most cruel joke of all, however, has been played by Hitler & Co. on those German capitalists and small businessmen who once backed National Socialism as a means of saving Germany's bourgeois economic structure from radicalism. The Nazi credo that the individual belongs to the state also applies to business. Some businesses have been confiscated outright, on other what amounts to a capital tax has been levied. Profits have been strictly controlled. Some idea of the increasing Governmental control and interference in business could be deduced from the fact that 80% of all building and 50% of all industrial orders in Germany originated last year with the Government. Hard-pressed for food- stuffs as well as funds, the Nazi regime has taken over large estates and in many instances collectivized agriculture, a procedure fundamentally similar to Russian Communism."

You have to produce an item before it can be consumed. A worker produces a non-worker does not. The more people not producing the lower the supply of goods, pretty simple.One of the easiest ways to understand economics is to look at things from the extremes. Assume two people are stranded on an island with enough resources to eek out a living if both individuals work 8 hours a day. Now assume one decides to sit on his lazy ass all day.

I miss Milton, he was the greatest American of the 20th Century.

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Birds of a feather flock together.

Capitalism ain't perfect.

Just compare our unemployment rate with Europe's for the last 20 years and ask why we should copy Europe's model.

All a corporation is is a business that is forced to incorporate by big government in order to be competitive. It provides most of us with jobs and all of us with goods and services. I personally think taking money from some and redistributing it is theft and immoral no matter who does it. For your information most Americans have 401K's that suffer when taxes are raised on corporations, most Americans work for corporations and suffer greatly if that corporation is forced to downsize or go out of business. All Americans buy consumer goods the price of which includes the cost of taxes imposed on corporations. Forgot to mention under our new socialist system when corporations fail the American taxpayer is now often forced to bail them out. We all got a strong interest that corporations are successful. Lower taxes on corporations means more jobs, lower inflation and higher returns on investments..that is a good thing.

Kind of hard to expand government without raising taxes for too long. It has already been done for 8 years running and look what we got to show for it.

They probably tax oranges too.

I say we show our strong stand on stopping the use and proliferation of nuclear weapons by nuking the bastards.

It might have to do with the knowledge that the Obama carbon tax is dead in the water.

Have a great one!

There was a reason the founding fathers founded a republic, not a democracy.

Maybe not a majority but enough to decide elections. Had a Poly Sci class in college and at the time a majority of Americans favored lowering the deficit but a majority also favored lower taxes and bigger government.

Maybe not a majority but enough to decide elections.

Actually, I think we are getting exactly what a majority of Americans want...big government paid for by indebting our children and grandchildren.

I think y'all just made yours up.

Just when I thought this bailout crap could not get any more annoying.

By David S. Hilzenrath Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, March 21, 2009; Page D01 As AIG takes billions of dollars from the federal government to stay afloat, it is suing the government for millions more. This Story AIG Suing To Recover Taxes in IRS Dispute Special Report: AIG The big insurer is trying to recover $306.1 million of taxes, interest and penalties from the Internal Revenue Service. Among other things, AIG is contesting an IRS determination last year that the company improperly claimed $61.9 million of tax credits associated with complex international transactions. AIG has also asked a court to make the government reimburse it for money spent suing the government. Given that the government owns 79.9 percent of AIG and has been using taxpayer money to fill a seemingly bottomless hole at the company, the lawsuit might seem like a case of biting the hand that feeds it. But an AIG spokesman said the company has an obligation to press its case. AIG believes it overpaid the IRS, and it "has a duty to its shareholders, including the government and other shareholders, to insure that it pays the proper amount of taxes," spokesman Mark Herr said by e-mail. Washington tax lawyer Martin Lobel agreed with that assessment. "If in fact they honestly believe that they're entitled to a refund of those taxes, it would be a breach of their fiduciary duty not to" sue, Lobel said. "On the other hand, the sense of entitlement from AIG is awesome," Lobel said. Because the dispute pits the government against a company that has essentially become a ward of the government, the only clear winners are likely to be lawyers, legal experts said. The legal expenses could consume millions of dollars, they said. "You're dealing with yourself, and you're paying a lawyer to do it. It seems kind of bizarre," said an international tax lawyer who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly. Lawyers at the firm Sutherland Asbill Brennan, which is representing AIG, did not respond to an interview request. The lawsuit was reported previously by the Wall Street Journal.

Too bad ya'd only be able to eat three bites.

Dumb broad; rips off the oil companies but won't take money from the feds.

A slab of ribs, cole slaw, baked potato with all the toppings and a six pack of Bud. Hell make it a case, not like I gotta worry about a hangover. Plenty of bacon on that potato.