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Your Rights, Your Money...
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Mon, 2 Jun 2003 16:51:56 GMT
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"Your Rights: Use 'Em or Lose 'Em"
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16014
And, if currently proposed legislation - PATRIOT Act II - passes, you may no
longer even be a citizen. Under PATRIOT II, if you attend a legal protest
sponsored by an organization the government has listed as "terrorist," you may
be deported and your citizenship revoked. This is true even if you are only
suspected of terrorist activity and nothing has been proven. More specifically,
according to FindLaw's Anita Ramasastry, a U.S. citizen may be expatriated "if,
with the intent to relinquish his nationality, he becomes a member of, or
provides material support to, a group that the United Stated has designated as a
'terrorist organization.'"
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"Locked Up in Land of the Free
Inmates: The United States has surpassed Russia as the nation with the highest
percentage of citizens behind bars."
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0601-01.htm
Today the United States imprisons at a far greater rate not only than other
developed Western nations do, but also than impoverished and authoritarian
countries do.
[Edit: And why? Because a forced working class is good business. See UNICOR:
http://www.unicor.gov/]
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"Enron Used U.S. to Bully Poor Nations"
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16041
Enron, a bankrupt company that allegedly paid no taxes in the 15 years before it
went broke in 2001 - despite earning billions of dollars in declared profits -
regularly and aggressively called on staff from the Treasury, the State
Department, the office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the World Bank to
meet with foreign officials to favorably resolve its problems and disputes with
their governments.
The company collapsed at the end of 2001, billions of dollars in debt and facing
accusations of accounting frauds.
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"The War Profiteers Card Deck"
http://www.warprofiteers.com/
AND
http://www.ghostelectricity.com/warprofiteers/WarProfiteerCardDeck.pdf
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"Another Day, Another $350 Billion in Debt"
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16052
You no doubt saw this - Mr. Bush signing his tax cut. A big day for the
President. But in fact, it's the richest Americans - the top one percent - who
get the lion's share of the tax cuts - people like Secretary of the Treasury
John Snow, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Commerce Don Evans,
multimillionaires all. Mr. Cheney actually cast the deciding tie-breaker vote in
favor of the tax cut in the Senate. As a headline in the Wall Street Journal
says, some [wealthy] people could wind up paying virtually no tax at all.
Where's that money coming from to make the rich richer? Some of it's coming from
the working poor. Remember that $400 per child tax credit that was in the tax
bill? We have now learned that at the very last minute, behind closed doors, the
Republican leaders in Congress pulled a bait-and-switch. They eliminated from
the bill that $400 child credit for families who make just above the minimum
wage. They will use that money to pay for the cut on dividend taxes.
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You get the precise amount of government that you deserve.
-- Hop-Frog
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| In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti wrote: snip (...) That statement is patently false! It comes from the rich's own pocket! Get your facts straight, you socialist in sheep's clothing. (...) Tax Credit = $$$ give away. Explain to me why I (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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