So, the big news out of Washington is that Obama has compromised with the Republicans. Tax cuts for everybody all the while extending unemployment benefits for some more amount of time.
The complain from the Left, and I admit that I’m impressed the Left cares about such nonsense, is that the tax cuts will add to the deficit.
Posted in Economics, Politics: National
Tagged Barack Obama, Politics, Republicans, Taxes
Okay, so turns out that there is a concept in law that describes how parts of laws and/or contracts are interpreted.
In law, severability (sometimes known as salvatorius, from Latin) refers to a provision in a contract which states that if parts of the contract are held to be illegal or otherwise unenforceable, the remainder of the contract should still apply. Sometimes, severability clauses will state that some provisions to the contract are so essential to the contract’s purpose that if they are illegal or unenforceable, the contract as a whole will be voided. However, in many legal jurisdictions, a severability clause will not be applied if it changes the fundamental nature of the contract, and that instead the contract will be void; thus, often this is not explicitly stated in the severability clause.
Severability clauses are also commonly found in legislation, where they state that if some provisions of the law, or certain applications of those provisions, are found to be unconstitutional, the remaining provisions, or the remaining applications of those provisions, will, nonetheless, continue in force as law.
Now, I didn’t know this. But I:
The fact that there are people in this world who have done either 1, 2 and/or 3 and STILL don’t know this rule about Severability is NOT my problem.
But it DOES speak volumes as to their qualifications to do any of the above!
Posted in Health Care, Politics: National, Raising Men
Tagged Abuse of Power, Barack Obama, Democrats, Leftist, These People Vote
Let’s get one thing straight.
We ALL agree that we ALL should pay SOME tax.
The government needs money to pay for things that governments do.
We can disagree about what a government should do and how much it costs that government to do it, but serious, we have to pay some form of tax.
That said, what we tax and how much we tax is a whole conversation that needs to be had.
Posted in Economics, Politics: National
Tagged Barack Obama, Democrat, Economy, Hauser's Law, Politics, Taxes
It’s heating up. And something has to be done.
We need strong leadership on the issue and we need it now.
Sadly, Obama isn’t gonna be the guy to do it.
1. He simply doesn’t know HOW to lead. Which, of course, has been my main complaint all along.
2. He doesn’t WANNA lead right now because it’ll interfere with his election prospects.
So, it’s left to the states and the towns.
And THIS is what you get when that happens:
We’ve heard it before. I’m sure we’ll hear it again.
Wall Street banks and their greed caused the Great Recession. And what’s more, it’s those same banks, sitting on our money given to them via TARP, that are KEEPING us in recession because they won’t lend money!
Greedy bastards!
But is it true?
Posted in Economics, Economy, Elections 2010, Politics: National
Tagged Abuse of Power, Barack Obama, Recession, Stimulus, TARP
Ahhh yes, my favorite morning show hosts are back at it. Back at sounding rather, umm, well, less than intelligent.
The discussion of the moment is that Palin isn’t “smart” or “educated” but that Obama is. And the proof of this is the fact that he graduated Columbia University and later attended, and graduated form Harvard aw School. Further, he served as the editor of the Harvard Law Review.
And that’s where the hilarity begins.
Posted in Politics: National, Race
Tagged Affirmative Action, Barack Obama, Brad and Britt, George Bush