Friday, May 28, 2010

A man was sunbathing naked at the beach.For the sake of civility, and to keep it from getting sunburned, he had a hat over his privates.A woman walks past and says, snickering,"If you were a Gentleman, you'd lift your hat!!" He raised an eyebrow, and replied,"If you weren't so ugly,it would lift itself."

(Politico)- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a rare foray into domestic politics today, offering her view that — given America’s high unemployment — wealthy Americans don’t pay enough taxes. “The rich are not paying their fair share in any nation that is facing the kind of employment issues [America currently does] — whether it’s individual, corporate or whatever [form of] taxation forms,”Clinton told an audience at the Brookings Institution, where she was discussing the Administration’s new National Security Strategy. Clinton said the comment was her personal opinion alone. “I’m not speaking for the administration, so I’ll preface that with a very clear caveat,” she said. Clinton went on to cite Brazil as a model. “Brazil has the highest tax-to-GDP rate in the Western Hemisphere and guess what — they’re growing like crazy,” Clinton said. “And the rich are getting richer, but they’re pulling people out of poverty.” (On a personal note I wonder how much of the Clintons wealth they are willing to give up to help with the distribution of wealth. I wonder how much of their money they have donated to lower this incredible deficit?) http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0510/Clinton_The_rich_are_not_paying_their_fair_share.html

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