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Obama XXII: Occupy the White House

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walrus said:
When can I expect to see Christmas tree ads?
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http://www.twincities.com/soucheray/ci_19318473

A glimpse at how government grows was provided the other day when, first, news broke that there was going to be a new 15-cent tax on Christmas trees and two hours later the decision to levy such a tax was put on hold.

In the first story, the United States Department of Agriculture said such a tax would be used to fund a new promotional program to enhance the marketing of Christmas trees to improve their image.

Improve their image?

Well, the old blogs went crazy and the president took the blame as Scrooge for another tax. I am reasonably certain that Barack Obama would tax air in the event it is not equitably distributed, but I was hard-pressed to conclude that he sat around the Oval Office dreaming up a Christmas tree tax.

It turns out that Christmas tree growers, as an industry, had apparently beseeched the government, as far back as 2009, to intervene on their behalf. Too many people are buying fake Christmas trees, and in order to boost sales of the real ones, the growers would send 15 cents for each tree sold over 500 to the Ag Department. The Ag Department would then use the money to fund a marketing campaign, like the ones behind the "Got milk?" and "Beef, it's what's for dinner" ads.

That isn't Obama's doing. That's the fussing of Christmas tree growers. In order to capture all growers, I suppose they intend to make it a government program and then all growers would have to contribute.
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Shiznit just got real. Zuccotti Park getting cleared out by NYPD right freaking now.
 
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unofan said:
So does that mean we have the George Bush Sr. Steak Tax (which funds things like the Beef: It's What's for Dinner ad campaign), or the Bill Clinton Milk Tax (funding things like the Got Milk campaign)?

Because that's what this is.
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All of those are Federal overreach. Why shouldn't those industries put up their own money to do their advertising?
 
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XYZ said:
We might want to skip class that day.
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I still believe in the experiment. Even though everybody who's been here more than two generations becomes lazy, fat, cowardly and intolerant, the same people will save America's values and spirit who have always saved them.

 
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possible ad campaigns:

You can have my fake christmas tree when you pry it from... (opposition)

The only good christmas tree is a live christmas tree

Be a patriot, cut down a tree, pay some taxes

Don't blame me, I cut mine down

On t-shirts: "They're real!!" (hmmm, multi-use opportunity)

Got needles? (may be taken already by methadone campaign)

I cannot tell a lie, I cut my christmas tree down

Real christmas trees are made in the USA

Santa isn't real, but my tree is (not suggested for families with young children)

Buy a live tree, get a free vacuum cleaner bag

Live trees... bringing bugs and other pests into your house since Jesus was a toddler

Fake trees, at least they're straight (right wing focus)

Real men don't get trees out of their attic
 
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Kepler said:
Tom Coburn, socialist.

Senate Republicans have hated Coburn for years for not being on board with their real agenda. This aint gonna help.
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This got traction on one of your blocked channels (Fox News). The fault, dear Kepler, is the tax code. The millionaires can pay the accountants and lawyers (job creating??) to dig through the tax code and come up with this stuff.

Now with my plan we eliminate all deductions, count all income, give everyone a $45,000 exemption, and tax the rest @ 15%. The rate is subject to negotiation.
 
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Twitch Boy said:
Shiznit just got real. Zuccotti Park getting cleared out by NYPD right freaking now.
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This is absolutely disgusting. I thought Bloomberg was one of the good guys until he did this. What the NYPD did violates the protesters' rights to free speech and free assembly. Hopefully this will play out so might does not equal right.:mad:
 
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TimP said:
This is absolutely disgusting. I thought Bloomberg was one of the good guys until he did this. What the NYPD did violates the protesters' rights to free speech and free assembly. Hopefully this will play out so might does not equal right.:mad:
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Don't be silly. They aren't telling them they can't protest. They're telling them they can't sleep and **** in the **** park. There's an ocean of difference between the two. But this means I'm probably racist.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Don't be silly. They aren't telling them they can't protest. They're telling them they can't sleep and **** in the **** park. There's an ocean of difference between the two. But this means I'm probably racist.
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Of course you are. ;)

You have to remember that it's not just ****ing. ****ing is an act of speech expressing how the protesters feel about rich people's owning private property that they don't want people to **** on. This is an important voice which must not be silenced until people are free to ****, ****, ****, and **** wherever they **** well please.
 
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TimP said:
This is absolutely disgusting. I thought Bloomberg was one of the good guys until he did this. What the NYPD did violates the protesters' rights to free speech and free assembly. Hopefully this will play out so might does not equal right.:mad:
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So it would be ok if they took over your local park for weeks on end, preventing anybody else from exercising their right to access a public space? Send them a note along with a map to your park and the situation is resolved.
 
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Kepler said:
Tom Coburn, socialist.

Senate Republicans have hated Coburn for years for not being on board with their real agenda. This aint gonna help.
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I would suspect many farmers in this country are millionaires in terms of land and equipment owned but don't claim a million dollars in income each year. So, let's deny them flood relief because they are "millionaires". That will improve America's situation.

That whole thing seems like it was written by an 11th grader for a social studies class.
 
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"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."
 
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