I'm not getting this: Even as the United States tries to ratchet up sanctions against North Korea for its purported March 26 sinking of a South Korean warship, the United Nations will be sending them a blank check in the amount of $170 million on new programs. More surprisingly, it is doing so with the knowledge and cooperation of the U.S. State Department. The world community turns the other check. Apparently, sink a ship and kill 46 soldiers and you get money. You don't even get sanctioned.
This morning as I turned on the TV set on my way to make coffee, a national ( CNN:HLN Channel) news segment had apparently earlier asked its viewers to write in and tell them who "they would raise taxes on if they had the ability to do so". I'm paraphrasing now but here is how it was played out: One person wrote in and said, "raise taxes on the big oil companies but do it APPROPRIATELY". This individual's email actually had the word APPROPRIATELY spelled in capital letters. The second individual wrote in and said, "raise taxes on the junk food companies because they make food taste good which forces us to eat it and yet it is bad for us". (They will one day raise prices on Junk Food, mark my words!) Honest, i'm not making this up!!!!! As to the first writer, i'm ASSUMING (I capitalized this word to make a point too) they think raising taxes APPROPRIATELY would not effect the average consumer - ergo, their use of the CAPS! In o...
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