Today is Thursday, September 29, 2012 - a beauty of a day in the 70s and sunny. My stats today: 10 minutes of yoga, 10 minutes on the exercise ball and 45 minutes of walking = 2.5 miles for a September total of 40.6 miles. My weight was 161.2 pounds.
QUOTE from another so-called expert - this one from Edward Teller, 1950. "How do we know? Nuclear fallout may be good for us."
My THOUGHTS today have to do with Mitt Romney's comments about the 47% of Americans who he says do not pay taxes. Most of this info comes from Todd Dorman's column in the morning Gazette. I agree 100% with what he says.
Romney made these comments to a $50,000 per plate fundraiser in Florida in May. He didn't know he was being videotaped. He smeared nearly half of the American people and they do not deserve to be smeared. Romney and many other hardcore Republicans don't seem to realize that they do not owe a federal income liability because they might be old and have finished working, or are very young and just starting out, or they are in school, or are disabled, or are working at one, maybe more, low-wage jobs, or are unemployed amid this economic downturn or they happened to receive various tax credits approved by Republican and Democratic administrations in the last 30 years.
Of the 47%, 61% paid payroll taxes (Social Security and Medicare) in 2012. That means they work. Another 22% are elderly. That leaves just about 17% who aren't paying income or payroll taxes amid the worst economic downturn since the 1930s. But all 47% of these people still pay sales tax, gasoline taxes, road use tax, real estate tax, city taxes, etc., (DESPITE THEIR LACK OF RESPONSIBILITY).
It is obvious Romney has contempt for President Obama's economic policies, and apparently he has contempt for 47% of America's people and those who have suffered the most.
HUMOR for today: William Jennings Bryan (the three time Democratic candidate for President in 1896, 1900, and 1904) was giving a speech in a jam-packed auditorium to about 500 people. But there were another 500 outside who couldn't get in. An aide told Bryan about this. Bryan told the aide, just find something I can stand on and I'll address them when I'm done inside. All the aide could fine was manure spreader. The people laughed when Bryan got on up on the spreader but he was equal to the occasion.
"My friends," Bryan began cheerfully, "this is the first time in my life I have ever spoken on a Republican platform."
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