Archive for March 24, 2009


POLL QUESTION: DID YOU OR DID YOU NOT? AND WHY?

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March 24, 2009
I am running an unscientific poll but I really am curious to learn what people where thinking. The question is pretty simple and there is no WRONG answer, nor is there a right answer inquiring minds just want to know.
  • IF YOU VOTED FOR OBAMA COULD YOU EXPLAIN WHY?
  • IF YOU DID NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA COULD YOU EXPLAIN WHY?
  • IF YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN AND VOTED FOR OBAMA COULD YOU EXPLAIN WHY?
  • IF YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN AND DID NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA COULD YOU EXPLAIN WHY?
  • IF YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN AND DID NOT VOTE FOR ANYONE COULD YOU EXPLAIN WHY?
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Saving or Creating Millions of Jobs- Yeah Right!

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March 24, 2009
Obama keeps blabbering about saving or creating 3 or 4 million jobs with his STIMULUS plan. I am wondering when this saving or creating jobs program is actually going to start? It didn’t start soon enough for these 300 workers in Alabama. But I am sure the ChiComs and the Koreans will love the jobs OBAMA created for them. ONCE AGAIN American TAX PAYER money heads for foreign soil.

Those of you who voted for this administration are you still working? It is only a matter of time before Obama stimulates you right out of a job.

clipped from www.mcclatchydc.com
In a move expected to cost 300 American jobs, the government is switching to cheaper off-shore condoms, including some made in China.
The switch comes despite implied assurances over the years that the agency would continue to buy American whenever possible.
“Of course, we considered how many U.S. jobs would be affected by this move,” said a USAID official who spoke on the condition that he would not be named. But he said the reasons for the change included lower prices (2 cents versus more than 5 cents for U.S.-made condoms) and the fact that Congress dropped “buy American language” in a recent appropriations bill.
Besides, he said, the sole U.S. supplier — an Alabama company called Alatech — had previous delivery problems under the program.
In fact, the government is close to accepting condoms from two offshore companies: Unidus Corp., which makes condoms in South Korea, and Qingdao Double Butterfly Group, which makes them in China.
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State Highway Revenues Decrease Despite Increased Tolls

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March 24, 2009

PHILADELPHIA | – As the economy continues its pinch, Pennsylvania is getting less revenue than expected from Turnpike toll increases.

Tolls on the Pennsylvania Turnpike went up 25 percent on Jan. 24. But January revenue was up less than 11 percent from the previous January.

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports Tuesday that commercial traffic that accounts for nearly half the Pennsylvania Turnpike’s toll revenue was down 14 percent, and overall turnpike traffic was down nearly 6 percent.

Federal figures indicate vehicle miles statewide in Pennsylvania dropped 4.5 percent in January. That continues a downward trend that began nationally in December 2007, even though gasoline prices have eased. The state also reports diminished liquid fuels tax collections.

Once again proof that increase taxation causes a decrease in revenue, and yet those who support an ever increasing tax burden seem to think that the facts do not matter. They insist that despite reduced revenues and decreased activity, increasing taxes is a good thing for the economy. If that were true then why is the revenue decreasing after the rather large increase to the road tax (toll)? I would think that if the turnpike and the state actually wanted to encourage the use of the roadway they would actually reduce the cost to those who use it. What say you?

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