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Doing the "Right Thing"..........
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Nov 5, 2009 7:37 pm
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.......I have always liked John Stossel. In the early days he was the reporter who would always find some local business doing some sort of shady things to rip off consumers and exposing them on National TV. In the process he garnered 16 Emmys. Somewhere along the line he realized that the misdeeds of business was small potatoes compared to the misdeeds of Government, especially Big Government......
......In his recent article "The Double Standard of Journalist's Bias" he explained his turnaround in reporting and how it affected his Career. By not demonizing business any more the Emmy's stopped and his once favored image as a reporter was in jeopardy. In his own words he says ...."I figured out that business, for the most part, treats consumers pretty well. The way to get rich in business is to create something good, sell it for a reasonable price, acquire a reputation for honesty and keep pleasing customers so they come back for more." ....
.......How true are those words, America owes a deep debt of gratitude to the multitudes of businesses and corporations that do the "right thing" and spur this 15 trillion dollar economy not because of Government but in spite of it. No Country in the world comes even close to us........
........ Our Government imposes the Worlds 2nd highest tax on businesses. Can you imagine what our economy would do if we were the 2nd lowest in business taxes? In a span of only 2 hundred years our free market economy has grown to be the world's largest most innovative and technologically advanced than any other. Why? because of the profit motive enjoyed by Businesses that provide us the goods and services we demand. Lets be honest any tax on business is a tax on us the consumer. Lets tell our elected officials to lower the tax on business/corporations to 25% instead of its current rate of 40%. Lets see how that will "stimulate". Lets see how that will lower unemployment and finally lets see how the consumer reacts to the lower prices on the shelf.........
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"Legitimate" Results.............are you legitimate?
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Nov 5, 2009 6:24 am
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.......Aside from the World Series, the only thing of interest on the Boob tube was Tuesday's election coverage. I was pleased in general with the results. Republicans won in 2 of the 3 important races. Additionally for the 31st time the Gay/Lesbian gay marriage initiative was defeated by voters. Perhaps Maine is not as liberal as I had once thought. I fail to understand the Gay rights lobby saying they are denied the privilege of getting married. Hog wash they can get married anytime they want, all they have to do is find a partner of the opposite sex and get married........OK back to the subject of this blog. Yesterday the Drudge report released its ratings for viewership of the networks covering the Election.
Fox News Channel 4,043,000 viewers
MSNBC 974,000 viewers
Headline News 842,000 viewers
CNN 826,000 viewers
I find these results stunning. For a network to be touted by the White House as not being a "Legitimate News Organization" is absolutely amazing. How much longer do we, the viewing public, have to put up with MSNBC, HN, and CNN. They need to take their bias and pack up and leave. Their commentators are crude, uninformed and consistently ignore the truth as they spin their hateful liberal trash to an ever dwindling audience.......Go ahead White House keep telling us that Fox is not legitimate. Apparently not many are listening, myself included.
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