Usa Thread

[Steve]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Bank-of-America-to-charge-5-apf-1381425092.html?x=0

Bank of America will start charging debit-card users $5 a month to pay for purchases. The move comes as the cards increasingly replace cash and as banks look for ways to offset the loss of revenue from a new rule that will limit how much they can collect from merchants.

Paying to use a debit card was unheard of before this year and is still a novel concept for many consumers. But several banks have recently introduced or started testing debit card fees. That's in addition to the spate of other unwelcome changes checking account customers have seen in the past year. Bank of America will begin charging the fee early next year

 

What pisses me off is that our tax dollars are used to bail out these rat bastards when they get in trouble.

[Steve]

http://news.yahoo.com/us-threat-military-action-unites-pakistan-033123234.html

U.S. accusations that Pakistan is supporting Afghan insurgents have triggered a nationalist backlash and whipped up media fears of an American invasion, drowning out any discussion over the army's long use of jihadi groups as deadly proxies in the region.

The reaction shows the problem facing the United States as it presses Pakistan for action: Strong statements in Washington provoke a negative public response that makes it more difficult for the army to act against the militants — even if it decided it was in the country's interest to do so.

U.S. accusations that Pakistan is supporting Afghan insurgents have triggered a nationalist backlash and whipped up media fears of an American invasion, drowning out any discussion over the army's long use of jihadi groups as deadly proxies in the region.

The reaction shows the problem facing the United States as it presses Pakistan for action: Strong statements in Washington provoke a negative public response that makes it more difficult for the army to act against the militants — even if it decided it was in the country's interest to do so.

 

Write off Pakistan. Its the same formula we've seen repeated elsewhere. A country where the government wants to help us but their people are anti American. Fck em. Write 'em off. Ease out of Afghanistan. Al qaida is not the same threat it was. Their senior leadership is doing more hiding than planning thanks to our targeted killings.

[cavanami]

PREZ. o OUT TO SCREW YA...AGAIN!!!

 

HR 4646

 

Be sure to scroll down to read entire explanation

 

Do you receive a retirement check from Social Security or a pension

fund and have it direct deposit?? Well guess what ... It

looks as if Obama wants to tax it 1% !!!

Just one more nail in our national coffin, me thinks ...

 

All of you old coots, and old coots-to-be had better read this. This

Obama gang is diabolical. Is your Social Security check on direct deposit?

 

WAKE UP AMERICA

 

1% tax on all bank transactions is what HR 4646 calls for.

 

This bill was put forth by Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA).

 

Watch for this AFTER November elections; remember this BEFORE you VOTE,

in case you think Obama is looking out for your best interest.

 

YES, that is 1% tax on all bank transactions - HR 4646, every time it

goes in and every time money goes out.

 

This government just cannot think of enough ways to hurt the American

people! I sure hope this dies!!!!! Ask your congressperson to vote NO.

 

FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!

 

1% tax on all bank transactions ~ HR 4646 - ANOTHER NEW OBAMA TAX

SLIPPED IN WHILE WE WERE ASLEEP. Checked this on snopes, it's true! Check it out

yourself ~ HR 4646.

 

President Obama's finance team is recommending a one percent (1%)

transaction fee (TAX). Obama's plan is to sneak it in after the November

elections to keep it under the radar.

 

This is a 1% tax on all transactions at any financial institution -

banks, credit unions, savings and loans, etc. Any deposit you make, or even a

transfer within your own bank from one account to another, will have a 1%

tax charged.

 

~If your paycheck or your Social Security or whatever is direct deposit,

it will get a 1%tax charged for the transaction.

 

~If your paycheck is $1000, then you will pay Obama $10 just for the

privilege of depositing your paycheck in your bank. Even if you hand

carry your paycheck or any check in to your bank for a deposit, 1% tax will be

charged.

 

~You receive a $5,000 stock dividend from your broker, Obama takes $50

just to allow you to deposit that check in the bank.

 

~If you take $1,000 cash to deposit at your bank, 1% tax will be charged.

 

Mind you, this is from the man who promised that, if you make under

$250,000 per year, you will not see one penny of new tax. Keep your eyes and ears

open, you will be amazed at what you learn about this guy's under-the-table

moves to increase the number of ways you are taxed.

 

~Oh, and by the way, if you receive a refund from the IRS next year and you

have it direct deposited or you walk in to deposit that check, you

guessed it. You will pay a 1% charge of that money just for putting it in your bank.

Remember, any money, cash, check or whatever, no matter where it came from,

you will pay a 1% fee if you

put it in the bank...Remember, once the tax is there, they can also raise it at will.

 

And if anyone protests, they will just say, "Oh,that's not really a tax, it's a user fee"!

 

Think this is no big deal? Go back and look at the transactions you made

from last year's banking statements.

 

Then add the total of all those transactions and deduct 1%.

 

Still think it's no big deal?

 

REMEMBER this when you vote in November 2012!

[Hugh_Hoy]

Cav...any wonder that this bill is sponsored by a Demoncrap? Not to worry, it'll never get to the floor in the House.

 

HH

[Steve]

I totally agree such a tax is wrong and should be fought with vigor. I think it should be publicized and face public scrutiny and scorn. If Obama supports it, he should have to face public anger for it.

 

That said... if anyone thinks the Republcans won't do something similar but in a different way I have a bridge to sell you with a nice view of Manhattan. BOTH parties have and will screw you. They just have different ways of doing it.

[Flashermac]

 

 

 

The Republican Party appeals to patriotism as it screws you. The Dems tell you it is good for you. Same same but different.

 

 

[kamui]

To the best of my knowledge, the countries in Europe with the best reputation for accepting blacks France, England, Netherlands have not been close to having any black person there in any political or corporate leadership positions. England being the most surprising possibly.

 

Ironically, many American blacks, mostly entertainers fled America to France since the 1920s as they got fed up with discrimination, racism, etc. in America but decades later its America that offers the best chances for personal wealth and power.

 

Actually we don't have that many 'blacks' in Europe.

 

In Germany they are a minority within the minority of immigrants - btw my sister was married to an African, she ran a shop with African goods but did not do well because the customer base was too small...

 

Different European countries have different main groups of immigrants, due to their colonial and post WWII histories.

In Germany for example you'll have to talk about Turkish immigrants. But they are here only in the third generation and just started to climb the social ladder a decade or so ago.

 

Very different to the history of black people in the USA.

[Bangkoktraveler]

Poll: Ron Paul v Obama a dead heat in Fla.

 

 

Public Policy Polling, a Democratic-leaning polling firm, shows Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, and former Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass., trailing President Obama by a mere one point in their latest poll of Florida voters. Obama has a 56 percent disapproval rating in the swing state.

 

PPP shows Paul trailing Obama 45-44 in a hypothetical general election match-up, while Romney lags Obama by the same margin, 46-45. Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas, has a 7 point deficit on the president, 50-43 - likely because 63% of voters polled disagree with his characterization of Social Security as a Ponzi scheme.

 

That said, PPP made a point of noting that Perry's deficit to Obama recalls Dewey's loss to President Truman, which might say as much about how PPP wants Republican voters to see Perry as it does about Perry's chances in this election.

 

 

My link

 

 

Obama has a chance in Florida.

 

Granted Florida has its share of 'red necks' but the State has a sizable elderly populace. If the elderly vote, which they may if Social Security and Medicare is on the line, Obama has a good chance of carrying the State.

[Flashermac]

As long as they don't hang Chad again.

[Steve]

Actually we don't have that many 'blacks' in Europe.

 

In Germany they are a minority within the minority of immigrants - btw my sister was married to an African, she ran a shop with African goods but did not do well because the customer base was too small...

 

Different European countries have different main groups of immigrants, due to their colonial and post WWII histories.

In Germany for example you'll have to talk about Turkish immigrants. But they are here only in the third generation and just started to climb the social ladder a decade or so ago.

 

Very different to the history of black people in the USA.

 

Hello Kamui, you're right about Germany that's why I specifically left them out in my post. However, France, England and Holland have sizable black populations. In America Blacks have become national icons in just about all areas. Especially sports and entertainment and I don't see the equivalent to the same degree in the countries named. Sure there are celebs but the thing is those countries and Europe in general is commonly viewed as more progressive with regards to race relations and opportunities for blcks than America when its America that actually produces more success stories. Not only blacks but for minorities in general. To be fair to Germany, Turks don't have the long history in Germany as other minorities do in America. However, in France, Holland, England minorities have been there for some time.

 

If you're black with aspirations of being a CEO of a major corporation, holding high office and being the number one sports or entertainment person in that country, America would win hands down when looking for the country that offers the best opportunity.