Taxes and 10 Men in a Bar

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100.
If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:
The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.

So, that’s what they decided to do.

The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed quite happy with the arrangement,
until one day, the owner threw them a curve.
‘Since you are all such good customers,’ he said,
‘I’m going to reduce the cost of your daily beer by $20.
‘Drinks for the ten now cost just $80.’
The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we pay our taxes
So the first four men were unaffected.
They would still drink for free.
But what about the other six men – the paying customers?
How could they divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his ‘fair share?’

They realized that $20 divided by six is $3.33.
But if they subtracted that from everybody’s share,
then the fifth man and the sixth man would each end up being paid to drink his beer.
So, the bar owner suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man’s bill proportionally, and he proceeded to work out the amounts each should pay.
And so –
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The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing (100% savings).
The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).
The seventh now pay $ 5 instead of $7 (28%savings).
The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).
The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 ( 22% savings).
The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).
Each of the six was better off than before.
And the first four continued to drink for free.
But once outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their savings.
‘I only got a dollar out of the $ 20,’ declared the sixth man.
He pointed to the tenth man, ‘but he got $10!’
‘Yeah, that’s right,’ exclaimed the fifth man. ‘I only saved a dollar, too.
It’s unfair that he got ten times more than I did!’
‘That’s true!!’ shouted the seventh man.
‘Why should he get $10 back when I got only two?
The wealthy get all the breaks!’

‘Wait a minute,’ yelled the first four men in unison.
‘We didn’t get anything at all.
The system exploits the poor!’

The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.

The next night the tenth man didn’t show up for drinks,
so the nine sat down and had beers without him.
But when it came time to pay the bill, they discovered something important.
They didn’t have enough money between all of them for even half of the bill!
And that, boys and girls, journalists and college professors,
this is how our tax system works. The people who pay the
highest taxes get the most benefit from a tax reduction.
Tax them too much, attack them for being wealthy,
and they just may not show up anymore.
In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.

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Occupy Movement; Comparison to Tea Party

The Democrats have said that the Occupy Party was their answer to and “just like” the Tea Party. The data below conclusively indicate otherwise. Amazingly, this listing only covers reported actions and events.
One is supported by the President of the United States and Democrats in Congress, AND WORSE SUPPORTERS OF EVIL SUCH AS IRAN, NORTH KOREA, AND THE NAZI PARTY; Who will you vote for or support?

Regardless of some of the few good points the Occupy Movement may have, just who supports this group of “takers” and their actions speaks volumes, one just needs to read some history to see that even the Nazi Party in Germany had some “points” such as bringing up the economy of Germany while the rest of the world languished in the depression as well the creation of Volkswagen, a first in this being a car for the masses unlike the Mercedes; but do these few exceptions make right?

Reported as of Nov. 2011	Occupy Party	Tea Party
ARRESTS	4149+	0
DEATHS	7	0
RAPES	12	0
ARSON DAMAGE	$10,000,000.00	$0
PUBLIC DEFECATION	YES	NO
ANTI SEMITIC RANTS	12+	0
COST TO TAXPAYERS	$19,327,487.00+	$0
PUBLIC MASTURBATION	3	0
MOLOTOV COCKTAILS THROWN	10	0
FIGHTS STARTED	YES	NO (despite Media Attempts)
CHILDREN EXPLOITED	YES	NO
POLICE CARS DAMAGED	YES	NO
PUBLIC DRUNKENNESS	YES	NO
CONCEALED WEAPON ARREST	YES	NO
THEFTS	YES	NO
BURGLARIES	YES	NO
VANDALISM ARREST	YES	NO
TRESPASSING ARREST	YES	NO
NON FATAL SHOOTINGS	YES	NO
PUBLIC URINATION	YES	NO
URINATION ON OTHERS	YES	NO
ISRAELI FLAGS BURNED	2	0
AMERICAN FLAGS BURNED	1	0
AMERICAN FLAGS DANCED ON	1	0
AMERICAN FLAGS DESECRATION	25	0
FELONY ASSAULT ON AN EMT	1	0
MURDER	1	0
SUICIDE	1	0
SHOTS FIRED AT WHITE HOUSE	1	0
OBAMA ENDORSED	YES	NO
SLEAZE QUEEN PELOSI ENDORSED	YES	NO
COMMUNIST PARTY ENDORSED	YES	NO
NAZI PARTY ENDORSED	YES	NO
MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ENDORSED	YES	NO
HUGO CHAVEZ ENDORSED	YES	NO
BLACK PANTHERS ENDORSED	YES	NO
HEZBOLLAH ENDORSED	YES	NO
9/11 TRUTHER ENDORSED	YES	NO
IRAN GOVERNMENT ENDORSED	YES	NO
NORTH KOREA ENDORSED	YES	NO
FARRAKHAN ENDORSED	YES	NO
NATION OF ISLAM ENDORSED	YES	NO

Occupy Movement, the Parasite Party backed by Supporters of Hate and Evil

 

 

See Also: Occupy Movement Hypocrisy

 

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Rude & Narcissistic Behavior, No Boundaries; Pervasive Liberal Democrat World View

Based on emails, phone calls, forums, YouTube, Facebook; Rude, Condescending, narcissistic, or simply behavior without any respect for others boundaries are at an all time high.

Why?? i can only guess, but I can certainly put forth a few FACTS that one might draw conclusions from.

First though I will briefly mention what I am referring to;
I receive many “communications” from customers and non customers asking for help with certain aquatic problems, many of these persons are otherwise friendly persons. HOWEVER often these persons have no boundaries when comes to others time and even though I respond to initial emails 16 hours per day, these person will take advantage (or attempt to) of my help by refusing to read the plethora of researched aquatic information I provide to back up and provide further information to their questions.
The result is further question after question, en though the article I suggested reading contains answers to these continued questions. Worse though is when I tell these persons that I have no spent copious amounts of time I do no have (often during my little amount of family time), they get mad!.
A common reply is “I do not have time to read your articles”.
Of so my time counts for nothing? What about my time I spent researching along with the 30 plus years that has gone into these article that are provided free of charge (no need to go to Amazon and purchase a book that is likely very much out of date and anecdotal on the subject)?
This is just one common example.

Others although thankfully not a daily occurrence, but still occur with regularity are the downright rude emails where we provide a plethora of information, documentation, cite references, etc. YET these persons feel the need to challenge our/my responses in very condescending and rude manners. Aquarium Lighting & correct UV Bulb replacement are common subjects of these persons.
Sometimes these persons demand we not follow the business practices we installed in 2009 after suffering through years of no profit an losses as we were attempting to be everything to everyone, so most of our time was in email and phone calls. The result was losses that we are still paying back to this day in loans we had to take out.
Bluntly these persons have no right to tell me or anyone else how to run my business and especially in ways we know result in losses just so to be someone’s personal answer person.

Other issues are forums especially local (which I no longer waste my time on) ignoring what I have to say.
Facebook is a place where narcissism runs amuck even among otherwise “nice” persons.
I follow others posts when time allows (for this reason I try and keep my friends lists short). Yet anything I post often updating my life’s work (which also is what pays the bills and hopefully will dig us out of the hole I have been in since being forced to move to Oregon in 2002), it is never read, “liked”, etc. but for one or two persons. Even my nieces refused to ever “peek” at any of my posts, yet were on constantly posting about their adventuress. What ever happened to looking out for each other? I know that search engines rank these likes, so being in an online business it is important to me and it would simply be nice to have such favors returned one in a while.
However since this boils down to a relatively minor issue compared to the above emails & phone calls; I simply do not visit the waste of time the narcissistic social media is of late.

What are the Causes?

While the causes of this pervasive rudeness, lack of boundaries, and extreme narcissism are speculation (subjective), the facts that support this are not and are in fact objective.

So what I will give are a list of FACTS and let readers mostly draw their own conclusions.

(1)FACT; when tracking these rude and clueless (without boundaries) persons via name or any other identification to web sites such Facebook or Blogs; what I (& others) have found that over 90% display very liberal political views.
Even among the other slightly less than 10% with more so called “conservative” views proclaim an Evangelical religious view point.

(2)FACT: .gov and .edu emails address make up a disproportionate percentage of these before mentioned emails. While these two email suffixes are well under 5% of are general emails (of which we receive 100s counting sales), these two suffixes make up nearly 20% of rude, & narcissistic emails

(3)FACT: When you go to liberal enclaves, especially YouTube; you will find that most of the of the insulting language and support for strange causes comes from these liberals or libertarians (such as Truthers of supporters of the Occupy movement).
As well when my videos for my business get rude or condescending remarks (that I usually delete), I look at the persons YouTube account that made such comments and sure enough in almost every instance I find a person with far left Michel Moore type views.

A few Subjective Observations based on these and much of what I have seen/witnessed in life

• With the most Narcissistic President in history along with places such as Twitter and Facebook that also champion Narcissism, I believe this to be suspected.
• Dishonest News Media.
  This same media has been able to convince many that Democrats are for the “working man” well this could not be any further from the truth other than “country Club Republicans (RINOs) also are not at all for the working man either.
  Democrats are only for those who blame others for their problems work the “working union man”

  As well the news media has done a good job of ignoring the facts of who the true major political contributors are, with the result being most in America falsely believe the Republicans receive the top contributions.
  See: Democrats Receive 89 Percent of Donations Made by Four Top Political Donors

• Occupy Movement; that amount of disinformation that persons believe from this mob (mostly of thugs, but sadly made of up many “good person” that are so woefully mis-eductated as to the facts of business finance and much more about life and believe anything the left leaning media tells them)
• YouTube; there is probably no more better forum for sleaze other the owner of YouTube; GOOGLE which is a corporation that would not know honestly if it hit them in the face with their rampant plagiarism of small businesses and small entrepreneurs.
  See: Google Lies, Dishonesty, Plagiarism; Adsense, Adwords & Google Search Fail

  Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg, is another example of a condescending narcissist

• The education system itself which although many will disagree, it is over paid in my view based on “market value” of the work they do. Tenure is the primary evil as I have seen the good teachers that were not tenured let go at our local schools and going back to my school days I had a downright evil teacher put me down in class in the 4th grade only to have this ridicule follow me to my High School Graduation. She should never been allowed to teach and had she worked in the private sector she would have been fired immediately.

This are just a few opinions of mine, others may draw different conclusions, however the facts noted earlier speak for themselves

Obamanite; The Definition of

These points define a person that can be addressed by the description of an “Obamanite”.

Updated 5/07/12

Not all points need to be observed in a person to be described as an Obamanite, although at least 50% should be present.

It is also noteworthy that just because a person voted for Obama in 2008, this does NOT necessarily make this person an Obamanite.

A reader might ask my reason for even writing this post? A fair question, so in a nutshell I have worked in a field of business (Aquarium Supplies & Resources) for over 3 decades that is probably one of the most liberal fields one can work in and while being liberal does not make one an Obamanite (I know many liberals who are most definitely NOT Obamanites!), I do get so many lazy and nasty emails, phone calls, etc from persons that then get upset just because I attempt to help them help themselves (they want their aquarium information spoon fed and refuse to read many of the articles I send them to back up what I tell them in an answer to a question) or get upset when I call the out on their false accusations or anecdotal information; I felt such a post here was necessary to clear the air from my perspective.

1. If you are offended by this post/article, you likely are an Obamanite (even if you fit less than 50% of this points)

2. Truth has no meaning, Lying is a means to an end
3. A person who cannot see truth and is believes they are in the right even when the facts are presented otherwise
4. Often condescending to others, yet rarely can see this themselves and think that they are the nicest most reasonable person you would ever meet
5. Narcissistic Behavior (similar to above point), where these person act and may even think the world revolves themselves, all the while showing no respect for others and their talents and knowledge.
   These persons are the type that will post on Facebook all about themselves yet NEVER take the time to look at others activity, even family and even when receiving “likes”. In my particular case, my online business depends upon a Google algorithm that includes Facebook popularity, however even though I have spent the time looking at others endeavors, I can find weeks where I track only 1 click from Facebook (versus 1000s elsewhere as a comparison). Sadly even my nieces act this way, but this is in part based also on other condescending Obamanite world views IMO
6. Narcissist who thinks they are “all that”, their poop does not stink, and that they most important person.
   
   Often simple “Body Language” will ‘tell much’ as to this very common symptom of an Obamite as displayed with this sickening and disgusting picture of President Obama.

   See this excellent article:
   Analysis of Obama’s Psychological Make-Up

7. Makes up falsehoods about others, often believing their own lies.
   Often text book Sociopath behavior typical of what may seem on the surface as likeable, ordinary persons, but in reality only have intentions to make themselves look good, OR WORSE!
   I have met a few of these persons in my life, with one causing great harm to my family, the other more person destruction that still hurt me and others around me.
   As is obvious Barack Obama also shows these traits, but he is not only destroying one family, but a nation.
8. Accuses others of not providing help for themselves (or others), when never looking into the facts that scream otherwise
9. Believes others are placed on this planet to help them, at any time, hour, etc.
10. Refuses to read anything for themselves, believing others should provide all the information they desire
11. Believe rules are for others to follow, as they are above rules or policies (I see this constantly in business with persons who leave phone messages that make running my business unprofitable because they are above the rules/policies).
12. Others are not entitled to make a living from their hard work (this is one I observe constantly where persons treat my time as worthless and then get upset when I attempt to get them to help me help them, all after putting in 14 hour days)
13. When they fail at something, it must be someone else’s or somethings fault.
    Again I see this when a product I have tested, which few if any other in my business ever perform for customers prior to shipping; then will state that I am screwing them or sending defective products when in reality it is their application, installation, or product that they have placed the new product in that is not functioning (this is especially common with UV Replacement Bulbs and a recent sale of T2 Lights where the person made false accusations and when the lights were returned they were fully functional [sadly 95% of returns, since I pre-test, end up not being defective!]).

    Often such a person will look their inability to make something work or inability to perform a task and despite overwhelming statistics of others succeeding with this same task will still blame others, the product, or the task itself.
    This person I referred to with the T2 lights is an example as even after returning the fully functional & tested lights for a second time claims the lights cannot/will not work. A reasonable non-Obamanite person would realize that maybe they simply are doing something wrong in installation.
    This analogy applies to all aspects of life an politics and is sadly how many persons think; just listen to all the clueless persons in the early stages American Idol who get mad at the judges when told that they simply cannot sing (I for one cannot either, as well cannot perform other tasks such as hanging dry wall correctly, but I do not blame others correcting me or the dry wall as being defective!!!)

14. Believe Government is the answer to many if not most problems (the government is not your “Daddy”)
15. Refuses to read or believe anything for themselves, even when the truth or references are right in front of their face!
16. Rarely can apologize
17. Will Personally Attack those they disagree with when confronted with known facts.
    I do NOT mean this specifically in the arena of politics either.

    As an example, I have read the forum “Reef Central” many times where nearly everyone will pile on in criticising well written articles about the use of LED Fixtures often using the “straw man” complaint that the articles are biased toward a specific brand (in particular TMC AquaRay LEDs).
    So What?? If I or others have done their research including my personal use and consulting with my professional “sister” aquarium maintenance companies whose use of many different LED fixtures have found one brand to shine well above others, why should I or these other authors not be biased??
    These are ridiculous Obamanite responses. What would be dishonest would be for me or these other authors know the facts about a TMC LED Aquarium Fixture yet recommend others LEDs just so as to appear unbiased.

    The facts are these types “biased accusations” are a popular Obamanite “Straw Man” argument thrown about in many aspects of life.

18. Google by definition is an Obamanite company with many Obamanite minions.
    So while this is not actually a definition to apply, this is more an example OF an Obamanite and based on my dealings with dishonest Google staff, chances are if you work for Google; you ARE an Obamanite!

Boycott Nevada; Harry Reid’s Re-Election

The re-election of Harry Reid, one of the most evil, despicable person ever in US government was either the results of either more corruption on his part or plain “hide your head in the sand” ignorance of Nevada’s total economic melt down and lack of any moral values by voting for this partner of Satan himself; Harry Reid.

My guess is a little of both.

And for those who say Sharron Angle was too extreme, this is a ridiculous statement. Harry Reid is far more extreme than she could ever be. Also what about moderate Republican candidates such as Meg Whitman (CA) that lost, was she too extreme (I think not).

The bottom line I usually take a vacation in Nevada every year, this ends now with our families boycott of this state.

Here are just a few of Harry Reid’s morality issues:

*Harry Reid’s failure to back our troops and lies about the surge: “Now I believe, myself, that the secretary of state, the secretary of defense and you have to make your own decision as to what the president knows: that this war is lost, that the surge is not accomplishing anything,”

*The phony soldier lies about Rush Limbaugh (this one was clearly proven to be another lie)

*Harry Reid’s backing of every anti-America, pro communist Obama policy

*Threat to Sherman Frederick, publisher of the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

*Donation corruption

The list is long and his Mafia style of legislating is so beyond sickening, for any moral person to vote for this man (if this is what he really is) boggles the mind