Tax Facts for Hannitized Ditto-Heads.

In 1929 when the stock market crashed, the upper tax bracket for the rich was only 24%... Today in 2009 it is 35%. But when America was at our greatest, during the 1940's-1960's, the upper tax rate for rich Americans was 88%-94%!

All through the 1950s and early 1960s the upper tax rate for the rich was over 90% and anybody old enough can tell you that those were the years when America was the strongest and happiest and most prosperous.

During those years you could make a very good living and support your family and buy a house and a car, all on just one salary, while working at the most modest jobs in America. You could have a very good life for a whole family all supported by just one 'burger-flipper, or elevator operator, or simply pumping gas! Jobs that Rush Limbaugh now mocks people for having, used to be good paying jobs.

Wake up, you've been lied to.

First, as for WWII getting us out of the Depression and not FDR's public spending... the money spent on WWII...W A S...P U B L I C...S P E N D I N G...

It was the public spending of the war, along with the FDR public works spending that ended the Great Depression. If there had been no war, then FDR would have had to spend even more money on public works in order to end the Depression.

You also must remember that this spending was not wasted because improving our Infrastructure actually increases the value of our land by making a more productive base for commerce to flourish. Better roads, rail, electric grid, communications grid, make the very land more valuable to the business world.

We paid for this by having an upper tax rate of 88% for rich people all during the 1940s and then we raised the tax rate to 94% to help pay for all of this. Our upper tax rate stayed above 90% from 1944-1963. During this time Eisenhower built our entire Interstate Expressway system!This was America at our best at our very peak!

Now our rates are all the way down to 35% for the rich and look where we are. Limbaugh and Hannity have been lying about America's tax and financial history for years. You can check these facts in any encyclopedia, or at this link...

http://www.truthandpolitics.org/top-rates.php

The Cop the Prof. and the Prez.

Obama said the right thing in saying it was stupid to arrest a man on a false alarm in his own home.

Ever since the drug war started in the 70's and arresting people became a revenue stream cops have gotten more and more agressive and more hated by the public.

I lived in Boston for a couple of years in the early 90s. I saw a lot of racism. One day as I walked down Commonwealth Avenue , in the shadow of the giant CITGO sign, I passed an elderly black man walking the opposite way on the sidewalk.

As I nodded, a car full of young white men drove past us and shouted "n*****" in unison. As I barked "F*** you!" they retorted "n***** lover!" and sped away.

I looked back at the gentleman and said, "I'm sorry about that."He just smiled a sad smile and said, "That's OK," and kept on walking.

Ironically, that's the only time anyone ever called me that to my face - not far from John F. Kennedy's childhood home.