http://www.eff.org/cases/spocko-and-abc-ksfo

Look, with a website called http://www.spockosbrain.com, I think it's
clear enough that this newsmaker is a Trekkie.

On Aug 28, 1:17 am, ToolPackinMama comcast.net> wrote:

This reminds me of a news item I saw today about Barack Obama. While I
think I prefer the competition for President, I did like all his
campaign promises.

However, one of them was a promise to cut taxes for working families
by 95%%.

That would mean cutting the Federal budget by almost 95%%. Even with
the wealthy paying higher taxes to pay their fair share, there are so
few rich people that almost all government revenue does have to come
from ordinary people who work for a living.

Unless maybe Obama thinks he can run the country almost entirely on
taxes from (working-class!) bachelors. Paying all those high taxes, of
course, how will they ever manage to impress a girl...

John Savard

On Aug 29, 11:32 am, Quadibloc wrote:

Here's the URL:

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080828/obama_election_080829/20080829...

But maybe it is just wrong arithmetic, and working families will only
have their taxes reduced by 95 parts out of 195 - not quite cut in
half. Then, they would need to be raised by 95%% to be back where they
were... not cut to one-twentieth of what they were, needing to be
increased by 1,900%% to be restored to their former level.

On Aug 29, 11:32 am, Quadibloc wrote:

Uh oh. Here we go. 67 more days of political arguments on non-
political Usenet groups.

What he actually said was that he would cut taxes for 95%% of working
class families. Big difference.

(http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/us/politics/28text-obama.html?
pagewanted=3&_r=1&em)

On Aug 29, 12:49 pm, SparkoHe...@gmail.com wrote:

Yes, indeed. The report I saw was inaccurate.

John Savard

SparkoHeaps@gmail.com wrote in news:9046a58d-afbb-4af7-bd46-
607e8110be88@r66g2000hsg.googlegroups.com:

Thought you'd like to know Mama, that at the ST con in Vegas there were
over 3000 guests, and all of them referred to themselves as "TREKKERS". LOL

JKconey wrote:

Sure they did. :)

I was a Trekkie before Trekkers were born, like every single Trek Fan
who was a fan from the start.

I know what I am. :)

On Aug 28, 1:17 am, ToolPackinMama comcast.net> wrote:

Here's an old salute to Spock:

http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=1670

John Savard

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