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POPSThe rotten estates England
Everything that is bad about the English system is evidence here. These lazy, greedy perpetrators of perpetual socialism have been protected by the liberal correctness regimes put in place by successive governments. Everything about that statement is wrong, except the facts. The fact that these people are allowed to raise more generations of worthless flesh is as abhorrent to the hard working Briton as the devious and malicious enterprises of the Bankers and their cohorts, the politicians. Absolutely no system has the panacea for all societies’ ills, but this system that relies on the influential few to circumvent the wishes of the people by allowing the ill-educated to proliferate whilst Labour imports their supporters from foreign lands is treason. Get the illiterate masses educated. Once they learn the hard lesson of real education they would have no need to wallow in self pity, smoke their tax free cigarettes and produce off-spring that every tax payer I the land has to subsi
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POPSTobacco Underground
At a time when nations are increasingly trying to crack down on smoking, smugglers put cheap cigarettes into the hands of those most vulnerable — young people and the poor. In addition, the trade is pushing the supply steadily into the black market, selling cut-rate cigarettes of often dubious quality. Of special concern is the advent of a massive counterfeiting industry. Once a minor problem, today underground factories in China, Paraguay, and Eastern Europe manufacture literally billions of fake cigarettes — Marlboros, Camels, 555s, Mild Sevens — an uncontrolled industry that law enforcement is only beginning to grapple with. Many of the smokes are made from the lowest quality tobacco, full of stem and sawdust, and spiked with unusually high levels of nicotine. Other packs contain far worse. Tests reveal that counterfeit cigarettes carry a bevy of products that could further shorten even a heavy smoker’s life: metals such as cadmium, pesticides, arsenic, rat poison, and human feces.
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POPS"I'm Not A Doctor, I Just Play One On TV" Like cheeseburgers and cigarettes and alcohol and cars that drive faster than 25 miles per hour? 3. Economics 101 FAIL "Having a public plan out there that also shows that maybe if you take some of the profit motive out, maybe if you are reducing some of the administrative costs, that you can get an even better deal, that's going to incentivize the private sector to do even better." 2. I Don't Know Anything, But I Know the Police Acted Stupidly On the professor arrested following a confrontation with a police officer after he broke into his own house: "Skip Gates is a friend, so I may be a little biased here. I don't know all the facts. ... "Now, I don't know, not having been there and not seeing all the facts, what role race played in that. But I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry; number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly." 1. Doctors Want to Take Your Kids' Tonsils For Profit
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POPSTobacco Store Indians Once again the white man's government stomps on the Native American's efforts to eke out an income in the white man's economy.
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POPSSmoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette...No Wait. Satire...Satire...Satire " finally, all these states and the federal government are raising their taxes to fund children's health programs- they say. this latest .60 cent tax increase is what started me thinking that today, as the new tax goes into effect, was the time to quit, so instead of the sick little kids getting $1.01 a day in taxes from me to fund their health programs, they're losing .41 cents, or $4.10 a week from me, State Farm, wants to up my new rate a few hundred a month because now I'm fifty and a smoker, so I'm dropping them and getting accident insurance instead and in two years when my rates would drop because (if) I've been a non smoker for that long, I'll go with another company with my business. "I'll keep you posted on how this is going, but right now I've gotten myself so upset that if I don't stop bitching I'll need a smoke to calm down.
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POPSYou could be a terrorist if...
If you are a puppet-on-a-string assiduously following every law to the letter, enthusiastically nodding in agreement to everything the government tells you, patriotically turning in your neighbors for every infraction of the law (both written and social), then you have nothing to worry about. Many Americans, Republican and Democrat, have grown tired of the direction in which this country is headed. The once occasional lapse in ethics has become common place, greed and irresponsibility by our financial institutions are being rewarded in the form of ‘bailout’ tax dollars, citizens have to watch what we say and do and how we do it, self-interest has supplanted “doing what is right for this country”, special interest groups are favored over national security and welfare, food safety has been jeopardized in favor of profit. Civil unrest is brewing and FEMA detention centers are sprouting up across the nation. http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004/FEMA-Concentration-Camps3sep04.htm
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POPSTo buy its cigarettes in Spain can be expensive les automobilistes ne sont pas autorisés à ramener plus de cinq cartouches par véhicule. Et ce, quel que soit le nombre de passagers. Entre six et dix cartouches, il faut s'arrêter au poste de douane, remplir une déclaration et se faire établir un document d'accompagnent. Une opération fastidieuse qui en décourage plus d'un. Au-delà de dix cartouches, c'est l'amende assurée.
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POPSCigarette Tax Burnout In New York City and State, tobacco taxes have been raised so many times that the retail cost can exceed $9 a pack -- about double the national average. Few budget-savvy smokers in the Big Apple pay that tax. Patrick Fleenor, an expert on tobacco taxes at the Tax Foundation, estimates that there is "now a 75% gap between cigarette sales in the city and cigarette consumption." In other words, three out of four cigarettes are bought elsewhere or are contraband. In New Jersey, about 40% of the Marlboros and Virginia Slims that are lit up escape the $2.57-a-pack tax. In Washington State, evasion was so rampant that the legislature decided in 2005 to lower the 75% tax on cigars and other tobacco products as a way to raise revenue and help state retailers.
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POPSUnenlightened in law enforcement I would have to agree, why is it the highly educated are so stupid. Ah right, they lose all their common sense somewhere along the way. Please read the full story.
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POPSTruth Or Consequences "I can’t say it better than my friend Tim Shriver, the chairman of Special Olympics, did in a Memorial Day essay in The Washington Post: “So Dodge wants to sell you a car you don’t really want to buy, that is not fuel-efficient, will further damage our environment, and will further subsidize oil states, some of which are on the other side of the wars we’re currently fighting. ... The planet be damned, the troops be forgotten, the economy be ignored: buy a Dodge.”
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POPSDevil's Weed or Seventh Heaven? As it is with ALL things, they can be used, or abused. Guns, alcohol, tobacco are but a few examples. Why not just regulate marijuana the same way? How hard can it be? I'd much rather see the money spent on it go into "our" pockets in the end, than into the pockets of the drug lords. Put a tax on it or something. Let the income it would bring help cover debt and healthcare. I don't think the "War on Drugs" (*LMAO*) is winnable. Why not make it work to our advantage? Hmm.
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POPSIf you still believe drugs should be illegal, If you still believe drugs should be illegal, answer this question... Why do you believe it is good policy to punish me--and 20 million adult Americans like me--because I choose to use marijuana in the privacy of my own home? Who benefits from this policy and how do they benefit? * Over 300,000 nonviolent people lose their freedom to prison/jail. * Thousands of murders, assaults, and robberies caused by drug crimes. * $20 billion/year in law enforcement costs. * $10 billion/year in lost tax revenue (similar to alcohol tax). * $5 billion/year in property losses due to drug-related crimes. * $50 billion/year and 500,000 jobs lost because of no hemp industry. Total cost = $85 billion/year = $500 per taxpayer every year!
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POPSRegardless if it's right or wrong, it's MY opinion! I'm a pretty conservative chick with a low tolerance for irritating people or things. Especially for some of the things mentioned above. Yes, it may be offensive, but hey, that's life. If you don't agree.....bite me....!! Tee-Hee.
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POPS Police-State of Tennessee? Critics say the new “cigarette surveillance program” amounts to the use of “police state” tactics and wrongfully interferes with interstate commerce. But state Revenue Commissioner Reagan Farr says his department is simply doing its job, enforcing a valid state law while protecting Tennessee retailers who properly pay state taxes.
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POPSPresident Bush will veto health bill
Smokers rejoice, the president is working for you! He promises to veto the bill that will raise the price of cigarettes by $.61 because he realizes that this will be an unacceptable raise in taxes to cover the $35 billion needed to expand the program allowing more to have health coverage. I am sure glad that our president has decided to take an interest in the billions of dollars considered wasteful, although some might argue that the billions that has been spent on war would have given us alternative fuel methods and oil never need be an issue again. Lest you think that I am supporting Democrats, I'll correct you. They'd allow 4 million people to lose coverage on Sept 30, to push a bill for veto, rather than getting an approval for what is current to cover those on the program? My family is one without insurance, not on a program & unable to afford it. I'd still prefer those that have it to continue to get it than to lose it. Shaking my head in the wonderment of politics.
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