We’re No. 1

[inconu]

Come Sunday, America finally has something to crow about in its economic war with China and Japan: It will have the highest jobs-killing corporate tax rate in the industrialized world.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/politi...e-taxes/424571

That's like trying to increase egg production by choking the chickens

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[spademan]

Originally Posted by inconu

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That's like trying to increase egg production by choking the chickens

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I have come to believe that's probably the only thing Obama is good at, choking the chicken!

[Rawvo]

Originally Posted by inconu

That's like trying to increase egg production by choking the chickens.

Its more like Bobo is chasing the chicken now with a butcher knife because they are not producing anymore eggs.
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[Bluebird]

Thats what we used to do when the chickens stopped laying eggs.

[inconu]

The first-ever World Happiness Report, from the Earth Institute, was released Monday in time for the UN’s Conference on Happiness, and it shows that the world’s happiest countries are all in northern Europe -- Denmark, Finland, Norway and the Netherland took up the top four spots, in that order.

Canada came in fifth, well ahead of the United States at eleventh place.

Happier countries tend to be richer countries. But more important for happiness than income are social factors like the strength of social support, the absence of corruption and the degree of personal freedom.

Over time as living standards have risen, happiness has increased in some countries, but not in others (like for example, the United States). On average, the world has become a little happier in the last 30 years (by 0.14 times the standard deviation of happiness around the world).

Unemployment causes as much unhappiness as bereavement or separation. At work, job security and good relationships do more for job satisfaction than high pay and convenient hours.

Behaving well makes people happier.

Mental health is the biggest single factor affecting happiness in any country. Yet only a quarter of mentally ill people get treatment for their condition in advanced countries and fewer in poorer countries.

Stable family life and enduring marriages are important for the happiness of parents and children.

In advanced countries, women are happier than men, while the position in poorer countries is mixed.

Happiness is lowest in middle age.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/04...tml?ref=canada

[spademan]

Originally Posted by inconu

The first-ever World Happiness Report, from the Earth Institute, was released Monday in time for the UN’s Conference on Happiness, and it shows that the world’s happiest countries are all in northern Europe -- Denmark, Finland, Norway and the Netherland took up the top four spots, in that order.

Canada came in fifth, well ahead of the United States at eleventh place.

It's very hard to make spoiled people happy. When you have the least fortunate citizens in society fighting over cell phones and sneakers, while 75 % of the world's population lives off of one meal per day, I mean there's a huge problem between the ears!

I heard yet another idiot liberal attacking big oil this morning, Joe Scarborough's blonde sidekick. What she doesn't understand is that even though Exxon Mobile made $40 billion in profits last year, $12 billion of it went to the federal government in the form of taxes.

Are liberals too stupid to realize if the $40 billion goes away, the $12 billion disappears also????????

[DieselBurps]

Originally Posted by spademan

Are liberals too stupid to realize if the $40 billion goes away, the $12 billion disappears also????????

Yes. Their entire economic "plan" is based on that $12 billion existing regardless of what actions they take to seize the $40 billion as well. If that $40 billion evaporates as a result of their punitive actions, the $12 billion disappears as well and they become furious that it is all being withheld from them.