Hey Dude,

. Granted the Post Office needs improvement. Calling it a ?failure? seems to define ?failure?

Notice we aren't using the post office to communicate this information. We could, but for some reason we aren't.

How about the whacked out, overpaid ,"going postal" workers?

The post office is a government monopoly. If you don't believe it's still federal, try crossing a postal inspector and see what the consequences are.

Oh, the IRS is sadly very successful at what it does. Fraud? I disagree. Criminal in that it tries to operate outside of and above the law, yes.

No, they can't account for millions if not billions of money (I forgot the actual figure). They can't even give the same answer to the same tax question twice.

They are in such disarray that it could be a complete thread all of its own.

The last time I looked, the estimate was that private pension funds where so grossly under-funded and the outright fraud practiced by big business so blatant that it has the potential to make the Savings and Loan bailout look like chump change

I don't know why anyone would let another entity either government or business be in charge their own retirement account. I'll take a 401K or IRA (either type) any day.

Since I think that we need to pay off the debt before we reduce taxes

They are doing that. It makes no sense to retire some of that debt, it would cost more to pay it off early than to let it mature as planned. Some of the debt is savings bonds which would require people holding them to take them in and lose interest.

And, as I said, how the same tax package can be an appropriate answer to an expanding economy and the solution to a recession is a mystery

There should be no connection. The tax burden is way too high, the government needs to be reduced in size and make do with less bureaucracy.

Actually, most wealth is inherited

Like farms and small businesses. I don't know about most.

Bill Gates earned his billions. His children didn?t. And it was Bill?s wife, not Bill, who got him started in the philanthropy business

It should be his right to decide how to dispose of their income, not the government's. What happened to freedom?

I mentioned Community/Faith Based Organizations.

Of course, W is only talking about the faiths he likes..

That's not true. I have seen the crowds of clergy gearing up for the FBI deployment. They range from the Nation of Islam to the LDS and Catholics.

I mentioned the "fact that sea level has actually fallen in the last 100 years really blows that theory anyway"

Based on the opinion on one scientist, I seem to recall.

Actually I have a site showing a sea level mark on a rock documented in print of the day over 100 years ago showing significantly above the current sea level.

Odd that of the 3000 or so prominent climatologists, less than a handful argues against the fact of global warning. That these few get many more column inches than the overwhelming majority doesn?t mean much. That a few journalists latch onto the opinions of the few to prove that there is no such thing as global warming is not a validation.

Actually I would say 1000s of times more column inches and air time (including a concerted effort by climatologist) have been devoted to promote the concept of global warming than to dispute it.

The latest bomb to fall on the global warming crowd is the release of information that most changes have been noticed at sea and the temperature samples were being taken by sailors from the water, assuming water and air temperatures would be the same.

Seems that assumption was not valid and the water temperatures were in fact higher than the air temps. skewing the whole study's findings artificially high.

Thanks for responding.

But of course, you're my favorite liberal.

I?m off for a long weekend with family

Well, you have a great time then.

?See you all Monday?

I'll be here.

Later,

mav out