Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: Qbasic Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 22:06:33 -0800 Organization: Wheeler&Wheeler Lines: 60 Message-ID: <87oab082za.fsf@garlic.com> References: <52063219.478054561.347254.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <2078668086.478175136.012090.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <403797279.478203202.819594.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <1587a5a2-67ca-4564-8ace-daf48293ec4d@googlegroups.com> <95694f8d-50a7-436f-96d0-de4c667b3850@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9a6c8ce24fcd2caeb84dd64e0fa6007c"; logging-data="2905"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/Rd6xNKAEEG1yRJVQBUUtVLkB/gq9pmMQ=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:vBGDt+2Tiv6+q/vNwlJcvdlmb88= sha1:1oZoHiVx6GtuJs2NIU6JAzpyxJc= Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:160306 "Sangmo" writes: > The reason is that that is what the voters have decided the govt > should be doing. modulo being able to buy congress. 2002 congress lets fiscal responsibility act expire (spending couldn't exceed tax revenue). 2010 CBO has by then congress has cut tax revenue by $6T and spending increased by $6T for $12T budget gap compared to fiscal responsibility act (which would have had zero federal debt). It is the only apparent time that congress has radicully cut taxes to not pay for wars instead of increasing taxes to pay for wars. CBO also reported that 1+ Trillion of the spending increase went to DOD for which they couldn't find anything to show for (unrelated to the increase in DOD spending for the wars). http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#fiscal.responsibility.act military-industrial(-congressional) complex http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#military.industrial.complex middle of last decade, US Comptroller General was starting to include in speeches that nobody in congress was capable of middle school arithmetic for how badly they were savaging the budget. http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#comptroller.general in addition to the tax evasion that was legalized last decade, in 2009, IRS announced there was still another $400B in unpaid taxes on money illegally hidden off-shore and were going after the 52,000 wealthy americans responsible. Then in 2011, the new congress announces it was cutting the budget of the IRS department responsible for recoverying the funds http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#tax.evasion since then there has been no news about recoverying any of the $400B ... but there has been announcement about a couple billion in fines on the "too big to fail" that facilitated the tax evasion http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submisc.html#too-big-to-fail 20 years of data reveals that Congress doesn't care what you think http://www.upworthy.com/20-years-of-data-reveals-that-congress-doesnt-care-what-you-think Their study took data from nearly 2,000 public-opinion surveys and compared what the people wanted to what the government actually did. What they found was extremely unsettling: The opinions of the bottom 90% of income earners in America has essentially no impact at all. ... How could it be that our government, designed to function as a representative democracy, is only good at representing such a small fraction of the population? Just follow the money. Why? Because purchasing political influence is 100% legal ... snip ... -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970