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KOMO - Seattle, WA : Bernanke offers no hints of imminent Fed action | Business | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:27:13 +0000

Hagar - I sense a strong leaning towards class warfare like what Obama keeps pushing to divide us which does nothing to create a cohesive group all pulling forward. FIRST - please define wealthy. What is the gross annual income (250K, 500K, 1M?), how much real estate do they own (500K home or 2M), is it the number or cars, boats etc....? In your mind who are these people that you feel are not paying their fair share. Fact - the wealthy have always done well. Sufficiently wealthy individuals (again not sure where you draw the line on that) have the means to last through down turns (they can afford to sit on their money). When markets or whatever it is they make their money at improve they know how leverage and make more - it's not an evil process. I switch my investments in my retirement plan to "take advantage" of financial changes and I'm middle class. The wealthy do not necessarily make it off the backs of the middle class or poor. Example - If I was an investor type with extra cash on hand I'd just sit on my money until times like these then start buying up property. That is not taking advantage the middle class or poor (nearly 40 % of our population Do Not pay taxes "the poor") And you can't just imply wealthy people are "evil" - we had many middle class folks who were very greedy and tried to work the real estate market a few years ago knowingly bought well beyond their means without considering the market may go soft and have now lost considerably - impacting us all! The wealthy already pay their fair share in taxes plus some. No one like taxes but when we have 40% or our population with "no skin in the game" therefore system gets abused and we end up with a large population people living on entitlements and wanting more. I've never had a poor person give me job and I don't know of any middle class person that can maintain their middle class lifestyle and mine too!! Stop increasing taxes on the wealthy it kills jobs. They will sit on their money till times get better or invest overseas. Give corporations incentives (tax breaks) to bring jobs back. Companies exist to make a profit - we are in a world market competing against China, Korea etc. - you can't just legislate penalties on the rich to create more and better paying jobs. And government union jobs are sucking us dry because they produce nothing of real value like a product/service and only exist off of our taxes from working citizens who are producing a valuable goods/services and PROFITABLE companies that we can tax their profits! If you have no skin in the game you have no sense of what the value is of anything is. The wealthy understand value or they would not be wealthy. The middle class understand it too. The Democrats have created generations that are hooked on Social Crack - ENTITLEMENTS.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Calif. restaurants get creative to duck foie gras ban | National & World News | Seattle News, Weathe

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:02:07 +0000

And the liberal progressive Democrats in New York want to ban giant soft drinks because they think people do not have the sense to STOP FORCE GULPING!!! And the Liberal Progressive Democrats want to ban McDonald's because people are FORCE FEEDING THEIR CHILDREN HAPPY MEALS!! And OBAMA-CARE WAS FORCED on the AMERICAN people by Liberal Progressive Democrats!! I guess it all depends on what if being FORCED and on Whom as determined by Liberal Progressive Democrats. Animal Activist are part of the Lib Prog Dem culture....

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Afghan soldier gets death for killing French troops | National & World News | Seattle News, Weather,

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:48:51 +0000

hummm the Afgans sacrifice one soldier and the French pull out...? The French are being overrun in their own country by Muslims.... How much longer till a gold dome is put on the Eiffel Tower....

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Report: Obama needs better than 2004 black turnout | National & World News | Seattle News, Weather,

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:37:17 +0000

Is this article trying to say in it's most PC way that African-Americans are racists...???

KOMO - Seattle, WA : King County to mail primary election ballots July 18 | Politics | West Seattle News

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:27:01 +0000

King County stuffing random car trunks with votes for D's ......??

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Auburn to turn over municipal court system to King County | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:17:05 +0000

King County Catch and Release program expands to Auburn...... LOL

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Ore. woman sues Justin Bieber over hearing loss at concert | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weathe

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:55:20 +0000

here's your sign....

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Whatcom County teen runs into loaded gun in lake | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather, Sports,

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:48:53 +0000

gun toting homeowner...I'm picturing a man in a flannel shirt, Wranglers, chaps in a pair of cockroach killer pointed cowboy boots, holsters on both hips...cig hanging menacingly from his lips...big wad of tabacky....! But did he spit on the detainee!!?? YUP that is your typical gun toting homeowner. The anti-gun reporters just crack me up!

KOMO - Seattle, WA : At least 17 shots fired in rolling gun battle on Beacon Hill | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weat

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:17:14 +0000

Obama needs to invite dem to da White House to share some 40's on the East Lawn, maybe have Snoop show up....I'm sure Sharpton, the Jessie's and Rev Wright would be down wit dis. Do they have shot counters now...? Can you please verify 17 shots were fired? They can tell us how many shots were fired but no descriptions of the shooters, white, black, Asian, Latino...??

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Panel: New NBA, NHL teams would overload fans\' finances | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather,

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:38:19 +0000

Supply and Demand - Let the FANS decide!! Besides - Seattle is such a fickle sports town anyway - how many of you remember all the loosing Seahawk seasons (Zorn running for his life, Largent snagging passes...) YET the Kingdome was sold out every game! The Mariners slump and it shows in the stands - Seattle is not a hard core baseball town. We have frantic Sounders (Eruro football). Makes sense when you look at how liberal left wing Seattle is - it's basically a Euro socialist city anyway. The Sonics I thought were a sure thing but I'm still left puzzled over that one - but then again it was owned by a liberal like Shultz and his Starburnt empire... Funny how liberals detest the wealthy but if it makes sense for their own personal best interest then watch out!! Games were too spendy anyway. And NBA teams are played by mostly African Americans with attitudes that are a cross between a street thug and a drama queen - sorry if I just don't identify.

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Cheney: Romney \'only\' man for foreign policy | National & World News | Seattle News, Weather, Spor

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:57:12 +0000

Obama literally bows to a Muslim leader and even prays with them and Muslims still hate us.... At least Cheney had a foreign policy that had a backbone. O-Boy is only out for himself and has been on his re-election campaign trail since the first day he took office. And when not campaigning he is apologizing to the Euro's for basically being a US citizen and all our supposed faults. Vote Romney - he will not be bowing down to or praying with any Muslim leaders!!! And I don't see him pushing Euro-Socialism on us either!

KOMO - Seattle, WA : President Obama wants Wash. to get more degrees | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather, Sports,

Fri, 13 Jul 2012 14:49:21 +0000

kanajune - Tree Hugger Degrees are not in demand and never have been!!! It's reality. Sorry these young adults are struggling but I'm glad they haven't bailed on their financial responsibilities too! If you are intelligent enough to be able to cut it at the college level academically I'd also hope you are intelligent enough to do some research and see what your prospective career will pay and what the present and future demand looks like! I'm sick and tired of all these "liberal arts" and "eco" degree students bailing on their loans because they didn't do their career planning homework and realize job prospects are horrible!! My apologies if I hurt anyone's feelings but dang - we have kids with 80K of debt bailing on those loans because they have a near worthless degree from some expensive private liberal arts school!! Too many kids must think the Obama Nationalized Student Loan program was FREE!!

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Lawmakers furious over China-made Olympic uniform | Sports | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:55:57 +0000

Envision your typical public place like the mall or a Mariners baseball game and then envision everyone not wearing anything that was made in China or some other third world sweat shop. Thousands or naked people with no shoes!! Save American jobs one T-Shirt at a time...?

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Man charged in Federal Way shooting | Crime | Federal Way News

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 18:02:30 +0000

Obama - If you had a son would he look like Kenneth?

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Another California city opts for bankruptcy | National & World News | Seattle News, Weather, Sports,

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:06:46 +0000

escalating pension costs Rephrase - UNIONS sucked them dry and are not letting up!! I'd bet ZERO Gov Unions workers have lost their homes, retired early an are sitting on a fat retirement plan with great medical....and are probably increasing their wealth portfolios by buying up foreclosed homes from the same tax paying citizens who paid their wages and now fat retirement plans....

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. treated for \'mood disorder\' | National & World News | Seattle News, Weather

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:46:58 +0000

mood -disorder... I thought that was just normal behavior for most liberal progressive Democrats......lives run on erratic emotion filled with endless solutions based on bigger government... Pelosi, Sharpton, John Edwards, Kennedy's, Maxine Waters, Jackson's, Obama, Biden, Rev Wright come to mind... Well he has great "bigger " GOVERNMENT PAID Healthcare so he will get taken care of at our expense!!!

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Activists say Burien\'s experiment in animal control has failed | Local & Regional | Seattle News, W

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:34:18 +0000

Animal Activist get out of the government run animal business - donate your money and time to professional shelters with proven track records of success!!

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Tacoma officer assaulted while responding to loud party | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather,

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:23:53 +0000

Police being profiled??!!

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Seattle eyeing high-tech solutions to gun violence | Local & Regional | Seattle News, Weather, Sport

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:21:48 +0000

Best Bang for the Buck crime control. WE ALREADY HAVE ENOUGH LAWS (and sufficient technology) - USE THEM!! - send ILLEGALS home and or execute if and as required. "Some estimates show illegals now make up half of California's prison population, creating a massive criminal subculture that strains state budgets and creates a nightmare for local police forces." http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/3/27/... - do the crime do the time. Let's make it ONE STRIKE and your butts in prison - THREE STRIKES is NOT WORKING - make gang membership a CRIME (OK maybe this should be a new law but it will never make it herein the NW - it would be considered profiling!) - allow for profiling, New York cops are allowed to do street searches if the suspect someone is carry a weapon! It works! Just look for the rapper attire - baggy pants, hoodie and any special gang member attire - Stop bashing the SPD all the time (yes they have some bad cops, every company has some bad employees too). Let them do their job without being hassled and be thankful someone is willing to do it! I'd say most of us don't want to deal with gang members (idiots in the general public) on a daily basis. I'd probably end up shooting most of these miscreants as opposed to having to come back to their neighborhoods once a week or arrest the same criminals over and over!

KOMO - Seattle, WA : Selig, Weiner disappointed over Cano booing | Sports | Seattle News, Weather, Sports, Breaking News

Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:02:43 +0000

Kansas City ROCKS!! They did not cave in to Political Correctness!!