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So, yeah, don't use Hartz brand over-the-counter pet products, apparently.
http://www.hartzvictims.org/about-hartzvictimsorg/

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JOHN KING: Governor Romney? You've been a chief executive of a state. I was just in Joplin, Missouri. I've been in Mississippi and Louisiana and Tennessee and other communities dealing with whether it's the tornadoes, the flooding, and worse. FEMA is about to run out of money, and there are some people who say do it on a case-by-case basis and some people who say, you know, maybe we're learning a lesson here that the states should take on more of this role. How do you deal with something like that?

MITT ROMNEY: Absolutely. Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that's the right direction. And if you can go even further and send it back to the private sector, that's even better. Instead of thinking in the federal budget, what we should cut -- we should ask ourselves the opposite question. What should we keep? We should take all of what we're doing at the federal level and say, what are the things we're doing that we don't have to do? And those things we've got to stop doing, because we're borrowing $1.6 trillion more this year than we're taking in. We cannot...

KING: Including disaster relief, though?

ROMNEY: We cannot -- we cannot afford to do those things without jeopardizing the future for our kids. It is simply immoral, in my view, for us to continue to rack up larger and larger debts and pass them on to our kids, knowing full well that we'll all be dead and gone before it's paid off. It makes no sense at all...

Yay! Let's turn all the social-protection functions of government into profit centers! No, wait, let's not.

Other people, if cartoons are to be believed, have demons & angels on their shoulders. Apparently I long ago incorporated mine into my own psyche as part of my personality spectrum. So in lieu of Hot Stuff on my shoulder, I have an angry vengeful alter ego who claims to seek a Jacobin revolution, with Madame Guillotine in the streets and things of that nature. So, in that voice:

"Yes, lets. More and more shall be privatized. Despite all the rhetoric about freedom and competition, in practice select 'private' firms will draw a profit from taxes collected (in the US, already the function of the defense industry racket & of Treasury bills). In time, the creation of a new international corrupt capitalist aristocracy without any sense of state obligation will lead to a worldwide situation akin to pre-Revolution France. And really, much of the world is already there, so it's just time that the USA joined the Third World in the misery its international institutions (not only for-profits, but the IMF & World Bank) profit from. The sheer arbitrariness of abuse will, perhaps as soon as in 30-50 years, mobilize nations to rise up & slaughter their oppressors. Also as democracies hurtle into this corruption, history will realize that liberal popular democracy was unstable and corruptible, and not only will your grandchildren behead a bunch of bankers & their conservative supporters, they will also scoff at your backward ways."

I'm not convinced of the, "throw the world into hell just to discredit those who would throw the world into hell," strategy. I tell myself I'm being sarcastic. This last line helps:

"Or, you know, you could do something sensible."

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http://www.offthechartsblog.org/pawlenty%E2%80%99s-high-end-tax-cuts-dwarf-even-those-of-president-bush/

The Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center has analyzed the new tax plan of Tim Pawlenty. Using its data, we contrast the Pawlenty plan with President Bush’s tax cuts.

Under both plans, the benefits flow more to those at the top. The difference is that they flow even more heavily to that group under the Pawlenty plan.

Specifically, in 2013 the Pawlenty plan would give people in the top one-tenth of 1 percent on the income scale (i.e., people with incomes above $2.7 million) an average annual tax cut of $1.8 million — which is more than four times what they got last year from the Bush tax cuts.

Note: The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is a non-partisan organization and takes no position on political candidates.

Here's the Tax Policy Center link:
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/numbers/displayatab.cfm?Docid=3051&DocTypeID=2

Its chart is far more damning:

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But hey, this must please the anti-tax maniac that thinks labor unions are "communists" & compares a tax hike to Hitler.

When I first skimmed this story I didn't catch that this is a state representative objecting to his constituents as commies. Great.

Well, that gives me hope for my dream of running for office by insulting my potential constituents.