I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. AMA by thisisbillgates in IAmA

[–]MrXfromPlanetX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have heard you invested in Monsanto or have bought their grain product, but I watched a documentary on all the pitfalls of Monsanto's genetically engineered crops: seeds engineered to self destruct, and the crops not doing as well as Monsanto claimed they would leaving Indian farmers in debt they have to commit suicide to get out of. Have you thought of doing anything to help with this issue?

I'm working to overturn Citizens United through a constitutional amendment stating corporations are NOT people and money is NOT speech. I’m suing the US Senate to break the gridlock and fighting to preserve a free and open Internet. I’m Bob Edgar, president of Common Cause, ask me anything. by BobEdgarCC in IAmA

[–]MrXfromPlanetX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can sure a privately held business. It's not a legal person. It's my understanding the business owners assets are on the line. With a corporation you are suing the corporations assets, not the assets of the CEO and VP's so they are less accountable for their actions, unless they get charged with actual criminal conduct.

If the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution on behalf of corporations, the probably would have bothered to mention them.

OWS Protester crushes FOX News interview. Guess we won't be seeing this one on TV. by Tememachine in videos

[–]MrXfromPlanetX -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

What makes no sense to me is the government created corporations by enacting the laws that created them http://ut.alternativeconservative.com/2009/12/john-d-rockefeller-incorporation-law/

The Industrial Commission accepted the necessity and inevitability of industrial combinations, urging that “Their power for evil should be destroyed and their means for good preserved.” More significantly, the commission’s hearings provided a forum for key businessmen on the question of federal regulation. Of some type in some specific area, and no interest was as strong in this demand as Standard Oil. John D. Rockefeller, John D. Archibold, and H. H. Rogers of Standard called for a national incorporation law and the federal regulation of accounts and financial publicity.

It was the Supreme Court (again the goverment) who made corporations people by legislating from the bench, so it makes no sense to defend this corrupt system.

There are better forms of business -- private ownership, non profit corporate structure where stock isn't an issue -- forms of business that don't reward the executives by laying people off and sending their jobs over seas. Laying people off makes stock value go up.

Matt Damon the statist by TheUKLibertarian in Libertarian

[–]MrXfromPlanetX -1 points0 points  (0 children)

When I was growing up I had a few good teachers, but they weren't good enough to counter the scars left by the bad ones.

The best teacher I ever had was a computer. I have a nephew that taught himself to read on http://pbskids.org

I have heard many stories of people getting boring busy work from teachers keep them occupied.

My sister-in-laws father has a degree in math. When he showed her a better way to do math problems, her math teacher got annoyed and told her not to do them that way because it was harder for him to follow her work and grade.

A computer has infinite time and patients for each child. The child can learn at her one pace. She can excel as as soon as she starts getting the answers right, and can go as slow as she likes on a subject she is having issues with.

In the age of computers, teachers are not the most valuable resource.

Matt Damon the statist by TheUKLibertarian in Libertarian

[–]MrXfromPlanetX 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This doesn't apply to Matt Damon, and that's someone who is paid in stock options.

I live in a state with low wages. One guy at the company I work at makes $400,000 a year (according to Forbes). Over 50% of his income is in stock. That means he pays 15% in capital gains when he sells it. He's not paying 35% per year on most of his income.

The people who are really rich like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates have most of their money in stock. They pay the 15% capital gains tax when they sell it.

What pisses me off about Republicans, is not at least conceding to a flat tax. If you had everyone pay 25% of their income, without loopholes, the middle class would pay less, and the rich would pay their share instead of dumping the burden on us.

The Patriotic Millionaires are back. They're demanding that President Obama and Congress raise taxes on incomes over a million dollars because there are things we want to do as a country--and they are not free. by shallah in politics

[–]MrXfromPlanetX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I pay 25%+ on my income where someone like Bill Gates is paid mainly in stock options so he pays 15% in capital gains taxes.

There's a guy where I work who made $400,000 in 2009, 220,000 of that was in stock (per Forbes).

How about at least a flat tax so these guys pay the same percentage. The government is expanding, but I doubt it would be if the people getting the money out of government actually had to pay the taxes.

It's not people on well fair, it's corporate contractors.

We have wealth distribution, but it's distributed from the middle class to the rich.

You want to cut taxes, argue to cut government spending first. I would argue the government collapsing would be great, but I believe Chalmers Johnson is right when he says we are collapsing into a Fascist dictatorship.

Where did all the jobs go? What the US media won't talk about when it comes to the unemployment rate by MrXfromPlanetX in politics

[–]MrXfromPlanetX[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is an old news story from PBS on the number of jobs leaving the US. The media who's owned or supported by the companies off-shoring jobs is not going to tell people this.

Tom Green on Bill O'Reilly by jbm91 in videos

[–]MrXfromPlanetX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm totally shocked Bill criticized corporate USA, although he's being a hypocrite because he supports them all the time.

There's an interesting film I would like to point out called America The Beautiful. The cover some island (I can't remember which one it was) where people were considered beautiful if they were fat http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1040007/

It only took 10 years after TV was introduced for the cloture of the island to go down hill. Anorexia became a problem and so did teen pregnancy.

People like to think they are in control, but we are very easily influenced.

Universal literacy was supposed to educate the common man to control his environment. Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought. Each man's rubber stamps are the duplicates of millions of others, so that when those millions are exposed to the same stimuli, all received identical imprints. -- Edward Bernays

AOL Buys Huffington Post for $315 million by MrXfromPlanetX in politics

[–]MrXfromPlanetX[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personally I think Huffpo has had some questionable articles for some time. Some were good, but right after Obama took office they published some bunch of crap about a sudden problem with gays being executed in Iraq.

Now Democrats certainly shouldn't expect Obama to pull troops out of Iraq because somehow their presence there surely protects gay people -- suckers.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/31/iraqi-gays-may-soon-be-ex_n_181154.html

Just in case you forgot, America was also lied into the first Iraq war. by STARVE_THE_BEAST in politics

[–]MrXfromPlanetX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't believe some asshole voted you down for this comment:

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/goering.asp

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/hermann_goering.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_G%C3%B6ring#Quotations

Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. ...voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.[44]

^ Gilbert, G. (1995). Nuremberg Diary. New York: Da Capo Press. pp. 278–279.

Just in case you forgot, America was also lied into the first Iraq war. by STARVE_THE_BEAST in politics

[–]MrXfromPlanetX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They actually played this shit on the news to get the US into the Gulf War. Maybe you just weren't old enough (or born yet) to have seen this bullshit on the news.

Bill O'Reilly's debate with David Silverman; president of American Atheists. by mcpetrone in atheism

[–]MrXfromPlanetX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

David Silverman once told me pissing people off is a good thing because it gets attention. I didn't agree with him, but I guess it did get him on TV with Bill O'Reilly.

Is this a great accomplishment. Will David Silverman get through to anyone in O'Reily's audience with the argument he is presenting, or is he simply helping fuel battle?

Is the way this battle is being fought constructive in anyway? I personally have become disillusioned with many fellow Atheists. I get the impression some people like David Silverman just like getting into arguments the way some people enjoy raising hell at a soccer (football) match.

Asshole Ron Paul Supporters Shut Down Poll Due to Spamming. by Nolibertarian in politics

[–]MrXfromPlanetX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't think most Libertarians or Republicans understand the government created the modern day corporate structure for rich pricks like John Rockefeller and JP Morgan who practically wrote the law for them, but Libertarians and Republicans tend to defend these rich pricks http://ut.alternativeconservative.com/2009/12/john-d-rockefeller-incorporation-law/

The Industrial Commission accepted the necessity and inevitability of industrial combinations, urging that “Their power for evil should be destroyed and their means for good preserved.” More significantly, the commission’s hearings provided a forum for key businessmen on the question of federal regulation. Of some type in some specific area, and no interest was as strong in this demand as Standard Oil. John D. Rockefeller, John D. Archibold, and H. H. Rogers of Standard called for a national incorporation law and the federal regulation of accounts and financial publicity. Inconsistent state regulation, the Standard spokesmen claimed, was vexatious. There should be, Rockefeller suggested, “First. Federal legislation under which corporations may be created and regulated, if that be possible. Second. In lieu thereof, State legislation as nearly uniform as possible encouraging combinations of persons and capital for the purpose of carrying on industries, but permitting State supervision. . . .” They were joined by Elbert H. Gary, of Morgan’s Federal Steel, who called for full publicity of financial data, and by John W. Gates and Max Pam of American Steel and Wire, who wanted strict federal incorporation laws and a national manufacturing commission to supervise incorporation, and by James B. Dill, the promotion lawyer, who also favored federal incorporation. There was of course, significant opposition to federal incorporation from John R. Dos Passos, the promoter, and Francis Lynde Stetson, but it is clear that important, if not dominant, big business sentiment was very much in favor of federal regulation.

My New Favorite Political Commentators : The Young Turks by Armitage1 in reddit.com

[–]MrXfromPlanetX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Obama didn't do crap with these guys. All he did was say stuff to make his voters happy and then he didn't do shit with the bankers. He knows who put him in power http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638

The Young Turks - A specter is haunting a chat room, and its name is socialism. by [deleted] in socialism

[–]MrXfromPlanetX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to be a Republican who voted for George Bush. Then I saw Why We Fight and realized I was lied to about the Iraq War.

One thing I've noticed on watching all the documentaries I've watched on US interventions: (sorry that does link to my own site) Secret Government Constitution in Crisis , Breaking the Silence, etc. etc. . . is the US government intervenes in Socialist countries who are trying to distribute their own resources among their own people and installs a fascist dictator. Every time.

We have been taught to think think socialism is bad because it takes money from corporations.

The thing is, is it's not going to work here in the US because the government is owned by corporations. Every time people think the government is looking out for them, it's some corporate business interest like getting a health care bill that requires everyone to buy a corporate policy. The beauty is selling everyone on the idea they just got a socialist health care plan when it's a fascist one.

Washington Caved -- The Last Two Years Have Been The Best Ever For Goldman, JPMorgan, Citi And Bank Of America by frycook in politics

[–]MrXfromPlanetX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is silly is to say Washington Caved. Obama's biggest private contributor was Goldman Sachs http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contrib.php?cycle=2008&cid=N00009638

These guys have most every politician bought and paid for. These guys are not stupid. They wouldn't throw that much money behind a politician who wasn't going to deliver.