It’s easy to say that the rich pay 80% of America’s taxes. All you need to do to say that with a straight face is to not count Social Security tax. The amount of FICA taken in represents an enormous annual total. The rich pay comparitively little of that total, because the rich are obviously less numerous, and because the annual amount for individual workers is currently capped.

It’s hard to argue that FICA shouldn’t be counted, since the government actually uses the money as if it were general revenue. It’s borrowed from the trust fund and spent; it is counted to reduce the apparent size of the federal deficit. It isn’t used to determine who pays the most taxes, however.

ACORN office in Vegas raided in voter-fraud probe
By OSKAR GARCIA – 3 hours ago
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada state authorities are raiding the Las Vegas headquarters of an organization that works to get low-income people to vote.
A Nevada secretary of state’s office spokesman said Tuesday that investigators are looking for evidence of voter fraud at the office of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, also called ACORN.
No one was at the ACORN office when state agents arrived with a search warrant and began carting records and documents away.
Secretary of State spokesman Bob Walsh says ACORN is accused of submitting multiple voter registrations with false and duplicate names.
The raid comes two months after state and federal authorities formed a task force to pursue election-fraud allegations in Nevada.

I got there at 7:00 and barely inside when they closed it. The length of the line was 4 times as long as it was at 7:00. My guess is that about 7,000 got turned away. There was a 2nd line that wasn’t visible from where I was at. It was incredible to me, but I hated some missing out. Sarah was gorgeous and her sweet down to earth self.

There were all kinds of people there, and we were all there for Sarah. Lots of men too and young people. Not all have drunk the koolaid.

Kansas City Obamazoid Teacher Suspended
The “teacher” behind the mini Obama frat video has been sent home packing until further notice. Fox News reports:

http://sugarnspice.typepad.com/sugar_n_spicea_meeting_pl/2008/10/kansas-city-oba.html#comments

(Just in case you were curious.)

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/cnn/tvnewser_live_chat_with_campbell_brown_96636.asp

According to Axlrod…Turns out 0bama knew NOTHING of Ayers past!

http://www.nypost.com/seven/10072008/news/politics/bomber__what_bomber__132490.htm

WASHINGTON – Barack Obama’s top political adviser said yesterday Obama “didn’t know the history” of unrepentant bomber William Ayers’ activities in the violent Weather Underground movement when the candidate attended a political event at Ayers’ home in 1995.

“When he went he certainly didn’t know the history,” chief Obama strategist David Axelrod told CNN – arguing for the first time since the story surfaced early this year that Obama was unaware of Ayers’ past.

“There’s no evidence that they’re close,” Axelrod added.

Nothing to see here folks, move along… Yeah right!

Director, June 1985 – June 1988

Organized and directed a not-for-profit community development program in low-income areas of Chicago’s Far South Side. With a membership of over twenty churches and civic groups, the organization trained local leaders to formulate and execute a range of community development projects, including job training programs for area unemployed, college prep programs for low-income students, parent initiatives to reform public schools, and campaigns to clean up hazardous waste sites.

This on Obama’s own resume confirms Obama working at the time of the ABC coalition on school reforms headed by Tom, John and Bill Ayers because the DCP was an important part of this coalition in bringing Blacks on board and Acorn was used likely as intimidation against the other formed coalitions.

This is also likely why Bill Ayers group managed to do in a period of the fall of 1987 to the spring of 1988 what could not be done in the 2 years prior, and that was get a program of school reforms together that would be the manifesto of school reforms in Chicago. There is no way this could have occurred if there wasn’t a co-ordinated effort amoungst people who knew eachother and who had the same objectives, ie the Ayers family, Obama and Acorn!