The Dali Lama, et ctera

China hates the Dali Lama because it is not under the direct control of the Chinese Communist Party. Anything that provides to further legitimize him is a threat to their total domination of the Chinese people. Look at the history of Russia's Communist Party. It is a group that is 100% intolerant of anything marginally different, let alone something as opposite, than its own ridged ideology. If they could kill him and imprison his supporters without a massive international outcry they would. The Olympics could be interesting, except that most news agencies seem to ignore the bad in China most of the time.

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Two words: Flat Tax or even better NO INCOME TAX and STOP SPENDING OUR MONEY! Mr. Rangel you, sir, are a fool! The policy you present here has never worked. Why should I aspire to make more money if the Fed. is going to punish me by taking half of it away?

Here is a point of comparison.

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The weaker dollar isn't all bad.

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Using a child who made use of the SCHIP program as an example of why it needs to be expanded as a government entitlement is just wrong.