nintendofan

Ah taxes the lowest they have ever been. Used to be those making a million dollars or more each year had a marginal tax rate of 50-90%. Corporations also had twice the amount of taxes they have and made as much profit as they do now. Here is the thing Revenue isn't taxed profits are. So if a company invests most of it's money to avoid paying high taxes in the long run makes far more money and still makes profit in the millions and billions even with said high taxes. Lowering taxes causes a corp and a wealthy person to horde the money and not invest it since there is no point to investing any more.

There was an episode where they showed a foie gras that was naturally produced. The geese in this one farm ate the nuts they found on the ground and their livers met the standard of foie gras. The geese weren't overfed either it was their natural diet that caused their livers to turn into foie gras. Ramsay was able to identify this naturally occuring foie gras and state that it was rougher then the foie gras produced from force feeding ducks.

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I have no idea where your friend bought his bulbs or what brand but the majority of cfls work just fine and not only don't cost that much but lower ones electricity bills by a huge margin and therby lower the amount of mercury and other toxins dumped into the enviroment plus also reduce the amount of oil being burned so less oil needs to be imported.

Also the coal industry fights measures tooth and nail to prevent the use of technology that would capture the mercury being emitted by coal plants not only in the air but also in the ash pits which contain mercury.

You do know right that the burning of coal to power up an incandesant and the amount of incandesants to equal a cfl bulb releases billions of times more mercury then the cfl bulb does . You also save money by doing a cfl bulb plus replace the bulb less meaning it's safer to use a cfl then a regular bulb (quite a number of people have accidents when changing a bulb which for elderly can be fatal) and most cfls these days are brighter and look nicer then incandesants. Plus due to less heat you have far less chance of causing a house fire with a cfl bulb.


Also the cfl mercury in the landfill is localized instead of being dumped into the air as with burning coal that then said mercury also gets in the water supply and you also breathe it in and guess what there are tons of batteries in landfills which also have toxic metals in them.

From http://www.popularmechanics.com/home/reviews/news/4217864

How much mercury do power plants emit to light a CFL?
About 50 percent of the electricity produced in the U.S. is generated by coal-fired power plants. When coal burns to produce electricity, mercury naturally contained in the coal releases into the air. In 2006, coal-fired power plants produced 1,971 billion kilowatt hours (kwh) of electricity, emitting 50.7 tons of mercury into the air—the equivalent amount of mercury contained in more than 9 billion CFLs (the bulbs emit zero mercury when in use or being handled).

Approximately 0.0234 mg of mercury—plus carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide—releases into the air per 1 kwh of electricity that a coal-fired power plant generates. Over the 7500-hour average range of one CFL, then, a plant will emit 13.16 mg of mercury to sustain a 75-watt incandescent bulb but only 3.51 mg of mercury to sustain a 20-watt CFL (the lightning equivalent of a 75-watt traditional bulb). Even if the mercury contained in a CFL was directly released into the atmosphere, an incandescent would still contribute 4.65 more milligrams of mercury into the environment over its lifetime

Fascinating that is actually something Reagan and other conservatives since it increases the size of gov't.

Sorry Reagan was a diaster for the country. When one bothers to actually fact check what he did one sees that the image of him is just that an image built up from a false picture.

The Daily Show blasts anyone including democrats. It's just that Republicans are hypocritical douchebags so 99.99 of his material are Republicans. Same goes for scandals in DC 99.9999 of the people involved are Republicans hence why Republicans never call for cleaning out corruption among their party since there would be no Republican party left.

Care to provide proof that GE did such things?

Fox News is getting blasted because it goes against their word that they are fair and balanced and don't serve Republican interests . Plus Fox News people refuse to answer questions about it and even mention the donation.

Yeah unemployment benefits are that great. 290 a week for most means barely poverty level so they don't become homeless or have their kids starve to death.

Btw you can put the blame on American companies who decided that the CEO and execs instead of getting 30 to 40 times what the non exec worker paid was too small and instead raised it to 200-300 times what the highest non exec worker paid. Funny how this outsourcing of workers for profit never applied to the CEOs and execs when these American companies could have easily gotten execs from other countries for a few hundred thousand dollars. Said execs from other countries made their companies billions. Funny how American companies didn't hire more people with tax cuts, subsidaries, exec pay raises. Funny how when the highest income brackets in the US paid a 50-90% tax rate and the corporate tax was 50% and Unions had the majority of workers it was considered a golden age for America.

Sorry any person who works in a retail store will tell you this is done by white trailer trash and to a lesser degree by ghetto trash.

I wonder why they don't mention in the article about the people who buy a power tool use it and then return it that a number of hardware stores allow a person to rent the tool for a small fee.

You don't have to be a contractor either. It's way cheaper and less hassle then buying the tool in the first place. Do people not know that home depot and Lowe's have this program?