It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => General Board => Topic started by: Pandora on April 01, 2011, 03:57:14 PM
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Here's a fool for you on April 1st, although this guy is a year-round fool.
The Los Angeles Times reports that Bruce Springsteen has written a letter to his local New Jersey newspaper criticizing the policies of his state's budget cutting Governor. (http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/04/tax_policy_expert_bruce_spring.html)
In a letter to his hometown newspaper, legendary rocker and Garden State icon Bruce Springsteen laments its recent report about how the state was slashing programs that help its poorest citizens while sparing more affluent residents from the budget axe.
"The article is one of the few that highlights the contradictions between a policy of large tax cuts, on the one hand, and cuts in services to those in the most dire conditions, on the other," Springsteen writes to the editors of the Asbury Park Press.
That's very righteous of rocker Springsteen, but meanwhile, back in February of this year, Fox News reported that Springsteen (also his former drummer Max Weinberg and Jon Bon Jovi) have taken advantage of New Jersey's tax laws to significantly cut their taxes on country properties by producing a minimum threshold of $500 a year's worth of farm products.
Fox stated, both in a video report and an article, that Springsteen's "Cadillac Ranch." According to Fox reporter Barbara Nevins Taylor:
Springsteen pays more than $138,000 a year in taxes on his three-acre Colts Neck home, but just $4,639 on the adjoining 200 acres, which is organically farmed and has horses, according to the report.
Just $4, 639 in taxes on 200 acres? Looks like Bruce's image as a working class hero is "Going Down," to quote from one of his famous song titles. Springsteen's accusation has been unable to "throw that speedball" by Fox News and probably Governor Christie like Bruce's buddy could in his "Glory Days."
Hey, Bruce, did you ever think that if these faux farmers in New Jersey had paid their fair share of taxes, the working guys and gals of Newark and Hoboken who made up the difference in the state budget would have had enough spare money to buy the Fords made in that Metuchen plant you sing about in "Glory Days" -- and it might have stayed open?
Liberals often twist Jesus's famous words around and cast the first stone to claim that they are without sin. But for Bruce Springsteen, this does not look like "A Brilliant Disguise."
My alma mater.
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I get so sick of these box-o'-rox entertainers. Stick to feeding the poor and AIDS - you're good at that stuff, and you can have a direct impact.
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I get so sick of these box-o'-rox entertainers. Stick to feeding the poor and AIDS - you're good at that stuff, and you can have a direct impact.
The guy has another person farming his land without chemicals of course and he saves thousands on his taxes. And bitches about other people saving a buck. I'm sick of these two faced bastards.
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The state doesn't have the money for the services, you dope. If that really bothers you all that much then hold a telethon and see how many of your precious Garden State dwellers are willing to pay for them. Otherwise, sit down and shut up.
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Here is the link (http://www.app.com/article/20110331/NJOPINION02/103310303/Bruce-Springsteen-Letter-Editor-Story-poverty-aid-cuts-gives-voice-voiceless?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Opinion|p) to the original story in the Asbury Park Press. 400 comments so far. I think that I will pass on my advice there.
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Springsteen's always been an ass. Years ago I heard him expounding on how the average guy in America couldn't "make it", which doesn't explain his success, unless (of course he does) he counts himself as one of the anointed.
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Bornnnnn in the USSR!
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"If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal." -- "Alice Cooper"
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"If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal." -- "Alice Cooper"
::newyear:: ::guitar:: ::thumbsup::
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I'm waitin' for Lady GaGa to tell me what to think . . .
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Shut up and pretend to sing. ::guitar::
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Shut up and pretend to sing. ::guitar::
Now that is funny! ::hysterical::
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::hysterical::
Ga Ga Ga Ga ga ga......
::hysterical::
Seen her without all that makeup? Skeery.
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::hysterical::
Ga Ga Ga Ga ga ga......
::hysterical::
Seen her without all that makeup? Skeery.
Seen "her"? Sure bout dat?
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::hysterical::
Ga Ga Ga Ga ga ga......
::hysterical::
Seen her without all that makeup? Skeery.
Seen "her"? Sure bout dat?
Only when I look from the neck down....But great strides have been made in plastic surgery.
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"If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal." -- "Alice Cooper"
Actually, Alice Cooper is, in my opinion, one of the more intelligent voices in rock. According to wikipedia:
...in the run-up to the 2004 presidential election, when he declared that the then crop of rock stars campaigning for and touring on behalf of Democratic candidate John Kerry were "treasonous morons"
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"If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we're morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal." -- "Alice Cooper"
Actually, Alice Cooper is, in my opinion, one of the more intelligent voices in rock. According to wikipedia:
...in the run-up to the 2004 presidential election, when he declared that the then crop of rock stars campaigning for and touring on behalf of Democratic candidate John Kerry were "treasonous morons"
Alice Cooper sang between periods at a Nashville Predator game a few weeks ago....I knew there was reason to like this guy.