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I am always in favor of helping anyone who needs help.  I am in favor of supporting them until they can get on their feet.  I would prefer this were done privately whereby it would be voluntary giving out of love rather than by force of law.  But even I, a person who opposes big government, have no problem with the NEEDY receiving the help they need, from whatever source until they are able to make it on their own.  And they must be allowed to try to make it on their own.

I have been accused of being cold-hearted, mean-spirited, selfish, self-centered, spiteful, heartless because I call for the government to clean itself up and fly right.  The issue in question last time I was accused related to the welfare programs, the feel good programs.
I find myself hard-pressed to explain a concept that is so natural for me to someone who has never thought along the same lines, but I do it anyway, albeit rather poorly.

Our government has been explanding, probably since time for it began, but has exploded in scope in the last 50 years to the extent it bears little resemblence to my younger days.  Some of that expansion may have been good, but I perceive most of it as bad.

I contend that many people who initially get on welfare do so illegally – I’ve had social workers say they’ve had mothers borrow children from a neighbor to show how many kids she had, I’ve known some who have scammed the system, and I know it is done regularly.  I have no reason to think government actually tries to get anyone off welfare because to do so loses a certain degree of control it will then have over that person.  Welfare is a two headed monster.  It serves both the recipient and the politician.  The victim will, if he votes at all, definitely vote and defend the politician who promised him the moon, especially if he delivers on the promise.  The politician will always promise the moon in order to get the votes.   I’ve heard others tell about when bird food is made available, the birds flock around, and once the bird food is gone, the birds leave too.  As long as it’s there, the birds will stay and eat rather than look for more.
There are people who milk the system, and some believe that is rare.  I don’t. I think  it is horribly abused – and I correctly translate that into abuse of the taxpayer who provides the money to take care of those people.  It isn’t just the “welfare system” – it is all the other “feel good” programs designed to create dependency on government, such as subsidized transit, meals on wheels, senior citizen discounts, Medicare, Medicaid, free clinics, etc.

One example.  I once was director for the senior citizen centers, meals on wheels, and transit for my county.  One woman had been having meals delivered to her home at taxpayer expense for months and one day ran into the center to tell me not to have that day’s meal delivered because she was “going shopping with the girls”.  She ran up the 5 steps to the front door rather than take the ramp.  I stopped her delivered meals that same day as she was obviously not qualified to receive home delivered meals.   She was scamming the system, and everyone who knew it was helping her scam the system.  She is one example of many, many I could list.  If the government could bring itself to actually clean house and straighten out things once in a while I would not be so antagonistic, but that has never been done and will never be done.  Someone somewhere must draw the line – otherwise the scammers and cheaters will destroy the system and people who champiion these government handouts will be sorely upset.

I have to ask myself, as possibly you do, how needy is a person who walks around with ipods and cell phones?  How needy is a person who swills booze all day?  How needy is a person who always seems to have cigarettes?  How needy is a person who drives an expensive car?  How needy is a person who goes to the shop for manicures?  How needy is a person who takes illegal drugs?  How needy is a person who uses the money to have her ears (and other parts) pierced, to have fake nails put on, etc?  How needy is a person who has 3 TVs in their home?  How needy is a person who is so important that they wear a pager?  How needy is a person who wears designer jeans?  How needy is a person who gets free medical care, but ignores the medical advice?

I don’t blame the poor person nearly as much as I blame the government.  Maybe not all citizens, but certainly legislators should understand that tax dollars are finite.  What is so hard to understand about one family going without something so that the their taxes will pay for the exact same thing for some other family?  Do people not understand that when a person works and earns a day’s pay, that pay is HIS, NOT the government’s, and not anyone else’s.  If it is HIS money, how does government have the legal right to FORCE him to give whatever percentage of it the government deems necessary?  This constitutes neither caring nor compassion – this constitutes force to steal from one to give to another, primarily for votes.

Our government is becoming increasingly socialist, to the point that some even ask what is so bad about socialism.  Our government schools aren’t doing such a hot job with education if civics and real history are no longer being taught.  Maybe they are still being taught, but slow students get a passing grade so as to not be made to feel badly.

To those who question conservative’s compassion and caring, I tell them the truth about what I do – hours and hours of volunteering at nursing homes and churches for senior citizens, fund raising for Child Protective Services, financially support 4-H, the high school band, food baskets for Christmas, donations to local charities, churches, and schools.  Perhaps this doesn’t impress the critics, but it isn’t meant to.  Do they assume if there was no government help and I found a family in need that I would cheerfully watch it starve to death?  What goes on in these people’s minds?  Anything?

Am I perfect?  Goodness, NO, I am NOT.  Is the critic perfect?  NO, he is not.

I feel I am compassionate.  Stupid, I am NOT.  Wasteful, I am NOT.  Naive, I am NOT.
I will do anything, go to almost any limit to help someone help himself, but when he expects me to do it all for him, I assume I am being scammed.

Corruption, ruthlessness, and Far-Left agenda

Jim O’Neill,  Author at Canada Free Press.com

“Find out just what the people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.” — Frederick Douglass, civil rights activist, (circa 1818-1895)

One of three possible scenarios is currently being played out in the United States.

Obama Administration is the most corrupt, dishonest, and inept Administration that America

The first option, is simply that the Obama Administration is the most corrupt, dishonest, and inept Administration that America has ever been burdened with.

That is the “best case”  scenario.  Unfortunately, this is the option that I think least likely.

I suppose it is possible that Obama has simply had a phenomenal run of bad luck; that the various bills and laws passed by his Administration have, by some fluke, been accidentally anti-small business, anti-free enterprise, economically suicidal, and have worsened the economic crisis, not ended it.

I might also mention that there has been a, how shall I say this—lackadaisical—attitude towards an American debt of biblical proportions.

Obama Administration despises individual freedom, capitalism, free-enterprise

The second option, is that the Obama Administration despises individual freedom, capitalism, free-enterprise, and is hell-bent on transforming the United States into a fascist/communist collective—a regime that will be run by a venal, ruthless, power-hungry elite.

That actually sounds more plausible to me.

Obama Administration is part of a global restructuring process, New World Order

The third option is, that the Obama Administration is part of a global restructuring process (New World Order), in which the world will be turned into a fascist/communist collective—run by a venal, ruthless, power-hungry elite.

My guess is—take your pick between options two and three.

If you’re surprised by my analysis, then you haven’t been paying attention to what has happened, and is happening, to the United States.

Let me roll out some facts and figures for you.

The SEIU (Service Employees International Union) is run by Andy Stern, a militant Far-Left thug, and Anna Burger, another Far-Left radical.  The SEIU has increased its size and power through, arm-twisting intimidation tactics, and other nefarious means.

Two years ago Obama said before an SEIU rally, “I’ve spent my entire adult life working with SEIU.”

That is not good news.  Once you’ve looked into the corruption, ruthlessness, and Far-Left agenda of the SEIU leadership, you will know that it is not good news at all.

Obama has appointed two stalwart friends of SEIU to high level positions: Kathleen Selibus (D-Kansas) as head of the Department of Health and Human Services, and Hilda Solis to head the Department of Labor.

The SEIU currently has over 2 million members.  most of them are essentially unwilling inductees, but many are “true believers.”

Let’s discuss ACORN.

Wade Rathke, who “cut his teeth” in the Far-Left radical group SDS in the 1960s, founded ACORN, and also SEIU Local 100.  These and numerous other Far-Left groups under the Rathke “umbrella” are funded by our taxpayer dollars.

According to the “Sweetness and Light” website: “ACORN claims more than 400,000 dues-paying member families, and more than 1,200 chapters in 110 U.S. cities.”

And lets not forget the hundreds of “advocacy groups” connected with Acorn: groups such as the WFP (Working Families Party),—which, according to an Associated Press report, was created in 1998 to help push the Democratic Party toward the left.”  (Like they needed the help).

Many of our taxpayer dollars are funneled to various Far-Left organizations which, after the “bosses” get their cut, distribute the money among hundreds, possibly thousands, of groups which advocate the destruction of the United States as a free republic, and the installation of a welfare collective.

That’s not hyperbole folks.  It’s a con game that is going on, and has been going on for years—with the assistance of radical leftist foundations like Arca, and the Tides Foundation.

Some deal, huh?  Collect the money earned by some bourgeois chump, and then spend your time trying to destroy the system that enabled the chump to make the money in the first place.  Sweet!

My point here is that there are already a number of available thugs in place, should the Obama Administration need them.  And we shouldn’t forget AmeriCorp, and the other paramilitary groups getting ready to “muscle up.”

Although I’ve been talking exclusively about the Far-Left influence, I don’t want to be remiss, and forget to mention that greed, corruption, and duplicity are non-partisan vices.  The right-wing has its share of snakes in the grass as well.

I watched a town hall meeting yesterday where Senator McCain was asked a question about Obama disrespecting the U.S. Constitution.  Senator McCain replied, “I’m sure that he respects the Constitution.”

Senator McCain’s comment was booed, and I turned off the TV.  Why are you covering for Obama, John?

How can a person with as many years on Capitol Hill as Senator McCain, say with a straight face, that Obama respects the Constitution.  I guess it takes all those years in Congress, to be able to state such a bald-faced lie with a straight face.

With all due respect to his heroic service record, Senator McCain is either an inattentive dolt, or he thinks that the American public are morons.  I’m not especially fond of either conclusion.

Obama and his ilk have been trying to tear down the Constitution for decades.  It’s an axiom that the Far-Left hates the Constitution, and the liberal-left is no friend to it.  They see it, and have always seen it, as an obstacle to implementing their collectivist social engineering agendas.

An article from “The American Spectator” states that Obama believes that, “The Constitution’s fatal “flaw” is that it set up a limited form of government, far too passive in its understanding of rights to deliver the liberal utopia for which radicals have rooted since the 1960s.”

The Far-Left has an undeniable panache for naming things what they are not.  Calling the government takeover of health care, the “public option,” is one example.  Another gem, is calling the “death by a thousand cuts,” of the U.S. Constitution, the “Living Constitution.”

As Bubba Clinton might have said, “Just how do you define the word—living?”

By the term “living Constitution” the Left means a pliable, moldable, elastic Constitution. A Constitution that can be stretched and formed to mean anything that they want it to mean.  They mean the death of the U.S. Constitution, as it was written by the Founding Fathers.

Instead of a bulwark protecting the American public from government interference, the Constitution will become a means for enacting Draconian laws to oppress the people.  The “living Constitution” means a perverted travesty of the U.S. Constitution.

It’s rapidly coming down to this: either there will be a number of unpatriotic, if not anti-American individuals, who will be tried for treason against the United States, during a time of war—and I believe that the penalty for that is death—or the United States as a free republic, and world power, will perish.

As Abraham Lincoln so eloquently put it, “We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.”  The time is upon us, and we cannot vacillate any longer.

Don’t buy into the H1N1 crisis

I live in Florida, and we’re used to getting ready for hurricanes.  We buy portable radios, flashlights, and batteries.  We stock up on non-perishable foods, and bottled water.

There is most definitely a “hurricane” coming, and for this storm, you might want to add arms and ammo to your shopping list.

Keep a “weather eye” out for the “Reichstag fire,” and don’t buy into the H1N1 crisis (yes, yet another crisis—yawn), and keep your butt out of any “quarantine camps.”

Godspeed.  And may God bless America.

Edward Kennedy Serve America Act
H.R. 1388, Public Law 111-13
This bill has been signed into law, but still requires funding to the tune of 5.7 billion dollars over 6 years.

An annual luncheon is held in Waco, Texas each year honoring volunteers through the Retired Senior Volunteer Program, a nation wide program authorized by the federal government. Approximately 600 volunteers from six counties with a combined population of 339,784 were in attendance May 30, 2009 for the annual recognition luncheon. Most of them have been volunteering service, time,energy, and money for many years.

Congressman Chet Edwards always attends this event, ostensibly to show his support for the senior citizens who do the volunteer work, but I have no doubt that he has no interest in senior citizens volunteerism aside from the political capital he hopes to earn by attending the annual luncheon as well as the votes he can get from these seasoned citizens who believe he is merely grateful for their service.

This bill would “reward” this service by awarding, in the volunteer’s name, a scholarship of $1000.00 per year to a college student per volunteer who donates at least 325 hours of volunteer work within their community.  Please bear in mind that these scholarships will not be paid for by Rep. Edwards nor Sen. Kennedy.  They get the publicity, the taxpayer gets the bill.

No one thinks scholarships are bad things. No one thinks volunteerism is a bad thing. No one thinks rewards are bad things.

On the other hand, this bill, on its face, is a horrible bill, all pork, all to get democrats elected and to assure they stay elected. There is no other rationale for this pitiful attempt at pork gouging.

Part of the explanation of the bill states that:
the goal of expanding 75,000 government-supported volunteers to 250,000, and would increase education funding and establish a summer volunteer program for students, paying $500 (which would be applied to college costs) to high-school and middle-school student who participate. Need I explain how much this might cost us, the taxpayers? It will be a bundle, accomplishing nothing, dumbing us down even farther than we already are, and a disincentive for some of the best volunteers, who see this as I see it — POLITICS and nothing more; politics which work against my best interest and which I will not support in any way.

It is not about volunteerism — there are already numerous volunteers who cheerfully donate time and energy — I DO!  Actually these “rewards” are an insult to the sincere volunteer. I am a volunteer. I do it for the clients and I do it for me. I do not want taxpayer’s dollars for doing this volunteer work, even if the US Treasury were fulll  I certainly don’t want it now that the nation is broke, bankrupt. We all know the only money the government has is what it takes from us, the taxpayers. Tying these scholarships to RSVP is nothing more than a ruse to make it sound good from all sides, dressed up somewhat like a pig with the lipstick on. It strikes me that this is a simple ruse to fool simple people, and that makes me even madder. If the goal is to pass out taxpayer money for kids to go to college to learn collectivist propaganda, let it be known that as a volunteer I refuse to give them the cover for stealing your money by “giving it away in my name”. I assure you I WILL be talking about this with everyone I meet.

It is way past time these crooks in Congress are totally exposed for what they really are — greedy narcissists with the whore’s mentality of always having the hand outstretched … not to shake, but to accept money. They don’t care about the ‘children’, the aged, the infirm, the minority, their own constituency, or you or me. WAY PAST TIME FOR TERM LIMITS. One term only. One term only. One term only.

Our region’s RSVP offices are housed at McLennan Community College and the staff is friendly and helpful.  Unfortunately, I am afraid they are not seeing this for what it is.  This luncheon for volunteers is every bit as much about Chet Edwards and the Democrat Party as it is the volunteers.  This is a political function disguised as a “thank you”, but I don’t really believe the local RSVP staff realizes that.  Surely someone at the college realizes it.  I, for one, resent it.  How tragic that our country has come to this.

Republished from Source: Original Article by J D Longstreet Socialized Medicine in the United States! : WesternFront America May 27th, 2009

So the big push has begun! The big push for socialized medicine in the United States. Altho, there is little funny about this boondoggle, it is sorta funny to watch the socialists in the US government, including the Obama Administration, tie themselves into knots to avoid using the words “socialized” and “medicine” in the same paragraph, let alone the same sentence. Nevertheless, that is exactly what they are proposing… socialized medicine. And again, I expect ignorance to overcome logic and sound reasoning as the government shoves socialized medicine down the throats of American citizens and, in so doing, bring about the collapse of the best healthcare system in the world.

If you are one of those who actually think they are doing this because they care about you, you really need to see a shrink about your mental health, I mean your “delusions.”

America is about to experience something we have never had before in our history. Rationing of healthcare. There is simply no escaping it. Costs of healthcare will have to be brought to heel by the Obama administration and there is only one way to do that… and that is to ration it. In other words you will be placed on a waiting list and your ailment will be treated whenever they get to you, in a couple of weeks, a couple of months, or a couple of years, or maybe never. If you don’t get the care you require and you die, so much the better. That is the other way of bringing healthcare costs down.”

My wife had surgery a few days ago. The surgery was performed by a robot. Yep! A well-qualified doctor was supervising the robot, of course, but the robot did the work. The machine, we were told, costs 2 million bucks per copy. I pleaded with my wife, in the few minutes we had before she was whisked away to the operating room, to take extreme care, and for goodness sake, do not damage or break that 2 million dollar robot.

The machine is so complicated it sometimes takes hours to set it up between procedures and, as a result, it can only perform two surgeries a day.

It took only a few days, less than a week, to have the paperwork, blood work, radiological workup, and the surgery performed and return home, in my wife’s case. I was left sitting in one of those uncomfortable chairs in an ultra-modern waiting room, surrounded with huge TVs with drive-in movie size screens and stereo sound, plus a progress board, all lit up, and hanging on a wall, showing the progress of your patient in the surgical process as the hours dragged by. Those of us waiting had the option of relaxing in an area of the “pavilion” where hot coffee and snacks were offered. We were given a “beeper and every hour or so, the beeper would go off and someone from the surgical team would come out and bring us up to date on where, exactly, our patient was in the process and how, generally, the patient was tolerating the supreme invasion of a knife, even a knife wielded by a robot.

The kind of “express’ healthcare we experienced and described above, will be a thing of the past if Obama and the Democratic Socialist Party gets their way and they create and install a government run healthcare system. Of course, they are going to deny that and tell you that folks like me, who actually tell you the truth about such things, are “full of it” and don’t know what we are talking about. The sad thing about all of this is that by the time you find out that those of us warning against a government system are, in fact, telling you the truth, it will be too late and healthcare in the US will be scraping the bottom of the barrel like so many other socialized medicine programs around the globe. In other words it will be too cussed late to do anything about it!

One other thing: Do not feel secure, if, like me, you have your own private health Insurance, Why? Because the government run plan will run the private plans out of business. The private plans will not be government subsidized. The government plan(s) will. How can the private plans even be expected to compete against the government plans when the deck is so stacked against them? The simple answer is… they can’t. Soon you and I, with our private health care plans, will eventually wind up on the government health dole — whether we want to or not — and that’s the ultimate plan!

In an article titled: “Obama’s ‘Public’ Health Plan Will Bankrupt the Nation” Lawrence Kudlow says: “And does anybody believe Obama’s new “public” health-insurance plan isn’t really a bridge to single-payer government-run health care? And does anyone think this plan won’t produce a government gatekeeper that will allocate health services and control prices and therefore crowd-out the private-insurance doctor-hospital system?

Federal boards are going to decide what’s good for you and me. And what’s not good for you and me. These boards will drive a wedge between doctors and patients.” Kudlow goes on to say:”…. the Obama Democrats are determined to force through a state-run system that will bankrupt the country.” Read the entire article HERE.

Currently, there are four plans under consideration. One would simply expand Medicare. It would be a fully government run program and would not have to remain solvent to remain in business. The second would be set-up by the government and be required to remain solvent while establishing their own networks and payment schemes. Then there is the plan to have each state create it’s own state insurance following government guidelines. And the one with the least chance of making it out of committee is to have no government plan at all — and instead — clean up the current private insurance programs and police them better than they have in the past.

If all this sounds like a mess, believe me when I tell you that it IS a mess!

Look, you get nothing for free. Everything has a price, a cost. The cost may be hidden, but, believe me, it is there. The price of socialized medicine in America will be so unbelievably high if will be impossible to hide. The government will have to choose between continuing to raise taxes to pay for it, or reduce the amount of healthcare available to the patients.

There is always the threat of a tax revolt in America if the government continues to raise taxes. Many believe the tax revolt has already begun with the American Tea Parties. The first round if those tea parties saw an estimated one million Americans meeting, all across America, to protest taxes already levied by the government on her citizens. Another wave of Tea Parties are expected on July Fourth, the birthday of the nation, and many in the Republican Party now suspect the American Tea Parties are simply the birth of a third political party in America.

The GOP is between a rock and a hard place here. If they do not put up an extremely good fight against Socialized Medicine in America, there is good reason to believe there will be a mass migration of conservatives from the GOP and into other conservative political parties. The American Tea Party will be perfectly positioned to welcome those migrants into their conservative party.

The Democrat Socialist Party would be well advised to tread lightly on socialized medicine. It could be the straw that breaks the camel’s back for them.

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J. D. Longstreet blogs daily at INSIGHT on Freedom … … http://csadispatch.blogspot.com/

Whatever revolution that starts in California, always spreads to the nation. In arguably the most liberal state in America, California taxpayers sent a message to the nation on Tuesday: “We’ve Had Enough and We’re Not Going to Take It Anymore!”

Okay, Okay, “Revolution” is not exactly a tax-strike but Wayne Root makes a case for it.  Already in the run for President in 2012.  I like him.

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Nobody wants to mention tax rises just ahead of the elections,” said Thorolfur Matthiasson, an economics professor at the University of Iceland. “But if the budget deficit is 10 percent of GDP and the official debt is approximately what the nation can produce in one year, then the politicians will have to raise tax and reduce public spending.

It’s hard to pay attention to what’s happening in such a seemingly small, remote and insignificant country as Iceland, but the parallels of retro-progress in Iceland and USA are stunning and terrifying. Think for a moment, this is a part of global collapse begun here in our USSA with the last trigger on this shotgun being the CRA. Then note our Rulers now considering renewal of the CRA to cure the problems caused by the CRA.

Please read this article and review the Digg comments.

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To All My Valued Employees,

There have been some rumblings around the office about the future of
this company and, more specifically, your job. As you know, the economy
has changed  for the worse and presents many challenges. However, the
good news is this: The economy doesn’t pose a threat to your job. What
does threaten your job however, is the changing political landscape in
this country.

However, let me tell you some little tidbits of fact which might help
you decide what is in your best interest.

First, while it is easy to spew rhetoric that casts employers against
employees, you have to understand that, for every business owner, there
is a Back Story. This back story is often neglected and overshadowed by
what you see and hear. Sure, you see me park my Mercedes outside. You’ve
seen my big home at last year’s Christmas party. I’m sure; all these
flashy icons of luxury conjure up some idealized thoughts about my life.
However, what you don’t see is the BACK STORY:

I started this company 28 years ago. At that time, I lived in a 300
square foot studio apartment for 3 years. My entire living apartment was
converted into an office so I could put forth 100% effort into building
a company, which by the way, would eventually employ you.

My diet consisted of Ramen Pride noodles because every dollar I saved
went  back into this company. I drove a rusty Toyota Corolla with a
defective transmission. I didn’t have time to date. Often times, I
stayed home on weekends, while my friends went out drinking and
partying. In fact, I was married to my business — hard work,
discipline, and sacrifice.

Meanwhile, my friends got jobs. They worked 40 hours a week and made a
modest $50K a year and spent every dime they earned. They drove flashy
cars and lived in expensive homes and wore fancy designer clothes.
Instead of hitting the Nordstrom’s for the latest hot fashion item, I
was trolling through the discount store extracting any clothing item
that didn’t look like it was birthed in the 70’s. My friends refinanced
their mortgages and lived a life of luxury.  I, however, did not. I put
my time, my money, and my life into a business with a vision that
eventually, some day, I too, will be able to afford these luxuries my
friends supposedly had.

So, while you physically arrive at the  office at 9am, mentally check in
at about noon, and then leave at 5pm, I don’t. There is no “off” button
for me. When you leave the office, you are done and you have a weekend
all to yourself. I  unfortunately do not have the freedom. I eat, and
breathe this  company every minute of the day. There is no rest. There
is no weekend. There is no happy hour. Every day this business is
attached to my hip like a 1 year old special-needs child. You, of
course, only see the fruits of that garden — the nice house, the
Mercedes, the vacations… you never realize the Back Story and the
sacrifices I’ve made.

Now, the economy is falling apart and I, the guy that made all the right
decisions and saved his money, have to bail-out all the people who
didn’t. The people who overspent their paychecks suddenly feel entitled
to the same luxuries that I earned and sacrificed more than a decade of
my life for.

Yes, business ownership has is benefits but the price I’ve paid is steep
and not without wounds.

Unfortunately, the cost of running this business, and employing you, is
starting to eclipse the threshold of marginal benefit and let me tell
you why:

I am being taxed to death and the government thinks I don’t pay enough.
I have state taxes. Federal taxes. Property taxes. Sales and use taxes.
Payroll taxes. Workers compensation taxes. Unemployment taxes. Taxes on
taxes. I have to hire a tax man to manage all these taxes and then guess
what? I have to pay taxes for employing him. Government mandates and
regulations and all the accounting that goes with it, now occupy most of
my time.  On Oct 15th, I wrote a check to the US  Treasury for $288,000
for quarterly taxes. You know what my “stimulus” check was? Zero.. Nada.
Zilch.

The question I have is this: Who is stimulating the economy? Me, the guy
who has provided 14 people good paying jobs and serves over 2,200,000
people per year with a flourishing business? Or the single mother,
sitting at home pregnant with her fourth child waiting for her next
welfare check? Obviously, government feels the latter is the real
economic stimulus of this country.

The fact is, if I deducted (Read: Stole) 50% of your paycheck you’d quit
and you wouldn’t work here. I mean, why should you? That’s nuts. Who
wants to get rewarded only 50% of their hard work? Well, I agree, which
is why your job is in jeopardy.

Here is what many of you don’t understand … to stimulate the economy
you need to stimulate what runs the economy. Had suddenly, the
government mandated  to me that I didn’t need to pay taxes, guess what?
Instead of  depositing that $288,000 into the Washington black-hole, I
would have spent it, hired more employees, and generated substantial
economic growth. My employees would have enjoyed the wealth of that tax
cut in the form of promotions and better salaries. But – you can forget
it now.

When you have a comatose man on the verge of death, you don’t
defibrillate and shock his thumb, thinking that will bring him back to
life, do you? Or, do you defibrillate his heart? Business is at the
heart of America and always has  been. To restart it, you must stimulate
it, not kill it. Suddenly, the power brokers in Washington believe the
poor of America are the essential drivers of the American economic
engine. Nothing could be further from the truth; this is the type of
change YOU can keep.

So where am I going with all this?

It’s quite simple.

If any new taxes are levied on me, or my  company, my reaction will be
swift and simple.  I’ll fire you.  I’ll fire your co-workers. You can
then plead with the government to pay for your mortgage, your SUV, and
your child’s future. Frankly, it isn’t my problem any more.

Then, I  will close this company down, move to another country, and
retire. You see, I’m done. I’m done with a country that penalizes the
productive and gives to the unproductive.  My motivation to work, and to
provide jobs, will be destroyed and, with it, will be my citizenship.

So, if you lose your job, it won’t be at the hands of the economy; it
will be at the hands of a political hurricane that swept through this
country, steam-rolled the constitution, and will have changed its
landscape forever. If that happens, you can find me sitting on a beach,
retired, and with no employees to worry about….

Signed,  THE  BOSS

Here is another video, of juror Marcy Brooks, about serving on a jury which said “not guilty” to charges of not filing income taxes, because there is NO LAW requiring same.  Not filing is protected under the 4th and 5th Amendments.  Please note that not filing is far different than filing (which is your admission that you may owe something!), and that filing falsely can definitely land you in the clinker.  Beyond that, your admission by waiving your Amendment rights opens the Audit Door, and somehow gives the IRS the privileges of Lien and Attachment without due process.

So YES YOU CAN stop filing and YOU CAN stop paying and YOU CAN stop withholding income taxes!

And you SHOULD stop filing and paying taxes!  Why?  By paying taxes you are supporting a government now completely out of your control, which ignores your Constitution, and negates your personal rights and liberty.  The system has indebted itself (supposedly YOU) to the point where bankruptcy is inevitable.  We are destined to fall into total economic and moral collapse; paying taxes is as immoral as the government you support.

This not-too-long speech is in two parts. Two short clips, you’ll be back in about 15 minutes.

The page with juror Marcy Brooks videos is HERE!

A rather big issue amongst the politicos today is the Farm Subsidy bill.  A part of that fiasco is paying farmers NOT to grow crops.  Congress has been fighting, not about the principles involved, but rather  about how to apportion the dollars amongst the farmers, while it would better vote this as amongst the many big budget items which should be terminated.  You pay the taxes to subsidize the farmers, and are rewarded with higher prices at the grocery.

Happily the farmers are doing very well these days.  Again high demand while limiting supply drives farm prices up.  Farmers are producing corn for mandated ethanol while our world has a critical food shortage and while government buys ’surplus’ food to give to the welfare set…

Why?

• Our dollar is collapsing because of socialist programs like this
• It doesn’t matter whether it’s business subsidies or welfare, the socialists are using government to steal our money for their favorites, and leaving us out of any choice.
• Because the farmers contribute money to the politicians YOU elect (not me)!
• Life is really so simple, isn’t it?

We should be writing a ditto post on the whole huge spectrum of theft by taxation items.  It’s billions and billions.  Give us back our lives.

There is only one priority issue in this USA election 2008.

The issue is not national health care, nor the war in Iraq, nor global warming, nor immigration, nor drugs, nor abortion, nor ‘change’, nor raving preachers, nor oil prices, nor evil corporations… none of the above yet all of the above contribute to the issue before us.

This issue has come upon us thru a combination of all the above; virtually every politician at every level of government is responsible.  All three of the current stooges — the DemRep presidential candidates McCain, Obama & Clinton — are avoiding this issue.  Libertarian candidate Barr began with 163 days to become viable, but has wasted every day since and is now headed to Oxford in England to make a speech?  about nothing?  Just another stooge?

The media is also responsible; they are not addressing the issue either.  What are they waiting for?  Why is  not the collapse of our Dollar worth discussing?  How can that not impact the people of this world?

The single issue of any relevance in the real world is the ongoing USA economic collapse.

Right here on Morality101 are posts discussing the causes & effects, with the basis for the necessary solution.  I choose not to repeat them in this post, but ask you to surf this website to gain some understanding.  With several others, we have been trying so very hard to bring this issue to the forefront, but it’s been like talking to a wall.  The ostriches have their heads in the sand, but having been well brainwashed for several generations, perhaps they can no longer think for themselves?

It seems to me that this issue has passed any point of recovery, with no viable solution except in the very long run.  The collapse will continue until it wipes out our USA, with the devastating impact extending around the globe.  Calling this “gloom and doom” will not stop the collapse, nor make it go away.   But this collapse is likely to make you and many others go away, while those who survive will endure yet another Dark Age.

It’s all so simple – what do you not get about the morality of the free individual?