Posted by william uthe on August 18, 2011 at 12:24pm
Last week while watching c-span, i followed the progress of the proposed legislation re: loosening up the restrictions on oil and gas exploration and developinment of the use of our natural resources. During the votes on various proposals, I kept switching to Fox business channel to check the per barrel price of oil, it was so interesting that every time a vote went in favor to increased exploration and production of our own oil reserves, the price dropped rapidly ending in a price under 100. it wud appear that the threat of using our own reserves drives the international price down, which shud ultimitly result in lower prices per gallon at the pump. I find this observation an interesting insight into the administrations insistances that we continue our dependance on foriegn oil to send our dollars to aqreas of the world who r supplying our terrorists with guns and amunition being used to kill our brave troops who r fighting to try to bring some improvement to this screwed up world.
Posted by william uthe on August 18, 2011 at 12:23pm
WE R OVERDUE TO RATING DESERVING PROVIDERS OF GOODS AND SERVICES FOR TAX CREDITS. WE SHUD HV A RATING SYSTEM BASED ON THE CONTRIBUTION TO THE GENERAL WELFARE AND LIFE STYLE OF OUR CITIZENRY. MANUFACTURING CORPORATIONS AND BUSINESS USUALLY PROVIDE A VARIETY OF GOODS THAT ENHANCE OUR LIVING STANDARDS AND SHOULD RECIEVE ANY TAX BREAKS WHICH WILL INCREASE THEIR PRODUCTIVE EFFORTS IN PROVIDING AND THEIR ABILITY TO CONTINUE TO PRODUCE AND DEVELOPE MORE THINGS WHICH ADD TO OUR EVERY DAY LIVING NEEDS. OIL COMPANY'S SHOULD RECIEVE ANY TAX BREAKS AND CREDITS WHICH WILL BE AN ADDED INCENTIVE FOR THEM TO EXPLORE AND DEVELOPE OUR NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENCOURAGE THEM TO EXPLORE BETTER WAYS TO IMPROVE THEIR PRODUCT BECAUSE THEY DEFINITLY AFFECT OUR EVERYDAY LIVING. SERVICE PROVIDERS SHOULD BE RATED BY THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO DERIVE A DIRECT BENIFIT FROM THOSE SERVICES,STARTING WITH THE LOWER INCOME CITIZENS SHOULD RECIEVE A HIGH RATING WHICH WOULD DECREASE AS THE NUMBER OF CITIZENS SERVED DECREASES. THIS WOULD INCLUDE ALL OF THE SERVICE PROVIDERS WHO DEAL DIRECTLY WITH THE OVERALL PUBLIC REGARDLESS OF SOCIAL OR FINANCIAL STANDING.
THOSE SERVICE PROVIDERS WHO CATER ONLY TO THE HIGHER INCOME ELITE CITIZENRY SHOULD BE RATED VERY LOW , THAT WOULD INCLUDE HEDGE FUND MANAGERS, POLITICAL ADVISORS, POLITICAL APPPOINTEES, ETC.
Posted by william uthe on August 18, 2011 at 12:00pm
AFTER HEARING SO MUCH ABOUT CORPORATE TAX LOOPHOLKES ON C-SPAN, I DECIDED TO CHECK INTO SOME OF THOSE TAX BENIFITS. ALTHOUGH I AM FAMILIAR WITH THE FOREIGN TAX CREDITS FOR INDIVIDUALS AND AM IN FAVOR OF ALL OF THEM I DID NOT HAVE MUCH CURRENT KNOWLEDGE ABOUT CORPORATE FOREIGN TAX CREDITS INASMUCH AS IT HAS BEEN MANY YEARS (1962) SINCE I HAD BEEN AN ASSISTANT TREASURE FOR WHAT WAS THEN, THE LARGEST INTERNATIONAL FOUNDRY CONGLOMERATE IN THE WORLD. . KEEPING IN MIND THAT TAX CREDITS ARE A 100% DIRECT CREDIT AGAINST THE U S INCOME TAX LIABILITY AFTER THAT TAX HAS BEEN DETERMINED WHILE TAX DEDUCTIONS ARE A DEDUCTION FROM TAXABLE INCOME AND THE BENIFIT IS LIMITED TO THE PERCENTAGE TAX RATE OF THE FILER. THEREFORE TAX CREDITS ARE MORE DESIRABLE.
THE FOREIGN TAX CREDIT IS LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT OF US INCOME TAX AND ANY AMUNTS OVER THE THAT IS NOT REFUNDABLE IN THE YEAR OF FILING ALTHOUGH ANY UNUSED FOREIGN TAX CREDIT MY BE CARRIED FORWARD TO FUTURE YEARS IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.
THE STATED PIRPOSE OF THE FORIEGN TAX CREDIT TO AVOID DOUBLE TAXATION ON THE SAME INCOME.
THE TAX PAID TO U S STATES IS ALLOWED AS A DEDUCTABLE BUSINESS EXPENSE AND NOT A CREDIT. THE FIRST QUESTION THAT CAME TO MIND IS WHY IS A CORPORATIONS FOREIGN OPERATIONS FAVORED OVER OPERATIONS OPERATIONS IN VARIOUS STATES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES. THE FACT THAT FOREIGN CORPORATE INCOME TAX RATES ARE NOTORIOUSLY LOWER THAN U S TAX RATES SEEMS THAT IT LEAVES THE DOOR OPEN FOR ACCOUNTING PROCEDURES WHICH TRANSFERS MORE PROFITS TO OPERATIONS IN FOREIGN COUNTRY'S IN ORDER TO PAY A LOWER PERCENTAGE IN TAXES WHILE CREATING HIGHER TAX CREDITS FOR DOMESTIC OPERATIONS. THIS SITUATION ALSO ENCOURGES CORPORATIONS TO TRANSFER MOR OF THEIR ACTUAL OPERATIONS OVERSEAS THIS IS CALLED OUTSOURCING JOBS OUT OF THIS COUNTRY. GENERAL ELECTRIC PAYS NO U S INCOME TAX AND SMART ACCOUNTING PRACTICES WITH THE FORIEGN TAX CREDIT VERY POSSABLY COULD BE UTILIZED BY ANY COMPANY SEEKING TO INCREASE THEIR PROFIT MARGIN. GENERAL ELECTRIC JUST ANNOUNCED AN ENTIRE DIVISION BEING TRANSFERRED TO CHINA WHICH COULD MEAN THAT THOUSANDS OF CHINESE WORKERS WILL BE REPLACING AMERICAN WORKERS. WHY SHOULD G E BE ALLOWED TO ENJOY THE BENIFITS OF THE FORIEGN TAX CREDIT WHILE OUTSOURCEING JOBS?? THIS BOTHERS ME.
THEREFORE I WOULD PROPOSE THAT THE FORIEGN TAXES PAID BY AN AMERICAN CORPORATION BE ALLOWED ONLY AS A BUSINESS DEDUCTION, THE SAME AS TAXES PAID TO OUR STATES ARE AND THAT A NEW NON DEDUCTABLE PENALTY FEE BE CHARGED TO ANY CORPORATION OUTSOURCING OUR JOBS OVERSEAS .
SHOULDNT WE PROVIDE MORE INCENTIVES FOR CORPORATIONS TO KEEP THESE PRODUCTS AS AMERICAN, MADE
As Islamic sects fight for control of the USA and the world, “WE THE PEOPLE” must decide what our founding fathers meant by “Freedom of Religion”. Could they have meant secular humanism “freedom from Religion” where anything goes or did they mean Islam the strictest cult[1] known to man?
We continue to remove the Judeo-Christian biblical laws that define our existence from court houses[2] and embrace Sharia law[3]. How much longer before we look like London in flames or one of the Stone Age countries of Islam?
Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story wondered if we could survive as a nation if we did not teach our children about religion (Specifically the Christian Religion) and morality as restraints upon the liberal sensual desires of freemen, (secular humanists).
The central question of 2012 is how do “we the people” define Religion?
It now appears as only a matter of time until the United States of America, which Islam has “deemed amenable to take over action”, will be just another Islamic country. And as they say time is on their side.
God is clearly giving us a choice as a nation.
What sets America apart from the rest of the world? Why is the United States of America the most powerful nation in history? The answer to both questions is the same, God’s blessings. We began as a Christian Nation based on the Biblical concept of freedom of choice.
Where do we want to go as a country? I choose the way of the cross!
I love the song by Elvis: “One Pair of Hands”
It's not Elvis people. His name is Carroll Roberson. The song is beautiful regardless of who sings it.
Still it shows how easily we can be misled by something that sounds so real so dear to our hearts. Religion is like that, you must know what you believe put aside familial values and social traditions and become accountable for your own thoughts and actions for all will eventually stand before the judgment seat of God!.
Islam is portrayed as a religion of peace although it’s cult like mind control teaches from an early age that the individual has no freedom to make decisions that all things including his time of death have been determined by Allah. Islamic teachings make no distinction between political and religious activity. There can be no separation of Church and State with Islam. The State is always subservient to Islamic religious leaders who have a plan to achieve a new world order the ultimate goal being a truly and fully, united Islamic world. (Sunni or Shia is the debate within Islam)
Islamic people are also breeding themselves into power around the world and in the USA. (see Farrakhan’s speech from New Orleans in 60’s) Mosques and Islamic schools of every sectarian type are being located by the thousands in the USA. They blend into the fabric of our nation, even reaching into our school texts books teaching Islam as taught by these 25 principles. Availability, compassion, co-operation, cleanliness, community spirit, dependability, diligence, discernment, enthusiasm, faith, forgiveness, generosity, gratefulness, humility, integrity, loyalty, obedience, orderliness, patience, responsibility, respect, self-control, sincerity, tolerance and truthfulness. Islamic history and culture must be taught in the USA “to bridge the gap of understanding between East and West if we ever hope to experience a future of peace and prosperity", it sounds great, until you become aware that this is by design a program, a well developed Iranian plan of action, to convert the people of America to Islam.
Every school, every city, every state, and every political institution in America now has a pro Islamic toe hold. The total number of Muslims in the USA is now in the millions, of which given the percentage of radicals in the total Muslim population around the world we can deduce that we have a potential of 300,000 radical jihadists within our borders.
Jihadists take the long view, and will work with anyone to undermine the U.S. and its allies. Remember, Shia Iran has allied with Sunni terrorists groups.
All Islamists know that western civilization is the primary impediment to their plans for a global caliphate. Jihadists feel it is better to bring western civilization, arm-in-arm with socialists and other radicals, and figure out who will rule once the dust settles.
In their view victory is assured only the U.S., Britain, and a handful of others truly stand in their way, which makes any subversive, radical leftist movement in those countries a useful short-term ally. No Islamic state in the world allows the Bible or open preaching of the Christian religion within its borders. What does the future hold for radical leftist and socialist in an Islamic state?
A point of history to remember: Al Qaeda emerged from the victory of the mujahadeen over Communist Russia. In their view, the jihadists beat the communists once, so they think the next time around the less ferocious socialists, and secular humanists would be an easy adversary.
As a nation the very strength of our system is being used against us as our individual freedoms are being used by foreigners to change the system to their liking. We are loosing our identity; we are no longer a Christian nation but a Godless secular nation. Our Christian religion takes a back seat to everything. We are now in a post-Christian, post-Western cultural crisis which threatens the very heart of our culture. With open and vulnerable borders and populations divided by language, race and religion we have become politically weak and divided as a nation. A house divided cannot stand.
Islam must stop all political activity or be treated as a political organization or cult not a religion.
Radical Secular Humanism should be treated as a religion and not allowed to control the politics in the United States of America.
As a nation we need to come to terms with our past and plan for the future. While we still can, we should acknowledge that our legal and governmental structure is based on a Judeo-Christian world view and English should be our official language. If not, we will loose both and cease to be a distinct people, and a distinct nation. Our national existence is at stake here. As citizens of the United States of America we are like a family that quarrels and fights bitterly within until such time as the enemy is at the door except in this case we have already invited them into the house. How many of the unknown visitors, illegal immigrants and foreign religious establishments are predatory? How many are established and supported by foreign governments or radical groups? Is there a plan for jihad in America? How should the American family deal with the threat? If the visitors come with a sword in its hand, the family forgets its quarrels and fights as one against the people who want to possess its land.
The current war is much more subtle than that. In an atmosphere of political correctness and international civility, the USA is at a terrible disadvantage; the war is not threatening enough to distract us from our own struggles. The war is seen as over there, and we should get ourselves out. However, when the Islamic visitors, or immigrants, come to our door they have their eyes on everything in the house, they are more like jewel thieves than vandals. There is no sword in their hand but a plan in the making a war of public diplomacy. They seek to change our current society into one reflecting the nature of their homeland. We cannot have an enemy within our borders left free to destroy us, whether slowly or quickly.
“We The People” must TAKE ACTION to support the sanctity of our national borders and the continued existence of the United States of America, her Constitution and Constitutional government, and the strengthening and restoration of what's left of Judeo-Christian Culture.
Likewise, “We The People” must oppose all international cross-border efforts by Islam, whose ultimate goal is one world Ummah, requiring the systematic destruction of all other religions.
“We The People” must TAKE ACTION to make this so called cultural bridge to close the gap of understanding between East and West a two way bridge. “We The People” fully expect that all Islamic organizations would translate US History, our constitution and declaration of Independence into there own languages and make provision for distribution of those documents into the areas of the world from which they came.
Fear must not be allowed to rule our decisions. I do not fear Islam and Islam should not fear the USA and Christianity.
I just don't understand how our legislators can still figure that they need more revenue to balance the budget or need to raise the debt ceiling. Has anyone ever suggested to Congress or the President to cut the pay of all government employees including but not limited to Senators, Representatives, Supreme Court Judges, ATF employees, Housing Administration employees, the care takers of all Federal workers, the White House cooking staff, etc., etc.
They also need to start funding their own 401k accounts instead of taxpayer funded pensions. Not to mention also that they should be also sharing in the cost of their own healthcare coverage.
They do not need to cut entitlement programs. They do need to cut many of their programs that were used as payback for election funding.
Who died and made the USA the moral police of the world. Let's bring back our troops from the wars and quit spending millions of dollars overseas. Along these same lines why are we still sending aid to these underdeveloped countries when we have such a debt crisis on our own hands?
Thought I would add the e-mail from Jedi Pauly that I got today (I wasn't around a computer until this evening)
Dear Friends and Fellow Patriots:
Greetings. I hope you are all doing well. I am writing you to inform you that I have made a breakthrough in my understanding regarding how to gain standing in a court of law with the correct claim of injury that only affects a minority of the citizens at large, regarding the illegitimate not natural born Citizen President, Mr. Obama.
The injury is Taxation without Representation. Until now, every court case against the usurper President has been dismissed from the courts for lack of jurisdiction or "standing". The reason this is so, in my estimation, is because all of the cases have failed to properly inform the court in these areas:
1) The political class status of the petitioners before the court has not been properly claimed.
2) The proper claim of direct tangible specific injury to a minority of the citizens that is not a general grievance against government that affects everyone equally.
3) Failing to sue the correct defendants who are the ones actually causing an injury.
This is what the courts have said or implied in numerous instances. I have solved these issues.
By claiming your status to be an Article II natural born Citizen, which amazingly, no case in over two years and 70+ cases have claimed, you overcome Point 1.
By claiming your injury to be taxation without representation, which no case has yet claimed, you overcome Point 2.
By suing the IRS, which no suit has yet done, you overcome Point 3.
I have launched a campaign to gather citizens together to join in a Class Action lawsuit to pursue this avenue of legal remedy to remove Mr. Obama from Office, prevent his re-election, and nullify everything signed and all appointments made. It is my belief that this strategy will force Congress to take note that their ability to collect taxes from millions of natural born citizen taxpayers is in serious jeopardy. It is my belief that, faced with the prospect of not being able to collect taxes without violating the political rights of the citizens or remove Obama, the Congress will be forced to remove Obama. If they don't, then I think a court would be forced to appoint a special prosecutor to level criminal indictments against the usurper and others. It is my belief that I have identified the correct strategy and way forward, that will put real teeth into the efforts of those who want to take back our country from a criminal communist dictatorship and reestablish Justice, Freedom, and the Rule of Law.
I would encourage you to please visit my new websitehttp://www.therealteapartyrevolution.com/index.html , and check it out for more information. Please proofread it, to see if I missed anything. Also, I would encourage you to sign on.
You can help me by forwarding this email to everyone on your contact list that you think would like to know about this. You can also help me find an attorney who would be interested in representing this Class Action lawsuit brainchild. I have my work cut out for me. I have to advertise this message and collect at least 5000 people to sign on, and I have to find a sympathetic attorney, which are no easy tasks. Any help you can give in this regard would be greatly appreciated, and your fellow citizens and future generations will thank you.
Your Servant,
Jedi Pauly
Let's pay close attention, and give this effort some support if, after reviewing it, you believe he is right. If not, I'm sure your input will be MORE than welcome. We're all fighting the same fight here!
Hello all---sorry if this is a little close to showtime, but please join us tonight as we continue Monday's show with Paul Guthrie, and the brand new opening of his website---http://www.therealteapartyrevolution.com/index.html
Paul has done a lot of work over the last 2 + years and has discovered some amazing things regarding the Rule of Law, our Constitution, and why all these lawsuits have failed in the courts regarding Obama's eligibility, and how to correctly address the issue. Join us @ 9 p.m. EST....call-in is 646-200-4032.
It is always easy to justify the conduct of anyone or any company. Or course there is a real cost to everything under the sun. In the US we have some very real problems. Over the last 100 years we have seen a great deal of change in this nation. But have we really?
One hundred years ago the companys were killing people to keep them from forming unions. They were wounding citizens in the work place and dumping them into the streets of the nation. They actualy murdered employees. Keep them in bondage and poverty. As a result injuried workers ofter died. Some sued and won in the courts. But actually the companies would buy off judges and lawyers alike. It was a tragic time in the nation.
Something had to be done, the employees begain raising hell. Law suits had begain to drag companys into public view as well as union orgionizers. So the Government and the kings of business came up with a plan.
Let creat a workmans comp system. That way we can have a legal right to abuse the workers in a system we can control. And we can get away with abusing the citizens of the nation. And all was well. Then the companies said let us use our power to self manage our own administration of Work comp injuries. Of course the small company can't really afford to due that. So the Large company had a advantage over the start up. The gap begain to grow.
Those corperations then said we are able to abuse out labor force again and get away with it. They begain union busting and ending collective employee rights. Then they said lets get our employee to sign up for welfare and lets get them on SSI. Then they said lets just dump our injuried Workers into the streets again. After all that is how we do it in Arkansas. So today millions of people are on SSI in the nation. And who pay the price, every tax payer. And the Government with business allowed and created this system.
The purpose of the Government is to provide a level playing field in business not to get in bed with bussiness and use it collective power to bring more wickedness into a system of abuse. Of Course business wants to be king over there business. It is strange to think you can remain king when you becomes bumbs and beggers.
And the stock holders said this is Very Good we can make money off investing in Companies that defraud there employees. And they then said give us dividens. And the companies did. Then they said give us more profits. Now as the corperations had no real talent. They said lets lower the wages of our employees even futher. So they did and the Investors said this is Good. Then the stock holders said give us more money, they cut medical benefits. But it was not enoof money the investors complained. So the companies gave them modified foods and even discount drugs. The investors said it is good all is well. So the CEOs got large big bucks the people got abused and the stock market fall apart.
American is now entering into BLUE LIGHT special days as a result. They took God our of the schools, Out of bussiness, Out of Governement and And out of the Money. So you have failed schools. failed businesses and a falled government and your money is worthless. So has America changed.
God, I hope the TEA Party calls for another March on Washington on 9/17, this time to call for the arrests of those complicit in this fraudulent Administrations activities, and who violated the "misprision of felony" statute in the United States Code, Title 18 Chapter 1. I hope an unstoppable surge of MILLIONS will turn out, snarling traffic, and grinding DC to a halt, as WE THE PEOPLE voice our demands for Congress to take Impeachment action proceedings, and we physically take back our Houses of Government to restore our Constitutional Republic. It is pitchfork and torch time, fellow Patriots....
Read more…
Cannot Win Back the Republic Without this Information.
Compiled by the American Policy Center
After reading this enlightening article you will begin to see the connection between all that is going wrong in America and the United Nations’ Agenda 21.
Open borders
Illegal immigration
Refusal to drill for oil in America
The gay agenda
Gender neutral education
Hate crimes
Attacks on Christians and Christianity
NAFTA and CAFTA
Communist and Socialist organization coming out of the closet and growing in numbers
And the entire myriad other seemingly unconnected manifestations of the liberal mind.
Election-time is nearing. But before we get swept up in choosing and cheering on our favorite candidates, we should think about this: It is only a Big Idea that can defeat Big Government. And, at this point, the "flat" or "fair" tax will accomplish too little, while the balanced-budget amendment will arrive too late. Once the election dust settles, not this, but next November, the real job will first begin. The need to make dramatic cuts to federal spending will force us to choose which discretionary and entitlement programs to trim and which agencies and departments to terminate. And the public will have to embrace the service cuts & dislocations to come (for come they must, one way or another). The hour is late, and we can’t afford to let election politics distract us from the hard thinking we must do. Wanted: a plan that will help us pass through the painful adjustment period and put us on a path to long-lived recovery. Anyone have a Big Idea? Read more…
Posted by Calvin Fields on August 16, 2011 at 9:00pm
Has this country gone mad or are we being inhabited? Just relax and reflect on this for a moment. An individual was elected as President of the United States who is not even qualified by the bare essentials to even run for president much less be elected. This has been proven by expert witnesses as well as even an admission by the individual who forged the birth certificate document. While this story is even wilder than the strangest Hollywood intrigue, the press has nothing to say. Instead, the press tries to discredit the most Patriotic of American representation, the Tea Party! This is an equal part evil and another equal party pure lunacy. It appears the American press is working for America's enemies.
And when sane Americans who love their country speak the truth, we are slandered, libeled, and otherwise intimidated into going along with the coverup. It is absolutely bizarre that neither the press, the FBI, nor the CIA vetted Obama prior or during the election. Just as bad, the press continues to protect and cover for his constant and shameless lying. When the administration is confronted as they should be in a free country, such as Rick Perry recently did by suggesting that Ben Bernanke is committing treason by continuing to devalue the dollar, Perry is threatened by Obama. Even the country club Republicans such as Karl Rove, say that Perry was wrong in calling a spade a spade. Furthermore, at least two military officers have now refused to take orders from the Commander in Chief because the president has been proven not to be a natural born citizen, therefore cannot legally be the president. But everyday, this bizarre truth is ignored! This represents a vicious hostility to America!
The current administration's empty rhetoric complete with constant (Freudian) "projection" of blame on everybody but the perpetrator clearly indicates the smell of pure Marxist-Leninism. While their communist agenda is being covertly implemented, Vladamir Putin and his sidekick are being seen more and more in playboy poses presented by the willing communist propaganda "press" corps. Today, for example, the two were fishing together just as if they were two American insurance salesmen taking off early to go fishing on a Friday afternoon. Most would not know they are actually looking at murderous KGB Agents, not businessmen. Before that, Putin had pictured a dozen young women in bikinis washing cars in Moscow square. Before that, Putin was seen riding a horse without a shirt on as if he was some kind of Prince looking to attract a new Princess. All these instances indicate the Soviet plan of "merging" Soviet Communism and American Capitalism. Indeed, that is their real agenda. That, in short, is the real story that is being covered up every day by the so-called "press".
Posted by Thomas Moore on August 16, 2011 at 11:11am
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) filed suit against Boeing to stop Boeing from moving to So. Carolina. If successful this will kill new jobs. The suit is a classic example of BULLYING. No wonder large companies have moved and are now moving overseas. What would The Gov. do if the big companies like Boeing, MSN,Apple and Facebook would say "we are sick and tired of the Government bullying us. Let's move to India." New jobs are NOT the problem. It's excessive Government intervention, no leaders, Gov. waste and stupid spending
AmericaTruly is the Greatest Country in the World. Don't Let Freedom Slip Away! "After America, There is No Place to Go"
By: Kitty Werthmann
What I am about to tell you is something you've probably never heard or will ever read in history books.
I believe that I am an eyewitness to history. I cannot tell you that Hitler took Austria by tanks and guns; it would distort history. We elected him by a landslide - 98% of the vote.. I've never read that in any American publications. Everyone thinks that Hitler just rolled in with his tanks and took Austria by force. In 1938, Austria was in deep Depression. Nearly one-third of our workforce was unemployed. We had 25% inflation and 25% bank loan interest rates. Farmers and business people were declaring bankruptcy daily. Young people were going from house to house begging for food. Not that they didn't want to work; there simply weren't any jobs. My mother was a Christian woman and believed in helping people in need. Every day we cooked a big kettle of soup and baked bread to feed those poor, hungry people - about 30 daily. The Communist Party and the National Socialist Party were fighting each other. Blocks and blocks of cities like Vienna , Linz , and Graz were destroyed. The people became desperate and petitioned the government to let them decide what kind of government they wanted. We looked to our neighbor on the north, Germany, where Hitler had been in power since 1933. We had been told that they didn't have unemployment or crime, and they had a high standard of living. Nothing was ever said about persecution of any group -- Jewish or otherwise. We were led to believe that everyone was happy. We wanted the same way of life in Austria . We were promised that a vote for Hitler would mean the end of unemployment and help for the family. Hitler also said that businesses would be assisted, and farmers would get their farms back. Ninety-eight percent of the population voted to annex Austria to Germany and have Hitler for our ruler. We were overjoyed, and for three days we danced in the streets and had candlelight parades. The new government opened up big field kitchens and everyone was fed. After the election, German officials were appointed, and like a miracle, we suddenly had law and order. Three or four weeks later, everyone was employed. The government made sure that a lot of work was created through the Public Work Service. Hitler decided we should have equal rights for women. Before this, it was a custom that married Austrian women did not work outside the home. An able-bodied husband would be looked down on if he couldn't support his family. Many women in the teaching profession were elated that they could retain the jobs they previously had been required to give up for marriage. Hitler Targets Education - Eliminates Religious Instruction for Children: Our education was nationalized. I attended a very good public school. The population was predominantly Catholic, so we had religion in our schools. The day we elected Hitler (March 13, 1938), I walked into my schoolroom to find the crucifix replaced by Hitler's picture hanging next to a Nazi flag. Our teacher, a very devout woman, stood up and told the class we wouldn't pray or have religion anymore. Instead, we sang "Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles," and had physical education. Sunday became National Youth Day with compulsory attendance. Parents were not pleased about the sudden change in curriculum. They were told that if they did not send us, they would receive a stiff letter of warning the first time. The second time they would be fined the equivalent of $300, and the third time they would be subject to jail. The first two hours consisted of political indoctrination. The rest of the day we had sports. As time went along, we loved it. Oh, we had so much fun and got our sports equipment free. We would go home and gleefully tell our parents about the wonderful time we had. My mother was very unhappy. When the next term started, she took me out of public school and put me in a convent. I told her she couldn't do that and she told me that someday when I grew up, I would be grateful. There was a very good curriculum, but hardly any fun - no sports, and no political indoctrination. I hated it at first but felt I could tolerate it. Every once in a while, on holidays, I went home. I would go back to my old friends and ask what was going on and what they were doing. Their loose lifestyle was very alarming to me. They lived without religion. By that time unwed mothers were glorified for having a baby for Hitler. It seemed strange to me that our society changed so suddenly. As time went along, I realized what a great deed my mother did so that I wasn't exposed to that kind of humanistic philosophy. Equal Rights Hits Home: In 1939, the war started and a food bank was established. All food was rationed and could only be purchased using food stamps. At the same time, a full-employment law was passed which meant if you didn't work, you didn't get a ration card, and if you didn't have a card, you starved to death. Women who stayed home to raise their families didn't have any marketable skills and often had to take jobs more suited for men. Soon after this, the draft was implemented. It was compulsory for young people, male and female, to give one year to the labor corps. During the day, the girls worked on the farms, and at night they returned to their barracks for military training just like the boys. They were trained to be anti-aircraft gunners and participated in the signal corps. After the labor corps, they were not discharged but were used in the front lines. When I go back to Austria to visit my family and friends, most of these women are emotional cripples because they just were not equipped to handle the horrors of combat. Three months before I turned 18, I was severely injured in an air raid attack. I nearly had a leg amputated, so I was spared having to go into the labor corps and into military service. Hitler Restructured the Family Through Daycare: When the mothers had to go out into the work force, the government immediately established child care centers. You could take your children ages 4 weeks to school age and leave them there around-the-clock, 7 days a week, under the total care of the government. The state raised a whole generation of children.. There were no motherly women to take care of the children, just people highly trained in child psychology. By this time, no one talked about equal rights. We knew we had been had. Health Care and Small Business Suffer Under Government Controls: Before Hitler, we had very good medical care. Many American doctors trained at the University of Vienna . After Hitler, health care was socialized, free for everyone. Doctors were salaried by the government. The problem was, since it was free, the people were going to the doctors for everything. When the good doctor arrived at his office at 8 a.m., 40 people were already waiting and, at the same time, the hospitals were full. If you needed elective surgery, you had to wait a year or two for your turn. There was no money for research as it was poured into socialized medicine. Research at the medical schools literally stopped, so the best doctors left Austria and emigrated to other countries. As for healthcare, our tax rates went up to 80% of our income. Newlyweds immediately received a $1,000 loan from the government to establish a household. We had big programs for families. All day care and education were free. High schools were taken over by the government and college tuition was subsidized. Everyone was entitled to free handouts, such as food stamps, clothing, and housing. We had another agency designed to monitor business. My brother-in-law owned a restaurant that had square tables. Government officials told him he had to replace them with round tables because people might bump themselves on the corners. Then they said he had to have additional bathroom facilities. It was just a small dairy business with a snack bar. He couldn't meet all the demands. Soon, he went out of business. If the government owned the large businesses and not many small ones existed, it could be in control. We had consumer protection. We were told how to shop and what to buy. Free enterprise was essentially abolished. We had a planning agency specially designed for farmers. The agents would go to the farms, count the live-stock, then tell the farmers what to produce, and how to produce it. "Mercy Killing" Redefined: In 1944, I was a student teacher in a small village in the Alps . The villagers were surrounded by mountain passes which, in the winter, were closed off with snow, causing people to be isolated. So people intermarried and offspring were sometimes retarded. When I arrived, I was told there were 15 mentally retarded adults, but they were all useful and did good manual work. I knew one, named Vincent, very well. He was a janitor of the school. One day I looked out the window and saw Vincent and others getting into a van. I asked my superior where they were going. She said to an institution where the State Health Department would teach them a trade, and to read and write. The families were required to sign papers with a little clause that they could not visit for 6 months. They were told visits would interfere with the program and might cause homesickness. As time passed, letters started to dribble back saying these people died a natural, merciful death. The villagers were not fooled. We suspected what was happening. Those people left in excellent physical health and all died within 6 months. We called this euthanasia. The Final Steps - Gun Laws: Next came gun registration.. People were getting injured by guns. Hitler said that the real way to catch criminals (we still had a few) was by matching serial numbers on guns. Most citizens were law abiding and dutifully marched to the police station to register their firearms. Not long after-wards, the police said that it was best for everyone to turn in their guns. The authorities already knew who had them, so it was futile not to comply voluntarily. No more freedom of speech. Anyone who said something against the government was taken away. We knew many people who were arrested, not only Jews, but also priests and ministers who spoke up. Totalitarianism didn't come quickly, it took 5 years from 1938 until 1943, to realize full dictatorship in Austria . Had it happened overnight, my countrymen would have fought to the last breath. Instead, we had creeping gradualism. Now, our only weapons were broom handles. The whole idea sounds almost unbelievable that the state, little by little eroded our freedom. After World War II, Russian troops occupied Austria . Women were raped, preteen to elderly. The press never wrote about this either. When the Soviets left in 1955, they took everything that they could, dismantling whole factories in the process. They sawed down whole orchards of fruit, and what they couldn't destroy, they burned.. We called it The Burned Earth. Most of the population barricaded themselves in their houses. Women hid in their cellars for 6 weeks as the troops mobilized. Those who couldn't, paid the price. There is a monument in Vienna today, dedicated to those women who were massacred by the Russians. This is an eye witness account. It's true...those of us who sailed past the Statue of Liberty came to a country of unbelievable freedom and opportunity.
AmericaTruly is the Greatest Country in the World. Don't Let Freedom Slip Away! "After America, There is No Place to Go"
Posted by Calvin Fields on August 16, 2011 at 6:30am
I am a Texan and would love to be able to say Rick Perry was a true Patriot, but I can't. There are just too many questions that raise red flags. Let me share some of them with you and briefly. We must have answers to the following:
Rick Perry was a democrat until 1989. He worked for Al Gore of all people! Why would he do that in the first place and why did he change parties? Can he criticize Gore and all that he stands for? Could it be that he is just infiltrating the Republican Tea Party to divert America yet again?
Why did Perry wait until the Iowa caucus to declare and why was it in South Carolina instead of his home state of Texas? Could it be that he, like Comrade B.O. was trying to divert attention away from the influence of the Tea Party and the Republican Caucus in Iowa the day that the straw poll was to be announced? Now we know that Bachmann, the Tea Party front runner, was the straw poll favorite. It seems like Perry is either manipulating or a coward since he would not debate in Iowa.
Why did Perry attend and participate in the pagan Bilderberg Group meeting in 2007? Obama also was invited and attended that secretive society of pagan globalists at one time. What was Perry's paper, which reportedly was about the relationship of state to federal governments really about?
When Perry declared his candidacy in South Carolina, he did not say he wanted a smaller federal government. He said he wanted more jobs. That is not the role of a constitution republic. Only private individuals create jobs when they need help because their business is either starting up or growing. That rhetoric is no different than Obama's. Obama mistakenly thinks a bigger federal government will create more jobs. Does Perry also think that government creates jobs?
Word has it that Perry has advocated free, or at least in-state, college tuition for illegal aliens. Is that true? That would suggest he does not believe in national sovereignty any more than Obama.
Why is Perry in favor of the super highway that would divide the nation and destroy our national sovereignty?
Is Perry a true Tea Party Republican who will reduce the size of government, reduce taxes, and regulatory burdens or is he just another wolf in sheep's clothing? Be suspicious! Ask the hard questions!
Posted by Thomas A Coss on August 15, 2011 at 7:18pm
I'm frustrated that many, particularly Democrats, are defining the Tea Party and the Tea Party is not, so I am here to recommend the following: the Tea Party is simply Citizens Paying Attention.
Just think of that a bit, just who can get upset with a bunch of people who tend to come to a common understanding of the world because they started paying attention, just how dangerous is that?
One large reason we have a representative democracy is the difficulty we use to have in gaining access to information. Not so long ago it was difficult for organizations public or private, to gain access to detailed information in making decisions. As a matter of practicality we chose to elect individuals we initially believe we can trust, to do the analysis on our behalf, make sound judgments and actions. Obamacare, broke that trust. With no Republican votes, and against 87% of the citizenry, this legislation signed because we had to "pass the bill so that we can see what is in the bill"; this is not what we signed up for. The hubris of the Democratic party inflicted its own fatal wound.
The Tea Party isn't an adoration as many would like to believe, it is the product of a much improved access to information by a population quite prepared to understand it and come to reasonable conclusions.
Today we have citizens paying attention, who unlike before, also have access to original source information (not just newspapers) from which to participate directly in the decision making process. The only defense the Democrats have is to try to create an emergency (they wrongly label as a crisis) so they don't have to answer questions. After all, during a true emergency, who has time for Q&A? The artificial crisis created by the Obama administration over the budget ceiling is a great example of the Democratic strategy at work. Create an emergency then we don't have to answer questions, avoiding the one thing Democrats can not tolerate. In this case, the false-crisis didn't work.
Crises are not emergencies where by all discussion is halted, they are simply urgent events that require attention, and the Tea Party is well prepared to provide all the attention any crisis requires.
Your fellow Citizen Paying Attention,
Thomas A. Coss Orange County, California
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