taxes - ACTION - Command Center2024-03-29T13:02:57Zhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/taxesOur Founder Fought For Life, Liberty, pursuit of happiness... & Financial Freedomhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/our-founder-fought-for-life-liberty-pursuit-of-happiness-amp2020-03-11T13:07:12.000Z2020-03-11T13:07:12.000ZSTEPHEN REDDENhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/STEPHENREDDEN<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4084511395,original{{/staticFileLink}}" target="_blank"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}4084511395,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-full" alt="4084511395?profile=original" /></a></p></div>The TEA PARTY means Tax Reform, Just One Issue...https://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/the-tea-party-means-tax-reform-just-one-issue2019-03-23T00:00:00.000Z2019-03-23T00:00:00.000ZSTEPHEN REDDENhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/STEPHENREDDEN<div><p>If all we did as TEA PARTY members is repeal the 16th Amendment and got rid of the Income Tax System that would be enough...</p><p><a href="http://www.OneTaxForAll.com">www.OneTaxForAll.com</a> this site does not ask for money or your information, just for you to share it...</p><p>The revolution begins with you...<a href="http://www.onetaxforall.com" target="_blank">http://www.onetaxforall.com</a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4064740287,original{{/staticFileLink}}" target="_blank">ONE%20TAX%20FOR%20ALL%20BOOK.pdf</a><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4064740293,original{{/staticFileLink}}" target="_blank"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}4064740293,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-full" alt="4064740293?profile=original" /></a></p></div>Plan to Restore Our Constitutional Republichttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/plan-to-restore-our-constitutional-republic2015-04-20T18:28:08.000Z2015-04-20T18:28:08.000ZGuy Richhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/GuyRich<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4064119768,original{{/staticFileLink}}">A_ComprehensivePlan2RestoreOurConstitutionalRepublic.pdf</a></p><p></p><p>Please review and comment</p><p></p><p>Guy Rich</p></div>Prayer of a Liberal! No Prayer for Conservatives?https://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/prayer-of-a-liberal-no-prayer-for-conservatives2014-01-09T01:32:31.000Z2014-01-09T01:32:31.000ZServant Mark D. Stancilhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/ServantMarkDStancil<div><p> </p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="usercontent"><b><u><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Prayer of a Liberal!</span></u></b></span><b><u><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></u></b> <br /> <span class="usercontent"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Oh, bama,</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span class="usercontent"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Lord of ALL knowledge.</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /> <span class="usercontent">By the Power of Gore, I thank you.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Take our No Good Insurance, our Worthless Doctors, and anything else you can get your eternally growing</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Arms around.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><span> </span>We know you Hear all (NSA), see all (SPY satellites) and are In Control of every aspect of our seemingly inexhaustible Taxable incomes.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Import more votes by allowing the neighbors, we love, to have ALL of our belongings.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">You know what’s best for them too.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Let us not put anything foul into our mouths, (like good and real food) <span> </span>not approved and regulated by your Divine Government.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Take away the weapons of defense and give them to our enemies, for you say they are now our allies.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">And We know that you know ALL.<br /> <span class="usercontent">We give Thanks for your Blessings of Global Warming, that have Kept us all from Freezing to Death on this 15th year or cooler (even record LOW) Temperatures.</span><br /> <span class="usercontent">If not for Your Wonderful insight into what is best for everyone and everything the Arctic and Antarctic Ice would surely have met up in Florida or Maybe Cuba by now.</span><br /> <span class="usercontent">Bless us even more with TOTAL control of Every Aspect of our Lowly existence.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span class="usercontent"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;">Sterilize all who might even think of opposing you.</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /> <span class="usercontent">For you know we are totally ignorant of anything good.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.0001pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /> <span class="usercontent">Praise your Unholy Name. Amoon.</span></span></p></div>NO LONGER AMERICA ...https://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/no-longer-america2013-10-21T18:33:47.000Z2013-10-21T18:33:47.000ZBurgohttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/Burgo<div><p>One nation under God . . . with the freedom to practice whatever your religion may be, as long as it was within our laws. This is no doubt one of the many reasons that made America so great and one of the many reasons people from diverse religious backgrounds flock to our country. We are richer, stronger and alot more interesting, due to our diverse cultures and religious backgrounds. Yet ... when our forefathers set out to secure the implementation of religious freedom, it was certainly not with the intention to "replace" or dilute the very religion to which this country was founded - CHRISTIANITY ! Just as we American's / Christian's would respect the religion of any culture to which we visit, we would not try to replace or minimize the religion to which it was founded ! America has reached a crossroad, to the like's it has never experienced before. It's true upon our founding, that all immigrant's struggled to assimilate and coexist between their different religious beliefs but there's a very large difference between understanding "the need to coexist," having been given "the freedom of religion," vs. the "forced implementation or altering" of our own religion, simply to accommodate another ! SOMETHING IS DRASTICALLY WRONG HERE ... for most of us know that "religion is about tolerance," and not TAKE OVER ! Many of us understand that President Obama has displayed a certain allegiance to the Muslim religion. America's instinctive tolerance has aloud much of this allegiance to go unquestioned or unverified as to its' continuing impact on our very own country. IF WE DON'T BEGIN TO QUESTION, BEGIN TO VERIFY, HAVE YOUR FAMILY VERIFY, YOUR FRIENDS VERIFY, YOUR TEACHER'S VERIFY, YOUR POLITICIAN'S VERIFY, etc... etc... etc... The very freedoms your family is enjoying right now, are very unlikely to be enjoyed by your grandchildren ! And sadly ... all they'll be able to do is look back at our generation and wonder why WE ALLOWED THIS TO HAPPEN ! If you haven't seen or heard about this already, below is just another example of President Obama using taxpayer dollars TO PROMOTE THE MONOPOLY OF THE MUSLIM RELIGION INTO OUR COUNTRY. The below stamp, President Obama had created to honor and celebrate the Muslim Holiday's. Don't want your taxpayer dollars used to promote the Muslim religion, you better hold on pretty tight ... THERE'S ALOT MORE COMING . . .</p><p></p><p style="text-align:center;"><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063763226,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063763226,original{{/staticFileLink}}" width="160" class="align-center" alt="4063763226?profile=original" /></a></p></div>President Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats continue to ‘tax and spend’, adding higher taxes, and more bureaucracyhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/president-obama-and-capitol-hill-democrats-continue-to-tax-and2013-10-01T19:56:44.000Z2013-10-01T19:56:44.000ZOscar Y. Harwardhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/OscarYHarward<div><p><b> </b></p><p><b>By Oscar Y. Harward</b></p><p><b> </b></p><p><b>As Ronald Reagan said, “… the government is the problem”.</b></p><p><b> </b></p><p><b>Rather than having government to entice entrepreneurs in creating more jobs,</b> <b>President Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats continue to obstruct more barriers for capitalists to overcome.</b></p><p><b> </b></p><p><b>Today, President Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats are immovable on ‘ObamaCare’, a ‘job-killing’ law that Americans, Businesses, and even, Labor Unions reject; however and to the end, President Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats are determined to ‘cram ObamaCare down (y)our throat’. </b></p><p><b> </b></p><p><b>Some four years ago, it was Capitol Hill Democrat Party House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi who was driving Capitol Hill Democrats to ‘cram ObamaCare down (y)our throat’. Today, it is Democrat Party Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, who is driving the issue.</b></p><p><b> </b></p><p><b>It appears that all President Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats know and/or understand is First; more spending and all deficit spending in excess to government income. Secondly; it appears these Democrats demand is more taxes on working Americans; a group of those who are willing to work harder and smarter to enhance their family income, and Thirdly; for Democrats, it is all about fully funding and enforcing ‘ObamaCare’.</b></p><p><b> </b></p><p><b>President Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats seek to support and give more government giveaways to the voters who lack the personal initiative(s) to work harder and smarter to improve their own everyday lifestyle.</b></p><p><b> </b></p><p><b>A majority of Americans do reject ‘ObamaCare’. Businesses in the ‘private sector’ reject ‘ObamaCare’. Labor Unions reject ‘ObamaCare’. ‘ObamaCare’ is a ‘job-killer’ in our ‘free-market’ economy. Americans have reached a peak whereas working Americans are</b> <b>over-taxed or Taxed Enough Already (TEA). Many Americans are determined, willing, and enthusiastic in rebuilding our economy with jobs, jobs, and more jobs in the private sector as soon as government obstructions are removed.</b></p><p><b> </b></p><p><b>President Obama, Capitol Hill Democrats and the NAACP support ObamaCare. The ‘main-stream’ Medias support</b> <b>President Obama, Capitol Hill Democrats, and ‘ObamaCare’, most of all who appear to have little knowledge, experience, and/or wisdoms other than their desire for ‘ObamaCare’.</b></p><p align="center"><b> </b></p><p><b>If and whenever President Obama and Capitol Hill Democrats wake up and ‘perceive’ the problems with government, and American voters become engaged in government abilities to recognize that ‘government knows best’ is the wrong direction, and these voters start voting accordingly, then and only then will our US economy explode with growth; more new jobs in the private sector than ever expected.</b></p><p></p></div>Double The Welfare - Double The Troublehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/double-the-welfare-double-the-trouble2013-08-23T00:01:17.000Z2013-08-23T00:01:17.000ZBurgohttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/Burgo<div><p>President Obama wasted no time in fulfilling his promise to spread American's wealth around. Having more than doubled the number of welfare recipients in the U.S., the President was not only successful in locking in these recipient's votes but he was also successful in robbing them of their "self-worth." Since when did Welfare become something that American's aspired to rather than aspiring from its' grip ? This is not to say that all forms of Welfare are debilitating but we would be beyond naive to think that these prolonged tax</p><p>payer "handouts" aren't crippling our country ! Aside from greatly limiting any incentive to follow The</p><p>American Dream of working hard, contributing to society and enjoying the "fruits of your labor," the expectation of Welfare has made the fruit even sweeter when it comes from someone else's labor ! This has taken the "entitlement mentality" to new and dangerous levels - hence, the bold and needless crime we are seeing ! Society can no longer afford the entitlement that Welfare breeds, the lack of supervision from single</p><p>parent households and the crimes the products of these households commit ! Many of these children are</p><p>simply a means to get more entitlements, then left to fend for themselves. No wonder they have no incentives, no direction, no self-worth other than what the criminal element can provide ! When we have children shooting other innocent children because they're bored, we're in trouble ! It's time for stary eyed</p><p>liberals to realize, that "we are all" expendable under Obama's watch, especially our children . . . </p><p></p></div>If President Obama Failed to File His 1990 Tax Return He Owes The IRS $125,000https://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/if-president-obama-failed-to-file-his-1990-tax-return-he-owes-the2013-07-27T18:30:00.000Z2013-07-27T18:30:00.000ZRandall C. Sorensenhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/RandallCSorensen<div><p>Last fall President Obama challenged Mitt Romney to come clean and release his tax returns so voters would know whether he paid his fair share. I respectfully ask President Obama to come clean regarding the filing of his 1990 tax return when he signed a six-figure contract book deal with Poseidon Press. Failure to do so would be a violation of Title 26-Internal Revenue Code.</p><p><b> </b></p><p>GQ Magazine’s November 2009 issue (<a href="http://www.gq.com/">www.gq.com</a>) reported that President Obama signed a six-figure contract with Poseidon Press on November 28, 1990. The exact amount was reported as $150,000 by Christopher Andersen in his book Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage. According to Jack Cahill, Barack Obama was advanced $75,000 for the book. It’s not unusual in the publishing business to receive one-third to one-half of the contract value upfront. However, a $75,000 advance would have required a recent law school graduate strapped with heavy student debt to pay the IRS $25,000 four and ½ months later. Failure to do so would be a violation of Title 26-Internal Revenue Code. I have been a CPA over 33 years and I’m Certified in Financial Forensics. In 1988 I was hired by the Arizona House of Representative in the Senate Impeachment Trial of Governor Evan Mecham. My forensic analysis of an improper $80,000 loan from a political protocol fund to a car dealership justified the impeachment of Governor Mecham. </p><p> </p><p>I reviewed the tax returns of both presidential candidates. (<a href="http://www.barackobama.com/">www.barackobama.com</a>) During my analysis of President Obama’s 2001 Individual Tax Return, I found 10 math errors. All of the errors were simple arithmetic errors that would have been prevented with a computerized program such as Turbo Tax. </p><p> </p><p>President Obama’s 2001 tax return wasn’t signed by a paid preparer and it would appear it was prepared by President or Ms. Obama. I determined that the Obamas prepared three drafts of their 2001 tax return. The first draft calculated an income tax liability of $79,000. This would have required taxable income of $271,000. In contrast, President Obama’s website shows 2001 taxable income of $250,000. President Obama ended up paying income tax on $21,000 of phantom income that resulted in sending Uncle Sam an extra $7,300. I think Republicans and Democrats will unanimously agree that President Obama is one of the greatest orators of our time. The same can’t be said regarding President Obama’s skill as a tax preparer!</p><p> </p><p>Based on the fact that President Obama used bits and pieces from three different 2001 tax drafts, made 10 errors, overpaid his taxes by $7,300 by claiming $21,000 of phantom income, it would appear that President Obama lacked the accounting skills to competently prepare his tax return. If President Obama wasn’t proficient at preparing his taxes in 2001 it’s not a stretch to assume that he wouldn’t have been proficient in 1990. </p><p> </p><p>I believe President Obama’s may have a skeleton in his tax closet from the mishandling of his est. $75,000 book advance from Poseidon Press in November of 1990. Only three tax scenarios exist: 1) filed correctly and paid the IRS $25,000, 2) reported income as passive, failed to pay social security taxes and owes the IRS $41,000 or 3) never received 1099 from the publisher, failed to properly report the income and currently owes the US Treasury $125,000.</p><p> </p><p>I contacted the IRS and they indicated that the tax records may go back to 1990. Another method to determine if President Obama paid his “fair share” would be to verify his 1990 earnings with the Social Security Administration. American taxpayers can decide for themselves whether a young Barack Obama should be given a free pass or if he should be held to the same standard as all Americans</p></div>Promises Made - Promises Wept -01 - I will Cut Taxeshttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/promises-made-promises-wept-01-i-will-cut-taxes2013-02-16T22:30:30.000Z2013-02-16T22:30:30.000Zmy911https://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/my911<div><p><b>This is a revision of the original post.</b></p><p><b>There is a new graphic about Cabela's and more obama broken promises.......</b></p><p></p><p><b>I will cut taxes</b></p><p>I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class. <br /> <a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/barack_obama.html">Barack Obama</a></p><p>Read more at <a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/barackobam409244.html#iPxz3PR5uXofDPWs.99">http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/barackobam409244.html#iPxz3PR5uXofDPWs.99</a></p><p> </p><p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>How about this…………Cabela's explicitly displays obamacare tax... ON EVERYBODY</strong></span></p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063662698,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img class="align-center" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063662698,original{{/staticFileLink}}" width="432" alt="4063662698?profile=original" /></a></p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/01/04/why-was-a-2-3-medical-excise-tax-showing-up-on-receipts-from-sporting-goods-giant-cabelas/">Click here for details</a></p><p> </p><p>Need more? How about this……</p><p> = = = = =</p><p><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/barackobam409130.html" title="view quote">If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.</a> <br /> <a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/barackobam409130.html" title="view quote">Barack Obama</a></p><p>Read more at <a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/barack_obama.html#74hB221VxJVqjWOB.99">http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/barack_obama.html#74hB221VxJVqjWOB.99</a></p><p>hmmmmmmmm.... The People can't trust theit Government............hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!</p><p>Or this …………………</p><p><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/barackobam417354.html" title="view quote">The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt.</a></p><p>Read more at <a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/barack_obama.html#V3zjBGgpKjc4Ymu5.99">http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/barack_obama.html#V3zjBGgpKjc4Ymu5.99</a></p><p>ARE YOU KIDDING ME.... FAILED LEADERSHIP! ......and he goes to sleep at night???/</p><p> </p><p>Now we have the Fiscal Cliff debacle.</p><p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>How Will the Fiscal Cliff Tax Deal Affect Your Paycheck?</strong></span></p><p><a href="http://www.paycheckcity.com/fiscalcliff/cliff.html">http://www.paycheckcity.com/fiscalcliff/cliff.html</a></p><p><span style="text-decoration:underline;color:#ff0000;"><strong>The answer is …. It REDUCES it…. It RAISES your taxes</strong></span>; how much depends……</p><p>It depends on your Marital Status, Deductions Claimed and Income.</p><p>Here are some examples</p><table border="1" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="239"><p>Status</p></td><td valign="top" width="239"><p>Allowances</p></td><td valign="top" width="239"><p>Income, $</p></td><td valign="top" width="239"><p>Increase, %</p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="239"><p>Married</p></td><td valign="top" width="239"><p>4</p></td><td valign="top" width="239"><p>50000</p></td><td valign="top" width="239"><p>14.9</p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="239"><p>Single</p></td><td valign="top" width="239"><p>1</p></td><td valign="top" width="239"><p>50000</p></td><td valign="top" width="239"><p>8.7</p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="239"><p>Single</p></td><td valign="top" width="239"><p>1</p></td><td valign="top" width="239"><p>100000</p></td><td valign="top" width="239"><p>7.0</p></td></tr><tr><td valign="top" width="239"><p>Married</p></td><td valign="top" width="239"><p>4</p></td><td valign="top" width="239"><p>100000</p></td><td valign="top" width="239"><p>9.6</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p>A family of 4 is hit harder than a single dude!</p><p><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><strong>So….. how do you feel about</strong></span></p><p>….. I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class. <br /> ????</p><p> </p><p><b>+ + + + + + +</b></p><p></p><p></p></div>Take over by obama, A MUST READhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/take-over-by-obama-a-must-read2013-01-10T14:57:06.000Z2013-01-10T14:57:06.000ZDennis Rheahttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/DennisRhea<div><p>Please read this and share, we need to get the word out ASAP. <a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/survival/2013/01/dhs-insider-report-coming-this-spring-life-for-the-average-american-is-going-to-change-significantly-6-2455740.html?currentSplittedPage=0">http://beforeitsnews.com/survival/2013/01/dhs-insider-report-coming-this-spring-life-for-the-average-american-is-going-to-change-significantly-6-2455740.html?currentSplittedPage=0</a></p><p><em><a href="http://www.shtfplan.com" target="_blank">SHTFplan</a> Editor’s Note:</em> The following interview is both informative and terrifying, and essential reading for anyone concerned about what comes next.</p><p>What the DHS Insider suggests is about to happen is exactly what many of us fear – a police state takeover of America, with urban centers to be pacified first, all outspoken critics of the government to be silenced, and travel restrictions across the United States to come shortly thereafter.</p><p><strong>The dollar collapse, riots, the mobilization of domestic law enforcement, gun control, rationing of food and gas, suspension of the U.S. Constitution and a complete lock-down of America as we know it. According to the report, sinister forces within the U.S. government operating at the highest levels of our country’s political, financial, intelligence and military hierarchies</strong> have set into motion a series of events that will leave the populace so desperate for government intervention that they’ll willingly surrender their liberty for the perceived security of a militarized police state.</p><p>Interviewer <a href="http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/hagmann-hagmann-recent-broadcasts" target="_blank">Doug Hagmann</a> cites an anonymous source operating deep inside the Department of Homeland Security, which may leave many skeptical of the accuracy of the reports. But the fact is, were such events being planned behind the scenes we certainly wouldn’t be given official mainstream warning. If real, the report is a game changer, and it makes sense that anyone privy to such information would want to keep their identity hidden. Whistle blowers in America who expose the corruption of officials in our government are treated not as patriots, but as traitors, and are often branded as psychos or terrorists.</p><p>What’s most alarming is the speed at which these events may play out.</p><hr /><p><strong>The latest from “DHS Insider”</strong> <em>(This is the complete interview from <a href="http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/" target="_blank">The Hagmann and Hagmann Report</a>)</em></p><p><strong>Introduction</strong></p><p><strong>23 December 2012:</strong> After a lengthy, self-imposed informational black-out, my high-level DHS contact known as “Rosebud” emerged with new, non-public information about plans being discussed and prepared for implementation by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the near future. It is important to note that this black-out was directly related to the aggressive federal initiative of identifying and prosecuting “leakers,” at least those leaks and leakers not sanctioned by the executive office – the latter of which there are many.</p><p>Due to those circumstances, my source exercised an abundance of caution to avoid compromising a valuable line of communication until he had information he felt was significant enough to risk external contact. The following information is the result of an in-person contact between this author and “Rosebud” within the last 48 hours. With his permission, the interview was digitally recorded and the relevant portions of the contact are provided in a conversational format for easier reading. The original recording was copied onto multiple discs and are maintained in secure locations for historical and insurance purposes.</p><p><strong>Meeting</strong></p><p>The following began after an exchange of pleasantries and other unrelated discussion:</p><p><strong>DH: Do I have your permission to record this conversation?</strong></p><p>RB: You do.</p><p><strong>DH: I’ve received a lot of e-mail from people wondering where you went and why you’ve been so quiet.</strong></p><p>RB: As I told you earlier, things are very dicey. Weird things began to happen before the election and have continued since. Odd things, a clampdown of sorts. I started looking and I found [REDACTED AT THE REQUEST OF THIS SOURCE], and that shook me up. I’m not the only one, though, that found a [REDACTED], so this means there’s surveillance of people within DHS by DHS. So, that explains this cloak and dagger stuff for this meeting.</p><p><strong>DH: I understand. What about the others?</strong></p><p>RB: They are handling it the same way.</p><p><strong>DH: I’ve received many e-mails asking if you are the same person giving information to Ulsterman. Are you?</strong></p><p>RB: No, but I think I know at least one of his insiders.</p><p><strong>DH: Care to elaborate?</strong></p><p>RB: Sorry, no.</p><p><strong>DH: Do you trust him or her. I mean, the Ulsterman source?</strong></p><p>RB: Yes.</p></div>Coalition of Texas Tea Partiers Calls for Budget, Ethics and Transparency Reformshttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/coalition-of-texas-tea-partiers-calls-for-budget-ethics-and2012-12-18T01:12:54.000Z2012-12-18T01:12:54.000ZDavid M Battenhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/DavidMBatten<div><p id="yui_3_7_2_1_1355791236190_3028" style="text-align:center;"><strong id="yui_3_7_2_1_1355791236190_3027">This is a Must Read, Folks.......<br /></strong></p><p id="yui_3_7_2_1_1355791236190_3052"> </p><p id="yui_3_7_2_1_1355791236190_4968">Via <strong>The Texas Tribune</strong>:</p><blockquote id="yui_3_7_2_1_1355791236190_3030"><p id="yui_3_7_2_1_1355791236190_3029">A coalition of tea party activists called on the Texas Legislature Tuesday to hold the line on taxes, crack down on employers who hire undocumented immigrants, make deep spending cuts and enact several ethics and transparency reforms.</p><p id="yui_3_7_2_1_1355791236190_3031"> </p><p id="yui_3_7_2_1_1355791236190_3032">The Tea Party Caucus Advisory Committee expressed support for Gov. Rick Perry’s so-called “budget compact,” aimed at ending budgetary tricks, limiting spending by Constitutional amendment and stopping any tax increases.</p><p id="yui_3_7_2_1_1355791236190_3053"> </p><p id="yui_3_7_2_1_1355791236190_3042">But the conservative group took direct aim at Perry elsewhere in its legislative agenda, entitled “Make Texas Strong.” The activists want the Legislature to zero out the hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for a series of tax incentive programs championed by Perry as crucial economic development tools.</p></blockquote><p id="yui_3_7_2_1_1355791236190_3041" style="text-align:center;"><a id="yui_3_7_2_1_1355791236190_3040" target="_blank" href="http://grassrootstexans.net/4629/Tea_Partiers_Tout_Budget_Ethics_Transparency_Reforms_for_2013_Session/" name="yui_3_7_2_1_1355791236190_3040">THE COMMITTEE'S FULL DOCUMENT IS POSTED AT THIS LINK</a></p><p style="text-align:center;"></p><p style="text-align:left;">Some Highlights include (and you'll love these)</p><p><strong>Getting Back to Basics</strong> – Make State Spending Fit into a Constitution-sized Box by: eliminating departments, agencies, commissions, and programs that exceed the core constitutional functions of state government (listed above). Texans for a Conservative Budget has compiled a list of spending items, which can be eliminated or reduced by streamlining. [Source: <a href="http://www.texaspolicy.com/center/fiscal-policy/reports/real-texas-budget-solutions-2013-and-beyond">http://www.texaspolicy.com/center/fiscal-policy/reports/real-texas-budget-solutions-2013-and-beyond</a>] Lawmakers should look to this list of reductions before they ever utter the words “we need sources of new revenue.” The Conservative Budget list includes the Texas Enterprise Fund, Texas Emerging Technology Fund, and the Special Events Fund, which is an extended subsidy for Formula 1 racing and other entertainment venues. These state funds mirror the federal government’s practice of tinkering with the economy. Central planning through subsidies is not the proper role of government in a free market society. State government has no business attempting to pick winners and losers and doling out tax dollars to special interests any more than the federal government does. It is time to end this form of corporate welfare in Texas.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Stop Chasing Federal Dollars</strong> – Make Texas Strong & Independent of Federal Strings; reduce state reliance on federal dollars and restrict all new federal grant programs.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Implement Tax and Expenditure Limits</strong> – State and local government spending from ALL sources should increase only by the sum of population growth plus inflation and no more. We support a constitutional amendment to set this limit in order to protect current and future taxpayers from excessive state spending.</p><p> <strong>Budget Transparency</strong> – practice truth in budgeting by ending diversions; a tax or fee should go to fund the original intent of the legislation that created the tax or fee; should a surplus occur, the fee or tax should be reduced, and the surplus used to reduce state debt.</p><p><strong>Reforming Texas’ Public Pension Systems</strong> – According to recent reports from the Texas State Comptroller, the Texas retirement system, while fairly well funded compared to other states, is still legally liable to pay defined benefits totaling 10 to 20 times what state employees paid into the system. The legislature should institute these reforms: Freeze enrollment in the current defined benefit system and enroll newly hired or unvested employees in a 401(k)-style defined contribution pension plan.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Zero-based Budgeting</strong> – starts a budget from zero and requires justification for requested funding for each line item of a budget. This budgeting discipline has not been used by the State of Texas for the last nine years (2003), but should be instituted immediately to ensure taxpayers get the most value for their tax dollars.</p><p> The Rainy Day Fund (also known as the Economic Stabilization Fund) – should only be spent on one-time emergency items or tax relief. The fund should NOT be spent for ongoing expenses. If we truly believe in personal responsibility, then the State of Texas should lead and preserve the Rainy Day Fund for true natural and man-made disasters. We need look no further than the recent example of the devastation wreaked by super storm Sandy. The states of New York and New Jersey immediately turned to the federal government for relief, and many of the people of those states are still waiting, months later. The Rainy Day Fund should be preserved so that Texas can be strong and less dependent on the federal government in times of disaster.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Reducing State Debt</strong> – We should avoid a state fiscal cliff by resisting the temptation to add to our state debt just because interest rates are low. Soaring debt is just as wrong for our state as it is for the federal government.</p><p> Restructuring state government — Texas state government must be restructured:</p><p> </p><p>To reduce the size, scope, and cost of state government</p><p>Because state government is weighted down with far too many overlapping, duplicated efforts = numerous bureaucratic kingdoms. (Natural resources has approximately 38 individual departments/agencies and programs.) Refocus Sunset process on making government more efficient by abolishing agencies, committees, boards, and statutes and consolidating agency functions</p><p>State government should be reduced down to its core constitutional functions. Core functions should then be performed as efficiently and effectively as possible to achieve measurable results.</p><p>The Texas Legislature should mandate a state government-restructuring project for the interim, which would:</p><p> </p><p><strong>Taxes</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>The Margins Tax</strong> – Abolish the gross margins tax, and begin by making the small business exemption permanent. The tax has underperformed, is complex, costly, and difficult to comply with. The tax is unfair as it is collected even from businesses that show no profit.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Property Tax Reform</strong> – Abolish and replace with a reformed sales tax that includes an adjusted tax rate and base.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Sales Tax</strong> – any increase in the sales tax base or the sales tax rate must be accompanied by reductions in other taxes. State and local governments should come to rely on consumption taxes as their main revenue generators.</p><p> </p><p><strong>State Income Tax</strong> – a non-starter! Texas is one of nine states without an income tax and should remain so. Texas should continue to encourage economic growth (a healthy tax base) by keeping taxes low and adopting pro-growth reforms.</p><p></p><p>and more......</p></div>It’s the Spending, Stupidhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/it-s-the-spending-stupid2012-12-08T01:33:23.000Z2012-12-08T01:33:23.000ZMichael J. Fellhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/MichaelJFell<div><p>Barack Obama, who seemingly has remained in campaign mode since first entering public life, continues to insist House Republicans obey his command to hike tax rates on upper income earners. If Republicans do note cede to his demands, Obama is willing to let everyone’s taxes go up and to cut one trillion dollars from the budget, a disproportionate amount of which will come from defense.</p><p>Were Obama sincerely interested in solving America’s fiscal dilemma, this would not be his stance.<a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063640064,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="250" style="padding:1px;" class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063640064,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063640064?profile=original" /></a></p><p>He continues to make campaign appearances claiming that these higher tax rates are needed to lower the U.S. deficit and cut the national debt.</p><p>Nothing could be further from the truth.</p><p>The amount of revenue collected by the IRS as a result of such a tax rate increase would fund U.S. federal spending for less than nine days.</p><p>According to the latest data from the Congressional Budget Office, at current spending levels the federal government is borrowing forty six cents of every dollar it spends. Through the first two months of fiscal year 2013 the government is already almost $300 billion in debt.</p><p><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/7/government-borrows-46-cents-every-dollar-it-spends/print/">http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/7/government-borrows-46-cents-every-dollar-it-spends/print/</a></p><p>Medicare, Social Security and interest on the debt are the biggest drivers of the debt. The true costs of Obamacare have yet to be revealed, but given the U.S. federal government’s track record it is safe to predict that it will be far more expensive than projected and finish in the red every year.</p><p>Collecting eight days’ worth of spending from upper level incomes will do nothing to affect the level of spending on any of these programs.</p><p>Additionally, Obama willfully ignores that at current tax rates, revenues are up by thirty billion dollars over last year.</p><p>Obama, his “progressive” political allies and the obedient lapdogs within the “progressive” Party Pravda continue to foster the notion that raising tax rates on the highest income earners, those who already pay <a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063639975,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="270" style="padding:1px;" class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063639975,original{{/staticFileLink}}" height="199" alt="4063639975?profile=original" /></a>forty percent of all income tax revenue, will be a panacea, the magical elixir needed to solve America’s fiscal woes.</p><p>They also continue to lay the blame for today’s deficits on former President George W. Bush. Bush’s highest deficit was $438 billion during his last year in office. Obama’s government is poised to post another $1 trillion deficit, which will mark the fifth straight year of $1 trillion or more deficits.</p><p>America’s current financial predicament is the result of wasteful “progressive” spending on big government socialist programs.</p><p>That is the reason.</p><p>America’s debt and deficit dilemmas can only be solved through reduced spending. If and when the United States falls off a fiscal cliff or receives another credit downgrade, it will be because of “progressives”, not Conservatives.</p><p>The conversation should be about how to cut spending, not about how to increase taxes.</p><p>Political Party or media employer notwithstanding, anyone who says differently is being intellectually dishonest.</p><p><a href="http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/its-the-spending-stupid/">http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/12/07/its-the-spending-stupid/</a> </p><p><a href="http://www.colonybay.net/affiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=110_3_1_18" target="_blank"><img style="width:271px;height:152px;" class="align-center" border="0" alt="Join the Revolution" src="http://www.colonybay.net/affiliate/banners/join_watch.jpg" width="288" height="154" /></a></p></div>Obama’s Plan: Tax Now, Cut Laterhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/obama-s-plan-tax-now-cut-later2012-11-29T23:44:06.000Z2012-11-29T23:44:06.000ZMichael J. Fellhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/MichaelJFell<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063638083,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img style="padding:1px;width:189px;height:179px;" class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063638083,original{{/staticFileLink}}" width="189" height="166" alt="4063638083?profile=original" /></a>Obama has demonstrated zero flexibility on his insistence that higher tax rates for the wealthy kick in on January 1, 2013.</p><p>To those familiar with “progressive” modus operandi, it is not surprising that the White House and their “progressive” political allies envision Medicare and other “entitlement” savings happening ten to twenty years from now.</p><p>This is what “progressives” call a “balanced approach.”</p><p>The same “balanced approach” “progressives” used when they promised Ronald Reagan three dollars in future spending cuts for every dollar of tax increases. The same “balanced approach” “progressives” used when they hood-winked George H. W. Bush into violating his “Read my lips, no new taxes” pledge with a similar two to one offer.</p><p>Reagan, Bush 41 and the American taxpayer have yet to see those promised spending cuts.</p><p>In the current “fiscal cliff” negotiations, Republicans who are willing to accept “revenue” increases as a part of a deal with “progressive” Democrats in exchange for promised spending cuts that will happen sometime in the future are stupid, in denial or both. How many times do Republicans need to make this same mistake before they learn?<a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063638131,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img style="padding:1px;" class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063638131,original{{/staticFileLink}}" width="168" alt="4063638131?profile=original" /></a></p><p>“Duh…as a kid I burned my finger every time I stuck it into the fire, but this time that won’t happen…duh…yup…uh huh…duh…ooooh…aaaah...look…something shiny…duh.”</p><p>By whatever means, no matter how much “new revenue” Republicans agree to provide, it will never be enough for “progressives”. No matter how completely Republican squishes cave to “progressive” demands for more “revenue”, it will work against them in both the short and long term.</p><p>The economy will tank and Republican will be blamed by “progressives”, while being seen as unprincipled jellyfish willing to break promises made to their constituents in order to “deal” with those who have no interest in compromise.</p><p>The “progressive” motive is not to make a deal. It is not to enact legislation that will stimulate private sector economic growth. History instructs that lowering tax rates stimulates the private sector and increases economic growth while resulting in additional revenue to the IRS. To “progressives” this is irrelevant.</p><p>They are far more concerned with what they call “fairness.” To “progressives”, fairness means confiscating money through taxes from productive people who create wealth and redistributing it to the unproductive.</p><p>History shows that tax increases stifle economic growth, which leads to reduced revenue collection. Budgetary imbalances grow worse and deficits continue to explode at an increasingly alarming rate. By following this path, it is all but guaranteed that the American government will raise the debt ceiling again and experience another credit downgrade. U.S. national debt will not go down and GDP growth will become virtually non-existent.</p><p>Eventually the federal government will need to find “other revenue” to fund its big spending operation.</p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063638169,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="200" style="padding:1px;" class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063638169,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063638169?profile=original" /></a>With over twenty three million people unable to find work and almost fifty million living on the dole, government will try to invent ways to fund the “progressive” Party’s dependent class.</p><p>The retirement savings, IRAs and 401Ks of every American are in “progressive’s” sights. Americans believe their 401ks and IRAs are private property, safe from government seizure. </p><p>These retirement savings are already heavily controlled by government regulation. Given the track record of “progressives” it is no stretch to realize that trillions of dollars in private savings are threatened by “progressives” who see them as a way to finance the national debt their big government socialist programs have created.</p><p>When Social Security began it was a compulsory savings program administered by the federal government. When someone retired, they would get back what they had paid in plus interest. It only took until 1939 for a “progressive” Democratic Congress to begin using a pay-as-you-go financing method, meaning money currently being paid into the Social Security System is financing current beneficiaries. At first it was worked. In 1950 sixteen people were paying into the system for each person receiving benefits. In the not so distant future there will be two people making payments for each check.</p><p>What happened to all the money millions of Americans have had stolen over the course of their lives from their paycheck by government mandate? What will happen if the government seizes private savings?</p><p>If Republicans ever wish to be taken seriously, they must stand on principle. For the future of the American Republic, backing down is not an option.</p><p><a href="http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/obamas-plan-tax-now-cut-later/">http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/obamas-plan-tax-now-cut-later/</a> </p><p><a href="http://www.colonybay.net/affiliate/idevaffiliate.php?id=110_1_1_11" target="_blank"><img style="width:294px;height:231px;" class="align-center" border="0" alt="Warning: This show is addictive" src="http://www.colonybay.net/affiliate/banners/Warning.jpg" width="466" height="333" /></a></p></div>HEADLINE! Republican Leadership Caves on Taxeshttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/headline-republican-leadership-caves-on-taxes2012-11-26T15:00:52.000Z2012-11-26T15:00:52.000ZGreyTigerTXhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/GreyTigerTX<div><p>Surprise! Surprise!</p><p> </p><p>And this comes as new news how? At what point do we fully understand that there is only one party in Washington DC? The RepubliCrats are there to get rich while screwing the rest of us. They will say and do anything to accomplish this goal. Lying and deception come as naturally to DC politicians as breathing. When do we grow a pair and put a stop to the pilliaging and rape of our country? When do we march on DC and kick the miscreants out of the people's Congress and the people's WhiteHouse? I suspect never. I don't see anyone willing to get their hands dirty, and, you can't handle poop without getting some on your hands.</p><p> </p><p>Unless the Republic of Texas resurrects itself, I will remain here and watch the country I grew up in go down the tubes because the citizens haven't got what it takes to make it right. We will continue to let the takers dictate to the payers. We will continue to elect people to government whose only purposes are the ones stated above. Our collective shame is disgusting. Our apathy even more so.</p><p> </p><p>GreyTigerTX</p><p>11/26/12</p><p> </p><p> </p></div>Line in the Sandhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/line-in-the-sand2012-11-20T02:58:19.000Z2012-11-20T02:58:19.000ZMichael J. Fellhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/MichaelJFell<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063634476,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="200" style="padding:1px;" class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063634476,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063634476?profile=original" /></a>Barack Obama stopped in Burma, which he insisted as a “diplomatic courtesy” on calling Myanmar (perhaps pronouncing Pakistan Pahhhkeeeestaan no longer makes him cool enough for the UN), where he managed to repeatedly mispronounce the name of Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel winner who led the fight for a free, democratic Burma. If that was not embarrassing enough for America, Obama also managed to botch the name of President Thein Sein, his official Burma host.</p><p>Were any corpse-men around to carry off members of the press? Those members of the institutionalized “progressive” left who were mortified and humiliated by each faux pas?</p><p>You can bet NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN failed to report the botching…The New York Times too.</p><p>Had such a diplomatic faux pas been committed by a Conservative president the “mainstream media” would be screaming their outrage and leaping on the ridicule bandwagon.</p><p><a href="http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2012/11/19/obama-repeatedly-mispronounces-aung-san-suu-kyi/">http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2012/11/19/obama-repeatedly-mispronounces-aung-san-suu-kyi/</a></p><p>Of course the New York Times was too busy distorting the truth with Paul Krugman’s Op-Ed fairytale “The Twinkie Manifesto” to accurately report the failings of their dear, beloved leader.<a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063634425,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="200" style="padding:1px;" class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063634425,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063634425?profile=original" /></a></p><p>Krugman’s mind, displaying clear symptoms of acute “progressive thinking” disorder, made a remarkable leap to the conclusion that Conservative orthodoxy believes the pathway to prosperity lies in demeaning workers and coddling the rich.</p><p>He dismissed the Simpson-Bowles Commission for accurately concluding that lower tax rates lead to lower deficits. Overlooking historical evidence to the contrary, Krugman concluded the healthy American economy during the 1950s was a product of the 91 percent tax rate on top bracket income earners. He fostered the preposterous notion that the high-tax rates of the decade that followed World War II were responsible for America’s economic growth.</p><p>The economic growth of the 1950s was due primarily to the fact that during World War II the rest of the industrialized world had been bombed into rubble, especially their manufacturing capacities. While the rest of the world was recovering from that condition, America enjoyed a decade of prosperity because American industries had no serious competition. The world bought American goods because nobody else made much of anything worth buying. With such conditions leading to an American economic boom, the economy was able to sustain itself and grow despite the unnaturally high tax rates imposed on business; rates that had financed the titanic war effort.</p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/opinion/krugman-the-twinkie-manifesto.html?ref=opinion&_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/opinion/krugman-the-twinkie-manifesto.html?ref=opinion&_r=0</a></p><p>Krugman’s economic insanity was matched by that of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who said on Friday that Congress should remove legal limits on government borrowing and lift America’s debt limit to infinity.</p><p>During an interview on Bloomberg TV, when asked by “Political Capital” host Al Hunt Geithner if “we ought to just eliminate the debt ceiling,” Geithner replied: “Oh, absolutely.”</p><p><a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/treasury-secretary-geithner-lift-debt-limit-infinity">http://cnsnews.com/news/article/treasury-secretary-geithner-lift-debt-limit-infinity</a></p><p>So, according to Paul Krugman of The New York Times and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, America taxing businesses into oblivion and eliminating all restraints on spending will lead to economic prosperity.</p><p>The “progressive” insanity does not stop at America’s shores.</p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063634388,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="200" style="padding:1px;" class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063634388,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063634388?profile=original" /></a>In Congress the Obama administration is on the ropes for having administration appointees change the CIA talking points regarding the 9/11 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya.</p><p>According to Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), chairman of the House intelligence committee, "There was not an intelligence failure. The intelligence community had it right, and they had it right early. What happened was it worked its way up through the system of the so-called talking points, which everyone refers to, and then it went up to what’s called a deputy’s committee...It went to the so-called deputy’s committee, that’s populated by appointees from the administration. That’s where the narrative changed. And so how that thing got back to (Susan) Rice, I think, is probably another question."</p><p>Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.), the vice chair of the Senate intelligence committee, said that he had tried to discover who changed the talking points:</p><p>"At the hearing we had on Thursday and Friday, we had every leader of the intelligence community there, including folks from the State Department, the FBI -- everybody there was asked, 'Do you know who made these changes?' And nobody knew. The only entity that reviewed the talking points that was not there was the White House. So, you know, I don't know whether -- what they said yesterday is exactly right or not. But, what I do know is that every member of the intelligence community says that references to al Qaeda were removed by somebody, and they don't know who. And references to attacks versus demonstrations were removed by somebody."</p><p><a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/house-intel-chair-appointees-administration-changed-rices-talking-points">http://cnsnews.com/news/article/house-intel-chair-appointees-administration-changed-rices-talking-points</a></p><p>While the Obama re-election campaign and White House operatives followed the Alinsky model that the ends justify the means and changed talking points to support the false narrative coming out of the Democratic National Convention that Al Qaeda had been smashed, the Middle East drifted into more dangerous territory.</p><p>Not only did Hamas resume launching hundreds of Iranian made missiles into Israel, they were joined in that effort by Egypt.<a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063634495,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="200" style="padding:1px;" class="align-right" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063634495,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063634495?profile=original" /></a></p><p>In response, Israel readied forces to launch and 'significantly expand' an offensive if necessary.</p><p>On Sunday, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a stiff warning to Hamas. He declared the Israeli army was prepared to widen its Gaza offensive significantly.</p><p>Israel’s Foreign Ministry reinforced Netanyahu’s statements by confirming that if rocket attacks persisted, a ground offensive into Gaza was likely. Speaking to France 24, Ygal Palmor stated that “Our sole aim of this offensive is to make Hamas stop firing rockets. We have used air strikes but if that’s not enough then we may contemplate ground operations as well.”</p><p><a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20121118-Israel-gaza-egypt-palestine-violence-peace">http://www.france24.com/en/20121118-Israel-gaza-egypt-palestine-violence-peace</a></p><p>To round out the insanity of the left, the war on Christianity continues in America. </p><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}4063634602,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="200" style="padding:1px;" class="align-left" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063634602,original{{/staticFileLink}}" alt="4063634602?profile=original" /></a>The City of Santa Monica is being sued over freedom of speech after choosing to end the city’s holiday tradition of displaying Nativity scenes.</p><p>Said Hunter Jameson, head of the nonprofit Santa Monica Nativity Scene Committee that is behind the law suit: "It's a sad, sad commentary on the attitudes of the day that a nearly 60-year-old Christmas tradition is now having to hunt for a home, something like our savior had to hunt for a place to be born because the world was not interested.”</p><p>National atheist groups, responding to Catholic activism against women’s healthcare issues imposed by Obamacare, paid for newspaper ads and TV spots in their latest salvo in the war against Christianity in America.</p><p>Atheist tactics have shifted to an insistence that their views be given equal placement alongside holiday displays conveying the Christian message. Previously, atheists had sought to enforce separation of church and state via the courts.</p><p><a href="http://www.gopusa.com/news/2012/11/19/atheists-intimidate-santa-monica-into-eliminating-nativity/?subscriber=1">http://www.gopusa.com/news/2012/11/19/atheists-intimidate-santa-monica-into-eliminating-nativity/?subscriber=1</a></p><p>The alleged leader of the free world is so reliant on his teleprompter that in the midst of an historic diplomatic mission he does not know what he is saying. The eager, obedient lap-dogs in the “progressive” Party Pravda have joined with so-called academics to re-write American history in favor of their radical, anti-American agenda. As it is happening, the Obama administration is revising history to suit their political needs because they know a criminally negligent media which places taking sides before reporting the truth will not challenge them. America is speeding towards bankruptcy while the world becomes more unsafe and “progressives” offer no viable answers. Despite the 75 percent of America who celebrate Christmas, they are being forced by aggressive fringe minorities to confront demands for a secular, multicultural society.</p><p>If ever there was a time for Conservatives to unite and draw a line in the sand against the encroachment of the institutionalized “progressive” left’s insanity, this is it.</p><p><a href="http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/line-in-the-sand/">http://mjfellright.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/line-in-the-sand/</a></p></div>Gas Taxes (Gov Profits) vs. Oil Company Profits Who's Obscene?https://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/gas-taxes-gov-profits-vs-oil-company-profits-who-s-obscene2012-10-01T14:22:26.000Z2012-10-01T14:22:26.000ZBenson William Gates IIIhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/BensonWilliamGatesIII<div><p>The next time you hear some politician or talking head on TV start spouting about the oil industy's "obscene profits" maybe you'll think of government's "OBSCENE TAX PROFITS" on every gallon of fuel!</p><p>Amazing isn't it how no reporter ever follows up on these facts. Hilary Clinton, Barack Obama, and others can scream about obscene profits. The oil companies "profit" is about 4 cents per gallon while government gets approximately 50 cents per gallon!</p><p><br /> You want relief at the pump? How about demanding that all levels of government stop taxing commodities that are necessities? Medicines, food, clothes, FUEL, etc. It won't happen because the government's profits are hidden in the price and not added on at the sale. This is only one of their many dirty secrets they use to rob us.</p><p><br /> What is the United States national gas tax rate?<br /> The United States federal excise tax on gasoline is 18.4 cents per gallon (cpg) and 24.4 cents per gallon (cpg) for diesel fuel. On average, as of April 2012, state and local taxes add 31.1 cents to gasoline and 30.2 cents to diesel for a total US average fuel tax of 49.5 cents (cpg) per gallon for gas and 54.6 cents per gallon (cpg) for diesel.</p><p>What are the specific taxes for each state?<br /> Some states charge an excise tax while other states have a flat tax. The below table displays state taxes plus fees, plus the 18.4 cents-per-gallon (cpg) federal excise tax. Additionally, some local counties may additionally charge an excise tax on gas, which is not reflected in this table. Please consult your specific local government for more information.</p><p>What do the state and local governments generate in fuel taxes?<br /> For a chart of state and local revenues generated by fuel taxes, please click here.</p><p><a href="http://www.gaspricewatch.com/web_gas_taxes.php">www.gaspricewatch.com/web_gas_taxes.php</a></p><p>U.S. Gas Taxes (cents per gallon)<br /> State Gas Taxes/Fees (cpg) Diesel Taxes/Fees (cpg)<br /> Alabama 39.3 46.3<br /> Alaska 26.4 32.4<br /> Arizona 37.4 43.4<br /> Arkansas 40.2 47.2<br /> California 69 79.5<br /> Colorado 40.4 44.9<br /> Connecticut 64.4 70.6<br /> Delaware 41.4 46.4<br /> District of Columbia 41.9 47.9<br /> Florida 53.4 54.9<br /> Georgia 47.8 56.3<br /> Hawaii 68 75.2<br /> Idaho 43.4 49.4<br /> Illinois 62.8 70.1<br /> Indiana 61.4 76.2<br /> Iowa 40.4 47.9<br /> Kansas 43.4 51.4<br /> Kentucky 46.2 43.9<br /> Louisiana 38.4 44.4<br /> Maine 49.9 57.1<br /> Maryland 41.9 48.7<br /> Massachusetts 41.9 47.9<br /> Michigan 61.3 64.4<br /> Minnesota 46.5 52<br /> Mississippi 37.2 43.2<br /> Missouri 35.7 41.7<br /> Montana 46.2 53<br /> Nebraska 46 51.4<br /> Nevada 51.5 53<br /> New Hampshire 38 44<br /> New Jersey 32.9 41.9<br /> New Mexico 37.3 47.2<br /> New York 69.6 75.1<br /> North Carolina 57.6 63.6<br /> North Dakota 41.4 47.4<br /> Ohio 46.4 52.4<br /> Oklahoma 35.4 38.4<br /> Oregon 49.4 54.7<br /> Pennsylvania 50.7 63.6<br /> Rhode Island 51.4 57.4<br /> South Carolina 35.2 41.2<br /> South Dakota 42.4 48.4<br /> Tennessee 39.8 42.8<br /> Texas 38.4 44.4<br /> Utah 42.9 48.9<br /> Vermont 43.9 53.4<br /> Virginia 38.6 44.7<br /> Washington 55.9 61.9<br /> West Virginia 51.8 56.5<br /> Wisconsin 51.3 57.3<br /> Wyoming 32.4 38.4</p><p><br /> * We offer no guarantees as to the accuracy of these numbers. They are presented here for informational and educational purposes only. Please consult official government figures to validate these numbers. Last Updated May 2012</p><p>Source: American Petrolum Institute (4/2012)</p></div>Where is Federalism in Online Sales Tax Debate?https://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/where-is-federalism-in-online-sales-tax-debate2012-08-24T20:58:23.000Z2012-08-24T20:58:23.000ZJack Inglewoodhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/JackInglewood<div><p>Most congressional observers believe Congress will address the issue of empowering states to collect sales tax on the purchases of goods bought on the Internet. The issue is not typical of other tax issues as it finds conservatives like Steve King (R-Iowa), Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and others supporting the states ability to collect their sales taxes for online purchases. A strong argument can be made that they have embraced the conservative position.</p><p> </p><p>Make no mistake about it; there is deep division about this issue. Mom-and-pop small businesses hate the disparity that was created when the Supreme Court ruled that businesses needed a "nexus" within a state for sales taxes to be collected. That ruling allowed companies like Amazon to avoid sales taxes while small business are forced to collect them. They argue that the decision, especially in a poor economy, creates economic incentives that hurt their bottom line. Why should consumers shop in more expensive local stores when shopping online creates built-in no sales tax savings?</p><p>Others argue that allowing states to collect sales taxes for Internet purchases is tantamount to a tax increase. As opponents have noted, America's budget problems are not revenue problems but spending problems. Government's bring in enough revenue but can't get their spending in control. </p><p>There is tacit acknowledgement of this argument as many supporters of the "Marketplace Equity Act" are governors who are struggling to balance their state budgets. Billions of dollars in sales are made every year online that have escaped the reaches of the state tax collectors. </p><p>But there is a bigger issue at stake -- federalism.</p><p>Allowing online merchants to charge, collect and remit sales taxes based on their physical location would level the playing field with Main Street small businesses and, perhaps most importantly, restore federalism to the issue. The government should treat merchants equally. It should not be making it harder for small businesses to compete. In addition, the federal government should not bar states from enforcing their laws as long as they don't interfere with interstate commerce.</p><p>In some ways this is a complicated issue. But in others it's clear that fairness and federalism should play a role in the final deliberations. </p></div>ALL TRUE?https://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/all-true2012-08-04T13:30:00.000Z2012-08-04T13:30:00.000ZGill Whitneyhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/GillWhitney<div><p>This is the add Obama put out that the Washington Post Factcheker could find no problem with. They like to point out errors in ads and statements from both sides of the political aisle, but gave this a perfect mark. Really? Is there nothing they could find in this?</p><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1D1jI61ckY&feature=player_embedded" target="_blank"><img width="650" src="{{#staticFileLink}}4063550365,original{{/staticFileLink}}" class="align-full" alt="4063550365?profile=original" /></a></p><p>Sometimes their writers seem really partisan one way or the other...but really, is there nothing they could find wrong with this?</p></div>TAXEShttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/taxes2012-06-30T03:26:47.000Z2012-06-30T03:26:47.000ZCalhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/Cal<div><p> </p><p>Obamacare Horse won race but lost big when Spreme Roberts named him "Taxes"...</p></div>CBO Estimates Obama's 2013 Budget Plan Would Hurt Economic Growthhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/cbo-estimates-obama-s-2013-budget-plan-would-hurt-economic-growth2012-04-22T07:41:12.000Z2012-04-22T07:41:12.000ZJ.R.https://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/JayAre<div><p><a href="http://blog.talkshowamerica.com/2012/04/cbo-estimates-obamas-2013-budget-plan.html" target="_blank">CBO Estimates Obama's 2013 Budget Plan Would Hurt Economic Growth</a> The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office <b><a href="http://www.cbo.gov/publication/42972" target="_blank"><b>said</b></a></b> Friday that President Obama’s 2013 budget will hurt the economy in the long term, arguing the larger deficits it would produce would reduce the amount of capital available to businesses.<br />After five years, the CBO says, the Obama proposals would reduce economic output by between 0.5 percent and 2.2 percent. <br />Larger deficits caused by the budget would cause the government to issue more bonds, sucking up private capital to finance its debts and thereby reducing the funds businesses could use to expand and hire, the CBO said. An increased tax on capital gains included in the president's plan would also tend to reduce private capital, it says.<br />The 2013 Obama budget proposes continuing the Bush tax rates for the middle class and enacting elements of a short-term Jobs Act stimulus. In the near term, actions such as these could increase growth by as much as 1.4 percent, CBO says.<br />The new CBO report complements a March estimate that Obama’s budget would add $3.5 trillion to deficits over 10 years compared to current law. That report did not try to capture any effects on economic growth.<br />The White House, using a different baseline than CBO, has claimed its budget would reduce deficits by $3.2 trillion over 10 years.<br />Taking economic effects into account, Obama’s budget could add as much as $3.9 trillion in deficits by 2022, CBO estimates. Slower economic growth tends to increase deficits by reducing tax collection and increasing spending on items like unemployment insurance.</p><p><strong>Read More Here:</strong> <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/222767-cbo-sees-obama-budget-reducing-growth-in-long-term#.T5JmYbjhxkA.blogger" target="_blank">CBO estimates Obama's 2013 budget plan would hit economic growth - The Hill's On The Money</a></p></div>Rajjpuut's Folly: Will DEMOCRATS Block Obama’s Jobs Bill in Their Senate?https://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/rajjpuut-s-folly-will-democrats-block-obama-s-jobs-bill-in-their2011-10-05T22:30:00.000Z2011-10-05T22:30:00.000ZBob VanDeHeyhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/BobVanDeHey<div><br /><p> </p><div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#800000;font-size:14pt;">Republicans Seek Another Huge Shellacking</span></b></div><div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#800000;font-size:14pt;">(For Obama’s Nonsensical “Jobs” Bill)</span></b></div><div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><i><span style="line-height:200%;color:#800000;font-size:14pt;">In the Democrat-Controlled Senate</span></i></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b> </b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:10pt;"> </span></b> <b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#0000FF;font-size:12pt;">Has the world turned upside down? You be the judge. </span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#008000;font-size:12pt;">Item #1: As promised the House Republicans are taking pieces of the Obama American Jobs Act bill they believe in and designing their own bill with the best parts of Obama’s bill IN and the destructive parts of Obama’s bill for the economy LEFT OUT.</span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#800000;font-size:12pt;">Item: #2: The last time (before his Jobs Bill was proposed in September that instead of merely haranguing Congress and the nation without substance) President Barack Obama actually put something in writing for the Congress to examine was in February this year. That “something” was a bogus budget drawn up to oppose the real and thoughtful pro-active budget from House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin). Ryan’s plan , the “Roadmap for America’s Future” was the first effort made in our history to deal not only with deficits and hyper-spending but also with the nation’s $116 TRillion UNfunded liabilities (Social Security, Medicare and the federal side of Medicaid) crisis. After submitting his own atrocious budget, Obama called for an immediate vote . . . His Senate Majority Leader, Democrat Harry Reid warned that would be a bad idea and put off that vote until the President clamored “Now!” three months later. Reid would have preferred not to vote but had to. The result was a <i>0-97 defeat in the Democrat-controlled Senate</i> . . . perhaps the worst rebuff from Congress that any president has ever received . . . a historical drubbing of monumental proportions.</span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#0000FF;font-size:12pt;">Item #3: Now Obama’s at it again with his so-called American Jobs Act which is really just a huge pretense at cutting spending which actually raises taxes on middle-class Americans dramatically. Sounds like just the thing for the Democratically-controlled Senate to vote on, right? Not so quick! </span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#008000;font-size:12pt;">Item #4: Majority leader Harry Reid knowing that any tax increases during the current economic malaise will not be popular with voters, especially all those independent voters that Obama and all members of Congress (House and Senate) will need on their side come the 2012 elections. Reid has tried to tell the President again NOT to plow ahead. Obama today says “Go!” however and now Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has called for a vote in the Senate. Reid is, of course, still opposed and today Reid blocked the procedural vote from further consideration. We believe that Republican Mc Connell will continue to call for the vote.</span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#800000;font-size:12pt;">Item#5: Even IF Mc Connell had his way today, the procedural vote required to get Obama’s bill voted on appears 100% likely to be blocked by the Democrats with the prospect that somehow, some way IF the matter ever did come up for a vote on its merits, this bill too would face an ignominious defeat. </span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#0000FF;font-size:12pt;">Item #6: To avoid that likely debacle, Reid and the Dems will block the matter from further consideration they would vote as a unit on the procedural matter against the president’s Jobs Bill while the Republicans are voting as a bloc FOR Obama’s bill to be voted on. That’s how bad the president’s bill is . . . about 85% of Democrats don’t like it at all and almost no Democrat, even those who do like it, wants to vote for higher taxes now. </span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#008000;font-size:12pt;">Item #7: The Democrats, we’re told from polls, are deeply split over the president’s jobs bill. The latest attempt to find consensus among the Dems is to make two major changes to the president’s bill A) instead of raising taxes on households earning $200,000 or more beginning in 2013, the Senate Dems are talking about a 5% surcharge on millionaires and up beginning three months from now in January, 2012. Harry Reid surprisingly did NOT downplay the split among his Dems in the Senate describing it this way for the press, “If some of our members wanted permission to go to the bathroom, there’s a good chance that many others would shout ‘NO!’”</span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#0000FF;font-size:12pt;"> Again that’s how bad the president’s bill is . . . about 85% of Democrats don’t like it at all and almost no Democrat, even those who do like it, wants to vote for higher taxes now. The Republicans hate the bill and want to show it up with something akin to the 0-97 shellacking that the Senate gave Obama’s ridiculous budget when they finally voted on that bill itself in May of this year three full months after it was submitted by the President. This is the leader of the Free World our campaigner-in-chief who has NOT the slightest clue about how to govern. </span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#0000FF;font-size:12pt;">How does one govern? By getting the most you can with what you’ve got. Instead of ramming Obamacare through in a hateful manner, imagine if you will that despite controlling the House and Senate in 2009 when he came into office that: President Obama had called on the Republicans to help craft a healthcare bill with his Congressional majorities . . . . Not only would there have been no need for the unconstitutional procedural tricks that Nancy Pelosi pulled on the nation (“We’ll have to pass it so you can see what’s in it.”) or the lie personally signed by Obama for Bart Stupak saying NO abortions would be funded by Obamacare (incredibly, the first three official Obamacare procedures done were abortions). The result would not have been an acrimonious battle for 15 months and would not have been the 2,700-page monstrosity that’s likely to be ruled unconstitutional and which is already bankrupting the nation just in its earliest stages of implementation. </span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#0000FF;font-size:12pt;">The result probably would have been a 425-10 vote in the House and a 98-2 vote in the senate for a smart 100-page bill that would have actually worked (malpractice tort reform; insurance across state lines; taking care of fraud in Medicare and streamlining Medicaid) to get more people healthcare and to cut overall healthcare costs. That’s what governing is all about . . . getting a near-unanimous consensus and real results that help with almost zero-downside. President Obama is not capable of such a feat, alas. Two vital questions must be answered in 2012:</span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:-.25in;margin:0in 0in 0pt .75in;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#0000FF;font-size:12pt;">A.<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></b> <b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#0000FF;font-size:12pt;"> Are you better off than you were four years ago?</span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:-.25in;margin:0in 0in 10pt .75in;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#0000FF;font-size:12pt;">B.<span style="font:7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></b> <b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#0000FF;font-size:12pt;"> Are you better off than you were $4+ TRillion ago?</span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b> </b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#0000FF;font-size:12pt;">Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,</span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#0000FF;font-size:12pt;">Rajjpuut</span></b></div><br /><br /></div>BEWARE OF HIDDEN TAXES, TO KICK-IN AFTER THE NEXT ADMINISTRATION IS IN OFFICE !!https://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/beware-of-hidden-taxes-to-kick-in-after-the-next-administration2011-09-20T20:15:21.000Z2011-09-20T20:15:21.000ZAlbert R Frombergerhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/AlbertRFromberger<div><p>BEWARE OF HIDDEN TAXES ,TO " KICK-IN " AFTER THE NEXT ADMINISTRATION IS IN OFFICE !!!</p><p>DONE BE FORE ~</p></div>BO says the Millionaires & Billionaires should pay their FAIR SHAREhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/bo-says-the-millionaires-amp-billionaires-should-pay-their-fair2011-09-20T18:10:29.000Z2011-09-20T18:10:29.000ZThomas Moorehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/ThomasMoore<div><p>Why does BO not tell "we the people" the facts and post the actual dollar amount of Taxes paid by the Millionaires & Billionaires. There is not enough room on this post for all the zeros; so you will have to do the math. Very easy to find the amounts with a search. "Who Pays the most US Taxes". Buffet says "he pays less taxes than his secretary." OK Mr. Buffet why don't you give your empoyees a much needed RAISE? #game over!</p><p> </p><p>According to the Office of Tax Analysis, the U.S. individual income tax is "highly progressive," with a small group of higher-income taxpayers paying most of the individual income taxes each year.</p><div><ul><li>In 2002 the latest year of available data, the top 5 percent of taxpayers paid more than one-half (53.8 percent) of all individual income taxes, but reported roughly one-third (30.6 percent) of income.</li></ul></div></div>OBAMA'S FAKE BIRTH CERTIFICATE ~ The issue Is Legithttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/obama-s-fake-birth-certificate-the-issue-is-legit2011-09-18T08:10:11.000Z2011-09-18T08:10:11.000ZPro Graphiquehttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/ProGraphique<div><p><a target="_blank" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VBnlj0So7uk/Tm12F2gFCkI/AAAAAAAAAB4/kXAD3AmD5pA/s400/OBAMA+AS+TEACHER+for+web+post+2.jpg"><img class="align-center" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VBnlj0So7uk/Tm12F2gFCkI/AAAAAAAAAB4/kXAD3AmD5pA/s400/OBAMA+AS+TEACHER+for+web+post+2.jpg" alt="OBAMA+AS+TEACHER+for+web+post+2.jpg" /></a></p><p><span class="font-size-5">In April</span> of this year everything "birther" changed: Obama released a supposed long form birth certificate.</p><p><span class="font-size-4">Since then,</span> top-flight analysis have piled on <em>with no answer from the White house or analysists to defend the document: <strong>it's a fake.</strong></em> This is not some fringe analysis; <em>Joesph Newcomer</em> whose analysis of the Killian dicuments got dan rather fired from CBS News, <em>Mara Zebest,</em> whom everyone here has heard of, <em>Ecomp Consultants</em> who provide expert document wiitness testimony in court to a <em>client list that reads like a Fortune 500 wish-list.</em> <strong>They all say it's fake.</strong> So do others.</p><p><span class="font-size-4">It's time that we - tea party patriots</span> - start pressing this issue. It will takje a while even after Trump made the issue legit, so we better start now. the big problem, of course, is that it;s difficult to understand with certainty if you don;t know graphics. As a consequence, I have provided a basic primer for anyone and their congressmen, friends and relatives that has all the evidence reduced down to easy-to-understand, "Reader's Digest"-style bits that any adult can easily understand.</p><p>This site is safe, non-profit and is a tool you can use right away to get light bulbs going off even the dimmest heads.</p><p> </p><p><span class="font-size-4"><a href="http://www.evidencevault.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Here's the link.</a></span> God Bless:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.evidencevault.blogspot.com/">http://www.evidencevault.blogspot.com/</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p></div>Rajjpuut's Folly: Obama Presidency Slips into Catalepsy, Dictatorial Powers Exercisedhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/rajjpuut-s-folly-obama-presidency-slips-into-catalepsy2011-09-12T20:24:05.000Z2011-09-12T20:24:05.000ZBob VanDeHeyhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/BobVanDeHey<div><br /><br /><br /><p><b> </b></p><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#00b050;font-size:10pt;">“Obama’s <i>American Jobs Act</i> is All Old, Borrowed, and Blue, NOTHING New.”</span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:10pt;"> <span style="color:#00b050;">“HOW can he so aggressively DEMAND fifteen to twenty times in 25 minutes that Congress immediately pass a bill that no one has yet seen and most probably will NEVER see? Shades of Nancy Pelosi and Obamacare on which she said “We’ll have to pass it so you can see what’s in it.” At least with Obamacare we had 2,700 nauseating pages to examine . . . we’ve had nothing in writing from the ethereal presidency of Barack H. Obama since February of this year . . . just more and more speeches full of evanescent words.”</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b> </b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"> </div><div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#632423;font-size:14pt;">Obama DEMANDS Congress Pass “AJA”</span></b></div><div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#632423;font-size:14pt;">Last Such Effort Resulted in 0-97 Failure</span></b></div><div align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b> </b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;font-size:12pt;"> <span style="color:#0070c0;">Mr. Obama gave another speech last Thursday. Ol’ Rajjpuut recommends the president heed the old adage that “action speaks louder than words” and take it to heart 100% from now on. Perhaps he should begin actually governing America instead of just hurting our ears with words that carry NO actual consequence because <i>the proposals that they symbolize aren’t even written down and presumably will NEVER become a bill for Congress to act upon</i>. Ahead of that speech his press corps told us that we’d be getting all the actual DETAILS in a few weeks. It’s that BIG an IDEA folks! Way too big for just one speech, it’ll take several weeks to roll it all out!! That’s your hype and change president for you. Wait for it, great things a ‘coming. </span></span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#0070c0;font-size:12pt;">Consider that: nothing in writing, you know, no actual (bill) words , none (ZERO), on actual paper to be reviewed and critiqued, none of that damnable tangible stuff just a lot more blue sky and smoke and mirrors after the country was promised this great new program from Mr. Obama and then it was all put off for his Midwest campaign “listening tour” and then his Martha’s Vineyard vacation and then his trying to upstage the Republican debate by scheduling the speech for the same exact date and time . . . the President is now once again putting off the American people and procrastinating on having the Congress actually having his proposals in writing to consider.</span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#0070c0;font-size:12pt;">After the speech, much of America indulged in 9/11 remembrances and ceremonies and TV lowlights from ten years ago during the weekend. Much of America welcomed back the National Football League starting with a barn-burner of a game in Wisconsin in which the New Orleans Saints died on the 1-yard line with time expired. Almost all of America did one if these things or the other or both. Few Americans paid much attention to the much ballyhooed Barack Obama-DEMANDED-address to both chambers (A joint session? We’d have felt better if we had a few joints or other pain killers instead of listening to that crap) of Congress to discuss his “new” jobs program known as the <i>American Jobs Act</i> (<i>AJA</i>) in a tired but threatening speech that contained almost nothing new; a lot borrowed from earlier failed programs and recycled; and a lot of “blue” extensions of utterly failed old programs that have not worked because they’re so inane they couldn’t possibly work. It was ill-conceived; politically fatal and downright cynical speech by a progressive politician who is rapidly becoming more and more socialistic with every falling leaf.</span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#0070c0;font-size:12pt;"> HOW can he so aggressively DEMAND fifteen to twenty times that Congress immediately pass a bill that no one has yet seen and probably will NEVER see? Shades of Nancy Pelosi and Obamacare on which she said “We’ll have to pass it so you can see what’s in it.” At least with Obamacare we had 2,700 nauseating pages to examine . . . we’ve had nothing in writing from the ethereal presidency of Barack H. Obama since February of this year . . . just more and more speeches full of evanescent words . . . .</span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#0070c0;font-size:12pt;">Mr. Obama has spent the last seven months doing just that sort of nonsense. Every time he and the Republican leadership have “come to terms” on something about the budget or the deficit and National debt . . . Mr. Obama has told us how HE has jumped in to the fray and HIS input helped solve the problems. But, OOPS, Mr. Obama has then changed his mind (we know, we know, yes, it’s a “young girl’s prerogative” but hardly becoming behavior from the leader of the free world and our Commander-in-Chief) and all deals supposedly “on the table” have then been removed and become moot, not worth the paper they’re NOT written on. It’s good to examine WHY this has happened, why this nauseating pattern of empty promises has come to dominate Barack Obama’s <i>actions</i>.</span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#0070c0;font-size:12pt;">Mr. Obama, after a long harangue against the first of three offered Republican House versions of a 2012 budget, the one from Paul Ryan, (Obama’s Democratic Senate has passed only one budget in almost three years and none in the last 900 days while the Republican House has passed four in less than nine months) decided in February of this year he’d personally save the country as the Oval Office submitted a budget he labeled “bi-partisan” although in point of fact he’d asked for NO input from the loyal opposition and not shown it to anyone of consequence either in the media, not one single word, and apparently he hadn’t run it past his own Senate Democrats either. The Obama administration has no clue how to write a bill these days.</span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#0070c0;font-size:12pt;"> Mr. Obama introduced that bill in the U.S. Senate in February and Democratic Senator (Majority Leader) Harry Reid refused to bring it to a vote until finally the President DEMANDED his man Reid put it to a vote . . . which he did in May. The result in a Senate dominated by his Democrats was . . . a 0-97 utter failure. That’s called being “totally out of touch with reality.” Think on that . . . . No president in our nation’s history has ever suffered such a gross defeat. Is it even conceivably possibly that anyone can create any idea, any idea at all, so absolutely inane and stupid that at least one Democrat or progressive Republican will NOT vote for it?</span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#0070c0;font-size:12pt;"> If anything now, the President’s <i>AJA</i> speech last Thursday was even less real and less common-sense and less relevant than his budget ideas were back then. Mr. Obama may SEEM to be very visible making important public appearance on every corner and at every opportunity and haranguing <i>we the people</i> every day . . . but that’s just his body, folks. His spirit is curled up in the fetal position sucking his thumb underneath his desk in the Oval Office . . . after that 0-97 thrashing he has totally given up on reality. Oh, my!</span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#0070c0;font-size:12pt;"> What exactly has the President offer us in the <i>AJA</i>? No actual jobs will be created; a lot of actual jobs will be killed. A lot more expense to the taxpayers. A lot, lot more government. A lot, lot more taxes^^ especially upon those who left to their own devices with no government interference actually tend to create jobs. A brand new stimulus program, this one funded by draining $450 Billion from Social Security (as if that program didn’t have enough problems). A program that’s supposedly already paid for . . . “well, actually, I’ll just add that payment stuff as another requirement for the bi-partisan “Super-Committee” already stymied by the prospect of coming up with $1.5 TRillion in budget cuts before Thanksgiving, what the hell.”</span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#0070c0;font-size:12pt;">We have shown that Obama’s <i>American Jobs Act</i> is all Old, Borrowed, and Blue, with NOTHING New. It’s got to the point where a lot more mind-boggling B.S. from the President can NOT be considered mind-boggling any more. He called his <i>AJA</i> full of “Republican ideas.” When was the last time when fiscally-responsible and Constitutionally-faithful G.O.P. called for a half-a-trillion dollar STIMULUS, Mr. Prez? The middle-word in the program’s title is “JOBS,” but it seems only aimed at preserving one American’s job: your own. It cannot pass either chamber of Congress. If it did it would send us deeper and deeper into a double-dip recession . . . ah, but if it fails to pass . . . yes, yes, if the <i>AJA</i> fails to pass: then you can claim you put forth “all the winning ideas and those damn pesky Republicans wouldn’t get on board with the programs and their TEA Party wing has ‘held the country hostage,’ those terroristic b_stards!” </span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#0070c0;font-size:12pt;">Mr. Obama, your 0-97 failed budget proposal was arrogant and self-centered (let’s keep my job) and foolish and unnecessary and completely political rather than focused (“like a laser”) on creating jobs for Americans . . . but this <i>AJA</i> is even less “shovel-ready” than your failed $787 Billion stimulus of February, 2009. You had the temerity to claim this bill was bi-partisan without getting any Republican input . . . well, if this speech was not the most hyper-partisan utterance ever made, then Ol’ Rajjpuut is a left-handed hunch-backed, cross-eyed aviator. This ANGRY-ANGRY speech was aimed at doing just one thing: giving you talking points for the 2012 re-election campaign. You wanted to set the G.O.P. up as the scape-goats as your economy continues to tank. “The economy would be all healed now, if those *&(#@$8^!*$%#@)+= Republicans had just done what I told them to do!” Well, Mr. President, there was a lot less pain in re-living all the 9/11 tragedies than in listening to your nonsense,** a lot, lot less.</span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b> </b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#0070c0;font-size:12pt;">Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,</span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#0070c0;font-size:12pt;">Rajjpuut</span></b></div><div style="line-height:200%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:200%;color:#632423;font-size:10pt;">^^ Along with Obamacare requiring a 60% jump in capital gains taxes starting in 2013 to pay for it (What! You didn’t find that out from reading Ms. Pelosi’s bill?), and <i>AJA</i>’s call for an immediate repeal of the Bush era tax cuts on those who actually create jobs in this country . . . there are a whole lot of sneaky elimination of tax deductions thrown in among all the President’s <i>AJA</i> speech proposals . . . which means that the middle class will be helping fund all this (if you reduce tax deductions, and are raising money to pay for <i>AJA</i> taxpayers must and will pay more and since 49% of the country receives money from the government and effectively pays zero taxes and only 51% of us DO pay . . . that means the middle class gets screwed again. Aren’t you glad that the government has been set up life in this country so that almost a voting majority of people are receiving money from the feds and just the chumps like you and I are paying taxes? Soon they can vote themselves into the majority and then vote for us to pay 80% of income in taxes . . . marvelous, marvelous).</span></b></div><div style="line-height:150%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:150%;color:#00b050;">** Don’t get Rajjpuut wrong, now. When he’s procrastinating Mr. Obama is at his most lovable. When he’s doing nothing, he is at his most competent. But, unfortunately, he’s also been very, very busy creating mischief. Mr. Obama’s misguided efforts over the last nine months, although mostly futile have NOT been without danger. He’s seeking to rule dictatorially now that his words no longer have power. What do we mean? We mean to rule by “regulatory fiat,” by merely creating rules within federal agencies and thus given federal government agencies power to control our lives. For example, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Interior department are, as you read this, closing down coal mines; obstructing oil drilling sites and instituting new and expensive and officiously complicated oil drilling requirements, establishing green job initiatives and establishing carbon dioxide restrictions – moves that Congress has repeatedly failed to pass. The EPA is particularly dangerous. Back in 2009 they set into motion actions that sent the UNemployment levels around Fresno, California (the vegetable-basket of the nation) as high as 40%. This was accomplished by forbidding ALL irrigation as a means to protect a three-inch fish called the “delta smelt” which sometimes swims into irrigation piping thus killing jobs; destroying farmers’ livelihoods, and making vegetable prices rise dramatically. He’s bypassed the Immigration and Naturalization Service to give amnesty to any and all ILLEGAL aliens in the country if they’re suspected NOT to have committed a serious crime. He seems intent on having those folks become citizens and voting for him in 2012 . . . .</span></b></div><div style="line-height:150%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:150%;color:#00b050;"> The green jobs initiatives are potentially the most dangerous, believe it or not. Why? In 1997 Spain was the strongest economy in Europe with 3.8% UNemployment. Late that year the Spanish passed a green jobs program. Spain now has 22% Unemployment and is, behind Greece, one of the flimsiest economies in the entire world. What happened exactly? Spain’s government began using tax money and subsidizing green jobs.</span></b><b><span style="line-height:150%;"> </span></b></div><div style="line-height:150%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:150%;"><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a2PHwqAs7BS0">http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a2PHwqAs7BS0</a></span></b></div><div style="line-height:150%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:150%;color:#0070c0;">Here’s the statistical result according to a well-known Spanish study:</span></b> <b><span style="line-height:150%;"> </span></b></div><div style="line-height:150%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt .5in;"><b><span style="line-height:150%;color:#632423;">Each green job created cost $677,000 dollars.</span></b></div><div style="line-height:150%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt .5in;"><b><span style="line-height:150%;color:#632423;">2.2 real jobs in the real economy were lost for each subsidized Spanish green job created.</span></b></div><div style="line-height:150%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt .5in;"><b><span style="line-height:150%;color:#632423;">The average Spanish green job paid $11-$13 dollars with much fewer paying as much as $14 per hour.</span></b></div><div style="line-height:150%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt .5in;"><b><span style="line-height:150%;color:#632423;">The average Spanish green job lasted from three weeks to eighteen months.</span></b></div><div style="line-height:150%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt .5in;"><b><span style="line-height:150%;color:#632423;">Only one in every ten Spanish green jobs was permanent.</span></b></div><div style="line-height:150%;text-indent:.5in;margin:0in 0in 10pt .5in;"><b><span style="line-height:150%;color:#632423;">This means that for every five PERMANENT green jobs created: 110 real jobs were lost.</span></b></div><div style="line-height:150%;margin:0in 0in 10pt;"><b><span style="line-height:150%;color:#632423;">PS: Mr. Obama in his 2008 campaign PROMISED to create five million brand new green jobs in America. So far, thank God, he has not moved on that. Should his EPA find a way via regulatory fiat to begin fulfilling that promise . . . we’ll all be in deep, deep crap. Based upon the Spanish example: five million new American green tech jobs would cost 11 million real jobs. Based upon the Spanish example: only 500,000 permanent green jobs would be created for the 11 million real jobs lost. Re-elect Barack!</span></b></div></div>Serious questions remain about Rick Perry.https://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/serious-questoins-about-rick-perry-remain2011-08-16T13:30:00.000Z2011-08-16T13:30:00.000ZCalvin Fieldshttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/CalvinFields<div><p><span style="color:#0000ff;">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:</span></p><ul><li><span style="color:#0000ff;">Rick Perry <em>was</em> 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? </span></li><li><span style="color:#0000ff;">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.</span></li><li><span style="color:#0000ff;">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?</span></li><li><span style="color:#0000ff;">When Perry declared his candidacy in South Carolina, he <em>did not</em> say he wanted a <em>smaller</em> 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? </span></li><li><span style="color:#0000ff;">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.</span></li><li><span style="color:#0000ff;">Why is Perry in favor of the super highway that would divide the nation and destroy our national sovereignty? </span></li><li><span style="color:#0000ff;">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!</span></li></ul></div>Rajjpuut's Folly: Take our “How Has Big Government Stuck It to Us Lately?" QUIZhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/rajjpuuts-folly-take-our-how2011-06-16T10:46:16.000Z2011-06-16T10:46:16.000ZBob VanDeHeyhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/BobVanDeHey<div><p> </p><div id="ctl00_cphCenter_ucPosts_rptPosts_ctl00_ucPost_Content"><div> <div align="center" style="line-height:200%;color:#008000;font-size:18pt;"><strong> </strong></div><div align="center" style="line-height:200%;color:#008000;font-size:18pt;"><strong>How Has Big Government <br />Stuck It to Us Lately?</strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;"> </div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">Are the following statements True or False? Be careful, some are “tricky.” All false statements are explained below.</span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong> </strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">#1 Barack Obama on the Today Show yesterday announced his suspicion that ATMs and airport shoeshine machines are a big part of the reason that his $787 Billion stimulus failed to prevent America’s unemployment (now at 9.1%) from exceeding his promised 8.0%.</span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong> </strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">#2 The LBJ “War on Poverty” was implemented in 1968 with 13% of Americans rated as “POOR people.” Social welfare payments increased to 500% of former levels (a 400% increase) so that by 1980 13% of Americans were still classified as poor .</span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong> </strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">#3 “Capitalism is leading humanity and the planet to extinction,” according to the prime minister of France.</span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong> </strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">#4 In Sweden where a cradle-to-grave nanny state supplies free health care; free education; welfare programs and unemployment programs covering 76% of their people at some time in their lives; not to mention big retirement packages . . . the enterprise minister and the government refused to bail out the Saab automobile company.</span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong> </strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">#5 Federal government employees are restricted in many ways even when they belong to unions. However, thanks to the U.S. Postal Service unions, the post office despite heading for bankruptcy is not being allowed to stop Saturday delivery a step that would immediately alleviate the problem because of their union’s clout in Washington, D.C. As a temporary band-aid, the post office is issuing a new series of 40 American Union Leaders stamps to raise needed money from philatelists (stamp collectors).</span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">#6 541 clean air, water, and waste programs are found in 28 separate government agencies not including the monstrously redundant EPA.</span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">#7 President Obama’s trademark legislation Obamacare actually created a few more federal agencies in just one law then Franklin Delano Roosevelt created in over a dozen years in office.</span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">#8 In Texas, they have a part-time citizen legislature that works for about six months then goes back to real jobs for about 18 months. Our full-time federal law makers (Congress) have put some 62,000 new regulations on the books since GHW Bush left office in January, 1993. Any doubt why business is having such a nasty time creating new jobs?</span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">#9 In 1956 President Eisenhower and Congress passed a 293- page bill authorizing a federal highway act which created our present interstate highway system. When the act was updated in 1991 it was only 28 pages long but the end result cost one third as much for 3% of the highway mileage.</span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">#10 Ronald Reagan’s 1982 Grace Commission came up with 2,478 separate ways to “get the government off the backs of the American people designed to eliminate the deficits and national debt by 1990 in the face of $10.2 TRillion of inefficiency, stagnation, and smothering of the free market IF they were not acted upon. Virtually none of these was acted upon by the four progressive Democratic congresses and despite creating 21 million jobs, Reagan ran up huge deficits while in office.</span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">#11 President Obama’s ‘Trickle-up Economic” ideas have been derided as “Trickle-up Poverty,” but compared to the utterly socialistic French, we are still led by a capitalism-inspired administration.</span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">#12 It takes the average Estonian less than 12 minutes to fill out their income tax forms thanks to a national FLAT tax of 18%. Since the country escaped the clutches of the old USSR, they’ve been known as the “Baltic Tiger” for their incredible national productivity and “a sort of Silicon Valley on the Baltic Sea.” These things will happen when Soviet tanks stop patrolling your streets and communism is left in the dust. Mr. Obama is taken our country in the opposite direction and now wants to create a national police force answerable to him alone.</span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="color:#0000ff;">#13 One of the most succinct criticisms of Barack Obama is that “. . . he doesn’t understand that wealth must first be allowed to be created, before it can be shared.”</span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong> </strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong> </strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong> </strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;color:#008000;"><strong>Answers: Only the even numbers are true. Here are the explanations for the odd numbered false statements:</strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong> </strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="color:#800000;">#1 Actually shoe shine machines were not the guilty party according to Obama, but rather airport ticket kiosks. However, the real fallacy is Obama’s premise about “automation” in general: When bank ATMs rose by 150% over one ten year period, the number of bank tellers increased by 160%. Similarly, virtually all insurance companies and financial companies in the mid- and late-70’s added EDP (electronic data processing) a.k.a. computer departments on the promise of eliminating huge amounts of clerical staffing. When Rajjpuut worked for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas the company’s employment jumped from roughly 340 to 790 in four and a half years with 85% of the newly hired fitting into either the EDP or the clerical job description.</span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="color:#800000;">#2 TRUE</span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="color:#800000;">#3 Actually, this was many years ago. At the time the statement was made -- a combined statement from presiding leaders of six countries that could then be considered the armpits of the world: Cuba, Bolivia, Venezuela, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua -- all of which of kept or flirted with communism or abject near-communist socialism. Six countries that needed capitalism to boost their anemic economies were blaming capitalism for all the ills of the world.</span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="color:#800000;">#4 TRUE</span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="color:#800000;">#5 Only false because of the Union Leader Stamps unless they decided to create them today.</span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="color:#800000;">#6 TRUE</span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="color:#800000;">#7 Sorry, not just a “few” more but roughly 9.6 times as many new government agencies were created by Obamacare (one law) as FDR created in all his years in office . . . 384 new federal agencies from Obamacare. That’s why it took 2,770 pages . . . it’s not about providing health care, it’s about controlling every aspect of health care, hospitals and doctors and nurses.</span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="color:#800000;">#8 TRUE</span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;text-indent:.5in;"><strong><span style="color:#800000;">#9 The original 1956 bill was the shorter one, 28 pages long. The 1991 bill was 293 pages long. And the final cost was close to the same (in constant dollars taking account of inflation) for only 3% of the mileage. In fairness: putting four-lane highways through places like Glenwood Canyon in Colorado does take a lot more effort than flat roads over the Great Plains. However, the strictly environmental considerations; as well as those related to mass transit; auto-pollution; seat belt use; motorcycle helmet use; preservation of historic sites; erosion control; billboard regs; women’s issues; Native American issues; disadvantaged individuals’ issues; use of recycled rubber in road bed asphalt; requirements for specific iron and steel; etc. etc. probably accounted for 66% of the total cost.</span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><strong><span style="color:#800000;"> #10 TRUE</span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><strong><span style="color:#800000;"> #11 President Obama in February 2009 weeks after taking office made his infamous “Trickle-up” speech. A month later French President Sarkozy said, “I was not elected to raise taxes (but) to reconcile France with the workplace and factory.” So even the French have turned their backs on redistribution of wealth as an answer to economic problems.</span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><strong><span style="color:#800000;"> #12 TRUE</span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><strong><span style="color:#800000;"> #13 Even thought the criticism would suit Barack Obama and 95% of progressive politicians to a “T,” it was actually aimed at the “archaic socialism” of France. Hope you enjoyed the quiz and understand a bit more about the connection between “small minds and big government.”</span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><strong><span style="color:#800000;"> </span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><strong> </strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><strong><span style="color:#800000;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,</span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;"><strong><span style="color:#800000;"><span style="color:#0000ff;">Rajjpuut</span></span></strong></div><div style="line-height:200%;"> </div><div style="line-height:200%;"> </div></div></div><br /></div>Have we forgottenhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/have-we-forgotten2011-06-08T19:46:14.000Z2011-06-08T19:46:14.000ZJeff Klitznerhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/JeffKlitzner<div>"My friends, we declare that this nation is able to legislate for its own people on every question, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth; and upon that issue we expect to carry every state in the Union. I shall not slander the inhabitants of the fair state of Massachusetts nor the inhabitants of the state of New York by saying that, when they are confronted with the proposition, they will declare that this nation is not able to attend to its own business. It is the issue of 1776 over again. Our ancestors, when but three million in number, had the courage to declare their political independence of every other nation; shall we, their descendants, when we have grown to seventy millions, declare that we are less independent than our forefathers?" William Jennings Bryan. It seems we ought to think about what is we are doing in the world. It might seem absurd but I would really like to see what would happen if we told China to take our debts and wipe their collective rear ends with them. It doesn't really matter to them that they break international law everyday, and have no respect for intellectual property. I Could be wrong but considering they sponsor piracy and considering they are the reason our society is declining it seems like the appropriate time to tell China to take a hike. If they want their money they can come and get it, oh yeah guess what they can have their money when the stop poisoning us. I think we should burn all the products made in china and raise tariffs on all of their goods to supplement our own economy. Hey I'm not a communist or a war monger but this wouldn't be the first war over money and it certainly won't be the last.</div>This Is A Stick Up! Seven Ways Obamacare Raids Your Wallet.https://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/this-is-a-stick-up-seven-ways2011-05-25T22:07:40.000Z2011-05-25T22:07:40.000ZTrent Derrhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/TrentDerr<div><div class="postbody"><p><a href="http://trentderr.com/2011/05/24/this-is-a-stick-up-how-obamacare-raids-your-wallet/" target="_blank">by: Trent Derr - American Exceptionalism</a></p><p> </p><p>By now most of us realize how Obamacare is designed to take control of healthcare decisions away from individuals and place them in the hands of bureaucrats. After all, Obama, Pelosi, and Reid understood that as government gains more control over healthcare, the politicians have even greater powers to “sell” favors by granting exceptions, waivers and special rules that favor their friends and those who will donate to their campaigns. This became all the more evident recently when 38 additional Obamacare waivers were granted to businesses in Nancy Pelosi’s district.</p><p> </p><p>Unfortunately this level of institutionalized corruption in our Federal government has become commonplace. What isn’t as apparent is how Obamacare is designed to take money out of all of our wallets by enacting additional taxes and penalties. These taxes include increased Medicare taxes, penalties on plans the government feels offer to good of coverage, penalties on those who chose to not buy insurance and an excise tax on pharmaceutical companies.</p><p> </p><p>1) Beginning in 2013, payroll taxes from Medicare will increase by 62% for households that the government has decided are “higher income”.</p><p> </p><p>2) Similarly, Obamacare created a new 3.8% Medicare Tax on interest, dividends, royalties, rental income, capital gains, and annuities.</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://trentderr.com/2011/05/24/this-is-a-stick-up-how-obamacare-raids-your-wallet/" target="_blank">Continue...</a></p></div></div>Selling Lies – The Formula the Left Uses To Take Away Your Rightshttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/profiles/blogs/selling-lies-the-formula-the2011-03-25T01:00:00.000Z2011-03-25T01:00:00.000ZTrent Derrhttps://patriotcommandcenter.org/members/TrentDerr<div><p><a href="http://trentderr.com/2011/03/21/selling-lies-%E2%80%93-the-formula-the-left-uses-to-take-away-your-rights/" target="_blank">by: Trent Derr - American Exceptionalism</a></p><p> </p><p>As part of their dogma, the Left believes society only operates “fairly” when more power is concentrated in the Federal Government and fewer rights are exercised independently by individuals. In their view, one of the major purposes of the Government is to equalize outcomes across society (try to find that in the Constitution). Note that it’s the equality of outcomes, not equality of opportunities, that is their definition of fairness. To achieve that goal, Liberals need an excuse to take rights and responsibilities from individuals and shift that power to the Government. Then that Governmental power can be used to institutionalize fairness by passing laws and regulations that provide for the equality of outcomes across society. However in spite of these plans, the Left has a major cultural roadblock in their way. One of our traditional American values is to treasure and defend our individual rights. When Americans are thinking rationally, we rarely, if ever, voluntarily give up any of our rights.</p><p> </p>When the Liberals want to influence American opinion on an issue, they need to overcome that obstacle. To do so, they use a consistent formula to warp the public perception in their favor. Their approach does not involve an in-depth analysis of the facts with the subsequent generation of possible alternatives to be evaluated. Frankly facts get in their way. Their strategy is simply based on manipulating the public’s emotions. Liberals want to generate guilty feelings or stir up hate or trigger rage. Their tactic is to generate strong emotions in the public and with those emotions shut down rational thought. Create a crisis. Create an injustice. Pretend there is no time to think about, discuss, or even read the bill. We have to act now! Sound familiar? <a href="http://trentderr.com/2011/03/21/selling-lies-%E2%80%93-the-formula-the-left-uses-to-take-away-your-rights/" target="_blank">Continue...</a></div>