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2012 Michele Bachman

The President’s State of the Union speech may be in the news cycle, but 2012 is the real date certain and Michele Bachman, for her part was prescient and quite astute to position the Tea Party’s response to the President as separate and apart from that of the Republican Party.  The actual response itself only further served to underline the distinction. Ms. Bachman spoke to and for the people who just happened to put the Republicans back in office.  

Republican Congressman Ryan by contrast offered profuse and repeated condolences to “Gabby” as if the shooting in Tucson had anything at all to do with the State of the Union, or the Republican Party‘s plans going forward. Conversely, Ms. Bachman spoke directly, critically and unambiguously of the Administration’s failed policies and the pressing need to fix the economy and deal with the deficit.  She spoke of we the people and the crisis facing our nation.  
Congressman Ryan by contrast offered poached eggs on melba toast.  Perhaps tomorrow he seemed to promise, the Republican Party might offer us a pat of margarine.

From the Republican perspective, all of this is understandably vexing.  The implications of positioning the Tea Party Movement outside of the Republican Party clearly makes them uncomfortable.  Nonetheless, as much as Republicans might like to pretend otherwise, they are neither of, nor did they spring from the Tea Party movement.  Nor were they necessarily the people’s choice in the last election and Ms. Bachman is correct to further position the movement by drawing the distinction.

The Republican victory in last November’s elections was simply the result of our institutional, default setting, historical and structural.  Again, Republicans would like to pretend otherwise, but as a class of political professionals they do so at their own peril.  They are certainly welcome to become part of the Tea Party movement, or they can begin to position themselves with an eye to co-opting and thereby undermining the movement.  Those are the choices.

Michele Bachman’s separate response demonstrated that both she and the Tea Party remain poised to serve notice of termination.  Republicans simply will not be allowed to serve two masters at the same time.  The  political calculus and calculations will be shrewd and I wish the pols luck with all that, but outside the mob is milling and they are comprised of voters.

A successfully germinated seed, the Tea Party must now take root and establish itself firmly in the political garden of good and evil.  It’s either that, or  fall victim, choked and squeezed out by the likes of Trent Lott and Karl Rove.  It can be a tricky business stirring up the little people and it would appear that’s exactly what the vested interests encouraged in a frightful and hasty response to the radical and determined agenda of the Obama Administration’s proposed social revolution.  

And while it is generally understood that any approaching juggernaut tends to focus the mind, it is also true that this time the establishment response may have been too cute by half.  Parts hastily sewn together, the body politic of revolution past was laid upon a table and the table elevated up into a stormy, media night and when the monster moved, it became clear to everyone that indeed, life had been created.  Now, to the chagrin of these same political operatives, this political, popular Frankenstein has taken on a life of its own.  

He’s off to Congress in a new twist to an old story, what?  And it’s no good expecting the villagers to act as a posse, to restore the old order for he is of them and they he.  It was out of their historical graveyard after all, that his corpse was disinterred.  It is rather amusing you’ll have to admit, watching as the village folk hand the monster a pitch fork, another the torch.  That’s the downside, the moral hazard to being part of a ruling class elite.

Inevitably, rulers tend to lose touch with the people.  The initial degree of separation will widen.  Words such as open, pluralistic and democratic tend to fall away meaningless when decisions are made by an elite under the real time duress of crisis. It is reminiscent of a Las Vegas casino in that the owners expect the house will always win.  Otherwise the business model wouldn’t exist.  And make no mistake, this collection, coordination and direction of public resources, which is government is a business model all its own, big business and it’s run by and for the elite ruling class, but financed by you, the tax payer.

The question, like some proverbial worm suddenly shorn a quarter of its life savings has turned.  At least that is the concern of these same elites.  They would prefer the American people roll over and go back to sleep now that the Obama agenda seems checked, their own, parochial purposes temporarily served.  But the two party system has played “Monkey in the middle” with the American voter one too many times.  Or like Caesar will the political establishment, the arm of the ruling class continue to thwart democratic reform through the covert and nefarious tactic of divide and conquer?  They most certainly will, if they can get away with it.   

They just might want to be careful what they wish for this time.  Tunisia has shown us how quickly a political order can be upset.  Egyptians have taken to the streets with great effect.  Here at home the weather is about to change again and there can be no doubt, but it’s a hard, cold rain that’s going to fall.  That will not enhance stability.  The first fifty years of this century were always about managing the decline as well as the weaknesses as we change paradigms and it hasn’t been going especially well.  Both political and business incompetence in conjunction with an over riding, base corruption has brought us to this present juncture of systemic financial crisis on the verge of collapse.  

The supposedly, leaderless Tea Party Movement seems to be developing a leadership all on its own and very nicely too, thank you.  And depending on where you sit, that will mean Congresswoman Bachman and Senator Paul will either become a very big problem, or our very salvation.  The time is 2012 just as the time was once 1776 and as any student of American colonial history can tell you, our “Founding fathers” were forced to run hard just to catch up with the American people so they could lead.  “Time and tide…“ as they say, "...wait for no man."  Much less a political party and so be it today.
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PROPHESY OR BUST!

Daniel chapter 11 and verse 20 is the most provocative piece of Scripture for what we in America are going through right now TODAY in this time.

Many if not most may choose not to believe it for they've been blinded for so long by the media hype for the last 60 years.

That the Bible is just nothing more than a Book Of Poetry and not to be taken literally. That the End Time has either already occurred or will never happen at all.

That Jesus was a good teacher and nothing more.

That, only conspiracy theorists and terrorists are the only fools on the face of this planet so brain washed by it.

Well to and for all of that I respond thusly:

When the Day comes when we all stand before that Great White Throne of Grace and Judgment,

the only one seated upon that throne is Jesus, the Living Son of the Living God.

He will not be entertaining anyones reasons, excuses, nor alibi's.

He either knows you, or He doesn't!

No gray area, no weekend get away, no repeats/do overs, no time shares, nada.

90 million abortions as of 1973-2005 have been performed in these United States

of America. Who's the Proud ones now?

How many of our Sports stars are taking(or have taken) HGH, which is the pulverized Pituitary Glands

of the Unborn? Did they know or even care to realize it?

Shoot a Dog, God Forbid, Kill a baby, just a kid.

Save the Whale, cure the Rabid, Don't fret none child, its just your kid.

Insurance rates right to the sky, kill that baby, don't wonder why.

Taxes large, more Irrate, kill that baby, learn to lie and hate.

Politicians yearn for more control, kill the baby, its not your soul.

Watch them sports, throw back a few, its only a baby just get a clue.

Most rather forget than set and wait, baby retorts "Go to Hell and Wait!"

You won't believe, bad to the bone. Surprise, you're not in Hell alone!

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Unresolvable budget problems?

WAKE UP AMERICA BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!

 

There is an easy way to resolve this Congress's budget problems.  Cut each and every program 5% (five percent) across the board with no exceptions.  Cut every program regardless of its merits.  That should appease all of the complainers who no doubt would immediately object that their pet program was cut but the other guy's wasn't.  What can they complain about if all programs are treated equally. 

 

If the Congress and the Administration cannot get our fiscal house in order come next election VOTE ALL OF THEM OUT OF OFFICE.  That too would be fair and square.

 

What part of the phrase "we are totally and completely fed up with the lack of control with regard to spending" do they not understand!

 

WAKE UP AMERICA BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!

 

 

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WAKE UP AMERICA BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!

 

Fifty million (50,000,000) plus babies have been murdered in America since the horrible moral crime of abortion has been legalized.  This holocast beats the terrible and unforgetable Jewish holocast during WWII of Six million (6,000,000).  These babies are helpless and cannot defend themselves or go to the poll to protect themselves from being murdered. 

 

Have we no shame, no conscience that tells us it is wrong to kill innocent babies, no moral outrage, no mercy, no understanding of the Ten Commandments one of which states clearly "Thou shalt not kill," no moral fiber, no obedience to God's Holy Will?

 

On a strictly secular level for those who are unbelievers: how many geniuses have been murdered who could have made tremendous contributions to our nation.

 

What part of the word MURDER do we not understand as a nation?

 

My hope and my prayer is that God will have mercy on us as a nation and individually even though we have not had mercy on His Holy Innocents!

 

WAKE UP AMERICA BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!

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                                          NO, NO NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Even a PARASITE doesn't kill It's Host.

I officially joined the Tea Party yesterday. I have always been a sympathizer and hold the same beliefs.Unions way back when were probably necessary, then they evolved into a thug operation that would do anything to get what they wanted.

Including Vandalism, Threats, Property Damage, Verbal Assault. (You can finish the list)

Then once they owned the Democratic Party all bet's were off.

Even when a 6 year old could do the math and see the path could not possibly be sustained.

It got started about 30 years ago.The Unions all but killed manufacturing in this country.

At the same time started buying state elections so for their government employees, they could sit on both sides of the table to negotiate terms.The pattern went on across the country with Democrat Governors and the Gov would just raise taxes.I live in Wisconsin> GROUND ZERO.

We just delivered a SEVERE BLOW to the Unions on our Senate Race.

The Unions Threw It All at this one. Did their usual cheating plus some.

Bused In Voters, Horrible Deceitful Adds but also sent union money by the boat load from all around the country. CUSTARDS LAST STAND!!!!!!!!!!!

They lost In a 50 / 50 State, well we now know why.

Conservatives were driven to the voting booth like cattle.

Polls show the number one reason was how union members showed their ASS so bad during protest. I want to be careful here.

Union Leaders are the real Villon's here. They got Power Drunk and Wealthy off the backs of their workers. That's PURE GREED.Only about half of the union workers are to fault.

I know some people that happened to get a job that happened to be union and they couldn't care less.The same people I know are from smart to brilliant.

Then there is the other 50% that don't have the I Q that reaches the top floor.

That 50% can be brain washed like a VERY YOUNG CHILD.

I heard of a guy that was caught smoking CRACK In the bathroom at Chrysler and they could not fire him.

There are millions of these cases, the average worker would have a MUCH better job benefit package If they didn't have to support all the

dead beats. In the past I have followed Politics and News but honestly never did a lot about It. I PROMISE that has changed forever!!!!!!!

 

 PS.I was so mad about Unions I went to buy boycottunions.com  It was already up but not quite running (no way to contact them)

However that Is where I found the Tea Party add. IF ANYONE knows how to reach the owner of that site? I would very much appreciate It

I have some GREAT MARKETING IDEAS for the ANTI UNION SITE. Thank You.

 

                                                                                                           Thank You For Looking

                                                                                                                 MJ of Wisconsin

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THE EBBS AND FLOWS OF POLITICAL MOVEMENTS

The Tea Party is losing momentum, and we need to gain it back.

 

This happens with populist movements all the time: they gather a lot of steam early on, and then things die down.

 

Part of the problem is that we're all over the place and not focused on a few things. The other problem is there is no quality control. Anyone can say anything, and claim to be speaking for the Tea Party.

 

We need to combine intensity with civility and disciplined organization. 

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           It’s been less than two weeks since the Republican House leadership caved into President Obama and received just $392 million in real cuts for the fiscal 2011 budget; and just two days since the Standard & Poors bond rating services listed a negative outlook for the United States’ fiscal future and already the effects are being felt as worldwide distrust of the once-mighty dollar is evident everywhere:
 
Item: George Soros, “The Man who Broke the Bank of England” a.k.a. the “International Man of Misery” who’s earned his tens of billions by wrecking currencies and whole economies especially in Europe and SE Asia  . . . is moving in for the kill. Soros -- the biggest individual funder of the Obama campaign for presidency via 54 separate U.S. and foreign foundations -- claims that the U.S. Dollar as evidenced by the S&P ratings adjustment is “no longer the world’s reserve currency.” Soros added that the dollar is plunging so quickly in value, central banks and investors have no choice but to shift away from the Greenback to avoid huge losses and that oil, gold and other commodities as well as currencies such as the Chinese Yuan, Euro and Yen are taking up the slack.
Item:  The price of gold has shot up to $1,503 the highest in history; silver moved up to $44.77 zeroing-in on its all-time high price of $51.28. Gold has risen 6.5% since the New Year; silver has climbed 55% in the same period.
Item: Numerous restaurants in New York City, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles have raised their prices and some have placed easily-read signs saying they take foreign currency such as the Mexican Peso, the French Franc, the British Pound and Canada’s dollar.
Item: The U.S. dollar index is currently near a 16-month low at roughly 74.30 against a basket of other currencies. The Federal Reserve banks’ easy-money policies are now coming under heavy criticism from Democrats as well as Republicans.
Item: Ethanol subsidizing continues although everyone who understands the problem realizes that Ethanol 1) is only viable because of government subsidies and cannot stand on its own and b)Ethanol causes far more pollution in sum than gasoline does because of the huge costs required to transport corn to the ethanol plants (not quite the same as an oil pipeline). Meanwhile the price of corn and corn products, which are found in about 300-different common foods, are sky-rocketing and surprise, so is the price of food.
Item: The price of oil, which seemed to be ebbing last week, has jumped back almost $5 to $110.60 a barrel. Gasoline prices above $4 per gallon are fast becoming commonplace.
Item: There may be a bit of a silver-lining to this last item. Whenever gasoline gets above $3.30 a gallon, Methanol becomes quite an attractive alternative as does Natural Gas. Both would require about a $150-200 retrofit to be used in cars, but they’re cheaper than gas now; much cleaner; much more abundant in the United States than anywhere else. Some environmentalists claim that while it’s better than gasoline, Natural Gas is still nasty pollution-wise.   At roughly$2.20 a gallon for gasoline we have a real cheap alternative – and of course sometime soon we could see gas prices double that in this country . . . keragen a.k.a. marlstone a.k.a. oil shale (it’s neither shale; nor oil and takes a mining rather than drilling operation to free from the ground. Right now the huge keragen deposits in Western Colorado, NE Utah; and Southwest Wyoming could provide 400 years worth of fuel for the entire world. The leader in that technology is TOSCO (“The Oil-Shale Co.”) and guess who our only real competitor for Keragen dominance might become? China. So you’d better believe it would be in our interests to develop keragen quickly before China does.
An Only Casually-Related Item: Even as 53% of Americans still blame our financial troubles on George W. Bush -- Goldman Sachs has just this week received a blistering new rain of criticism for making a fortune during the financial meltdown by short-selling many of those ridiculous lumped-together-mortgage packages based upon shoddy sub-prime home loans that banks and mortgage companies had been forced to make since President Carter first passed the Community Reinvestment Act in 1977 (CRA ’77). CRA’ 77 law was expanded four times by President Clinton which Bush fought to repeal for 30 consecutive months between January, 2005 and July, 2007. Finally, a bi-partisan too-little, too-late bill passed which in August, 2010, Treasury Secretary Geithner paid respect to Bush for his efforts, by saying his law prevented a much worse meltdown and an utter collapse in home prices. Rajjpuut says, “Congratulations to Goldman Sachs! ”Isn’t it amazing how successful the left-wing is at blaming the free-markets and conservatives for every disaster caused by progressive left-wing interference in the free markets? 
After Clinton’s 1998 steroid-version expansion of CRA ’77 people without jobs; with horrific credit ratings; without rental histories; with only food stamps to declare as “income”; and even illegal aliens found it, easy thanks to ACORN, to get into $300,000 and $400,000 homes than people with good credit, etc. had faced in trying to get into $150,000 homes a decade earlier. If you’re uninformed and believe that conservatives pushed the economy into a ditch you deserve what Obama and the rest of the big spenders are giving us . . . the rest of us don’t. PS: who was the most famous ACORN attorney at getting home loan compliance forcing mortgage companies to make knowingly bad loans in Chicago?   Who was at the same time teaching night classes in self-described “Neo-Communist” Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”??? Barack Hussein Obama. In 1995 and 1996 Obama not only was successful in getting such outrageous loans repeatedly and getting promises of further compliance but also in securing large ACORN donations. Does all this make you proud to be an American?
 
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
 
 
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“It now seems that Barack Obama and Ben Bernanke here in America are the equivalent of a combined level 9.0 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster elsewhere.”
 
“The only reasons that anyone anywhere would buy or accept the Yen, Euro or Dollar right now is because they are either stupid or mad or have no choice (like retirees on Social Security). Get out! Get out! Get out! Put your retirement immediately into gold and silver . . . this government has not shown itself worthy of your trust. 
 
 
 
Credit Worthiness Doubts Plague the Once ALMIGHTY $$
Gold Prices Soar, S & P Makes Long Overdue
Negative Critique of U.S. Credit Rating
 
 
 
Gold prices moved to their highest in history in response to monetary shocks involving the Euro and the American Dollar. The incalculable damage done to America's once proud monetary system (for 60 odd years now, the Dollar has been the world's reserve currency) by the policies of Barack Obama and Fed Chief Ben Bernanke over the last twenty-seven months have just received their long-awaited first official comeuppance.   Standard & Poors has for the first time in history yesterday put a “negative” outlook rating upon the AAA credit rating of U.S. government Bonds. 
The American credit rating has never been anything but “stable” up till now. This long overdue move put American stock markets in a tailspin at least for Monday, 2011’s official Tax Day. Gold finished the day at $1493.00 per ounce while silver climbed to over $43.70 per ounce on the dramatic news.  In contrast, after being down over 250 points (1.9%) for most of the session the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended Monday off 140 points or down over 1.14%.   The announcement by S&P and the falling of the Euro combined for a bad day for financial markets in the West.
European nations are taking a belated but realistic look at the devastation that the insolvency of the P.H.I.G.I.E.S. countries (Portugal, Hungary, Ireland, GREECE, Italy, England and Spain; with England recently showing semi-drastic policy-change in support of their economy) where the specter of non-stop bailouts has created huge ripples in the world currency and stock markets. The debt crisis in Europe, despite the bailouts has seen the European community as a whole show evidence of some belt-tightening.  Here in America, however, Barack Obama has been spending and creating entitlements and big government like a maniac . . . and he’s been willfully abetted by the inflationary policies of Bernanke. 
The United States is one of just nineteen governments that enjoy S&P's highest, triple-A sovereign credit rating. It has had that rating, and a stable outlook, since 1941, when Standard Statistics merged with Poor's Publishing to form S&P.  S&P’s two predecessor agencies also gave the United States their highest ratings. S&P's warning came as a surprise, but only in the sense "that somebody decided to say the emperor has no clothes," says Howard Simons, a strategist with Bianco Research.
“If an agreement (on cutting deficit, national debt and UNfunded liabilities in the U.S.A.) is not reached and meaningful implementation does not begin . . . this would in our view render the U.S. fiscal profile meaningfully weaker than that of peer ‘AAA’ sovereigns,” New York-based S&P said today in a report that maintained its top rating on U.S. long-term debt while lowering the outlook to “negative” for the first time. 
By comparison, S&P is widely rumored to be considering lowering the Japanese bond rating because of the effect of the three-pronged disaster that struck that Island recently. Up to now Japan has enjoyed an AAA rating with a “negative” outlook but been able to sell their bonds at lower interest rates because besides eschewing inflationary monetary policies, the Japanese are a long-reputed “nation of savers not debtors” and the internal demand for the nation’s bonds among its people is very high. It now seems that Barack Obama and Ben Bernanke here in America are equivalent to a combined level 9.0 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster** elsewhere.  Rajjpuut looks at some crucial wealth-protecting alternatives to normal investing in the footnotes including so-called “Forever Stamps.”
Standard & Poor’s put the U.S. government on notice it could lose its AAA credit rating unless policy makers agree on a plan by 2013 to reduce budget deficits and the national debt. “If an agreement is not reached and meaningful implementation does not begin by then, this would in our view render the U.S. fiscal profile meaningfully weaker than that of peer ‘AAA’ sovereigns,” New York-based S&P said in its report.
S&P said there’s a one-in-three chance that the rating might be cut within two years and that its “baseline assumption” is that Congress and the Obama administration will come to terms on a plan to reduce record deficits. Treasuries and the dollar rebounded from early losses following the statement, while stocks declined.  Another financial rating service, Moody’s Investor Service, which has a stable outlook on U.S. debt, today said the U.S. budget debate is “positive” for the country’s credit. The S&P  action puts pressure on Obama and House Republicans to come to agreement on plans to reduce the national debt, which S&P says could rise to 84 percent of gross domestic product by 2013 roughly a 25% increase from where it was when Obama took office in January, 2009.
In response, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor called the S&P warning “a wake-up call for those in Washington asking Congress to blindly increase the debt limit.” S&P’s negative outlook “makes clear that the debt-limit increase proposed by the Obama administration must be accompanied by meaningful fiscal reforms that immediately reduce federal spending and stop our nation from digging itself further into debt,” the Virginia Republican said in a statement. Overseas investors hold about half of the roughly $9 trillion in outstanding marketable U.S. debt, including $1.2 trillion held by China and $ 0.9 trillion held by Japan. The specter of the Japanese government and China selling out American bonds and not renewing has many in Washington worried.
S&P failed to mention the $14.29 trillion debt ceiling, but said that if current American budget negotiations fail, it might not be possible to get an agreement until at least the 2014 budget cycle. Our Treasury Department has said the borrowing limit will be reached no later than May 16, at which point it will turn to emergency measures that provide borrowing room through about July 8. Republican leaders in Congress have said they will NOT back increasing the debt ceiling unless Obama agrees to more specific steps to trim the budget deficit, estimated to top $1.6 trillion this year, as well as agreeing to significant cuts. Nevertheless, despite all the attention the Dollar has recently received, the Euro is balancing on the edge of disaster and the Euro has risen in recent months compared to the Dollar. It seems that many worldwide investors are stuck in their ways considering only two currencies. Gold and silver, however, have seen meteoric rises in value compared to the Yen, Dollar and Euro.
Yes, there are other currencies more at risk. But the U.S. has, relative to its AAA peers, very large budget deficits and rising government indebtedness and the path to addressing these is not clear according to the S&P report. The report also said that from 2003 to 2008, the U.S. total government deficit fluctuated between 2 and 5 percent of gross domestic product. "Already noticeably larger than that of most 'AAA' rated sovereigns, it ballooned to more than 11 percent (under Obama) in 2009 and has yet to recover."
 
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
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      The reader surely noticed that worldwide investors have for the most part shown little imagination in lining up their investment options for the last decade. The only reasons that anyone anywhere would buy the Yen, Euro or Dollar right now is because they are either stupid or mad or have no choice (like retirees on Social Security). Get out! Get out! Get out! Put your retirement immediately into gold and silver (or into “Forever Stamps” ???)  . . . this government has not shown itself worthy of your trust.  
      Taking the tiniest step to purchasing old-fashioned hard money (gold and silver coinage) would have provided investors a boost of roughly 450% in the case of gold and 420% for silver in the last decade. WE ARE LIVING THROUGH INFLATIONARY TIMES . . . fiat, paper currency (paper money NOT backed by gold and silver) is at great risk. Of course, one can always buy bullion gold or silver . . . but the advantage especially of junk silver (90% silver U.S. coins minted before 1965) is that they come in a “package” people are used to dealing with. Robert Ringer (author of “Winning through <despite> Intimidation”) and Harry Browne (author of “How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World) as early as 1973 were touting the opportunity in “junk silver” following the LBJ years.     
      After LBJ, Carter and now after Obama gets through with us . . . junk silver looks to be among the smartest investments possible. Shortly after the government began taking the silver content out of dimes, quarters and half dollars (55.5% in 1965 under LBJ; and the rest in 1971 by Nixon) the price of silver reached $1.65 per ounce, the break-even point. Silver is now at $43.87 per ounce. When it reaches $51.15 per ounce it will have earned its investors in 1965 3000% gain plus the original value. Let’s say two more things about silver . . . .
     Silver is heavy, so for those hoping to store great wealth:  alternatives like gold, platinum and palladium are much more desirable in the short run. Let Rajjpuut urge you, however, to keep a lot of silver handy. Why? Because . . . .
A.                           Silver is a very, very handy and very recognizable unit of exchange for emergency uses and even for everyday purchasing.
B.                           A strange thing has happened in industry. Gold and silver have always been necessary for manufacturing especially in electronics for both metals and up to recently in photography for silver. The fact is that because of silver’s relative cheapness, it has been the preferred metal in industry. Since when used industrially, a metal is seldom recovered . . . silver, at any given time is now RARER than gold in human hands. (It’s still easier to mine silver which is often found with gold in the earth and more common, but silver because of its cheapness is used so much more frequently in industry that the amount of silver held for wealth repository or for jewelry is less than the amount of gold. Rarity makes things valuable so in Rajjpuut’s twisted mind, silver is the better buy.
C.                            Historically the easily most common ratio of gold to silver value has been in the 15/1 – 16/1 range. So if gold is worth $1500 than IF the ratio was holding, silver would be selling at $100 per ounce about $150 higher than its present value. So again the balance of value now favors silver.
      Silver, alas, is heavy. Gold, platinum and palladium are so very valuable that making small purchases with them is not feasible . . . here’s another alternative:  so-called “Forever stamps.”   Background: when he was a boy, Rajjpuut lived in Germany and had a brief spell as a junior philatelist, a stamp collector. One of the most remarkable things he experienced was the beautiful mint Adolf Hitler stamps he collected with tiny values like 60 pfenning (then 15 cents American) compared to stamps issued during the German Weimar Republic with enormously high values like 200,000 Deutsch Marks many of which even had the original cost blacked out or just lined through and a higher value printed upon them.   The four Deutsch Marks to a Dollar before World War I eventually reached $26 TRillion DM to the buck by November, 1923, at the height of their severe inflation (about the time Adolf Hitler became a well-known national name by attempting the “Beer-Hall Putsch” in Munich <that is, attempting a coup d’ etat at pistol point upon the Bavarian State>). What’s that got to do with the price of tea? The U.S. Post Office “leadership” has decided they can save on printing costs and inconvenience for customers and themselves by printing “Forever Stamps.” The post offices hope to avoid constant rushes of huge customer lines for 1-cent, 3-cent, 5-cent stamps, etc. in their facilities when they start changing stamp prices more frequently due to rising## inflation. 
      The idea is that stamps printed without a price label and only the words “First Class” written upon them will be issued. Again: notice that NO price will be shown. So, if say, the price of a first-class stamp is now $.50 and the cost of first-class postage increases to say $5.00 per letter in four years, for example . . . even though postage has increased nine times to now cost ten times the original value, the postal customers’ old stamps still do the trick. In INFLATIONARY times that’s a huge boon for the customer savvy enough to have bought in bulk early on in the inflationary history. Stamps, of course, are light but need more protection from the elements especially water. For convenience sake the best way to buy in Rajjpuut’s not-so-humble opinion is in 100 stamp rolls which come in a protective seal.    So a 100-roll of stamps today costs, say $50.00 and will do the same trick as a 100-roll of stamps four years from now, but the hundred-roll of stamps at that time in the future costs $500.00. For those doing a lot of posting, the value of keeping ahead of postal rates is obvious. For the rest of us, stamps can be used as a very convenient form of MONEY.
Of course, collectible stamps and coins are also great storehouses of value, however, unlike everyday items like ordinary silver coins and ordinary postage stamps -- which both can be used easily AS MONEY – collectible items are “illiquid.”   “Liquid” means easy to dispose of. Dollar bills are highly liquid, but valuable stamps or coins are hard to get rid of without losing a lot of money, because stamp collectors and coin collectors interested in paying you what the item is truly worth are hard to find especially during financial crisis.  Pawnshop dealers might give you 35%. So, at most only 5% or 6% of your “portfolio” should be tied up in illiquid assets whatever they be, unless you are amazingly rich . . . in which case, you’d buy lots of valuables and hie thee to a safer haven where inflation is not a prospect. Rajjpuut hope this overview on protecting your wealth helps. He also hopes his 100% wrong about the need to take such extraordinary means. However, in his estimation, these are desperate times courtesy of BHO and call for desperate measures.
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      Is there any advantage from Forever Stamps for the Post Office, you might ask?  Once purchased, a forever stamp is a perpetual stamp that never expires or declines in value. It's value, therefore, is the First-Class Mail stamp postage rate for a one ounce letter at the time of use (not the purchase-day cost) . . . so isn’t the post office risking bankruptcy? Perhaps not! First of all, the Post Office gets an immediate cash flow. Nobody buys those 100-stamp rolls and uses all 100 immediately . . . if they’re such a big operation and need 100 stamps or more per day, they get a special rate and print their postage labels right at their business. These Forever Stamps are aimed at the individual postal customer. So the post office saves on employees manning their front counter and has all this cash to use now when prices are what they are now, not what they’ll be in the future . . . with good management (oh-oh?!) they’ll stay well ahead of the curve and might show a string of profits for once. However, if the hyper-inflation -- that Bernanke and Obama seemed hell-bent on giving us -- comes about, that might be a different story.   People all over the country who’ve bought up dozens or hundreds of Forever Stamps using them like money in exchanges with tiny businesses who use even five to ten stamps daily could put a dramatic strain on the post office finances. Besides Rajjpuut might go into the “Forever Stamp” counterfeiting business . . . .
 
 

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2nd ANNUAL TAX DAY TEA PARTY RALLY, SANTA CRUZ, CA

and across the country, ramping up for 2012 http://bit.ly/h2Fm7c

As the 2012 elections draw closer, and over 2 years of the intrusive Obama administration in our lives, the 2nd annual Tax Day Tea Parties were celebrated across the country.  The main stream media continues to minimize the Tea Party movement, but it has become more and more prevelant on the lips of politicians, including the fearless leader.

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Katie Baker, from Max

Good to see you, at least in effigy. Thought I'd get back with you to see how you're coming along with my book, Keeper of The Knew; The Fullness of The Gentiles, and the center excerpt The Declaration and its accompanying Bills?

I'm still hopeful to acquire a sponsor for Publishing.

See you soon my Co-Patrioteer.

Always in Christ,

Max Simon Uhrig
 

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          “For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.”
“If, after I depart this vale of tears, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at a homely girl.”
“I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.”  
All three quotes from H.L. Mencken
 
Educating the American Voter about Economics
 
            When it comes to economics, politics and your tax burden, ignorance is definitely NOT bliss. The “Great Cynic,” H.L. Mencken, spent a lot of time talking about “Boobus Americanus,” that poor sucker better known as the American Taxpayer and Voter. Why was Mencken so negative about the common American? A recent survey found that 38% of Americans think that “Cash for Clunkers” (CFC) was a great idea. Among the 43% of Americans who say CFC was definitely a bad idea, only about one in ten of these “doubters” can rationally explain why** CFC was a mistake.
            This is clearly NOT the time to be ignorant about economics and politics. Our nation needs far more educated and aware citizens to get involved in fiscally- and Constitutionally-conservative interventions in the political process, not to mentioned informed voting. 
Rajjpuut highly recommends that the voter/taxpayer who feels the need to self-educate on economics look over these brief (4-7 minutes each) videos, etc. As far as educating yourself to the dangers we face HERE and NOW . . . the best education may be these simple words, from a source unexpected by most Americans:
 
            Here’s your Rajjpuut-recommended self-education program. Look over each video or other link below -- just one per day, but view it twice back-to-back. In a very short time you will know more about economics than 95% of all Americans do. You will also be roughly five times more expert on the subject than the average member of congress has been since 1913 when they voted to give us both the Federal Reserve Bank and the Income Tax.
 
 
Happy homework . . . after the process works for you, let others know . . . .
 
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
 
**  Why Cash for Clunkers (CFC) was a bad idea:
 
A.     You can NOT create prosperity by destruction as the famous “Broken Window Parable” illustrates 
 
B.     A whole generation of used cars was destroyed before their times. As a consequence today the price of the average used car is between $1,800 and $1,900 more expensive than it was before CFC . . . dramatically hurting those most in need of a good used car, the lower- and lower-middle-classes.
 
C.      The auto sales charts prove that the CFC program created only a temporary “spike” in car sales which returned to the normal non-descript charted path as soon as the program was ended . . . but, meanwhile all that money that otherwise would have gone to ten thousand other places was concentrated upon the auto industry hurting the rest of the economy. The consumers’ money was merely diverted from those ten thousand places in the economy to one specific industry, auto manufacturing, the consumers’/voters’/taxpayers’ money meanwhile must, of necessity pay for this sooner or later.
 
D.     The government did not have the money it gave away. It had to borrow that money and thus increase the deficit and national debt all of which further dampens the economy and even threatens economic destruction.
 
E.     The pollution created in making a new lower-pollution car ahead of its time is far worse than letting the normal wear-down over the lifetime of the destroyed “clunkers” go on naturally.
 
F.      When you take into account the manufacturing process, hybrid cars are actually much worse environmentally than the older generation of cars. Lithium batteries and nickel use is among the most ravaging thing you can do to the environment.
 
G.     Lies told about the “success” of Cash for Clunkers will inspire more contra-productive government programs along the same lines. Notice that we still have the ethanol program which actually hurts the environment more (all sorts of hidden transportation pollution is involved) and costs the taxpayers far more than plain old gas does.
 
 
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Every department has to be analyzed. Every bit of pork that has been put into place, must be recalled and money put back in the bank.


For instance.

 

  • Our Social Security is deeply in trouble. Yet our government gave everyone a two percent tax CUT this year? That's insane!!!! What kind of irresponsible "leaders" do we have in Washington?
  • The USPS, per Wikipedia, "The number of gallons of fuel used in 2009 was 444 million, at a cost of US$1.1 billion.".  What if we only received our mail every other day?  Could we cut this number, probably not in half, but perhaps by a third?  "The United States Postal Service employs some 596,000 workers, making it the second-largest" - could we cut 1/3 of this number with every other day delivery?  How many billions of dollars a year would this save?  A bankrupt government can't afford mail delivery 6 days a week, IMHO....  If we cut 1/3 (over next 10 years or so) we'd reduce post office workers by 180,000, or roughly $3.5BLN (figure 50k a year, plus bennies) per year, plus perhaps $363mm per year on gas?)

Where else do we have unecessary services that could be considered waste?

 

 

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  This message is applicable to all branches of our military service.

THE FINAL INSPECTION

 PLEASE DO NOT HOLD ON TO THIS NOR PRESS DELETE.  SOMEONE HAS TO HOLD OUR COUNTRY IN THEIR HANDS.


THE FINAL
INSPECTION

The Soldier stood and faced God,
 Which must always come to pass.
 He hoped his shoes were shining,
 Just as brightly as his brass..
 
'Step forward now, Soldier ,
 How shall I deal with you?
 Have you always turned the other cheek?
 To My Church have you been true?'
The soldier squared his shoulders and said,
 'No, Lord, I guess I ain't.
 Because those of us who carry guns,
 Can't always be a saint.
 
I've had to work most Sundays,
 And at times my talk was tough.
 And sometimes I've been violent,
 Because the world is awfully rough.

 
 

But, I never took a penny,
That wasn't mine to keep...
Though I worked a lot of overtime,
 When the bills got just too steep.

 
 

And I never passed a cry for help,
Though at times I shook with fear..
And sometimes, God, forgive me,
 I've wept unmanly tears.

 
 

I know I don't deserve a place,
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around,
 Except to calm their fears

 
 

If you've a place for me here, Lord,
It needn't be so grand.
I never expected or had too much,
 But if you don't, I'll understand.

 
 

There was a silence all around the throne,
Where the saints had often trod.
As the Soldier waited quietly,
 For the judgment of his God.

 
 

'Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burdens well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
 You've done your time in Hell.'

 
 

Author Unknown~

 
It's the Soldier, not the reporter
Who has given us the freedom of the press.

 
It's the Soldier, not the poet,
Who has given us the freedom of speech.

 
It's the Soldier, not the politicians
That ensures our right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness..

 
It's the Soldier who salutes the flag,
Who serves beneath the flag,
And whose coffin is draped by the flag.



Pray for our men and women

Who have served and are currently serving our country

And pray for those who have given the ultimate sacrifice for freedom....


THESE COLORS DON'T RUN

A
MEN!

 

WE LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE, ONLY BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE!
God Bless Our Military
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