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Ask yourself if Americans are better off today than ten years ago.

Since mid 1980’s, Americans have silently accepted the government policies which exchanged US manufacturing jobs for lower priced consumer products. It is an understatement to say, we all thought we got something for very little cost.  But how wrong we were to go along with the governement's line of thinking that these exported jobs were undesirable positions that most Americans considered to be too low skilled.  Also, we shared their vision of the future employment for America.  Job seekers were instructed to focus on networking and software industries.  In addition, they were also led to believe that a vibrant service market would employ a large number of people.  We have lost a decade of our earnings, our savings and our precious time.  If you believed that Americans are richer now than ever before, consider these issues:

1) When we had a strong manufacturing base, US employment ran near to full employment i.e. 96% were employed,  Now, we are dreading multiple years of unemployment across the many states between 18% to 22%.  

2) According the third party government agencies, under a strong economy that is to say when times were good,  US poverty rates decreased to almost 10%.  Now, almost 15% of the US population or 44 MILLION Americans live in poverty.

3) We have experience two major market bubbles, namely the 2001 Technology/Internet Bubble & 2008 Mortgage Backed Securities, both were directly caused by failed government monetary policies.  For the past ten years, the retired citizens including the Baby Boomers generation are quickly realizing that their financial planners were wrong about the projected returns of 6-8% return for conservative investment strategies.  Worst yet, retired folks expected to make fixed income on CD yields but for the past three years these investments are a far cry from what people had expected for their safe money. 

4) Federal shot term deficits should be an important matter. The accelerating debt spending is a desperate attempt to cover the liabilities which have resulted from a reckless government that has continued to spend beyond our means. Social security surpluses were borrowed (raided) and never invested to cover future commitments. Other harmful government policies dealing with deregulation of the banking industry have allowed for irrational speculation and unrestrained liquidity to be pumped into the stock and bond markets.  Americans are realizing their 401K’s were knocked down twice in ten years and more aptly called 201K’s.  

5) One of the largest budget breaking line items is our US Defense.  It appears that many Americans are unfazed that our government continues to spend over $800 BILLION per year (and constantly growing) on an unending series of military conflicts.  Most Americans are so distracted by media and government officials that no one seems to hold "candidate" Obama accountable for his promise to end US involvement in  Middle East wars.

To an outside observer, it must be confusing to see most Americans more passionate about their local sports teams than they are about our failed foreign policies that have resulted in thousands of our brothers and sisters either being killed and maimed in these undeclared wars, and spiraling financial costs that keep pumping up the debt ceiling.  Consider this. Our foreign policy currently has American military involved in four different fronts; Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Libya.  We should return to our founding father’s foreign policies of non interventionism.   

To summary, we are at the tipping point.  Most Americans seem to be sleep walking and do not realize what it means to our financial future if we allow our government to continue printing money to cover banking speculation.  Our debt ceiling is growing exponentially.  Prior to 5 years ago, we were conditioned to accept annual debt ceiling increases of 30Bn to 100Bn. The water is getting warmer for us frogs. What is happening now is pure madness. We just increased the debt ceiling over the past two years by over $3 trillion dollars. If unchecked, it is simply unsustainable and will lead to hyperinflation.

I hope it is not too late. The cancerous financial problems have more to do with past govt. mistakes such as deregulating the banking industry through the repeal of Glass-Steagall and (not-so-fair) trade agreements that expedited the off shoring of US manufacturing capability & jobs over to Asian countries. To have a redistribution of wealth, it will need to start by reversing these failed govt. policies. Only then we will begin to see a transfer of foreign based factories back into US. 

Tea Party Express V national bus tour begins this Saturday in Napa, CA. As I pack my bags and organize my performance music in preparation to embark on my fifth national Tea Party Express tour, I am a bit frustrated by those still clueless about the Tea Party movement; who we are and our propose.

Please excuse my frankness. Despite all the Tea Party has done to pull our country back from diving over the cliff to it's death into liberal socialistic hell, incredibly, there are still “Republicans” who think we are “fringe loonies”. If God had not sent the Tea Party, America as we know it would be over!

Then, we have the racist Congressional Black Caucus. Rather than abandoning their racial bias to make an honest assessment of President Obama's job performance and his failed economic policies, they blame epidemic high black unemployment on the Tea Party. Their accusation is so despicable and absurd, it is unworthy of a response.

Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL), a member of the Congressional Black Caucus said, “Let us all remember who the real enemy is,” she added. “The real enemy is the Tea Party. The Tea Party holds the Congress hostage. They have one goal in mind, and that’s to make President Obama a one-term president.”

Another member of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), said, “The tea party can go to hell.”

Rep. Wilson, you did get one point 100% correct. It is and should be the goal of every patriot who loves, freedom, liberty and America to “make President Obama a one-term president.” I pray, “Dear Lord, pleeeeease make it so.”

Another member of the tag team assaulting and slandering the tea party is the liberal media. I have attended over 200 tea parties nationwide including Alaska. On numerous occasions the media has asked, basically, “Why are you, a black man, hanging with these racist white folks?”

My response is always the same, “These folks are not opposing Obama's skin color. Several even voted for him. They are simply saying no to his socialistic agenda.”

Unfortunately, I have witnessed liberal media completely ignoring the mood and tone of a tea party rally to fit their preconceived report of the event.

Case in point. On a beautiful sunny day at a tea party rally in Michigan, I sang “God Bless the USA” for the finale of my performance. The response of the thousand or more in the audience was tremendous; a celebration of love for America. Afterwards, I could hardly make my way through the crowd because of so many patriots wanting to shake my hand and take pictures.

Also, at that rally was a white woman in a wheelchair who was terminally ill. Her daughter told one of our staff, “My mom said all she wanted to do before dying is to meet Lloyd Marcus.”

Wow, I can not begin to tell you how much that humbles me.

Amidst the overwhelmingly loving, happy and upbeat atmosphere, a stoned faced reporter approached me. She asked me if I felt comfortable at this racist hate-filled tea party. I wanted to say, “Are you nuts?” Despite holding my tongue and trying to politely convince the stern reporter otherwise, she became visibly angry at me, abruptly turned and walked away.

Brother and sister patriots, I am so looking forward to seeing and fellowshipping with you; hanging with my true “homies”; folks who share my love for America.

My plan is to give you daily updates from the road; highlights of the rallies, the local food favorites I sample (my mouth still waters thinking about the awesome bar-b-que spare-ribs a woman greeted our bus with in Memphis; the best I've ever eaten. Sorry mom.) and the extraordinary patriots I meet on every tour.

Please check out our tour schedule. I would love to include you in my “Million Hand Shake March” across America. http://www.teapartyexpress.org/tour-schedule/

And with that, I leave you with a song, “On the road again! I just can't wait to get on the road again. I'm looking forward to seein' all my patriot friends. I can't wait to get on the road again.”

Lloyd Marcus, Proud Unhyphenated American

Co-Chairman of The Campaign to Defeat Barack Obama.

Please help me spread my message by joining my Liberty Network.

Lloyd is singer/songwriter of the American Tea Party Anthem and author of Confessions of a Black Conservative, foreword by Michele Malkin

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Caught In Hypocrisy - Obama Slams His Own  Policies as 'Unpatriotic'!

Most Americans don't really like the type of sleazy, hypocritical politician who will rip his predecessor for something, then turn around and do the exact same thing, in an even more egregious manner.

Perhaps this is one of the many reasons Americans just don't approve of what Obama's doing these days.

Here's the CBS News reporting that prompted this flashback to the 2008 Presidential Election Campaign, followed by the sharp-eyed Ed Morrissey from Hot Air explaining this one

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National debt has Increased $4 Trillion Under Obama

By Mark Knoller | August 22, 2011 6:34 PM

The latest posting by the Treasury Department shows the national debt has now increased $4 trillion on President Obama's watch.

The debt was $10.626 trillion on the day Mr. Obama took office. The latest calculation from Treasury shows the debt has now hit $14.639 trillion.

It's the most rapid increase in the debt under any U.S. president.

The national debt increased $4.9 trillion during the eight-year presidency of George W. Bush. The debt now is rising at a pace to surpass that amount during Mr. Obama's four-year term.

Mr. Obama blames policies inherited from his predecessor's administration for the soaring debt. He singles out:

• "two wars we didn't pay for"
• "a prescription drug program for seniors...we didn't pay for."
• "tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 that were not paid for."

He goes on to blame the recession, and its resulting decrease in tax revenue on businesses, for making fewer sales, and more employees being laid off. He says the recession also resulted in more government spending due to increased unemployment insurance payments, subsidies to farms and funding of infrastructure programs that were part of his stimulus program.

At the first town hall meeting of his Midwestern bus trip last week, Mr. Obama told an audience in Minnesota that "the debt problem is real and the deficit problem is real."
[...]
The Gross National Debt now stands at 97.6 percent of the nation's Gross Domestic Product - the total value of goods and services produced by labor and property in the U.S.

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Flashback: Obama Calls Adding $4 Trillion to National Debt “Unpatri...

POSTED AT 10:45 AM ON AUGUST 24, 2011 BY ED MORRISSEY

Yesterday, I wrote about the CBS News story showing that Barack Obama had added over $4 trillion to the national debt in less than three years, which puts the current President on track in one term (and probably less) to beat the record that took his predecessor two terms to set. Some called this an unfair attack, noting that Congress authorizes spending, a point I addressed yesterday and which does Democrats no good at all. But guess who else blamed rising national debt on a President? Why, it’s Candidate (and then-Senator) Obama,. who not only blamed George Bush for adding more national debt than his previous 42 predecessors combined, but also questioned Bush’s patriotism for the same policies that Obama accelerated as President himself:

The problem is, is that the way Bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children, driving up our national debt from $5 trillion for the first 42 presidents – #43 added $4 trillion by his lonesome, so that we now have over $9 trillion of debt that we are going to have to pay back — $30,000 for every man, woman and child. That’s irresponsible. It’s unpatriotic.

“Credit card from the Bank of China”? That was a favorite phrase of Obama’s during the campaign. A quick search shows that he used it in an April 2008 debate, this June 2008 appearance, and others as well, usually tying it to tax cuts.

And what exactly has Obama done as President? Despite claiming that he has known that deficit reduction has been needed since the first day he took office, Obama has offered no deficit reduction proposals in his term as President. In fact, he has submitted budget proposals that have massively expanded deficit spending.

Just how patriotic is that? After all, if Obama can use the increase in the national debt to question Bush’s patriotism, doesn’t it follow that increasing deficit spending by 152% per month makes Obama 152% more “unpatriotic” than Bush?

WITH ALL THE HYPERBOLE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY ABOUT WHO IS PATRIOTIC AND WHO ARE THE TRAITERS, I DECIDED TO CONDUCT A PRIVATE CITIZENS POLL ON WHO PROUDLY DISPLAYS THE AMERICAN FLAG.

I CHOSE THE MONTHS OF MAY, JUNE AND JULY AS THESE MONTHS CONTAIN 3 DAYS WHEN DISPLAYING THE FLAG IS MOST COMMON-MEMORIAL DAY, FLAG DAY AND JULY 4 TH.

SEVERAL TIMES DURING THIS 3 MONTH PERIOD, I DROVE AROUND THE TOWNS, VILLAGES, CITIES AND RURAL AREAS STOPPING WHENEVER I SIGHTED A FLAG WAVING,  I THEN ASKED THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS- ARE YOU REGISTERED TO VOTE, HOW ARE YOU REGISTERED AND HOW OFTEN DO YOU VOTE.  I TOOK NOTICE OF EACH HOME I STOPPED AT TO MAKE SURE I DID NOT MAKE A REPEAT STOP AT ANY ONE HOME.   

I MADE 284 STOPS AND TALLIED UP THE RESULTS AS FOLLOWS

REPUBLICANS      95

INDEPENTENTS 119

DEMOCRATS      24

UNREGISTERED  46

WHEN I DISCUSSED VOTING WITH THE UNREGISTERED PEOPLE, THEY ALL TOLD ME THAT THEY GOT SO FED UP WITH POLITICS THAT THEY REFUSED TO VOTE.  I DISCUSSED VOTING WITH THEM BECAUSE I SYMPATHIZED WITH THEM INASMUCH AS I ONCE WENT FOR 3 YEARS REFUSING TO VOTE FOR THE SAME REASONS.

I TOLD THEM THAT MANY TIMES I LIKED CERTAIN ONES WHO WERE SEEKING OFFICE AND WISHED I COULD HAVE VOTED FOR THEM SO AFTER 3 YEARS I REGISTERED TO VOTE AS AN INDEPENDENT AND THEN I COULD VOTE FOR ANY PERSON I LIKED, EVEN IF IT WAS ONLY ONE CANDIDATE ON THE BALLOT THAT I VOTED FOR.  32 OF THOSE UNREGISTERED CITIZENS TOLD ME THAT THEY WERE GOING TO FOLLOW MY EXAMPLE. SO THEY COULD SUPPORT, WITH THEIR VOTE ANY CANDIDATE THAT THEY BELIEVED IN.

THIS WAS NOT A SCIENTIFIC POLL, JUST A CONCERNED CITIZEN TALAKING WITH OTHER CONCERNED CITIZENS AND FINDING OUT THAT THE UNREGISTERED CITIZENS WERE VERY MUCH CONCERNED WITH THE DIRECTION THE COUNTRY WAS HEADED.  THE MORE I THINK ABOUT WHAT I DID HAD POSITIVE RESULTS AND I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT OTHERS GET OUT AND TAKE A POLL OF THERE NEIGHBORS.  I DID NOT DISCUSS OR RECOMMEND ANY CANIDITATE BUT ENCOURAGED EVERY PERSON I TALKED WITH TO BE A FREE THINKER IN MAKING UP THEIR MIND IF THEY WOULD VOTE AND FOR WHOM. 

Next Up on the Gay Agenda: Legalizing Sex with Children

Yes you read correctly.  Sex with children.  Pedophilia.  Hebephilia.  Now that the gay lobby has had such resounding success getting gay marriage passed in some states, and queering the U.S. military, the new “frontier” is legally having access to your children.   If you are not worried about this, you are not paying attention.

Gays will never be able to change the law to allow sex with children?  Wake up!  They are doing it already…. confusing  your kids sexual identities and desensitizing them to homosexual  sex techniques  in the public schools. 

The next phase is the American Psychiatric Association followed by ….the law/Constitution.

There is now a cadre of gay/child predator/perverts  [my terms for them, obviously not theirs]  “mental health” professionals who are working “through channels” to get the American Psychiatric Association to say that having sex with children is “normal.”  If they are successful in getting the APA manual changed, that sets the stage to begin changing the law.

Hamas/Gaza: Child brides lined up with their husbands for a group wedding

Don’t forget:  under Islamic ‘shariah ‘ law, men are allowed to marry babies.   But before the American gay community decides to “bond” with Islamics on pedophilia, realize that homosexuality  under shariah is punishable by death.

Iran gay teens hung

One of the biggest child stars of the 1980s, Corey Feldman, is throwing some sunshine on a very shadowy problem that is unpopular and very non-politically-correct to discuss:

“I can tell you that the No. 1 problem in Hollywood was and is and always will be pedophilia. That’s the biggest problem for children in this industry. … It’s the big secret,” Feldman said.

“I was surrounded by [pedophiles] when I was 14 years old. … Didn’t even know it. It wasn’t until I was old enough to realize what they were and what they wanted … till I went, Oh, my God. They were everywhere,” Feldman, now 40, said.”

Child stars Corey Feldman and Corey Haim each claimed they were abused by pedophiles as teenagers in the movie business

Openly-gay director Joel Schumacher hired Haim and Feldman when they were teenagers to star in "Lost Boys."

Here are reports and commentary from a recent conference in Baltimore to legalize pedophilia.

Daily Caller:

“If a small group of psychiatrists and other mental health professionals have their way at a conference this week, pedophiles themselves could play a role in removing pedophilia from the American Psychiatric Association’s bible of mental illnesses — the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), set to undergo a significant revision by 2013. Critics warn that their success could lead to the decriminalization of pedophilia.

The August 17 Baltimore conference is sponsored by B4U-ACT, a group of pro-pedophile mental health professionals and sympathetic activists. According to the conference brochure, the event will examine “ways in which minor-attracted persons [pedophiles] can be involved in the DSM 5 revision process” and how the popular perceptions of pedophiles can be reframed to encourage tolerance.

Researchers from Harvard University, the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Louisville, and the University of Illinois will be among the panelists at the conference.

B4U-ACT has been active attacking the APA’s definition of pedophilia in the run up to the conference, denouncing its description of “minor-attracted persons” as “inaccurate” and “misleading” because the current DSM links pedophilia with criminality.

“It is based on data from prison studies, which completely ignore the existence of those who are law-abiding,” said Howard Kline, science director of B4U-ACT, in a July 25, 2011 press release. “The proposed new diagnostic criteria specify ages and frequencies with no scientific basis whatsoever.”

The press release announced a letter the group sent to the APA criticizing its approach, and inviting its leaders to participate in the August 17 conference. “The DSM should meet a higher standard than that,” Kline continued. “We can help them, because we are the people they are writing about.”

B4U-Act.org website:

Principles are that people who are attracted to children are not mentally ill, and their preference to have sex with children……. is “not their fault.“

One News Now:

Liberty Counsel Action‘s Matt Barber attended the conference and says he felt he was on a different planet, as the presenting professionals aimed to remove pedophilia from the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). That would mean that pedophilia would no longer be considered a mental disorder.

“The entire focus of the event was on the victimhood of the pedophile,” Barber accounts. There was “very little concern for the children who are the victims of these individuals when they are raped, who these individuals lust after,” he adds.

And he says the experts’ discussions were focused on “destigmatizing pedophilia … removing the stigma, and [getting] the public to stop demonizing pedophiles.”

But the attorney reports that the APA is already moving toward declassifying pedophilia as a mental disorder “by saying that a pedophile is only a pedophile in their latest DSM … if they are distressed by their attractions or behaviors.” 

“Hebephilia”  experts are trying to justify sex with teenagers [as opposed to pedophiles having sex with pre-pubescent kids] …..as if somehow that is more acceptable.

Hebephiles argue how Michael Jackson really wasn’t a “pedophile,” technically speaking, or even wrong to have relations with teenagers.

Conservatives who attended filed this report from the B4U-Act conference:

‘Time to Normalize Pedophilia’: Firsthand Report on B4U-ACT Conference  

Lynchburg, VA –“ On Wednesday, August 17, child advocates Matt Barber, Vice President of Liberty Counsel Action, and Dr. Judith Reisman, a visiting law professor at Liberty University School of Law, attended a Baltimore, MD conference hosted by the pedophile group B4U-ACT. Around 50 individuals were in attendance including a number of admitted pedophiles – or “Minor-Attracted Persons” as they prefer to be identified (MAP “sexual orientation”) – as well as several supportive mental health professionals. World renowned “sexologist,” Dr. Fred Berlin of Johns Hopkins University gave the keynote address, saying: “I want to completely support the goal of B4U-ACT.”

Highlights of the conference:

• Pedophiles are “unfairly stigmatized and demonized” by society.
• There was concern about “vice-laden diagnostic criteria” and “cultural baggage of wrongfulness.”
• “We are not required to interfere with or inhibit our child’s sexuality.”
• “Children are not inherently unable to consent” to sex with an adult.
• “In Western culture sex is taken too seriously.”
• “Anglo-American standard on age of consent is new [and ‘Puritanical’]. In Europe it was always set at 10 or 12. Ages of consent beyond that are relatively new and very strange, especially for boys. They’ve always been able to have sex at any age.”
• An adult’s desire to have sex with children is “normative.”
• Our society should “maximize individual liberty. … We have a highly moralistic society that is not consistent with liberty.”
• “Assuming children are unable to consent lends itself to criminalization and stigmatization.”
• “These things are not black and white; there are various shades of gray.”
• A consensus belief by both speakers and pedophiles in attendance was that, because it vilifies MAPs, pedophilia should be removed as a mental disorder from the American Psychiatric Association’s (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), in the same manner homosexuality was removed in 1973.
• Dr. Fred Berlin acknowledged that it was political activism, similar to that witnessed at the conference, rather than scientific considerations that successfully led to the declassification of homosexuality as a mental disorder: The reason “homosexuality was taken out of DSM is that people didn’t want the government in the bedroom,” he said.
• Dr. Berlin appeared to endorse the politically maligned clinical practice of “reparative therapy” for homosexuals and pedophiles alike, saying, “If someone, for their own reasons, doesn’t want to live a homosexual lifestyle, I tell them that it’s hard but I’ll try to help them.”
• The DSM ignores that pedophiles “have feelings of love and romance for children” in the same way adult heterosexuals and homosexuals have romantic feelings for one another.
• “The majority of pedophiles are gentle and rational.”
• The DSM should “focus on the needs” of the pedophile, and should have “a minimal focus on social control,” rather than obsessing about the “need to protect children.”
• Self-descried “gay activist” and speaker Jacob Breslow said that children can properly be “the object of our attraction.” He further objectified children, suggesting that pedophiles needn’t gain consent from a child to have sex with “it” any more than we need consent from a shoe to wear it. He then used graphic, slang language to favorably describe the act of climaxing (ejaculating) “on or with” a child. No one in attendance objected to this explicit depiction of child sexual assault.

Jacob Breslow: Originally from Walnut Creek, CA. Attended UC-Santa Cruz. Since he is describing in detail having sex with children at the conference, get a good look and don't let him near your kids

Another group to watch is Reform Sex Offender Laws [RSOL]

Daniel Villareal at the gay website, “Queerty,” shows how the gay movement is no longer pretending that it doesn’t want to recruit kids:  “Can We Please Just Start Admitting That We Do Actually Want To Indoctrinate Kids?”

“Why would we push anti-bullying programs or social studies classes that teach kids about the historical contributions of famous queers unless we wanted to deliberately educate children to accept queer sexuality as normal?

[…]

I for one certainly want tons of school children to learn that it’s OK to be gay, that people of the same sex should be allowed to legally marry each other, and that anyone can kiss a person of the same sex without feeling like a freak. And I would very much like for many of these young boys to grow up and start fucking men. I want lots of young ladies to develop into young women who voraciously munch box. I want this just as badly as many parents want their own kids to grow up and rub urinary tracts together to trade proteins and forcefully excrete a baby.

I and a lot of other people want to indoctrinate, recruit, teach, and expose children to queer sexuality AND THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT.”

 

In California, a petition drive is underway to repeal a new state law which mandates “positive” gay role models in the curriculum.  It is not clear what exactly will be required of textbooks and content.

Meanwhile, California Teachers’ Association appoints another openly gay member, San Francisco teacher Eric Heins, to the union board, ostensibly to ensure the delivery of the “gay agenda” to public classrooms:

“Heins, a longtime homosexual teacher, announced that he always kept pro-LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) books in his classroom library and spoke to his students about alternate lifestyles. Now, he reportedly plans to use his position in the union to fight for the LGBT community.

Steve Macias is the West Coast regional coordinator of Students for Life of America and a member of the California Republican Assembly.

“They want to use schoolteachers’ paychecks to pay for politicians who will do nothing but continue to push these seemingly alternative lifestyles that are really damaging to not only the mental health, but the physical health and the spiritual health of our children.”

He goes on to warn that the CTA will continue to push for pro-homosexual indoctrination in California’s schools. “What we can really expect from them is these tolerance laws, these ideas that make Christian speech against homosexuality, against abortion, intolerable,” Macias adds.
He points out that the CTA donated $1.25 million to stop Proposition 8, the 2008 measure passed by a majority of the state’s voters to define marriage as between one man and one woman. The union also supports S.B. 48, a bill that was recently signed into law that requires the state’s schools to teach on the contributions of LGBT individuals.”

Why did Bernie Madoff go to prison?

To make it simple, he talked people into investing with him. Trouble was, he didn't invest their money. As time rolled on he simply took the money from the new investors to pay off the old investors. Finally there were too many old investors and not enough money from new investors coming in to keep the payments going.

Next thing you know Madoff is one of the most hated men in America and he is off to jail.

Some of you know this. But not enough of you. Madoff did to his investors what the government has been doing to us for over 70 years with Social Security. There is no meaningful difference between the two schemes, except that one was operated by a private individual who is now in jail, and the other is operated by politicians who enjoy perks, privileges and status in spite of their actions.

Do you need a side-by-side comparison? Well here's a nifty little chart.

BERNIE MADOFF

SOCIAL SECURITY

Takes money from investors with the promise that the money will be invested and made available to them later. Takes money from wage earners with the promise that the money will be invested in a "Trust Fund" (Lock Box) and made available later.

Instead of investing the money Madoff spends it on nice homes in the Hamptons and yachts. Instead of depositing money in a Trust Fund the politicians transfer it to the General Revenue Fund and use it for general spending and vote buying.

When the time comes to pay the investors back Madoff simply uses some of the new funds from newer investors to pay back the older investors. When benefits for older investors become due the politicians pay them with money taken from younger and newer wage earners to pay the older geezers.

When Madoff's scheme is discovered all hell breaks loose. New investors won't give him any more cash. When Social Security runs out of money the politicians try to force the taxpayers to send them some more; or they cancel S/S to all those who paid into it.

Bernie Madoff is in jail. Politicians remain in Washington .. with fat medical and retirement benefits.

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert , in five years there'd be a shortage of sand.

~ Milton Friedman

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BREAKING NEWS: President Obama has just confirmed that the DC earthquake occurred on a rare & obscure fault-line, apparently known as "Bush's Fault". Obama also announced that the Secret Service & Maxine Waters continue an investigation of the quake's suspicious ties to the Tea Party. Conservatives however, have proven that it was caused by the founding fathers rolling over in their graves.

Residents of D.C. Don't be alarmed with the Earthquakes. That is just the Country shifting to the RIGHT!

ALL THIS UNDOCUMENTED CRITISCM OF POLITICAL CANDIDATES AND SARAH PALIN SHOW THE CRITICS TO BE IGNORANT OF ANY ACCURATE OR RELATIVE INFORMATION ON THE ISSUES OUR NATION FACES.  HELL! NO HUMAN IS PERFECT, ALL OF US HAVE MADE SOME MISTAKES AND BAD CHOICES IN OUR LIFETIMES.  THE CRITERIA SHOULD BE DID WE LEARN ANYTHING FROM IT TO USE TO MAKE US A BETTER PERSON OR DID WE BLAME SOMEBODY ELSE.  LESSONS LEARNED ARE A VALUABLE TOOL FOR OUR PERSONAL EVALUTION.  I KNOW I MADE SOME BAD CHOICES AND DECISIONS IN MY LIFE BUT I BELIEVE THAT BY ACKNOWLEDGING THEM AND USING THE LESSONS LEARNED IN A POSITIVE WAY HAS MADE ME A BETTER PERSON.

PAGE 1 IN MY BOOK OF POEMS IS ENTITLED "GODS CREATION"

I AM THAT WHICH I WAS CREATED TO BE

MY SOUL IS TRANSPARENT FOR GOD TO SEE

JESUE HAS TAUGHT ME TO REJECT HATRED

A LESSON THAT HAS MADE ME ELATED

JESUS HAS TAUGHT ME TO REJECT JEALOUSY

I AM THAT WHICH I WAS CREATED TO BE

I HAVE LEARNED TO CONTROL ANGER

AND HOW TO BEFRIEND A STRANGER

I NO LONGER EXPERIENCE ENVY

I AM WHAT I AM MEANT TO BE

GOD FILLS MY HEART WITH LOVE EVERY DAY

TO BE SHARED WITH ALL I MEET AT WORK OR PLAY

I HAVE LERNED TO OFFER COMPASSION WHEN NEEDED

MY FELLOW MANS HAPPINESS IS NOT TO BE IMPEDED

I HAVE LEARNED HOW TO BE A FRIEND

THESE EFFORTS WILL NEVER OFFEND

MYH LIFES EXPERIENCES HAVE MOLDED ME

I AM THAT WHICH I WAS CREATED TO BE

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JESUS SAID "LET HE WHO IS WITHOUT SIN CAST THE FIRST STONE"

WE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO MAKE OUR OWN DECISION DEPENDING ON THE COMPLETENESS OF FACTS THAT WE GATHER. MANY TIMES THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH DOCUMENTED OR RELIABLE FACTS PRESENTED TO US, EITHER PRO OR CON TO MAKE AN INFORMED OPINION AND WHEN THAT IS THE CASE, WE MUST BE HONEST ENOUGH TO

ADMIT IT.

If we Fail to Remember History, we will Repeat it!!!

David Kaiser is a  respected historian whose published works have covered a broad range of  topics, from European Warfare to American League Baseball. Born in 1947,  the son of a diplomat, Kaiser spent his childhood in three capital cities:  Washington D.C. , Albany , New York , and Dakar, Senegal . He attended Harvard University ,  graduating there in 1969 with a B.A. In history. He then spent several  years more at Harvard, gaining a PhD in history, which he obtained in  1976.. He served in the Army Reserve from 1970 to  1976.

He is a prof essor  in the Strategy and Policy Department of the United States Naval War  College . He has previously taught at Carnegie Mellon, Williams College  and Harvard University . Kaiser's latest book, The Road to  Dallas, about the Kennedy assassination, was just published by Harvard  University Press.


 
Dr. David  Kaiser


History  Unfolding

I am a student of  history. Professionally, I have written 15 books on history that have been  published in six languages, and I have studied history all my life. I have  come to think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not  believe it is simply a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit  crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large  gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper  focus..


Something of  historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it  feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it. Yes, a  perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our  country that has been evolving for about ten to fifteen years. The pace  has dramatically quickened in the past two.


We demand and  then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to  people we know they can never pay back? Why?


We learned just  days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight  by anyone, has "loaned" two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000)  over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose  the terms. That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is  three times the $700 billion we all argued about so strenuously just this  past September. Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms  unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was  a government of "we the people," who loaned our powers to our elected  leaders. Apparently not.


We have spent two  or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy...  Why?


We have  intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer  teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are worth  preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or  articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing,  school boards continue to back mediocrity.  Why?


We have now  established the precedent of protesting every close election (violently in  California over a proposition that is so controversial that it simply  wants marriage to remain defined as between one man and one woman. Did you  ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?) We have corrupted our  sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that  radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like  ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic.  To what purpose?


Now our mortgage  industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries  are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse,  social security is nearly bankrupt, as is Medicare and our  entire government. Our education system is worse than a joke (I teach  college and I know precisely what I am talking about) - the list is  staggering in its length, breadth, and depth.. It is  potentially 1929 x ten...And we are at war with an enemy we cannot even  name for fear of offending people of the same religion, who, in turn,  cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the  opportunity to do so.


And finally, we  have elected a man that no one really knows anything about, who has never  run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as  Wasilla , Alaska .. All of his associations and  alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and  everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not  downright scary (Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create  and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for  use inside our borders? No? Oh, of course. The media would never play that  for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin's pregnant  daughter and $150,000 wardrobe are more important.)


Mr. Obama's  winning platform can be boiled down to one word: Change.  Why?


I have never been  so afraid for my country and for my children as I am  now.


This man  campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done  in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us along  philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces  into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And  when it comes, you will never see the same nation  again.


And that is only  the beginning..


As a serious  student of history, I thought I would never come to experience what the  ordinary, moral German must have felt in the mid-1930s In  those times, the "savior" was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from  the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they  should have known was that he was associated with groups that shouted,  shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his  way onto the political stage through great oratory. Conservative "losers"  read it right now.


And there were  the promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he  was a great speaker. And he smiled and frowned and waved a lot. And  people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his "brown  shirts" would bully and beat them into submission. Which they did -  regularly. And then, he was duly elected to office, while a  full-throttled economic crisis bloomed at hand - the Great Depression.  Slowly, but surely he seized the controls of government power, person by  person, department by department, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The children  of German citizens were at first, encouraged to join a Youth Movement in  his name where they were taught exactly what to think. Later, they were  required to do so. No Jews of course,


How did he get  people on his side? He did it by promising jobs to the jobless, money to  the money-less, and rewards for the military-industrial complex. He did it  by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for  all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once  again in the country, across Europe , and across  the world. He did it with a compliant media - did you know that? And he  did this all in the name of justice and .... . ...  change. And the people surely got what they voted  for.


If you think I am  exaggerating, look it up. It's all there in the history  books.


So read your  history books. Many people of conscience objected in 1933 and were shouted  down, called names, laughed at, and ridiculed. When Winston Churchill  pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of  Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his  seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though. And the world  came to regret that he was not listened to.


Do not forget  that Germany was the most educated, the most cultured country in  Europe . It was full of music, art, museums,  hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And yet, in less than six years  (a shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency) it was  rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning  children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors..  All with the best of intentions, of course.. The road to Hell  is paved with them.


As a practical  thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I  can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if  they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting  to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong by  closing my eyes, having another latte, and ignoring what is transpiring  around me..


I choose to  believe the evidence. No doubt some people will scoff at me,  others laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or both. To some degree,  perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and  tell them exactly what I believe-and why I believe  it.


I pray I am  wrong. I do not think I am. Perhaps the only hope is our vote in the next  elections.


David Kaiser  
Jamestown  , Rhode  Island
United States  

By passing this  along, perhaps it will help to begin the awakening of America as to where  we are headed.

Dear Colleague:

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The American Laws for American Courts Act is constitutional and “facially neutral.”  It does not mention any specific religion, creed or legal doctrine, and in the two years since its introduction into state legislatures, it has never been challenged in court.

The Act‘s sole objective is to protect all U.S. citizens and residents from the application of foreign laws when the application of a foreign law will result in the violation, in the specific matter at issue, of a liberty guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States or the public policies of the state in question.  Such violations would include but not be limited to infringements on due process, freedom of religion, speech, or press, equal protection, and any right of privacy or marriage as specifically defined by the constitution of the state.

Reviews of state laws provide extensive evidence that foreign laws and legal doctrines are introduced into US state court cases, including, notably, Islamic law known as Shariah, which is used in family courts and other courts in dozens of foreign Muslim-majority nations .

These foreign laws, frequently at odds with U.S. constitutional principles of equal protection and due process, typically enter the American court system through:

• Comity (mutual respect of each country’s legal system)
• Choice of law issues and
• Choice of forum or venue

Granting comity to a foreign judgment is a matter of state law, and most state and federal courts will grant comity unless the recognition of the foreign judgment wouldviolate some important public policy of the state. This doctrine, the “Void as against Public Policy Rule,” has a long and pedigreed history.

Unfortunately, because state legislatures have generally not been explicit about what their public policy is relative to foreign laws, including as an example, Shariah, the courts and the parties litigating in those courts are left to their own devices – first to know what Shariah is, and second, to understand that granting comity to a Shariah judgment may be at odds with  our state and federal constitutional principles in the specific matters at issue.

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Some of us were in the boyscouts and helped a little old lady across the street.

Most everyone I know did at least 1 good deed.

Obama never did a good deed for anyone in his entire life unless there was a buck in it for him.

He never had a real job.  Just went to college on the back of affirmative action and complained about the injustice of the theoretical white man who controls the world.

This got him into the white house.  Now that this lifetime complainer got into the white house nobody is supposed to complain about the ultimate complainer.

The epitome of thanklessness.   At least Carter and other failures paid their dues somewhere along the way.  B.O. never paid any dues.   He just walked right into the white house with never helping a little old lady across the street.   He probably charged his grandma to bring home a christmas tree.

His Grandmother raised him in an expensive area.  Sent him to private Schools  She also got him into the best colleges.

What does he do for them in return?   Not a dam thing.  Throws her under the bus.

He writes a book on what a great his Father was who dumped him on the curb and said he would put him up for adoption.

Wrote nothing of thanks to his white grandparents who made him the man he is today.

ultimate lowlife.