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Posted on The Wall Street Journal-By JOSEPH RAGO-On August 6, 2011:

“Whatever the rhetoric that preceded this week’s deal, the debt-ceiling debate was never really about the debt at all. It was about the terms on which the debate would continue. The “two different worldviews” that divide Washington, explains Eric Cantor, are too far apart for anything more than an armistice. Still, listening to the House majority leader—who says the deal is “not perfect” but “there were some achievements”—it’s remarkable that the two parties were able to agree even to its modest terms.

The “philosophical starting point” of today’s Democrats, as Mr. Cantor sees it, is that they “believe in a welfare state before they believe in capitalism. They promote economic programs of redistribution to close the gap of the disparity between the classes. That’s what they’re about: redistributive politics.” The Virginian’s contempt is obvious in his Tidewater drawl. “The assumption . . . is that there is some kind of perpetual engine of economic prosperity in America that is going to just continue. And therefore they are able to take from those who create and give to those who don’t. We just have a fundamentally different view.”

Mr. Cantor’s aggressive style has earned him the enmity of liberals and most of the D.C. press corps, though his larger offense is against their orthodoxy that a fiscal compromise must by definition include tax increases. Mr. Cantor, who holds the second most powerful post in the House after Speaker John Boehner, did more than any other figure to prevent “revenue” (that is, tax increases) from entering the final package.

Like Mr. Cantor, President Obama is also a man of deep and strong convictions, and perhaps that’s why they seem to dislike each other so much. Call it, to adapt Freud, the narcissism of big differences. Mr. Cantor cautions that he isn’t a “psychoanalyst”—before politics, he was a real-estate lawyer and small businessman—but he says, “It’s almost as if someone cannot have another opinion that is different from his. He becomes visibly agitated. . . . He does not like to be challenged on policy grounds.”

In a meeting with the Journal’s editorial board Wednesday, Mr. Cantor, 48, gives his side of one of his more infamous altercations with the president. In a mid-July Cabinet Room meeting, Mr. Cantor made a suggestion that Mr. Obama and other Democrats took as impertinent. “How dare I,” Mr. Cantor recalls of the liberal sentiment in the room. He was sitting between Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer, “and they were in absolute agreement that [the president] was such a saint for having endured all this.”

The roots of the Obama-Cantor animosity date back at least to another memorable exchange in 2009, some three days after the inauguration. In a meeting with the president, Mr. Cantor—then the No. 2 Republican in the House—discussed the economic recovery plans that the post-2008 GOP remnant favored. “Elections have consequences,” the president responded, “and Eric, I won.” The White House promptly leaked the remark to the media.

Mr. Cantor went on to whip the GOP minority against the near-$1 trillion stimulus, and all 187 members ultimately voted against it, though at the time that was not a given. The unanimous opposition was a political coup for the canny, ambitious Mr. Cantor, who was elected to the House only in 2000. He holds the seat that James Madison once held, now Virginia’s seventh district that stretches from Richmond to the Blue Ridge Mountains.

After the GOP won in 2010, many of its 87 new members—one-third of the caucus—planned to block any increase in the debt ceiling, full stop.

It was only after concerted lobbying by Mr. Cantor, Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy and Budget Chairman Paul Ryan that they flipped to a debt-ceiling hike with conditions. “Most people who were elected this time feel they were elected to change the system,” Mr. Cantor says, with some understatement.

The debt talks began in earnest in May. Mr. Cantor principally spoke for the Republicans in talks with Vice President Joe Biden, which met two to three times a week for a month and a half, with daily “free and open communication” among staffers.

The talks “did make some progress” because the opposing sides agreed not to agree, says Mr. Cantor. The vice president and majority leader even established a rapport because they tried “not to get flared up over philosophical differences,” as Mr. Cantor puts it. “Throughout the weeks there was always the possibility that we would veer off into our own worldviews, but we really did try and say, all of us know we’ve got to cut some spending.”

“Nothing was agreed upon until everything was agreed upon,” but the group identified between $2 trillion and $2.3 trillion in savings. Major proposals included means-testing Medicare so that higher-income seniors paid more for benefits, revising the wraparound “medigap” policies that insulate patients from out-of-pocket costs, and changing the federal-state Medicaid payment formula. “It was those types of nibbling-around-the-edges entitlement reforms,” Mr. Cantor says.

Mr. Cantor’s insight was that no modus vivendi could be reached this year that would solve the fiscal crisis, so it was better to focus on “incremental wins with this president.” Even the $4 trillion “big deal” that Messrs. Obama and Boehner nearly closed in separate talks was too small to be worth the cost (though it may have raised the Medicare eligibility age and made technical changes to inflation measures to reduce the annual growth of Social Security checks). “None of those, none of those, really address the underlying problem,” Mr. Cantor says.

“We need transformation in those programs in order to sustain them.”

Mr. Cantor quit the talks in late June amid Democratic tax demands, which he considered non-negotiable. Their position, he says, was that “we can’t do this unless you Republicans are going to relent on revenues.” His truculence did not endear him to Washington—though of course no one likened Mr. Obama to a terrorist for similarly refusing to give on any part of his new health-care entitlement, which was not even in the vicinity of “the table.”

Somewhat surprisingly, Mr. Cantor was in fact prepared to bargain on about $20 billion in higher taxes on “the shiny balls of the millionaires, billionaires, jet owners and oil companies” that Mr. Obama so often mentioned in public. “If they wanted to be able to claim the win on that,” Mr. Cantor says, he wanted net revenue neutrality in return, by lowering the corporate income tax rate or perhaps enacting an even larger tax reform. In effect, he was calling Mr. Obama’s bluff on “cheap politics.”

In private, however, the debate always returned to the status of the top marginal rate for individuals earning over $200,000 and $250,000 for couples—aka the Bush tax cuts for people who do not own private aircraft. Mr. Cantor argued that some large portion of the income that flows through the top bracket comes from “pass-through entities”—that is, businesses—and “to me, that strikes at the core of what I believe should be the policy, and that is to provide incentives for entrepreneurs to grow.”

Mr. Cantor is “cautiously optimistic” about the deal, which creates a 12-member “super committee” to reduce the deficit by another $1.5 trillion in return for another debt-limit increase later this year. Apart from taxes, its parameters institute the principle that new borrowing must be offset by dollar-for-dollar spending cuts. And while “we may go through the fit and start again of some kind of big deal,” he thinks it will merely result in more incremental progress. “I just think that’s what’s doable given this almost intractable divide we’ve got with this president and where we are.”

Throughout the debt debate, many GOP freshmen and the tea party in general have found it difficult to accept the limited powers that come from controlling only one-half of one branch of government. Mr. Cantor acknowledges their “consternation, angst, anger and the rest leading to a deal like this” and says the party will continue to try to make “the jump” between “reality” and “rational, solid theory,” like a balanced budget amendment. But he welcomes the fervor and entertains no strategic or other regrets, except that “we were not able to get what we would consider a really good deal. . . . We didn’t get to where we wanted.”

Now that the debt debate is in abeyance, the House is “going to continue the focus on the impediments that continue to be erected by this administration to jobs and job growth.” Mr. Obama’s policies “are what are choking this economy,” Mr. Cantor argues, mentioning the stimulus, health care, the auto bailout, “unpredictable and onerous” regulators like the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Labor Relations Board, “the God-forsaken Dodd-Frank regime” and “a taxation system that is noncompetitive, to say the least.” He continues: “It doesn’t work for Washington to be granted this almighty power that somehow is going to cure all ills and right all the wrongs that they think exist.”

But since the GOP is “pit against a White House, a president and a party that just doesn’t share the same worldview,” Mr. Cantor says “the real fight is going to be making sure that President Obama doesn’t have a second term.” He describes the 2012 election as “a very existential question” that will determine “what it is that we’re about in this country and what kind of country we are and want to be.”

As for the 2012 Republican field, Mr. Cantor seems cautiously optimistic, but he hasn’t endorsed and doesn’t divulge a rooting interest. There’s “no question” that the campaign will turn on jobs, the economy and growth, or lack thereof, Mr. Cantor says. He suggests candidates argue that “Washington has become an impediment to the American way of life. That American way of life has to do with entrepreneurship, it has to do with everyone having a fair shot at equal opportunity. . . .

“They need to change Obama’s Washington, but it’s really a return to what we know is America. Obama ran as an agent of change, and I don’t know what that hope and change really was at this point. It’s turned out to be something a lot different than what most people thought. But yes, we need to change and take the country away from President Obama.”

A debate in that key was never going to be resolved in a matter of months over the debt ceiling.”

• Mr. Rago is a member of the Journal’s editorial board.

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I. The Authoritarian Impulse and the Cult of Obama!-Posted on The Wall Street Journal-By JAMES TARANTO-On August 5, 2011:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903366504576490194186182566.html?mod=djemBestOfTheWeb_h

II. DeMint: Geithner Should Resign Immediately!-Posted on Red Dog Report-By Brian O’Connor-On August 6, 2011:

http://reddogreport.com/2011/08/demint-geithner-should-resign-immediately/

III. Now that S&P Has Downgraded US Credit, Tim Geithner Should Resign!-Posted on Pajamas Media-On August 6, 2011:

http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/08/05/now-that-sp-has-downgraded-us-credit-tim-geithner-should-resign/

IV. Dodd and Geithner should resign!-Posted on RenewAmerica-By Michael Webster-On March 20, 2011:

http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/webster/090320

V. S&P downgrades U.S. credit rating for first time!-Posted on The Washington Post-By Zachary A. Goldfarb-On August 5, 2011:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/sandp-considering-first-downgrade-of-us-credit-rating/2011/08/05/gIQAqKeIxI_print.html

VI. 'No risk' the US will lose its top credit rating, says Treasury's Geithner!-Posted on The Hill-By Michael O'Brien-On April 19, 2011:

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/156747-geithner-no-risk-that-us-loses-its-top-credit-rating

VII. Departing Obama advisor: Economy in a 'bit of a slog'!-Posted on The LA Times-By Peter Nicholas-On August 5, 2011:

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-goolsbee-departs-20110805,0,3826456.story?track=rss

VIII. U.S. Debt Now Surpasses 2010 GDP!-Posted on The Heritage Foundation-By Patrick Tyrrell-On August 5, 2011:

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/08/05/us-debt-now-surpasses-2010-gdp/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email

IX. What Is Obama Doing About the Economy? His Spokesman Fumbles for an Answer!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Susan Jones-On August 5, 2011:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/what-obama-doing-about-economy-his-spoke

X. Now Carney Admits: ‘The White House Doesn’t Create Jobs’!-Posted on The Blaze-By Madeleine Morgenstern-On August 5, 2011:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/now-carney-admits-the-white-house-doesnt-create-jobs/

XI. Unemployment Only Fell as Thousands Quit Job Hunt!-Posted on Money News-By Michael Carr-On August 5, 2011:

http://www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/Unemployment-Fell-Quit-labor/2011/08/05/id/406227?s=al&promo_code=CC58-1

XII. Wall Street Plunge Comes Amid Fears of Second Recession!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By PAUL WISEMAN and CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER, Associated Press-On August 5, 2011:

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/wall-street-plunge-comes-amid-fears-seco

XIII. Markets Should Brace for More Meltdowns, War!-Posted on Money News-By Forrest Jones-On August 5, 2011:

http://www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/FaberMarketsShouldBraceforMoreMeltdowns-War/2011/08/05/id/406225?s=al&promo_code=CC58-1

XIV. Fannie Mae Seeks $5.1 Billion More From Taxpayers!-Posted on Money News-On August 5, 2011:

http://www.moneynews.com/StreetTalk/Earns-FannieMae/2011/08/05/id/406230?s=al&promo_code=CC58-1

XV. CBS Skips How Own Poll Finds Many More Think Spending Cuts Too Small Over Too Big!-Posted on The Media Research Center-By Brent Baker-On August 5, 2011:

http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2011/20110805084505.aspx

XVI. Get Ready for Second Recession, Inflation!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Jim Meyers and Ashley Martella-August 4, 2011:

http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/wiedemer-aftershock-recession-inflation/2011/08/04/id/406172?s=al&promo_code=CC4D-1

XVII. The Debt Deal Doesn’t Even Glitter!-Posted on Godfather Politics-By BOJIDAR MARINOV-On August 4, 2011:

http://godfatherpolitics.com/395/the-debt-deal-doesnt-even-glitter/

XVIII. The Budget Control Act Of 2011 Violates Constitutional Order!-Posted on Floyd Reports-By Herbert W. Titus and William J. Olson-On August 4, 2011:

http://floydreports.com/the-budget-control-act-of-2011-violates-constitutional-order/

XIX. How Obama Will Bankrupt the Auto Industry (and Taxpayers)!-Posted on Floyd Reports-By Susan Stamper Brown-On August 4, 2011:

http://floydreports.com/how-obama-will-bankrupt-the-auto-industry-and-taxpayers/

XX. Blame the Washington Bureaucracy for High Gas Prices!-Posted on The Heritage Foundation-On August 4, 2011:

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/08/04/morning-bell-blame-the-washington-bureaucracy-for-high-gas-prices/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%252BBell

XXI. Liberals Force Choice Between Economic and National Security!-Posted on The Heritage Foundation-On August 1, 2011:

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/08/01/morning-bell-liberals-force-choice-between-economic-and-national-security/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%252BBell

XXII. Governors: No Partnership With Communist China!-Posted on The John Birch Society-By Larry Greenley-On July 13, 2011:

http://www.jbs.org/news/governors-no-partnership-with-communist-china

XXIII. Liberal Pollster's Devastating Memo to Obama: Join the Tea Party!-Posted on Human Events-By  Wynton C. Hall-On August 4, 2011:

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=45290

XXIV. Obama’s Approval Hits All-Time Low Among Poor, Says Gallup!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Terence P. Jeffre-On August 4, 2011:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-s-approval-hits-all-time-low-among

XXV. John Kerry: Media Has ‘Responsibility’ To ‘Not Give Equal Time’ To Tea Party!-Posted on The Blaze-By Jonathon M. Seidl-On August 5, 2011:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/john-kerry-media-has-responsibility-to-not-give-equal-time-to-tea-party/

Note:  My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

Does President Obama Suffer From NPD?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/does-president-obama-suffer-from-npd/

Do Alinsky’s Rules Define This Administration’s Governing Style?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/do-alinsky’s-rules-define-this-administration’s-governing-style-2/

What Happened to Free Speech?

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/

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“Food For Thought”

God Bless the U.S.A.!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related

Semper Fi!

Jake

I'm not surprised by the recent U.S. credit rating downgrade.  But that's not the issue here, only a symptom of very poor representation of the American people in Congress and the Executive Branch.  We must understand clearly what is going on here in our country if we are to reverse this morbid trend.  In this article, I will give some of what I know to be true.   

The atheist communist party has infiltrated all our country's institutions.

First, we have to know the enemy who wages war against us.  The Communist Party is a global political party whose main objective is to undermine and overthrow democracies all over the world along with their supporting Capitalist institutions, i.e., free market capitalism, businesses.  It currently hides in the Democratic Party and to a lesser extent, the Republican as well.  But instead of using the Bolshevik's method of mass violence as was used to overthrow Russia in 1917, they are using Leninism, the idea of incrementalism.  Thus, instead of a sudden military invasion, they do it from within, gradually, imperceptibly, penetrating and undermining through corruption, subversion of Congress, redirecting and guiding the target country down a long road to eventual Communist dictatorship, which includes mass murder and genocide in the order of tens of millions.  This is the method they have used on America at least since the 1900s.  Many people know this intuitively but can't flesh-out the details.  Remember, there in the details is where the Devil loves to play.

Communism is a proxy, front, or cover for a Satanic Cult at its core.

Second, the spirit at the heart of Communism is Satanic.  It took me years of investigating Communistic methods to finally realize that beneath all the methods of deception and trickery characteristic of Communists, was atheism.  Godlessness rules the heart of every Communist.  That explains why the "President" lies constantly with no shame and why Congress makes their wrongheaded decisions which appear strange, psychotic, even bizaare.   Communists HATE Christianity with a passion! (Remember, it was Lenin who said "Religion is the opiate of the masses.")  It is Satan himself we are up against.  Therefore, when we make wise decisions in our government, stick to them and cast votes with the full knowledge that it is actually Satan and his people who we are fighting with Godly positions and voting.

We must understand that the Communists have been waging an all-out war on America for decades:  We have failed to recognize the true nature of our enemy.

So, since Communism is an atheist religion, it seeks naturally to want to destroy God.  But since they know that is going to be very hard to accomplish, their war is targeted at the next best thing, God's people;  Christianity, Capitalism, the Constitution, and just about every traditional western institution.  They wage their attacks primarily through lies and deception, manipulation of our legal system and Judeo-Christian culture, Communist propaganda on television, the movies, newspapers and magazines, and indoctrination through public and even private education now.  They have been feeding us an onslaught of lies for so long, most no longer realize we are constantly being deceived.  The freshest attacks are those made by the awful decisions and excuses made by the majority of our cowardly and wicked governmental leaders about how much to reduce government spending and whether to raise the debt ceiling.  It only takes a little common sense to know that one cannot simultaneously reduce spending by planning to increase it at the same time!

The bottom line is we must not be intimidated.  We MUST have courage to follow through, not wavering.

In the beginning of our country, it was always about Christians building a civilization to glorify God.  The same must be true now for it is still our war.  We must have representatives who have the following:

1.  First, our representatives must pray and draw near to our Father in heaven asking for strength to stand up to the fear, pressure, and intimidation that attempts to pressure us to give in to threats.  We must be the people we were meant to be, to be set-apart, immune from the worldly temptations to compromise.  We are to please God, not man.

2.  Before voting, we must pray to know the right decision.  We must gather together in groups to pray.  Then, we must vote without fear and be strong enough (trusting God completely) to overcome the temptations to compromise that is the norm in Congress now.  Remember that it is Satan who inspires, even demands our enemies to attack us.  (I'm convinced that some among our enemy are actually demon possessed!  Hitler and his immediate officers were Occultists.)  If we stand totally firm, the enemy's mask will eventually come off for all to see.  IF we prove absolutely resolute in our determination to vote the right way regardless, God will intervene on our behalf.  Said another way, IF we remain faithful and obedient, God will go out in front of us!  Before going into any "negotiations", for example, write down what Godly decision you will accept and never deviate from that position no matter how furious the opposition becomes!  Satan will throw fits, but just stay calm and resolute.  God doesn't want us to compromise our faith so why would we compromise with the devil?

3.  We need the prayerful support and encouragement of fellow brothers and sisters.  Throw off pride and selfishness now and call, write, or visit your Tea Party representatives to ask how they are doing and offer prayer and sympathetic companionship to them to help build them up for the next spiritual battle!  Don't just think about doing it and then forget.  When you think about contacting representatives to encourage them, just be obedient and show you have faith plus works, for faith without works is dead! (James 2:26)

Listen to a song I recorded back when Obamacare first passed, entitled "Obamanation is an Abomination." Tee shirt also to go along with song (see previous blog for details).

Former Obama Economic Adviser on Downgrade: We're 'Pretty Darn F--ked'

Bill Maher with Christina Romer, former Economic Advisor to Obama, says were are pretty much screwed:

see the video

What do you think?

From a life of abundance, now  with only my 10 year-old Cougar, what I took with me in personal things, and $350 in cash,  what I did not know was that the IRS told my wife to not sign the joint return I’d filled out. I left the form filled out, with my signature. My wife was to have signed it, and paid the tax we owed.  Knowing I’d taken only $500 out of our bank account, my wife followed IRS instructions. She was to file a separate return, pay half of the tax we owed, and send the joint return in without her signature. It would be treated as my separate return. Instead of treating the joint return as a separate return and charging me half of the tax, the IRS treated the return as a joint return and charged me the full tax, plus penalty and interest.

I’d sold stock that was mine before we married. My wife was to have mailed me the check when it came.  Instead, she forged my name on the check and cashed it. 

On the Monday after Easter Sunday 1975--Easter, the first day of my new life--I found a job working in a boatyard.  I rented an efficiency apartment and paid $200 up front, with the promise that in a few days I would pay the balance of rent and deposits.  I didn’t know that $350 cash was it. I was not going to receive the check in payment for the stock I sold. Pay day was two weeks away.

I'm 36 years ahead of this particular moment of uncertainty for independent businesses.  I had been the owner/operator of an independent lumber wholesale business.  I bought from independent lumber mills and sold to retailers.  The purpose for my wholesale lumber business was not only to search lumber mills for my customers’ needs, but to finance them. I borrowed large sums of money.  My place in the market was eliminated, (1) by President Nixon’s price controls; (2) by double digit inflation and high interest rates. It is the same old thing over and over.  The resourceful are being used,--government  manipulation for the benefit of government and everyone else’s detriment.

I was forced to sell 15 acres of my land.  Double digit inflation caused my land to sell for double what I paid for it.  Although I made no profit in my business and no profit on the sale of my land, the government claimed I made a profit and charged me capital gains tax.  

After my departure, while this pauper entrepreneur faced being put on the street, the not so rich government entitled received cost of living increases. 

The IRS is always right, unless we taxpayers can prove them wrong.  We taxpayers are guilty unless we can prove ourselves innocent in a government biased court.  In 1975, I studied constitutional law in the county law library.  I had a bigger than life calling. I sublimated my anger.

The IRS had called me a “Fifth Amendment freak.” They told me they knew how to deal with me.  The IRS had sent me a tax assessment for the full 1975 tax. I had filed with the IRS a carry back loss form for prior year business loss. The IRS offered, illegally, to send my refund only if I would drop my petition to the Tax Court and pay their erroneous assessment out of my refund money.  Because I refused, the IRS froze my refund. The IRS, expediently, is allowed to do such things “for the good of all.”   At my tax court trial three years later, the IRS amended their erroneous assessment, no questions asked by the court; and, I’m not allowed to question anything but the mistake the IRS was alleged to have made.  The tax court is not authorized to address constitutional issues.  Nothing in the law says the IRS can’t make limitless mistakes, for the good of all.  The individual counts for naught.    

At the time of my departure, with unemployment high—down the street from my Miami apartment there was a mile long food stamp line—in that I was self-employed, I was not eligible for the government entitlement the United States grants the unemployed worker, for no particular reason.  It took three phone calls to Miami boat yards to land a job. The pay was barely over the minimum pay government allows, but twenty percent of my meager wages was withheld for Uncle Sam, for no particular reason—just that it is the law. The press publishes screwball “tax protester” cases the IRS hands them.  

For no particular reason, the IRS was playing games with this “tax protesting” pauper. My take-home pay did not leave me with enough to pay my rent. For the good of all, I was locked out of my apartment.  For no discernable reason, the good of all means zero rights for the individual. You don’t hear this about raising revenue. You hear that anyone against a compassionate government is a terrorist.  

I'm writing the story of my life. It will be published in January 2012. In my story, you will read why this "terrorist's"life is as good as it gets.

I am preparing a new criminal complaint against Obama and Peter Dreier.  The Obama/Dreier complaint (I am hoping) will be much more extensive (versus the Obama/Holder complaint), and will be part criminal complaint and part commentary. As a basis, I hope to argue that Dreier's 1979 article ("The Case for Transitional Reform") that called for an exponential increase in entitlements to collapse the economy, and his subsequent (apparent) collusion with Obama (he was an advisor to Obama on urban affairs) and passage of Obamacare—the largest entitlement increase in U.S. history, is a basis for the charge of treason; in that the goal of collapsing the economy, is no different than an overt attempt to topple the government.

 I also hope to comment on Dreier's call for a "public option," (pre-passage of Obamacare), which, really, is the ultimate goal of Obama. And this would include everything else being a “public option,” i.e., driving all capitalistic entities out of business, as one cannot compete with the government; it is ludicrous. It is like a child's lemonade stand trying to compete with a multinational chain of lemonade makers: which is interesting, for, as we have seen in the news, several kids' lemonade stands have been shut down. Can you imagine a Leave it to Beaver episode, where a little girl is selling lemonade so she can buy her dad a present for his birthday, and a police cruiser comes by and shuts her down? This country is becoming crazy. But in the complaint, I want to set up an extended analogy/metaphor, describing a child competing with a larger lemonade stand, in which the larger lemonade stand (run and financed by an adult) regulates, price fixes, inspects, etc. the child’s lemonade stand, showing that the so-called "competition" is rather a stealth tactic to put the child out of business. I also hope to argue against the Obamacare mandate, in which the Obama camp's argument is that because individuals not having insurance, and thus using emergency rooms for all ailments, tend to increase the cost of everyone else's insurance, thus effecting commerce, that this then authorizes the mandate, with the Commerce Clause as the basis thereof.  I would like to argue that there is really no behavior, literally, that does not in some way affect pricing, however infinitesimally. For example, say a child goes on a school field trip to a farm, where she comes home with a single carrot seed embedded in the sole of her shoe. This seed falls off in the backyard, where it grows and becomes a carrot. When full grown, the mother places this carrot in a salad. Because she didn't have to buy a carrot that day at the market, the price of carrots are affected in a very small, infinitesimal way, not even calculable, but affecting it just the same. Now remember the argument of the healthcare mandate wasn't how much healthcare cost is increased due to emergency rooms being utilized by those without insurance, but that it simply is increased by this practice. So that a government worker sees this carrot, and “regulates” the carrot, the backyard, its consumption, or a host of other ways.

Now the healthcare mandate is a compulsion to buy something; a "dis"-compulsion, or forbidding of buying a product, could be supported by the same commerce-affecting argument: for example, it is found that individuals who eat more than ten fast food hamburgers a month tend to be obese. Obese people require more medical care, thus driving up healthcare costs. The government then mandates that Americans can buy no more than ten fast food hamburgers per month. In order to insure they comply, each person has to present their ID when purchasing hamburgers, and this information is fed into a database. If the individual attempts to buy an eleventh hamburger in one month, the fast food restaurant computer forbids the transaction. Meanwhile, fast food restaurants go bankrupt, because so few people are buying their product due to the onerous regulation. The government then finds that people are making hamburgers at home, "skirting" the system, and thus begins inspections of one's food supplies. Of course this seems Orwellian, but this is the logical end of the argument that whatever affects pricing can be "regulated" by the government under the Commerce Clause.

This is my plan for a future criminal complaint/commentary.

debate questions & answers: Where do you stand on off shore drilling? If it gets us out of foreign oil dependency i'm for It. where do you stand on entitlements? Only vets, elderly, disabled and children should be able to receive government assistance. Where do you stand on foreign policies. There is enough to fix here before we can worry about foreign anything. How would you address our current military situation. I would bring our men home to help rebuild and secure America. Where do you stand on raising income tax? Why not raise corporate tax. What would you do to improve the Economy? Raise foriegn taxes, promote US production by creating a build America Bond sold to Americans only, eliminate the Free Trade Act, cap malpratice compensation, Stop all aid to foreign countries, repeal the Health Care Act, close all duplicate agencies and require states do do the same.

SAY THIS MEAN IT AND YOU HAVE MY VOTE!!!!!!!!!

It is no secret that progressives want to control our government for fame and (corrupt) fortune for themselves and their supporters (Soros, Unions, etc.) These same progressives are soon going to achieve control by having >50% of voters not paying any taxes (more people in the wagon than pulling the wagon, as they say). In these economic hard times – they say they want to create jobs. But, the unemployed become their voters as they join others in the wagon awaiting their handouts. So what do these progressives do? They increase government spending in order to slow the economy and put more people out of work to gain more votes. And when they have made their fortunes driving the economy to ruin, they will blame capitalism for failing.

Steve Gerber

www.stevegerberbooks.com

On July 11, 2011, I learned that the UN, the US, the EU, and Russia were meeting to decide Israel’s fate, without Israel’s participation.  Israel’s President Netanyahu says it isn’t going to happen.  It was time to write the book I’ve been thinking about writing.

After Moses, Israel’s leader, Joshua told his following: “Until the Lord have given your brethren rest, as he hath given you, and they also hath possessed the land which the Lord giveth: then you shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the Lord’s servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising” (Joshua 1:15). The land of your possession has been the question for thousands of years.   

The prophet Habakkuk, toward the end of the Old Testament, lamented, “O Lord, how long shall I cry and thou wilt not hear! Even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!”

Jesus said, “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are raving wolves” (Mt. 7:15). Jesus said: “But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!” (Mt. 23:13).  We are individually in possession of our souls, with the potential of communication with nature’s God and “Higher Law.”  

I’m 36 years ahead of the time. In the spring of 1975, ten years into my second marriage, I departed my old life.  Although I was unaware of it, I departed on Good Friday, the day Christians commemorate as the day Christ was crucified.  I drove down the private road leading to our home and stopped on the county road fronting our 15 acre spread for a last look at my failure, in 49 years, to bring myself happiness. Feeling only excitement for a new life, I drove away from my past and never looked back, arriving in Miami, Florida on Easter Sunday for the first day of my new life.

From a life of abundance, now  with only my 10 year-old Cougar, what I took with me in personal things, and $350 in cash,  what I did not know was that the IRS told my wife to not sign the joint return I’d filled out. I left the form filled out, with my signature. My wife was to have signed it, and paid the tax we owed.  My wife followed IRS instructions. She was to file a separate return, pay half of the tax we owed, and send the joint return in without her signature. It would be treated as my separate return. Instead of treating the joint return as a separate return and charging me half of the tax, the IRS treated the said return as a joint return and charged me the full tax, plus penalty and interest.

I’d sold stock that was mine before we married. My wife was to have mailed me the check when it came.  Instead, she forged my name on the check and cashed it.  

On the Monday after Easter Sunday I found a job working in a boatyard.  I rented an efficiency apartment and paid $200 up front, with the promise that in a few days I would pay the balance of rent and deposits.  I didn’t know that $350 cash was it. I was not going to receive the check in payment for the stock I sold. Pay day was two weeks away.

I had been the owner/operator of an independent lumber wholesale business.  I bought from independent lumber mills and sold to retailers.  The purpose for my wholesale lumber business was not only to search lumber mills for my customers’ needs, but to finance them. I borrowed large sums of money.  My place in the market was eliminated, (1) by President Nixon’s price controls; (2) by double digit inflation and high interest rates. It was government  manipulation for the benefit of government and everyone else’s detriment.

I was forced to sell 15 acres of my land.  Double digit inflation caused my land to sell for double what I paid for it.  Although I made no profit in my business and no profit on the sale of my land, the government claimed I made a profit and charged me capital gains tax. While this pauper entrepreneur faced being put on the street, not so rich government entitled received cost of living increases.  

The IRS is always right, unless we taxpayers can prove them wrong in a government biased court.  In 1975, I studied constitutional law in the county law library and felt that voices of the past were personally speaking to me.  I had a bigger than life calling. I sublimated my anger.

The IRS had called me a “Fifth Amendment freak.” They told me they knew how to deal with me.  The IRS had sent me a tax assessment for the full 1975 tax. I had filed with the IRS a carry back loss form for prior year business loss. The IRS offered, illegally, to send my refund only if I would drop my petition to the Tax Court and pay their erroneous assessment out of my refund money.  Because I refused, the IRS froze my refund.  Your government expediently allows the IRS to do such things.  At my tax court trial three years later, no questions asked, the IRS amended their erroneous assessment.  The tax court informed me that it was not authorized to get into constitutional questions.      

At the time of my departure, with unemployment high—down the street from my Miami apartment there was a mile long food stamp line—in that I was self-employed, I was not eligible for the government entitlement the United States grants the unemployed, for no particular reason.  

It took three phone calls to Miami boat yards to land a job. The pay was barely over the minimum pay government allows, but twenty percent of my meager wages was withheld for Uncle Sam, without reason.

The press publishes screwball “tax protester” cases the IRS hands them.  Because the IRS was playing games with this “tax protesting” pauper, my take-home pay did not leave me with enough of my sweat to pay my rent. I was locked out of my apartment.

My landlord had not gone through the proper legal procedure.  I called the police. Within an hour, I had the new key, but that’s not the point.  I was out of sight, out of mind—and on the street.  The tax court is not authorized to question this kind of IRS behavior.  It is legal. Hitler was legal.  Do you want Nazi Germany’s fate for America? 

My divorce lawyer in Texas called to inform me that my wife had been successful in getting the divorce court to repudiate our property settlement agreement on the ground that I threatened to beat her if she refused to sign it. In our property settlement agreement, I was to have received 10 acres of unimproved land. My wife was to have received five acres of land, our home, furniture, fixtures, out buildings, all other improvements, a two-year old Pontiac, farm equipment, and live stock. 

In America, the land of the brave and the free, I was soon to be a street person, with the free press backing the greatest fraud of all times. I returned to Texas, arriving with $35 to my name. The divorce court awarded me living expenses out of my wife’s pocket.  My lawyer agreed to represent me with no advance payment.

While I waited for the trial, I met an astrologer who created my astrological chart.  My astrologer spoke of a “part of fortune” in my chart, which he read to mean that people, who do things behind my back to harm me, although I wouldn’t likely know it, were the reason that things went right for me.

At the divorce trial, the court followed the Texas Homestead Law.  Since I owned the land prior to the marriage, the land and all improvements went to me. My wife was given the furniture, the Pontiac, what was left in the bank, and ordered off my property within 30 days.

The custody of our son went to my wife.  Since I was unemployed, my payments were not much.  I was out of business when my wife wanted a divorce.  My five-year-old son was an innocent victim.  My son’s welfare was the only reason I agreed to allow my wife the lion’s share of our property.  

Only out of concern for my son, I offered to go back to the original property settlement agreement.  My wife would have to refinance the property and pay me the market price for my 10 acres. She had no choice.

I looked up “Part of Fortune” in Google. This from the Internet: “a three-dimensional Sensitive Point in the horoscope, not a planet, but a place where we can find happiness, experience gain, and feel fortunate.”  The place is what is scientifically known as a hologram. From a hologram projector, you get a two dimensional picture that looks 3-D.  Scientific examination of a hologram shows that when you cut a hologram in half you get two complete pictures. Cut it in half again and you get four complete pictures. What if the universe were a hologram—wherever you are, you get a complete picture?  Zoom in on it and you see the microcosmic, the aspects of matter.    So is my personal story, so is the story of the world, so is the story of universe.  Mysteriously, this I reveal was my “part of fortune.”  Everything my astrologer told me about the future came true.

The Law

The form of law in practice—Nazi law—put me out of business. My bigger than life calling, when I studied the Constitution, gave me a higher purpose in life.  The orthodoxy categorizes for the sake of expedience.  We are learning that our reality is nothing at all like we’ve been misdirected to believe. 

I’m a secular humanist, defined as anyone with a set of beliefs that promote human values without specific allusion to religious doctrines. Nothing in the universe is supernatural. All has a natural explanation.  You cannot logically separate religion, the law, and science, but logic be damned.  While The Constitution implied that we are all equal, for expedience’s sake, black skin meant that humans were the same as mules and cows. They had no rights.  Today, the government entitled have rights that exceed those of producers.  It is bankrupting America morally, spiritually, and fiscally. 

Jungian psychology says we inherit patterns of thought through the collective will of those who came before us, whose archetype we are. There is a distinction in the collective will of those of the here and now. Christian President Obama calls the here and now “collective salvation.”  Jesus referred us to our “Father,” everyone’s God. Why should civil law differ from God’s law?  No other life form thinks like humans.   Giving ourselves credit for being of intelligent design—evolved from ape, most likely, but above ape in consciousness, blessed with reason, logic, ethics, and morals—of a higher order and of “Higher Law”—when you pray, “use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.  But be ye not like them for your Father knoweth what things you have need of, before ye ask him” (Mt. 6:7,8). 

Hind sight is 20/20. All the talk is about how to keep the system in place—and how to divide and conquer those who are foolish enough to walk into the trap, I should know.   My will was God’s will. My wife had no choice and eventually the IRS hung itself with its own rope.

Jesus said, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you” (Mt. 6:33).  “Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof” (Mt. 6:34). “Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye” (Mt. 7:5).  Welcome to the Age of Aquarius. Look within for who you are and harmonize with nature’s God, the Higher Law, and the Constitution.

Defaults, Terrorists and Reality

Of recent, we have heard much, of the Federal Governments’ certain default if we didn’t raise the debt ceiling, yet many fiscally conservative Congressmen made compelling arguments against doing so or at least not doing so without commensurate and immediate cuts in spending, which after all, nearly everyone admits is beyond our ability to pay for.  Their reward for questioning the long-term viability and fiscal prudence of the debt ceiling deal was to be labeled “terrorists” as were the Tea Party members who supported them.

Out of this supposed crisis the President gets what he wants, authorization to spend another $2.4 Trillion and avoid debt ceiling debate till after the 2012 elections; the Republicans in Congress come out of it with no new taxes at least for the short term, and the people get to pay for the continued spending because the proposed offsetting spending cuts are mostly illusionary.

So why, all of the “theater”?  What is the truth?  Now that the $2.4 Trillion deal is passed do we still have reason for concern or are we out of the woods?  I would like to present some facts and let you judge for yourselves.

The GDP (Gross Domestic Product or economic output) of the United States is approximately $14.8 Trillion, while the U.S. debt is approximately $14.3 Trillion and soon to rise to $16.7 Trillion.  To put these numbers in context, the GDP of the entire world including the U.S. is $63.1 Trillion.  Our debt will very soon exceed 25% of world GDP.  But looming on the horizon, and what sends shivers down the spine of the world financial market, is our un-funded liabilities.  Benefits that we owe to retirees and others that are as yet un-filed for and uncollected, and because there are no trust funds or they have been for the most part robbed, remain un-funded.  The most conservative estimates place this liability at about $65 Trillion, where others place it as high as $105 Trillion.  These debts are in addition to the current national debt!

Imagine one country whose debt liabilities exceed global GDP, who is borrowing 41 cents of every dollar it spends, whose currency is the reserve currency of the world and through the Federal Reserve owns nearly half of its own debt!  Scary is not the word for it!

Many think that China owns most of our debt, but in reality their GDP is only about $6.1 Trillion and they hold just over $1.1 Trillion of U.S. debt, about 7% of the total and they have been reducing their stake.  What they have a large stake in are the manufactured goods that we consume as we only manufacture about 10% of them ourselves.

Some think that raising taxes is the answer, but we could raise everyone’s income taxes by 50 % and would still have nearly a $1 Trillion annual deficit at current spending levels.  A very real burden on all taxpayers is not a lack of taxes collected from the rich, but the governments choosing to exempt over 50% of the workers from paying federal taxes and indeed share your tax dollars with approximately 40% of the population with income tax credits, food stamps, medic-aide, housing assistance and other forms of redistribution by a government whose spending practices have outstripped the taxpayers ability to pay and still support a thriving economy as evidenced by the protracted downturn and continued high unemployment levels.

High unemployment and underemployment have along with the general economic down turn resulted in a revenue shortfall compared to 2008, of over $400 Billion annually.  The uncertainty about whether spending will go down, or taxes will go, up has exacerbated the problem and slowed the recovery.  One thing is for sure, raising taxes now will slow hiring, economic growth and the revenue growth that would have followed.

Clearly we have a spending problem and need to rein it in.  What is not so clear is why Speaker John Boehner did not address immediate and substantial cuts in the debt ceiling deal, but opted for “pie in the sky” future cuts that he knows, full well, we cannot force on a future Congress.  So in other words the very clear mandate of November 2010 has been ignored and rather than cut spending this Congress has chosen to continue spending to the tune of an additional $3.3 plus Trillion to be added to the debt.  From January 2011 to January 2013, the 112^th Congress will have added nearly as much to the National Debt as the infamous 111^th Congress!  What mandate?!

The fight with Congress and the Administration, will now be to not increase taxes and give the economy a chance to recover.  But worry, from the rating agencies hinted downgrades, and the battle to avoid that, will put pressure on the Congress to either raise taxes or make additional spending cuts.  So once more the taxpayer is caught between a rock and a hard place because the Congress does not have the courage to make the necessary cuts to bring financial stability, balance the budget and lower or eradicate the debt.  Indeed the Congress has established a “super committee” to take up the task of determining what further cuts to make over the next decade, further abdicating their responsibility to a select few and making doubtful that the cuts to offset the new round of spending will ever truly be made.

The world financial markets have reason to be concerned when the world’s largest economy, one that is inextricably wound through their markets as the reserve currency, exhibits such irresponsibility and resorts to name calling and deception.

Some are advocating that doom and collapse are right around the corner.  I would hope to think that our leaders had a better handle on the economy and that the doom was not true, but after the continuing financial crisis of the past 3 years, I am left with little faith.  Just as with an overburdened family budget, we must cut the spending to match our income or risk having the debt service force us into an, ever worsening, downward spiral toward financial ruin.

Common sense dictates that there must be immediate cuts to spending in the $400 Billion or more range, cuts that include all departments even Defense and incentives employed concurrently to jumpstart employment in order to begin substantially increasing revenues.  The object is to be bold, to jump out of the ditch and point the economy toward prosperity once more, not to simply tread water and await our fate as this new deal offers. 

There is now reason for additional concern for the separation of powers and future of liberty as the Congress has once more, in the Budget Control Act of 2011, vested additional powers to the President, by relinquishing their constitutional power and duty to determine the need and time to spend our money and vesting it with the President. 

It would seem, once more, the Congress has not failed to disappoint the people it is supposed to be serving!

Come November 2012, the Tea Party should not disappoint those who have failed us!!