| Vice President Biden loves to say that a rich nation (America) has a moral obligation to pay for this and that (currently Health Care). One problem, we are not rich. Here is what each of us need to fund each and every year. Except, as I discuss below, fifty percent of America pays no income tax. Per Capita Government Spending in the United States Fiscal Year 2010 Government Pensions $3,196 / person Government Health Care + $3,529 / person Government Education + $3,388 / person National Defense + $2,901 / person Government Welfare + $2,429 / person All Other Spending + $5,484 / person Total Spending = $21,055 / person So, take the 21,055 times two, which is about $42,000 from each Of course, all this has not been paid and can not | |||
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SEC, DTCC and Goldman Sachs Scandals Require “True Financial Reform,”
Not Obama Administration’s Phony Refunding of ACORN-Clones
Not Obama Administration’s Phony Refunding of ACORN-Clones
Conventional stupidity says "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" and explains how the U.S. got in bed with Stalin during World War II. It's always been stupid to act that way and right now, Barack Obama is banking on at least one Republican to vote for his latest monstrosity Barackbanking a so-called "reform" of the financial industry. Relying on backing from uninformed voters emotionally distraught over the financial collapse, Obama is making another power grab with the usual sinister undertones, this time involving ACORN, which most Americans have assumed just up and disappeared.
Once again Barak Obama and his Marxist administration is using public perception of a weakness in the capitalist system to attempt to put more and greater control of the American economy into federal hands and to advance his communist agenda. Case in point: passing this Barackbanking bill will place another 9% of the economy under federal government control . . . and hidden in the 3,100+ page bill are all sorts of sneaky addendums that would effectively make all the defunded ACORN-clone organizations who recently changed their names instantaneously eligible for funding all over again. As usual an awful lot of evil can be hidden behind the sweet-sounding word “reform” but remember, what’s perceived as wonderful for Barak and his yes-men really SUCKS for America. Be a patriot, Mr. Congressman, vote this piece of crap into the nearest toilet.
Once again Barak Obama and his Marxist administration is using public perception of a weakness in the capitalist system to attempt to put more and greater control of the American economy into federal hands and to advance his communist agenda. Case in point: passing this Barackbanking bill will place another 9% of the economy under federal government control . . . and hidden in the 3,100+ page bill are all sorts of sneaky addendums that would effectively make all the defunded ACORN-clone organizations who recently changed their names instantaneously eligible for funding all over again. As usual an awful lot of evil can be hidden behind the sweet-sounding word “reform” but remember, what’s perceived as wonderful for Barak and his yes-men really SUCKS for America. Be a patriot, Mr. Congressman, vote this piece of crap into the nearest toilet.
However, just as there is a genuine need for REAL reform in health care delivery, etc which will need to be addressed once Obamacare is repealed, there is truly an immense need for TRUE financial reform once Barackbanking fails and the progressive majorities are history after November. Let Rajpuut mince no words, Congress and the General Accounting Office (GAO) need to throw a noose around Goldman Sachs people, the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) and (Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC) -- two of the most corrupt oversight agencies since Foxes began guarding chicken houses -- and march them right over to the nearest cottonwood tree. Is your head spinning? Let us explain . . . .
Yes, Virginia, ACORN and several years worth of Obama and Obama-clone lawyers did bring on the sub-prime lending crisis by forcing lenders to make terribly ill-advised loans to folks without jobs, folks with credit ratings in the 300’s, folks without IDs and even illegal aliens . . . yes, that’s true. But, second place among those culpable for the present financial mess has to belong to these two (SEC and DTCC) absolutely sneaky organizations. Along with the idiots in Congress in 1977, 1992 and 1998 who passed the ridiculous laws that ACORN was able to exploit against this country in the form of forced-ridiculous mortgages . . . Goldman Sachs and the SEC and DTCC are most guilty for bringing this nation to its knees from late 2007 to the present. Corruption on a major scale is rampant in these three organizations and needs to be shot down and fully punished. Additionally, after rolling heads out the door at the SEC and DTCC, Goldman Sachs needs to be punished to the tune of roughly $100 billion dollars and forever barred from holding any federal position of financial responsibility for the next twenty years.
So, getting down to particulars, what corruption is being talked about here? Well, starting with the DTCC . . . . The DTCC has the easiest clerical job in the oversight industry. All they have to do is see that the straightforward legal requirements are met in the vast majority of cases (say 99% of the time) whenever stocks are bough or sold. In the simplest instance, sell a stock and you must deliver a copy of the stock certificate within the legal timeframe. Buy a stock and you must deliver the money for the stock within the same time period. Simple-pimple. But the DTCC seldom actually does its job, it’s employees are ex-brokerage firm employees in many cases and they just ask their buddies, “John, everything copasetic? And that’s as far as it goes. The SEC, it’s believed only examines the DTCC once every other year. The DTCC, meanwhile is responsible for $1.5 quadrillion (that’s right QUADrillion!) in transactions ever single year and they don’t do their job.
Where this gets dangerous is in the matter of short-selling. You see a company like Bear Stearn or Lehman Brothers or Enron and you know they’re cruising for a bruising. So you sell their stock, except you don’t actually hold their stock, oooops, well you borrow their stock and turn the certificate over to the brokerage firm of the purchaser within the legally prescribed time limit. But wait a minute, because the DTCC never actually does its job, you never actually borrow the stock and never actually give the certificate to the purchaser’s brokerage – this is called “NAKED SHORT-SELLING” and huge amounts of it helped drive Bear-Stearns and Lehman Brothers stock and made it almost impossible for people actually owning the stock to get any value at all for their holdings. So someone wants to short sell, but it’s impossible to find someone to lend them the stock (people don’t like to commit their stock for any time period when financial armageddon approaches, they feel they might well need to sell it in a hurry. But here we have over 30 million illegal short sells that were driving the price down dramatically . . . which is a killer for someone who actually owns the stock. In practice, illegal naked short sales OFTEN go months at a time without delivery of the sold stock certificates.
In the case of the SEC, their corruption lies in knowing there are violations, serious violations, going on and looking the other way. In recent times the SEC corruption covered up the DTCC tendency for incompetence well known at the SEC and routinely overlooked; in 2008, the SEC stepped in to save face for the DTCC at huge cost to the public. Let’s go back to Lehman Bros. for an easy example: SEC records shows that an incredible 32.8 million shares of Lehman Bros. were sold but never delivered to buyers as of last September less than two weeks before the company declared bankruptcy which helped trigger the nearly full-implosion of our financial system. The SEC, which attacked Martha Stewart but not Bernie Madoff you’ll recall even though her actual guilt is still disputable and his had been tracked for years, is seemingly completely impotent and even frightened of doing the job it’s been created to do. In the Lehman Bros. example, the SEC found out that the DTCC was using “phantom stock” in a particular mumbo-jumbo called their “borrowed stock progam” to make up the difference. Only trouble, the DTCC is also NOT borrowing real stock and not delivering real stock to the buyers so the DTCC is actually abetting the illegal short-sales and the SEC knew that and did . . . NOTHING! Got that, all the while the DTCC is stating with a straight-face that NO illegal naked short-selling is going on . . . the SEC is backing them up and say, “NOPE, nobody here but us chickens!”
As for Goldman*** Sachs . . . they must be in bed with every congressman and senator in Washington to operate the way they do and never get even so much as a slap on the wrist. Consider this . . . Rajjpuut offers you a chance on a seeming coin-flip investment and sells you a piece of paper outlining your investment potential and advertisement claiming that you’ve got at least a 60% payout if your investment comes through. Sly Ol’ Rajjpuut hasn’t mentioned that your position in the coin-flip investment is the equivalent of backing a landing on the coin’s edge (say a ten million to one shot). That’s pretty much what Goldman Sachs is accused of knowingly offering their customers in an operation called “the heist” and knowingly setting up for a scam artist while knowingly collecting a huge amount of commissions as the heist proceeded to empty the little guys’ wallet as they knowingly favored that one client (a hedge fund operator) over thousands of investors it misled into thinking they were being offered a can’t miss deal. Meanwhile Goldman Sachs is actually a favored company receiving the contract to do a federal job and receiving huge draw down in the process . . . virtually the only stock brokerage to come out of the recent Wall Street debacle on top was GS. More below, but read about the exact details of “the heist” here:
http://www.startribune.com/nation/91031524.html
Meanwhile, as noted, Goldman really has the “ins” with the Feds. Timothy Geithner’s friend, a Goldman Sachs lobbyist was announced as Geithner’s new aide on the very day he issued a prohibition from hiring lobbyists in the Treasury Dept. President Obama recently announced he intended to install a former GS exec as the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Without discussion he was approved. GS received $13 Billion in the $170 Billion AIG bailout for ???? It now appears that AIG was apparently secretly used to bail out highly connected banks and financial institutions like GS and UBS. Secretary Paulson’s old firm was GS, of course, and whether with Bush or Obama GS continues to fall into the manure pile and come up smelling rosy. Paulson created a recommendation group about what must be done with AIG and heading it up were GS people. Obama’s administration has collected $5.2 million from a GS hedge fund and been paid several hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees by GS and GS related groups. The Federal Reserve Bank recently allowed GS to convert from an investment bank into a bank holding company usually a situation in which profits are severely restricted. This most recent blowout quarter for GS, however, saw over $2 Billion in profits. Barney Frank’s stop staffer (Frank is chairman of the House Financial Services Committee) cut loose and was immediately hired by GS as their, you guessed it, their top lobbyist. GS is dirty but the feds have no interest in exposing it.
So, is financial reform necessary? You bet. Is Barakbanking true financial reform? Not only “No, but HELL no!” Barackbanking is another attempt to move more and more control over American society into the executive branch of big gov while heavily refunding the ACORN-clones. First, defeat Barackbanking, next defeat Obama’s progressives in November and finally institute true financial reform and string up the SEC, DTCC and Goldman Sachs and their congressional protectors.
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
** * The SEC on Friday, April 16th filed fraud charges against Goldman Sachs for the ir involvement in the short-selling scam engineered by John Paulson (no known relation to the former Treasury Secretary). Sachs often called “Government Sachs” is, most obviously tied to the repayment at 100 cents on the dollar for contracts whose true market value, given the circumstances AIG was in, was probably no more that twenty cents on the dollar. Amazingly, $13 Billion of the $171 bailout to AIG was “misdirected” into GS hands. This fraudulent use of their fiduciary responibility cost the taxpayers at least $10.4 Billion. Anyway you look at it GS quacks like a mighty corrupt duck. However . . . . given that an SEC lawyer who a dozen years ago advised quashing charges against the R. Allen Stanford ponzi operation which has only now been brought to light . . . given that the lawyer in question is representing Stanford . . . .
. . .Yes, you’re correct, there’s plenty of room for a bit of suspicion here based upon the timing of the SEC charges. The SEC goes for years without remove its figurative thumb from where it usually sits. Now just on the eve of the big push to pass barackbanking, they get all serious on us just as Democrats are trying to get even one Republican to vote for their embarrassingly partisan, corrupt and poorly-conceived financial “reform “ legislation. Could that be a coincidence? Ha? Besides its problems with the corrupt refunding of ACORN-clones, the bill in large part is more of the idiotic “too big to fail” bull-feces that got us two stimulus packages and bailouts that have not helped create jobs. Barackbanking actually would punish firms for being “too big” and definitely encourages government to tell banks how to run their business . . . you’ll remember it was our progressive government’s abetting of ACORN with three ill-conceived mortgage-guarantee laws that allowed them to pressure banks and lending institutions to make abysmal home loans to far less than credit-worthy borrowers (some without jobs; others without ID; virtually all with credit scores under 600; and even to illegal aliens) that was the prime cause of the financial meltdown still socking it to us today . . . and the SEC wouldn’t mind looking good in the news reports after their huge failures with the Madoff, Petters and Stanford scandals. These three cases of massive, long-running ponzi schemes which the SEC didn’t uncover are surely a black-eye for that most incompetent and incompetent bureaucracy . . . but now charges are being laid upon the SEC that they knew of the Stanford ponzi scheme since at least 1997 and did . . . NOTHING! Oh my, bull and bears and nertz, oh my!
I have no representation while Obama Democrats say with an open smile; "Once we pass this bill we can see what is in it", Politicians swear they have read each bill though it is physically impossible, Stimulus plans that amounts to making air drops of cash over large cities. Taxation is replaced by earning redistribution. Stealing Pork is more important than fairly serving our national needs.
Meanwhile our NY Governor Patterson delays replacement of Massa (Tickle freak) because a Republican is the likely winner. Chemung County NY, is an Oasis of Republican sanity in New York states swamp of Democrats. Pelosi angered at this flooded funds to Massa during the last election. Massa a relative unknown appealed to the fringe Democrats, independents and a wealth of confused military, taunting his obscure military service and VA promises.. Republican Kuhl, had served several years and was well liked by most but pounded by pelosi cash. Massa just barely won on a rainy day. Gov Patterson is interfering in my constitutional rights to Federal representation. Meanwhile the votes narrowly pass. As a republican I have also been failed by RINOS. I fear the rebuilding of Washington could be troubled by moderating government growth but continuing the irresponsible spending. Wise downsizing of government control and spending as our forefathers invisioned is my goal.
I was a high school senior when I volunteered for the U. S. Army Air Corps. I was made a pre-aviation cadet. I dreamed of sitting behind a powerful engine and flying into the wild blue yonder. On October 12, 1943, twenty-five days after I turned eighteen, raring to go, I was inducted. Right off the bat, my dream of flying was shattered. I was told no more air cadets were needed. Why was I inducted? Don’t ask. You are never told. I was to be an aircraft mechanic. No more aircraft mechanics were needed. I was shipped to England and made a teletype operator, only no teletype operators were needed. I did nothing for a year in England.
Then I was made a combat rifleman and handed an M1 rifle and pair of British hobnail boots. The U. S. Army didn’t have any American combat boots with Neoprene soles. I was shipped to the front, which was then at the Rhine River in Germany, and attached to the 97th Division. On my first night at the front, I was assigned to outpost duty patrolling the streets around my outfit’s place for the night, a school building. Wouldn’t you know that when I was clopping down a cobblestone street my own troops would fire on me. The Germans wore hobnail boots. Wouldn’t you think the U. S. Army would have known this? Don’t ask. You will not be told. I was issued a pair of used American combat boots, a size too big but better than be shot dead. Well, in spite of it all, we won the war, but that’s the last war we’ve won. It just keeps getting worse and worse.
We threaten the people who supply us with intelligence, read Miranda rights to enemy combatants, court marshal the troops when they should be given medals, and schedule the date when the fighting ends and we come home. Instead of wars, it’s merely events held for political posturing. But don’t ask. You will not be told. Who is this Commander in Chief? We don’t know. He’s hiding his identity. Don’t ask. You will not be told. I can’t believe this. We’re small children to do what we’re told. What is wrong with us?
Dear Barack Obama,
You once held a job as a senior lecturer in Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Rajjpuut takes that to mean that the University of Chicago Law School must have the least competent staff in the world because you, Mr. Obama are clearly the greatest Constitution-Trasher and Constitution-Basher in American presidential history. Everything the Constitution is and desires, you are clearly against. You, in fact, clearly despise the very spirit of that document.
Now some of this can be foregiven (the leftists running much of the media would say “can be understood”) merely by calling you a “progressive” which means among other things that you are “someone who believes the Constitution is a very flawed document which you in your far greater wisdom than the founding fathers realize America must clearly ‘progress beyond’ if the country is to be properly served.” You’re the man, Barack! And since “the man” is actually so much wiser than the founding fathers or so much more in tune with the ”Twenty-first Century needs” of the American Republic . . . then, by all means DO transform us. However, do it up front -- like a man -- don’t continually seek to sneak by every contrived change as something done for our own good engineered for our own good by the shadiest of processes. For example, tell us that you, in your greater wisdom, regard a “Republic” as far inferior to a Marxist state. Tell us that you in your greater compassion, realize that the Bill of Rights is totally outdated and you’ve got better stuff to eventually replace it, oh and by the way, you might even tell us what that replacement would be and what pages of “Das Kapital”** it comes from. Tell us, up front, that you regard capitalism as an abomination that enslaves people and exploits them and then describe the full nature of the communistic state you’re planning for us. It’s really the proper and honest thing to do.
You see, Barak, one reason we Americans, silly of us I know, respect the U.S. Constitution, is that the framers of it and the Declaration of Independence were so open in all their actions and all their words . . . so forgive us if, silly us, we’d like you to be 100% open and above board and admit exactly who and what you are and where you plan on dragging us? Your birth-father whatever his other faults might have been, was an open and honest communist. While deploring his beliefs, Rajjpuut admires his integrity. The same canNOT be said for you, Barack.
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
** In “Dreams From My Father” our president showed clear reverence for the man (Barak Hussein Obama, Sr.^^) who wrote the 1965 article linked below, “Problems Facing Our Socialism.” The paper extolls, among other communistic virtues, the proper role of “100% taxation.” On the very first page of the essay, Barak, Sr. even lists his own favorite ideology, “scientific socialism” and immediately makes it precisely clear that to him the term scientific socialism means “communism” and nothing else. In the essay, over and over again he makes obvious his preference for 100% public, rather than private, ownership of land, produce and other property saying “We have to look at priorities in terms of what is good for society and on this basis we may find it necessary to force people to do things they would not do otherwise.” Here is the paper in its entirety:
http://www.politico.com/static/PPM41_eastafrica.html
Notice how often Barak, Sr. openly uses the name “Marx” and the words “tax” and “nationalization” (confiscation of the businesses of foreigners as well as those of non-African Kenyan citizens) in this brief paper. This is the man, his father, whom Barak admired above all others. His hero, instead of George Washington, Lincoln, Reagan, Truman or Kennedy, is this man. And the dreams expressed in this paper and other published works are his dreams . . . dreams from the man (who proved too radical even for a socialist Kenya and was kicked out of his job in the office of Economic Development for “not being able to keep his mouth shut” according to Barak’s half sister in “Dreams From My Father”) he admired most in all the world. For God’s sake, if you wanted to know who Hitler was, read “Mein Kampf,” If you want to know who Barak Obama is, read “Dreams From My Father” (where he deliberately omits the words communist and communism and never tells you about the communist environment he was raised in) and then read Barak H. Obama, Sr.’s dreams in this tiny essay. What he says on page 31 (page 8 of 10 in the article) in particular delineates his dream for Kenya, which is his son’s dream for us. The fact that this dream has not changed, and is NOT likely to change, can be surmised from our president’s twice interrupting his own presidential campaigning to visit Kenya and campaign for the communist candidate for Kenya’s president, his cousin Raila Odinga, and even to twice wearing Muslim attire during that Kenyan campaign as well as ordinary suit and tie at other times.
^^ notice Barak, Sr. spelled his first name without a ‘c’ and apparently never changed his name in any fashion during his life. This Barak without a ‘c’ is how his son’s name was spelled at birth. Barak, Jr., unlike his father, has gone under Barak Obama as well as Barak Sotero (taking on the surname of his mother’s second husband) Barry Sotero, Barry Obama, “Barry Soweto,@” and now Barack with a “c” Obama rather than again being open and honest about who he actually is and what he actually believes in and what he plans for America. Just as Barak, Sr.’s name has now been officially westernized (over about 85% of the internet including Wikipedia) to be the same as his son’s with the “c” changing history . . . Barack Obama believes it is by such little and big changes to transform America into communism: the longheld dream of his father for Kenya.
@ there seems to be nothing beyond sheer whim explaining where the name Barry Soweto came from, but Obama used it exclusively during his undergraduate college years
The occasion for naming a new Supreme Court Judge has rekindled the liberal bitterness among some in the media over the Court's Citizens United ruling in January which gave freedom of speech protections to corporations, unions, and non-profits.
Theuse of the word "Alarming" in the article title no doubt meant that theauthor felt republicans would benefit more from the Court's decision.
Any doubts were erased when the article was read.
According to the author of this piece, due to the ruling the US Chamber of Commerce was putting into action its "most aggressive drives ever" to raise money "to favor mainly republicans" in 50 races this fall....
..."most aggressive drives ever" the piece said, while unions were merely "working to keep pace" for their democrat favorites.
Really? Merely "working to keep pace?"
According to data on OpenSecrets.organd provided by the Federal Election Commission as of March 21, 2010,union donations to democrat candidates and causes have amounted to morethan "working to keep pace."
Since 1990, those unions rated in the top 50 of industry donors as ranked by OpenSecrets.org have donated $636 million to democrats while donating $52 million to republicans (92% vs. 8%).
ServiceEmployees International Union President Andy Stern said, "We spent afortune to elect barack obama." To which Joe Biden would later reply," we owe you."
Republicans enjoy no such huge advantage from any industry in OpenSecret's top 50 rankings.
Nosingle industry group on the list donated more than $333 million torepublicans over the same time period when unions were investing over ahalf billion to democrats.
Even the oil and gas industrydonations fell short of the unions while donating a paltry $186 millionto republicans such as Bush/Cheney since 1990.
The writer of the NY Times piece suffers from the same misconception of republicans and big business donations and lobbying efforts as most of the public.
APew Research Center Report in February 2010 found that commondescriptions of the republican party were, "for the rich, corporateinterests and greed."
Democrats were seen in the same report asthe party that "stands for the average person, the middle-class and theworking class."
Asked which party is more influenced bylobbyists and special interests, 40% of respondents said thatrepublicans were, while 32% chose democrats.
Thus, it is not surprising from this report that many across the U.S.A. would incorrectly figure that the Citizen's United ruling would favor republicans.
Excludingunions from the OpenSecrets top 50 industry list, we find that since1990 total industry donations to political campaigns/causes/lobbying ofdemocrats equals $3.959 BILLION, while the same source of donations torepublicans over the same period totaled $3.954 BILLION....virtuallyeven but democrats with slight edge.
If you add the unions backinto that mix, then totals to democrats go to $4.595 BILLION, whilerepublicans increase to $4.006 BILLION (53% VS. 47%), a larger edge todemocrats.
Since Citizens United was the political action groupresponsible for this ruling, let us look at how liberal groups andconservative groups compare over the last 20 years in supporting theirrespective causes/candidates.
Democrat/liberal groups, such as MoveOn.org,have since 1990 donated or invested $141 million in political races andcauses, while republican/conservative groups, such as Citizens Unitedhave given $106 million to their side...again, a slight edge todemocrats.
If we look at just the top 10 industry groups whichhave donated to political causes/campaigns over the last 20 years(includes biggies like lawyers/law firms, securities/investment, realestate, health professionals, insurance, and oil and gas industries),we find that dems lead this top 10 group with $2.45 billion compared tothe $1.99 billion received by republicans...edge to democrats.
Non-profits?
Since1990 non-profit organizations have donated $47 million to democratswhile only $15 million has gone to republicans...edge to democrats.
Thismisconception about big business being in the pocket of republicans isperpetuated by ignorance and false rhetoric from the media and thegovernment.
Chris Good writing for the Atlantic (Jan. 21, 2010)said: "as the pro-business party in US politics, republicans have had aclose relationship with business than have democrats."
Right.
CNN's"legal expert" Jeffrey Toobin said on Mar. 15, 2010: "The politicaleffect of, if not intention for, the decision was clear: Citizens United looks to be a big win for republicans, who are the likely beneficiaries of the newly lubricated corporate largess."
Uh huh.
Democrat Senator Arlen Spector called the Court's decision, "conservative activism."
The Slate'sNathaniel Persily was silly in writing on Jan. 25, 2010: "Corporationmoney will flow in great amounts towards ads supporting republicancandidates. Union money will flow as well, but not as much, so democrats and their causes might be at an disadvantage."
But not as much.
A New York Times (Jan22, 2010) story said about the Court's ruling: "A conservative majorityhas distorted teh political system to ensure that republican candidateswill be at an enormous advantage in future elections."
Reporting for the Washington Post (2/17/2010), reporter Dan Eggan stated: "Corporations have traditionally favored republicans in their contribution patterns."
Really?
A man with deep-seated faith in himself would not have connected with Marxist teaching at Harvard; would not have attended Reverend Wright’s church 20 years; would not have been a community organizer in South Chicago. Obama swims in an out-to-control school of sharks. The mainstream press backed Obama. Prince Charming is a shill for the far left. The psychological effect of being electronically projected daily to millions of people all over the world, Obama, the most powerful man on earth, and inwardly insecure, has a megalomaniac effect.
Astrologers had speculated about what might take place during a certain Saturn-Pluto alignment, including a strong possibility of an act of international terrorism. Within moments of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, virtually every astrologer in the country knew that the forces symbolized by the Saturn-Pluto alignment, an alignment that had coincided in the past with so many grim periods of historical crisis and contraction had erupted.
The smug Barrack Obama doesn’t know, and most of the Tea Party doesn’t yet know, consciously, what the avant-garde knows. Astrologer Jeanne Avery says we Aquarians are the “forerunners in setting style, discovering new methods, and showing the rest of humanity the way.” We may be “especially enlightened, metaphysical, scientific, and inventive.”
The mainstream press has been diligently hammering away at Sarah Palin. With the Tea Party, an even bigger jolt to the left, the mainstream press is hammering away at the Tea Party, and to no avail. The Tea Party is growing by leaps and bounds. The pieces of the puzzle are falling into place.
Distinguished philosopher and cultural historian Richard Tarnas demonstrates the existence of an astonishingly consistent correspondence between planetary alignments and the archetypal patterns of human history in Cosmos and Psyche. Based on 30 years of meticulous research, the book points to a radical change in our understanding of the cosmos.
We learn in Cosmos and Psyche that due to an unfavorable alignment of Saturn and Pluto, commencing in November 2008 and lasting three to four years, “an atmosphere of gravity and tension,” as did a “widespread sense of epochal closure,” the destruction of an earlier mode of life may have been marked by “widespread indulgence, decadence, naiveté, denial, and inflation.” There's the Mayan calendar telling us the end of this world is coming. Actually, “you picked a fine time to lead us, Barrack.” Amusing, isn’t it? In the month and year Obama was elected, Saturn and Pluto went into their worst alignment. The heavens are preparing us for a new age. The Age of Pisces is fading into the past, whose symbol is two attached fish swimming in opposite directions. We're entering the Age of Aquarius. We Aquarians are the water-bearers to humanity, the brotherhood that brings everlasting peace to the world.
Profound transformation was the “dominant theme” in the Saturn-Pluto alignment, only, as with the Uranus-Pluto unfavorable alignment, transformation was through “contraction, conservative reaction, crises and termination,” wrote Tarnas. Hello! Obama’s transformation doe not line up with planetary movements. With Sarah Palin and the Tea Party, we’re back to The “Higher Law” Background of American Constitutional Law by Edward S. Corwin. This famous essay provides a bold and accurate outline of the tradition behind the “higher law” of the United States and places in historical perspective the political philosophy underlying the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. I purchased the essay in a secondhand law book store for one dollar in 1973. It was the beginning of a road less traveled for me. I got on my path of destiny, to the end that all my dreams have come true.
Says this Aquarian: “Goodby Obama. It’s been nice to know ya.”
I joined the Tea Party tonight because I believe that the future of America is hanging by a thread. I believe in the principles set forth by the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. I personally was raised in a "whitebread" community in a country club in NJ in the 1970's and raised to believe that all men/women are created equally and deserve the right to strive for excellence which I have done & achieved. I am willing to fight because although I am a pacifist and a Catholic, my children are "biracial" (my husband and I have informed them that they are "Americian") and I want them to live in a clean, peaceful and free world where they can pursue their dreams. They already speak of their plans to do so and they are only 3 years old. What a wonderful way to start! Let us hope that we can continue to afford to be able to support their gifts, talents, values and hopes for a better and brighter USA, because at the rate our country is going, we no longer can do so despite our blood, sweat, sleeplessness, grit, toil, sacrifice and HARDSHIP, I dare say, matches some of that which is being brought to the spotlight by our current administration.
As Thursday's Tax Day demonstrations drew over two million enthusiastic protestors out for the occasion, totally ignored by the mainstream media was the unveiling of the TEA (taxed enough already) Party’s “Contract FROM America.” The Contract from America consists of the “Top-Ten” most popular planks from among the group’s twenty-one original planks. Of the top-ten planks in the Contract, the number-one issue is clearly protecting the Constitution . . . not just because a plank by that name received the most internet votes and a closely related plank was voted into fifth position, but also because each and every one of the other eight planks honors the concept of limited federal government, returning power to the people and the states vis a vis the federal government and controlling size, spending and interference of the federal government. Here are the Contract From America's Top Ten Planks:
Protect the Constitution of the United States
Reject Cap and Trade legislation
Demand a balanced budget
Enact fundamental tax reform
Restore fiscal responsibility and constitutionally limited
government in Washington, D.C.
End Runaway government spending
Defund, repeal and replace government-run health care
Pass an “all-of-the-above” energy policy
Stop porkbarrel spending and earmarks in legislation
Prevent further tax hikes
These are the ten yardsticks for measuring candidates this coming November which the TEA Party will employ. Rajjpuut finds nine of the ten items he supported on the list as well as his item #13 and is deeply impressed with the wisdom shown by those who voted on the twenty-one item list. For those of us who believe that informed and caring citizens are the nation’s only chance of stepping back from the precipice of doom, this is a most heart-warming result. For the imbecilic mass media who called these gentle and concerned people “racists, haters and violent extremists,” Rajjpuut reminds you of Glen Beck’s nightly close using this Gandhi quote. “Let truth be your anvil and non-violence your hammer. Whatever does NOT ring true when struck on the anvil of truth by the hammer of non-violence must be rejected . . .” so let it be when the media’s lies and hate and extreme left-leanings are brought upon us . . . they are all rejected in the process. Just as the TEA Party says to the legislators “You work for us, we don’t work for you,” Rajjpuut says to the liberal media, “you either cover the truth or you only pretend to cover the news.” This fine document (these top-ten planks making up their 2010 Contract from America) is truly exactly what this country needs now. Let the media cover this great grassroots revolt truly and honestly or let them all die from lack of solvency as people refuse to pay to read or hear their lies.
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
I suggest, if we’re not willing to give up things like, our greed for good, pornography for our own wives, our time for our kids and senior citizens, then we’re not ready to sacrifice for the betterment of this country. Like the average dysfunctional person, we’re only willing to point fingers (such as I am) at what others AREN”T doing right. I strongly believe our moral compass has gone haywire and is the reason we can't get along anymore. There are reasons why lying, stealing, racism, cheating, greed, adultery, sex before marriage, homosexuality, are wrong. And, I’m certain I don’t need to be the one to point these reasons out. But I often ask myself questions such as,
Why aren’t we prosecuting those who commit adultery?
Why can’t we allow the churches, who really care about the people, take back the power of treating the sick? After all, who built most of the hospitals?
Why can’t we rid the government of all welfare programs and hand it back to the churches? “Those who don’t work, don’t eat!"
Why do we put up with all nonsense litigation that costs us so many tax dollars, like the inmate who sued the government because he couldn’t get the crunchy (or smooth, I forget) peanut butter while incarcerated… and won???
I would really like to get this country back to its Christian principles it was founded on. Freedom of religion to the founders meant freedom of the Christian denominations, not world religions. I don’t mean to force the Christian religion onto others, that’s not how it works. It only works when we show others how much we care for them and their future along with a strong moral stance and apologetics. I strongly believe we all need to reach and convince this lazy, greedy, adulterous generation (including me), that it is our moral depravity that is sending us to our doom, not the health care bill, not Obama, Pelosi, or Reed. If we had a moral foundation, these leaders would not be known today.
This God, who loves and cherishes his children, has often used the enemy of His people to destroytheir nation once they have forsaken Him. It just might be the radical Islamic nations that will be the instruments used by God to finalize our judgment of moral decay. I think, He is warning us...
Iran Will Gain Apocalyptic Nukes Soon
Barack the Ditherer’s vacillation in dealing with Iran has now, after sixteen months of playful diplomacy, brought us to a crucial point in Middle East and World History. Now, early 2010 is the point where a Muslim theocracy hating the Jewish state of Israel and believing that an Islamic Apocalypse is necessary, in accordance with their theology to “bring back the twelth Imam” (a Messianic figure called the “Mahdi”) which is the highest and noblest possible purpose within their belief system . . . such a nation is within days, weeks or months of gaining nuclear wartips for its missiles. Thank you, Barack! Allah be praised! And as for those veiled threats (“we will take nothing off the table”) Obama's made in recent days, Rajjpuut reminds the less devout infidel westerners that the deterrent power of our own nukes and our own veiled threats have never been nearly enough to stop ANY jihadist contemplating an after-life full of virgin brides . . . and now thirty years after their country first brought Islamic Revolt to the attention of the world by attacking and occupying our embassy, Iran will NOT be deterred by the probability of its entire nation being vaporized –- realizing wisely that to get to heaven, you’ve first got to die, Iran will aim for heaven.
Deterents against madmen are worse than useless. Deterring Iran's mullahs from their commitment to fiery apocalypic messianic death is not in the cards, don’t fool yourself. After all those years of America's confrontations with the former Soviet Union . . . it now appears that the planned nuclear attack by a fourth-rate nation achieving its first bombs is now almost inevitable.
According to former high-ranking Reagan security official Frank Gaffney, in a recent interview, “The only country Barack Obama can lead to de-nuclearization is our own.” Gaffney, founder and president of the Center for Security Policy says that sanctions against Iran will definitely fail and only a military strike can now stop Iran becoming a nuclear power. According to Gaffney, Iran has been trying to build or acquire a nuke for over twenty years. “It took the United States three years to invent a nuclear weapon, to then develop the capacity to build them and then to use two of them for military ends. We had no idea of the science, lacked all access to computer science, lacked most of the technological breakthroughs deemed fundamental in today’s nuclear world . . . it could be any day now, if not, maybe a few months. I would be surprised if it’s as long as a year. Certainly, it would be the height of folly to think you’ll be alble to dissuade them from pursuing their theological ends and even starting a nuclear war.”
President Obama, according to media sources, has recently made breakthroughs in getting both Russia and China to talk seriously about sanctions for Iran. Gaffney scoffs at the idea. “China regards Iran as one of their most important clients and their most important energy source.” Gaffney says that an American military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities would likely have very severe repercussions, but must be seriously weighed because as the chief exporter of terror in the world, Iran acquiring nuclear weapons would be “a huge threat for freedom around the globe.” He also said that the Taliban was almost as big a threat to get nuclear material or nuclear weapons from Pakistan (the only Muslim nation currently among the nuclear powers).
Gaffney said that Obama’s effort to reduce stockpiles of nuclear weapons and his vow not to modernize our weapons, amounts to a “unilateral denuclearization of the United States. The truth of the matter is, the only country Barack Obama can denuclearize is ours, and I personally don’t think that’s advisable. And I don’t think most Americans will either once they focus on it.” Amen!
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
Rajjpuut’s guessing at least 60% of Americans (the vast UNinformed) might have felt great relief seeing the recent Newsweek cover saying “America’s Back!” (Hopefully, they didn’t waste their needed funds actually buying that rag.) The two best statistics in Newsweek’s favor are the stock market’s year-long climb and this month’s upswing in housing construction. You, however, as a reader of Rajjpuut's Folly, know that overall the real picture is not that rosy: unemployment is quite high; foreclosures and bank failures are rampant; deficits and national debt are growing semi-geometrically; two of the three American auto companies despite $100+ billion in handouts have NOT turned-around significantly; government size and scope are growing to dangerous liberty-endangering proportions; a new entitlement program Obamacare threatens to put the final nail in the coffin of American capitalism; unions are not interested in cooperating with management to return the nation’s products to competitive-price desirability; unions are not cooperating with states to help the states meet their own financial disasters; and most importantly, we have short-sightedly failed to cut taxes or decrease government spending. How far are we from financial Armageddon? Are we already there?
In actuality, we stand on the cusp of the disintegration of the American Republic as we’ve known it since 1776, the finest experiment in freedom and responsibility ever seen on this earth. For the first time in our history, one generation looks to pass on far less than it inherited from its American predecessors. The politicians have sold away our children's and grandchilren's future. The fiscal-cataclysm that brought us to this point, rather than abating still intensifies creating great distress for our citizens. This distress and the problems leading us to this point have been deliberately shrouded in mystery and dissembled (lied) about for the protection of those who caused the problem, thus the problems persist and intensify rather than improving. Rather than getting to the matter of in depth individual and collective guilt, let’s take a few brief paragraphs and allude to two different approaches to fiscal-downturns: the well-known “New Deal” and the virtually never seriously discussed “Get Government out of the Way” approach a.k.a. the Warren G. Harding “Invisible Depression Approach” . . . .
In 1920 the nation began suffering “the Unknown Depression” a.k.a. “the Invisible Depression,” one of countless such financial panics that the nation has endured in its history. This panic might have been part of the normal ebb and flow of the economy, those normal ups and downs found in all free markets. However, the situation was greatly compounded and exacerbated by the problems created by the end of the economic boom upon many industries and for the American farmer by World War I’s end and the return of the troops (jobless now) to American shores, and the difficulties repaying loans owed America by many nations almost ruined by the war, and the de-stabilizing effect of the so-called Spanish Flu pandemic which began in and around Ft. Riley, Kansas and killed at least 800,000 Americans and up to 100 million people worldwide. On the government front, President Woodrow Wilson was sickly and his wife actually ran much of the government continuing his progressive policies (feeling that the U.S. Constitution is a flawed and thus an insufficient instrument for dealing with modernity and is therefore, something which must be “progressed” beyond by current politicians so much wiser than the founding fathers). Wilson was replaced in 1921 by Warren G. Harding, a do-nothing president more excited by chasing White House staff women into closets than governing and certainly totally UNinterested in creating any grandiose government initiatives. Harding became known, somewhat unfairly it seems although the President is ultimately responsible for what happens on his watch, for the Teapot Dome Scandal (that emerged after his death) and little else. He probably should be remembered as “the nation’s greatest depression fighter.”
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/powell-jim4.html
So as not to interrupt his Clinton-like oval office carousing, Harding largely kept his hands off the government making almost no serious expansions whatsoever in the structure or functioning of it. There was definitely a depression going on: gross national product plunged 24% from $91.5 billion in 1920 to $69.6 billion in 1921. The number of unemployed people jumped 133% from 2.1 million in 1920 to 4.9 million in 1921. Harding did make three changes, however. The first two changes were seemingly too small to actually matter, but they were important. The last change was huge and utterly inspired:
A. Wilson had (like Obama today) stopped all direct press conferences. Harding restored them twice a week and enjoyed personally dealing with the press’ questions. And the word historically is that he never dodged a question but sometimes clarified things later or asked for cabinet input or said “That’s one I don’t know, but I’ll find out, boys!”
B. Harding, from the first, explained to the press and to the people how the economy worked and constantly decried the negative effects of high taxes, government waste and government spending and interference (what Rajjpuut calls GSBs and GIBs – government spending and government interference boondoggles) on the nation’s productivity and economic health. Harding also championed a completely non-interventionist foreign policy as the best hope for peace. This was completely opposite to Wilson’s approaches. Wilson, as a progressive, had greatly multiplied the size and scope of government during his two terms even before the country entered WWI in 1917. He had promised to keep the nation out of war but as soon as he'd won re-election deliberately steered us into it; and then he'd gone gallivanting around Europe etc. trying to sell the world on a League of Nations (in other words Wilson was almost as huge an “interventionist” as Herbert Hoover, FDR and Obama).
C. Harding’s third change was the single largest lesson in economic history for America and its leaders in business and government ( a change which history books totally ignore and no one, therefore, learns from) . . . he slashed the national government to the bone! Tax cuts and spending cuts were huge. 1920’s $6.3 billion budget dropped to $3.2 billion in 1922 Harding’s first-full year controlling it.
Harding slashed taxes on corporate profits and “excess profits” dramatically as well. He established the General Accounting Office to provide oversight on government spending and waste and he stuck by his guns despite (his Secretary of Commerce) Herbert Hoover’s unceasing urging to help** the unemployed. The low point for federal taxes was reached in 1924. Federal spending reached its low in 1925. The federal government paid off debt, which had been $24.2 billion in 1920, and debt continued to decline and then small surpluses accumulated until 1930. The rebound was swift and almost painless and it ignited the single-most prosperous years in history “the Roaring Twenties” which Hoover’s progressive policies brought to an end and FDR’s ultra-progressivism expanded into a twelve-year depression only alleviated by putting 16 million men to work in the armed forces after Pearl Harbor.
Overall federal taxes decreased almost 40% in less than two years under Harding. As a result, wealth for private citizens increased tremendously. They came for the first time in large numbers to own automobiles, ice boxes and refrigerators, radios and often their own homes. Most rural citizens gained indoor plumbing and electric lighting for the first time. America for the first time became the haven for the world’s investors. The gold-backed U.S. dollar became the world’s default currency or international 'reserve' currency. Later, the true nature of progressive policies (a.k.a. theft) became obvious to our citizens and the world’s investors who would suffer the theft of much of the dollar’s value when FDR confiscated the nation’s gold and changed the exchange rate from $20.76 per ounce to $35 an ounce in an overnight inflation of 41%.
Harding suffered a stroke and died in early August, 1923, the sins of some of his cabinet were supposedly part of his legacy according to progressive historians. His real legacy is, however, that his Vice President (Calvin Coolidge) adopted precisely identical economic policies and the country thrived as never before until Silent Cal chose “not to run” in 1928 and the nation elected Republican progressive Hoover into office. Harding’s 18-month Depression compared to Hoover’s and Roosevelt’s dozen-year malaise stand as stark reminders of the benefits of government “staying out of the way.” Nevertheless, FDR got all the good press and Harding all the bad and the wrong model has been adopted today by FDR-admiring Barak Obama. Let us return to our present economic problem and its causes . . . but first a quick review . . . How exactly did Harding engineer such a stupendous turn-around? In a sentence: he cut government spending by almost 50% and cut taxes by 40% . . . our own predicament is so much worse that in a 21st Century Harding’s place, Rajjpuut would advocate a ten-year plan to maintain spending cuts of 60% and decrease taxes by 45%. Back to 2010 . . . .
Presumably, by now the full-truth about our present financial crisis clearly should have been 100% revealed to the people/voters and the congress and the world by an ever vigilant and conscientious press and honest able economists. However, the ever vigilant conscientious press . . . apparently no longer exists. However, honest and able economists are in short supply . . . certainly those of the Keynesian school which advocate inflation as a viable tool of mega- (and also totalitarian) government have proved themselves repeatedly neither honest nor able. The truth is NOT being revealed . . . why? The truth is not being revealed because it is in the IRrational best interests of the parties involved to keep that truth hidden. Ultimately the voters and the press bear a huge and enduring share of the blame and each would like to point the finger elsewhere. Most of the voters don’t want to be pushed away from their couch-potatoism and so they deny responsibility. The incredible failures of the press to not only NOT alert the public but to actually and willfully hide the truth from the public and present a slanted and self-interested viewpoint clearly verges on the brink of criminal in many cases with our most prestigious and honored newspapers, in particular bearing the largest responsibility (perhaps why they're all going as bankrupt in financial matters as they are in journalistic ones?). But ultimately, the sins of the press and of the voters pale in comparison to those of the politicians and, in particular to the culpability of the Constitution-Trashers and law-abusing legislators.
Rajjpuut counts a full eighteen guilty political groups, including to mention a few: President G.W. Bush and Republicans and Democrats in congress who passed Medicare D; President Obama and other lawyers working for ACORN at forcing banks into clearly unwise housing loans with virtually no chance of ever being paid off; the three Democratic congresses responsible for passing Carter’s 1977 Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) of 1977, the forced mortgage-guarantee expansion to Freddie and Fannie in 1992; and the Clinton 1998 mortgage-guarantee act of 1998, which put the whole process on steroids; and most importantly of all the left-wing think tanks which revered Saul Alinsky’s infamous book “Rules for Radicals." Even before the Cloward-Piven Strategy expanded Alinsky's evil, however, we needed no government-overthrowers to do us in. Today Social Security, Medicare and the federal government side of Medicaid have left us with almost $108 TRillion in unfunded debt and obligations . . . $108 TRillion. How did that happen?
For all Rajjpuut's denigration of FDR, it must be said that SSI (Social Security Insurance) was probably a good idea. But as soon as it was created and ever since . . . the law-abusers (for instance ACORN abused mortgage guarantee laws to get expensive housing for people without jobs; without ID; and even illegal aliens) went to work. Here is a little known fact that paints social security in a completely different light: although, the average life span of men in those days (1935) was roughly 54 years and women lived to roughly 58, the insurance features of SSI kicked in many years after most men and women could be expected to already be dead, in other words it insured that in old age, if you had a relatively extra-long life you were taken care of. Clearly the whole purpose of the original law has been willfully subverted by the Congresses and Presidents that followed. And SSI, just like Medicare and Medicaid are supposed to be "set-asides" like a savings account. The law-abusers have never set aside that money but have confiscated it almost from the start and passed laws with the money confiscated to spend it on other things and NOT just once-in-a lifetime things but on growing more government. In other words, the set asides have triply-fueled the massive growth of government since 1934 via establishment of the bureaucracies themselves; spending the set-aside money; and the new federal programs created and ongoing with the set-aside money now budgeted in.
It is these anti-American Constitution Trashers and law-abusers that more than any other group that have brought us to this financial precipice. Today they are still alive in all the various ACORN clones fully-expecting that Obama’s bill for “reforming” American financial institutions will refund them . . . . Their sordid history should be known by every American but our left-aligned press has willfully refused to investigate the ACORN EVIL history and purposes or the history of the think tanks aiming to overthrow our government. It is these left-wing think tanks that latched onto the “greatness” of Alinsky and continued “perfecting” their vile thinking and processes with the Cloward-Piven Strategy which they used deliberately and purposefully (and bragged about their planning and using) along with their NWRO (National Welfare Relief Organization) they created to bankrupt New York City by 1975 and only missed by a hair of bankrupting the entire state of New York. Since 1977, they have been using the poor as unwitting footsoldiers in their attempt to bring down America and impose their dreary revolution upon us. Now under Obama, blessed by the ACORN-created sub-prime lending crisis . . . their goal is in view. Heaven will never forgive us, should we allow them to succeed.
Ya’all live long, strong and ornery,
Rajjpuut
** when told of a natural disaster in Texas, Harding refused to get involved and vetoed a $50,000 disaster relief bill (big money in those days), saying the bill would just “kill people’s normal charitable instincts." Sure enough state and local individuals and agencies raised over $200,000 to help the stricken area.
President Obama says he is amused by the Tea Party. He said he felt that we in the Tea Party ought to thank him. It drew guffaws from his eager audience. Big Daddy Obama is for social justice: spreading the wealth by law—giving hope to the hopeless at the expense of America’s hard workers, by taxing the rich and giving to the poor, as opposed to the Tea Party idea of the natural desire to better one’s existence by work, and the realization that cooperating with others helps make one’s life better. It’s the American value of independence, the freedom to do one’s thing, and the reward for hard work, the industrious making things happen that President Obama apparently finds amusing. How he has manipulated himself into the position to do it to us, and there is nothing we can do about it, we lost the election, is very amusing.
What has Obama accomplished in his year in office? Thanks to the industrious making things happen, he, Pelosi, and Reid could rush through a trillion dollar spending package in the dark of night, right off the bat, to pay off their supporters—to the end that he has tripled Bush’s deficit spending—to save America from depression, said Obama. Very amusing.
Obama, Pelosi, and Reid, in sleazy backroom arm twisting tactics, crammed a health care bill down the throats of the American people. With this going on, his illustrious support says the Tea Party is racist, Nazi, fraudulent, and inciting violence, no less. Indeed, we’re the kind of people who caused Timothy McVey to blow up the government facility in Oklahoma City, says Billy, the Kid, Clinton. Obama reminds me of other leaders in the world for social justice, leaders like Stalin, Hitler, Castro, and Chavez.
How did this outrage come about? It began with the best of intentions, the American people felt. Actually, it was out of self-interest that politicians instituted class warfare in America—copying what the Europeans did. Obama’s unsustainable spending spree, and coincidentally, the same in Europe, is raising our taxes. There is no other way. So, I predict, with all the pats on the back Obama gives himself, he isn’t going to be amusing himself and his crowd long at our great cost.
In 1776, there were less than three million Americans, concentrated on the east coast of America, nineteen of twenty of whom were engaged in agriculture. By and through decentralized government, one in twenty are now engaged in agriculture to feed America’s 300,000,000 people, and plenty left over to export. In India, Russia, and China, with strong central governments, from twenty-five to fifty-percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, and to keep their populations from starving, importing food from the United States. Why do we want to change to Obama’s Constitution?
America got the name “land of opportunity” because her Founding Fathers designed a Constitution that prevented a strong central government. Guess who changed the Constitution to allow for a strong central government? Guess who Obama is copying? Franklin D. Roosevelt is Obama’s hero. Amusing, isn’t it? Roosevelt kept America’s economy in the Great Depression for eleven years. Roosevelt didn’t end the depression. World War II ended it. The same as Obama, Roosevelt caused class warfare. This “racist, Nazi fraud” bets that Obama’s days in the sun are numbered. He’s nothing more than a foul smell in a gale of wind. To his support, say I: laugh your way to the poorhouse.The second annual Tax Day Tea Party of 2010 was held in rallys across America yesterday without incident, racial slurs, spitting, or violence -- trash, alcohol, and drug free. I was privileged to attend the Monterey Tea Party Patriots Rally across from Dennis the Menace Playground, which was broadcast live by Mark Carbonero on KION 1460 FM radio who estimated was attended by 400-600 patriots, and also a local news station. Contrary to the biased New York Times recent poll, there were tea partiers of all ages and race. It was a gathering of Americans concerned with too much government, ignoring the will of the people, taking too much control, and spending out of control money they do not have and will not have for generations to come.
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES MOCKS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AT TAX DAY TEA PARTY 2010
Monterey has another great one http://bit.ly/aW3ad4
I believe that one of the main concerns is the trade gap. Free trade with third world countries is killing American jobs. It is making China, Latin America, Africa, and India richer while we get poorer. America's jobs are being outsourced to the third world. We should re-instate tarriffs. Import taxes on goods and services coming into this country. The Chinese are selling us things we can make for ourselves. Then they are turning around and loaning us our money back and charging us interest on our own money.
I would like to see this issue entered into the Tea Parties' core beliefs along with Illegal Immagration and Lowering Taxes.
If we stand united on this we can affect real change. Start calling ellected officials and ask when we are sending american jobs to foreign counties. Lets take back what is ours. If we raised taxes on foreign importers it will make american companies competative and increase the amount of taxes we bring in so we can lower taxes for americans. Let China and India pay to support and defend our great country. God bless America, and her friends and allies as well.
Charles C. Sheppard II
Good job! I congratulate you. Congress and the Administration know all too well who we are and our goals. Fine!
What is good for all Americans? The end result does not justify the means. If nature created you with the ability to cope, then it is your responsibility to proceed without asking for government help. “Ask not what your country can do for you.” I think I’m safe in saying this is what the Tea Party stands for, and what Democrats and Republicans used to stand for, but no more. They’ve turned corrupt. They are self-serving. When the cat’s away the mice will play.
To ask for government help is asking for others to ask the same; the runts end sucking hind tit. It’s after me you come first. Socialists have their ideas on this; I have mine. My idea works; the socialist idea doesn’t work. It has never worked to depend on external authority, actually, because authority is just like you and me. Like it or not, we are not created with the mentality of hive insects. You can’t change our nature. There is no such thing as everyone taking only his needs: socialism. Show me one example where socialism worked. There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all subjective. Socialism is giving up your God-given rights in exchange for tyranny.
How could I say a thing like this! Obama is only trying to give us an even playing field, we’re told. Sure! We believe in the tooth fairy. Progressives are proud to live in La La Land. In any event, being subjective creatures, power needs to be controlled. That’s what my Constitution was designed to do. That is not what Obama’s Constitution is designed to do. Obama has his rules; I have mine. We co-operate; we don’t rob Peter to pay Paul if we know what’s good for us. It’s called capitalism.
Government’s socialistic entitlements account for 40 percent of the national budget. Nobody wants to throw away the crutches of those who can’t walk on their own two legs. I’d be the last. Government entitlements should be phased out the same way they were phased in. They are a pyramid game. In time, nobody would depend on government crutches. Wipe out socialism; encourage capitalism—the combination spells prosperity, the way to go.
Defense is the second biggest cost of government. The United States has not won a war since World War II. There have been six! What a useless waste! America’s socialists are only trying to establish a “global village”—peaceful coexistence, you see—not to worry. Bow and scrape; admit how wrong we’ve been. Bankrupt America by redistributing our wealth to the poor around the world. Everything is going to be alright, somewhere over the rainbow—up to our eyeballs in debt to China, and China’s economy is growing at 25 percent per year. Sure thing, guys, rich with an unsustainable debt. Come on! Give me a break. Defense should be defense of our nation. Couple that with a strong economy. Everyone will beat a path to our door, like it was. But don’t expect socialists to buy this. They don’t believe in capitalism.
Why do we have troops in Germany and South Korea? We are making enemies by being the police force of the world. And besides, we are bankrupting ourselves, leaving ourselves defenseless. Global Village, my eye! It is a sell-out. Bring the troops home! If we tried, we couldn’t be any dumber than we are now. But that’s socialists for you, all heart and no mind.
Excluding socialists, everyone knows that money goes where money flows. Investing America’s wealth through government redistribution is cutting off our nose to spite our face. Poor people don’t create jobs. Government creates government jobs. Government bureaucrats are bloodsuckers. People with capital create jobs that create wealth. By redistributing the nation’s wealth, government is bankrupting the nation morally, spiritually, and fiscally. Dumb-de-dumb-dumb.
Federal income tax and the IRS are government’s means of robbing producers. It is an absolute disaster, but socialists love it. The IRS is privileged to make limitless mistakes. The IRS is never audited. The taxpayer is obliged to go to court to stop government from confiscating his property. So what! It’s all for a good cause. The courts favor government. Does the IRS make mistakes against the rich? No. The IRS makes mistakes against those who cannot afford to take the matter to court. It’s the biggest rip-off in history. Give government unrestricted power and this is what government does. Obama is a socialist, using the income tax and IRS to further his causes, such as ObamaCare. The income tax and IRS , supported by Republicans and Democrats, should be abolished, replaced with a tax on spending. This would not only be a tremendous savings, it would give the economy; that is, capitalism a huge boost. To socialists, what could be worse?
The corrections I present are practical ways of saving America from bankruptcy. If you’ve got a better plan, give it to us. But don’t think politicians are about to accept any plan other than their own. Be they Republican or Democrat, they will rip any but their own plan apart. I know. I’ve received their answers. We know what that means: zero, the status quo. No need to discuss it. My proposals would take power from them and give it back to the individual, not what any politician wants. It is not in their nature. Like I say, we’re all subjective.
Don’t think the special interests benefiting from big, powerful government are going to accept my proposals. They will fight them with everything they’ve got. This part of America’s bad scene, my friends, isn’t socialism; it is the pot calling the kettle black. The Tea Party is composed of racists, Nazis, and frauds. We might as well live up to our reputation, right? I’m not name calling. I’m telling it like it is. The name callers have nothing better to offer, so they call us names. The wonder is how anyone with good sense could buy Obama’s revised Constitution.
It is not enough to protest big government and high tax. The Tea Party has got to come up with a specific plan if it is to accomplish its goal, and back politicians who back the Tea Party’s plan, and target those who don’t. This is the hard part. Everyone wants to keep his piece of the action and force others to sacrifice theirs. Like I say, it’s in our nature. However, common sense tells us we are going to have to produce a plan and pay the price for saving this great nation. Believe in yourself and lead the way.
