Reinke Faces Life

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071229/D8TQTQ000.html

Hannah Montana Essay Winner a Fake
Dec 29, 12:34 AM (ET)

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GARLAND, Texas (AP) – An essay that won a 6-year-old girl four tickets to a Hannah Montana concert began with the powerful line: “My daddy died this year in Iraq.”

While gripping, it wasn’t true – and now the girl may lose her tickets after her mom acknowledged to contest organizers it was all a lie.

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Wow, where does one start with this one?

The girl should lose more than the tickets.

I’d suggest that she be made to meet the families of the more than 3k boys and girls who have died in combat. After that the families of those maimed in combat.

Mom deserves an extras measure of sackcloth ‘n’ ashes.

She committed fraud.

Didn’t the congress critters pass some lame feel good legislation that you couldn’t claim such?

Not that I am a fan of “laws”. Other than the Law of Gravity. Now that’s a LAW!

I guess we’ll see her show up on Doctor Phil, Jerry Springer, or Judge Judy for their fifteen minutes.

But, this was disgusting.

What is that Mom teaching her child?

Lie, cheat, and steal. Yes, a career in politics.

Shaking my head on this one!

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Abraham Lincoln Was a Saint !

Very powerful indictment of Lincoln. Ron Paul was ridiculed for his assertions about how slavery ended peacefully everywhere but here in the USA. Maybe there IS a revolution going on!

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http://www.charmaineyoest.com/2007/12/mike_huckabee_on_immigration_p.php

Mike Huckabee On Immigration: A Policy That Will Work
December 27, 2007 | By Jack Yoest

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The Huckabee Immigration plan is simple:

* Build the fence.

* Modernize the application.

* Everyone waits their fair turn in line.

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Wow, you and I differ two days in row. Wanna go for three?

>Build the fence

When the commies did it in Germany, we were horrified. It didn’t work there either. The gooferment can’t keep drugs out of its prisons, but it can keep bad things out of here. Right!

>Modernize the Process of Legal Immigration

When you put out food for strays, surprise you get more strays. When you have a dole, you get undesirables. We need all the “tired, hungry, yearning to be free” immigrants that want to come. We don’t “need no stinkin process”. No dole; no need for process. Remember that the “rules” were to discriminate. This is another example of closing the “golden door” after we got here.

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So all the socialists can just put a trash bag over the Statue of Liberty! But remember fences to keep people out, can keep people in. But that can never happen in the good old usa.

Can it?

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FROM MY FAVORITE LUDDITE’S COMMENT ABOUT THE FAIR TAX

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119863013677849835.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries

COMMENTARY
FairTax Facts
By LEO LINBECK
December 26, 2007; Page A10

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Much has been written lately about the FairTax, the proposal to replace the current federal income tax with a national retail sales tax. Unfortunately, much of it is wrong.

This country needs a spirited and wide-ranging debate about fundamental tax reform. But that debate is not advanced by misimpressions and distortions of the FairTax.

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Let’s take on a few points.

>What emerged from this research is that a national retail sales tax
> is a preferred method of taxation
> among most Americans surveyed.

Sorry, but no one asked me! This ASSUMES that there is a moral basis for FORCING people to pay a “tax”. It’s theft. Pure and simple.

>Another is that the tax would have significant benefits for the nation’s economy.

It’s just a different way of robbing people.

>Why? Because it eliminates income taxes and payroll taxes (for Social Security and Medicare)

Does it “eliminate” them?

Assume for a minute that we overlook the moral argument about theft!

Unless the repeal of the Sixteenth precedes the implantation of the “Fair Tax”, you can rest assured that we will have every manner of taxation available.

>the FairTax would eliminate the distorting effect that
>income and payroll taxes have on the economy.

It would create it’s own set of unintended consequences.

For example, I have already been “taxed” and “inflated” on my “savings and investments”. Now, I get taxed again when I spend this money. What happens when I die? I get taxed again. :-)

>Research on the price of consumer goods reveals that up to 20% of all
>prices today represent hidden income
>taxes and payroll taxes. Once these taxes are repealed and replaced
> with the FairTax, it is likely that market
>pressure would force retail prices to fall.

All this does is rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.

>Eliminating embedded taxes will also do something else —
> it will remove significant price disadvantages

In your dreams.

>Another benefit of the FairTax is that, unlike other sales taxes, it would not hit the poorest Americans the
>hardest. The FairTax proposal calls for sending every American a “prebate” check to offset the cost of the

So like Social Security, we will now put EVERY American on the dole.

>The FairTax rate is 23% on retail sales when calculated “inclusively,” as are income tax rates.

The tax is buried in the price of the goods being sold. Let’s at least have the stones to have it printed on the grocery receipt.

>It will, in a fairer, more transparent and less-expensive way, raise the same amount of money the federal >government now collects through the income and payroll taxes.

But, the biggest tax is inflation and it doesn’t do anything about that.

>Significantly, the FairTax eliminates all loopholes, gimmicks, exemptions and deductions from the federal tax

Yeah, right, how long will that last?

>Politically, the FairTax will only become law once enough citizens demand that it be enacted

Since when does it matter what the citizens demand. The gang in Washington is in power, regardless of which of the duopoly is the titular head, based on the voting minority. It’s a waste of time to “demand” anything.

>It is debatable whether a modern, citizen-led tax revolution is possible.

Carla Howell is leading a Income tax repeal referendum in Taxzachussetts.

>But the growing popularity (even among presidential candidates) of the FairTax suggests that

They see that they can keep the scam going and get more people to buy into the delusion that it does anything at all to CUT SPENDING!

>another Boston Tea Party may be at hand.

One can only hope.

The American Experiment ended with the War of Northern Aggression in the 1860’s. That started as a tax fight. And, the USA has been in a downward spiral ever since. Like plane heading to the ground nose first, it may well be too late to pull out. (I hope not.)

The problem I have with the whole Fair Tax movement is that it distracts us from the real problems:

0. Honest money (i.e., the banking cartel’s “federal reserve” is inflating us into poverty);

1. The dole (The non-productive people are voting themselves benefits paid for by the productive people!);

2. The gooferment public education system is brainwashing all the future voters into the gooferments paradigms (when the nazis and the communists did it we were horrified; when our own gooferment does it, that’s fine.)

3. The gooferment is imprisoning us (i.e., the “war” on drugs – poverty – smoking) and killing those who resist (Ruby Ridge – Waco);

4. We can’t afford to be the “world’s policeman” (i.e.,Repatriate the troops home);

5. We can’t afford ANY and ALL gooferments with their unintended consequences.

It’ll be the biggest crash in the history of mankind.

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http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/12/the_big_dig_is_done.html

December 26, 2007
“The Big Dig” is Done
Rick Moran

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Officially launched in 1987 with an estimated budget of $2.8 billion, the project’s costs ballooned over the years, reaching a depressing $14.6 billion by the time it was complete. Wikpedia details some of the problems over the years with the project:

The Big Dig has been the most expensive highway project in the U.S.[6] Although the project was estimated at $2.8 billion in 1985 (in 1982 dollars), over $14.6 billion had been spent in federal and state tax dollars as of 2006.[7] The project has incurred criminal arrests[8][9], escalating costs, death, leaks, and charges of poor execution and use of substandard materials. The Massachusetts Attorney General is demanding contractors refund taxpayers $108 million for “shoddy work.” [10]

Just last year, a motorist died when some concrete panels collapsed. Inspections revealed substandard construction – a charge that plagued the project almost from the beginning.

The federal contribution to the project? $8.55 billion. Your tax dollars at work.

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What can one say?

No surprise. No one — politician or bureaucrat — gets any adverse impact. No one pays for it but the taxpayer.

Poor stupid taxpayer!

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http://www.charmaineyoest.com/2007/12/end_the_irs_get_the_fairtax_an.php

End the IRS: Get the FairTax and Get Your Whole Paycheck
December 24, 2007 | By Jack Yoest

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Mike Huckabee, “is the change agent the nation most needs.” From The Dallas Morning News endorsement from delegate rich Texas.

FairTax An example of this change Huckabee advocates is ending, eliminating, closing down a government agency: the Internal Revenue Service. The beloved IRS.

Kyle Hamilton is blogging on the FairTax on mymanmitt, founded by my good friend Justin Hart. They are skeptical of real tax change. Our competitors supporting Romney do not believe that real change is possible, or maybe not necessary.

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Sorry, but you’ve been duped. The Fair Tax ain’t fair. In a short comment it’s not possible to go into all the rationale for this statement, but lets just hit two points.

(1) Unless the Sixteenth Amendment is repealed prior to the implementation of the Fair Tax [and not the wimpy Congress passed law that promises to repeal it], you can be assured that we will have both the National Sales Tax / Fair Tax AND the income tax. We’ve been fooled many times — income tax only for the rich, social security will never taxable, IRAs never had RMDs at first, and many other “camels” that have stuck their nose in — why would you trust the politicians now?

(2) Taxation in any form is THEFT. By what moral authority does the majority impose this “theft”? If a tax isn’t truly voluntary, then it is coerced. This is supposed to be the “land of the free”. What a joke!

No, sorry, we are on the “road to serfdom”. The sheep are being enslaved by degrees. Our revolutionary “fore fathers” would be ashamed at what we have let happen to the American Experiment.

Sorry, but only Ron Paul is pointing the way out of this mess. You can nuke the IRS by cutting spending back to Clinton era numbers.

Without a fundamental revolution, the Fair Tax does NOTHING for the largest tax we pay — the Inflation Tax.

The Fair Tax is at best a flawed distraction — lipstick on one ugly pig — to take our eye off the ball.

Sorry, but I respectfully disagree.

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Ahh, the Socialists are in full bloom. Trying to steal Ron Paul’s thunder — end the IRS — while maintaining the status quo.

The empty suits of both parties are just that “empty suits” who want to keep the current system going along.

If you don’t solve the problem of “honest money”, nothing else matters. If you don’t solve the problem of “Congressional spending”, nothing else matters. If you don’t solve the problem of “unfunded entitlements”, nothing else matters.

If Ron Paul doesn’t get the nod, then we are in the run away elevator to the bottom. Right next to the Roman Empire. And, all the broken dreams of freedom.

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