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FUN: Is it me?
Sunday, January 14, 2018
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FINANCIAL: “Social (In) Security” Trust Fund reserves become depleted in 2035″
Sunday, January 14, 2018Social Security Proposes “Immediate And Permanent Reduction” In Benefits
by Tyler Durden
Tue, 01/09/2018 – 16:47
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Literally tens of millions of people depend on it.
The Social Security Administration itself reports that 62% of recipients rely on the program for at least HALF of their income.
And further research by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) shows that, without Social Security, 22.1 million Americans would fall below the poverty line.
Needless to say, major cuts to the program would have nuclear effects.
And yet, year after year, the Social Security Board of Trustees publishes an annual report that describes the program’s terminal financial challenges in excruciating detail.They mince no words in plainly stating that Social Security pays out far too much money, and takes in far too little.
According to the 2017 Trustees report, “Trust Fund reserves become depleted in 2035.”
They’re practically giving us a date that we can circle on a calendar and mark “End of Social Security.”
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Unfortunately, all the politicians and bureaucrats that stole and spent it will be all dead and out of sight!
And there will be a lot of unhappy “Sheeple” look to hang someone out to dry.
Not sure, how it will be resolved. But it’s going to be dangerous and “unpleasant”.
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POLITICAL: We need DJT45 to remove AG Jeff Sessions for terminal stupidity
Saturday, January 13, 2018Your letter was sent to: President Donald Trump (R)
The campaign used to send this message can be found here: https://downsizedc.org/ sessions-marijuana-policy/
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Subject: 8 reasons you should reverse Jeff Sessions’ marijuana policy.
Reversing Jeff Sessions’ marijuana policy will benefit your administration in multiple ways.
Here are the 8 points…
#1: This will hurt you next election. The American people increasingly favor marijuana legalization.
#2: You’ve been achieving great things with de-regulation. This policy goes in the opposite direction. In fact…
#3: It will hurt economic growth. Even the stock market has embraced the marijuana industry. Don’t cause market uncertainty.
#4: This policy will also harm your promise to reduce crime. It will reinvigorate the black market and refill our prisons.
#5: There are too many laws to enforce. Government should focus and prioritize. Enforcing federal marijuana laws is a distraction.
#6: Republicans are supposed to favor federalism. States should made these decisions, per the Tenth Amendment. This policy harms that federalism.
#7: You promised during your campaign to respect the decisions made about marijuana in the states.
#8: Reversing an underling’s mistake will show the American people that you are both prudent and in charge.
Sincerely,
ferdinand reinke
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End the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs” now. Focus resources on treatment; not punishment.
The Gooferment can’t keep drugs out of its prisons! How can they keep them out of a free society.
Portugal is a shining example of how to do it.
AND, by ending the “drug war”, what will all the illegal drug gangs do? Stop shooting everything in sight in turf wars. Pepsi and Coke driver don’t shoot it out for shelf space.
I trust that WalMart, Walgreens, RiteAid, CVS, and others will do a far better job delivering “clean” and “safe” drugs to those who want them while keeping treatment options front and center.
Prohibition ended because “We, The Sheeple” refuse to convict. The same should happen now.
Don’t let the politicians and bureaucrats keep killing addicts with a policy that is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient.
Send your thoughts to your representatives now!
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RANT: Disband the Federal Gooferment’s “private armies”
Friday, January 12, 2018The FBI has become, along with other “deep state”agencies like the IRS, a political Praetorian Guard. I have read the constitution and find no authority for the Federal Gooferment to have this, and many other, private armies. DJT45, who for the wrong reasons, may be correct to disband the FBI. Let the States do their job of “police work”.
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RANT: Twitter is evil
Thursday, January 11, 2018I recommend: UNDERCOVER VIDEO: Twitter Engineers To “Ban a Way of Talking” Through “Shadow Banning,” Algorithms to Censor Opposing Political Opinions https://www.projectveritas.com/2018/01/11/undercover-video-twitter-engineers-to-ban-a-way-of-talking-through-shadow-banning-algorithms-to-censor-opposing-political-opinions/ by @Project_Veritas
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RANT: I guess we are doomed?
Thursday, January 11, 2018
The Editors’ Quote of the Day:
By Hugh James Latimer | January 5, 2018 |
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A public that can no longer distinguish between truth and fiction is left to interpret reality through illusion. Random facts or obscure bits of data and trivia are used to bolster illusion and give it credibility or are discarded if they interfere with the message. The worse reality becomes—the more, for example, foreclosures and unemployment skyrocket—the more people seek refuge and comfort in illusions. When opinions cannot be distinguished from facts, when there is no universal standard to determine truth in law, in science, in scholarship, or in reporting the events of the day, when the most valued skill is the ability to entertain, the world becomes a place where lies become true, where people can believe what they want to believe. This is the real danger of pseudo-events and why pseudo-events are far more pernicious than stereotypes. They do not explain reality, as stereotypes attempt to, but replace reality. Pseudo-events redefine reality by the parameters set by their creators. These creators, who make massive profits peddling these illusions, have a vested interest in maintaining the power structures they control. – From: Chris Hedges “Empire of Illusion”
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Like the lemmings that follow the leader over the cliff to their death.
We need to rid our society of these Judas goats who are leading us.
Argh!
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POLITICAL: Interesting switch — switch income tax to payroll tax?
Wednesday, January 10, 2018http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2018/01/screwing-trump-ny-may-scrap-its-income.html
FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 2018
Screwing Trump: NY May Scrap Its Income Tax for a Payroll Tax
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The state of New York may end its income tax and instead expand its payroll tax as a way to outmaneuver the new federal law that limits deductions for state and local taxes, according to WGRZ.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday during his State of the State address that he is exploring how to make the switch. California and New Jersey leaders have also discussed similar steps and other alternatives.
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Good for retirees and pensioners?
I love when levels of Gooferment fight each other.
Hopefully “We, The Sheeple” will wake up and see how they are being robbed.
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SECESSION: Is there an automatic right to secession?
Tuesday, January 9, 2018https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/4/jeff-sessions-ramp-federal-enforcement-marijuana-l/
Billion-dollar pot industry is dazed and confused by Justice Department’s reversal
By Jeff Mordock – The Washington Times – Thursday, January 4, 2018
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions moved Thursday to revoke the Obama-era see-no-evil policy on federal enforcement of marijuana laws, announcing that federal law enforcement will no longer look the other way even in states that have legalized use of the drug.
The decision doesn’t change the state policies, but it does give U.S. attorneys the freedom to decide how strongly to enforce federal law that classifies marijuana as an illegal substance.
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Does this give California a clear reason to leave “These United States of America”?
While everyone would like to think that “secession” was “settled” by the War Of Northern Aggression, it wasn’t. Like the demise of the Soviet Union, it really doesn’t matter what the “central authority” wants. Collapse occurs.
There is an internationally recognized to “self-determination”. Does that de facto entail an automatic right to secession?
Certainly seems to, to me.
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Women don’t need Gooferment “protection”
Monday, January 8, 2018http://keywestlou.com/george-bernard-shaws-caesar-and-cleopatra
A blog post from Petrone, Louis S. “Key West Lou” (MC1957)
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You have to admire Iceland. They are always a step ahead.
Following the bank debacle of 2008, they prosecuted and jailed bankers. Those at the top. Something I have been recommending for years we do in the U.S.
They elect women big time. Almost 50 percent of their Parliament is female. They elected a woman Prime Minister in November.
Iceland recently passed a law that allows companies who pay women less than men to be punished. Fined. No jail. A step forward, however.
Equal pay laws have no teeth. They tell the companies females must be paid equal to men. Enforcement lacking. Iceland recognized the problem and moved the step ahead.
It is generally acknowledged the law would not have come into being were it not for the large number of women in Parliament.
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Equal pay laws are a joke.
The invisible hand of the free market will quickly, efficiently, and effectively punish companies that underpay women. It’s only logical. If a business systematically underpays anyone, they will leave for someone who will pay them what they are worth.
That brain drain will hurt in numerous ways — cost of replacement, poor morale, loss of competitive advantage, bad image, impaired reputation.
The Gooferment probably is the worst offender in this regard. Politicians and bureaucrats routinely are exposed for pay disparities, but they always seem to spin their way out of it. Women don’t need “protection” and especially not from the Gooferment! Those “gals” are pretty tough imho.
Now if we could just end Gooferment Skrules, then both the girls and boys would not be brainwashed to think like serfs. Argh!
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RANT: End welfare if you love the poor
Sunday, January 7, 2018FROM AN EMAIL EXCHANGE
http://ncc-1776.org/tle2017/tle954-20171231-02.html
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Which brings me to my principal reason for opposing open immigration. Everywhere these newcomers go, encouraged by the likes of the politicians I have named, they change the culture, rather than become a part of it. I’m not entirely opposed to new elements of culture, and not every Mexican or South American is a robber or a rapist or a violent drug dealer, it’s true, but enough are to endanger the cultural home that our ancestors made for us, and damn few believe in the Constitution or the Rule of Law. Not every immigrant from the Middle East is a jihadist, but too many bring with them the unconstitutional mindset of Sharia Law, “honor” killings, death to homosexuals, and so forth. I have come to like the culture I live in, and the values it promotes. I don’t want to see it changed, especially to accommodate hostile strangers
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Two choices offered — build a wall OR end welfare — neither is very good but that’s all we are left with.
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AND MY LUDDITE FRIEND REPLIED:
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Wait a minute….they’re both bad? Do you agree with the guy that says there shouldn’t be a wall at all, that it’s infringing on people’s liberties? Just use a smidgen of your imagination, to envision our country without a wall. We’ve had a small taste of it already with the wall not being complete nor totally effective, and you like those results? Like I say, just imagine with even less control on the border, it would end life in America as we have known it. And none of us would like it.
As for “ending” welfare, that is not bad….it depends on what you mean by “ending” it? To me, ending welfare means stopping women from walking in with 14 children behind them that they recruited from the neighborhood to claim as their own, and ripping us off. At one point in NYC, there were more children on the welfare rolls than there were in the recorded child population levels! I think the solution for welfare and healthcare is really quite simple. First, you take the government out of the healthcare business with one exception…..you create a fund that is used in extreme cases where people are sick and need care that have no other means to help themselves. They have to “apply” for support, and a board reviews their request for approval…case by case basis. For the rest of us, we shop healthcare from the various healthcare providers and select the best plan for us. Initially it would be difficult for many, but like the great free enterprise system over time the cream would rise to the top, competition would create great healthcare solutions at affordable prices. The corrupt, cheaters, non-skilled, etc etc would be uncovered and run out of business.
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AND I CONCLUDED:
My concern with the “wall” is I remember the Berlin Wall. That which prevents ingress can also prevent egress. I don’t trust the Gooferment remember.
My concern with “welfare” is that I remember the destruction of the black family due to “welfare rules” about the father living at home. I don’t trust the Gooferment remember.
To elaborate on welfare, the Gooferment can’t “do charity” morally (i.e., it has to steal wealth from victims to redistribute), efficiently (i.e., the administrative costs are worse than any of the corrupt Big Charities), or effectively (i.e., I’ve been told and show evidence that the Gooferment perversely does NOT want people to get off welfare).
Not that I am NOT just against fraud and abuse but the whole concept. It’s a killer. Being poor should be painful to get folks to save themselves from the Gooferment “plantation”. TO be effective, and efficient, charity must be private and personal. (IMHO) I formed this opinion years ago from http://www.acton.org/public-policy/effective-compassion/seven-principles-century-ago which really struck a chord.
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And, from what I have seen, Gooferment “welfare” gives you enough to starve. Argh!
Your comments are welcome if you can change my mind.
p.s, yelling or name calling is unlikely to do that.
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