POLITICAL: Deny Congress everything

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/12/deny_congress_fica_payroll_tax.html

December 05, 2010
Deny Congress FICA Payroll Tax in the General Fund
Erroll Ivery

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It was not just a “change in budget presentation.” The net result of lending payroll tax to the federal government under a unified budget was divestiture of all trust funds. Congress then spent surplus payroll tax, instead of leaving it in the trust fund and investing it in money market investment accounts, for example, to earn interest and preserve capital during years of surplus payroll tax. Instead of asking the American worker to compensate for Congress’ fiscal irresponsibility, Congress should re-capitalize the Social Security Trust Fund with payroll tax deposits. Any deficit in receipts needed to pay benefits should then come from the General Fund.

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I don’t understand why we continue the fiction that this is a “separate program”, “insurance”, or even an “entitlement”. It’s a welfare program that has been marketed

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POLITICAL: Uncle Sam, the aging athlete

Sunday, December 5, 2010

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=232729

Why are we still in Korea?
Posted: November 26, 2010
Pat Buchanan

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From 1941 to 1989, she played a great heroic role as defender of freedom, sacrificing and serving mankind, a role of which we can be forever proud. But having won that epochal struggle against the evil empire, we found ourselves in a world for which we were unprepared. Now, like an aging athlete, we keep trying to relive the glory days when all the world looked with awe upon us.

We can’t let go, because we don’t know what else to do. We live in yesterday – and our rivals look to tomorrow.

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Why are we still in Germany and a slew of other strange places?

Why are American girls and boys dying in the Sandbox, the Rockbox, and a slew of other places?

Why are American politicians immune from “We, The Sheeple”?

Peace. Now!

If women ever decide that they want a peaceful world, they can have it. In minutes! (OK, maybe not minutes. But so quick, it’ll seem like minutes.)

“Yes, when we get out of here. We’re going to have to fix that. You know we control something that can get it done. Not the ballot box, but the other box. (A giant sucking sound as pure Miss Marie used that very rude idiom.) We can end war.” — character “Marie” being anti-war in CHURCH 10●19●62 Volume 1 Page 262

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POLITICAL: Who fed the tiger?

Monday, November 29, 2010

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=230049

Who fed the tiger?
Posted: November 18, 2010
Pat Buchanan

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Review commission chair Dan Slane says his members have concluded that “China is adopting a highly discriminatory policy of favoring domestic producers over foreign manufacturers. Under the guise of fostering ‘indigenous innovation’ … the government of China appears determined to exclude foreigners from bidding on government contracts at the central, provincial and local levels.”

Imagine that! The Chinese are ignoring WTO rules and putting China first. Don’t they understand how the Global Economy works? You’re not supposed to tilt the field in favor of the home team.

One knows not whether to laugh or cry.

The policy the Chinese are pursuing, economic nationalism, was virtually invented by the Republican Party. Protectionism was the declared policy of the GOP from the day its first president took office in 1861 to the day Calvin Coolidge left in 1929.

Free trade was the policy of a Great Britain whose clocks those generations of Americans cleaned, even as the Chinese are cleaning ours.

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It’s interesting to note that the Federal Gooferment was SUPPOSED to be funded by tariffs and excise taxes. If “We, The Sheeple” had stuck to that and followed old George’s RX about “entangling alliances”, then it’s hard to imagine we would not be much better off.

Sometime some one will have to explain to me how “global free trade” helps Americans?

We’ve demonstrated that the “Rich Globalists” seem to have done better than the average Detroit worker.

The Rust Belt comes to mind.

So how do we reverse course while it’s still not too late?

<1> We have to kill the FED. Andrew Jackson was right to kill the corrupt central bank.

<2> We have to create a link between gold and the dollar. Clearly, we need an AUTOMATIC AUTO-PILOT to control spending in the District of Corruption.

<3> We have to learn from the Bank of South Dakota. That’s a model of how to control local funds for the benefit of the “We, The Sheeple”. Note: That “bank” only services municipal Gooferments. No cash cow for banks to leech off of.

<4> We have to kill Fannie and Freddie. And, all Gooferment Sponsored Entities.

<5> Zero the corporate taxes! Only real people pay taxes; so let’s “de-cloak” how much we are really paying in taxes.

<6> Campaign Finance Reform: Only real people can give a candidate money and only from the region they will represent.

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POLITICAL: The only correct corporate tax rate is zero

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/11/21/0157216/Google-Warns-Irish-Government-Against-Tax-Increase

Posted by timothy on Sunday November 21, @02:02AM

from the shame-if-anything-was-to-happen dept.

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theodp writes “The Irish government has been given a stark warning from some of the biggest American companies in Ireland on the risk of a mass exodus if the country’s controversial low corporate tax rate is raised in return for an IMF/EU bailout to shore up the country’s beleaguered banking system. According to The Telegraph, a statement signed by senior execs at Microsoft, HP, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, and Intel points out that although Ireland’s tax rate may be low in European terms, it is not when compared with locations such as Singapore, India and China.

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Once again demonstrating that the only correct corporate tax rate is zero. Only real human beings pay taxes.

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POLITICS: Bush on BOR — an observation

Saturday, November 20, 2010

I DVRed BO’R’s show. I listened to the one about interviewing ex-President Bush … and had an observation.

He thinks picking Dick for VP was a good choice.

Still.

I thought that was a blunder when he made that decision. And, still think it to this day.

One important role of a CEO is “succession planning”. By picking Dick, he abdicated that responsibility. And set the R’s up for failure.

If he had no choice but to pick Dick for the First Term, he should have (imho) made Condi the VP in the Second Term. And say Colin Powell Secretary of State.

That would have set up a Condi for Pres and Collin for VP in 2010.

We should have a tradition of one term Presidents. Or even amend the Constitution to either make it one term or remove the restriction.

Argh!

Let’s secede and start over.

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POLITICAL: The “machines” vote

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 09:30:09 -0700
From: Lauren Weinstein
Subject: Voting machines selecting default candidates

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Some voters in Las Vegas have noticed that Democratic Senator Harry Reid’s name is checked by default on their electronic voting machines. By way of explanation, the Clark County Registrar says that when voters choose English instead of Spanish, Reid’s Republican opponent, Sharron Angle, has her name checked by default. *Slashdot*, 26 Oct 2010 http://bit.ly/cBXWSj

[Reid won re-election, perhaps because of the strong Latino vote. PGN]

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And, we trust “elections”. Why?

If voting changed anything significant, do you think the elite would permit it? Think USSR voting.

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POLITICAL: BHO and “middle class” tax hikes

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

President Obama, at a news conference, at the end of the G-20 Summit on Friday, said: “I want to make sure that taxes don’t go up for middle class families starting on January 1st.”

He’s either a fool, a liar, or both!

What does he think has been going on? Does he really believe that taxes haven’t gone up.

Cigarettes? The devaluation of the dollar. Insurance.

Does he have any grasp of economics?

Or is he just the “teleprompter president”, who reads whatever “barbara streisand” is displayed for him by his handlers?

Argh!

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POLITICAL: Theodore Sorensen wrote “Profiles in Courage”; not JFK?

Sunday, November 7, 2010

I thought you would be interested in the following story from The Wall Street Journal.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703708404575587340376814562.html

Theodore Sorensen Dies at 82

Around my high school — eons ago, told to me by Brother Cronin, in a rare moment of honesty, that he thought — and several of the other Brothers thought — that Sorenson wrote JFK’s ‘profiles in courage’. And, further that old Joe paid ‘Theodore’ a princely sum to do it and keep his mouth shut. That earned ‘Theodore’ seat at the table and they knew he could compromise his ethics for a check. I just wonder….. when I read this headline I remembered that. FWIW. It was my first “tin foil hat” experience that I remember. Where an authority figure speculated that we might be consuming a load of “barbara streisand”. As Judge Judy says, “I should have put on my listening ears”, because I think we have been fed a lot of “barbara streisand” from a lot of “authority figures”. Argh! Too late we get smart?

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POLITICAL: Here a bag, there a bag, everywhere a bag bag … of votes!

Sunday, November 7, 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/06/nyregion/06ctgov.html?_r=1&bl

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Still, Connecticut voters could have been forgiven for wondering whether Friday’s official results would actually spell an end to a race that featured an unprecedented two-hour extension of voting hours in Bridgeport because of a ballot shortage, dueling transition teams from both candidates and a spat on live radio between Mr. Foley and the state’s top election official, Secretary of State Susan Bysiewicz — not to mention a bag of uncounted ballots, discovered two days after the election.

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Yeah, I’m sure that if the party bosses need some more votes they can discover them. And, you expect “justice” in America?

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POLITICAL: Helping the R’s cut spending

Saturday, November 6, 2010

http://gopleader.gov/Contact/default.aspx

May I suggest the idea one inet pundit had? A flat 10% across the board cut. We’re paying a lot of bureaucrats well, let them figure out how to do it. If the administration wants to favor one program over another, fine. As long as the year over year total is 10% less, I’d suggest that you agree. Simple, easy to communicate, and dramatic. Then insist on the same every year. imho!

p.s., if the math is too complicated for those smart folks, as a fat old white guy injineer I can demonstrate “move the decimal” and cut that amount.

fjohn reinke

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