Uncle Sam, the thief, taking citizens for a ride!!!
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is the greatest retail company in America!
While the author of this monologue does NOT concur with the owner of Amazon's political beliefs or affiliations, I think that Amazon is the greatest retail company
in America. Also, I think that our dear leader is displaying his liberal roots to America, even though everyone is entitled to an opinion, they're like assholes,
everyone has one.
First, Amazon's founder and probably majority shareholder is doing what the great CAPITALISTS of America that made America great have done during
America's two century existence. Such economic behavior is the foundation of Capitalism and America. The old adage, "Build a better mousetrap and
investors and buyers will beat down your door!" (or something like that) is what Amazon has done. Did automobiles force the horse-and-buggy into obsolescense?
Will self-driving vehicles force today's automobiles into obsolescence? At least, they will cut the cost of unionized drivers. Have computers and the Kindle forced
libraries into obsolescense? Those who learn about the Kindle and computers will be at the forefront of the new economy.
Second, I can login, search for an item, buy it, and Amazon will deliver it to my door. Instead of driving to a store or a mall, wasting gasoline and time,
parking my car, walking to a store of my choice, and being irritated by inept fools in a brick-and-mortar store, I let my VAST computer skills search and buy an
item on Amazon. Probably 40-50% of residents still go to brick-and-mortar stores, but the numbers will decrease over time. When the price of an item at a
brick-and-mortar store is lower, I will purchase there. However, an almost fully automated warehouse is much less costly than a brick-and-mortar store.
Brick-and-mortar stores have internet sites, but I have found that their shipping is much more expensive. It seems that almost fully automated warehouses
absorb the cost of shipping. Also, brick stores have very high shipping for another reason: they want to deter your online shopping and make you see the benefits
of wasting time and money at their store.
Third, Amazon breaks no law by avoiding ridiculous income taxes or sales taxes (if States don't require it). In fact virtually every citizen who
understands (or pays a competent accountant who doesn't work secretly for the IRS) the bogus, voluminous, hyper-ridiculous income tax laws of
America will do everything possible to avoid paying income tax right up to the rounded-off dollar. I posit that anyone who wants to pay more income tax can
write a donation check and mail it to their nearest income tax theft department. The most the IRS will do is possibly thank you for being a stupid fool. Americans
pay TOO MUCH TAXES as it is. We don't need to cover CONgress' spending addiction or the President's spending addiction, the government needs to quit wallowing
in our forced tribute to a wasteful, spendthrift government with delusions of grandeur.
Fourth, The US Post Office is NOT hurt by Amazon. In fact, packages initiated at Amazon have increased Post Office revenue. Their problem is at least two-fold:
their cost structure includes employees and benefits, buildings/mainteneance, delivery vehicles/maintenance, postal office machines/maintenance, etc. While
USPS is a quasi-private organization, try firing an incompetent or insubordinate postal employee. Also, the threat of a fired employee "going postal" could
make managers fearful of firing an incompetent worker. Also, try hiring a postal worker who is willing to work hard. First Class
mail—not packages—is the loser. The Post Office needs to streamline the cost of 1st class delivery and cut costs. Competitors charge more to
deliver envelopes.
Lastly, Just because our dear leader, President Trump, is getting beat up by the Washington Post (has always been a scurrilous rag except when "deep
throat" helped the paper; a different era when some had morality), that's no reason to threaten anti-trust legalities (not possible 'cause Amazon only has 5-8%
of the overall retail market) or use the "bully pulpit" to weaken your enemy. Surely a great man as President Trump is above such trash from an abusive,
vulgar rag like the gossipy, fake news, bankrupt Post.
Remember, You Will Make America Great Again. Stop being a socialist democrat regarding the Post and Amazon. It's not worth the effort. Work on getting
companies to educate people and increase individual wealth, teach ignorant Americans about how great America was and can be. Get Government Off Our
Backs (for real this time)! Veto every inappropriate Bill that is loaded with unrelated spending even if it has something you want. Cut Spending in Half !!!!!
A new Congress has been seated, and it brings the prospect of perhaps, maybe, potentially, in a possible way doing something about the runaway federal deficits. And in other news, several New York area bridges are for sale, which you can acquire at a bargain price.
Excessive Spending Destroys!
Feds Have a Spending Problem — DO NOT RAISE THE CEILING!
Feds Have a Sewage Problem!
DEBT PERSPECTIVE!
Social Security (SS) monies flow into the Feds via paycheck withholding. The Feds buy
US Treasuries and the Bond purchase money is deposited into the treasury. Benefit money
must therefore be paid out of the Treasury. If there had been a SS brokerage account
(instead of the Feds spending it), the monies could have been invested very conservatively
to receive a modest 5-8% annual return on investment and the SS "Trust" Fund would
be solvent even with retiring baby-boomers. Another mismanagement failure is SS Disability
which has been defrauded by mendacious citizen malingerers especially from 2000 to 2016.
James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Rod Rosenstein, Peter Strzok, Bruce Ohr and wife, Lisa Page, and Hillary Clinton
SHOULD BE CHARGED AND TRIED for their violations!
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Joseph Story, Supreme Court Justice ... when the court wasn't part of the L-E-J Cabal
Joseph Story (1779�1845) was born during the American Revolution, and came of age in the early years of the new United States of America. He was a scholar of the U.S. Constitution, and, eventually helped found the Harvard Law School.
In 1811, Story was appointed to the Supreme Court by President James Madison � who knew a few things about the U.S. Constitution, in that he helped write it. Story was a contemporary of another famous member of the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Marshall (1755�1835).
"The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them."
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[Editor's Note: what I have dubbed the "Legislative-Executive-Judicial Cabal" which the American People have caused by ignoring the generational transition from our Constitutional Republic to what now is, in effect, an "elected" dictatorship. Never mind who is elected. Never mind which bogus party is in power. The superficial, theatrically staged, choreographed appearance of debate, disagreement, and stalled legislation always resolves into more government and less FREEDOM. We the People still lose more freedom after every "emergency" or unnoticeably when CON-gress passes another general, open-ended law that enables the Executive (dictator) and its unaccountable agencies to formulate more freedom-restricting regulations (200 pages a day get posted to the Federal Register). The "Dictator's" agencies (police force) continue to pile-up more weapons to squelch uprising(s) when the People finally realize and understand their tyrannical government.
Currently, CONgress is just a group of socialists, progressives, and faux-conservatives (career politicians) that, on a daily basis, ignores the Constitution, many of their own past statutes, and cedes their responsibilities to the president ("elected" dictator). A comparison to the history of Rome becomes more and more credible with the Executive and its "featherbedded" lackeys gaining more power while CONgress sits back all fat-dumb-and-happy.
CONgress has made recent efforts to expose State Dept. failures in Benghazi (inept political leader), Fast-and-Furious gun-running (criminal AG), IRS 1st amendment violations, gov't union Veterans Administration fraud, and whining about Obama(Reid)-killer-Care, but these efforts are mostly politics as usual. Most "citizens" will forget about these infringements from our unaccountable, uncontrollable Executive branch with its tyrannical agencies staffed by socialist unions that extort "juicy" contracts from the "elected" dictatorship.
Most positions in the federal government whether elected, appointed, or hired are nominal, make-work jobs (confidentially) designed merely to grow government, bilk money from private businesses and citizens, and eventually fully transform America into a totalitarian state. When this happens, CONgress will have destroyed the economy and the country by their negligence and counter-liberty policies, and it will be almost impossible to Restore America. The 'Restore America' list is only a beginning too.]
"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."
James Madison, Federalist Paper 47, Friday, February 1, 1788
Anyone who believes this country is free is an idiot!
"Extortion and thuggery are good things when they're called law!"
Larken Rose
[Editor's Note: a Constitutional Convention is required to reverse the damage to freedom and liberty since 1900. This Article V was ratified by the participants at America's founding Constitutional Convention as an alternate path for repairing damage to freedom and liberty, a path for the People to restore damage caused by our failed representatives in the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches of a government designed to represent the wishes of We the People.
The States must "demand" a Convention and explicitly specify an agenda of:
laws to be repealed or modified,
Amendments to existing constitutional clauses that define the co-equal branches to further specify and define, and
new Amendments or statutes to be eventually ratified by States.
These Amendments should further specify and clarify the powers of the Legislature and Executive Branches. A good example is the definition of a "Bill".
A Bill should contain ONLY verbiage in regards to the topic of the future law. NO earmarks and NO unrelated sections or attacments.
Many past Bills sent to a president for signature contained unrelated but essential funding sections that rendered the Bill veto-proof when it warranted a veto.
CON-gress can override a veto if the Bill is deemed absolutely necessary by CON-gress.
If the Bill requires SPECIFICALLY related amendments, the CON-gress can "debate" (with its usual theater) and vote any new amendments.
The original text of the Constitution contains some very GENERAL clauses enabling both CON-gress and Executive branches to write laws and
regulations with their particular nuances expanding powers beyond intent. "Intent" may be gleaned from a complete understanding of
Federalist Papers.
An example of further specification and clarity for CON-gress should be a clear, very specific definition of the boundaries for the interstate Commerce Clause.
To restore freedom, liberty, and individuality - minimally these must be repealed:
Currently, even with computer-searching systems, the list of antiquated and/or obsolete statutes (and related regulations) is unwieldy.
These statutes must be invalidated unless there remains an applicable reason for retaining the law(s).
Aside from invalidating statutes, there are many regulations that are biased in favor of large enterprises (who buy support from bureaucrats)
at the expense of the competition, effectively repressing the Free Market. Any regulations not related to public safety that gives a financial advantage
to some companies over their smaller rivals must be rescinded to enable all companies with good consumer products to excel without burdensome regulations.
Additionally, the Convention should adopt for ratification at least these new Amendments or statute modifications:
clearly define and limit the role of government in regards to the term "general welfare",
Term Limits for CON-gress (12 years) including a 6 month limit on time residing in DC,
strict Prohibition of Lobbying (with a comprehensive definition of "lobbying"), and
a Balanced Budget Amendment to stop wreckless spending. During a CON-gressionally declared "war" (only after USA is attacked or attack is proven "imminent"),
deficit spending is permissible.
Restore America to its roots, i.e. Defense, State, Treasury, and Justice. Some Agencies are required like CIA and NSA, both respectively focused on defense against real foreign aggressors and not fictitious paranoid delusions of war mongers. Other agencies help where certain interstate communications are necessary. Most agencies like Agriculture, Education, DEA, IRS (eliminated with 16th Amendment) and many other listed here should be eliminated.
Restore the world Gold Standard with five contentious steps, and
Replace the IMF, World Bank, and Export-Import Bank with facilities that reflect the new Gold Standard, and
After decentralizing and economizing, if tax revenue is needed to fund all or part of the federal government, then implement the Fair Tax.
Regarding a Constitutional Convention itself, some of the available literature warns the reader about a possible "unstructured" and "mismanaged"
Convention that might propose and adopt amendments that could damage the Republic.
Possible, however, it is difficult to envisage how much more damage could done over what the L-E-J Cabal has already done.
If the Convention's agenda and rules of order strictly prohibit violation of the rules and enable a vote on unlisted Amendments AFTER all others are adopted,
then the Convention will be properly structured and managed. ]
The FairTax is a consumption tax unilaterally applied to all Americans at the same rate. For businesses, payroll taxes would no longer exist. Our exports would include a heavy tax for overseas buyers purchasing our products, while our imports would be cheaper for us to purchase. I'm not sure how this would affect GDP, as more information is necessary.
According to the FairTax website, "Under the FairTax, every person living in the United States pays a sales tax on purchases of new goods and services, excluding necessities due to the prebate." The prebate gives every legal resident household an "advance refund" at the beginning of each month so that purchases made up to the poverty level are tax-free.
So a family of four making something like $50,000/year should not have to pay taxes, thus preventing an unfair burden on low-income families. Since the FairTax eliminates both federal and payroll taxes, you get to keep your gross pay amount of each paycheck earned.
John Adams said, �Without [term limits] every man in power becomes a ravenous beast of prey�. That being said, here are some of the reasons we believe our country needs Term Limits.
Term Limits can help break the cycle of corruption in Congress. Case studies show that the longer an individual stays in office, the more likely they are to stop serving the public and begin serving their own interests.
Term Limits will encourage regular citizens to run for office. Presently, there is a 94% re-election rate in the House and 83% in the Senate. Because of name recognition, and usually the advantage of money, it can be easy to stay in office. Without legitimate competition, what is the incentive for a member of Congress to serve the public? Furthermore, it is almost a lost cause for the average citizen to try to campaign against current members of Congress.
Term Limits will break the power special interest groups have in Congress.
Term Limits will force politicians to think about the impact of their legislation because they will be returning to their communities shortly to live under the laws they enacted.
Term Limits will bring diversity of people and fresh ideas to Congress.
[Editor's Note: If you want to get rich, i.e. advance from a low paying government bureaucrat job on the local or state level, THEN GET ELECTED TO THE US CONGRESS (House or Senate). Once you're elected, it's easy to steal from your campaign contributions or the Congressional budget allocated to your seat and staff. You can go on a government-funded junket with 'lavishly' paid expenses. The list of ways to steal from the government while in office is inexhaustible. There are only a few Congressmen who left Congress just wealthy instead of a multi-millionaire. Of course, there are several who arrived in Congress as multi-millionaires and don't need to steal from the government.]
is the greatest retail company in America!
