Uncle Sam, the thief, taking citizens for a ride!!!
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After Obama's eight year Socialist Reign of Terror, it's easy to understand how a true American could have become disillusioned. Capitalism without ridiculous
freedom-restricting regulations has proven to be the absolute best economic system for providing an opportunistic environment for individuals (who want to
work and create) to become wealthy. But, of course, every group of people has detractors who display their envy of those who are wealthy and confident in
their ability to work and develop INDIVIDUAL wealth. These envious, hateful Failures will do anything to destroy the confidence and optimism of those who have
earned their wealth through education and hard work. I identify the Progressives and Socialists of America (Democrats) who have always lived off of Capitalists. Today,
highy regulated Capitalism supports ALL of the Socialist and Communist goverments throughout the world. If not for Capitalism, Socialism would never survive.
Socialism is for those who can't or won't educate themselves and work hard to earn wealth.
Editor's Note: The assertion that Democrats are equivalent to Socialists is NOT hype. Karl Marx published the Communist Manifesto in 1848 well before America's Civil War providing ten Planks of a Communist movement. In many ways,
the U.S. government(s) since FDR have implemented those ten Planks, especially a graduated income tax (Plank #2). Marx published Das Kapital in 1867 with the
2nd and 3rd editions in 1885 and 1894 respectively. Das Kapital is the complete framework for Socialism (Communism), the foundational theoretical text in materialist philosophy, economics and politics.
The Socialist Labor Party advocated a graduated income tax in 1887. In 1892, the Populist Party demanded a graduated income tax in its platform. The Democrat Party
advocated a graduated income tax in 1894 (see the Pollock Case) and posted it in their platform
in 1908. The Populist Party and Democrat Party merged. The Socialist Party still exists. On July 12, 1909, the resolution proposing the
Sixteenth Amendment was passed by the Congress. The Democrat Party with Woody Wilson as President (elected in 1913) signed the ratified 16th Amendment
into law on 22 Dec 1913.
Democrats couldn't handle the stigma of being called Socialists, but they behave and have behaved like Socialists. Statutes the Democrat Party have passed via CONgress
since 1933 compare closely to both Marx and Bismarck's 1881 Sozialpolitik. While some government intervention may be required in the event of a monopolistic
company that prevents the natural competition of Capitalism and stifles economic and technological growth, the federal government's primary job is to provide for the Common
Defense against all enemies foreign and domestic and, domestically, to prevent the tyranny of past European kings—the violation of rights immortalized in the Constitution's
Bill of Rights.
If the Democrat Party is not Socialist, then I don't know what it is. Effectively, if government hyper-taxes (income taxes are the worst) and hyper-regulates business (it has and
does) forcing business to do what government demands, then even though shareholders privately own corporations financially, the government's statutes and regulations control
the companies. Better students of this comparison can provide much more evidence in support of this position. The Democrat Party and most Democrats appear, talk, propose,
implement, TAX, and regulate like Socialists, so they are SOCIALISTS!
For the celebration of this 2018 Independence Day, I think it appropriate to mention the fact that the Scottish Economist, Adam Smith, first published
(in 1776) his magnum opus An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations that provided one of the world's first complete descriptions of
the greatest economic system the world has ever known—Capitalism. Smith is the first proponent of Capitalism to write of the
Invisible Hand.
A
Gallup poll
conducted in June reveals 55 percent of American adults believe the best days for the country
are �ahead of us.�
Those who said the best days are �behind us� came in at 41 percent.
The last time Gallup asked this question � December 2012, when President Barack Obama
was president � only 47 percent of respondents answered �ahead.� That survey�s results also
showed 50 percent of respondents answered �behind.�
The pollster says that Americans are inspired by President Donald Trump�s success in
improving the U.S. economy, including the job market.
�U.S. adults are also noticing the effects of a robust job market, with about two in three saying it is a
good time to find a quality job,�
the data firm continues. �By comparison, 23% were satisfied with the direction of the country
in December 2012, and 19% said it was a good time to find a job.�
Gallup notes the usual break along party lines when it comes to optimism about America�s
future, with about seven in ten Republicans (69%) and 54% of independents responding that
the best days for the U.S. are ahead.
�Democrats, however, are split, with roughly equal percentages saying the best days are
in the past and in the future,� the report says.
[Editor's Note:
If you're a government employee, you need not worry about working hard, learning new things, or getting fired for non-performance or even criminal activity. If you are a union member, you are covered. Even if
you aren't a union member, the government in its infinite wisdom has created at least three more bureaucracies that make the termination of a government employee a virtual impossibility. This means that no
one is responsible for their behavior if employed by the federal government. What a wonderful, beautiful, protected environment—protected by the womb of government. Why perform or do anything
correctly or in a timely fashion? Surely one could lose their self-respect in such a life indemnified against any failure.
]
Gallup also notes that self-identified independents � who helped
elect
Trump in 2016 � represent the biggest shift in the numbers.
�As for independents, a small majority (54%) now say the best days are in the future, but
in 2012, the opposite was true � a similarly sized majority (55%) said the best days were in
the past,� the report states. �So, this group�s change in views is a big driver behind the change
in the national figure.�
The �bottom line,� according to Gallup, is that most Americans believe the best is yet to
come.
The poll is based on a random sample of 1,505 telephone interviews of adults 18 or older
in 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3
percentage points and a 95 percent confidence level.
[Editor's Note: the quintessence of Socialism is expressed in this article, demonstrating that Socialism DRAINS the wealth of a former Capitalist country until total economic and moral failure ensues. Such failures have
happened since the publication of Karl Marx's Das Kapital and the Communist Manifesto. Any Socialist or Communist country today survives only on the back of the highly regulated capitalism in these countries.
]
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.]
Gallup: 55 Percent of U.S. Adults Say Country�s Best Days Are Ahead
