A rural town and their surrounding communities were in uproar when they heard about a training excersise that was to take place in or near their town. Because of this the National Guard opted to scrap their plans. I see this as just testing the waters in the midwest to see how people will react when they have to do this for real in the United States. I’m thinking the midwest communities will be the most resistive to this type of action which is why our areas have been targets of these kinds of litmus testing. And right so they are, the midwest tends to not be as trusting of government as alot of larger community areas like out east and west or in larger cities. If you thought we are safe from being under tyranny, think again, because someday the military will be comming to a town near you to make sure you are disarmed and compliant to our ever so growing government powers that be. Here is the link to the story out of Des Moines, Iowa.
Here is the video sent from a friend of mine who lives on the western side of Iowa, even though miles and miles away from us, it’s still too close to home for me to sit comfortably. I can’t believe this is unfolding in my own lifetime, it’s just sick and wrong. Again, here he is speaking out about this when he first heard about it.
At the Wednesday, February 25th City Council meeting, Mayor Gluba announced that under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009 (“Recovery Act”), Davenport would receive $465,206 in Community Development Block Grant funds. The Recovery Act includes measures to modernize the nation’s infrastructure, enhance energy independence, invest in homes and communities, expand educational opportunities, preserve and improve affordable health care, provide tax relief, and protect those in greatest need.
The Recovery Act includes $13.61 billion for projects and programs administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Information on these programs may be found on the HUD web site http://www.hud.gov/recovery. As stated on the web site, “…These funds enable local governments to undertake a wide range of activities intended to create suitable living environments, provide decent affordable housing and create economic opportunities, primarily for persons of low and moderate income.” Recipients are urged to use the recovery funds for projects or activities that maximize job creation and retention, and economic benefit.
Also on Wednesday, Senator Tom Harkin’s Office http://harkin.senate.gov issued a media release announcing more that $27 million for housing programs across Iowa. In addition to the $465, 206 in Community Development Block Grant funds Davenport will receive $711,923 in Homeless Prevention Funds. According to HUD, “These funds are intended to target individuals and families who would be homeless but for this assistance.”
HUD has yet to release the regulations governing these funds and guidance on how these funds may be used. Additional information on these programs will be released as it becomes available. In Davenport, the Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) oversees the annual allocation of the CDBG funds. Staff will work with the CAC on how best to continue the partnership with the area non-profits and continue the efforts to provide services and economic opportunities for our residents.
For more information contact: Rita Pribyl, Senior Manager, Community Planning and Economic Development Department, 326-6171.
Mind you this is not a theological discussion of any denomination but actually a very fundamental political and human philosophy of discussion that mankind has contemplated over the ages or eons.
Is mankind created with equality to govern themselves or has the universal creator of all things delivered a few to rule over the many?
This my friends is the basis and the beginning of all political discussion and was the driving force behind the American Revolution and the start of a nation never seen before on the face of this Earth.
In the past, a handful of people believed it was their divine right to rule over mankind, that they were granted these powers from their creator and that anyone that went against their laws was also in defience of their particular god they worshipped.
Our Declaration of Independence, to this day is still the only Declaration in all of time that states: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
This Declaration was a defining moment in mankind’s history cause in fact it explains that each Individual has rights to their own Life and Liberties and may rightfully keep the fruits of their pursuits so long as they are respectful of the boundries of other’s equal rights and that the only purpose of government is to secure and protect those rights. These rights are not permissable by government but granted from our creator and that means that government cannot abridge those rights so long as we stay within our own boundries.
Those rights, as stated in the Bill of Rights is too many to count, but they include things like the freedom of thought, freedom of self-defense, freedom to produce and be industrious, freedom to earn, keep and protect property, freedom to travel, freedom of expression, and the list goes on and on.
Obviously we are not angels and the government was instituted to ensure we do not cross boundries of one another and tresspass, steal, murder, lie, cheat, defraud others, destroy property, kidnap, etc.
In fact the Constitution was created with the support of this Declaration and with the sole purpose to restrain the powers of government so that politicians don’t overstep their boundries and try to claim rights above what every other citizen shares. But as we see today, there has become a perversion in this understanding and we find that our politicians today hold themselves on a more elite level of power and control and we have allowed ourselves to become like every other nation, subjects to our own government. Viewed upon as merely a commodity and a taxable base to support the lifestyles of the afluent and handful of rulers. A true abomination of our own Declaration of Independence and criminal acts against our Constitution.
So in order for us to restore our independence and freedom once again in this country we must educate others in the most basic understandings of our Revolution. That no one is above the law, the law is king, and that it only goes as far as to protect our lives and liberties and no further. To ensure that we all can enjoy our own pursuits in life without fear that others will come along and steal our life’s work, even through perverted laws to serve a few or the many. A majority rule only serves to divide us in our United goal of personal freedom and ends up allowing a few elite to control all of our bodies, minds and pocketbooks.
So ask yourself and your neighbors, are you for equal god given rights or do you believe that a few people were sent down from above to tell us how we should live our lives? No President or Congressman should ever be looked at as your savior or a solution to your problems, only YOU can determine your own future, only YOU gain the rewards and suffer the consequences of your decisions. We need to return to believing in ourselves and understanding that government is a limited, but neccessary evil to protect us from each others own downfalls and mistakes. But never used to protect us from ourselves, that is our own responsibility.
We must all be able to learn and grow as Individuals, that is the only security of a peaceful and happy society. Government cannot guarentee this or deliver this, it is merely a force to protect boundries of rights and properties.
Corporations cannot be considered Private Property owners because they exist only at the permission of the State and they are therefore subject to the government and it’s people. The very reason our forefathers created the government in it’s form it exists is because they saw how Corporations that were chartered by kings and queens were only interested in the bottom line and therefore did not have the same morality as a flesh and blood human being. Todays laws have perverted rights to the point that “We the people” now have only privileges and Corporations somehow have rights.
In fact, the original way this country was intended to be was based upon a very strong and very unique statement made in our Declaration of Independence where Individuals have their rights granted to them from their Creator and not government and that any government that tries to abridge those God given rights should be altered or abolished as the people see fit. People have God given rights outside of government jurisdiction and Corporation merely have privileges granted to them from the State. Any Corporation that seeks profit at the expense of our environment or rights of others should be threated with the loss of their State charter by the people through their elected officials.
Unfortunately, the sad truth is that Corporations have gotten a strangle hold over our government because most Americans today do not understand the fundamental political philosophy of our country and why it was created. We are in fact the only country in the history of the world, even today, that has a proclamation that we are not subjects of a government, but in fact the government is subject to us and only exists to protect our lives, God given rights and our pursuit of Happiness. The government cannot and should not guarantee our happiness… that is for us to figure out on our own. Property owners are usually responsible citizens. Others choose to be renters because they are either not responsible enough to hold and keep property or they choose not to take on that responsibility.
Individual Property owners respect their property cause they worked hard to achieve it through the fruits of their labor, expending both their time and liberties in that pursuit and they would be less likely to infringe on the property rights of their neighbors by polluting their neighbors air and water. Should they still do so, they would find themselves in the courts of the United States. Corporations configure the potential costs of their actions and at times see that even with the consequences of their actions, it is still more profitable to go ahead and do bad things. CEOs and other employees are shielded from direct consequences of their actions by the State, individual property owners are not. There in lies a very big difference. Corporate employees can simply say they were doing their job because that is true(if they did not, they would be fired). Very dangerous when you separate responsibility from rights.
Thus a Corporations is not supposed to have rights, only flesh and blood humans with direct accountability in the courts of law in our country. Our government has been perverted and government monopolized schools have taught us a perverted understanding of the American dream and the political philosophy of America to the point we are now worshiping government and believe that a president can cure our ailments. Ha. What a joke and how our forefathers would cringe at the very thought of what we have allowed a handful of Corporate Elites to do to this country and to other countries through their profit chasing dreams. But, I have to hand it to our forefathers, they predicted that this could and would come if we were not vigilant.
We are not taught the warnings or really anything about them of importance anymore. We are the blind leading the blind because we choose to ignore thousands of years of history and think that somehow we are progressive and smarter than people who lived 250 years ago. Ha! What ignorance and arrogance. If we don’t wake up we will all be homeless and have a new king we will bow down to.
Mankind is to be free and no one should ever dictate to us how we should live our lives, what we should eat, or what we should think. We all have a very special journey to embark on and the more pretend safety nets government provides for us, the more crippled we will become as individuals. We need to be allowed to make mistakes as individuals, thats how we grow and learn and become better people, and a better society as a whole. The ever growing government seeks nothing but more power(that’s natural), much like the growing corporations seek more profits(also natural) and hand in hand, they will destroy our lives, liberties and any hope that we may live in a free and peaceful world.
The media was invited today to see the newly formed “Community Safety Map” which allows anyone with internet access to track crime in the Davenport Area via a google map type tool through the City of Davenport Website. Click here to see the map tool.
Mayor Bill Gluba, City Administrator Craig Malin, Police Chief Frank Donchez and Chief Information Officer Rob Henry were there demonstrating a new component of the City website which will allow law enforcement, residents, business owners and neighborhood groups to strengthen communication through an innovative mapping strategy.
The system is different and more accurate than what has been used in the past because it uses the Records Management System instead of the Dispatch Reporting System. During an emergency call, the caller doesn’t always describe the crime accurately and what might be reported as a Robbery might actually be a Burgalry instead. Although this may seem minute to some, there is a distinction between the two. By the time the officers investigate and it is reported back, it may be reported under a different classification or not as anything at all, depending on the circumstances. Later it is recorded in the Records Management System that has a more factual incident report attatched to it. The drawback for this type of accuracy is a week delay in providing the information to the public over the old way that is currently used in the Newspaper. Each crime is displayed as a dot on the map.
The site map can be zoomed in and out and can narrow the scope down to one mile around any address. It will display all crimes within your selected range that took place within that particular week of selection. Although you can go back several months, even a year, the drawback is that you can only get one week sample at a time. There is no way to select two weeks at a time or maybe a few months at a time to observe any possible trends in an area. Maybe the City officials are too worried about people seeing thousands of dots on the map all at the same time.
This is a great start for a crime prevention measure, but still needs some work and the Chief of Police acknowleged this. The question here is if a community group were to create a similar application for the public, would the records still be accessable by the public, or would the City say that it is already available online. Herein lies a potential problem in the future.
In the mean time, this is a great tool for many neighborhood watch groups to utilize at their discretion and I believe it benefits the citizens as a whole and is not a waste of taxpayer money.
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“The greater the ignorance, the greater the dogmatism.” William Osler
I confess, I am very dogmatic and therefore must be totally ignorant when it comes to my views on government and politicians.
In essence I see the function or operation of government as the taking of resources from the most productive members of society and re-distributing them to the least productive members of society resulting in the overall impoverishment of the whole.
There are always exceptions, but in general those who are employed by the government are inferior to those employed in the private sector. Not only that, but by and large they have a huge sense of “entitlement”. They seem to believe they should have lifetime job security, a superior pension system (if Social Security is so great why is it that government employees and elected officials all are outside the Social Security system?) while they gave the public poor service and are among the least productive workers on the planet.
Apparently almost everyone likes and respects this Geithner chap. I don’t know him from a hole in the ground. What I do know is that he has worked for two of the worst institutions created on the planet–The International Monetary Fund and the Federal Reserve. Had he spent some time at the World Bank he would have hit the trifecta. (Maybe the IMF is a division of the World Bank, I am not sure.)
So here is a “public servant” who gets paid directly or indirectly from the taxes collected by our government, and he is a serious tax-evader, only choosing to pay up when it became apparent that he would be nominated for a higher post and become under scrutiny. As I understand the facts (according to Dennis Gartman) Tim G was required to pay self-employment taxes from 2001-2004 as he was employed as “an independent contractor” by the IMF. He paid the taxes, but only for 2003 and 2004 for which the statute of limitations had not expired.
I have no problem with avoiding paying taxes, especially income taxes as I believe that taxes are theft and that I can spend my money more wisely than the government can. But I would not have the gall or audacity to seek a cabinet post.
I just read John Mauldin and will insert his comments on Geithner:
Obama has signaled that he needs the remaining $350 billion of Troubled Asset Relief Program money as soon as possible, although his delegated Treasury Secretary, who will run the program, may be in some trouble, as he failed to pay taxes on his income from his stint at the IMF.
(This is not an “Oops, I forgot!” The IMF does not withhold income taxes from its employees. However, he was given a memo about the taxes he owed. And he did pay them for two years when he was audited and caught. He clearly knew the nature of the taxes due the two prior years, yet did not come clean on those years. Dumb move for someone on a fast-track career and who clearly has an impressive intellect. He has got to be kicking himself. Since the Treasury Secretary is in charge of the IRS, this is not good for Obama. Someone on his team should have vetted this more thoroughly. I do think Geithner is otherwise as qualified as anyone else on the short list, but this is a very large cloud hanging over him.)
If Geithner were a Republican and appointed by a Republican you would see a huge uproar in the Press. What we are not seeing speaks volumes. The U.S. press, with a few notable exceptions has completely sold out to the Democrats, who, in their perverted view, can do no wrong.
For those of you who do not know me, I want to make it very clear that I am no fan of the Republicans. In fact our current Secretary of the Treasury, Paulson, should, in my opinion, be in jail for the things he did at Goldman and for the cronyism he has displayed as Sec’y of the Treasury.
Paulson was CEO of Goldman as it levered its balance sheet up to 30 or 40 to 1. He sold over $400 million in Goldman stock when he became Secretary of the Treasury and paid no income taxes. He let Lehman fail but saved others when it became apparent they would drag down Goldman. This is a man I really don’t like!
Switching topics…
In 2007 and early 2008 most of the bullish pundits were saying if only we get lower oil prices and a stronger dollar the stock market will do very well. As it turned out, nothing could be further from the truth. The dollar strengthened and oil tanked as the stock market had one of its worst declines in history.
Today pundit after pundit is bearish on the dollar. Yet the dollar has been quite strong against the Euro, British Pound, and most currencies from the emerging nation sector and/or the commodity producing nations. It has been relatively weak against the Yen. I don’t have a strong opinion about the dollar versus most currencies. My very strong opinion is that we are headed down the path to the day when it will be recognized by all, that The Emperor has no clothes! In other words, all around the world the system of fiat currencies established by the Breton Woods agreement will be discredited and it won’t matter if you own dollars, Euro’s, British Pounds, etc. the purchasing power will be decimated. You must own gold and silver.
The great deceased economist, Milton Friedman, predicted that once there was a significant recession the Euro would collapse as the individual countries would each want to each go its own way.
A final thought…
We are all morons. Any one of us, republican, democrat, independent, or libertarian who has ever voted for any incumbent for any office is a moron. The only hope for our country is to make every politician serve only one term. Then we might get some people to run who really care and who will try to do the right thing, instead of focus 90% of their time and money on staying popular and getting re-elected. Career politicians may start out as decent human beings with good values, but almost inevitably (with the exception of Jim Bunning and a few others) they become corrupt and evil.
Our government is the mirror image of Robin Hood. Government takes more and more from the good and productive people and transfers it to the least productive people. Now things have gotten worse as we bail out GM, Chrysler, Goldman Sachs, Citicorp, Bank of America, etc. Each one should fail and be forced to reorganize. The whole thing is totally disgusting.
Is there any good news?
Right now it is hard to find. It seems to me that we are likely to suffer through terrible economic times and an awful investment period (for long only stock investors and real estate investors) until events finally run their course–maybe by 2011 to 2012.
Hopefully millions of new jobs will be created in the coming years by emerging technologies, health care discoveries, and innovative new products and/or services. Have faith in the creativity and productivity of human beings, who, absent the shackles of a terrible government have always been able to create and expand the economy while improving our material standard of living.
Any objective observation of the history of mankind over the last two thousand years or so, and especially over the last 5 centuries or so must conclude that the quality of human life and our standard of living is on a steady course of improvement. Within this super secular trend of improvement there often lies periods of temporary set-backs and devolution. However, whenever and wherever free markets are allowed to function, the standard of living will over time improve.
My advice is to allow these bad times to run their course. Marshall or build buying power because when the next secular bull market takes off it will be the opportunity of a lifetime for many to become wealthy beyond their wildest dreams. From where I sit, at the present time the best way to stay liquid and increase purchasing power is to be long gold, silver, and precious metal mining stocks and to be short 30 year US treasury bonds.
Here is a little caveat for you Obama believers. I have copied it from the Dinesletter:
Barack Obama seems to betray a belief in a pernicious myth, which holds that President Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal ended the Great Depression. It did not. It deepened it and prolonged it. Adjusted for inflation, the Dow-Jones Industrial Average did not return to 1929 levels until 1955 - an entire generation lost. The United States descended from a recession to a depression that lasted for over a decade. This New Deal myth is soundly debunked in “The Forgotten Man - A New History of the Great Depression,” by Amity Shlaes, a recent book praised by Obama’s own senior economic adviser, Paul Volcker.
In an effort similar to Obama’s stimulus plan, FDR created the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Works Progress Administration, but via the National Recovery Administration, his administration also championed an enormous amount of new regulations imposed on virtually every major American industry - regulations primarily aimed at keeping wages artificially high. Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, issued a proclamation that may well live in infamy: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.” Obama also wants to create a new health-care agency modeled after a soon-to-be-bankrupt Medicare.
The Obama plan incrementally will try first to move between 32 million and 52 million Americans from private insurance coverage to public coverage, creating a new entitlement that can never be repealed. As with FDR’s New Deal, Obamacare will create new government agency, paid for by all Americans. The forgotten man in FDR’s and in Obama’s spending calculations is the man from whom all the money will come.
Larry Kelley (www.larrykelley.com), San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Dec 08
Have a happy inauguration day!
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December 31, 2008 By Jake,the Champion of the Constitution
One of Lord John Maynard Keynes’s essays “The Great Slump of 1930″ is extremely relevant today as we look forward at the 2009 economy and future governmental antics. Let’s take a look!
The outstanding contemporary relevance of Lord Keynes’ short essay “The Great Slump of 1930″ comes from the fact that Keynes faced very similar dire auspices as he grappled with the uncertain future of the 1930 global economic downturn. At the time he wrote the essay, Keynes was trying to explain both the origins of the crisis and its future length and severity. Needless to say, he missed the boat completely, although like a good medieval soothsayer he did manage to hedge his bet a little. Obviously, the “Great Slump” was not a temporary downturn but instead heralded the Great Depression, which would last until the wartime economy of WWII stimulated industry in the United States while utterly destroying Europe, the epitome example of lost wealth via Henry Hazlitt’s “broken window” illustration. Based on recent FED maneuvers and Obama’s future taxation and government expansion plans, most likely the modern-day Keynesian-Friedmanite command-and-control corporate governments will respond in a similar hapless manner as Keynes’ abject failure almost 80 years ago.
First, here is a little historical context. The advent of the Federal Reserve in 1913 and World War I funding had severed most countries from the fiscal discipline of a true gold standard in 1914. Throughout the 1920s, the pound sterling of the fading British Empire was continuously propped up on a ‘gold bullion standard’ (more or less fiat) that America’s FED, on a ‘gold standard,’ supported via inflation. The British pound, however, kept falling off of its crutches, and was basically doomed by the time of Keynes’ essay. This is can be compared to the completely fiat (money without intrinsic value) world of fluctuating exchange rates, heavily based on the American petrodollar, which is undergoing the final death throes of its present form. Lastly, the “extreme violence” of which Keynes writes was mainly manifested by 10 million unemployed in the USA, Germany, and the UK. As fellow columnist Chuck Angier notes in “Jobs: Headlines I’d Like to See“, 533,000 jobs were lost just in November 2008 in the United States.
“We have magneto trouble.” - Lord Keynes, 1930
In his prelude, Keynes wrote:
“The world has been slow to realize that we are living this year in the shadow of one of the greatest economic catastrophes of modern history… [The man in the street] begins to doubt the future. Is he now awakening from a pleasant dream to face the darkness of facts? Or dropping off into a nightmare which will pass away?
“He need not be doubtful. The other was not a dream. This is a nightmare, which will pass away with the morning. For the resources of nature and men’s devices are just as fertile and productive as they were. The rate of our progress towards solving the material problems of life is not less rapid. We are as capable as before of affording for everyone a high standard of life–high, I mean, compared with, say, twenty years ago–and will soon learn to afford a standard higher still. We were not previously deceived. But today we have involved ourselves in a colossal muddle, having blundered in the control of a delicate machine, the working of which we do not understand. The result is that our possibilities of wealth may run to waste for a time — perhaps for a long time.”
Keynes later added that the “fundamental cause of the trouble is the lack of new enterprise due to an unsatisfactory market for capital investment” and that “there cannot be a real recovery… until the ideas of lenders and the ideas of productive borrowers are brought together again; partly by lenders becoming ready to lend on easier terms and over a wider geographical field, partly by borrowers recovering their good spirits and so becoming readier to borrow.”
Let’s now examine what I highlighted above. First, Keynes predicts that the crisis is just a figurative “nightmare,” and will disappear simply because people are (he spoke the truth here!) still resourceful, the factories still exist, etc. Then he goes on to blame the market for not providing ample exchange of credit due to lack of “good spirits.” Now, there is some sense to the saying that a depression is a state of mind, and trust must exist between both parties, but Keynes is barking up the wrong tree. The fact of the matter is that whether it is an individual, a company, or a bank, it is a basic truth that in a free market, i.e. not one based on any form of force, parties will seek to exchange goods and services because they receive mutual benefits from the transaction. Keynes has omitted from his memory that barter, or direct-exchange, economies developed into indirect-exchange economies based on the use of “money.” For all parties to have a solid trust in “money”, money must be a commodity with intrinsic worth.
Now what does our “Lord” Keynes suggest as the solution?
“No one can take the first step except the central banking authorities of the chief creditor countries; nor can any one Central Bank do enough acting in isolation. Resolute action by the Federal Reserve Banks of the United States, the Bank of France, and the Bank of England might do much more than most people, mistaking symptoms or aggravating circumstances for the disease itself, will readily believe.”
As Austrian economist Murray Rothbard demonstrates in his writings, kings, lords, dictators, and other governments of all kinds have proved repeatedly throughout the ages that they simply cannot be trusted with control over fiat currency and will ultimately fail at commanding economies. Today’s American FED and Treasury “bailouts” are finally giving the American corporate-cronyism form of capitalism all the remaining aspects of the Leninist “commanding heights” economy that served the Soviet Union so well. The classical Keynesian-Friedmanite school of thought is that smart and slick central planners can somehow control and manipulate the economy by stimulating it at opportune times by inflation with unsound money, or holding back the throttle in times of abundance. The overall result is apparent to all - the well-known, inevitable Misesian “boom-bust” economic model - which can only be resolved with sound money and truly free markets.
Now look at the current American banking situation. The 3-month annualized growth of M1, (the best approximate for dollar cash and coin in circulation), is at record-breaking 38%. In fact, the entire depressionary scenario as M1 and M3 (total money supply) shoot past each other in opposite directions can be seen in this graph. Our central bank, the FED, is embarking on a quantitative easing strategy that tries, as Keynes so desperately wished, to marry the borrower and lender once more.
As Michael Maloney illustrates in his article “The Greatest Wealth Transfer Ever“, banks are not lending since they have frightful balance sheets and are rightfully fearful of insolvency. Bank reserves and borrowing from the FED are going parabolic.
Meanwhile, the Obama version of FDR’s New Deal stimulus plan will fail miserably, just as FDR’s senseless failure did. (No, the New Deal did NOT end the Great Depression!) As Hazlitt explains in Chapter 4 of his “Economics in One Lesson,” public works mean taxes. Future taxes to pay for today’s stimulus, that is all it is, and eventually this system will collapse under its own debt. Furthermore, Obama’s stimulus will allocate capital inefficiently, and although the “seen” beneficiaries may eke out a living enslaved to suckling the breast of the state, all of the “unseen” people (that is, you and me) will suffer and, what is far worse, pay for the breastfeeding of others.
[If Obama really wants to start to solve our economic woes, I DO have a “bailout” plan for him. Rather than spend billions or even a trillion of money that will eventually need to be paid back in taxes as a “stimulus,” how about bailing out the taxpayer? Last time I checked, $1.2 trillion will be stolen in 2008 from all Americans via the income tax. The entire 92,000 employees of the IRS and the tax preparation industry can take a well-deserved vacation instead of sucking our economy for blood! Plus there will be no administration costs for this bailout! This will be the most efficient economic solution as each individual would then do what they see fit (and possibly even save a little!) to better their situation. While I am offering advice, withdraw all troops in foreign countries immediately, that will save us a bundle, and after this depression is felt by all, the absurd lunacy of defending other countries’ borders while we go bankrupt here at home will be revealed for all to see.]
The financial crisis of 2009 and the “Great Slump” of 1930 can be resolved by releasing government and central banker control of money, by enabling gold and silver to compete as currencies against the governmental fiat paper. (I would mention that gold and silver are the only currencies allowed by the Constitution of the United States, Article 1, Section 8, but that would be beating a dead horse.)
Lastly, with a closing quote from that false-free-market economist/prophet Milton Friedman. He once said:
“Money is too important to be left to central bankers. You essentially have a group of unelected people who have enormous power to affect the economy. I’ve always been in favor of replacing the Fed with a laptop computer, to calculate the monetary base and expand it annually, through war, peace, feast and famine by a predictable 2%.”
See, at heart Friedman is just another command and control freak! I wonder if Friedman was aware that mining naturally expands the gold supply by roughly 2% annually?
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“It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error, it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.”
American Communications Association v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382, 442 (1950).
Dear Freedom Seekers:
This is a brief account of my journey to federal tax freedom. If you find any interest in my story then you might want to take a similar journey. But be forewarned–this information and advocacy is definitely not for the meek of heart and mind. You will have to work hard to educate yourself and then you will have to summon the courage to act on your knowledge. You must remain undaunted by the continuous-and meritless, legally meaningless-assaults from the IRS.
Here, now, is a very brief account of my journey.
Some years ago I was involved in the “Fair Tax” movement, the ongoing legislative efforts to rid this country of the scourge of the IRS thru enacted federal legislation. I watched this grassroots movement mature into the publication of a book co-authored by the Congressman who originally introduced the legislation, the Fair Tax Act, to the House of Representatives. Yet I realized that the bill didn’t really have any chance of getting to the Floor for a vote. HR 25 has since been through four (4) Administrations without even a chance to be heard.
At that time, I had owned and operated a fairly successful small business and I watched as the IRS kept taking more of my wages and no matter how much I complained to my CPA I was told that it was “the system” and that I just “had to play the game”.
I began asking people with similar dislikes for more information and I happened upon a gentleman who had written a book titled Assumption of Liability. I poured through this book that was emailed to me in Adobe format. I then began my journey; using the knowledge I had gained, to put the internal revenue service and the social security administration on notice through a formal, candid Administrative Process. Using an enacted statute-I had learned that not all of the federal statutes listed in the U.S. Code are enacted-I asked each organization to “show me where I was liable for the Subtitle A federal income tax”. I used the following Code Section to present my inquiry: 5 USC 556(d). This particular section is known as the Administrative Procedures Act and it says, basically, that an agency must show legal proof that their demands for [money or information] is, in fact, required by law. To this day the IRS has not shown me anything. Yet they continue to bother me with their baseless, harassing, meddlesome “Collection Notices”.
The culmination of my efforts in March, 2007, was the issuance of a Dismissal Order For Lack Of Subject Matter Jurisdiction by the IRS’ highest judicial authority, the Chief Judge of the U.S. Federal Tax Court in Washington, D.C. At this time, both my District House Representative and my lead U.S. Senator are aware of my fully legal status as a “non-taxpayer” of the F.I.T. (federal income tax).
Many whom I have told about my journey immediately ask, ‘well, what would happen if everyone stopped paying and stopped filing?’ The answer is: the federal government already collects so much money in the form of excises, imposts and duties that all it has to do is manage those collections. The ultimate fiscal truth is that they do not need our wages; nor are they legally entitled to them.
I entreat any interested people reading this blog to keep an open mind and visit the following site: www.sedm.org. Once there, look for the 1,987 page book, The Great IRS Hoax-Why No One Owes Income Tax. This is a voluminous work with historical, religious, political, ideological, legal, regulatory, statutory and IRS code citings. The sheer size of the work begs serious study and scrutiny. The site has other very valuable resources which have been a huge help to me in my continuing journey to freedom from an oppressive, illegitimate invasion, one which represents the main motivation for the original intent of this country: remember “no taxation without representation?”
We have fallen asleep as a nation and a citizenry. We care more about the next football game or popular song than about the next bill in Congress. We are too busy in our daily lives (too afraid?) to “get involved”. We are dying, as evidenced by the recent election of an individual who wants to take this country farther into socialism than ever before. Our Founders would likely need immediate medical attention for systemic and vascular shock if they could see what we have become–and where we are going.
It is time to wake up and get involved. I tell people, “it’s only the country, stupid”, albeit facetiously. I, for one, have done and will continue to do my part by educating myself daily to the truth regarding the ‘file and pay’ disease that afflicts our consciousness, our wallets and our pocketbooks. Now, more than ever before, we must arise in our most concerted efforts to free ourselves and do what we can to salvage our deteriorating Republic.
Freedom Forever, Justice For All,
Yours Very Truly,
The Beloved
