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.

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,





Friday, April 30, 2010

labor-force-polarized-as-middle-skill-jobs-disappear-report: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance

Is this all part of the master plan? Keep heaping on regulation after regulation. Keep making it easier for unionization. Introduce Cap and Trade schemes to make it ridiculously expensive to maintain a profitable operation in the US and what do you expect will happen?

The key to creating a totalitarian state is the elimination of the middle class. They are the target, they are the victims and the plan is working.

Yesterday, OBAMA! surrogates paraded down Wall Street blaming Goldman Sachs for their job losses, another diversion while Washington plots to create a permanent dependent majority.....



labor-force-polarized-as-middle-skill-jobs-disappear-report: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance

Here Comes Amnesty...Again

The plan was released over night by the Senate.....

Center For Individual Freedom

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

The Unhappiest States in America - CNBC

Is it any coincedence that 9 of 10 of these states are meccas of liberal policy? At least NJ has decided to vote for change that THEY can believe in!

The Unhappiest States in America - CNBC

Debt Denial and the Five Stages of Greece

More on the Big Fat Greek Debt Default and a warning for those who wish to use the same economic model....


Debt Denial and the Five Stages of Greece

How Much Is This Economic Recovery Going to Cost?

People don't even know what is happening with this recovery, the author analyzes the true cost of what is happening right now and demonstrates why it is not sustainable.....


How Much Is This Economic Recovery Going to Cost?

Newsmax - Experts Warn of Escalating Chavez Threat

I have found it troubling that this administration gets cozy with dictators while it demonizes our allies and viciously attacks our own citizens.

Newsmax - Experts Warn of Escalating Chavez Threat

Socialism vs Corporatism by Ron Paul

Ron Paul discusses the difference between socialism and the Obama agenda...

Socialism vs Corporatism by Ron Paul

Monday, April 26, 2010

YouTube - SEIU as Astroturf - Protesters say, "Give up the bucks!"

This is disgusting on so many levels. First and foremost is the notion that any government job is productive. Since the government does not derive revenue by providing essential goods or services that could not be provided by the private sector, their only source of revenue is.....TAXES!

So in order for a government employee to get paid, the government must first take your money from you and give it to these people. They in turn, give a little of your tax money back to the government under the illusion that they too are paying their taxes. The fact of the matter is that it was your money, taken from you that they are paying their taxes with.

No wealth is created in this process,only a transfer of income from you to them, and; as you can see, an incredible amount of government waste is allowed to occur...think about it, how come the state of illinois didn't shut down with all of these people not working at their government jobs that day?????




Here is the original link:
YouTube - SEIU as Astroturf - Protesters say, "Give up the bucks!"

JIM ROGERS: THE NEXT CRISIS IS ALREADY UNFOLDING | THE PRAGMATIC CAPITALIST

A video from CNBC where legendary investor Jim Rogers provides his thoughts on the collapse of the Euro-Socialist Economy

JIM ROGERS: THE NEXT CRISIS IS ALREADY UNFOLDING | THE PRAGMATIC CAPITALIST

Moneynews - Nearly Four Million People Could Pay Obamacare Penalty

As more details come out, this bill looks worse and worse. Why should any citizen be forced to pay for features they do not want or need (most women will not be needing a prostate exam, nor will men need PAP Smears)? This kills all the innovation that would really reduce cost and "bend the curve" on premiums.

The left hates the Health Savings Account model because it provides eventual independence from the Government and "robs" them of tax dollars....all the more reason to fight for it!

For more information on Real Health Care Reform, visit the website of Rep. Paul Ryan (R) Wisconsin and click his HealthCare link.


Moneynews - Nearly Four Million People Could Pay Obamacare Penalty

Timothy P. Carney: Goldman rallies for Obama in Wall Street 'reform' | Washington Examiner

Here is the real reason why OBAMA! isn't giving back the Goldman Campaign Donations....


Timothy P. Carney: Goldman rallies for Obama in Wall Street 'reform' | Washington Examiner

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Well Said, But Mr. President . . . - James Carafano - The Corner on National Review Online

If you ever attended a Tea-Party, you'd know that these are the most non-violent, constitutionally intellectual crowds ever to stage a protest. Trying to paint this as a violent insurrection is an insult to this country's founding principles.


Well Said, But Mr. President . . . - James Carafano - The Corner on National Review Online

Robert Moffit - Obama's health reform isn't modeled after Heritage Foundation ideas

The Heritage Foundation has had to go on the offensive as Obama and his acolytes have run around trying to convince everyone that ObamaCare is based on "conservative Principles.......


Robert Moffit - Obama's health reform isn't modeled after Heritage Foundation ideas

UK economy must perform a rebalancing act - John Mauldin's Outside the Box - InvestorsInsight.com | Financial Intelligence, Advice & Research / Investment Strategies & Planning for Individual Investors.

Even while OBAMA is driving this economy toward the Euro-socialist model, the Euro-zone socialist economies are crumbling under the weight of their dependent classes. Here is an essay focused on the UK.

UK economy must perform a rebalancing act - John Mauldin's Outside the Box - InvestorsInsight.com | Financial Intelligence, Advice & Research / Investment Strategies & Planning for Individual Investors.

Anarchy Is the Solution to the Evil Idiocy of the State, Part II

As promised, here is part two of the anarchy discussion...

Anarchy Is the Solution to the Evil Idiocy of the State, Part II

Monday, April 19, 2010

First, Let’s Kill the Angels - Thoughts From The Frontline - InvestorsInsight.com | Financial Intelligence, Advice & Research / Investment Strategies & Planning for Individual Investors.

An analysis of what is buried in the financial reform bill.....

First, Let’s Kill the Angels - Thoughts From The Frontline - InvestorsInsight.com | Financial Intelligence, Advice & Research / Investment Strategies & Planning for Individual Investors.

Federal Government Provide Entitlements at the Cost of Collapse

The author presents a solid analysis of "how we got here". The poll tax and property ownership have been demonized as to being put in place to prevent women and minorities from voting when in fact the purpose was always to ensure:

1) an educated and informed electorate, and;
2) that we don't end up with a majority who think they can vote themselves a piece of their neighbors' private property.

Why should anyone have a right to vote when they don't have any skin in the game? And no, government goal that you could lose does not constitute your own skin.....

Federal Government Provide Entitlements at the Cost of Collapse

Saturday, April 17, 2010

IS GREECE TODAY’S BEAR STEARNS? | THE PRAGMATIC CAPITALIST

From the pragmatic capitalist. Don't think for a minute that the EU deal is the end of the story, it is just the beginning as the socialist economic model that OBAMA! wants to ram us into continues to collapse on the other side of the pond...


IS GREECE TODAY’S BEAR STEARNS? | THE PRAGMATIC CAPITALIST

Washington - Not China - Is the Real Manipulator Here

Washington has had a tendency to blame everyone else than themselves no matter what the issue of the day is. Here is a discussion about how the claim that China (not OBAMA!, Pelosi and Reid), is hurting our "recovery" is simply misguided.


Washington - Not China - Is the Real Manipulator Here

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Fratto: That 47 Percent No Taxes—Another Closer Look - CNBC

An rebuttal to an attack of the USA Today article that reported that 47% of US wage earners are not paying federal income tax (now do you see why they want a VAT tax?)

Fratto: That 47 Percent No Taxes—Another Closer Look - CNBC

Less Tax for Economic Turnaround

Can't let this day pass without something having to do with taxation. Remember the story of Robin Hood? He stole from the rich and gave to the poor? Does anyone remember who the rich were....? Here's a hint, his nemisis was the Sheriff of Nottingham - the government!

The idea that the government has the "right" to take your property from you behind the barrel of a gun is exactly what the whole taxation without representation is all about. This has become a shakedown of the citizenry and it will end one way or another.....


Less Tax for Economic Turnaround

Democratic Bill Allows Takeover of Businesses

I'm not a fan of Dick Morris, but this is a well written article on what is really behind Dodd's financial reform bill.

Imagine a company not supporting Obama all of a sudden being deemed "too big to fail" and then taken over by the government. Would that suppress opposition?

Newsmax - Democratic Bill Allows Takeover of Businesses

Leadership for the 21st Century

The Watchmen Sleep While Energy Costs Raid the Village

It doesn't make sense that with oil rising to more than $80.00 per barrel(nearly double a year ago), that the reported inflation numbers remain "tame". this article dissects the reports and gives us a better picture of what is really going on.


The Watchmen Sleep While Energy Costs Raid the Village

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Anarchy Is the Solution to the Evil Idiocy of the State

Is anarchy really the answer? Based on Doug Casey's definition, I may start classifying myself as an anarchist.....it beats trying to explain what a "little r-republican" is or a "constitutional conservative".

Anarchist.....bet nobody gets in my face about slavery, homophobia, etc.......

Part II tomorrow
Enjoy!


Anarchy Is the Solution to the Evil Idiocy of the State

Musical Rant

I usually don't post jokes are funny stuff, because this is serious, we are in a fight for the life of the country we grew up in (or thought we grew up in...?), but this is well done....

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Two Things to Remember on Tax Day

By Bob Bauman

Tax Day is a dreaded deadline for millions, but for nearly half of U.S. households it's simply somebody else's problem. So with that in mind…

1) Nearly half of U.S. households pay no federal income taxes
About 47% of Americans will pay no federal income taxes at all for 2009. Either their incomes were too low, or they qualified for enough credits, deductions and exemptions to eliminate their liability.

The result is a tax system that exempts almost half the country from paying for programs that benefit everyone, including national defense, public safety, infrastructure and education...

It is a system in which the top 10% of earners — households making an average of $366,400 in 2006 — paid about 73% of the income taxes collected by the federal government.
The bottom 40%, on average, make a profit from the federal income tax, meaning they get more money in tax credits than they would otherwise owe in taxes. For those people, the government sends them a payment.

"We have 50% of people who are getting something for nothing," said Curtis Dubay, senior tax policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation. Read more here.

Something for nothing? Remind you of anyone else? …

2) U.S. national debt is heading for crisis level
Lost amid last month's passage of the new health care law, the Congressional Budget Office issued an intriguing report.

It showed that within this decade, President Obama's own budget sends the U.S. government to a potential tipping point where the debt reaches 90 percent of gross domestic product.

Economists Carmen Reinhart of the University of Maryland and Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard University have recently shown that a 90% debt-to-GDP ratio usually touches off a crisis.

This year, the debt will reach 63% of GDP, a ratio that has ignited crises in smaller wealthy nations. Fiscal crises gripped Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Ireland when their debts were below where the United States is shortly headed.

Will YOU be prepared to react when the collapse comes?

Do you have plans in place to save yourself and your family from the personal impact of America's national financial ruin?

Friday, April 09, 2010

Print Article: Mark Landsbaum: What to say to a global warming alarmist

Next time you are surrounded by a bunch of global warming alarmists, here is a list of topics that will surely get their attention......


Print Article: Mark Landsbaum: What to say to a global warming alarmist

When We Could Afford the Welfare Scheme of Social Security

We have created history this year in that our government ponzi scheme #1, Social Security, will pay out more money than it takes in this year. Let the downward spiral begin!


When We Could Afford the Welfare Scheme of Social Security

Newsmax - Obama Gets It Right on Airport Screening

Note that this is limited to airports outside the US, people already in the US would not be subject to such scrutiny, it would violate their civil rights.....


Newsmax - Obama Gets It Right on Airport Screening

Massachusetts's Health-Care Program Offers a Preview of Barack Obama's Universal Health-Care Plan - WSJ.com

It is so depressing to be right so often......



Massachusetts's Health-Care Program Offers a Preview of Barack Obama's Universal Health-Care Plan - WSJ.com

Mexico and the Failed State Revisited - John Mauldin's Outside the Box - InvestorsInsight.com | Financial Intelligence, Advice & Research / Investment Strategies & Planning for Individual Investors.

If you've never paid attention to border security, it is probably time that you did. We are becoming a permanent source of government revenue and welfare for this country and the situation will only get worse.

Mexico and the Failed State Revisited - John Mauldin's Outside the Box - InvestorsInsight.com | Financial Intelligence, Advice & Research / Investment Strategies & Planning for Individual Investors.

Democrat's Answer to Runaway Deficits...More Taxes!

The Deficit Reduction Task Force put together by OBAMA! is nothing but a set up for the introduction of more taxes. This administration has no intention of reducing spending, even elimination of waste, redundancy or ineffective programs. Even while Europe is on the brink of total collapse, we continue to try to follow them to the gates of hell.

Spend It Now! A Huge New Tax Is Coming...
By Dr. Steve Sjuggerud
Friday, April 9, 2010

Everything you buy is about to become 20% more expensive…

I'm not kidding. The latest idea out of Washington is to pay for its insatiable appetite for spending with what's called a "Value-Added Tax."

It's like a huge new national sales tax, on everything. In simple terms, the difference is that with a sales tax, the consumer pays it. With a "VAT," the manufacturer pays it. The consumer won't see it in the price on the shelf or on their receipt.

Politicians love this tax because it's a stealth tax… You can't see it when you buy something, but they still get their money. And unless you make your voice known, chances are excellent we'll eventually have a Value-Added Tax here.

The thing is, making things 20% more expensive here and giving that money to politicians won't save America. It'll make us less competitive. For Exhibit A, consider the state of European governments right now…

Greece, for example, has a VAT of 21%. Its government is bankrupt. The Value-Added Tax didn't save Greece.

Italy and Portugal have a VAT of 20%, and they're only a little less bankrupt than Greece.

Astoundingly to me, the Value-Added Tax in France has now crept up to a full 50% of France's government revenues. So how are things going in France with a Value-Added Tax?

France is unable to compete in the world. Unemployment is terminally high. The unemployment rate is now 10% in France. In 2005, the unemployment rate was 10%. And back in 2000, unemployment stood at 11%. Like I said, it's terminal…

Clearly, the system is not working. So why is the U.S. government in such a hurry to adopt it?

The Wall Street Journal explained it yesterday: "Taxes on the rich can't begin to finance the levels of new spending that the current government has unleashed… "

And foreign governments have been less willing to buy our government bonds lately. So the government needs a new source of a lot of money.

At first, a Value-Added Tax will be offered up by politicians as a small tax – just a temporary fix to get us over the hump on our current budget woes. But we know how it will go… Like all taxes (and parasites), it will become permanent in our lives and it will steadily grow. Remember, the VAT in France is now 50% of government revenue.

All we can do right now is let our politicians know we're against more taxes… because we know down in our toes that governments spend every dollar that comes in… and then some.

Think about it this way: When your child has overspent on the credit card, you don't hand over a new card to spend on.

We don't want to give our politicians a new credit card to ring up charges. Reject their request for another massive credit card, in the form of a Value-Added Tax.

Oh, the other thing you can do is make all your big purchases soon, before a Value-Added Tax comes along and adds 10%-20% to the price of everything you buy…

This is serious stuff. Don't sit aside and just let it happen to you.

Good investing,

Steve

P.S. It's a separate story… but I actually think a tax on consumption is better than a tax on income. That type of system taxes spenders and rewards savers. In the end, the government gets its money, but the economy gets wealthier.

A Value-Added Tax is a tax on consumption, so I would favor that over an income tax. But in this case, the government won't give us one or the other… It will want both.

Wednesday, April 07, 2010

What Happens When Interest Rates Rise?

On March 23, we made history. No, it wasn’t the signing of Health Care Reform (although I’m sure that this bill is a contributing factor), but on the same day the health care bill passed, U.S. government debt lost its "risk-free" status.

That day, for the first time in over a generation, the U.S. government was a worse credit risk than a U.S. company.

Specifically, investors were willing to accept a lower interest rate to lend money to billionaire Warren Buffett's company, Berkshire Hathaway, for two years than to lend to the U.S. Treasury for the same period of time.

Two weeks before the House vote, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its estimate of Obama's budget, including its health care program. From 2011 to 2020, the cumulative deficit is almost $10 trillion. Adding 2009 and 2010, the total rises to $12.7 trillion.

In 2020, the projected annual deficit is $1.25 trillion, equal to 5.6 percent of the economy (gross domestic product). That assumes economic recovery, with unemployment at 5 percent. Spending is almost 30 percent higher than taxes.

Total debt held by the public rises from 40 percent of GDP in 2008 to 90 percent in 2020, close to its post-World War II peak. It will so surely end up being a financial disaster that the bond market has actually begun to price government obligations at higher interest rates than highly rated private companies...

The problem is, once creditors begin to fear more and more paper will simply be printed to pay these debts (and, of course, that's what will happen), interest rates will rise. And they could rise suddenly. That would force governments to spend vastly more money on interest payments than they expect. That's the big problem right now in Greece, for example. Many believe that by the end of Obama’s first term the U.S. will owe roughly: $17.8 trillion in federal debt, $2 trillion in GSE debt/guarantees, $500 billion in FDIC obligations, and $500 billion in FHA obligations.

What's a reasonable rate of interest on these debts? Right now, it costs the U.S. government almost 5% to borrow for 30 years. Let's assume the blended borrowing cost goes to that amount – which is well below the government's average borrowing costs since 1980. That would equal $1 trillion in interest payments due, per year. That's 100% of all income taxes paid in 2009.

I hope I don't have to explain to you why this amount of debt isn't sustainable. I'm not the only person in the world who can do basic math and has access to the government's accounts. One of Europe's top money managers stated, "Eventually the U.S. will arrive at the point where, interest payments on government debt all of a sudden go to 20%, 25%, 30% of tax revenue. And once you go above 30%, you are done. You go into default or your currency breaks down and your system collapses."

Yesterday Greek bonds were going at rates of 7% and every day our entitlement-economy looks much closer to theirs than it did at the end of the Clinton administration.

Even more worrisome, is that the administration has just signed into law (buried in the jobs bill, again without a peep from the media) capital controls designed to not let you escape when the meltdown occurs as if they are actually planning for this to happen.

Some blogs are now starting to report that this is a set-up for grabbing your personal retirement accounts, I’d like to think not; but the ongoing actions of this government are becoming harder and harder to rationalize, even for my most liberal friends.

Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Your Cost of Doing Business Is Up 25%…Now Go Hire People The Reformed Broker

I often here the talking heasd on the right argue about whether Obama is an idiot, or is evil. No one but an idiot can take the actions he is promoting and NOT understand the negative impact it will have on the economy, so (since I'm in the "he's not an idiot" camp) what other reason to push this disaster down our throats?


Your Cost of Doing Business Is Up 25%…Now Go Hire People The Reformed Broker

Are there Investment Opportunities if Mexico Becomes a Narco-State?

This is a chilling, yet objective analysis. One of the tough things about being an active trader is that you have to look at the news, good or bad, and then ask "now how do I make money on this?"

Are there Investment Opportunities if Mexico Becomes a Narco-State?

On The Inevitable Surge Of Tax Rates | zero hedge

These charts are alarming, does anyone really think it is okay or "fair" to take away $.90 of every dollar someone makes just to pay interest on debt?

On The Inevitable Surge Of Tax Rates | zero hedge

Help! I've been Taxed and I Can't Get Up!

By Jeff Clark - Casey's Gold and Resource Report

Like many of you, the passage of the healthcare bill wasn't met with the popping of champagne in my house. I found myself chanting "Uncle Sam, Uncle Sham" as the day wore on. Higher taxes and other major changes are headed our way. And yet, I think there's something in the bill that's even more dastardly.

If you're a supporter of the bill, you'd point to its benefits: Poor adults will get Medicaid. Low-income families will get federal subsidies to buy insurance. Small businesses may get tax credits. Kids will be able to stay on the parents' policy until they turn 26. Seniors get additional prescription drug coverage. People with pre-existing medical conditions can't be denied or dropped.

While no one is really against any of those things, the elephant in the room (or boa constrictor in the bed) is how those things are going to be paid for. Here's how: the "wealthy" will pay higher taxes; businesses with 50 or more employees will have to insure them or pay a penalty; individuals will have to pay a fine if they don't buy insurance; premiums will rise for many who already have insurance; and seniors with Medicare Advantage policies could lose those plans or pay more to keep them.

Regardless of how you feel about the bill, the fact is that taxes are going up, and not necessarily just on the "wealthy." The healthcare plan will cost $940 billion over the next decade, almost $100 billion a year.

I haven't read the 2,407-page bill (almost twice as long as the Gutenberg Bible), but there are plenty now who have. Here's a summary I compiled, from various sources, that outlines the tax ramifications of what is now the law of the land.

Assuming the Senate passes the package of changes, the biggest tax increases will be in Medicare payroll taxes. Those take two forms, both starting in 2013:

Singles earning more than $200,000 and couples earning $250,000 will pay 0.9% more on wages and self-employment income.


All investment earnings will be taxed an additional 3.8%. This includes capital gains, dividends, and interest, the first time in history the Medicare tax is applied to them.
But keep in mind that the Bush tax cuts expire at the end of this year, which will push the Medicare tax on capital gains to 23.8% in 2013 on these earners. Dividends, currently taxed at the top rate of 15%, will be taxed as ordinary income, with the top rate scheduled to rise to 39.6% (from 35%).

This means that the tax on dividends could go as high as 43.4% when the new Medicare tax goes into effect in 2013. (Obama has proposed a top dividend tax rate of 20%, so if Congress enacts his proposal, the top tax rate for dividends would "only" rise to the 23.8% level in 2013.)

You may think you'll escape this tax if you're not "rich." But it's those darn Unintended Consequences politicians never seem to think about that could still sting you. For example, the 3.8% Medicare surtax could snag you if you happen to sell some real estate for a big gain.

The other major tax increase is the one imposed on health insurance plans that are more generous, the so-called "Cadillac" health plans. And this tax increase doesn't just apply to high-income earners; those state and union workers that lobbied for better health coverage instead of big pay increases are going to find they're included with the "rich" in a new excise tax. Starting in 2018, family insurance plans valued at more than $27,500 ($10,200 for individuals) would pay a 40% tax above that level.

Ouch.

And there's other ways you'll be taxed, particularly through the magic of "passing it on to the consumer."

For example, pharmaceutical manufacturers will pay an annual fee based on their market share starting in 2011; same for health insurers, starting in 2014. A 2.3% excise tax on the sale of medical devices will start in 2013. A 10% excise tax on indoor tanning services goes into effect this July.

How will all these businesses afford the additional tax? They won't. You'll pay it, through higher prices.

Further, were you one of those who incurred medical expenses above 7.5% of your income, thus allowing you to deduct them? That ceiling will be 10% starting in 2013. (It remains 7.5% for those over 65.)

There's more, most of it in the form of greater restrictions, increased penalties, and higher fines on various entities, businesses, health plans, or individuals. But what I especially cringed at was this: the bill vastly expands the responsibilities of, and gives greater strength to, the IRS. The agency will hire as many as 16,500 additional auditors, agents, and other employees just to enforce all the new taxes and penalties.

Specifically, the bill will empower the IRS to do the following: verify citizens have "acceptable" health care coverage; impose fines up to $2,085 or 2% of income (whichever is greater) for failure to purchase "minimum essential coverage"; confiscate tax refunds; and increase audits.

The upshot is that this will force many taxpayers to be more conscientious of monitoring their income and tax withholding.

Perhaps most damaging to the government's plans is if the bill leads some to ask the Ayn Rand/Atlas Shrugged questions: What if I just stop being productive? What if I stop working once my income approaches the threshold? What if I invest less so that I stay under the limits?

And last, here's the time bomb that could trump the tax concerns: none of these taxes are indexed to inflation. Since the bill fails to index to inflation the exemption threshold for the Medicare taxes on both earned and unearned income, it's almost certain many taxpayers will get to these tax levels a whole lot quicker than they think.

What this essentially means is there is now more incentive on the part of the government that we have inflation. If inflation reaches 10% at some point, which is below the 14%+ rate it hit in 1980 and far below any hyperinflationary level that's possible, the $100,000 earner gets to the magical $200,000 level in seven-and-a-half years. From the government's perspective, it makes the printing of money a lucrative affair.

Yes, higher taxes are coming. But with the government's built-in incentive for inflation, along with the reward that comes from getting more citizens to higher tax rates, many may find the tax issue an annoying mosquito bite compared to the alligator chomp of inflation. And high inflation affects every citizen, regardless of income or tax rate. Those who think they've escaped the cold may find they've walked into a freezer.

With this added push to inflate, our investment strategy for the foreseeable future is now clear: We must invest in assets that not just keep up with inflation but outpace it.

All wise citizens do tax planning. Have you done inflation planning?

Racism and Obamacare

Here's Star Parker's weekly column. Hope you can take the time to read it.


Like chewing gum stuck to the heel of your shoe, racism seems to be stuck forever to American public discourse. No matter what we do or what happens, somebody will find a racial motive.

Democrats have passed government health care with no Republican votes. Their leadership threatened and bribed their own members to eek out a majority. They resorted to an arcane procedure that maybe 100 people in the whole country can explain in order to pass a massive bill that polls show a majority of Americans don’t want.

The federal government, for the first time ever, will force every American to buy, with a big chunk of their income, a product designed by government bureaucrats, with an army of IRS agents snooping on each of us to make sure we did it.
And how are many liberals explaining why so many Americans are ticked off?

It’s because our president is black. It’s about racism.

Even me. I’m steamed. And even though I happen to be black – I’ve even spoken at some tea party rallies – I still must be a racist.

Obama’s approval rating has dropped from 70% when he was elected to 50% today. His disapproval has skyrocketed from 10% when he was elected to 42% today.

Per the Washington Post, in January 2009 58% of Americans said that the Obama presidency helped race relations. By January 2010, this was down to 40%.
Has this wave of disillusionment with Obama been driven by a sudden realization that the man Americans elected president is black?

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s approval has dropped from 41% in January 2009 to 36% today and her disapproval has risen from 42% to 54%. Is she black?

Were the raucous townhalls last summer – which gave birth to the tea party movement- where irate constituents gave their representatives a piece of their mind about Obamacare,! raciall y motivated?

Care to understand what all this is really about?

Consider a powerful observation about a former time by one of America’s great historians, Jacques Barzun. Barzun was a professor and dean at Columbia University and a Presidential Medal of Freedom winner.

“We make a great mistake in calling the American War of Independence, the “American Revolution,” he wrote. “In 1776 the Americans rebelled against recent rules and impositions. What they wanted was not a new type of government, but the old type they enjoyed. They were used to many freedoms, which they claimed as the immemorial rights of Englishmen. Once they defeated the English armies and expelled the Loyalists, they went back to their former ways, which they modestly enlarged, and codified in the Bill of Rights.”

In a similar fashion today, Americans are rebelling as the freedom we have enjoyed, freedom which defines life in this country, is being taken away and new “rules and impositions” are being imposed.

It’s not about theory or some abstract ideology. The intense feelings flow from losing what you have and what you know is vital.

What is new today is we can no longer continue the illusion of having our cake and eating it. We can no longer afford to be both a big government entitlement state and a free, creative, and prosperous nation. It’s the prosperity created by our freedom that has financed the entitlements. But now the entitlements are overtaking and strangling our freedom.

So now is a time of choosing. We’re either going to remain the land of the free or transform into the land of the bureaucrat.

The antipathy of activists toward Mr. Obama is not about how he looks but what he has done. That he has chosen and imposed on us the path of bureaucracy.

Democrat Representative "Doesn't Care" about the Constitution

The man took an oath to protect and uphold the Constitution, but when Pelosi says "Jump", he leaps as high as he can and if he lands on your freedom and liberty, well so be it.....

While not as good as the idiot who thinks an island can capsize, this video captures the shear ignorance of our founding documents. I am also getting sick and tired of all the sob stories about people not getting health care because they have no insurance. It simply is not true. There is a fix, but this isn't it.

Monday, April 05, 2010

David Rosenberg: Here's 7 Economic Stats You Shouldn't Believe - Yahoo! Finance

The sheep in the media keep doing what they are told, cheering every hint of not-so-bad news as the second coming of the "Clinton Boom" (a time where I made a lot of money taking automotive firms through bankruptcy.....so it depends on what you mean by "Boom" i guess).

A deeper dive into the news, in context of what used to be considered 'normal' as economic recoveries go paints a much different picture.....


David Rosenberg: Here's 7 Economic Stats You Shouldn't Believe - Yahoo! Finance

Saturday, April 03, 2010

And You Want These People to Run HealthCare???

This is not a joke, this is an example of the people that we are sending to Washington. They are useful idiots who will do whatever Pelosi tells them to do.

We must protect our children from a Government that is run by incompetent thieves...

Thursday, April 01, 2010

Newsmax - Fla. Rep. Putnam: Obamacare 'Tax on Living'

Newsmax - Fla. Rep. Putnam: Obamacare 'Tax on Living'

Newsmax - Tea Party Unveils 'Contract From America' Planks

This of course is just the beginning. At some point, we will have to strengthen the language in the Constitution to make sure that they can never try to usurp the power of the people again.....


Newsmax - Tea Party Unveils 'Contract From America' Planks

Don't Believe The Obamabot Liars - The Market Ticker

This piece rips apart all the spin you are and will be hearing in the coming weeks.


Don't Believe The Obamabot Liars - The Market Ticker

Zeitgeist - The Movie

If you have the time, you need to watch this in it's entirety. Eisenhower railed against the military industrial complex. JFK, warned us of the threat of the international cabal of central bankers and it may have cost him his life.

It's time to wake up! This is the reason that they are so threatened by the tea-party movement! The link will take you to the youtube version, then check out the commentary at the Campaign for Liberty regarding the legalization of ID Chips.....

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/