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So, is the stimulus package working to help raise our economy out of the recession it’s been in? I don’t think so. What has happened to change the course of the recession is our President, Barack Hussein Obama has finally shut the hell up. All the Chicken Little, the sky is falling bunk that he and his administration was spewing was at best keeping the recession at the state it was in, but at worst made the recession worse than it was going to be.  Did you hear me?  The stimulus package did not slow nor stop the recession.  The recession turned around on it’s own.  Case to point, this document, based on a CBO study, states that only 25% of the stimulus money will be spent by the end of 2009.  It’s June 2009 right now.  It would be safe to say that not more than 12.5% of the stimulus money has been spent so far.  But the economy is turning around.  http://rutledgecapital.com/2009/06/03/how-much-of-the-stimulus-money-has-already-been-spent/

The next step is to write, call or fax your Senators and Congressmen and tell them to stop the rest of the stimulus payouts.  It is NOT needed.  All it do is drive us into debt that our children’s children will be paying off.  Use this link to find Congressional contact information.  http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml  You can use this to contact the President and Vice President as well, but I think that would be a waste of time, effort and resources.  Their track record has shown that they don’t care what the American people think/desire.

Each and every one of us is an indentured servant. We are indentured by our government. The biggest difference between Americans today and the indentured servants in Europe during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance is that those indentured servants actually had a specified term for their servitude (read: slavery). Americans don’t. Our government owns us. You don’t think so? You think I’m full of crap? Riiiigghht. You keep thinking that, Buckwalter! Imagine that you have paid off your house or you have a bare, unimproved piece of property that you own outright. Now, just let it sit there. When that property tax bill comes, just throw it away. Don’t pay it. When the next notice comes, ignore it. It won’t be very long before that government (that you think doesn’t own you and everything you have) will be putting a lien on your property, and then they’ll put it up for auction. If it’s unimproved land out in the middle of nowhere, you’re tax bill is probably $50 a year or some insignificant amount. But the government will take your land that is worth possibly hundreds or thousands of times the tax amount and sell it to the highest bidder (usually for less than the property is worth) to get that $50 that they TELL YOU they are ENTITLED to. Yeah…the government doesn’t own you and all your stuff. You keep thinking that.

Is there anything that you can do without being taxed by the government? I challenge you to respond to this post and inform me of what it is. By the way, if they tax it, fundamentally that means that you don’t own it. They LET you own it. 

Take a look at the link below.  When you read it, look at the industries that are swapping “help” for huge portions and control of those industries.  The government already owns the industries.  With these huge payouts, the government is paying hush money to these industries.  The money is being used to keep the industries quiet while the government takes overt control of them.  Time will tell whether our government will relent and let the industries appear to control themselves once again.

http://money.cnn.com/news/storysupplement/economy/bailouttracker/

Now tell me, with all the BS conviction that you can, that the government doesn’t own EVERYTHING.  We have let our government get so big that we exist to feed the government machine.  We are supposed to control the government, but we are now letting the government control us.  WAKE UP, AMERICA!  Take care of yourself!  Quit looking to the government for everything.  Once we do that, we can roll back the insidious taxes and start living a more free life.  A life that doesn’t exist to support the government.

There are differing opinions on whether global warming (now called climate change as there have been scientific observations of global cooling) exists or doesn’t.  And if it does exist, what’s mankind’s part in making it worse.  I have contended from the earliest days of conversation on the topic that the earth goes thru cyclical changes and these changes don’t occur over the span of a few years.  The changes occur over hundreds and/or thousands of years.  There were two articles on Saturday on the topic.  One is about how Congress is considering far-reaching legislation that would ultimately increase everyone’s spending on energy as Congress is contemplating putting huge taxes and fees on energy companies.  Of course, these fees will be passed on to the consumer, You!  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/18/congress-considers-far-reaching-global-warming/

On the same day that that article came out, a second article was available on the same website that claims that the Antartic ice shelf is actually expanding.  Yes, getting bigger!  Because it’s colder!  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517035,00.html 

This is the next cash cow.  Everyone jump on board if you can stomach it.  I, personally, would have a hard time making money off of a lie.  I’m just funny that way I guess.  I don’t believe in fleecing anyone.  But Al Gore doesn’t have a conscious.  He has made over $100M on scaring people into thinking that global warming exists.  He owns huge stakes in companies that sell carbon credits.  Feel bad about all the emissions from your plane trip to see family over spring break?  No problem.  Buy carbon credits from one of fat Al’s companies and they’ll plant a tree for you so you can feel like you’re “carbon neutral”.

I’m telling you.  If you can get right with it, there’s alot of money to be made here.

I saw this link on a news website and it just blew me away.  We have got to get a handle on the spendocrats.  This is truly awesome in a holy crap sort of way.  It definitely puts it in perspective.

http://www.pagetutor.com/trillion/index.html

I got this from a friend of mine. I’m not sure who originally penned it.

OBAMA’S TWO-WEEK RECAP
1, The American people elect the first ever black president with a total
of 42 days experience as a U S Senator from the most
politically corrupt state in America whose governor is
ousted from office. The President’s first official act
is to close Gitmo and make sure Terrorists civil rights are
not violated.
2, The U.S. Congress rushes to confirm the first ever black Attorney
General, Eric Holder, whose law firm we later find out
represents seventeen Gitmo Terrorists.
3, The CIA Boss, Leon Penetta with absolutely no
experience, has a daughter Linda we find out, that is a true
radical anti-American activist who is a supporter of all the
Anti-American regimes in the western hemisphere.
4. We got the most corrupt female in America as Secretary
of State; bought and paid for.
5. We got a Tax Cheat for Treasury Secretary who files his
own taxes.
6. A Commerce Secretary nominee who withdrew due to
corruption charges.
7. A Tax cheat nominee for Chief Performance Officer who
withdrew under charges.
8. A Labor Sec’y nominee who withdrew under charges of
unethical conduct.
9. A Sec’y HHS nominee who withdrew under charges of
cheating on his taxes.
And that’s just the first two weeks . . . but who’s
counting.
America is being run by the modern-day Three Stooges ~
Barrack, Nancy, and Harry ~ and they are still trying to
define stimulus.
Stimulus is where the government gives a smidgen of your
tax dollars back to you making you feel so good about
yourself [stimulated] that you want to run out to Wal-Mart
and buy a new Chinese-made HDTV and go home and watch
Telemundo!
O ne B ig A ss M istake A merica

Today, I wrote to my Senators and my Congressman. I have included the short text of my letter. If I get a reply from any of them, I’ll post it.  The letter:

We must stop the so-called bailouts that are happening. We have invested $350 billion and what do we have to show for it? Are things getting better? I think not. We must also block the proposed $1 trillion plus stimulus package. All we are doing is socializing our country. If this is not stopped, we will end up looking like the UK, France, and Germany to name a few countries that have decided that the government must take care of all aspects of everyone’s life. The statement from the Constitution “to provide for the common defense” has been twisted to mean the government has to take care of everything for everyone. I don’t want the government so deeply ingrained in all I do. Nor do I want the government redistributing my tax dollars to lower income citizens. The Declaration of Independence 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.” The pursuit of happiness means that you have to work for it, not complain loud enough that it’s given to you. I maintain that opportunity must be equal for all individuals, but the outcome is dictated by what they do with the opportunity. Please STOP GIVING AWAY MY TAX DOLLARS.

The reply by email from Sen. McCain.  I realize that these are probably form letters that are returned, but note that there is no comment on the $1 trillion stimulus package in the reply.

 

January 27, 2009

 

 

Mr. Charles Vark

 

Dear Charles:

 

Thank you for contacting me about the Troubled Asset Relief Plan (TARP) funds. I appreciate learning your views.

I opposed releasing the remaining $350 billion of TARP funds because I have seen no evidence that the additional and substantial taxpayers’ money will be used for its intended purpose. TARP was created to allow the Treasury Department to purchase up to $700 billion in “toxic assets” from financial institutions in order to help homeowners facing foreclosure and to stimulate the economy. Instead, the Treasury Department has used TARP funds to prop up the banking industry and to guarantee securities backed by student loans and credit card debt.

The misuse of the first $350 billion of TARP funds combined with the lack of transparency promised by Secretary Paulson was reason enough to oppose releasing additional funds. But most troubling to me has been the use of TARP funds to help bail out the domestic auto industry – in direct defiance of Congress. In December, after extensive discussion and debate, the Senate rejected a plan to pump billions of federal dollars into the domestic auto industry because we saw no evidence of serious concessions from the industry and no assurance of the domestic auto manufacturers’ long-term viability.

There is no doubt that Congress intended that the Treasury Department use the funds provided to assist only financial institutions. But that has not been the case. The language authorizing the TARP program has been interpreted to allow Treasury to change the game plan and use the funds for things outside the scope of Congressional intent. Less than two weeks after enactment of the program, Secretary Paulson changed course and decided instead to use TARP funds to recapitalize banks – a decision that was made with little or no input from Congress, and was an option that was explicitly rejected by Paulson and Bernanke when they were selling the TARP plan to Congress.

I am disappointed that TARP funds have been released before we were able to impose strict standards of accountability and ensure that the money is spent only as intended by Congress – to purchase mortgage-backed securities and other troubled assets and provide help to homeowners who are on the brink of losing their most important investment and roofs over their heads.

Again, thank you for sharing your thoughts on this very important matter. Please feel free to contact me on this or any other issue of concern.

 

 

Sincerely,

 

 

 

John McCain

United States Senator

 

JM/dkr

 

We authorized $700B to be used to help take care of bad mortgages.  The government gave money to banks.  Some banks didn’t want the money and were coerced into taking it.  In fact, an acquaintance at Chase stated that the $25B that they received was set aside.  Chase didn’t need the money and is just going to hold on to it.  Now we have Obama and his minions looking to put a $1 trillion stimulus in play.  The stimulus package is nothing more than a way to get a large chunk of the private sector sucking on the government tit.  A large chunk of the money are actually earmarks.  Why do we need the government spending this money?  Instead of taking money (that we don’t have) and doling it out like dope dealer to an addict, why can’t the government cut our taxes and let us spend the extra money that we have where we see fit?  This would have a direct, speedy impact on families and the economy.  I’ll tell you why.  Because the current government wants to rule your life and tell you what you can and can’t do.  These tax cuts should be across the board.  Not mainly for people who don’t pay taxes anyway.  Tax burden of $0 – $1000 tax cut = $1000 refund check.  But the refund check is someone else’s money.  This is Obama’s redistribution of wealth that he so smugly talked of with Joe the plumber, but it’s in disguise, buried in the tax code. 

First it’s the nationalization of banks.  Next comes national (universal) health care.  Once these two things are in place, we are done.  We will have become just like a western European social democracy (emphasis on social).  If I wanted to live in the UK or France, I’d move there.

Check out this link.  The first half pertains to this blog, but the whole thing is worth watching.  http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&streamingFormat=FLASH&referralObject=3459409&referralPlaylistId=search|morris

I would urge each and every one of you to call you Senators and Congressmen.  Tell them to not support the $1 trillion stimulus package that is making its way through Congress.  We can not afford it!  Where will the money come from?  More importantly, where will it go?  This stimulus package is a huge piece of pork.  History has proven that we cannot spend our way out of a recession.  Please write emails, make phone calls, send faxes.  Tell your Senators to filibuster this piece of garbage. 

Read this article.  http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17862.html

The Democrats are drunk with power.  They are making statements that show they don’t care what anyone else thinks.  We, the people, need to tell them to quit spending OUR MONEY!!!  Especially when they don’t even have it to spend.